Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-08
LIE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

ILLINOIS broom-corn growers talk OF 70
stricting the acreage
AMSTERDAM IN. W knitting-milis en-
ploy {, 200 persons.
A BILL to prevent blacklisting Is before
the Indiana Legislature.
STEEL rails now weigh 100 pounds to the
yard-an increase from So pounds.
PATERSON, N. j., silk weavers have lect-
ures in their library and Peading-rooms.
THE Peerless Mining Company, capital
100000, has been formed at Wichita, Kan.
SAN Francisco boiler-makers at work on
a ship that had her boilers made in Scotland
demanded "a per day.
KANSAS CRY has young woman COM
posltor who sometimes acts as ssboss'' in
the absence of the foreman.
THE Newport News & Mississippi Valley
Railroad Company will build shops at Lex.
ington, KY, if s35. coo is donated.
A COMPANY has been formed to mine coal
In the Bald mountains, near Orient, d. T.
7. ID. 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 $4,000
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, a growth considerably larger
than that of population.
THE strike of 1000 cigar-makers in forty
New York shops against 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 40 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 a 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 &C.
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 a year
ago for the eight-hour day and thirty five
cents per hour as the minimum rate of
wages.
AT Burlingame, Kan, 1000 miners met
and accepted, under protest, a reduction OF
one and one-half cents bushel Scranton
district has been cuD the same amount. ALI
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 35 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 their
merit.
THE tomato canneries put up 79,668, 48s
cans last year. The leading points of pro
duction are Maryland and Virginia, credited
with 1,11S,7S3 cases; New Jersey, 789, 1888;
Delaware, 227, 030; New York, 1876, 432; West
ern States, 796 500; Eastern States, 1880
Canada, 73, $50.
THE Richmond Qnd.) locomotive and ma
chine works are rapidly developing their al
ready extensive works with q view of plac-
ing themselves in position to build at
least1OO locomotives 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 their
alterations completed by May, 1889.
WHAT the defeated New York street-car
strikers demanded is indicated IN the follow.
ing: Conductors, 50. 25; drivers, 81 25; night
watchmen, 50; head changers, So; hostlers,
50; hitchers, 81; tow boys, $1.50; changers,
81; harness cleaners, 50; switchmen, e;
lampmen, So; PAYERS, 80 Is; hammers and
spikers, 50; laborers, 50. Ten hours shall
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, and
all work done over said hours to be con.
sidered overwork, and paid as such