Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-03-16
General.

General
Steel bii!ets have advanced to S23 80
per ton in Chicago.
The new postal laws. which saves
thirteen days between San Francisco
and Australia, go into effect this week.
The annual convention of the Jour
neynen Bakers and Contectioners'
International Union began in Chicago.
The Sugar trust announces an agree
ment to guarantee sales of refined su-
gar for from thirty to sixty days.
Plans for the formation Of NAM
moth soap trust We're discussed at a
meeting of Chicago soap manufactur-
erS.
The transport Valencia. for Manila,
carries, IL addition to $50 soldiers,
stores ana supplies, S1,50o,O0o to pay
soldiers now in the Philippines.
The national council of the knights
of Columbus of the United States as
sembled in New Haven, Conn, for its
annual meeting.
The dominion government has de-
cided to construct telegraph line TO
connect the Yukon territory with
British Columbia.
A combine to be known as the Ma
tional Tube company, with S50,0o0,ot0
capital, is TO be incorporated under
the laws OF New Jersey.
The directors of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway declared
the regular semi-annUal dividend of
IL per cent on the common and
B IL on preferred stock
j. IfeIpont Morgan denies the story
that he has secured the assent Of the
Readings English stockholders to q
consolidation of all the great Eastern
coal interests.
Edward NJ. Harley, formerly fur
rier of Toledo, Ohio, has filed petit
ton of voluntary bankruptcy. the Pc
tition showing $4,000 liabilities and
SO assets.
A monster mass meeting of German,
Americans to protest against an alli-
ance of the United States with Eng
land or any other power, will be held
in the near future in Chicago.
The strike Mt the Schoen Press Steel
Car works at Pittsburg was without
exciting features. There were no ar
rests and quiet prevailed about the
plant, which is still guarded by police.
In consequence Of the cut in rates
for the transatlantic passage the
Hamburg American line has reduced
the fare for first-class cabin passen-
gers from Hamburg to $50.
The Bethlehem iron Company Of
Bethlehem, Pa, announced a rise Of
wages OF 10 per cent, affecting the
common labcrers. CT whom more than
500 are on the pay roll.
There has been another advance in
tin plate Of 10 cents per box, making
| the price S3.To, n net advance Of 10
cents since the trust was formed. The
market is excited.
The strike Of the employees Of the
( Schoon Pressed Steel company Of
! Pittsburg. Pa. is still on. An advance
Of 10 per cent in wages was made, but
the men were not satisfied with IL.
( Gen. John McNulta has been put in
possession of the American Brewing
company's plant. in pursuance Of the
I injunction granted by the federal
court.
Manufacturers of knit goods in the
Utica, n. Y, district. have been inyit-
| ed TO a meeting ut the Waldorf-Asto-
ria, New York. March 155, to form a
/ combination of knit goods manufacture
ers.
| Negotiations for the purchase Of the
/ Schoenberger Steel company's proper
! ties by the American Steel ard Wire
+ company have been formally closed.
The price paid approximates $1,000
0On.
At the request Of William ard Jo-
. seph Rorschiz Of Buffalo, n. u, the
st. Louis police are searching for Mi
chael BorSciiiz. their father. \ for
I tune Of 100000 has, it is ciaimeo,
! been left him.
! The secretary Of the treasury has
/ received from Supt. Pritchett, of the
I coast and geodetic survey, a protest
/ against the arrest of two of his Of
1 ficials for pickpockets at the New Or
leans marsii gras.
The Whitingsville. Mass, cotton mill
and the cotton mills at Linwood and
Saundersville. have announced an adj
vance In wages, 10 take place April J.
1 About q thousand operatives are af-
fected.
i The lWehty-tnlru NaIssts Nciuii
teers tcoloreD arrived at Newport
I News from Santiago.
A Chicago financial bureau says IL Is
the purpose of the independent straw
hoard manufacturers, who wish TO or
ganize the outside plants into q strong
company. TO capitalize the association
at $5,0o0,G00.
The comet which Prof. Louis Swift
discovered March 9, at the Lowe Oh
seryatory ON Echo mountain in South
ern California, Is growing fainter. II
is moving ia a northeasterly direc
ton.