Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-19

Glass that contains phosphorus ana bo-
raX has been obtained by IA new process
in Sweden. The admirers of this new
glass claim that 1t is of a inerquality than
any glass hitherto produced.
Montreal Cam carpenters are paid
from 81 TO 50 a dav. About 300 French
Canadians are in the X. of l.. They talk
OF forming an open union and of asking
an Increase to 81 and 81. % per day.
Eight hundred and thirty five mine cars
were hoisted in a day recently In the Cen
trail mine at Hyde Park, Scranton, which
is 400 feet deep. This record has perhaps
never been beaten.
The Operative Plastercrs' Union, of
New York city, has made the Initiation
fee $50 for p)asterers who come f ON Eng
land and other places and who return at
the end of the season.
An injunction to prevent the striking
molders in the Canton, O., malleahle iron
works from bothcfing The men who have
taken their places was granted by Judge
Pease last week.
The Master Carpenters association of
Toronto, Can, has refused the request of
the Carpenters and Joincrs' association
for a nine hour day and Saturday to end
at - o'clock noon.
st. Paul, Neb., Knights have elected a
councilman, school director, and "A police
Judge. and the Willow Spring (Mo.)
knights have elected 4 mayor and an
alderman.
The mule drivcrsi in the Limetown Bend
mines are to receive So. % "A day while the
10-ccnt basis shall be in operation. and
~. II when the a cent scale shall have
begun.
Kansas City, Mo, carpenters want n
nlne-hour day and thirty cents an hour.
The union has over 200 men. Last year
wages were twenty and twenty-five cents
an hour for "A ten hour day.
The 200 Omaha, Neb,, brick molders,
who struck for So "A day--an advance of
twenty five ccnts-Gnd the settlers, who
went out for S3. %, have returned to work
at the old wages.
The prosecution of Pinkerton detec-
tivcs has begun in Chicago for carrying
concealed deadly weapons. 1t will be
continued in other places throughout the
country.
The wages Of the employees Of the street
railway of Norfolk, Va, have been re-
duced fifty cents per week, Drivcrshave
been receiving $50 for a t~ifteen.hOur
day.
Most of the 4, 200, 600 needles daily con
in this country come from Red
ditch, Eng. A Brooklyn, n. Y, firms
output is about one-siNth Of the above
sale.
Rochester, y. Y, has an electric light
plant which supplies 1, 100 arc and 102 in
cardescent lamps. The plant is said to
be the largest in the world run by water
power.
Two hundred girls employed at IA Min
neapolis dry goods house have struck for
an advance of 90 per cent. Some Of the
girls receive only So. 80 a week.
Bismarck's paper mills produce fifteen
tons a day more than any other mills in
Germany. He is also the second largest
lumber dealer in the empire.
The owners of the Gokey shoe factory,
Of jamestown, n. Y, will not employ
any Of their workmcn till they shall have
r%enounced the Knights of Labor.
Twenty Elmira, IN. ~ masons struck
last week because last years ten-hour
wages-S2. 75-were not paid for the nine
hour day now in force.
The sevcnty-frst charter has been is-
sued by the Bakers National union to a
local in Chicago. The membership roll
has now reached 5000.
Omaha (Neb.) bricklayers' tenders, who
had been receiving 20 cents an hour,
struck for 50 a day, and their places were
filed by other men.
II has been said in the New York Eve
ming Sun that there are over 900 chill
dren who work in the mills at Fall River
who cannot read.
A Connecticut firm is said TO have re-
ColVeu an Ofuer from tHc russian govern
ment for 400, Oo0, 600 empty copper car
fridge cases.
The iron molders of Mansfield, O., have
rented a factory and gone into business
for themselves.
The new h~osicry-mill company at
Brandon, Va, is putting in new carding
and spinning machinery.
New York city tin and sheet-iron work
ers are working for increased wages, to
begin on May /.
Work on the new wooden yarn mill at
Methuen, Mass, is being rapidly pushed
forward.
The New York State Protective associ-
elton Of bottlers has formed a branch at
Albany, n. Y.
Ship builders Of Schwerin, Germany,
are on a strike. and 1900 Berlin shoe
makers are also out.
The Brewers Of Albany, N. Y, have
signed the scale Of wages presented by