Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-03
INDUSTRIAL.

Jan. .12-Chewing gum manufacturers of Z. S.
combine at New York; capital, SIS, 600, 600.
l7CJohn Mitchell elected pres. United
Mine Workers in convention at Pittsburgh.
2SS-Bridge building companies combine;
capital, $50 100000.
Feb. l-Leading pottery interests organize;
capital, S40,000,0O0.
3-Soap manufacturers combine; capital,
$4,000, 900.
6--American Car & Foundry Combining s
big car concerns) incorporated for S60,-
Mar. American Steel and Wire Co.. at
Joliet, ILL.,, raises wages of 5000 employees
from to 10 per cent. Various whisky
tai, $l28, ,OOO, 900.
16-Mages of 5000 stove molders raised.
30-The Republic Iron & Steel Co. (capital
50,O00,0 ,0O0), controlling 80 mills west of
Pittsburgh, incorporated.
3l-Durlng month of Mar. l34 corporations
organized in New Jersey; aggregate cap
itai stock, Sl,lll, 10000
apr. Increase IN wages in cotton mills
OF New Eng goes into effect, the resto-
ration benetiting 10000 operatives
Andrew Carnegie advanced wages of TO-
ooo employees IN Pittsburgh and vicinity 10
per cent.
19-Trouble between union and nonun;on
miners at Wardner, Idaho, eliminated in
blowing up Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine
and null, causing loss of $3.50, 900 and one
man man killed. HI. G. Frick Coke Co., in
pittsburgh, Pa, employing 5000 men,
May Troops occupy Wardner, Idaho, and
- martial law prevails on account of rioting.
ie-klotous strikers at Duluth, Mimi. blow
up street car with dynamite; 10 passengers
lIIndustrial! commission in Washington
-Degihs inquiry into operations of trusts
l7-Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. in
session at New Orleans, reelects. Grand
Master Morrissey and adopts resolutions
opposing Sunday trains
Jun. limited States court of appeals. in
session at milwaukee,, says alien labor law
empting clerks and all kinds of skilled ar
tlsans. 80
lo-Wages of $4,000 employees in iron and
steer manufacturing industries raised 25
per cent; Big Consolidated Co.'s Ia
street railway lines in Cleveland, O., tied
up oy strike for increased wages.
L-hloting IN Cleveland resulted in de.
s,ructson OF 10 cars and injury Of scores of
persons, including many policemen.
1l-As result of settlement of coal miners
strike, A,OO0 OF the $4,000 strikers return
ntory and Arkansas.
I47otreet railway strike in Cleveland ended
praetlcaliy victory for railway concerns.
tnousn at money loss of nearly 5000 OO0
Jul. L-Distlllery Co. of Amer. incorpo.
10 oe cu eon, ~ : d. cap. $l25, 600 GOO
Decentralization of wrought steel. iron snj
tube industries effected in New YorL.
$50, ,00O, 600. AorA;
i5-Wage increase of Is per cent for 20 O0,
:, TIN null emptcyes announced.
Sep. l2-Trust conference (35 states renre.
sented) opened in Chicago.
i6-M. l.. Lockwood (Pa.) elected pres. anti.
trust organization formed as result of con.
ference in Chicago.
NuCCAntl,trust conference begun in st. Louis.
Gov: Sayers (Tex.) presiding.
Oct i0-Pana lIll. coal miners strike oct.
tied after lockout of over Is mos. durino
which many lives were sacrificed.
20-Pullman Palace Car Co. of CHICAGO ab-
serbs Wagner Palace Car Co. of N.
Nov. 2-Commercial Industrial congress or.
ganized IN Chicago, composed of 'Ieadino
Shipping interests; E. P. Bacon, of Mi.
waukee, pres.
Dec: l0.-.Wages of 300 900 New England tex.
tie mill employees advanced, increase be-
ing $l0,000,000 year.
I.ipdependent telephone companies of
Mich, Ind, and o. refuse to sell ont to
telephone combine. international Farm
ers union organized at Binshamton. n.
l., to maintain produce prices.
H.,At Springfield, Ill.,, street car blown mn
by dynamite for Sd time since strike began
LYNCHINGs.