The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-10-13

$3.50 per year; iron workers make
from 5000 10 $3.50.
THE owner of the gold mines al
TransvaaL South Africa. says thai
American machinery Is the BEST
An electric motor company OF New
York has proposed to run one Of the
Carnegie mills with q ninety.hor
power motor.
The Knights of Troy. N. Y. pur.
chased the State arlnory in 1886. bu,
have had to let 1t drop through be.
cause of lack of funds to pay for the
structure.
JAPANESE make their own ships
and they claim the manufacture Of
the finest repeating gun in the world.
They buy mining machinery in this
country.
The strike in the Green Ridge roll.
ing mill. at Scranton, Pa. against q
10 per cent reduction, has been decid-
ed in favor OF tho employees. The COM
pany will return to q monthly pay
day.
The pig-iron export from Birming.
ham. Ala. is steadily increasing.
They are sending 1t to Pittsburgh and
from there to Eastern cities and sell.
1t cheaper than the Plttsburg mar,
ket ~.
The labor organizations of Minneapo-
lis, Mimi. will probably win their de-
maud for conductors on all street cars.
Their members will not put their nick
els in the box. and other people are
following their example.
The saw-mill hands at Craven.
hurst Canada have struck for q ten.
hour day. Last year they reduced
the day from IL to II hours. Two
thousand men left their work. Some
employers have granted the demand
FALLS RIVER, MASS. weavers have
asked for a ten per cent ad vance. or
as much as the spinners conceded
some timo ago. At the Crescent mill
the men have averaged $5 q week
on work that they say ought to pay 90.
EIGHTEEN special agents Of the Ma.
tional Bureau OF Labor are now en-.
gagged collecting statistics regarding
employment on railroads In Maine,
New Hampshire Vermont Rhode
Island, Connecticut Mass achusetts,
New Jersey New York and Pennsyl-
vania.
The Pennsylvania Railroad com.
pany will erect number Of new shops
at Altoona. Pa A cabinet shop, a
paint shop and new roun d house are
among the improvements contempla-
ted. 1t is said that $685. will be
expended, and the force of workmsn
will be largely increased.
The Tailors' Union has adopted a
new constitution with the following
objects: Abolition OF tenement con-
tract and prison competition; eight
hours days work; the adoption Of q
minimum rate of wages. ranging 40
oording to location; the prohibition
Of child labor; the regulation of female
labor. and the establishment of manual
rsining schools.
A COMPANY with n capital OF 81, 000,,
BOO will develop 20. 900 acres of iron
and timber lands in Cherokee county,
Tex. The product of tho iron beds.
they say. can not bo excellcd. A fur.
nace operated by convlcts has been
established three years, and the out.
put has been sent all over the west
The new State House at Austin used
$780, 600 worth of the prisons output
The American Flint Glass Workers
Union decided to refuse admission in.
10 the union to the packers. The pack
srs number 900 people. and for three
years have been trying to gain admit
tance into the union. The difficulty
seems to be in that all the packers
are not organized. In case they
make a better showing next year the
probabilities are they will be admitted.
The property Of tho Schuylkiu val.
ley Knights of Labor foundry at Spring
City, Pa. was sold by the sheriff. the
execution creditors being some Of the
stockholders who were employed In
the works and sued the anagment for
about 1900 wages due. The plant
and patterns are secured by chattel
mortgages and can not be sold rs yet,
and the sale made was confined to
coal. lumber, office furniture. etc. for
which less than 800 was obtained.
The Wolverhampton correspondent
Of the London Times states that during
recent heavy thunderstorm collier
named Bates, who had lost his sight
through an accident, was being led
home when fash of lightning was re-
Elected on the spectacles he wore to
conceal his Disagreement After the
peal of thunder which followed he
complained of pain In his head. The
next moment to his surprise. he found
that he had regained possession of his
eyesight
The colored people of Maryland are
to hold q state fair ut Baltimore tho
first seven days of October, and more
than 500 applications for space have
already been applied for. The Amsr.
lean says the exhibition W II DO sur
prise to the public. The colored poo
pie of Maryland have advanced more
substantially than their contcmpora-
ries of any other state In Baltimore
alone they pay taxes on between two
and three million dollars worth OF
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