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timore Evening News, and Associated Press Dispatches. The flour mills of the C. A. Gambrill Manufacturing Company, at Orange Grove, Howard county, will dispense with half its working force on the first of March. These mills give employment usually to about thirty men, and there are as many more coopers making flour barrels for the product of the mills. Twenty or thirty men altogether will be thrown out of work. Wm. E. Cotton, tinner and plumber, Baltimore. Md., has failed. The Henry Sears Company, of Chicago, wholesale dealers in cutlery and hardware, assigned Tuesday. Liabilities about $50,000 and assets $80,000. The Moscow, Idaho, National Bank has been closed by the bank examiner. E. C. Hodges & Co., bankers, Boston, Mass., have failed. The Pennsylvania Lead Company, of Pittsburg, went into the hands of receivers on Tuesday. The application was made by Geo. S. Griscom, as trustee, and H. E. Anderson, who set forth in the bill that the defendant company is indebted to Griscom in the amount of $968,060. and that Anderson holds 100 shares of its capital stock of a par value of $100. The Chester County Guarantee, Trust and Safe Deposit Company, of Westchester, Pa., claiming assets aggregating $1,000,000, and with deposits of $500,000, suspended business on Tuesday. The directors claim that it is solvent and will pay all indebtedness, if given time. There has been a run on the company for two weeks, in which time $76,000 were paid out. At Sterling, III., on Tuesday the extensive works of the Keystone Manufacturing Company, were closed by the sheriff. On application made by creditors in the Cleveland (0.) Common Pleas Court, W. D. Sayle was appointed receiver for the Ajax Manufacturing Company. The liabilities of the company are placed at $37,500 and assets at $85,000. In Louisville, Ky., S. T. Moore & Co., doing an extensive business as manufacturers'. agents and housefurnishers, have assigned. In Chicago the Lonis K. Comstock Company, contractors for electrical works, have assigned. Two judgments, aggregating $4,925, have been entered against Max Oppenheimer & Co., furniture dealers, New York, and executions against their property were issued to the sheriff. A Butte, Montana, despatch, says that a strike, inaugurated on the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Road by thirty members of the freight crews, on Tuesday night, because one of their number was discharged. threatens to result in a closing down of all the Anaconda Mining properties, which are dependent on the road for supplies, and the enforced idleness of over 6000 men. The labor unions are opposed to the strike. The entire force in the Chicago and Southeastern Railway shops at Lebanon, Indiana. struck on Tuesday for seven months' back pay. As a result the entire road is tied up. The employes III the tin manufacturing plant of Norton Bros., Maywood, Illinois, struck on Tuesday against a ten per cent. reduction in wages. A compromise was subsequently reached, the men accepting a ent of five per cent. The works of the Case Threshing Machine Company at Racine, Wisconsin, are to resume operations next week, after six months' shut down. The United States Rubber Company's factory at Millville, Massachusetts, will close on Saturday night for an indefinite period, owing, it is stated, to over production of rubber boots. Eight hundred people have been employed there on short time for the past few months, following almost a year's idleness.
