The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-25
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Honolulu bricklayers get IS a day.

Honolulu bricklayers get IS a day.
In Sweden miners earn 5000 a year.
South Africa has American windmills.
Germany has TOT miles OF electric
road.
France announces leather railway ca
wheels.
Maine is again to enter the list of con-
per mining states.
Japan factories employ no children
under Is years of g
The new cotton mill at Henrietta.
N. c., will start work soon with q, 000
%spindles.
1t is expected that a new knitting
mill at Weldon, N. c., will be COM
pleted about the first of January next.
The Hard Stone Cutters union OF
Louisville, KY, has seeded from the
knights of Labor and Joined the feder-
alton.
During a recent week no less that T.
1852. 900 bushels of American wheat and
5,4S5, 900 bushels of corn were shipped to
Europe.
The French River wooden mills at Me-
chanicsville, Conn.,, are running day
and night to complete a government
contract.
In Great Britain it is common for
corporations that produce electricity for
commercial purposes to rent out elec-
of current.
1t is reported that the cloth manu-
of Roubaix, France, have be-
gun the use of a new weaving machine
of great capacity, making a woven ef-
feet or one side and knitted on the
other.
The American Federation of Musi-
is holding a referendum vote on
the proposition to withdraw from the
American Federation of Labor. Some
musicians claim to be artists, not work.
ingmen.
There has been astonishing increase
in the imports of American flour into
Japan. In 1892 the total import of flour
was LOOP pounds, but in 1896 the busi-
ness has swelled to a total Of 80, 600, 900
pounds.
There are $50, 900 typewriters in use in
the United States. The business, says
the New York Sun, is the growth of
twenty years, and an instance, along
with telephones and the trolley, of
enterprise.
The Tobacco Worker says a new CT
making machine in England is
raising the deuce. In Liverpool 1900
girls will be thrown out Of work and
many more in other cities. The ma
chine rolls from $50 to 800 cigarettes a
1t is said that the new glucose plant
at Waukegan, Ill.,, will be in operation
in November. The machinery installed
is of the very latest type, and the
plant will have a capacity of $4,000
OF corn per day. About $50 peo-
pie will be employed.
women were put on the street ears
Madison, Ind, as conductors a short
time ago at IS per week in place of men
at $40 per week. The people of Madison
ooycotted the street cars and as a con-
sequence men are now running the cars
there again.
Perry Heath, acting postmaster gen.
eral, himself formerly a union printer,
has ordered that all printing hereafter
given out by the postoffice department
go to employees Of union labor,
ana that in purchasing supplies prefer
ence shall be given to goods of Amer
manufacture.
The state of Bahia, Brazil, is said
be the sole seat of the carbon in.
oustry. The carbons have been found
Tor years, but there has been no market.
until the commencement of the present
oecade, when, on account Of their hard
ness, they were sought by makers Of
so-called diamond drills.
Wire nails have been in common use
LOT but sixteen years, yet in that time
'ney nave conquered the foreign as we'll
as the domestic market, and the output
.ol 1885, as appears by treasury sta
's'ics just printed, reaches the enor-
nr totai OF nearly 900, 600. 900 pounds.
WINE the trade has steadily expanded