Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-01-04
INDUSTRIAL.

Jan. Chewing gum manufa cturers of U. S.
combine at New Y ork; capital, SIS, 100000.
l7-John Mitchell elected pres. United
Mine Workers in convention at Pittsburgh.
23-Bridge building companies combine;
capital, $50,000,000.
Feb. Leading pottery interests organize;
capital, $40,000,000.
3-Soap manufacturers combine; capital,
$50, 100000
6-American Car Foundry Combining
big car concerns) incorporated for $780,
Mar American Steel and Wire Co., at
Joliet, H., raises wages of $4,000 employees
from to 10 per cent. Various whisky
and dlstllling companies form trust, capt.
16-TVages of 900 stove moIders raised
30-The Republic Iron & Steel Co. Capital,
$50,000,0O0), controlling 80 mills west of
Pittsburgh, incorporated.
3l-During month of Mar. 1874 corporations
organized in New Jersey; aggregate cap
ital stock, 81, III, $780, 900.
Apr. Increase in wages in cotton mills
of New England goes into effect, the resto-
ration benehting 400 operatives.
Andrew Carnegie advanced wages of TO-
600 employees in Pittsburgh and vicinity 10
29-Trouble between union and nonunion
miners at Wardner, Idaho, eliminated in
blowing up Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine
and mill, causing loss of $3.50, 900 and one
man killed. H. G. Prick Coke Co., in
Pittsburgh, Pa, employing $4,000 men,
raises wages from o TO 1Z3 per cent.
May 2-Troops occupy Wardner, Idaho, and
martial law prevails on account of rioting.
10-Riotous strikers at Duluth, Mimi, blow
up street car with dynamite; 10 passengers
injured.
11-Industrial commission in Washington
begins inquiry into operations of trusts
17-Brotherhood of Railway Irainmen, in
session at New Orleans, reflects Grand
Master Morrlssey and adopts resolutions
opposing Sunday trains.
Jun. Limited States court of aDDeals in
session at Milwaukee, says alien labor law
applies solely to common laborers, ex-
empting clerks and all kinds of skilled ar
tisans
10-Wages of $4,000 employees in iron and
steel manufacturing industries raised 25
per cent. Big Consolidated Co.'S Il
street railway lines in Cleveland, o., tied
up by strike for increased wages.
12-Rioting in Cleveland resulted in de-
struction of 10 cars and injury of scores of
persons, including many policemen.
2l-AS result of settlement of coal miners
strike, $4,000 of the $4,000 strikers return
to work in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Ter
ritory and Arkansas.
24-Street railway strike in Cleveland ended
practically a victory for railway concerns,
though at a money loss of nearly 100000
Jul. 1l-Distillery Co. of Amer, incorpo-
rated at Trenton, n. j.; cap. $l25, 100000
Decentralization of wrought steel, iron and
tube industries effected in New York;
S80,000,0 600.
tin mill employees announced.
Sep. 12-Irust conference (35 states repre-
sented) opened in Chicago.
16-M. L. Lockwood (Pa.) elected pres. anti
trust organization formed result of con-
ference in Chicago.
2G-An THRUST conference begun in st. Louis,
Gov. Savers Tex presiding.
Oct. 1O-Pana lIH.) coal miners strike set
tied after lockout of over Is mos, during
which many lives were sacrificed.
20-Pullman Palace Car Co. of Chicago alb
serbs Wagner Palace Car Co. of n. I.
Nov. 22-Commercial Industrial congress or
ganlzed In Chicago, composed OF leading
shipping interests; E. P. Bacon, of Mil
Dee. 1O.@Wages of 3eO, 600 New England tex
tile mill employees advanced, increase be-
ing $I0,000,000 a year.
3-lndependent telephone companies of
Mich, Ind, and 0. refuse to sell out to
telephone combine. international Farm
ers' union organized at Binghamton, n.
Y, TO maintain produce prices.
2l-At Springfield, H., street car blown up
by dynamite for Sd time since strike began.
LYNcHINGs.
Jan. 5-Eagle City, Alaska, Jack Jolly, sa-
loonkeeper and gambler. Near Banks,
Ala, Marshall McGregor (colored);
charged with barn burning.
Feb. 11-Near Leesburg, Ga, Bill Holt, Geo.
Fort and Geo. BivenS; assault.
Mar 15-Palmetto, Ga, negroes shot;
charged with arson.
23-In Little River county, Ark, z negroes
ally a race war.
Charleston, s. c., John Webb and VIII
Toney NEGRO boys Is years old killed by
mob of white boys.
Apr. 1l-Deerfeld, o., VIM. zimmerman
tarred and feathered; assault.