The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-10

Madison & Mount Olive Coal Company. at
Divernon. H.. and the men may strike
there.
A. w. Lamson has been appointed re-
Cleveland. The National Salt Company.
otherwise known as the salt trust, recently
secured controlling interest In the con-
Germ. j. VI. Henderson. who applied for a
receiver. AYERS in his petition that the Ma
uonal Salt Company Is endeavoring TO
wreck the Cleveland concern. Henderson is
a shareholder in the latter concern.
The miners at the Republic Iron and
Steel Company, and at the Junction Coal
Mining Company's shaft south of Spring
field. H.. returned TO work yesterday. the
drivers having given in on their demand
that they should receive free cotton and
oil. The miners at the Jones * Adams
Company's mine. have gone out because
the operators have discharged the carpen-
ter and have appointed new man.
The largest sale vet consummated in the
Beaumont Tex. oil district was made yes
terday when 81. 80 900 was paid for the prop
erty by the Texas Western Oil Company,
formerly the Southwestern OH Company.
of Corsicana. The buyers get the Beatty
gusher, which has a producing capacity of
200 barrels per day, The sale was eff
city. for capitalists headed by r. l.. Henry,
of Chicago.
The second days session of the Amalga-
mated Sheet Metal Workers International
Association, at Columbus. o.. was devoted
TO the reading of reports by President Cole.
Vice President Duffy, chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee; Il. J. Downey, delegate
to the American Federation Of Labor, and
j. II. Kennedy, delegate 10 the Canadian
Building Trades and Building Congress-
Suggestions in the reports will be acted on
later in the week.
ID. w. Blaine, a director of the South
western Kansas and Oklahoma Implement
Dealers Association, consulted Secretary
Dillon at Wichita yesterday with reference
10 going before the Western Passenger
ACCn0iafinn 70 ocl for rot nv.
AT least ten thousand harvest hands To take
care of the small grain in the wheat belt
in June. They will ask a rate of l cent
FER mile from the Mississippi river. The
estimate of ten thousand hands is made
from canvass of farmers by school
districts The crop in the wheat belt Will
be p per cent. heavier than that of last
year.
The forthcoming report of the Chamber
of Commerce for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1900. will show the foreign commerce of
the port of New York as compared with the
aggregate of all other ports OF the United
States for the period. The imports at New
York amounted to S562 100000; at all other
ports SS6l. 100000, total of 1929. 100000 The
exports from New York amounted to $685.
100000; from all other ports sS76, 100000. to-
tai of 81. 469, 100000. The excess of exports
over imports at all ports, including New
York, was $40, 100000. The total increase in
foreign commerce at all ports in this coun-
try for 1900 was 1921, 100000 over that of 1893.
The London Times this morning in a
e urth article on American Engineering
Progress deals with the human factor,
and arrives at the conclusion that the
whole question of American superiority
turns on character" 1.-The American is
successful" says the writer. because he
treats business as a science and follows
il with the enthusiasm of a scientific de-
voice. while Britons, owing to overwehlm-
ing success in the past. have thought
themselves secure and relaxed their Wig
lance. The Briton is educated TO a hun
dred distractions, while in America there
is no leisure class of young men. No
doubt in American engineering we have
a rival threatening British industry Sc
rlously. If not disastrously, unless a change
is made in our business Methods
The iron and steel bounties offered by
the Dominion of Canada have grown TO
such proportions as to create much discus
sion, and there is a growing disposition 10
demand from Parliament a repeal of the
law granting them. Information to this
effect has reached The State Department,
through a report from Consul General Bit
finger, at Montreal The report says: Last
year the total bOunties paid on iron and
and steel plants are being started in the
Dominion that it is feared the bounties Of
fered will shortly become a greater burden
than the country can stand. In all the iron
and steel plants now in operation, as well
as in those projected, United States capt.
tai Is dominant. single company esti-
mates the bounties il will receive from the
Canadian government in the next seven
years at SS.095, 000 The bounty paid Is &,
a ton on pig iron from Canadian ore and 50
on pig iron from foreign ore, 50 a ton on
puddled bar from pig iron made i'm Canaja
and So a ton for steel ingots made from
Canadian pig iron.