The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22

plicants were admitted TO the union. A
call has been issued for a general meeting
of the union to-day when a demand Will
be made for an advance or ~ per cent. IN
wages. taking effect April /.
Colonel William T.. Eden, manager of the
Great Northern Hotel at Chicago, filed a
petition in bankruptcy in the United States
tiles OF 5 1877, 36S, with assets OF S6iO,lll. The
debts were contracted In the main In con-
nection with the development of the hotel
and the Endorsement of notes.
The annual conference of the miners and
operators of the MassilIon coal field. which
embraces the Ohio counties of Stark, Sum-
nit, Medina. Portage and Wayne, opened
puted is the demand for an eight-hour
work day for the hosting engineers. which.
if not granted, may cause a strike.
The Minnesota Senate has passed an anti
trust bill. allowing district courts TO re-
strain combinations from doing business
and providing that any one injured in his
business by their operation may recover
three-fold damages by action at law. 1t APP
plies to all associations and combinations,
with a special exception OF labor organiza-
tions.
Reports are in circulation of a consolida-
ton to include all the blast furnaces. Ma
honing valley operators are reticent as to
the action they will take on such a propo
sition. 1t is stated that the Briar Hill Iron
and Coal Company. large manufacturers Of
iron at Youngstown, o., and the Youny5-
town Steel Company will decline TO enter
the proposed combination.
Wholesale liquor dealers and druggists
of Missouri are lined up for a hard legal
light against a new law now i'm the hands
of Governor Dockery providing for an adj
ditional tax of 10 cents per gallon on all
intoxicating liquors, excepting beer and
Other minor beverages, sold in the State.
The liquor dealers and druggists claim that
the measure Is unconstitutional.
The executive board of the National
HOrseshoers' Union in special session at
Pittsburg yesterday decided to hold the
rext annual convention of the union at Bal
The board also decided TO have the exhibit
which was at Paris brought from New
York to Pittsburg. renovated. enlarged and
sent to Buffalo for the opening OF the Pam
American Exposition.
The capitalists back OF the Little Miami
Traction Company intend not only 10 build
an interurban line to ':inclnnati from
Springfield. but to run connecting lines to
Columbus and Dayton and build several
roads in the southern part of he State.
one to a point opposite Maysville, Ky.
There is 100000 back IF The project. The
line TO Cincinnati Will parallel the Fan
handle and is fifteen miles shorter.
The shattered remnant of the Chicago
Building Trades Council received a hard
blow last night when the Painters District
Council. which constituted one-half OF its
entire membership, concluded to sever It's
connection with the central body The
Painters District Council represents a
membership of 5000, and although there are
some thirteen trades still loyal to the old
council, their combined membership is less
than that or the Painters Union alone.
a petition asking that a receiver be ap-
pointed tOr the Everett Zinc ana Lead
Company has been filed in the Circuit
Court at Joplin, Mo. by Harry Eabcook
In their %letition they set forth that they
took 100000 shares in the company at 81 a
share; = and assert t. that that the property is now
the Daisy l. mine, ami Il lease OF sorty
acres near Joplin.
The New York Herald SAYS: John w.
Gates and his friends intend to erect a
hotel which will rival anything o. the kind
In New YORK for magniIicsnce. If not N
size. 1t will cost $2.Oo0. 100, and will he built
on a corner that is valued at something
ed on the southeast corner of rifth avenue
and Fffty-second street. a plot fronting 125
feet on the avenue and one hundred feet
on the street.
again, a sale of 5000 tons having been
made at $3.50 at the Valley furnaces. This
Is equivalent to SIZE a ton delivered in
higher than was paid by the Carnegie Com
pany for the 10, 0o0-ton contract placed tw o
months ago. a comparison of prices now
and this month in 1899 gives interesting
results. Sheets are SIG a ton higher, billets
81 higher. plates so lower and bars 81
higher.
The American Sheet Steel Company has
ordered another advance in prices of black
sheet, 10 take effect at once. 1t calls for
an increase of 81 a ton, which in addition
TO the - advance made two weeks ago,
unusual heavy demand is responsible for
the change in prices and several idle plants
are TO be put I'm operation as soon as they
can be got in shape. The advance will in
crease the bimonthly scale of the workmen
. per cent.
The property of the New England Con-
servatory of Music. on East Newton street.
1 R0Sf0n having hapn sold 70 ors.,p vvha
Will convert II into a home for working
girls and women, the conservatory trustees
have announced plans for the removal of
the Institution 10 the Back Bay district.
and for a future OF the institution by
which IT is proposed TO make 1t To Boston
and TO the whole country what the Men
delSsohn Conservatorium at Leipsic Is to
the German empire and to all Europe.
1t has developed that the Hartman syn
dictate. controlling the Chicago a. Alton and
Illinois Central railroad systems, is back
of the movement to consolidate the coal
mining properties Of Illinois into a SIS. 900. 600
combine. The capitalists of this syndicate
will lend their financial support 10 the con-
sclidation project. and will hold a majority
% the stock in the enterprise. The author
fly for connecting the Hartman syndicate
with this latest industrial movement is an
official OF the Chicago K Alton Railroad.
Nikola Tesla. the inventor. is i'm Pittsburg
placing a contract with the Westinghouse
Electric Company for the manufacture Of
certain mechanical devices TO be used I'm his
experiment on wireless biography across
the Atlantic ocean. Mr.. Tesla states that
the success OF his latest enterprise Is more
assured now than ever before, and within
six months his invention will be given Il
practical test. lie hopes To establish the
proof that 1t Is not beyond the range OF
possibility TO establish communicable
across the ocean without the aid OF wires.
The Sharon (Pa.) Steel Company will
erect complete pipe and skelp mills at South
Sharon TO cost at least $l.5O0.000. The new
mills will have a capacity of 400 tons of
basic steel tubes OF all kinds. Pipes will be
made i'm one department up to sig inches.
The company has also decided TO engage in
the manufacture of boiler tubing on a large