Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-30
WORKSHOP AND MINE.

New YORK hardware salesmen have or
ganized
CANADIAN letter-carriers get $50 and SIS
per month.
EIGHT THOUSAND of Toledo's 1900 houses
use natural gas.
THE Tennessee Cnal Mining Company,
Knoxville, has been chartered.
a FoRTY-INcu vein Of coal has been dis
covered at Bucklin, Ford County, Mo.
THE St. Paul Coal Company has begun
prospecting for coal near .Muchakinock, Ia
BRooKLYN bridge conductors have been
granted an eight hour day and g 50 per day.
j. MORGAN COLEMAN, of Youngstown, O.,
intends to bulid a rolling-mill at Rusk, Tex.
AT Denver, Col, bricklayers work eight
hours per day, and receive from a to $3.50
per day.
The Pool Mining Company, at jackson,
Mich, have begun taking out coal at their
new mines.
MILWAUKEE bakers claim that the bosses
are not living up to the 12-hour day agreed
TO last spring
THERE are but few coal mines in Califor-
mia, their total yield being only about12, ,O0o
tons per year.
THE Somerset cooperative foundry, at
Fail River, Mass was organized IN 1867, and
Is prosperous.
THERE are excellent prospects that the
recent discovery of coal near Estherviile,
Ia, will prove paying vein.
The Boston Herald says the Massachu-
setts Board of Arbitration is a success. 1t
has settled many strikes and prevented
others.
IT is said that a Pittsburgh concern is to
take hold of the Laclede iron-works, IN
North St Louis, which has been idle for
some time past
THE strike Of the New Bedford Mass }
weavers against black marks has been set
tied. Better filling will be furnished and
fines have been lowered.
THE Central Iron and Steel Company, OF
Brazil, Ind, has added a department to its
works for the manufacture of turnbucklee
used by bridge builders and others.
THE st. Louis Butchers Union is opposed
to the proposed reduction Of their license
from $50 to s15. They fear Armour and
other big dressed-meat men under Low
license.
THE Birmingham (Ala) Sentinel SAYS
We would advise all working-men of any
description TO give Birmingham wide berth
unless they have a certainty of a situation
on arrival"
THERE are less than $50 labor unions in
New York City at present, according to the
Daily News. A year ago there were 6Ol
unions in existence. The building trade
unions alone seem to be as strong OF
stronger than a year ago.
AT Trinidad, Col, a merchant iron rolling
mill will be in operation by February /, 1889
which will produce twenty-five tons Of iror
per day. A horseshoe factory viii be ad
ded to the plant as soon as completed and 6
nail and pipe works are soon to follow.
ST. JOSEPH (Mo.) plumbers and steam
and gas-fitters will be paid ten-hour wage.
for nine-hour day after April /, 1899. Un
til that time they will work nine hours a
nine-hour payS3.50 to $3.50 for plumbers
and steam and gas-fitters receive from s
to 81 per day.
THE new rolling-min of the Minnesota Ca
| Company, at Duluth, Mimi, will contain
one 10-inch and one 18-inch train of rolls,
| slabbing hammer and two axle hammers
Two Smith furnaces will supply the tram
of rolls, and two Smith regenerative ga
furnaces will supply the hammers.
GRAND TRUNK railroad hands at Por
| Huron, Mich, put together and buy 500 ton
| of coal at a time. Employees in other town
| began to do the same thing, but the loca
dealers warned the wholesale men TO dis
continue the practlce, and the local trus
| will hereafter get it's own prices-
THE largest coal dock in America will b
built at once at West Superior, Mimi, b.
the Eastern Railway Company. 1t win b.
1900 feet deep and 800 feet wide, with
central vessel slip 1900 feet long and 10
feet WIDE, giving 800 feet Of dock front
age for unloading cars. Tracks will run al
through the structure, which will have
storage capacity of 1,5OO, 600 tons Of coal.