People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — GOLDBUG GOOD TIMES. [ARTICLE]

GOLDBUG GOOD TIMES.

The First National bank of Comanche, Tex., has suspended. W. O. Drake, grocer, at Brockton, Mass., has applied for relief in insolvency. Whittingill Bros., dealers in dry goods, at Louisville, Ky., have made an assignment. Martin U. Crosson, agent, grocer, at Waterbury, Conn., has made an assignment. G. Schomberg, jeweler at Columbus, 0., has given a chattel mortgage for $25,000. M. B. Israel, dealer of clothing at Atlantic, lowa, has given chattel mortgages for $6,000. Augustus C. Traeger, hotel and restaurant proprietor at New Haven, Ct., has assigned. F. A. Hoyt Company, a corporation, has made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. The Keene (N. H.) savings bank, which suspended some time ago, has resumed business.

The Allegheny woolen company, limited, has also made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. W. E. Glasscock, dealer in clothing, dry goods, and shoes, at Belt, Mont., has made an assignment. Richard M. Hoar, mayor of Houghton, Mich., and a leading merchant,ha3 made an assignment. Butler, Crawford & Co., wholesale dealer in coffees and spices at Columbus, Ohio, have made an assignment. The Jacob Keffeler company, dealer in dry goods, etc., at Sturrgls! S. D., has given a chattel mortgage for $9 - 800. The Withrow carpet company, dealer in carpets and draperies, at Rockford, 111., has confessed judgment for $3.00o! Calkins & White, manufacturers of children’s shoes, at Rochester, N. Y., have given a chattel mortgage for SB- - At a meeting of the directors of the United Press of New York a general assignment for the benefit of creditors was made. Albert Kuttelberger, proprietor oi the Maryland steam bleach and dye works, of Baltimore, Md., has made an assignment.

The banking house, whose suspension was announced, is the Weymouth Old Bank, one of the oldest in Dorsetshire. The liabilities amount to $2£OO,OOO. Over 1,000 weavers employed in the silk mills, owned by Giveraud Bros., in West Hoboken, Homestead, and Hackensack, went on strike Saturday for higher wages.