The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-21
LABOR, TRADE, INDUSTRY.

The ice bridge at Cape Roge has giver
away and the St. Lawrence river is nov
open TO navigation.
The Socialists of Barcelona have decided
to celebrate May day with a general strike
The Anarchists have refused 10 cooperate
with them.
The Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers
Brass F'inishers and Brass Workers Unior
OF North America adjourned sine die al
Milwaukee last evening and will meet next
year at Bridgeport, Conn.
Maurice l.. Muhleman, who has been the
first deputy of the United States Treasury
Department in New York since 1885, has re-
signed to accept the position OF president OF
the Mutual Mercantile Agency of New
York.
Eight hundred cigar makers at Montreal
every factory in the city being represented
have quit work. TIE meE do not ask for az
increase in wages, but for uniformity oil
rricc in the different factories Cor the sam,
kind OF work
Coal operators in Nova Scotia anticipate
no material advantage from the British
minion Coal Company expect to market q
million tons of Nova Scotia coal In tn,
Mediterranean within a lew years
Gen. r. A. Alger received a dispatch yes
terday from Montreal saying that nearly
loco men employed by the Laurentide PulI
Company, of Grand Mere, Que, of which
he is one of the principal owners. have
struck owing to reduction in wages. Gen
is serious.
special meeting of American Tobacco
Company stockholders, held at Jersey City
yesterday authorized the Endorsement OF
guarantee of principal and interest of pro
posed bond issues in some OF the subsidiary
companies The company is preparing tt
absorb the Havana-American Tobacco
Company, capitalized at $l00O0,OOO
About three weeks ago a secret meeting
of Detroit and st. Louis stove manufac-
TI1rp vol N hn 1ad.
ings were not made public, but one OF
those present said the representatives OF
the different stove manufacturers hao
come together merely to discuss business
problems of mutual interest. such as
freight rates, credits, etc.
Preparations for the twentieth annual
convention of the American Street-railway
Association which is to be held in Mad
and IL next. are nearly completed The
exhibit of street-railway supplies, street
cars and, ir fact, everything that pertains
to the running of a railway in city OF
country, will be displayed during the con.
yention II is estimated that no less than
six hundred men will be present, most OF
them owners and managers of railways
The building trades strike inaugurated al
Tacoma last Monday is practically settled
The contractors and representatives OF
the Building Trades Union agreed 10 sub
init their difficulties TO a board of arbi-
tration, and work or between $50 and 20C
new buildings was resumed on Friday.
The strike threatened at the outset to in
timidate hundreds of property owners who
are crowding the architects Offices with
orders for building designs, but the prompt
settlement of the difficulties allayed their
fears.
The appraisers yesterday reported the
assets of the Interstate Investment Com
pany now in the hands of a receiver at
Cincinnati to be $l733S4, and the debts
$500 CO., Nearly thirty thousand dollars Of
loans to certificate holders rated as
worthless. 1t developed to-day that the
stockholders of the Germania Investmen.
Company, who have been sued, will ascer-
tain what stockholders have won in the
LOTTERY and bring suit against them TO re-
cover the money they have received
through the lottery plan.