Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12
BARBER COUNTY INDEX.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE -, 1889.
FROM LABoR's FIELDS.

BEAUTIFUL modern houses near London
rent for 800 per year.
c SILK weavers to go to New York are ad-
vertised for in Switzerland
AN Ohio bill makes railroads pay damages
70 employees hurt while at work
THE Mt Olive Qll.) Coal Company pro-
poses to increase its capital t. 81 10000
RICHMOND (Me.) shoe men are out be-
cause they refuse to leave their unions.
CENTRALIA, H., 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 eight-hour law en-
forced.
A CHARLoTTEsvrLLE, (Va) voolen mill is
making loo suits for the letter carriers Of
Philadelphia.
Or the 1000 Higgins carpet weavers who
struck at New York, two-thirds now have
employment
NASHVILLE colored roustabouts struck for
an advance-20 to % cents per hour. Con-
victs were hired
THE new railroad coal rates in Kansas are
on an average about 10 per cent. less than
the old rates, same distances.
Born houses Of the Massachusetts Legis-
lature have voted down bill TO make eight
hours days work for State, city, town and
county employees.
AN Englishman has made a toy containing
400 animals and men. They are all put in
motion by a 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 a day.
JAMES WHITE, Of Jacksonville, Pa, has
just purchased ZOO acres Of coal land near
Alpsville, Pa. The purchase is made for a
syndicate, which proposes the opening of
immense mines at that place.
SAN FRANCIsCo's is the biggest ship-yar1
in the country, having a water frontage OF
1850 feet by 1,400 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. IL 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 overwork and
double pay thereafter.
HAUGHvILB Ind) malleable iron works
stove-top fnishers have been cut from $50
per thousand 70 S35, about 81 per day.
Molders from 50 per hundred TO 81 So The
force has also been cut, and boys are at
mems work. Four hundred men had their
wages reduced.
NEW coal companies The Nilwood Car
bon Coal Company is one OF the new cor
porations of Illinois; the Greenwood Coal
and Coke Company has been incorporated in
Arkansas; the Petit Jean Coal Company,
capital stock sl,0OOOOO, headquarters at
Little Rock, Ark.
OK 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 StoneCutters' Union OF
New York has requested the mayor to no
tify the contractors for the new municipal
building that American citizenP only must
be employed upon it.
THE Fourth OF July, Labor day and Wash.
ington's birthday Of next year have been
set apart by the American Federation OF
Labor as the dates for the holding of mass
meetings in the interest Of the eight-houi
movement. The movement is to eliminate
May l, 1890, on which day general demand
will be made for working day Of eight
hours