The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-10
The G>ortd Of s9ndustry.

Marine firemen OF the Atlantic coast are
organizing.
| There are 3,546 milHorsiires in the United
States.
over 100000 Holsters were caught up
/ on the Maine coast last year.
/ The Kansas supreme court has sus-
tanned the eight-hour labor law
Thomas A. Edison has taken out near
~ 6U0 patients on his various inventions.
StevedOres of Honolulu have ORGANIZED
Dor.
1t is estimated that New England
shoes each day.
The mileage of railroads built in the
L 4,518.
Enough timber is destroyed by fire in
pulp mills
The American Palace Car company mas
placed orders for 100 Of Its cars on Euro
pean roads.
Motor. vehicles to the value Of $4,167
were shipped from New York to the Phil
lppineS recently.
Sewing cotton and pocket knives are
Inc only British made goods that now
mold their own in Brazil.
The elders Union Of New York re-
ports unparalleled prosperity in that
trade. Not man is out OF work.
Ohio manufacturers last year paid in
wages So, 4,061, 314, an increase OF $40 IA
943 over the previous year.
The American Sheet Steel company will
invest y; ;N0,GO0 in the extension of its
plants when spring opens.
Haly's expectation. of silk has increasa
within five years from go, 600 pounQs
weight year to nearly 100000.
The BARRIERS Union of San Francisco
mas more than LOCO members. 1t is the
largest BARRIERS union in America.
In Japan LOCO hands are required for a
Spinning mill of 10000 spindles In Amer
sc& ABOUT 200 men do the same work.
Agents of the Boot and Shoe Workers
international union are canvasSing the
country in the interests of the union la
bel.
Over 5000 operatives are thrown out Of
employment by the lockout Of the Ameri-
can Woolen Company OF Providence,
The San Francisco Labor council. from
April 23 to Nov. 80 of last year, donated
$4l.2l719 to aid the strikers in that city.
The manufacture of silk in France has
noc nc 20 increased since 1895. In 1880 it was
1888 per cent Of the worlds commerce in
silks.
The gold mines of Mysore, India. ars
worked by American electrical devices,
layan snow.
The recent remarkable advance in the
industries of Italy is owing largely to the
devetopment of electricity as a motive
President Roosevelt has threatened with
dtsmlssal al! government employees VINO
attempt to influence legislation in their
own behalf
The membership Of the brotherhood of
locomotive Firemen has doubled since
| 1884 being now 40,7B against fewer than
| 21,000 in 1894.
The telephone service In Sweden is
about to be taken In hand by the state,
! the two telephone companies being
| bought out for 9650e00.
In the United States the number of
| miles of railway in proportion to the num-
| Der Of Inhabitants is nearly double that
| OF any European country.
An Illinois inventor is urging the sub
| stitution of printed slides for the brake
| mans voice in the announcement Of sta
| tons in moving trains.
| The Southern railway and the Northern
/ Alabama road have authorized improve
/ ments that will cost over 100000 during
/ the present year.
| London is stiH obliged to import Polyglot
| clerks for her mercantile houses as the
| English too seldom take the trouble to
/ learn foreign languages
| The plant of the Indiana Pulp and Pa
per company, at Marion Ind, burned last
! August, will rebuild and double its ca
paeity, employing 500 men.
| The average salaries of school teachers
1 in Maryland Is less than $275 a year, and
| the Teachers association is to petition the
| legislature for an increase.
| The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
| Railroad company has advanced the
| wages of 1,500 men employed in the shops
! Of Fort Wayne between 5 and 6 per cent.
/
| gium last year in establishing new gov
/ ernment railroads and increasing traction
/ and transportation conveniences.
| The Alabama Consolidated Coal and
| Iron company is selling every bit of iron
/ it can make, and is working all its coal
ore and dolomite plants to their full ca
pacity.
| The proposed gigantic coal combine Of
/ Indiana and Illinois miners has gone up
/ in smoke. The operators Of the latter
! state demand too high a price for hold
| ipgs.
| A Russian mining engineer has already
| started for the United States to conclude
| arrangements for the purchase of copper
mines in Southern Siberia by Senator W.
| A. Clark
February disbursements for dividends
| companies and including government and
municipal payments are estimated at
/ about S60 100000.
| Notwithstanding the fact that 10000
freight cars were built in this country
| last year, the railroads lost more than
| $50, 600, 600 because Of the scarcity Of such
| equipment.
The conciliation board of the North of
England iron and steel trade has appealed
ers in the effort to recapture the world 8
| trade.
A bin has been introduced IN the Mary
land legislature that no child under the
| age of sixteen years shall be allowed to
| work in any establishment where spir-
itous or malt liquors are handled.
Over 1,200 employees OF the Washington
navy yard have petitioned for an addi-
tional fifteen days annual leave, thirty