Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-01
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1sidore Gebtrunk has filed petition
in bankruptcy at New York. Total
liabilities $50, 1888; no assets.
The Canadian Pacific railway earn
ings for the week ended May p We're
$4,000. for the same period last year:
SOIL 900; increase, $4,000.
Oscar Solomon. formerly retail
shoe dealer. has filed a petition in
bankruptcy at New York. Liabilities,
S5S.214: no assets.
The London Daily News announces
this morning an illustrated weekly,
competing with the Saturday illus
trated edition of the Daily Mail.
The Toledo Seamless Tube company
has gone into the bicycle trust and the
consideration is understood to be $780,
600.
The sugar rate war continues and
two retinerieS have closed Indefinitely,
claiming it is impossible to refine and
sell at a profit.
At Harrisburg, Pa. the name of the
Johnson Steel company. with plants at
Johnstown, Pa. and Lorain. Ohio. was
changed to the Lorain Steel company.
The Anti-imperialistic league in ses-
sion at Boston, elected long list of
vice presidents and adopted resolu-
tons calling upon anti-eXpansionists
all over the country to organize.
1t is said in New York that the incor-
poration of the new Carnegie company
means the failure of the proposed steel
and iron combine which was to capital
iZc at $1,000 100000.
Notices have been posted of a general
Increase of 10 per cent in wages at the
BesSemer Steel works of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company at Pueblo,
colo. About LOO men are benefited.
The proposed combination of manu-
facturers of art glass and brass decor
alive wares has been abandoned. be-
cause of the high prices demanded by
proprietors of plants.
Albert H. Holmsted. q member of
the defunct banking firm of George P.
Bissell & Co.. of Hartford. Conn. filed
| petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities
S2O3.311: assets 500.
| The st. Louis Medical college and
| the Missouri Medical college were con-
| solidated. Under the terms Of the con-
| solidatiOn each of the two institutions
| versity.
The Grand Central railroad of Eng
land has placed an order for twenty
locomotives with the Baldwin COM
pany of Philadelphia. Another Eng
lish railroad. the Great Northern. re-
Gently ordered Il number of engines
from the Baldwin works.
The Missouri supreme court holds
that when the superintendent of the
insurance department has refused IL
cense to a fraternal organization, the
court has no right by mandamus to
compel him to revise this decision and
issue the license.
The new fast service on the Cana
dian Pacific railway will be begun
about the middle OF June, probably
the 18th or 18th. The flyer across the
continent will be called the Imperial
limited" and will reduce the time be-
tween Montreal and Vancouver to
| about 100 hours.
The Carnegie company. which made
application to the state department at
Harrisburg, Pa, recently for char
| ter, filed notice of amendment to it's
| title to the Carnegie Steel company.
The proposed corporation is capital
lied at $10O.OOO,O0O. which will be in
| creased to $25O,O0O,O00
At the meeting of the Empire State
| Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution at New York. the recent
action of the Michigan branch in eulo-
giving Secretary Alger was disavowed,
| and resolutions We're adopted a. I'M
ing that the society must not be used
for political purposes. .....