Business Notes

BUSINESS NOTES.

The Eagle iron works at Wilkesbarre, Pa., have failed, with extensive liabilities.

The San Francisco Bridge company has failed. Liabilities, $300,000; assets, $200,000. 

The Novelty Machine works at Evansville, Ind., one of the most extensive establishments of that kind in the state, made an assignment Wednesday. Liabilities, $60,000; assets unknown.

M. Slocum, dealer in agricultural implements at Elgrin, Ills., has assigned, with liabilities of about $3,000. His principal creditor is the firm of Althouse & Wheeler, Waupun, Wis. 

An assignment was made Monday by M. & E. Solomon, tobacco dealers at New York. They gave preferences for $61,392. 

One hundred clerks, operators, train and section men between St. Louis and Toledo have been discharged, and two passenger trains dropped by the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Railroad company, to reduce operating expenses. 

The proprietors of the great traveling circuses and menageries of this country declare that under the provisions of the new interstate commerce law it will be impossible for them to transport their exhibitions from place to place without loss, and that, therefore, they will abandon business in America and go to Europe.