The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-29

p4t1EOdu do AlISGOQ VIII hereafter work
only five days in the week until the
business conditions improve.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. August 81 -
| Freight business ON the P~enasvIvania.
company's lines has been so slack for
the last four weeks that many train
men have been idle. One trainman on
every regular freight crew between
Pittsburg and Chicago, on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago sys-
tenn was laid off to day indefinitely.
Sixty men were dismissed between
Fort Wayne and Chicago alone. 1t is
understood that the order affects the
entire Pennsylvania system.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 21.-The fact Jeanne
to the surface yesterday that when the
committee Of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen concluded their session,
with the officials Of the St. Paul road
Friday it was with the threat that if
the order reducing wages was carried
into effect they would strike.
SEDALIA, No, Aug 21-The Missouri
Pacific Road will next Thursday still
further reduce expenses by abandon
ing two passenger trains between this
city and st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 21.-The ex-
pected strike among the freight hand
lers here did not take place this morn
ing. The men said they had reconsid-
cred their determination and would
accept the cut Of 10 per cent. hoping to
have their wages restored when times
improve.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis Aug, ga mob
of more than two hundred unemployed
laborers marched through the streets
to the court house and called for the
mayor this morning. When Mayor
Koch appeared he was greeted with
cries of bread" and work" Several
demanded that the city officials go to
Washington to have the law that
caused hard times repealed. They
said they must have work or their
families would starve.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 22.-The
The Evansville and TerTe Haute Rail
road monthly pay a reached this city
to day, a week late. The men we're
greatly surprised when, instead of
cash, their envelopes contained bank
checks dated September IL.
The men tried to discount their
checks in the banks and with mer-
chants, but failed. There was much
Indignation, and to night the switch
men struck. All freight is at a stand
still in the yards.
DENVER, Col, Aug. PA mob of
unemployed IabOreTs this morning
visited the north side sewer, now build
ing, and drove out of the trench
seventy five men who were working
eight hours a day for 81.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 22-The
unemployed in this city have formed
an organization called the United
Brotherhood of Labor. 1t has so far
about three thousand members. 1t has
already established a free employment
agency and is constructing q free soup
kitchen which will SOC be ready for
use.
TONAwANDA, N. Y, Aug. 22.-Open
hostilities began this morning at eleven
o'clock between the union and non
union lumber showers About seventy
old uni On men attacked the non union
men.
MINoNK, ILL.,, Aug. 90 -The Minonk
coal and coke mines have shut down,
throwing five hundred men out of en-
ployment.
WARE, Mass, Aug, 22.-The Otis
Company's four cotton mills in this
town, employing eighteen hundred
hands with a pay roll of 50, 900 a day,
that have been shut down for nearly q
month, and were expected to start up
Monday, will not do so, owing to con
tinued dizziness of trade.
AMSTERDAM, N. Y, Aug. 22.-The In
man Machine Shops have closed for an
indefinite time. A large number of
hands r employed when the shops
are running with a full force, The
Morris Knitting Mills No. 1 in this city
and No. 2 in Akin are also preparing
to close. The night employees in the
No. 2 mill, numbering a hundred, have
been laid off These mills have been
running steadily for eight years. The
Sanford Carpet Mills are still closed.
DOVER, N. H., Aug. 22-Notices
were posted this morning in the mills
Of the Great Falls Manufacturing Com,
pany, in S~omersworth, that on Sep
TENDER 1 a cut down in all departments
of 10 per cent. will go into effect.
In No. 3 mill, which makes coarse
goods, there will be a two thirds reduc~
ton in force because of the large stock
of goods now on hand and because the
company is unable to get ready money.
SAN MARCOS, Texas, Aug. 22.-The
First National Bank suspended pay
ment yesterday by order Of the direct
ors. Notice is given that the depositors
will be paid in full as Don as they can
realize on paper, Of which there is
more than two and one half times the
amount required.
BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 22.-JacobD rey-
fus, junior partner of the firm of We'll,
Dreyfus &. Co, wholesale dealers in
mems furnishing goods, appeared in
the Supreme Court this afternoon as
petitioner for a dissolution Of the CO.
partnership. The court promptly
granted the request and appointed
Lawyer Godfrey Morse receiver. The
liabilities are said to be over $3.50. 900.
KANSAS Cry, No, Aug. 22.-James
Doughty, of Sioux City, Iowa, arrived