Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-06-01
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Isidore Gebtrunk has fled a petition
in bankruptcy AT New York. Total
liabilities, SS9.1SS; no assets.
The Canadian Pacific railway earn.
ings for the week ended May II were
$4,000, for the same period last year,
$4,000; increase, $4,000.
Oscar Solomon. formerly a retail
shoe dealer, has filed a petition in
bankruptcy at New York. Liabilities,
S5S2s4; no assets
The London Daily News announces
this morning an illustrated weekly,
competing with the Saturday illus
trated edition &c the Daily Mail.
The Toledo Seamless Tube company
has gone into the bicycle trust and the
consideration is understood I be $780,
coo.
The sugar rate war continues and
two refineries 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 10 the Lorain Steel company.
The Anti-imperialistic league, in ses-
sion ar Boston, elected a long list OF
vice presidents and adopted resolu-
tons calling upon antiexpansionists
all over the country 10 organize.
III is said in New York that the incor-
pnration OF the new Carnegie company
means the failure of the proposed steel
and iron combine which was TO capital
izc ar 81. q 100000.
Notices have been posted of a general
Increase of 10 per cent IN wages ar the
Bessemer Steel works OF the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company at Pueblo.
colo. About j, 200 men are benefited.
The proposed combination OF manu-
~facuarers OF art glass and brass decor
atiye wares has been abandoned. be-
cause of the high prices demanded by
proprietors OF plants.
Albert III. Holmsted. a member of
the defunct banking firm OF George Il.
Bissell & Co. OF Hartford. Conn. filed
q petitioa in bankruptcy. Liabilities
S2cs,31f: 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
becomes \ part OF Washington uni
verSitv.
The Grand Central railroad of Eng
land has placed an order for twenty
locomotives with the Baldwin COM
Tany of Philadelphia. Another Eng
lish railroad. the Great Northern. re
Gently ordered a number OF engines
from the Baldwin works.
The Missouri supreme court holds
that when the superintendent of the
Insurance department has refused IL
n TO a fratesnal organization. the
court has no right by mandamus TO
compel him 10 revise this decision and
issue the license.
The new fast service on the Cana
dian Pacific railway viii be begun
about the middle OF June. probably
the 18th. or 18th. The flyer across the
continent win be called the Imperial
limited" and will reduce the time be-
tween Montreal and Vancouver 10
about loo hours.
The Carnegie company. which made
application TO the state department at
Harrisburg. Pa. recently for q char
ter. iied notice OF amendment 10 its
title 10 the Carnegie Steel company.
The proposed corporation is capital
lied NJ xl0o.1Al,0o0. which viii be In
creased 10 $250.0u0.n00.
At the meeting OF the Empire State
Society OF the Sons Of the American
Revolution az New York, the recent
action Of the Michigan branch in eulo-
giving Secretary Alger was drsAvcwed.
and resolutions were adopfeS g. rul-
ing that the society NUS not b used
for political purposes