The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-05-17
THE LABOR WORLD,

THERE are comparatively few idle printers
In the United States
lHE big American sugar refinery at San
Francisco, Cal. g, has shut down.
In Massachusetts, 1900 children under IA
years OF age are working in shops
DANvILLE, Va, is to have a new tobacco
warehouse that will hold 5000 hogsheads.
OVER one hundred thousand anthracite
miners are employed by six or seven men.
The Georgia granite quarries employs 400
men, who average 10000 square yards day.
THE capacity of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road machine shops at Houston, Texas, will
be doubled.
THE largest silk factory in the United
States is being built at Williamsbridge, N, Y,
by Dudon & Co.
ATHoUsAND idle men applied for work in
one day at the Office of the Traction Railway
Company in Pittsburg, Penn.
THE flint glass workers will start a co-op,r
alive factory at East Liverpool, w. Va. An
other will be started in Sandwich, Mass
TIE largest rolls in the world have inst
been completed for a Pittsburg mill They
VIII roll arinor plates from ingots weighing
80 tons.
Company eoffGi4iea s rTSygs Setting Machip
corponrnated at Albany, with cap alsfsp Y Z.
VoVo,ooos -
THE Knights Of Labor estimate from ss.
figures they have received that there az
over 200 900 unemployed men and wome
throughout the United States and Terri
tories.
A SUGAR refining company with 81, OD0. O0t
capital, has been started in New York. to
use Mr.. Henry Friends new method of re-
fining by electricity. The cost will be aboutI
seventy-fye cents a ton.
EXAMINATIONS are now being held at the
Berlin Tailoring Academy. Last year gC2l
students from all over tho world attended
the institution. Two came from Brazil. twol
from Cape Town, and one from Japan.
JOHN CRossLEY e. SoNs,. of ENGLAND
large manufacturers and weavers of CARPETS
and heavy woolens, have purchased forty
acres Of land near San Antonio, Texas n Il
expected that they will establish large fac.
tories there.
THE Belgian Chamber of Deputies ba,
adopted bill declaring two fifths of a work
Ingmans pay inaiienable to be taken even in
legal process. Clerks salaries are made free
from liability of seizure unless they eYceed
$2I0 per annum.
The most powerful war ship ever launched
has Just been completed in England She
displaces IL $40 tons, 1900 horse nowars>
makes 10 miles an hour, is plated with iron
from II to ~ inches thick. She has four 81
Ton guns tndt llre shot weighing l250 pounds
each. and has % smaller guns. besides ms,
chinery for firing torpedoes. eight at a time
She cost S., 000,000
ADMISSION, Ala, expects to be the greatest
manufacturing city in the United States II
is building what it claims to be the larcest
pipe works in the United States II has the
richest ore fields near at hand, car works car
wheel works, rolling mills. and blast f,r.
naces. Its car works building will i've the
most extensive in America, and will cost
tl.O00,000. 1t will need four thousand vork.
men this year.
The large railroad companies are center.
ing their repair shops. The Pennsvlra,;.
road will put 81 .00j, 900 into shons sfsan ,a
miles east of Pitrsburg. The Louisvilla and
Nashville will cover ffty-two acres AZ Dacs.
tur, Ala, with shops The Baltimor. ma
Ohio has ordered fifty LOCOMOTIVES i5o1
freight cars, and $50 refrigerator cars tn.
Southern Pacific car shops at Sacrar,...nne
Gal. 49, " be doubled In ME.