The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-03-13
More ProsperitvL2l
Compiled from the New York SUM- Philadelphia
Ledger, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore American. Bal
timore Evening News, and Associated Press Dis
patches.

Compiled from the New York Sun, Phihdel phia
Ledger Baltimore Sun, Baltimore American, Bal
timore Evening News, and Associated Press Dis
patches.
The Singer Lumber and Manufacturing
Company of Huntington, West Virginia, have
failed for over $1,000
notice was posted on Saturday at the
National Tube Works, McKeesport, Pa, an
nouncing an average reduction of wages of
ten per cent Every department was included
in the reduction, affecting 5000 men, The
workers accepted the cut.
receiver was appointed in St. Louis on
Saturday for the Peoples Street Railway of
that city, and a receiver was asked for the
Fourth Street and Arsenal Railway.
An Ishpeming, Michigan, despatch says
that 200 families of the striking miners at Nor
way are on the verge of starvation.
An Amesbury, Massachusetts,, despatch
on Saturday, says that notices have been
posted in all the mills of the Hamilton cor
poration that the mills will shut down all next
week, but will resume the week following.
This is in accordance with the plan for cur
tailment at Fall River. The shut down will
cause about 900 employees to be idle.
Henry Wietheger, Yeast Manufacturer,
Baltimore, Nd, is in trouble.
Sinepuxent Bay Company, of Baltimore,
Nd, and Washington, D. c., has been placed
in the hands of a receiver.
The Lexington Savings Bank of Baltimore,
Nd, a colored institution, has closed
Perkins Square Building Association, Bal
timore, Nd, is short $40, 1000, and Mark B.
Amber and John F. JONES' late secretary
and treasurer, respectively, are on trial in the
Criminal Court on the charge of conspiring
to defraud the association.
A receiver WAS appointed in Cincinnati,
and Savings Company. The shareholders are
way Company. The liabilities are placed at
$3.50, 900, and assets at $4,000.
Jenkle Bros. & Loeb, owners of a large
ginia, have failed.
About 200 operatives of John & James
Dobson's Falls of Schuylkill blanket and cloth
mills went on strike because of reduction of
Z per cent. in wages.
c. c. Snider one of the oldest business men
of Canton, Ohio, engaged in the hardware
trade, assigned on Tuesday. Slow collections
and general depression are the causes assign
ed. The assets are estimated at SEC, 900; liza
bilities not estimated
Inc Uernanla safety vault ana trust C0m-
pany, of Louisville, Kentucky, have assigned
The last statement placed the assets and liza
bilities at S271, 1876 each 1t is thought that
stockholders will realize so cents on the dol
lar
The condition of the lockers strike at Lud-
dington, Mich, is more aggravated. Man
ager Grape, of the Flint and Pere Marquette
Railway, will not discharge non-union men.
The strikers offered to work for 18 cents per
hour. Over l 300 men have been brought
here, and loo have gone away again. The
new hands are cut down to 10 cents per hour.
The big Derby Cotton Mill, at Shelton,
Conn, at which p weavers recently struck,
has been permanently closed by Robert
Adams, the owner. Mr.. Adams ordered all
unfinished work shipped to his Paterson IN.
J. mills. Two hundred hands are thrown out
of employment
All of the factories of the Peck, Stowe &
Wilcox Company, manufacturing edge tools
and general hardware, at Southington, Conn,
have shut down indefinitely. This throws out
Of employment large number of hands, who
for the past six months have been working on
a short schedule.