The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-07-27
A HIGH TARIFF DIARY.
business Troubles and Strikes
Under The Republican Ad.
nintstraIiOu.

be maintained. Its abandonment ha
always been followed by general disai
Ter to all interests except those of th
usurer and the sheriff. We denounc
the Mills bill as destructive TO the gen
eral business, the labor and the farm
ing irtrests OF the country"
September IL, 1888. Harrison let
ter OF acceptance: I'VE believe it to b
one of the worthy objects of tariff ley
islation TO preserve the American
market for the American produc
ers and to maintain the .Amerlcai
sca,e OF wages by adequate discrimina
ting duties upon foreign competing
products. Less work aud lower wages
must be accepted as the inevitable re.
suit OF the increased offering of foreign
goods in our markets."
NOUem6er 6, 1SSS.-Defedt of GToUe'
Ceceiaad, 1arif. Reform candidate to,
PI'cStdsnt.
November 15.-Strike of street. car
employ ees in Brooklyn.
January 4, lSS9.-Slrike OF dock Ia
borers at Duluth and of miners in Mis-
souri,.
January Failure OF the Keefer
Mining Co., of COvington, Ky.
January 9.-Strike of Higgins car
pei workers.
January 29.-Great strike of street
car employees in New York and Brook
iyn, resulting in their defeat.
February 2.-Failure of Jacob Bos-
set, builder, Brooklyn; liabilities $139.
600.
February o. Failure Of the j. j,
Burnes Company (Limited), Battle
Creek, Mich; liabilities 1921 ,O31.
February 8.-Failure OF the Pacific
Gusno Company and Gilden & Curtis,
Boston. Liabilities about 81 200, 900.
February 9--Failure of the Ohio
and Western Coal and Iron Company
March l.-AssigBment of IL. A.
Gould, Boston, dye stuffs, rubber, etc.
liabilities about 100000
March 4. 1885. -Innug,tration of Beg-
jaanin Harrison, High PyotecttOnist, as
President.
March 5, 1889. Failure OF the Read.
ing Iron Works; liabilities of about
$4,000 900; 1900 men thrown out of
employment.
March 6, 1883. Failure of the Excel.
sior Pottery at Trenton, N. j., employ
ing 800 hands.
The Warwick Manufacturing Com
pany, Cleveland, o., closed its doors In
consequence of depressed business.
Cotton 81 Mulvey ,sb0 e-dealers, Prov
idence, Il. L., assigned.
The McLewee 81 Knapp Manufacture
ing Company, lamps, 2s Barclay street,
New York, sold out by the sheriff.
Joshua Henderson, carpenter and
builder, South Boston, Mass, failed.
March THE Keystone Rolling Mill,
Of Reading, and the rol ling mills at
Naomi and Gibraltar, Penn, shut down,
throwing over GOO men out of employ
ment.
March 8-Assignment of the Findlay
(Ohiol Iron and Steel Company, with
l'.e principal rolling. mill in that mana
featuring centre: liabilities of over
100000.
Bufford Sons Lithographic Company,
Boston, suspended payment. Liabili-
ties estimated at 100000.
l.. D. Desforges l. Co. (New Orleans
and Pittsburgh, PENN, assigned; lia-
bilities $144.230.
). Hood & Co., cigar manufacturers
at lSO East Seventy sixth street, New
York, failed.
The Blackburn Iron Works, 2S Court
street, Brooklyn, called a meeting of
creditors.
Thos. e. Cooper, wholesale dealer in
flour and provisions, Albany, N. Y.
assigned; liabilities 100000.
March 1l.-Great strike of Fall River
weavers, resulting in their return to
work on the old terms.
March 25.-The dry-goods store of
Schedler 81 McWatters. Cleveland, O.,
closed by the sheriff on judgments ag-
gregsting 100000. u -.
Frank W. Adams, proprietor OF the
Glendale Woollen mills, Glendale,
Mass, made an assignment. aas 4
Reese u Whiting, the oldest dry
goods firm in Berlin, Wis, assigned.
March 30.-Strike of street-car men
in Rochester.
April l.-Strike OF 200 men in the
Dithridge Company glass works. New
Brighton, Pa.
April 2.-Strike of Erie switch men
at Buffalo.
Strike OF carpenters and painters at
Buffalo.
M. Block & Co., general merchants,
Pocohontas. Va, assigned.
o~DO"hS ~ cutEt UidIt'
ufacturers, at Nos. 43 and 45 Leonard
street, assigned; liabilities $3.50, 900.
April 9.-Reduction of wages in the
Clark Thread works, Newark, N. j.
| A. w. Keeney, paper-mill, Rockford
Ill.,, assigned.
Strike of st. Louis carpenters.
Strike over reduced wages in Clark't
Thread Works, Newark N. j.
| April 1l.-Shut-dow of the Susque
hanna Iron Works. asre
April lS.-Failurc of the Plymouth
Rolling Mill Co. of Conshohock ken, ,lPa
| April 5.-Assignment of the Con.
shohocken (Pa.) Worsted Mills Co.
April l7.-Assignment of T. F. Scan
Ian, piano manufacturer; liabilities
100000.
Return of st. Paul car. drivers tc
work at reduced wages. 49,
| May Announcement that ths
Warren Furnace, at Hackettstown, N
j., is to be blown out On account of tn,
dull state OF the iron market. The
company has $4,000 tons of iron OF
hand, aud no market for it. The fur.
mace at Stsnhope, N. j., is also to &c
out for similar reason.
Failure of g. L.. & L. T. Frye, shoe
manufacturers, Marlboro, Mass. Tht
factory, which furnished employment
to 200 people, closed. Liabilities abou
$4,000.
May IA reduction of 25 per cent
in the wages of the boot-cutters at tn,
Meyer Rubber Works, Milton, N. j.
Notification 10 the Glass Blowers
Assembly, Knights of Labor, Pitts
burg, of material reduction In wages
tor the next blast, which will begin OF
September /.
May 10.-Scranton, Pa Notices
posted OF a reduction of 10 per cent, in
the wages of all the employees of the
Dixon manufacturing company. The
reduction affects sbont 800 men.
May 1S,-Itedaction OF from 20 to sc
per cent. in wagea at Carnegie's Home
stead steel plant
The delegates from fiffeen of The
principal block.coal mines OF Indiana
representing over 1900 men, met III
Brazil, Ind, rejected the operators de
maud for twenty cents reduction, aud
declared a strike by two.thirds vote.
The reduction is from ninety cents to
seventy, the largest demanded lin the
history OF the coal trade west.
Failure of the AlmY Manufacturing
| company, manufacturers of ladies
fine cloths. The company's mills are
among the largest in the Kensington
(Philadelpbia) district and employ
about 400 hands
So many iron workers in Pennsylva-
mia are ont of employment that the AL
legheny Bessemer Mills at DuquesDe
have had no trouble in filling the places
of the strikers with non-uniOn men. and