The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-07
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There are UllOnElaDets SuSpenGeTS-8gE
Dogs wear shoes in the klondike.
Frisco has l5.0C0 Chinese domestics.
s. Hamburg taxes dogs according to size.
s. japanese coal lis equa(tO American.
Cleveland newsDoys are in the T.. q. L..
@ New Hampshires annual shot output,
s2s,00c COO.
Boston iron workers struck for 80 s1s3
cents per hour
Atlanta's Union label ordinance Is un-
Australia consumes more meat than
any other country.
Toledo Union barber shops will be closed
on Iabor-Day. t3E
"A city ordinance in Paris prevents :wo-
men from setting type night.
Seven ont of:eigft. loaves of bread eaten
in London are made of foreign wheat
Minneapolis Engineers Union fines any
member patronizing a non-unIon barber.
The Western Federation Of Miners has
eighty unions and about 10000 miners
I'm the United States the total capitali-
eaton of trusts approaches nearly 5000 Co.,
oco, 900.
AT st. Louis seven unions have repealed
the fines on members for riding on Tran
sit cars.
In the private schools of China teacher
is paid about 1 halfpenny day for each
The The capital invested. in orange growing
in the State of California is estimated at
s44 0NecCo.
In France, where wine is as abundant
as petroleum is here, it is transported IN
bulk IN tank cars
The vestr1akers in New York have won
their strike for the union scale Of wages
and the ten-hour work day.
Fifty million pounds worth OF gold has
been produced in New. Zealand; the first
nugget was found in 1872.
The Dublin Queens Bench has decided
that a barber is not a workman. because
he must use his brains.
At the Toledo Casino Rose Coshlan and
Maurice Barrymore headed Dill. Matt
nee scat 10 cents: evening, 10. 10. %
A merchant tailor of Chicago has been
fined 500 for putting g, union label on
suit of clothes with intent to deceive the
customer.
Owe, 1000 saloons 71ave been closed in
Chicago on account of the brewers raising
the price of beer so high that they could
no longer Compete"
Brooklyn Horse Shoers' Union has made
arrangements with most Of the local
breweres, which will insure the shoelng
of horses belonging to the breweries in
union shops.
The Iron holders Union of North Amer
lea reports an increase Of 1900 members
since the LIST of January of the present
year, ana a. general liiClcdSe VI -NdSSo "
fifteen per cent
Smokers who like cigars with spotted
wrappers will be interest to know that
a patent has been refused to the man who
discovered that sprinking potash on the
growing weed would produce the spots.
One of the, big transatlantic steam
ship companies has installed q telephone
service on its dock al Hobo1en. This is
connected with the steamers lying there.
lo,1- foy.
may from his state-room transact business
up to the minute of sailing.
New York PAYERS and rammermen have
won their strike against the asphalt COM
panies that are doing city work. The
contractors have agreed to the demand
OF one Zimmerman be employed for every
two PAYERS, and forty-tive yards of paving
shall constitute fair days work.
A member of the Iron Moulders' Union
in Newark has been fined $50 by the union
for doing too much work in a foundry at
Bayonne, N. ]. The members, when seen,
said that his union accused him OF turning
out twice as much work as the organiza-
ton allows. He admitted that he could
make % moulds a day. The union limit
is II.
The Executive Council of the American
Federation OF Labor has ordered the Ma
tional Union OF United Brewery Workmen
to refrain in future from issuing charters
to engineers and firemen employed i'll
breweries IN consequence of protests lodS-
ed with the Executive Council Of the Ma
tional Union OF the former and the inter-
national brotherhood of the firemen.
The dispute between the Stone Masons,
Unions in Brooklyn and Manhattan re-
mains Unsettled. and it is said to be prob
able il will continue until the Manhattan
organization abates its nretensioDs. That
union demanded the Brooklyn body to
enace itself. to amalsanlate with the view
OF having only one organization Of the
craft in the city. and that each member
of the Brooklyn union should pay an
amalcamaton fee of $40. AS the Brooklyn
union has membership of $50, the ANAL
gan1ation fees would amount to slG.o0n
There is considerable excitement in Mas
sacilusetts. IT is due to the bringing out
of a. second revolutionary machine within
a few months II will be remembered
that mention was made in this paper sew
eral weeks ago of the successful opera
ton of a mechanical track trimmer on the
Boston and Maine Railway which would
displace hundreds OF 1aborers. The second
is q rotary spinning rms
which, with new application OF COM
messed air, will double the caooclty OF all
The cotton. silk and woollen mills OF the
world According to The Haverhll Social
Democrat the new device is pronounced
..tlle greatest invention in splnnls ma
ch;nery in one hundred years. and the ne"
Summing ring will do in eight hours what
the old one does in sixteen. And it costs
aho cent The Boston Times claims
that ..when the frame is perfected TO
meet TIE great speed of the new ring.
thread will be spun nroba bly, four tif,les
factar than at present. dua1rnobns the
capacitv of the mills "a S',09o.tE coi. con-,
nanv is handling the invention which Wi,
be leased to manufacturers. who are sad
to be cumming at the chance OF maklns
one of stheir. spindles do the work OF Two TWO.