The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-11-30
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NEWS ABOUT THE WORLDS
HARD WORKERS..

What Is Going on Away Back Fast
Notes From the North,
West and South.
The Manchester correspondent of Iron
says: The expectation of iron from. Ger
many is gradually dwindling away, and
1t is said the trade is passing into British
hands. The orders from Japan, where
theYAiermans had made great efforts to
OBTAIN a secure footing, are now being
passed to Great Britain, and Germany
mas o supplied n single tor of steel rails
10 Japan during the present year, while
British firms have shipped six times as
much to that country as it did last year.
The exports to South America from
Great Britain and Germany show the
same relative results, and the shipments
of rails from the latter country to India
have only amounted to about 5000 tons,
while those from Great Britain amounted
to nearly 125, 900 tons.
The indianapolis Early Closing associ-
alton has succeeded in gaining d few
houls in Il large number of stores in that
ity. Houses that close have a card hung
on the wall announcing the fact. AT n
big meeting recently the association con
dcmned the awarding of Il contract by
The city to a house that refused to close,
and both political parties were warned
not to %patronize said firms.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
says: From small beginnings Labor
Day" has grown to be an important holi-
day in all northern cities. The
committees having charge of the parades
and displays wisely prohibited them from
being converted into political demonstra-
tons. If the same good sense is shown
in the future Labor Day will become a
permanent holiday and celebration. and
one that the country will appreciate and
honor.
A Milwaukee man sends laborers by
the hundreds to parts of Wisconsin,, Min
nesota and Michigan. Laborers get S1.75
per day; railroaders 16 to 20 cents pei
cubic foot, and scrapers and graders,
$1.75 per day. Some of the Swedcs a.e al
work before daybreak. They gene rally
work blythe piece.
President Duncan of the Nation al Elec.
trio Light association, says that. in the
United States there are thirty-'.our cleo
trio railways, covering 1873 mil es OF single
track. Thirty-nine other companies
have been incorpora ed. II ere are 5,251
plants, supplying 1872, 500 ar" lamps and
1925, 600 incandescent lights.
Badly wrapped cigarettes have hereto
fore becn torn open by hand. A ma.
chine now in use does as much work as
one hundred girls used 10 60. 1t cuts the
wrapper II dumps the tobacco in Il re
ceptacle without waste. One girl handles
this labor saver.
Many Illinois miners in mines near ST.
Louis have been granted p CENTS PEI
bushel, an advance of cent per bushel.
One company tn 1t controls the output in
three counties refuses to Gdvanoe c, and it's
men have struck.
Our consul at Guatemala. Gen. Hos.
mer, says good wages can be made there
in the establishment of the manufactures
of glass, chinawaTc, paper, furniture,
wagons. farming implements. cotton and
wooden goods.
Five hundred negroes employed al
track laying at Village Springs, Ala.
struck last week for an advance to $1.5(
per day, an increase of % cents. They
returned to work at Sl.25. The summer
wage is ST. 10 per day.
The American Institute of Film ng En-
gineers, which was organized in 1871
met at Buffalo last week in quart erly cor
v%ention. The society has ] T23. merlbers
forty-tivco of whom live mother cvrntries
In parts of Georgia people are ronsum
ing great quantities of oystcut. They
have fallen back on oysters be cause OF
the scarcity of fish, caused by The quar-
antine against Florida goods.
Patagonia and Argentine are gaining
large accessions of farmers by immigra
ton. A person may become :, citizen or
his landing there, and he can get lane
for nothing.
Toronto people buy bread tickets il
amounts of from 81 TO So worth. Wller
you buy bread at the store it costs / cent
per loaf less than when it is delivered.
Five hundred New England grocer.
left Boston a few days ago Oh tl.eir an
nual excursion. 1t will cover five dsy:
and will include New York and Salataya
Z. L. Block of Atlanta, a mule &aaler
recently said that mules raised on thu
Texas prairles may be bought by the car
load at Atlanta for from $15 10 SIS pei
head.
AT the recent convention OF the Britis!
trades unions pay for service in parlia
ment was recommended. Al present nc
poor man can afford 70 he a member.
Millville, Mass., girl factory employees
have been discharged till they shall com
ply with the law compelling children tc
attend school part OF the season.
The men who work the ore that comes
from Martin White mine at Ward, New.
have their hair, whiskcrs and eyebrows
turned a permanent green.
Some New Haven, Conn, b!acksmths
have struck against a 5 per cent. reduc
lion in wages, making their pay what Ii
was some months ago.
We now export locomotives. In 1888
the first one was brought to this country
from Manchester, England by the Boston
and Lowell company.
The Chinese in California are buying
fruit farms and establishing canncries
since The efforts at displacing their labor
by native boys and girls.
Congressman West of New York, now
Il millionaire, came over in the storage
and landed with a shilling. He was then
26 years old.
Mobile, Ala, bricklaycrs on the new
court house succeeded in having a non.
union man, but they had to strike to do
it.