The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-01-06
INDUSTRIAL.

Jan. I2'hewlngg gum manufacturers OF Y. D.
combine at New York; capital, $l5,000,00O.
Mine Workersin convention at Pittsburgh.
2S-Bridge building companies combine;
capital, S5O,G0O,OOO.
Feb. Leading pottery interests organize;
capital, Si0,000,000
3-Soap manufacturers combine; capital,
$50 0O, 900.
6-American Car & Foundry combining 8
big car %concerns) incorporated for $780,
0 10000.
Mar. American Steel and Wire Co., at
Joliet, ILL.,, raises wages of $4,000 employees
from 5 to 10 per Various whisky
and distilling companies form a trust, capt.
tai, 81 8,0O0,000.
l6-Wages of IL, 1000 stove molders raised.
30-The Republic Iron & Steel Co. Capital,
$50, O00, OO0), controlling 30 mills west OF
Pittsburgh, incorporated.
3l-During month of Mar. 1874 corporations
organized in New Jersey; aggregate cap
ital stock, Sill, 100000.
Apr. Increase in wages in cotton mills
of New England goes into effect, the resto-
ration benetiting l40,00 0 operatives.
Andrew Carnegie advanced wages of TO-
600 employees in Pittsburgh and vicinity 10
per cent.
29-Trouble between union and ~nonunion
miners at Wardner, Idaho, eliminated in
uP ar I'LL IN ShAlAN 81 I'LL
and mill, causing loss of S250,0O0 and one
man Killed. c. Prick Coke Co., in
Pittsburgh, Pa, employing $1,000 men,
raises wages from 6 to l24 per cent.
May 2-Troops occupy Wardner, Idaho, and
martial law prevails on account of rioting.
l0-Riotous strikers at Duluth, Mimi, blow
up street car with dynamite; l0passengers
injured.
Il-Industrial commission in Washington
begins inquiry into operations Of trusts.
l7-Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, in
session at New Orleans, rejects Grand
Master Morrissey and adopts resolutions
opposing Sunday trains.
Jun Limited States court Of appeals, in
session at Milwaukee, says alien labor law
applies solely to common laborers,, ex-
empting clerks and all kinds of skilled ar
tisanS. -. Il
lO-Wages. of $4,000 employees in iron and
steel manufacturing industries raised %
per cent. Big Consolidated: Co.'s IA
street railway lines in Cleveland, o., tied
up by strike for increased wages.
l2-Rioting in Cleveland resulted in de-
struction of 10 cars and injury of scores of
persons, including many policemen.
2l-As a result of settlement of coal miners
strike, 1900 of the 10000 strikers return
to. work in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Ter
ritpry and Arkansas.
2EStreet railway strike in Cleveland ended
practically a victory for railway concerns,
though at a money loss of nearly 100000.
Jul. Il-Distillery Co. of Amer, incorpo-
rated at Trenton, N. j.; cap. sl25, DOC, 600.
Decentralization of wrought steel, iron and
tube industries effected in New York;
$780, OO, 600.
S--Wage increase of Is per cent. for $4,000
tin mill employees announced.
Sep. 12-Trust conference (35 states repre-
sented) opened in Chicago.
l6-M. L. Lockwood pa elected pres. anti
trust organization formed as result of con-
ference in Chicago.
2O-Anti-trust conference begun in st. Louis,
Gov. Savers TEX presiding.
Oct. l0-Pana GILL coal miners strike set
tied after lockout of over Is mos, during
which many lives were sacrificed.
20-Pullman Palace Car Co. of Chicago abb
serbs Wagner Palace Car Co. of n. Y
Nov. 2-Commercial Industrial congress or
ganized in Chicago, composed of leading
shipping interests; Z. P. Bacon, of Mil
waukee, pres.
Dec. lO.-Wageso of 800, 600 New. England tex
tile mill employees advanced, increase be-
ing Sl0,0O0,0 600 a year.
l3-Independent telephone companies Of
Mich, Ind, and o. refuse to sell out to
telephone combine. International Farm
ers' union organized at B~inghamton, N.
Y, to maintain produce prices.
2l-At. Springfield, ILL.,, street car blown up
by dynamite for 3drime since strke began.