The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-14

| known was that the strikers must go back t
| work upon penalty of being excluded fror
| membership in the order of Knights of Labor
This was very distastefulto the members. th
| intimation being that they would not obey tn
order. If they do obey the lockout will b
ended
Labor aud Indus trial Notes
| Philadelphia Record.
There are 100000 Knights Of Labor in good
| standing.
Westchester, Pa. offers new manufactorie
immunity from taxation for ten years.
There is an italian Cham Der Of Commerce ii
San Francisco composed of italian merchants OF
that city.
A 90. 600, 900 iron and coal company has JUS
been organized at Tinneville, KY, the center OF
q rich mineral district.
Electric railroads have been laid in thirteen
cities. One of them, at Montgomery, Ala, GOV
ering eleven miles, carried i, 600, 900 people las
year. De-
The crsmatory for the consumption of garbag.
At Chicago has been completed. It Is the in
tention erect similar buildings in each district
of the city.
Work on the main building of the Southern
agricultural works, at Atlanta, Ga, has beer
carried on night and day. electric lights having
It is said that the strike Of the employees oil
the Boston e Sandwich Glass Company, al
Sandwich, Mass. is killing local trade and prac
tically running tho town.
The Richmond fva-l State says Southern
merchants are placing heavy orders in Philadel-
phia, New York and Baltimore in anticipation oil
a vigorous spring trade
w. a. Tiff. of Triton, Ga, has just purchased
$4,000 acres of yellow pine timber lands for $40,
GOO. making his present possessions Of timber
lands in Georgia to 100, 600 acres.
It has been stated on good authority that il
Will require upward of 1000 to transport
the orange crop of California. now just coming
TO perfection. to Eastern markets.
TXy VI
has issued call for a meeting of business men
on Feb. % to devise means of attracting immi-
grafton and manufactures to that city and the
Staten general
ended, and many spectators have been mulcted.
Nevertheless enterprises busy and ones
are talked Of Additional mineral lands are
being discovered throughout the State.
Some Milwaukee wis., horse-shoers have
gone out because their employer wanted them
to work machine-made shoes. They have
been resolving So at the fire at 81 Is on the floor
Tna Horse shoers' Union has 10000 members
and fund of $20, 000
{ list of the names of thirty i've saloon-keep-
ers who sell toycotted Milwaukee beer in New
1Eorr has been furnished by the Jourreymen
Brewers Union to the Central Labor Union,
and the secretary of the union will send copies
DE It 70 all the labor organizations.
"A large number of union cigar-makers of New
York have formed the Internal Revenue Adolf
ton League. through which to ag1,ate the re-
movalof the tax on cigars President Strasser,
OF the irrational Cigar-maKers' Union, says
they must not take part in any such agitation.
"A convention of textile workers will be he Id
in Phiadelphia on Feb. II. and the carpenters
and joiners will hold their convention in Cleve-
land on March 6. Each local assembly of these
different crafts will be entitled to one delegate
for 100 members or majority fraction thereof.
Superintendent Baerman. of the Troy IN Y. J
water department., has written letter in which
he disapproves of the plumbing done by the de-
partrnent for the general public. in that it is not
only not properly within the scope of the de-
partment. but completes with the individual
plumber besides.
The Pittsburg German Trades Assembly pro-
poses novel way of enforcing the boycott on
Milwaukee beer It will secure the names of all
saloon-keepers who continue to sell the boycotted
beer. and when the May license cases shall come
up the assembly will protest against each of the
saloon-k keepers being granted new license
Russia is awakening to the Importance of i'm
proving her milling industry. The Minister oil
Agriculture has called for a meeting in Febru-
airy of congress of millsrs, agricuturists and
all others interested in grain and -four The Oh
lect of this meeting 10 to discuss the present
condition and future prospects of milling in
Russia.
The proposed repeal of the law imposing rev.
enue tax on cigars and manufactured tobacco
continues TO aRitate the cigar-makers of New
York, who are divided tho subject Those
who are in favor Of the abolition of the tax will
have a mass-meeting Feb IA, in Everett
Hail, where prominent speakers will deliver ad.
dresses
Says the Savannah News: "Gsn George T.
Fry thinks there is doubt that the Atlantic
Atlanta & Great Western railroad, of which he
is president will be built He says work on it
line will be completed by July, 1880. The shops
of the company will be located at Savannah or
Atlanta. according to the Inducements offered. y
The Sloss Iron and Steel Company own all
the lands and buildings in and around Coalburg,
Ala. to the amount OF 13, 900 acres and a large
number of houses The little village is regular
~ laid ont in streets and is furnished with by
drant water. which Is supplied by the water
works At the mines. There over 125 frame
dwelling houses which the company rents at
from 81 to $l.5O room per month. These
dwellings are wsll-built. containing from two to
six rooms.
According to the Kansas City STAR "A new
society, called the Wheel, is being organized
among the farmers in southwest Missouri The
tensions the uniting Of farmers and the break
ing down OF monopolies. They do this by, as
they claim. compelling merchants to sell all
members of the Wheel at 10 per cent. above
their proposition they will put a store OF
their own and furnish the members all their
goods at the actual wholesale cost"
British milling is declining The Marks Lane
Express says: Some Manitoba -four has been
received in London. where it WAS appreciated,
and it 10 stated that a number of four-mills
have bsen and are being started IN that prov
ince of Canada with the object. of course. to ex-
port tho bulk of the product to England. This
is one more nail in the coffin of the British
miller. but that does not much matter. Uncle
Sam is the only man who can fasten it down.
And he will, if he II the imports of Amer
lean -four continue to increase In their present
ratio IL will not be many years before he calls
together the friends of the deceased for a last
look before interment"
The Democrats and the White Case.
Boston journal.
On Mr. Whites side there was bis oath that
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