Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-03-02
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

ILLINOIS broom-corn growers talk OF n
stricting the acreage
AMSTERDAM IN. " knitting-mills EN-
ploy :, 200 persons.
ABnL to prevent blacklistng IS peiore
the Indiana Legislature.
STEEL rails now weigh 100 pounds TO the
yard-an increase from Sc pounds
PATERSON, N. J., silk weavers have lect
ures in their library and ~reading-rooms'
THE Peerless Mining Company, capital
$4,000, has been formed at Wichita, Kan
San Francisco boiler-makers at work on
q ship that had her boilers made IN Scotland
demanded a per day.
KANSAS CITY has a young woman com
posltor who sometimes acts as "boss" IN
the absence of the foreman.
THE Newport News & Mississippi Valley
Railroad Company will build shops at Lex
ington, KY, if $4,000 is donated.
A COMPANY has been formed TO nine Goa
in the Bald mountains, near Orient, u l.
7. D. Scholar is the general manager
LOUISVILLE tailors won a strike after new
men had been employed and an injunction
suit against the union had been begun.
LOUISVILLE last year turned out 25O,WO
plows and gave employment to 1900 men In
their manufacture. They were sold entirely
in the South.
THE cotton mills Of the country have ID
10000 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 a reduction has
practically succeeded. Only II firm re
fuses to resume work at the old wages.
Two sIx-Foor veins of coal of excellent
quality have been found 140 feet below the
surface near Chester, a 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 a plant Of machinery with
a 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 10 repeat their demands Of a year
ago for the eight-hour day and thlrty-fye
cents per hour as the minimum rate Of
wages.
AT Burlingamc, Kan, 1000 miners met
and accepted, under protest, a reduction OF
one and ne-half cents a bushel. Scranton
district has been cut the same amount. Al
the result of soft weather. At Leaven.
worth the miners are on half time.
EIGnTY.rwo per cent. of the -four export
ed by America last year went to England
and IS per cent. of the wheat expectation
The Milling World says there is no tounda
ton for the fear that Russia will take OUT
place in this trade. The goods sell on their
merit.
THE tomato canneries put up N,66S,4Ss
cans last year. The leading points Of pro.
duction are Maryland and Virginia, credited
with Ills, 1888 cases; New Jersey, 7S9,363;
Delaware, 227, 030; New York, 1888, 432; West.
ern States, 796, 500; Eastern States, 1890.
Canada, %, 800.
The Richmond Ind) locomotive and ma
chine works are rapidly developing their al
ready extensive works with a view of plac,
inn fhnnua1Nnc in a nnpitinn tn I,;Il ~