The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-01-06
INDUSTRIAL.

combine at New York; capital, SIS, 900, 900.
l1-John Mitchell elected pres. United
Mine Workers in convention at Pittsburgh
21-Brldge building companies combine;
capital S50000,0O0
Feb. Leading pottery interests organize !;
capital, S4O,0O0,000
3-Soap manufacturers combine; capital,
S500O0,000
6-American Car & Foundry Combining 8
big car concerns) incorporated for $780,
100000.
Mar, American Steel and Wire Co., at
Joliet, ILL.,, raises wages of 10000 employees
from to 10 per cent. Various whisky
and distllling companies form trust, CAPT
tai, Sl2S,000,000
l6-Mages of $1,000 stove molders raised
3O-The Republic Iron & Steel Co. capital
$4,000, O00), controlling 30 mills west of
Pittsburgh, incorporated.
3l-During month of Mar. 1874 corporations
organized in New Jersey; aggregate cap
ital stock, 81, III, 100000.
apr. Increase in wages in cotton mills
| OF New England goes into effect, the resto-
| ration benefting 10000 operatives.
Andrew Carnegie advanced wages of TO-
OOO employees in Pittsburgh and vicinity 10
per cent.
29-Trouble between union and nonunion
miners at Wardner, Idaho, eliminated in
blowing up Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine
and mill, causing loss of $250,00O and one
man killed. :. H. c. Frick Coke Co.. in
Pittsburgh, Pa, employing $1,000 men.
raises wages from to l25 per cent.
May Troops occupy Wardner, Idaho, and
martial law prevails on account of rloting
lO-Riotous strikers at Duluth, MINI. blow
", street car with dynamite; 10 passengers
injured.
ll-lndustrial commission in Washington
begins inquiry into operations of trusts.
NJ hor 81 D.,
session at New Orleans, reflects Grand
Master Morrissey and adopts resolutions
opposing Sunday trains
Jun. United 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
tlsans.
lO-Wages of $4,000 employees in iron and
steel manufacturing industries raised 25
per cent. Big Consolidated Co.'s IA
street railway lines in Cleveland, o., tied
up by strike for increased wages
l2-Rlotlng 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, $1,000 of the 10000 strikers return |
to work in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Ter
ritory and Arkansas.
24--Street railway strike in Cleveland ended
practically victory for railway concerns,
though at money loss of nearly 5000, 900,
Jul. ll-Distillery Co. of Amer, incorpo-
rated at Trenton, N. j.; cap. $l25 900, 200.
l2-ConsolidatioD of wrought steel, iron and
tube industries effected in New York;
$4,000, 0O0
l3r.Wage increase of Is per cent. for 10000
tin mill employees announced
l9-Bicycle manufacturers combine: $40
100000. F-''
Aug. N-Commercial Travellers and Hotel
Meas league 1881 members) organized at
=, Blnghamton, n. Y, to fight trusts
l-Strike at VIM. Cramp & Sons shin and
engine building works affects 5 500 men
Pittsburgh (Pa.) rail coal mine combina-
ton formed; capital, 1854, 100000.
Yep. l2-Trust conference (35 states renre.
sented) opened in Chicago.
6-M. l.. Lockwood pa elected pres. anti.
trust organization formed as result of con.
ference in Chicago.
Antitrust conference begun in st. Louis
Gov. Saayers Tex presiding.
'ct. l0-.Pana lIA.) coal miners strike set.
tled after lockout of over l8 mos, during
which many lives were sacrificed. I
Pullman Palace Car Co. of Chicago alb.
serbs Wagner Palace Car Co. of N. Y.
low. 2-Commercial Industrial congress ar.
gained In Chicago, composed of leading
shipping interests; E. ?. Bacon, of Mi,
waukee,. pres.
ec, NV ages OF O,UOO New England tex ,
tile mill employees advanced, increase he.
ing $l0,0O0,0O0 year.
Independent telephone commands of {
Mich, Ind, and o. refuse to sell ont 10
telephone combine. :. international Farm.
ers' union organized at Binghamton' N
Y, to maintain produce prices. I
AT Springfield, ILL.,, street car blown I'M
by dynamite for Sd time since strike began II
LYNCHINGS,
IN. Eagle City, Alaska, Jack jolly 90.
loonkeeper and gambler :. Near BSnIs .
Ala, Marshall McGreqor 1coioraJ1!,
charged with barn burning. d
b. 1l-Near Leesburg, Ga, Bill Holt Cor
Fort and Geo. Biyens; assault. o.
ar. 15-Palmetto, Ca, 9 negroes shot. .
charged with arson. '"o''
In Little River county, Ark. neoroos \,
lynched to date, result Of what is prsct;cs :
ally race war.
--stonI s. c., John Webb and WIN Il
Loney tnegro Buys Is years old killed bv "
mob Of white Novs - - - a,
4. ll-De ID, o., VIM. Kinnemsn 2
|atred and 4eahhered; assault n
Near Newman, Ca, Sam Hose fneorol =
0nrned at stake; murdered Alfred car, T.
org n and assaulted Mrs Crawford
7Vseeoia, Ark VIII Sees; barn burning