The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-04-15
LABOR NOTES.

Hartford, Conn.
The wire trust has shut down sew
eral plants to curtail production.
The Chicago Democrat has gone into
the newspaper trust Still it bowls
against combines.
The tobacco trust is cutting out some
more of its travelling statesmen. and
other trusts are following suit. The
drummers will have time to think.
Governor Pingree offered President
Malone, of the street railway men,
position on the Michigan state board of
arbitration, which Bill" declined with
thanks.
w. w. Keenan,, a mechanic employ
Company, has invented machine for
harvesting sugar beets that he esti-
mates will reduce the cost of harvest
ing about 60 per cent
Sunday the new 100000 labor tenn
pie will be dedicated with impressive
ceremonies in Brussels. Belgium, by
the socialists. The building will con-
tain an auditorium capable of seating
1000 persons, besides stores, coffee
rooms, reading rooms, meeting halls,
| etc.
Active preparations are now going
forward for the great Worlds Labor
Congress in Paris next year. Indica-
lions are that hundreds of delegates
will attend and that every civilized
country in the world will be repre-
scented.
The Midland Railway Company of
England has ordered 20 locomotives
from American manufacturers, and the
reason given is that the company
could get them in three months from
America and for $4,000 per locomotive
less than in England. where they
would be obliged to wait from fifteen
months to two years for their COM
pletion."
The plasterers' lockout in Eng
land threatens to drag along intermin-
ably. OF the II 500 members, 1900 are
affected. of which number about 600
have secured other jobs from contract
ors who are not in the employers fed
eration.-Another lockout is likely to
occur if the cotton spinners persist in
demanding raise of wages. The boss
es are determined to grant no conces-
sions.
A new dredging machine is in opera
ton in Buffalo with which ten men do
the work of hundreds.-A recent in
vention in wire nail machinery forms
two uails at each revolution, and can
be operated at very high speed
1.-THE whitewash mans burden" is here
in the shape of a pneumatic coating
and white-washing machine, which is
now being exhibited in large cities
The auto-trucks are being rapidly in.
PRODUCED in New York.-A monster
shear, weighing 100000 pounds, is now
being built to cut blooms 10 inches
square or 100 square inches of section
at one strike. One man operates two
machines.
/ One of the most astounding inven
5 tions of the present century is a ma
= chine that produces liquid air at
cost of about 20 cents a gallon. Tn,
temperature of liquid air is about 40l
degrees below zero. 1t commercial
J. uses are almost innumerable. The ex
p pansive force of liquid air is twent,
times as great as that of steam, an,
engines are being run by it now il
New York But the most ASTONISHING
thing is the latest statement that al
engine consuming three gallons of Il
. quid air will, by the force it generates
produce seven gallons; that is, thi
invention is four-sevenths better tina
perpetual motion. All this seems il
!, credible, but the public exhibition
given in the presence OF prominen
e scientific gentlemen, and the endors,
J. ments they have given the claims O
the inventor seems to establish tn
fact that a great motive force hilbert
l. almost unknown has really been di!
u covered. The machine that produce
liquid air is small, occupies but littl
space, and costs but little to construC
e it. OF course, the new invention wi
O be monopolized, a $15,000,000 trus
having been incorporated in New Je
sey this week to manufacture m;
chimes and liquid air.
All slaves are miserable. even tn