Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-21
WORLD or WORK AND WORKERS
NOTES FROM LABOR CENTEIsS
EvERYWHERE.
Progress and Development OF In
dustrial Efforts Outlined
Ncwsy Notes for ToiIers.

production in the world is put al APO, 900,
600 tons, of which Great Britain pro.
duces 100, 600, 600. the United States 800,
GOO 900, and Germany 1000, 900 tons.
The production in the United States is
divided between thjrty-One states and
territories, the largest, of course, being
PENNSYLVANIA. which last year ave us
"a Geo, 600 of anthracite and 30, O00, 600
Of Dituminous. In money value the out
put in the United States is safely $500,
000, 900 in the markets where used. This
is greater than the value of the gold, sill
yer, cotton and petroleum produced in
our country.
The Journal Of United Labor says.
The order of Knights of Labor is eX-
tending into all countries Of the earth.
There is already one tlourishing district
assembly at work in England. and the
general executive board last week granted
a charter for another district assembly IN
the same country. Inquiries are being
made from Ireland, Scotland, Wales
from all the chief trade centers. France.
Germany and Belgium already have local
assemblies, while Australia, South Amer
lea and New Zealand are among the prob
abilities during the coming summer
s ason."
MIR. Koch, in an address before the So
ciety Of Engineers Of Western PeHnsyl.
vania, stated that he believed the reason
why American plate was 50 much better
than English was because it was rolled in
both directions at the same heat, and rs a
consequence the tensil strength of a cross
section of our steel was almost the same
as a Longitudinal one, while the English
plates showed Il great diilerenccthat way,
the cross sections not being able to stand
anything near SO much as the longitude
nal when put TO the test.
In many places of Georgia. Florida, Al
ALBANIA. Tennessee and North Carolina
farm hands are paid from 30 to 80 cents a
day. II. f. Bishop OF Florida re-
Gently said that he knew people who were
getting 80 cents a week. Servants get SO
and Sd a month in western North Caro-
lima and parts Of South Carolina. Rail.
rOad laborers get from 90 cents TO Sl.2j IA
day. In the trades wages run nearly up
to the northern standard.
The Engineering and Building Record
says: 1t Is often necessary for the en-
ginccr to prescribe n limit Of load, per
unit OF surface, in designing foundations
for structures resting upon soil. In the
absence of the time and means 10 make
actual tests of the soil he must contine
himself 10 an investigation Of existing
successful structures upon q soil asnearly
similar to the one under consideration as
he can find
The strike Of the miners at Pratt's bed,
near Birmingham, Ala, is over. The men
wanted 30 cnuts a ton in summer and 50
in winter, instead Of IS and 30 cents re-
srcctivcly. They have agreed to work
for A. cents while iron is %l3 a ton, and 5
cents more for every 81 over 3l3 that the
product sells for.
Most Of our coffee comes from Brazil.
The grains are in the inside Of a berry the
sZe OF a cherry. In Java, after the grains
have been removed, they are placed in a
shed, where the wind dries and cures the
plant. When il is ready for market the
coffee is brought 10 the shipping ports on
mules.
About 1000, 900 sponges per year are
taken from the sea around the Bahamas.
Their value is $3.50. 900. Twenty-foot
poles with hooks on the end are used TO
pull the sponges from the rocks. The
article feels and looks like liver, and the
color IS from dirty purple to chocolate
before it is cleaned.
Awoman sued the Louisville and Nash
Vile Railroad for 1000, the contents Of
a satchel which she dropped from the
train while she was trying TO shut the
window. The United States Supreme
Court has denied the appeal.
state Statistician Lamb, of Minnesota,
complains Of the number Of girls looking
for work who are not fit for a respectable
family. and of the numerous families in
winch ne decent girl would stay.
At st. GATHERINGS, Ont, the tailors
struck last week because a few of the
shops were not keeping the agreement.
The girls in one factory refused to go out
because their employer had kept his
contract.
In Bohemia the spinners make the best
wages. Men get $40 to So per week,
and boys from IS cents TO 81 50. Carding
masters. spinning bosses and clerks make
from 81. 50 to Sill. 80 per week.
The French Canadian Society Of Stone
| cutters OF Montreal is enforcing the rule
in practice in some Of our cities of
making stone cutters from Great Britain
pay $50 for initiation TO the union.
The japanese are extensively develop
ing their coal lands. The output which
in 1881 was zoe, GOO tons las been in
creased every year, The apparatus is
from Europe, especially Germany.
The pig iron export from birmingham,
Ala, is steadily increasing. They are
sending il 10 P;ttsburg and from there to
eastern cities and selling il cheaper han
The Pittsburg product.
1t is predicted that cypress wood from
the south will be largely used in northern
buildings in a few years in consequence
Of the exhaustion of the field in the south
and west.
The Frederick Billings arrived at Seat