The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-26
LABOR, TRADE. INDUSTRY.

BY a vote of II to 81 the members of the
Kansas City Live Stock Exchange has re-
fused to join the National Live Stock Ex-
change, which has headquarters in Chi
cago.
The London County Council has decided
70 spend s2.0OO0O0 on new electric
traction routes In various parts of London
and on the necessary widening OF streets
required by the new enterprises.
A telegram received by President Has
kins. of the Ohio Mine Workers. yesterday
announced that the strike OF 400 miners at
Old Orchard mine. in Guernsey county, had
The men had been out two weeks on ac-
count OF q dispute over the scale.
William J. Bryan arrived at WATERFOWL
y. Y. yesterday and was met by large
crowd In the afternoon he addressed a
large audience at the State Armory on
again on The Conquering Nation" Ad-
mission was charged TO both lectures.
What is said TO be the largest oil gusher
yet struck in the southwestern field was
brought in yesterday at Red Fork Creek
nation. north of Denison. Tex, on the ST.
Louis & San Francisco Railroad extension.
by the Pennsylvania Oil Company. The oil
spouted four hundred feet in the air.
The National Plow Company, In which a
number of Western capitalists are inter-
ested, was organized in Jersey City yester-
day. The capital stock is placed at 100000,
which, IL Is said, will soon be increased to
$1,000 900. The incorporators of record are
James c. Young, A. ]. Ross and w. r.
Clements The Incorporation papers have
not yet been filed.
The suit of William NJ. Blackburn, trus-
tee. and who is secretary of the Carnegie
Company, against Andrew NJ. Moreland
trustee, and the Carnegie Company, to re-
cover 2.276 shares OF stock in the Carnegie
Company. par value $1,000 a share. held in
trust was settled yesterday in Common
Please Court No /. of Pittsburg, Moreland
being allowed $4,000 for all expenses, he to
turn the stock over to Blackburn as trus-
tee.
Representatives of the Chicago manufac-
turers of bar and store fixtures have sub
mitted a proposition to advance wages 3
per cent. TO committee from the Wood
workers Union, which is demanding a
scale % cents day higher than that which
will expire July l. Should the woodworkers
vote next Sunday afternoon TO refuse the
offer of their employers a strike will be
again next Monday 10 receive the answer
of their men.
The Toledo & Southeastern Railroad
Company was incorporated at Columbus,
O.. yesterday with $4,000 capital stock 10
build railway extending from point in
the OHIO and Michigan boundary line in
Lucas county to point in the Ohio river
ia Lawrence county and passing through
the counties of Lucas, Wood. Hancock,
Hardin. Logan. Union. Madison. Franklin.
Pickaway. Ross. Hooking. Ninton. Pike.
Jackson, Gallia and Lawrence. IT is TO be
a steam railway between Toledo, Columbus
and Ironton. The capital stock will be in
creased.
Not a dozen Of the striking shopmen of
the Reading Railroad at Reading. Pa. were
at work yesterday, as they had been urged.
On the other hand there were some access
sions to the ranks OF the strikers. The
companys clerks worked until late hour
Monday night preparatory to paying of
those who disregarded the presidents or
der The car shops are crippled. and the
boilermaking and blacksmith departments
are idle holders and machinists wait
ing for orders 10 strike The situation is
becoming grave and a general strike over
the greater portion of the company's sys-
TEN is predicted.
AS was ANNOUNCED by the manufacturers
Monday all the Cincinnati shops affected
by the machinists' strike were started yes
terday 10 allow those of the strikers who
wished TO return 10 work 10 do So The
strikers doubled their force OF pickets
about the shops and those who did return
were forced 10 argue their way past seven
or eight strikers. but no violence was re-
serted TO, except at the mandatory Of
the Fay-Egan Company, where one man
was knocked down. The Metal Trades AS
ISOLATION made an official statement at
noon that 200 strikers had at that time
returned 10 work and that there were 1000
az worK in the various shops la the city.