The Forrest City times., 1888-09-15

AE NtA hOAH tV-OtOA factory at Baltimore has closed Ats doors
 Ar Courtland. Cal. thirty ChinamSn struck for s150 per day instead of sl.25
 GERMAN working-men average Si50 per year; iron workers make from s2O0 to s250.
 TIE owner of the gold mines at Transvaal. South Africa says that American machinery is the best
 AN electric motor company of New York has proposed to run one of the Carnegie mills with a ninety horse power motor.
 TIE Knights of Troy. N. Y. pur- chased the State arinory in 1886. but have had to let it drop through be- cause of lack of funds to pay for the structure.
 JAPANESE make their own ships, 2uN tACf Ct%In kic oi 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 10 per cent reduction. has been decid- cd in favor of the employees. The com pany will return. 10 monthly pay day.
 HE pig-iron export from Birming- ham. Ala. is steadily increasing. They are sending il to Pittsburgh and from there to Eastern cities and sell- 1t cheaper than the Pittsburg mar iset
 TIE labor organizations of Minneapo- lis. Minn.. will probably win their de- mand for conductors on all street cars. Their members will not put their nick els in the box. and other people are following their example. ae
 TIE saw-mill hands at Craven hurst Canada have struck for ten- hour day. Last year they reduced The day from F 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 spnners conceded some time ago. At the Crescent mill the men have averaged s week on work that they say ought to pay S9.
 EIGHTEEN spec al agents of the Ma tional Bureau of Labor are now en- gagged collecting statistics regarding employment. on railroads in Maine, Flew Hampshire Vermont Rhode Island. Connecticut Massachusetts, New Jersey New York and Pennsyl- vania.
 TIE Pennsylvania Railroad com pany will erect number of new shops at Altoona. Pa. A cabinet shop, paint shop and new roun q house are among the improvements eontempla- ted. It is said that S2S5. 600 will be expended. and the force of workmen will be largely increased.
 THE Tailors' Union has adopted n new constitution with the following objects: Abolition of tenement, con- tract and prison competition; eight hours a days work; the adoption of min mum rate of wages. ranging &C., cording to location; the prohibition of child labor; tine regulation of female labor. and the establishment of manual raining schools.
 A COMPANY with capital of S1 ,00o,. poo will develop 20, GOO acres of iron and timber lands in Cherokee county, Tex. The product of the iron beds- they say. can not be excelled. A fur nace operated by convicts has been established three years. and tho out put has been sent all over the west The new State House at Austin used Sl00.o00 worth of the prison's output
 TIE American Flint Glass Workers Union decided to refuse admission in- 10 the union to the packers. The pack CTS number 900 people. and for three years have been trying to gain admit tanco into the union. Tho difficulty seems to be in that all the packers are not organized In case they make better showing next year the probabilities are they will be admitted
 TIE property of the Schuylkill 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 management for about Sl,S00 wages due. The plant and patterns are secured by chattel mortgages and can not be sold as yet, and the sale made was confined to coal. lumber, office furniture. etc. for which less than S10o was obtained.
 TIE Woive champion correspondent of the London Times states that during recent heavy thunderstorm a collier named Bates, who had lost his sight through m accident. was being led home when flash of lightning was re- fleeted on the spectacles he wore to conceal his disiigurement After the peal of thunder which followed ho complained of pain in his head. The next moment to his surprise. he found that he had regained possession of his eyesight
 TIE colored people of Maryland arc 10 hold state fair at Baltimore the first seven days of October. and more