Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-09-11

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CHICAGO wants labor temple.
CHINESE are leaving California.
BROOKLYN plumbers smalganated
NEW YORK cafvers work eight hours
VIENNA compositors won nine hours
VINcENNEs miners agreed to arbitra
ton.
BROOKLYN engineers run labol
bureau.
CHICAGO has railway employer hos
pital.
THE German Government runs lac,
schools. "
The Colored Farmsrs' Alliance il
spreading.
THERE is = socialist party In Ssr
Francisco.
CHINESE mating workmen get
cents o day.
Frisco paperhangers get from $l.5t
to $3.50 . day.
ST. PAUL BARRIERS want Is cents fol
. shave.
The Lumber Showers is Chicago
biggest union.
AMlLwAuKEE brewery will make it.
own bottles.
LONDON (Ont.) plumbers want min,
hours and 1926.
BIRMINGHAM (Ala.) miners get Az
cents ton.
Mexico will have = $2,0OO,O0O OK
libit st the Worlds Fair.
LOUISVILLE negroes struck sgains
working with Italians.
The Brotherhood OF Painters anC
Decorators has 800 unions.
AUSTRALIAN eight hour workers wan,
half hour for smoke.
GERMANY publishes more periodicals.
than oil the rest OF Europe.
Two HUNDRED labor papers died II
four years in the United States.
New YORK Hebrew trades unions
have naturalization bureau.
The Steam Railroad Mems Union ol
New York has 5000 members.
SAN Francisco musicians get %. &c
for one engagement and $l8 week.
CoLoRED people will erect an emsn
cipation monument at the Worlds Fair.
VERA Cruz has . seventy.two mile
street railway, the longest in the
world.
PHOTOGRAPHERS assistants in New
York work seven days for 81 and %.
They will organize.
The gold produced in Venezuela in
1890 amounted to 2,424 kilos, 525 gam.
mes; value, $l,04O,5 5O6.
ELECTRIC Welding 10 being used in
America for welding band saws. and
also for replacing broken teeth in saws,
RECENT advices from Asia state ths|
electric motors have been adopted TO,
planning and drilling machines in
works at Toxic, japan.
PARIS had seventy-three acres unde,
roof for it's exposition, but Chicago will
have 115 acres. 1t will be . show moi
soon to be surpassed.
UNLESS some catastrophe not antici
pated overtakes the crop Nebraska will
crib 200, ,OOO, 900 bushels OF corn THU
year. The crop of 1889 was LOO. 600, ,O0O
tushels.
The number of accidents in British
collieries during the first half Of 1891
was unusually small. The total mum.
Der Of persons killed by explosions ol
firedamp was only l8. against 276 in the
corresponding period OF 1890 and sc in
the same time in 1889.
WHAT is called London proper covers
m area Of III square miles, which il
sixty.three miles less than the area OF
Chicago, and in this area resides q
population OF 4,OOO,00O. In this area
there are 233 miles of railroad owned
by seventeen different companies, one
company having ~ much rs forty -four
miles.
IT is announced that the Yorkshire,
England, miners, ipstead Of spending
IN accumulated fund Of halt q million
dollars in supporting strikes, propose ia
devote the money to the election ex-
penses and salsrit,. of twenty members
Of Parliament chosen to represent them
- to all legislation affecting their inter.
ests. There il no salary attached TO 4
position in Parliament.
THE Census Office reports, concern
ing the tobacco statistics OF Virginia.
that the total number OF planters in the
State during the census year was "a.
O34; the total area devoted to tobacco
1869 acres; the total product. 49,
522. .655 pounds, and the value OF the
crop to the producers, estimated on the
basis Of actual sales. a, ,323, GAO.