The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-12
BRIEF BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS.


A Frederick, Nd, packing house en-
ploys 1900 persons.
They have begun toship beef from Ne
vada and Oregon to the east.
The Baltimore piano-makers have ad-
vantageously settled their strike.
New Britain, Conn, Knights have de-
bates on the tariff at their meetings.
The Jewell Pin Company at Hartford
manufactures $500 pins per day.
Puddlers in Steubenville, Ohio, mill
have accepted $3.50 per ton for scrap
work.
Eighteen thousand cans of tomatoes
are picked daily at st. Georges and
Odessa, Del.
Five New York Union cigarmakers
were fined S25 each for working during a
strike.
| At Buffalo the Bricklayers' Society has
been expelled from the Central Labor
Union.
Ashland, Wis, switchmen struck on
Monday week for $3.50, an advance of %
cents per day.
A Macon, Ca, tailor closed his shop
because he could not get men to make
pants at 81 per dozen.
A Chicago firm supplies the world with
burial shoes. The output is from 50 to
100 pairs per day.
Negro longshoremen at Fernandina
Fla, recently struck for an advance from
$1.25 to $1.50 per day.
A Coatesyille, Penn, iron firm has es
tablished library for its men and a sew
ing class for their daughters.
The striking Toronto plumbers claim
that there are forty-three imported New
Workers at work without license.
Two hundred of the New York striking
metal and slate roofers were still OF
strike last week. They want last years
scale adopted.
Some Kansas City tailors have strucl
against a 10 per cent. reduction. They
have been getting $40 for making a rough
faced sack coat.
| The Detroit butchers had 5000 people a
a barbecue week before last. There were
speeches by Major Pridgeon and Hon
w. G. Maybury.
The wages of Montreal bricklayers OF
city job in drains were reduced from s.
to $3.50 per day. The men struck, bu
accepted afterward.
Messrs. c. G. Wilcomb & Son havt
erected large building in Chester, NH.
for the purpose of evaporating fruits
with capacity of 400 bushels per day.
The hours of labor in England wer,
twelve per day up to 1916, when the,
were reduced to eleven. In 1874 the,
were reduced to ten, at which they nov
stand.
Sugar barrels are no longer wasted
They are bought at secondhand ant
broken up. The slaves are then washed
packed in bundles and sent back to tn,
West Indies at a profit, to be rehooped.
Isaac 8. Demont of Chicago won
prize of $500 for being the fastest short
hand writer at the recent Stenographers
convention at New York. He took dow
1,337 words in five minutes.
Buffalo coopers receive cents for pat
ent hoop, s for fiat and 10 for round hoo
barrels. Some have struck for 6 cent
for the patent-hoop vessel. Lockpor
coopers get 8 cents for patent-hoop an,
10 for fat-hooped barrels.
A New York mining expert took fou
skilled men to China, and has 200 native
at work developing silver mines for th
government 300 miles northwest of Tient
sin. Fifty thousand dollars worth o
machinery has been taken from tn
United States.
Chattanooga, Tenn, has been buyin,
l 100000 pressed brick annually in tn
north at cost f. o. b. of from $25 to 50
per 1000. Lately they have discoveret
clay at home that makes as good bricl
as the northern article, and big kiln ha
been erected.