The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-05
LABOR, TRADE. INDUSTRY.

The Fidelity Building and Loan Associa-
ton OF Cleveland has been Incorporated at
columbus with a capital stock of SIS 200, 600.
An agreement was reached yesterday be-
tween the Woodman Manufacturing Com
pany. OF st. Joseph, Mo, and its employees.
and 500 girls and women returned TO their
machines In the factory.
1t is said in Wall street. New York, that
changes are expected soon in the directory
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
and that G: H. Hartman will be elected
president of the company.
1t is announced that the wage and blast
furnace men AT Middlesborough, England,
will be reduced Fl per cent. for three
months and that the wages of the North
cent.
A Cleveland corporation has bought and
leased an immense section of coal land
IN the vicinity of Annandale, Pa. on the
Plttsburg, BesSemer & Lake Erie Railroad.
Ii is said that $50, 900 will be spent in de-
veloping the territory.
The Columbus. Delaware & Marion Elec-
trio Railroad Company was Incorporated at
stock of S.000,O IN The company proposes
to construct and operate an electric road
with termini i'm Columbus and Marion, O.
Edgar w. Collins. manager of the Cleve-
land office of the Postal Telegraph & Ca
ble Company, has been appointed superin-
tendent of the second district of the West
ern division. with headquarters at Cincin-
natl. Mr.. Colline is one of the beSt-known
telegraph men in the country.
The Consolidated Coal Company of the
Cumberland region, Maryland, has just
been awarded the contract to supply the
new United States naval coaling station
at Yokohama, Japan. The transport Alex
ander will be loaded at Baltimore this week
with $500 tons 70 begin this contract.
The stock list committee o. the New York
Stock Exchange yesterday recommended
and the governing committee voted TO list
the new shares of the United States Steel
Corporation. AT present the application for
formal listing nCKC tho nriNiln0a for only
Sl0,O00,00 of stock. S5,00O,0O of the common
and Sc. 0o0,0 900 of preferred.
At Columbus. O., yesterday William Ed
wards filed a petition for a receiver for the
Toledo Debenture Company. He says the
total assets of the company do not exceed
$4,000, while the liabilities exceed $50. 600.
He says the capital stock of the company
is $3.50. 0O, but that not over S25. 1000 has been
paid in. He claims to hold one hundred
debentures and says there is due him 81, COS.
He claims he bought each through false
and misleading
1t is believed a general strike of all the
organizations affiliated with the Building
Trades Council of Peoria, Ill, will take
place soon. The painters are now out, the
carpenters will strike on the 9Th of the
month. and ii is understood the plumbers.
plasterers and tin roofers will follow short
ly. The painters are demanding more
money and fewer hours, and cannot reach
an agreement with the master painters
because the latter insist they must first
withdraw from the Building Trades Coun-
1l1s 81 that III tN0iAt VI n ~ ~ n tAC
painters will not be affected.
A dispatch to the New York Tribune from
London says: 1T is officially announced
that the Thames Iron Works, Shipbuilding
and Engineering Company. Messrs. Sic
mems. Mather * Plat, and the Brush
| Electrical Engineering Company are 10
close their ranks and 10 combine their
| forces in order to make a fight for British
industry as against American competition.
One of the immediate consequences of the
formation of this British trust is that de-
cionG h. We Already been DTpDaTP0 Tor the
electrical equipment of two underground
| railway lines of London and the construc-
ton of another one
The executive committee of the Sheet
Metal Workers Amalgamated Association
| devoted most OF Thursday at Columbus, o.,
TO auditing the books of the officers and ex-
aiming credentials of delegates. Repre-
sentatives Will be present from locals as Tar
east as Boston. south as far as Dallas,
Tex. north as far as British Columbia and
west as far as San Francisco. A
cation was received from Milwaukee and
another from st. Louis stating that locals
intended TO ask for higher wages and pre-
sent new working rules to their employers.
The proposed demands were considered
reasonable by the board and indorsed.
A petition was filed in the United States
Court at Atlanta yesterday in the case of
J. NJ Bottom vs.. the Natlonal kailway
praying that d. Il. Stancliffe formerly sec
rotary and general manager and now re-
ceiver of the association. be removed. The
| petition alleges that fraud was practiced
i'm obtaining the bill for the receiver and
hat Stanclife, who was appointed by the
court several months ago. be held account
able for the money he has spent In the re-
ceiyership. The principal charge against
the receiver. according to the petition, is
| e-xtravagance in the settlement OF the as
| sociation's affairs.
The report to the effect that a syndicate
| Of Pittsburg capitalists has secured an OPP
| ton on the Columbus Iron and Steel Com
| pany's furnaces at Columbus. o.. Is denied
go apnnhaffQany nv Vice President p III
| Miller. Ii is stated. however. that Rhoades
& Co. of Pittsburg. who are believed 10 be
the promoters. have secured options on
twenty-three plants I'm the Mahoning and
Shcnango valleys and at Cleveland. Buffalo
and P~i.tsburg. which they VIII attempt to