The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-19
TRADE, LABOR, INDUSTRY.

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yesterday In the case of Minnesota against
the Northern Securities Company. Little
new evidence was secured.
A delegation of twenty-three English
labor men, representing the principal labor
organizations in England, is Investigating
the industrial conditions at Chicago.
The Columbia oil and Gas Company. of
Lisbon, o., to produce, mine and deal In
oil, gas, etc, with a capital OF $0W,OW, mas
filed a certificate of Incorporation at Dover,
Del.
The municipal council of Cienfuegos,
Cuba, has appointed III. ]. Reilly, of New
York. to draw up plans and specifications,
in view OF the construction of a market,
water works and sewer system at an esti-
mated cost Of $i,0O.O0.
Three representatives of American cap
italists have applied TO the executive coun-
Gil OF Porto Rico for a franchise TO de-
velop the natural water power of the island
and build an electric railway. The estl-
mated cost Of this electric road Is 81. 100000.
TIL cigar workers of Havana who have
been on strike for the past two weeks,
trades unless their demands are granted.
Thirteen factories are now closed. and the
cigar workers at many others have voted
TO 20 out to-day.
All of the striking employees of the Wa
bash shops at Springfield received notice
that the pay car would be there yesterday,
and In the afternoon met at their hall and
marched to the shops in a body. where
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days pay which was being held back.
The Geneva correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Chronicle announces that plans
have been submitted to the French min
es'e an electric n nhi TaiIpoad DOR TO 'f the c9 Summit of
Mont Blanc from the village Of Les
Touches on the Savoy side of the noun
tain.
The directors of the Philadelphia Master
Builders Exchange yesterday decided TO
adopt stringent measures looking to the
protection of contractors whose employees
resort to strikes to gain their demands.
All of the twenty-three members of the
board of directors were present, and the
vote to lock out striking workmen was
unanimous.
By agreement of parties, Judge Colt, of
the United States Circuit Court, at Boston
yesterday appointed John r. Prescott. of
Newton. receiver of the Damon Safe and
Iron Works Company, of Cambridge, in a
suit hled against the Damon Company by
alleged that the total liabilities OF the Da-
mon Company are 100000.
In the Superior Court of Cincinnati. yes
terday, Judge Rufus b. Smith granted an
injunction against the striking core makers.
who were charged with interfering with
new men and work at the foundries. The
injunction Is also against John T.. OLeary.
president of the National Association of
Coremakers, who has been here for some
time In personal charge of the strike.
Application was made at Great Bend,
Kan, yesterday for a receiver to settle the
affairs OF the Lake Keen Navigation Reser-
voir and Irrigation Company. 1t is alleged
that the company's charter has been for
feited to the State and that the officers are
seeking to mortgage the company's prop
erty for 81. go 900. The court granted a tenn
porary order restraining the company from
encumbering its property.
The boycott against the Schenectady IN.
Y) Railway Company Will continue. The
Trades Assembly held a long and stormy
meeting last night Qt which a resolution
was offered to reconsider the resolution or
dering the boycott, but a forgotten clause
in the constitution to the effect that any
action taken at a regular meeting could not
be reconsidered at a special meeting was
produced, and so no action whatever was
taken.
At the opening session at st. Louis, yes
terday, OF the American Apple W
Congress, over 100 representative apple
growers from various sections of the United
States were in attendance; Chairman
ILL.,. presided. Permanent organization
was then made by the election of III.
NJ. Dunlap, of Salem. ILL.,. as president.
w. C.. Reed, of Indiana, was chosen a vice
president.
Communications were sent out from Chi
cago last night to a score or more of West
ern stove manufacturers giving instruc-
tions to put into effect at once a 10 per
cent. raise in the price of all kinds of
stoves, in pursuance of action taken by
the Western Association of Stove Manu-
facturerS. This is the third time the price
of stoves has been raised in the past year.
The Increase Is said to be due to the steady
advance in price of the raw material.
The suit brought by A. A. Hutchinson
and V. X. McElheny. jr., against the di-
rectors of the American Mailing Company,
to compel them to restore to the treasury
of the company 1853. $50, alleged TO have
been illegally presented as dividends to
the holders Of preferred stock of the COM
pany. and also to restore s65O,0O0. alleged
TO have been lost to the company by the
mismanagement of the directors, was yes
terday dismissed in the Supreme Court of
New York.
Gerald Balfour. president of the Board of
Trade, will introduce a bill at the next ses-
scion of the British Parliament dealing
with the Improvement of the port of Lon
don on the lines indicated in the report
OF the royal commission. The commission
suggested that SO. 10000 be spent in the
next ten years in developing dock &C
commodation and in acquiring control of
the Thames. and also that sl2. 100000 be
spent in widening and deepening the chan
nels, making a thirty-foot channel from the
More TO the Albert dock, London. The
first portion OF this channel should be 1000
feet wide and the next portion 600 feet.
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