The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-02

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pany. OF Dayton. was Incorporated at Co
lumbus, o.. yesterday with $500. Oo capital.
The company will purchase the Dayton and
Aenia interurban line.
JOhn Gilmour. Hugh Gilmour & Co. and
Gilmour Brothers,. tobacco manufacturers,
of Owensboro. Ky, assigned yesterday.
The liabilities and assets are not known,
but are estimated at 100000.
Reports received at a mass meeting IF
the Lansrkshire colliery engine handlers.
at Hamilton, England. showed that $1,000
miners were idle in Scotland, owing TO the
strike for an eight-hour day.
Monroe Soldering. an Akron, o.. man.
has raised $4,000 with which TO build a
glass plant at Ottawa. III. The money
was furnished by Joseph II. Oliver. Of
South Bend. Ind, and @. NJ. Gray. OF Niles,
Mich.
The members of the Port Huron Carpen-
tiers and Joiners' Union. $50 strong. went
on strike yesterday because their demand
for p cents an hour and a nine-hour work
day was refused by the four largest con-
tractors In the city.
Five hundred striking girls gathered at
the doors of the Wood factory in ST
Joseph. Mo-, yesterday and prevented all
the nonunion girls from entering the place;
Force was used by the strikers In several
instances.
1t is announced that the Great Western
cereal Company, the combine OF indie
pendent plants recently perfected by O.. {.
Barber, has acquired another large prop
erty that has been a great m~oney-maker in
the past ten years. 1t is the matted food
mill at Burlington, VT.
A dispatch from Spencer. Ia. confirms the
rumOr that petroleum in large quantities
was discovered Saturday night at Green
vile, Ia Many locations have been made.
Great excitement prevails and people are
Hooking TO that locality in great numbers.
Thls Is the first oil discovery in Iowa.
Five hundred and fifty members of the
Journeymen Painters and Decorators
Union at Cincinnati struck yesterday be-
cause of the refusal of the Master Paint
ers' and Decorators Association to sign the
scale recently adopted by the union. The
new scale is for $3.50 for an eight-hour day.
Sheriff Gates left Norwalk. O., yesterday
for Ind, in response to a tele-
gram notifying him that a man was under
arrest there having been identified as Ezra
Moore, who shot and killed Constable
Smith two years ago: Moore made his
escape at the time and has been in hiding
ever since.
Employees Of the five blast furnaces in
operation at Sharpesville, Pa, yesterday
posted notices demanding that the same
the blast furnace owners in the Mahoning
valley. A general strike will go into eff
feet in the ~Shenango valley on April D
unless the demands are granted.
The resignation of r. G.. Wood. vice pres
ident of the American Sheet Steel Company,
and Allen ID. Wood. manager of the Devices
Wood Company plant of the American
Sheet Steel Company, were handed TO the
executive committee yesterday. No rea-
sens are given for the retirement OF these
officials.
A threatened strike of egg testers. which
promised TO seriously affect the Chicago
egg market, has been averted by commits
sion merchants agreeing to the demand or
the Egg Inspectors Union for a uniform
scale OF % cents per hour. a ten-hour day,
and 10 cents extra for each case or eggs
candled after the regular close of the work
ing day.
The puddlers in the employ of the Glas-
vOur Iron nronnn Of pntfGfnuvn Do have
been notified that beginning next saturday
their rate of wages Will be S3.Z5 a ton, IN
stead of 50. as heretofore. The wages or
other employees will also be increased. The
112-inch plate mill of the company plant,
which has long been idle, resumed oper-
atoms yesterday.
At Hamilton, o., Judge Nielan yesterday
ordered the hydraulic property owned by
L. G.. Rathbone and the heirs of the late
l.. u. Campbell and capitalized at S2o0.Oc0
sold, and appointed j. j. Pater a trustee to
conduct the sale. Pater has been acting as
receiver of the Hamilton and Rossville
Hydraulic Company, owned by Rathbone
and the heirs of Campbell.
A report was issued Sunday night by New
York Union, No. 80, of the National Union
of Brewery Workmen, TO the effect that
ii had suspended a member named Fftzpat-
rick for joining the National Guard. Some
of the unions have adopted rules forbldding
their members to join the National Guard,
on the ground that if they are in the militia
they may be called upon to fire on strikers.
Articles of Incorporation were filed at
Newark, y. j.. yesterday Tor the ONO
Northwestern Development Company, 10
deal in mining rights and operate mines in
Idaho, Washington. Montana and oregon
and in British Columbia; authorized capital
$50, 900. The incorporators are Cleveland v.
Childs. James r. Kraphtoft and H.. \.
Smith.
1t now seems probable that the threat
ened strike of the carpenters i'm Cleveland
will not take place. 1t is stated that fully
half of the contractors have agreed to pay
the increase demanded and il is thought the
remainder will do likewise shortly. The
Building Laborers' Union also demanded
an advance of % cents, making their wages
81 a day. The employers have generally
conceded the increase.
Representatives of the miners and opera
tors of the Hooking valley yesterday
agreed to continue the present docking
system until April "a. thus preventing a
suspension of work. A conference will be
held in the meantime, and IL Is confidently
expected that changes demanded by the
operators in the docking system Will De
arranged, the miners having expressed a
Willingness to consider the proposition SUD
mitted by the operators.
The contract between the Chicago Board
of Trade, the Western Union and Postal
telegraph companies has been made pubic;
1t provides that these two companies and
the Cleveland Telegraph Company shall re-
ceive the quotations simultaneously by
means Of one Morse instrument on the floor
OF the exchange. The sum paid by the
Telegraph companies JOilty loi bHc puotd-
tons is $4,000 a year. The contract runs
for one year and provides for the termina-
ton thereafter on sixty days notice by
either party.
The Toledo and Bowling Green, o., electric
railway, operating between the cities
named, was sold yesterday to Colonel
George Il. Kerper and Colonel John Kill
gour, of Cincinnati. Colonel Kerper is the
owner of the Findlay street railway. which
is now being extended to North Baltimore.
and the two lines will De consolidated un-
der the name of the Toledo Northern Rail-
way. The lines will. IL is said. form part
of a through electric route between Gin
cinnati and Toledo. The connecting link
between North Baltimore and Bowling
Green will be completed by October.
The order of the Knights of Labor,
Simon Burns. general master workman,
and John w. Hayes, general secretary
and treasurer, yesterday at Washington in
stituted proceedings in equity for inJunc-
ton and discovery of accounting against
John n. Parsons, Emery f.. Burley. James
j. Donnelly, John A. COnnor, A. j. Okeefe
and w. +. Carr, alleging that the defend
ants falsely represented themselves as
officers and members OF the Knights of
Labor. The court Is asked to order an
accounting of all moneys received by de-
PENDANTS or any one of them from the
local or district assemblies and the pay
ment of all such to Secretary-treasurer
Hayes. The bill also asks the court 10
any paper purporting TO be the official
knights OF Labor organ.
In reference TO the possible action on the
part of the Buffalo vessel owners TO have
the licenses OF striking marine engineers
revoked. President Uhler, of the Marine
Engineers Union. said yesterday: THE
matter is too absurd 10 be seriously con-
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