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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23

mechanics with small capital. There are,
OF course, few large establishments, but
the bulk are small, where the employees
with few wOrEmen do the work. Earnest
efforts are being made to attract foreign la
Dor. The latest reports of that effort are
encouraging to the promoters.
The lumbermen are trying to make out
that lumber is getting scarce. Down IN
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas the single
supply is counted as 100, 900, 600 feet short
OF the supply at the same time last year.
The heavy consumption has somewhat de-
pleted the white pine supply. The Penn
Sylvania hemlOck men will endeavOr to re-
organize their association on Sept. p Con-
siderable spruce is coming in from Maine
The strike of the Philadelphia stonecut-
tiers continues without any signs of an I'M
mediate settlement. A new phase of the
situation was developed on Thursday by
the issue of a manifesto by the Master
StonecutterS' association, in which they an
nOunce their determination of no longer
employing journeymen belonging to the
JOurneymen StOnecutterS' society.
Joseph Walton & Co. S miners, PittSburg,
have made contract with the firm to dig
coal at "a cents per bushels for ten months.
There are about 500 employed in WaltOn's
pits, and by signing the contract they nave
forfeited their right to membership in the
Miners association. This leaves the union
In dangerous shape.
The striking coal miners of the Massillon
(OhiO) district, who recently refused TO ac-
cept reduction from 75 to 60 cents per
ton, voted ON Friday to return to work for
65 cents, but it is believed the operators
will not accept their proposition.
The English workingmen seek to estab-
fish technical and night schools; cO-Opera-
tive stores and the like, while few of their
American cousins try to play into one
party'S hands by drawing enough votes to
their dummy candidate 70 defeat the other.
Over 10000 boys in Pennsylvania are
affected by the new law prohibiting the en-
plOyment of boys under the age of IA years
inside of coal mines, chiefly in Luzerne,
Schuylkill, Carbon and Northumberland
counties.
The strikers at the Cleveland rolling
mills held a secret meeting on Wednesday
night and by a vote of 1000 to Al decided
to stand out for the scale of wages as fixed
by the Amalgamated association.
The striking street car drivers of Mem
phiS have returned to work, having ac-
cepted the cOmpany's terms. Travel was
resumed on all the lines simultaneously.
A nail feeders union has been organized
at Terre Haute, Ind. The feeders will now
join the nailerS in resisting the reduction.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
CHURCH SERVICES.
ReIigiOI1s NOfes.

This afternoon at o'clock the corner
stone of the Emanuel church of the Evan
gelical association on the corner of Eleventh
and Pine streets will be laid with appro-
pirate ceremonies. The presiding elder of
the district, Rev. ii. +. Linse, also the
presiding elder of the Dakota district, Rev.
August Huelster, Reys. +. Tf'Plantikow.
E. III. Bauman and G. Simon, besides the
pastor, Rev. W. Oehler, will participate in
the services. The public are cordially in
vited.
Speculation is rife as to whether DR..
Leaver will not feel that duty calls him to
Rutland. to which large and influential
charge he has recently been invited. 1t
would be a serious disappointment to Park
church for him to leave.
The Congregational association meets at
Winona, Sept. 10 to 49, and will be gath
ering of unusual Importance this year.
The place and church will add to the at
Effectiveness of the meeting.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
EFFECT OF COMPETITION.
Are Strikes Preferable TO Starvation
Wagesl
} dc Editor OF DC Globe:

To the Editor of the Globe:
The Journal Of July % prints the news of
ga Big Shut Down to curtail the produc-
lion of prints, stating that the agreement to
close has been signed by corporations rep
resenting 1000, 900 spindles.
On the fourth page of the same issue
there is an editorial, in which it is claimed
that strikes in hard times do not pay, and
the writer advises trades unions not TO en-
gage in them.
All very true, as a rule, and perhaps
sound advice. But, after all, If wages con-
tnue TO fall, with frequent Shut-dOwnS to
aggravate the evil, at what point, let Us
ask, may labor take means to protect itself?
Must it yield gracefully TO what is some
times considered the inevitable. and sink
lower and lower, until the standard of liv-
ing Is reduced to point almost coincident
with the necessity of diving?
GeologlstS have a theory that volcanic
action Is, from time to time induced by the
contraction OF the earth'S crust. due TO its
gradual cooling. 1t is the gigantic force of
competition which. every wear. crowds
thousands of the weak and heIpless below
the plane Of subsistence. that is directly
responsible for these outbursts of tbe human
will known as strikes
The demand Tor wheat may be reduced
until it lies I'D the granary and rots; potatoes
will not, of their own free will. move from
the spot where they are deposited. In
neither of these cases will there be a mo
test; but try and subject men to the same
conditions; treat labor as mere commodity
the excess of which will be removed nv
death, as surplus potatoes are removed by
decomposition, and you will ALWAYS find
that before the death point is reached there
will be some vigorous ebullitiOn, especially
if the laborers have reason TO believe that
the forces crowding them down are mostly
artificial, and, therefore, susceptible of be-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
AF4yORARLE OUTLOOK.
indications Of Business Activity i'm
st. Paul and Elsewhere.

ST. PauA and Else NVhere.
The indications point to a good and
healthy trade among business men this fall.
There is nothing like boom but pros
pect of recovery from the depression which
has so long prevailed. Stocks throughout
the country have been generally run down,
but now the large jobbing houses of New
\ ork find that customers are beginning to
come in, particularly from the West and
South. The failures are decreasing. The bay
ers are paying cash for their goods and the
orders are quite liberal. The crops
have been very good Oh the whole, and this
has contributed to the revival. The out
look for trade is much better than it was
year ago. and it shows steady increase.
Indeed, from general reports, trade is better
now than it was six months ago. Trade is
decidedly on better plane, and there is
restoration of confidence that has been lack
ing for so long. This restoration augurs
good for the working-men. When business
is good, or depressed. the wage-workers
are cOrreSpondingly affected. With con-
idence among business men, Improvements
and new enterprises will be begun which
under other circumstances would not be at
tempted. These improvements and enter
priseS give employment to artisans of all
classes.
Everything goes TO show that the prosper
ity enjoyed this year by the st. Paul work
ing people will be increased next season.
The city is growing so rapidly and so many
improvements are designed that there will
unquestionably be demand for mechanics
of all kinds early next spring. Man
ufactories are gradually increasing in
number and the day is not far distant
when this city will be not only great
commercial center, but a manufacturing
point as well. With the prospect of winter
not far distant there is not much probability
of any enterprise being attempted but such
as can be completed before cold weather.
However, there will be no cessation on
those already in hand until such action is
necessitated by the approaching season. If
this year has been unparalleled i'm improve
ments of every sort it is safe to say that
next season will as far overlap this year as
the present season has outdone those pre-
ceding it. The outlook for the laboring
man during next year is a bright one.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
DuIuth's Bright Prospects.

A very fiattering report comes from Du-
luth about its prospects as a manufacturing
place. Recently number of Detroit capt.
talists were in the Zenith city exam
lining sites for extensive works to man.
ufacture stoves for the trade of the North
west. The works. when located and built,
will give employment to about LOCO men.
1t is thought that the new works viii be
located on the west side of the city. This
will be great help to the fiouriShing city,
and draw, in all probability, other manu-
facturers within its borders.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
MINNEAPOLIS MILLERs.
Canal Improvements Nearing Conn
DIefion--Nofes and Personals

The canal Improvements are approaching
completion. The iron work was nearly
finished yesterday and the planking will be-
gin at once. The headgates will probably
be put in position this week and the work
of removing the coffeT-dam only remains.
Mr.. De la Barre, the mill company's agent.
thinks this latter job can be done i'm five
days. bywOrking nights. so as 10 have water
in the canal the first week of September.
Some of the millmen. however. think the
work cannot be finished as early rs this.
and fix Sept 10 as the probable date when
the mills can start up.
The mills now in operation are turning
out about 10, 600 barrels day. OF this the
Pillsbury A and c, and Phoenix represent
$500 barrels, the Palisade and Columbia
$500 barrels.
George McAllister, 16 years old. son of
one of the proprietors of the Occidental
mill, had four fingers of his left hand taken
off last week by getting them between pair
of rollers.
The millers and commission men are hav-
ing many a good laugh at the expense of
the new grain inspectors, whose greenness
occasions some ridiculous errors.
George Wilson, a prominent miller of
Rochester, n. y, who gave Fred Zimmerman
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
MINNEAPOLIS CO0PERs.
4 PercePtible EsnprCVeInent--Chi
and ShaTiEss From che Shops.


and ShaTiEss From che Shops.
The Northwestern shop has its new
engine in position, and is now equipped
with machinery which can turn out $500
barrels daily.
The North Star shop has put in another
working-off machine and has introduced a
system of clocks for the regulation OF night
watcllmen.
The Phoenix has been turning out more
barrels of late than ever before, owing to
he increase in membership of the comp any
The DOud shop is said TO be paying about
1 cents per barrel on shaved hoops. About
dozen men are employed al machine work
Reports from different sections of the
country indicate that cOoperng i'm other
cities is about as dull as in Minneapolis.
The members of the Acme Barrel COM
pany are working on their new building,
which is well under way.
The Minnesota shop has had a good sale
of barrels and continues to run, although
not to full capacity.
The Hall * Damn shop is employing
thirty-fiye men at handwork at II cents
per barrel
The Sixth street shop has started I'D its
machinery, and is through with handmade
barrels.
Ira Hitler of the Phoenix shop has re-
turned from Iowa, where his wife died re-
Gently.
The Hennepin shop has been having a
good run, and its men are having steady
work.
w. Champion. formerly of the Kennedy
shop, is said TO be in San Francisco.
The cooperative store meets with hearty
encouragement among the eoOpeTs.
The North Star shop is running at two
thirds capacity.
The Stevens shop, leased by the Acme, is
locked IN
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
IF the Columbia his first lessons in milling,
IS visiting in MinneaDOlis

of the Columbia his first lessons in milling,
Is visiting in Minneapolis.
The machine shops at Minneapolis are
crowded with work. Nearly every mill in
the city is making extensive repairs
MillwrightS are said to be scarce in Min
neapolis just at present. The wages paid
are from $3.50 TO So.
Theo 4. Sammis of MeSsrs. Morse &
SammiS returned yesterday from an extern
sive Eastern trip.
George NJ. Becker has fOne to Millerville,
Wis, TO Superintend the remOdeling of the
Dobmeir mill.
Homer Clay and w. Halliday, millers of
the Zenith. nave accepted positions IN the
Palisade mill.
w. +. Cahill, who has been confined to
MS house for some time by illness, is able
TO ride out
L. Christian, c. Z. French and Henry
Elliott are chicken shooting near Fargo.
James Kelly has succeeded John Eram
as head packer at the Columbia mill.
A. w. Krech. proprietor OF the Holly
mill. has returned from the East.
Girls Bower of the Phoenix mill is dele
gate to the WinOna funniest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
Death OF a ST. Paul Printer.

William p. Lynch. well-known among
the printers OF st. Paul, died recently at
Quincy. Ill, from consumption. When
Typographical Union No. 30 was or
ganized Mr.. Lynch was its first recording
secretary, and he also held like position in
the Trades assembly when that body was
formed. Mr.. Kelly, No. SOS first pFesi-
dent, is also dead, having succumbed to
typhoid fever nearly two years ago. Mr..
Lynch and Mr.. Kelly were popular among
their acquaintance and efficient members
of the union. At the time of the first cleo
ton for delegates to the international union
these two gentlemen We're candidates for
the position. Mr. Lynch was defeated by a
very close vote. He worked on the GLOBE
for some time and in nearly every other
book and job office in the city, being good
workman. The remains We're taken to his
home in Des Moines, Ia, for interment
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
TIE WABASH STRIKE.
Fight Between the knights OF Labor
and The Gould SY.fem

anu the OOUic system.
At a meeting of the executive board of
the Knights of Labor and of the committee
epresenting the employees of the Wabash
railroad system, held at ST. Louis, Mo-, on
Tuesday morning. a body of resolutions was
adopted denouncing the Wabash officials
for trying to break the Knights of Labor
and for causing the arrest of its members by
United States maTshals like common feiOns.
Congressman William Warner OF Kansas
City, Mo-, and Gen. j. NJ. Palmer of Spring
field, ILL.,, We're requested per resolution 10
defend the imprisoned and prosecuted
knights; to prosecute the Wabash railroad
for conspiracy, and 10 impeach Judges
Treat. Brewer and KTekel. Another meet
ing was held during the afternoon, and a
general strike ordered on all the lines west
OF the Mississippi river; and the general ex-
ecutive committee of the knights also form
ulated and issued the following important
order.
Office OF the General Secretary and Treas
urer. ST. Louis, No, Aug. is, 1885. - To all
whom It may concern, greeting: Owing to
the persistent fight OF the Wabash company
against the Knights of Labor. the general ex-
ecutive board deem il advisable TO issue the
following ORDER TO ali assemblies on the Union
Pacific railroad aud Gould's Southwest sys-
ten To all assemblies on the above lines of
AoiNasS- Al hulEubS Vi 1-aOOr IN the en-
ploy Of the Union Pacific and its branches
and Gonid's Southwest system or any other
railroad must refuse TO repair or to handle in
any manner Wabash rolling stock until fur
Their orders from the general executive board,
and If this order is GntRgoniZed by the com
pany. through any of its officials, your exec
utive committee is hereby ordered to call out
all Knights of Labor on the above systems
without further action. By order of the gem
eral executive board,
FREDERICK It. OUAIER,
Grand Secretary and Treasurer.
THIS ORDER WAS PHOTOGRAPHED
all over the specified roads during the even-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23

There will De a meeting of the Brio p
layers Union No. of st. Paul, at Arion
hall, corner of Third and Market streets,
next Thursday evening. All brieklayers
are requested to attend.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
NO. 2 WHITE OATS,

For use of Fire Department of the City of ST.
Paul for one year from October 29, 1885, to be
delivered at such times and in such quantities
as called for by the Chief Engineer.
The said Board reserves the right to reject
any and ali bids.
Proposals to be endorsed Proposals for
Oats and addressed to f. r. Delano, Presi-
dent Board of Fire Commissioners
BY order of the Board.
23O-235 VIM. O'G0RMAN, Secretary.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
ST. PAUL LABOR.
Notes of Work and WOrkmen I'm the
Metropolis.

& Northwestern railroad is an excellent
structure. and in keeping with all the build
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
FROM SHOP AND MILL.

The Relative Conditions and Circumstances
Of the Workingmen Of the East
and West.
Western Laborers at Least 30 Per Cent.
Better Off Than Their Eastern
Brethren.
An Argument as to Whether Strikes
Are Preferable to Starva-
ton Wages.
Notes of Minneapolis Wage-WOrkers
st. Paul ADMINISTRATION
Labor Topics.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
PROPOSALS.
OFFICE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS,
ST. PAUL, August II, 1885.
Proposals for Oats :!

Sealed bids will be received by the Board of
Fire Commissioners of the City of st. Paul,
until Monday, August 24, 1855, II N, for six
thousand (6,0O0) bushels (more or lesS) best
quality
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23

THIS ORDER WAS PHOTOGRAPHED
all over the specified roads during the even
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-30

his report, declared very emphatically
that the story of negro increase is with
out foundation. This is what Mr.. Gan
nett demonstrates even more strongly,
starting out with the assumption that the
ninth census is too defective to be taken
into account in comparing the numeri-
cal status of the two races-as General
Walker, head of the Bureau, himself
Acknowledges, and throwing that out
and comparing the eighth and tenth
censuses, Mr.. Gannett finds that in
twenty years the whites increased 81 per
cent. and the blacks only IS per cent,
in spite of the fact that the former were
greatly depleted by a disastrous four
years war. The negroes have never in
creased in percentage greater than that
of the whites except between the years
1800-1810, and this is due to the activity
Of the slave trade during the first seven
years of that decade. Through all the
reports the negro has never held his
own in the percentage of increase, nor
is it true, Mr.. Gannett shows, that the
negroes are massing in the cotton states,
their percentage of population there be-
ing no greater in 1880 than in 1860; con
sequently the negro problem is not as
Stunning the awful form that Mr.. Gable,
Judge Turgee and others would persuade
us of, that threatens the extinction of
the white race unless it accepts misce-
genation and filings down all race bar
riers.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-30
Died Fighting.
,ublics, City of Mexico.

Two Republics, City of Mexico.
A wild story comes in from Periban,
Mchoacan. Three we'll mounted and
we'll armed men stopped at an inn to pass
the night. The woman who kept the
place advised the authorities that three
suspicious men had called at her house
The president of the city council and the
Judge, with few citizens, went to the
house to see the suspicious characters.
But the three men locked themselves in
theirroom and refused to be interviewed
A crowd of citizens was collected, but
when they appeared they were greeted
with a volley from the thee men. An
assault was then made on the room, and
the prisoners breaking out of the door
and fought their way through the crowd,
using their revolvers and daggers. The
crowd followed closely after the fugives
and many shots were exchanged
Finally one of the fellows dropped
even while dying he turned over and
/ fired on his pursuers. A second fell a
few steps further on, fighting hard. The
third sheltering himself behind a rock,
made it warm for his pursuers, though
often wounded, fought on with scarcely
I enough strength to draw his rifle to his
shoulder. Called on to surrender, he
only replied with a bullet, which reliev-
ed the president of his hat. The crowd
closed in round him as the death mist
was passing over his eyes. Still he tried
to pull the trigger of his rifle for part
ing shot, but life and strength failed him.
The corpse9 We're buried in Perbau
They were supposed to be a part of Mar
cial Braves bandit troop. During the
fight the citizens had fired 200 shots, and
of these nearly twenty had taken effect
on the bandits, who were torn to pieces
by the terrible storm of lead. Several
of the citizens were wounded. The ban
dts died like legendary heroes.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-30
SOME MODEST DEMANDS.
What is Expected ofthe Man or WO
man Who Attains Fame.

DR.. Holmes, in the June Atlantic.
He is supposed to be a millionaire, in
virtue of the immense sales of his books,
all the money for which, it is taken for
granted, goes into his pocket. Conse-
quently, all subscription papers are han
ded to him for his signature, and every
needy stranger who has heard his name
comes to him for assistance
He received two or three books daily,
with requests to read and give his opin-
ion about each Of them, which opinion,
if it has a word which can he used as an
advertisement, he will find quoted in all
the newspapers.
He receives thick masses of manu-
script, prose and verse. which he is call
ed upon to examine and pronounce on
their merits these manuscripts having
also invariably been rejected by the edi-
tors to whom they have been sent, and
having, as a rule, no literary value what
over.
He is expected to sign petitions, to
contribute to journals, to write for fairs,
to attend celebrations, to make after
dinner speeches, to send money for OBJ
jects he does not believe in to places he
never head Of
He is called on to keep.up correspond
ences with unknown admirers, who begin
by saying they have no claim upon his
time, and then appropriate it by writing
page after page, if Of the male sex and
sheet after sheet, if of the other.
Ii poet it is taken for granted that
he can sit down at any moment and spin
off any number of verses on any subject
which may be suggested to him, such as
congratulations to the writers great
grandmother on reaching her Tooth year,
an elegy to an infant aged 6 weeks, an
ode for the Fourth of July in Western
township not to be found in Lippincott's S
last edition, perhaps a valentine forsome
bucolic lover who believes that wooing
in rhyme is the way to win the object of
his affections.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-30
PUBLIC OPINION.

Mr. Villas knew how to get his views
before the public with certainty and dis
patch. He marked his letters to con-
gressmen confidential-Phila. Times,
Qnd.)
Our position is that president elected
as a democrat on democratic platform,
by the democratic party, is under honor
able obligation to strengthen and satisfy
that party rather than any other.-New
York World, Dem.
Secretary Whitney has just discovered
that the government has paid 5000, 900
for repairs on d wooden navy vessel, the
original cost of which could not have,been
a cent more than one-third that amount.
However, ''the cash in the Treasury
balances to a cent. t.-Chicago Times,
0nd.)
We wish the president would make
haste to fill few more Massachusetts
offices with capacle democrats. Mr.
Pillsbury Is unfortunately the only man
they can flock to. He hasn't offices en-
ough to so round, and it would ease up
matters if the president would put dem
ocrats into the other important Offices
Boston Post, Dem.
The sod had scarcely settled over Bar
rios body when President Zaldivar pro-
posed TO the Salvadorian Congress a
scheme looking to the consummation of
the Capitalization which Barrios had at
tempted. The murmurs of discomfort
which had been gathering for nearly a
year Immediately broke out in such a
storm that DR.. Zaldivar resigned the
presidency in hot haste and left the cap
ital at night. The lions skin had fallen
away and revealed the jackal. Central
American unifcation may some time be
accomplished, but it will never be by
such Us Zaldivar.-Washin Post.