The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-02-20

McIntrye Bros. and Wilson Dry Goods
Company, 0skaloosa, Ia, have assigned.
Liabilities, $38, 800; assets, $4,000.
The slate quarries and mills of the North
ampton Slate Company, near Bangor, Pa,
have been levied on by the sheriff.
In Comanche, Texas, the Beeman-St. Clair
Company and the Kansas City Dry Goods
Company, firms incorporated by the same
parties, have executed a general assignment.
Thurston 4 Ravenel, fertilizer dealers, Bal
timore, Nd, have failed.
The Merchants National Bank of Helena,
Montana, has failed.
Notices of 10 per cent. reduction have been
posted at the works of the Pennsylvania Steel
Company, at Harrisburg, to take effect March
l. The reduction affects about 1900 en-
ployes.
Application has been made to the Court, at
West Chester, Pa, for the appointment of a
receiver for the Chester County Guarantee,
Trust and Safe Deposit Company.
The following failures were announced in
Raltimore Nd, this week: Samuel Frank
Gosnell, 1922 Mosher street, has been de-
clared an insolvent. Arthur l.. Tumblcson
filed petition, asking that he be adjudicated
insolvent. William l.. Sohl, trading as the
Patapsco Glass Company and William l..
Sohl & Co., have made deed of trust. for the
benefit of creditors. s. s. Frank, furnishing
goods, made a similar deed to NJ. Star viii,
trustee, who gave bond in 81 200 The
amounts of assets and liabilities in both cases
are small
The 225 employees of the Hamlet cotton
mill, at Woonsocket, r. l., have had their
wages cut ten per cent.
The Chicago Interior Decorating Company
have assigned. Assets $4,000; Liabilities
Sl02, 900.
In Baltimore, Nd, 400 canmakers are on i
strike against reduction of wages.
One hundred miners and helpers employed
in the Davis sulphur ore mine, at Rowe,
Mass. are on strike because they have been
refused an advance of % cents per day.
Nine hundred looms in the Laconia and
Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, Me-, are idle.
This number will be shut down until March !,
when there will be started other looms then
shatting down, and the employees who are
now idle will take the place of those at work.
A strike was declared at the shoe factory
of d. A. Donovan & Co., Lynn, Mass,
and $50 hands stopped work. The strike is
the result of dissatisfaction among the cutters
employed at the factory with a new price list,
which, it is claimed, reduces wages.
The Auburn Wagon Works removed from
Greencastle, Pa, to Martinsburg, West Vir-
ginia, last July, has gone into the hands of
receiver Assets $50, 900; liabilities S120, 900.
The Merchants National Bank Of Jackson
vile, Florida, has closed its doors.
T. W. Hynes & Co., manufacturers of
ladies straw and felt goods, of New York city
and Westboro, Massachusetts, have assigned.
Liabilities, 100000; actual assets, probably
100000.
A receiver was appointed at Blackfoot,
Idaho, on Monday for the banking house of
c. Bunting & Co. The liabilities are estimat-
ed at 100000.
The lasters in Maguire's shoe factory, at
Haverhill, Massachusetts, are on strike. and
100 employees are idle.
There were two assignments in Richmond,
Virginia, Cyrus Bossieux, teamster, liabilities
$50, 900, and Walter Scott, furniture, liabil-
tiles 81, 900.
The time of work at the Western Maryland
shops, at Union Bridge Md, has been cut
down from 10 hours to hours per day.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, February 1.-Two
thousand tanners and curriers', employees of
half-a-dozen of the big tanneries in this city,
were locked out today, and will be until the
trouble between employees and employers,
which was precipitated by strike yesterday
of the five hundred men employed by w. N.
Eisendrath & Co., has been settled. All the
companies affiliated with the Hide and Leath-
er Manufacturers Association have united in
declaring reduction of ten to twenty per
cent in wages, and raising the working hours
from eight to ten per day, and when this was
put into effect at the Eisendrath tannery yes
terday strike occurred at once. Other
tanneries in town are expected to take SINH
lar action, and it is expected that by tomor-
row nearly every tannery in the city will have
closed its doors. Almost riot occurred at
the Eisendrath establishment this morning.
and but for the arrival of police, and the Wig
orous use of clubs, the building might have
been demolished The locked-out employees
and strikers, in accordance with a plan of ac-
ton resolved upon at mass meetings last night,
met today and recognized their old unions
Managers of the various tanneries state that
they are forced to reduce wages and raise the
working hours from the fact that they are un-
able to compete with outside cities, notably
where time and wage schedules
accord with the proposed changes here.