The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-04-13


Organization is booming in Toledo,
Ohio.
over Si3.ooo.05c IS invested in Yer
mont qnarries.
ST. Joseph. Mo, Is 10 have a new 3d.
1o0 shoe factory.
Twelve average tea-plants produce
one pound 81 tea.
Sales of American horses to Mexico
now reach Sloo.000 annually.
The highest wages received by mill
hands In India is $40 month.
Colorado labor unions have elected
twenty-five of their members 10 the
State legislature.
The Painters Union of Denver asked
for an increase in wages from $50 To
So per day of eight hours.
The Sandoyal Company at Carlyle.
ILL.,. agrees 10 pay the prevailing rate
Of wages for coal mining.
The Tobacco Workers National
Union Is now located In Louisville. hay
Ing removed from ST. Louis.
The headquarters OF the lnternatlon-
al BARRIERS Union has been removed
from Syracuse 10 Cleveland, Ohio.
The Schenectady Locomotive works
has completed shipment of an order
for twenty-seyen locomotives to Japan.
The telephone subscribers of the
whole world number about 1.500.o00.
The United States stands at the top
with 100000.
The Colorado Stale Commissioner Of
Mines reports that during The past year
81. 231 miners We're employed in the
various mines of the State.
Martin McHale. OF Minneapolis.
MINI. II member of the st. Paul Trade
and Labor Assembly. has been APP
pointed labor commissioner OF Mime
sofa by GOV. Lind.
Paper collars are being turned out
by only two firms in this country, one
in Boston and the other In New York.
Their total annual output Is from 20
900 900 TO 25.O0o,O00 collars.
j. Bacon & Sons, conducting large
mercantile house Ia Louisville. KY
made Christmas present of paid-up
81 900 life insurance policy for "A year
to each of their 80 employees
Among the abor bills introduced in
the New York Legislature are the bar
beI's' sanitary shop law. one 10 restrict
sweatshop work, sanitary bakeshops
and prohibiting employees from sleep
ing in shops.
Fifteen girls in Bryan's eonfection-
cry establishment at Wichita, Kan,
walked out recently because they could
not get an increase in wages. They re-
celved 10 cents day and worked
eleven hours.
The President and Secretary of the
Cripple Creek (Coll Trade and Labor
Assembly were arrested on Indictments
found by the grand jury at Colorado
Springs charged with violating the
Colorado boycott law.
Corncob pipes are made by the ear
/ load In Missouri and sell for % TO -
cents bushel The industry is also
an important one In Indiana, and one
factory at Brightwood turns out be
tween 1000 and 5000 day.
America has sold to. other nations
more products than ever before, the
figures being 81, 230.000,0o0 this year
against 81 ,099. ia. S07 last year, gain
of more than S13O.000.000 In one veal
and a gain of S405,000,000 over 1895.
The Garment Worker says 1t is about
time some earnest and intelligent eff
fort was put forth in the way of secur
ing legislation which would guarantee
TO the workers measure of compen
sation for injuries sustained while EN-
ployed.
The eonsolida ton of the Tin ant
+ Sheet Iron Workers Union and The
Slate and Metal Roofers' Union of New
York. has been completed under tn,
f title of Amalgamated Sheet Meta
Workers Union. 1t has a membership
of about 1000.
One of the notable advances of &
satisfactory year Is the heavy gain IL
the output of pig Iron. In 1897 thu
United States produced 9.650,000 Ions
tons; in 1898 the output was Hip .00t
tons. worth $1o2, 100000. an increase o
no less than p per cent.
From the stalk of the cotton plan
can be produced fiber which is JUS
the thing for cotton baggng. Thu
stalks yield IL per cent. of their weigh
In fiber, much more than enough 70
bagging the crop. The Scientific Amer
lean predicts that the new industr!
will soon take on great proportions.
The State Labor Commissioners o
Wisconsin is carrying on strong cru
SADIE against the employment OF chill
dren In that State. No less than 3OI
children have lately been taken out o
factories in Wisconsin by representa-
lives of the labor commissioners OF
fee because of the discovery thar tn
young people employed We're under tn
legal age OF IA years, and therefore no
of the age required by law for factor.
work.
Getting Kid of Friction.
4 novel invent ion has been exhibited
before large number of persons by J
NJ Aiyes IA Russian civil engineer. II