The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-17
ms. Fifteen million gallons are produced every

sons. Fifteen million gallons produced every
| year.
A canning factory is 10 be put up at Corinth,
/ Miss, and the Mississippi cotton and WOODEN
/ mill at Wessen is being enlarged by four-story
building.
Fourteen tailors of Minneapolis. MIMI have
struck to have member of the union discharg
| ed by the firm because he had not paid dues and
| assessments.
/ A bolt and nut company has been formed at
/ Kansas City. Mo-. with capital stock of $780,
| 600. New York and New England parties are
/ the incorporAtors.
Cotton-mills will be erected at Burlington.
! Charlotte, Davidson College Salisbury and Shell
| by. n C. A tobacco factory will be established
at Henderson, n. G.
i The members of the Missouri Valley Stone
Contractors Association will not employ union
! men. The association has members in Missouri,
/ Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
| cooperative glass factory Is being erected
i at Stoneboro, Pa. The town donated site
and loaned the operators $l2.O 900. This is said
70 be the first cooperative glass works.
1t is said that German parties have contract
/ ed for the whole puddlers' cinder output OF
/ Scotland which will be about 90. 600 tons this
year The cinders are used with fresh ore to
| make raw iron.
| The following are some of the new mills OF
| Texas: Lime-works Fort Worth, two cloth
| ing factories at Galveston. iourmills at Green
vile and ST. 10. and canning factories at Jack
| sonville and Lockview.
| The value Of the Ottawa fCan.) lumber export
| to the United States during the first three
months of this year was 1907. 900, an increase of
period of 1887.
| The Southern Wagon Manufacturers As
ISOLATION will endaavor to persuade the North
ern and Western makers to join combine, and
has invited them to meet in convention at Louis
vile. Ky, on May 16.
Benton tArk..) Knights run cooperative
stoneware factory. cooperative store con
Quoted by colored Knights is a success at
nd aft
Toledo, o., are also prosperous
The capacity of the Davis W. Va, lumber
mill is TO be increased to 10, DOC, 900 feet year.
A depot and machine shops for the Baltimore
g Ohio will be built at Wheeling. Pottery
works will be put up at New Cumberland.
The Meridian tAla. News, in an article
viewing the wages paid coal miners in this
country, notes the fact that miners in Alabama.
with one exception, paid higher wages
.han in any other State in the year 1887.
Geergia's late acquisitions are: An addition Of
5000 spindles and 176 looms to the KING Com
pany's cotton factory, and saw-mil.s at Balm
bridge and Emerson. The capital stock of the
LAGRANGE cotton mill will be increased from
$40. 900 to 500 600.
There quite discussion at recent meet
ing of the Trades Council of Cork. Ireland, over
a proposition TO hunt the 300 Jews of that town
from the city the ground that they ruin
ing the occupations of other in their
spective business.
Work in Arkansas Mining is to be begun at
Bear 16O, 600 acres OF pine tim Der lands are &c
be cleared at Camden: saw-mill is to be built
st Hot Springs; brick-yard is TO be opened at
Mammoth Springs. and q canning factory to be
started at Russellville.
Operations reported in Alabama are q saw
mill at EpDs Station. saw and shingle factory
at Evergreen. stove-works at Florence mica
mines At Edwardsville, saw and planine-mill at
Jasper, planning factory at Pen City and .
stave factory at York Station.
The brotherhood of Carpenters and .Joiners
has 396 unions. 4S, 600 members and $3.50. 600
in their treasures. Secretary Mcclure. of Phil
adelphia spoke in Pttsbure last week to 1000
men. He is on his way 10 Denver, Col, and will
make speeches along the route.
The trust investigating committee at Quebec
Can, has heard testimony showing that there
to a man who wanted to go into the undertake
ing business on the ground that there were
enough undertakeFs in Toronto.
The mineral Development in Great Britain
during 1887 was 173, 049, 795 tons. Over 500 600
people were employed, nearly $500 OF whom
were women, and of the latter 100 were under
sixteen years of age. Nearly 1000 persons were
killed during the year while at work.
A factory wherein emmensite will be made
will De built at Chattanooga, Tenn. Other new
operations in Tennessee woolen-mill at
Huntingdon. plow factory and an asphalt paw
ing company at Chattanooga, saw-mills at Eliza
betnfon and Huntingdon, and barrel factory
at Nashville.
Engineers of Nashville. Tenn, are making
preparations for the convention of the Amer
lean Society of Mechanical Engineers in that
city from May TO 10. Horace Lee of Cramps
shiD-yard of this city, is president of the asso-
citation. The society has membership of 500,
located all over the country.
Among new mills to be erected are the fol-
lowing: Fall River, Mass, cotton-mil; Bir-
mingham. Conn. corset factory; Passedumkeae,
Me-. steam saw-rnill; Augusta Me-, pulp and
woodworking mill: Methuen Mass, spinning,
wooden and merIno mill; South Berwick. Me-,
shoe factory. and yarn mill at New Bedford.
Mass
1t is claimed that the Dominion of Canada
awarded the contract to build a bridge over the
Frazer river, on the Canadian Pacific, to
tractor Onderdonk at 81 SOC, 900, who sub-let
the work to Philadelphia firm for S40O. 900,
which in turn let the joe to another contractor
for 800 00O who let it for $75, 900, at which
figure the bridge was built.
A furniture factory will be erected at Dan
vile, Va; iron mines will be developed at Lees
vile. Va. and the Eagle copper mines in
Loudoun county will also be worked. Other
factories In Virginia are to be put up follows:
Lovely Mount knittng-mll and a sash, door
and blind factory; North Danvle. wagon
factory, and at Salspetre Cave canning fac
tory.
There are forty-two crucibe steel plants in
this country. half of which are located in Penn
sylvania, thirteen being at Pittsburg Penn
sylvania has fifteen of the thirty-eight Bessemer
steel plants. seven of which are in Pittsburg.
There are also nine Clap Grifiths steel-works in
this country, all but two, those at West Ware
ham. Mass, and Belleville, ILL.,, being in this
State.
Thirty million tons of coal aud 5000. 600 tons
of coke were mined in Pennsylvania last year.
The coal mines OF this country furnish employ
m-nt for $4,000 persons. In Pennsylvania
anthracite fields Ito. 900 persons are employed.
and 50, 600 in the bituminous beds. In Illinois
$4,000 persons are at work IN the mines, "a 600
in Ohio, 800 in Indiana and G. 900 in MARYLAND
The imports of btnminous coal have increased
from 653. 000 tons in 1881 906 $40 IN 1887 and
the exports from l91. 03S tons in 1851 to 643 500
tons in 1887. The imports are mainly received
on the Pacific coast.
Losses by Fire.
LOUISVILLE, April 16-Fire at Greensboro.
KY, last night, destroyed half block in the
heart of the business portion of thss city. The
loss is placed at $50 O00; insurance SIS 600.
The half block was one of the finest ON Main