Business Notes

The thirteen gas companies of Boston ara being organizad iuto a trust The property of the syndicate is valuad at $14,000,000. During J887 the Lake Superior iron mine3 produced 4,667,652 tona of ore, and the total shipments for the yeár show an increase of tl,09t,295 tons over 1S86The Missouri Pacific haa made a voluutary reduction of frora 10 to 24 per cent. on all classes of freight in Kansas, and the Santa Fe on Friday follovred suit The Union i.J. oU.„. ; „i; v.ill probably meet ;he cut. An Ashland, Wis., carriage dealer, S. A. Hayward, nssigned Friday to E. R. Jones, with liabilities $8,000; assets, $18,000, The great Bass Brewing company of England bas been reoreanized with a capital stock of ovor 5:ïü,00i),0Ü(J. Sberrnau tic Bell, the oldest auctioneers in Milwaukea, assigned Monday; liabilities, $26,000 ; assets not stated. Hecht & Putzel, shoe dealers at Baltimore, have fuiled. Attachraents aggregating $7i-,ü?6 have been issued against the clothing house of Reiuhardt & Coy, of Dallas, Tex.