Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-16
Labor Notes.
1000 q day.

SAN FRANCISCO warehousemep won
$3.50. 0'''e" "on
sWITzERLAND'ssc schools teach watch
making. ~ 'N--
CARRIAGE makers now have q Ma
tional Union.
SAVANNAH butchers are fighting
Chicago beef
MASSACHUSETTS has tenement ho,se
clothing inspectors.
THE Alaska seal catch since August.
]. number 100000
EMPEROR WILLIAM learned the
trade OF bookbinder in school.
AMERICAN screws are the most
popular in England and Germany.
BUFFALO lumber showers struck for
adjustment of stevedores.
THERE are 5000 union brass mold
ers. They get from SO to 81 day.
Our of nearly 100000 people in
New York only $4,000 own homes.
AUSTIN CoH3IN's new estate takes
III $4,000 aces and forty houses.
The drivers Of the street cars in
Atlanta are not allowed to carry
whips.
PITTsBURGH's Hold Carriers Union
has 1000 members, including 600
negroes.
BRAZIL and Mexico have adopted
the American locomotive on their
railways.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company clears over SIS, 900: 900 year
profits.
The first shoemaker in this country
was Abraham Lowering. who came
over in the Maynower.
Fort WORTH has an artesian we'll
that flows S64, 900 gallons of pure
water daily, the largest in the world.
a COOPERATIVE home for single
women is to be started in Vienna,
Austria. Each viii have a share in
the housekeeping.
CLEVELAND has passed a law re-
ducing the price of gas to 60 cents
per 1000, and giving the city an
option on the gas works at any time.
INDIA raises one bushel of wheat
per head of her population, the United
States over seven bushels per head
and South Australia nineteen bushels
For carrying marble blocks on theil
head from the quarries Italian wo
men receive 25 cents per day, but they
have just struck for cents more.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand ladies Of
Boston have banded themselves to-
gcther to close all stores and business
houses employing female help after
! p. IN.
The Salvation Army matches are
having brisk sale in England now
The output is already 1000 gross ;
week, and this is to be multiplied
twentyfold.
CHICAGO coopers, stone cutters
wire workers, willow and rattan work
eYs, shoemakers, harnessmakers, mar
BILE cutters and marble polishers art
fighting convict labor. $751;
The State Assembly of the Knight
of Labor of Nebraska has decided tx
publish an organ of it's own. 1t viii
be known as the Knight of Labor, ant
is to be located at Omaha.
ACCORDING to statistics gathered
by charity organizations throughon
the country there are 5000, 600 peopl
wholly or partly dependent upol
charity every year in the Unitc'
States.
F1FTY-FoUR families-all tenant
and employees of the owner-live on
5000 acre farm in Knox County, Ind.
and large school house is provided
to meet the wants of their DIV
branches. 81 - s...,t.. ,'r.' =
| FACTORY inspectors have been az
pointed in Russia. One OF thei
principal duties is to see that tn
workmen attend the orthodox church
and to compel capitalists to buil'
churches for their serfs. s. -. ','-s
In Alaska flour is S15 per 100 pounds
raisins, 373 cents per pound; matches
Is cents per bunch; bacon, 40 cents
mound: butter, $3.50 a roll; coffee
$3.50 a pound, and the cheapest tea
S1.25 a pound.
THREE years ago Austria had 10;
labor organizations with $500 mem
beers. and eleven labor papers witt
IS. 400 subscribers; it has now 2o'
labor organizations with $4,000 mem
beers, and forty-one labor papers witt
1877, $50 subscribers.
The population of Salvador by tn
last census was 664, 5l3 people, whlcf
shows seventy inhabitants to TIM
square mile and demonstrates SALIVA
dor to be the most thickly populated
country Of the American hemisphere
PROF. ELY, of Johns Hopkins Onl
vcrsity.is authority for the statement
that there are 5000. 600 panpers u
these United States, and DR.. Strong
the we]l-known statistican, says 1lia'
the wealth of American churcn l' aoa
hers amounts to over sl3, GEO. coo' ooo
TIE WorkingwomHn's Union o. o
Halle. Germany, has Aaco c!ssc'S'''