Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-08

York has requested Mayor Hewitt not to
ton.
Trained women cooks get $50 per
year at Quebec and Montreal. In some
far western cities the craft make $500
per year.
Boston union bricklayers get $3. 25 per
day. There has been a complaint that
in a suburb only 81. 90 has been paid on
a job.
Only sixty New York city BARRIERS have
agreed to pay the jo%urneymen's scale
which went into operation on August I.
A Martins Ferry, o., rolling mill ON
pany wanted to reduce laborers' pay from
81. 35 to S1.25 per day and the wages Of
firemen to 81. 80 from 81. As. The men
struck and won.
a letter from Germany to the Hartford
Times, says that cherries, currants and
gooseberries cost only 81 cents per pound.
Plums cost 5 cents for a big plateful.
The largest tree in America is said to
be one at the headwaters Of the Kaweah
river, in Tulare county, Cal. 1t meas
ures 176 feet in circumference.
Duluth, Mimi, brakemen have struck.
Their wages were recently cut from $50
per month to $55, and less work has been
given them lately.
The great number Of big steamships
that years ago filled the Mississippi are
fast disappearing. The railroads have
taken their places.
Many Birmingham, Conn, druggists
don't sell soda water on Sunday. A few
will not sell cigars. They are open 70
medicines, however.
Nearly 435, OOO, 600 stamped envelopes
were made at the agency OF the govern
ment at Hartford, Conn, during the year
preceding June /.
The Miners and Mine Laborcrs' union,
which recently held its third annual con
vention at Cleveland, has 60, 900 mem
bers. They work in twenty-five states
and two territories.
The Pittsburg Labor Tribune says:
Nearly every branch in the iron and
steel trade looks encouraging, and the
prospects for a good run to the end Of the
year are very fail"
New York and Pittsburg capitalists
have a hand in a company of English and
Mexican moneyed men who will erect a
So, 0OO, 600 rail mill and furnace at Saines,
Mexico.
The Dresden, Germany, Glasshouse re-
Gently contained an advertisement for
three men for a Pennsylvania glass
works, Twenty dollars per week wages
were offered.
Some Columbia, Pa, cellar diggers
struck last week for an advance from
$l.10 to 1925 per day. The contractor
claims that they used TO make only 80
cents and 81. 90 per day.
China recently received its first impor-
tation of foreign soap. The Chinese soap
is of alkaline earth, and the material
used for washing the hands is the pods of
n tree.
A leading Pittsburg chemist says that
with natural gas and the skill of our
| workmen American glass isnow the finest
in the world, eXcelling the famous pro.
duct of Belgium and France.
The state convention of the Knights of
Labor of Michigan decided to recommend
the adoption of Henry Georges sing!eta tax
rs n of the principles Of the order to
the general assembly.
Rochester shoemakers, it is claimed,
make more wages than the craft in other
cities. Eastern men average better paw
than their western brothers where week
work prevails.
The Cincinnati brass firm which or
dered its men to work go hours per week
compromised at 5St hours. The 300 hands
will work 10t hours per day and till /
o'clock on Saturday.
We receive II, 900, 600 |cocoanuts per
year from Central America. In rainy
weather the tree sheds two cocoanuts in
three days and one every two days on
fair days. They average about $50 nuts
per year.
The Iron Trade Review says that our
producing capacity of iron is greater than
the demand, and that prices cannot in
crease while this condition exists. 1t says
that this is better for the country.
The international Tile Layers union,
of New York city, has been refused mem
bership in the Central Labor union. 1t
was claimed that its members were de
linquents Of other labor societies.
There are two thousand kinds of thread.
The spools are numbered by this method;
When $40 yards weigh a pound its spool
is No. /; when twice $40 yards make "A
pound it is No. , thread, and SC on up.
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