Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-10


killed and 80 others injured.
Nov. 1-Rev. VIM, C. Van Meter, noted evan
gelist and missionary, died at Rome, aged Is s
Nov 6-BritiSh Parliament reassembled
Nov. Six inches of snow at Quebec, Can.
Nov. 1C-Seventy persons drowned in coils
ion between 1, steamers in Br t:sh channel
ly destroyed by fire, thousands Of people being
rendered homeless and destitute -. M. Herten
stein, Pr dent of Switzerland, died at Berne
Dec. 1-President DIaz. of Mexico. took the
oath of office for his third term.
Dec. 6-Several mysterious murders in the
Whitechapel district OF London occurred dur
ing the year, the victims being outcast women
whose bodies were horr bly, mutilated.
Dec. 21-Authentic information received tn at
Stanley, the African explorer, was alive and
Dee a6-General Louis Melikofr, famous Rus
sian officer died at Nice, aged Ga
Dec. 27-Several shocks of earthquake in
eastern and northeastern parts of SPAN
INDUSTRIAL.
jan "A strike of $1,000 miners in progress
in the Schuylkill Pa, region the strike also eX-
tending to The Lehigh region. The Newark
IN. j. Shoemakers Trades Union decided to
withdraw from the knights of Labor.
Jan. 10-Nearly all steel-rail mills in country
closed because of railway managers refusing to
purchase at over $50 per ton.
Feb. 2-General Executive Board OF Knights
of Labor rerort 5000 increase in membership
of order IN January.
Feb. 3-The 400 striking employees of the
Troy, On. " steel and iron works accept 10 per
cent reduction in wages.
Feb. 13-Several coll.ereS in Reading, Pa, dis
trict resume operations.
Feb. 11-StrIking miners in Schuylkil, Pa,
region ordered to return TO work
Feb. @0-Tea per cent. increase III wages vol
UNFAIRLY given to workmen III Belaire 90 blast
furnaces.
Feb. 21-Strking miners at Palmrya, (OD re-
sumo work at old prices.
Feb. 21-Great strike of engineers and fire.
men on Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road.
Three Thousand employees of the Edgar Thom-
steel works, Pittsburgh. Pa, discharged
for refusing 10 accept terms of company.
Feb. 29-Many strikers in Leh gh(Pa-) mining
region ordered by X. of L. to return TO WORK.
Mar. 1-Over 800 ship carpenters in Milwaukee
struck 1or u hours pay I9f ntne hours Worh.
Mount Carmel, Pa, return to work at old rates
Mar. Strike of engineers on Burlington q
Northern railroad inaugurat ed at Minneapolis.
Mar 14-Judge Gresham decided Chicago
that railroad could not lawfully suspend re-
cprocal relations with q connecting road
through fear of precipltating a strike.
Mar 15-Str lie irau gurated If engineers and
firemen on the Atchison. Topeka " Santa Fe
system -. Two thousand employees of Mcclure
& Co, coke operators at Scottdale, Pa, struck
for division of work.
Mar. 1s-Strike on Santa Fe system ended by
eng neCrs and firemen returning to work.
Mar. 21-Striking carpenters and calkers in
Milwaukee give up the fight and resume work.
Mar 23-Strike of union plasterers at Buffalo,
n. Y, for 10 hours pay for nine hours work 80.
Switchmen on Santa Fee system strike to help
engineers and firemen of the Burlington Ines
Mar. 29-Mob OF strikers attack a c., y. & @
train in Chicago. .Switchmen, eng neers and
firemen IN yards of c., NJ. & St p. road strike.
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Apr. 2-House painters in Cincinnati struck
for increase of pay and reduced hours.
Apr. 3-Railroad strike in Chicago modified
by removal OF boycott on Burlingtu Il relght,
the strike being confined to burlington road.
Apr. 4-About 1000 strikers. after several
months idlencss, decide to resume work at the
Reading Pa iron works, at reduction in
Apr. IA shut down by coke producers in
Connellsville, Pa, region threw over GOO men
out of work. Employees of Chicago brewers
struck because propretors would not recog-
n authority of union.
Apr. 16-Brewery lockout inaugurated in
New York CITY.
Apr. 1o-About 400 employees of Cincinnati
breweries struck because of discharge OF sew
eral u lion men,
Apr 23-Braddock (Pa.) steel, works resum ed
operations with non-uniOn men. after laying
May 3-Strlke in Edgar Thomson steel works
at Braddock. Pa, declared off by knights of
Labor, and men resume work at old rates.
May 4-About 1000 iron miners strike near
Duluth, MINI.
MAY I9-Boston Herald divides $1,000 among
employees the proft-sharing plan.
May 2S-NeW York brewers declared long
strike ended, and would take back none of the
strikers.
Jun. 11-Annual convention of International
TYPOGRAPHICAL Union assembled at Kansas
City.
Jun. 15-Window glass factories of Pittsburg,
Pa, closed down, because of disagreement of
workers and employers on scale OF wages.
Jun. 1S-Seven coke works IN ConneliSville,
Pa, region shut down because of strike OF
employees
operated by non-unlon men shut down because
of disagreement as to wages.
Jul. 6-Cincnnati brewers strike, begun
April H. declared off.
Jul. 14-Iron workers strike at Pittsburgh
practically ended, nearly all manufacturers
having signed the scale
Jul. 27-Owners and operators of glass-wori1s
at Pittsburgh, Pa, agreed upon scale OF
wages, Operations to be resumed Sept l.
Jul. 31-SiX thousand coal miners in Vicin-
ity of Pittsburgh, Pa, struck against reduction
in wages
Aug. 1-Letter-carrierS' efght-hour law goes
Aug. 3-Four thousand street laborers in Du-
luth, Mimi. struck for increase in wages.
Aug. 11--Strking flint glass workers, 6,000 in
number, in Pittsburgh, resumed work at in
creased wages.
Aug. 15-Brick makers strike at Chicago
collapsed union men at work refusing to
longer support the strikers.
Aug. 16-North Chicago rolling mills shut
down, throwing out !, 500 men.
Sept. Most of the glass bottle factories in
the country resumed work after eight weeks
Sep. 5-Federation of Miners and Mine-La-
borers, N session at indianapolis, decided nj ae
hours shall be days work after Sept. l, 1889,
and eight hours after Sept. /, 1890 Striking
coal miners at Sherodsville and Sal.neville, O.,
| resumed work on operators terms after four
months of idleness.
SEP. 1O-Several coal-miners strike at Be
vier, Mo-, because demand for advanced wages
| was refused.
| (Mlnn.) millers, divide $4,000 among employees
on the profit-sharing plan.
Oct. 5-COnOuCtOrS, drivers ana gr pmen OF
| North Chicago Street Railroad Company struck
| for fewer hours and increased pay
| Oct 10-Etrlke on West SIDE Chicago City
! street railways in sympathy with the strikers
| on the North side.
| Oct. I3-Two thousand miners at Blocton,
| Ala struck against reduction OF pay. -. The
| great strike on street railways in Chicago set
tied by compromise and men resumed work.
| Nov 9-Sanford & Sons carpet mills, Amster
DAM y. Y, shut down for some time resumed
| operations. .
| Nov. 14-Brakemen of the L., n. A & C rail
| road on a strike at Lafayette, Ind.
| Nov. 15-Five hundred puddlers in American
| iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa, struck against
| change of hours.
| Nov 17-Wages of 400 men employed in fur
naces at Sharon. Pa. voluntarily advanced oJ
| employers 10 to IS cents per day -. Large fur
mace at Clymer, Pa, resumed operations aftel
| lying idle for several months.
| Nov. 19-River and coal operators decide u
| shut down all mines along the Monongaheit
| river in Pennsylvania for an indefinite period
| Nov. 22-Three-fourths Of switchmen at Indt
| annapolis, Ind, struck for higher wages.
| Nov. 2S-Lockout in New York and New Jer
| sey breweries, proprietors stating no uniol
| men would thereafter be employed by them
| Dec. THE National Progs sssive Union o
| Miners and Mine Laborers organized at Colum
bus, O., John Mcbride, OF Ohio, being chose'
president