Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-27
WORKSHOP AND MINE.


New York hardware statesmen have or
ganized.
CANADIAN letter-carriers get $50 and $S
per month.
EIGHT THOUSAND of Toledo's 10, 600 houses
use natural gas.
THE Tennessee Coal Mining Company,
Knoxville, has been chartered.
A FoRTY-INCH 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 81 so per day.
j. MORGAN COLEMAN, of Youngstown, O.,
intends to buiid 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 13hour day agreed
to last spring.
THERE are but few coal mines in Califor-
mia, their total yield being only about 1900
tons per year.
THE Somerset cooperative foundry, at
Fall River, Mass, was organized IN 1861, and
is prosperous.
THERE are excellent prospects that the
recent discovery of coal near Estherviile,
Ia, will prove paying vein.
TEE Boston Herald says the Massachu-
sets Board of Arbitration is a success. 1t
has settled many strikes and prevented
others.
1T is said that Pittsburgh concern is to
take hold OF the Laclede iron-worl1s, In
North st. Louis, which has been idle for
some time past
THE strike OF the New Bedford (Mass. \
weavers against black mark, has been set
tied. Better filling will be furnished aud
fines have been lowered
The Central Iron and Steel Company, of
Brazil, Ind, has added department to it's
works for the manufacture of turnbuckles
used by bridge builders and others.
THE st. Louis Butchers Union is opposed
to the proposed reduction of their license
from $50 to SIS. They fear Armour and
other big dressed-meat men under low
license. Z
The Birmingham (Ala.) Sentinel SAYS
"We would advise all working-men of any
description to give Birmingham wide berth
unless they have certainty of a situatlon
on arrival"
THERE are less than 450 labor unions in
Daily News. year ago there were COO
unions in existence. The building trade
unions alone seem to be as strong or
stronger than year ago.
AT Trinidad, Col, a merchant iron rolling
mill will be in operation by February 1, 1889,
which Will produce twenty-five tons of iron
per day. A horseshoe factory viii be adj
ded to the plant as soon as completed and a
nall and pipe works are soon to follow
ST. JOSEPH (Mo) plumbers and steam
and gas-ftters will be paid hour wages
for a nine-hour day after April 1, 1889. I'm
til that time they will work nine hours at
nine-hour pay-S350 to $3.50 for plumbers,
and steam and gas-fitters receive from 81
to 81 per day.
THE new rolling-mill of the Minnesota Car
Company, at Duluth, Mimi, will contain
one 10-inch and one 1S-inch train of rolls. n
slabbing hammer and two axle hammers.
Two Smith furnaces will supply the trans
OF rolls, and two Smith regenerative gas
furnaces will supply the hammers
GRAND TRUNK railroad hands at Port
Huron, Mich, put together and buy 500 tons
of coal at time. Employees in other towns
began to do the same thing, but the local
dealers warned the wholesale men TO dis
| continue the practice, and the local trust
Will hereafter get its own prices
THE largest coal dock in America will bc,
built at once at West Superior, Mimi, by
the Eastern Railway Company 1t will ba
1900 feet deep and 800 feet wide, with a
central vessel slip 1000 feet long and 100
| feet wlde giving 500 feet of dock 'front.'
age for unloading cars. Tracks will run alb
| through the structure, which will have a
| storage capacity of 500 900 tons of coal.