Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07

hands of receivers; combined capital
stock of $S,925,000. wN
Track laying for the first six months
Of 1853 shows decrease from the SIM
liar period of 1892. The Engineering
News says: We have about 5000 miles
for the total probable track-laying Of
the year. This will bring the mileage OF
new track laid for 1893 below that of
any other year since 1878, with the pos
sible exception of 1885
Bank Cearings for the week have
barely reached the billion-dolar mark
with total Of per cent less than last
week and Il per cent less than year
ago.
business failures in the United States
are unusually frequent, numbering 39S
this week against $40 last week and
1866 a year ago.
The feature of last Saturdays week
~ New York bank statement was the Re-
duction of $G.15S,000 in cash holdings
and S6.3:}3.75 in surplus reserve.
July %: Renewed depression in the
stock mark has this Week divided at
tention with the bank failures and bust
ness complications in the West"
\ Brighter Chapter.
The following condensed abstracts
from Bradstrect'S for the same month.
.Iuiy. but for the year 1897. after the
election of William Mckinley, pledged
to the Republican policy of protection,
had removed THAT SENSE OF IN
CERTAINTY AND INSTABILITY"
reflected the beginning OF the great era
OF prosperity that was thereby ushered
III:
The Great Western Tnplate Com
pany's plant at Joliet. ILL.,. employing
300 men, resumed work. The men get an
advance OF SO per cent.
For the first time in several years an
the employees of the Chicago Burling-
ton and Quincy Railroad shops at 81.
Joseph. Mo, are working full time. The
rush of work in some departments has
necessitated the employment of addition
al hands.
Reports from Maine that part of the
big plant formerly owned by the Jay
Paper Manufacturing Company. is about
to start IN full. The pulp mill already
started.
Chattanooga Tradesman reports iron
and steel trade active and prices steady
ia South. Several furnaces have been
blown in since July l. Movement in lum-
Der good and textile trade ehows inn
provement.
'Sloss Iron and Steel Company are
about to blow in another furnace mt
North Birmingham, and also their ".
> furnace in Birmingham.
"AIckenna Steel Works. at Joliet H..
will resume, employing 100 men.
The Everett, Pemherton and Atlantic
mills, at Lawrence. Mass. have started
mp with ~ aggregate of more than 5000
hands.
The Pawnee, Kelly. ana Westville
companies Of thu Danyille, H.. district.
posted notices Of increase ot 10 cents a
ton in wages. The rolling mill Of j.
Painter X Son was started.
Steel mill of Jones x LaughIiu. of
the same city, also resumed.
July "A: Because of the proposed
new tariff rates all Of Beerbowers. Eliza
beth, y. j., pottery workers have re-
turned To work
Fully 10000 workmen have gone II
work as result of I'm agreement
reached on the sheet scale for the cnsu-
ing yeal
Announcement that the card ana
eombing departments Of tie Bigelow
Carpet Company viii resume next Mon
day and that the entire plant win re-
sumo the week following with nine hun
bred hands
During 1893 the Maine Central Rail-
road employees had wages reduced 10
per cent. Othcjals have now decided II
restore old rates.
July 81: Fires started in Tod furnace