Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-09
FROM LABoR's FIELDS.

BEAUTIFUL modern houses near London
rent for 500 per year.
SILK weavers TO go to New York are ad-
vertised for in Switzerland.
AN Ohio bill makes railroads pay damages
20 employees hurt while at work.
THE Mt Olive Qll) Coal Company pro-
poses to increase its capital q 81, 100000
RICHMOND (Me.) shoe men are out be-
cause they refuse TO leave their unions.
CENTRALIA, Ill, is to have another mine.
The mines Of New Mexico are restricting
output
NEW YORK letter carriers have asked the
mayor to try TO have the eighthour law en-
forced.
A CHARLOTTESVILLE, CVa.) Eoolen mill is
making 900 suits for the letter carriers OF
Philadelphia.
Or the 1.6OO Higgins carpet weavers who
struck at New York, two-thirds now have
employment.
NASHVILLE colored roustabouts struck for
an advance-20 to IS ccnts per hour. Con-
Victs were hired.
THE new railroad coal rates in Kansas are
on an average about 10 per lent. less than
the old rates, same distances.
Born houses of the Massachusetts, Legis-
lature have voted down a bill TO make eight
hours days work for State, city, town and
county employees.
AN Englishman has made toy containing
400 animals and men. They are all put In
motion by windmill turned by the current
from burning candles.
BUFFALO painters have won their demand
for recognition Of their union and nine
hours. Men working during the strike paid
the union 25 cents day.
JAMES WHITE, of Jacksonville, Pa, has
Just purchased 1000 acres OF coal land near
Alpsville, Pa. The purchase is made for
syndicate, which proposes the opening OF
immense mines at that place.
SAN FRANCIsCo's Is the biggest ship-yar1
in the country, having water frontage OF
1850 feet by 400 deep, being as large as
the Cramp and Roach yards together. Our
FIRST all-steel vessel was made there.
THE New York house-smiths got their
scale signed 1t abolishes piece-work,
makes nine hours a day, gives double time
for legal holidays and time and half time
for the first four hours of oyerwork and
double pay thereafter.
HAuoHvuLB Qnd.) malleable iron works
stoye-top finishers have been cut from S5U
per thousand to $35, about 81 per day.
Molders from So per hundred to $l.oO. The
force has also been cut, and boys are al
mems work. -Four hundred men had their
wages reduced.
NEW coal companies: The Nilwood Car
bon Coal Company is one Of the new coz
porations OF Illinois; the Greenwood Coal
and Coke Company has been incorporated In
Arkansas; the Petit Jean Coal Company
capital stock $1,000, co., headquarters al
Little Rock, Ark. -'.+'"'-
On account Of the annual spring migration
to this country Of European stone-cutters
who return to their own sod when the busy
season is over, the Stone-CutteFs' Union Of
New York has requested the mayor TO no
tify the contractors for the new municipal
building that American citizenS only mus
be employed upon 1t.
THE Fourth Of July, Labor day and Wash
ington's birthday Of next year have beer
set apart by the American Federation o
Labor as the dates for the holding of mass
meetings in the interest of the eight~hou
movement. The movement is to culminat'
May l, 1890, on which day a general deman'
will be made for a working day OF eigh
hours.