Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-07
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THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

ILLINOIS broom-corn growers ia * of re
| stricting the acreage.
AMSTERDAM IN. ~ knitting-mills EN-
ploy 2, 200 persons.
A BILL to prevent blacklis ting is before
the Indiana Legislature.
STEEL rails now weigh 100 pounds to the
yard-an increase from Sc pounds
PATERSON, N j., silk weavers have lect
ures in their library and reading-rooms.
The Peerless Mining Company, capital
$4,000, has been formed at Wichita, Kan.
SAN Francisco bciler-makers at work on
ship that had her boilers made in Scotland
demanded "a per day.
KANSAS CITY has young woman com.
posltor who sometimes acts as ''boss" in
the absence Of the foreman.
THE Newport News & Mississippi Valley
Railroad Company will build shops at Lex.
ington, KY, if $1,000 is donated.
A COMPANY has been formed to mine coal
IN the Bald mountains, near Orient, D. T.
I. D. Scholar is the general manager.
LOUISVILLE tailors won strike after new
men had been employed and an injunction
suit against the union had been begun.
LOUISVILLE last year turned out $50, 900
plows and gave employment to 1900 men in
their manufacture. They were sold entirely
In the South.
The cotton mills of the country have 49,
100000 spindles, against 100000 eight
years ago, growth considerably larger
than that of population.
THE strike Of 1000 cigar-makers in forty
New York shops against a reduction has
practically succeeded. Only one firm re-
fuses to resume work at the old wages.
Two sIX-FooT veins of coal of excellent
quality have been found 140 feet below the
surface near Chester, village midway
between Jackson and Grand Rapids, Mich.
A COMPANY is being organized at Beatty.
vile, KY, to develop coal lands and will,
it is stated, put in plant of machinery with
capacity Of from twenty-five to fifty cars
of coal daily.
CAST iron will expand and contract be-
tween the extreme ranges Of temperature
in this country with force equal to four
and three-fourths tons per square inch OF
surface exposed
ST. LOUIS painters asked for an increase
Of forty cents per day, but will probably ac-
cept the bosses offer OF an advance OF
twenty cents. They get thirty cents per
hour at present and work eight hours per
day.
THE various carpenters unions of Chica-
go are now actively consolidating and pre-.
pairing to repeat their demands of year
ago for the eight-hour day and thirty-f
cents per hour as the minimum rate OF
wages.
AT Burlingame, Kan, 1000 miners met
and accepted, under protest, reduction OF
one and one half cents bushel Scranton
district has been cut the same amount. AL
the result of soft weather. At Leaven-
worth the miners are on half time
EIGHTY-Two per cent of the -four export
ed by America last year went to England
and IS per cent. of the wheat expectation
The Milling World says there is no tounda,
ton for the fear that Russia will take our
place in this trade. The goods sell on thei1
merit.
The tomato canneries put up 79,66s, As
cans last year. The leading points of pro |
duction are Maryland and Virginia, credited |
with 1,1lS,793 cases; New Jersey, 7s9, 1863:
Delaware, 227, $50; New York, 1876, 1872; West |
ern States, zoe, 500; Eastern States, 43, 800: |
Canada, 73, 900.
THE Richmond Gnd) locomotive and ma !
chine works are rapidly developing their al |
ready extensive works with a view of plac |
ing themselves in a position to build al
least 100 locomotives a year. They have con-
tracted for a large number Of tools and are
making considerable extensions in their
various shops. They expect to have all then
alterations completed by Nav, 1889.
WHAT the defeated New York street-car
strikers demanded is indicated IN the follow
ing: Conductors, e 25; drivers, 81 25; nigh,
So; head changers, s.; hostlers
g.; hitchers, So; tow boys, $50; changers
s.; harness cleaners, 50; switchmen, 81:
lampmen, 81; PAYERS, So %; hammers an6
spikers, 81: laborers, Sc. Ten hours shall
constitute days work, less one hour for
dinner, and five days in the week Satur
days nine hours, less one hour for dinner
and on Sundays and all legal holidays
eight hours, less one hour for dinner, anc
all work done over said hours to be con
sidered oyerwork and maid as such