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

lIill az "C1uOAS ~. ~ "AA Ne 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 nc less that T.
352, 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
contract.
In Great Britain it is common for
corporations that produce electricity for
commercial purposes to rent out elec-
trio motors by the month to small con-
sumers of current.
1t is reported that the cloth manu-
facturers of Roubaix, France, have be-
gun the use of a new weaving machine
of great capacity, making a woven eff
feet on one side and knitted on the
other.
The American Federation of Musi-
clans 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 BUSH
ness has swelled to a total of 80, 900, 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., n an instance, along
with telephones and the trolley, OF
American enterprise.
The Tobacco Worker says a new ci-
garette 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
minute.
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
bushels OF corn per day. About $50 peo-
pie will be employed.
Women were put on the street cars
at Madison, Ind, as conductors a short
time ago at SIS 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
snail go to employees of union labor,
n that in purchasing supplies prefer
ence shall be given to goods of Amer
lean manufacture.
The state of Bahia, Brazil. is said
10 pe 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
lor out sixteen years, yet in that time
'hey nave conquered the foreign as well
as the domestic market, and tho o,,+n,,t
Ior 1897, as appears by treasury sta
'istlcs Just printed, reaches the enor-
mus total OF nearly 900, 900, 900 pounds.
"nlie the trade has steadily expanded
'ne prices have as steadily declined.
/. A'"'r saving machinery keeps COM
ing. A slot machine for restaurants to
ulsplace walters has been invented. A
Aohoon papers speaks of a new TYNE.
setting machine that makes an onera-
tor unnecessary; all that it requires is
q small boy to feed it rolls Of brown
paper. A convict in the Szeedire pen-
uei''ary. hungary, has invented a ma
cn'ne with which it is claimed $50
people can be shaved in n hour.
oncle sam was rather hard on the
importers, e about q year ago the
tar'H commissioners decided that cher
RES must be taxed both for themselves
anu the alcohol in which they are pre-
served.