Business Notes

John Traudt, a retired mercliant of Milwaukee, bas closed a dry goods store run by nis two sons, George and Albert. ïhe debts aggregate $14,000. The sugar trust is getting in its work. Thousands of tons of sugar are being shipped from New York to London because the trust has stopped the purebas?, and no bids can be got for ihe product. A quarterly dividend of 2 per cent., payable Maren 1, bas beun declared by the Chicago & Altou road. The distillers' trust, from its headqnarters at Peoría, Ills., advanced the price ot whisky 1 cent per gallon Saturday. Receiver McLaren of tbe Milwaukoa Grant Carriage company finds the firm's assets about $10,000. The Folding Hat Rack company, of Cincinnati, and C. C. Farwell & Co., boot and shoe manufctiuivrs at Danvers, Mass., iailed Monday. Tlie liabilities of the latter are in excess oL $L"00,000. The insurance corapanies lost $l,5')0,000 by flrea in Montreal last year, wliicn is two or three times as much as they recaived from pre miuins.