Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-11-03
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Over S,OOO,OOO loaves of bread oro ~.
'umed daily in Greater New Yor, wy
The trusts now in existence in Ar.
ca have an aggregate capitalization =.
;2,7SS,773,9OO. 'u O
British trades union printers bor.
aiken a decided stand against ess
Who print the Bible but refuso 70 ~'
living wages. r"
The largest sewing machine IN n,
world Is in operation in Leeds Enn
It weighs $500 pounds and sews cottp"
oelting. 'u
A plan is being arranged to ESTABLISH
the mills at Olneyville, r. l., tbo sva
;em for small savings similar to that n
he public schools.
The Dutch fishermen kill the s.h
caught as soon as they reach the shora
while the French fishermen leave thoi,
1ooty to die Of suffocatlon. -,
A ship building firm in Belfast Ira
and, has received instructions from .
Liverpool company for the construction
If a cargo steamer to be $50 feet long
md Is feet of beam.
A new kind OF cloth is being made in
Lyons from the down of hens, ducrs
md geese. Seven hundred and fftv
grains of feathers make rather mora
han square yard of light Waterman
10th.
The silk industry in the United States
assuming gigantic proportions. Tbir.
y years ago the value of silk produced
n the United States was less than Se.
100000. Last year 1t exceeded SS7.
100000.
The glassworkers have set aside S..
2oO year to send Representatives TO
awmaking bodies, and the miners. ma.
,hinists and telegraphers have also
made provision to keep members in GOV.
.rning bodies.
AT Sheffield single machine will turn
>ut 5000 finished knives per day. and
t can be adapted for either table or
pocket cutlery, razors-hollow or
'traight-sheep shears; indeed, for al.
most any kind of tools.
The combination policy of the Van.
1erbilts on the Lake Shore and Mich.
gan Central railways and the changes
and consultations on the Vanderbilt
system between New York and Chicago
expected to result in laying off 5000
men. jyy
During the last twelve months TIE
Parslan shambles received 21,GG7 horses
'or slaughter, 52 mules and 81 donkeys
Only one mule, 80 dohkeys and 734
horses were condemnefbas unfit for hu.
nan food. Prime cuts of horse brought
lS cents per pound, while the most in.
'erior kinds sold for 10ldents per pound
During 1897 there were l,015 separate
fatal accidents in and fab0ut all the
mines and quarries, more than 20 feet
1eep. In the United Kingdom, involV-
ng the loss of 1,102 lives Showing, on
comparison with the previous year, an
Increase of eleven in the number of ac-
,idents, and decrease Of SO in the
lumber Of lives lost. 81
An apparatus has been rinyented for
recording the work Of firemen in the
stoke room of steamships" II not only
:ells the fireman what he iOught to do.
regarding the raising Of steam, but aC.
curately registers the character and
AMOUNT of work. 1t Is, in fact regu'
ar tell-tale, which knocks revolution
gauges out Of use. o..
Judge Holmes Of the District Court
Of Des Moines, Iowa, has handed down
an opinion in the case Of George D
Hughes against the Des Moines Typo
graphical Union. 1t favors the lat'er'
holding Hughes cannot recover dam
ages from the union for being kept ou'
of employment because its members IT,
fuse to work in the same office WIN
aim, he being a non-union man. Hughes
1ad sued for $4,000 damages.
Farmer r. Cross of Hammond. NJ l."
has received letters patent on papel
hanging machine, which experts 81!
will revolutionize that branch of 'n'
Interior decorators art. The prnclp"
features claimed for the new device aie
thateit will paper a given wall or eelllnS
in less than half the time usually 10
luired under the ordinary method lno
machine trims, pastes and hangs pape
direct from the roll ut any point OF au'
gle. In appearance it resembles cSi.
pet sweeping machine, and as 1t we'sn,
only seven pounds Is easily handed aD'
manipulated.