The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-06
TRADE, INDUSTRY, LABOR.

The Ohio valley stove manufacturers
have decided to increase the price of stoves
per cent.
AS a result of a petition to the governor
men TO discuss the betterment of their
position will be held next Sunday with the
sanction OF the authorities
general strike has been proclaimed at
Amsterdam by the Dockers Union. in con-
sequence of the insistence of the dock COM
panies in undertaking the work of COM
pany whose employees are striking.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad yesterday
increased the pay of all it's conductors and
trainmen on its lines east of Fort William
by an average of 121A per cent The in
crease adds S25O,OOO yearly to the company's
pay roll.
Louis II. Mahnke, a contractor, formerly
of the firm of Neill & Mahnke, confessed
insolvency in the United States District
Court at Chicago yesterday. He asked to
be relieved OF liabilities amounting to S322-
5l5, distributed among hundred or more
creditors. Part of the debts are secured by
trust deeds.
Failure of the French walnut crop and
the consequent increased demand for Cali
fornia nuts has caused the growers to ad-
vance prices ~ cents pound on the soft
serted. will amount to $50 to 500 carloads,
most of which has already. been shipped
This is above the average yield.
1t is reiterated that powerful New York
lean government with sufficient gold to es-
tablish firmly gold standard The sum
named is s50,WO,OOO. Some City of Mexico
bankers think half of that amount wouId
be ample. There is a strong sentiment i'm
favor of retaining the silver dollars, al
though giving them nominal value.
The charge of forcible entry made against
Henry A. Hicks. Simon Burns and three
other members of a faction of the knights
OF Labor by Mr.. Hayes and other officers
OF the order In charge of the headquarters
at washington was dismissed yesterday by
the Police Court. the judges holding the
case was one for the civil courts The mat
ter grew out of those accused making what
was charged to be an illegal and forcible
entry into the knights of Labor building
A revolutionary movement is threatened
in Honduras. General Sierra has been in
duced to refuse to turn over the presi-
dental power TO Senior Bonilla, who was
elected President in October. 1t is believed
that the Honduran Congress will try to
declare the last elections illegal and Senior
Bonilla's numerous partisans threaten to
protect their leaders rights by force If
necessary. Juan Angelarias, the defeated
candidate, has been appointed minister of
state.
The French Chamber of Deputies last
night adopted by $50 votes to IA the new
sugar law, of which the principal provision
reduces the tax on refined sugar TO Is
francs per 220 pounds a compensation
for the abolition Of the sugar bounties un-
der the Brussels convention. The House
refused to take into consideration a pro-
poSal calling on the government to estab-
lish state monopoly in sugar refining.
The Brussels sugar convention was also
ratified OF a show of hands.
Governor Stone has taken prompt action
to raise the quarantine which has been or
dered by Governor Yates, of illinois,
against PENNSYLVANIA cattle on account of
the foot and mouth disease which exists
among cattle in the New England States
Governor Stone wrote a letter to Governor
Yates protesting against his ction and adj
xvfGfrNe hot had bnn oh Il,
in that State since 1882, that there had
been none in New York and there is none
and has been none in New Jersey.
A syndicate made up largely of Michigan
timber land between New Orleans and
Hammond, La, with an estimated stump
age OF 450.00O,0O0 feet and will organize a
erect mill Costing 10000 at MancSac c on 5D
Lake POnchartrain. Among those interest
ed are Thomas r. Logan and r. Lyon, of
ids; Danaher Bros. and w. b. Lyon, of
Ludington. Mich, and Bradford Keet, Of
New Orleans.
The British Board of Agriculture has in
timated its willingness to remove the en-
barge on cattle arriving from New Eng
land ports whenever the American Depart
ment of Agriculture considers that the out
break is suppressed. The board last night
issued an order enabling the landing of
the cattle under certain restrictions from
the steamer Irishman, which has arrived
at Liverpool from Boston, the steamers
Kansas and Victorian, due at Liverpool
from Boston, and the steamer Cambrian,
due at London from Boston.
Serious delay to municipal and govern
ment work is probable because of the fall
ure at Boston of the contracting firm of
+. G.. Coburn & Co., one of the largest
firms of its kind in the East. The liabilities
are estimated at sl50.00 one-half of which
is due to the Central National Bank. The
assets are about s62 .000 The company Is
building two hospitals for the city of Bos-
ton and two great shops at the Charlestown
navy yard for the United States govern
ment. The failure is attributed TO the
closing of the Central National Bank,
which tied up Mr.. Coburn's affairs.
Contracts have been placed by the Stand
ard Steel Company with prominent machin-
cry manufacturers for new equipment cost
ing several hundred thousand dollars that
will greatly enlarge its new plant at But
Ter, Pa. The capacity of the present plant
Is sixty cars day; with the installation
of the new equipment the, capacity will be
increased to eighty cars per day. fifty of
which will be all steel and thirty modern
cars with metal underframes. The new
equipment will make the Standard plant
one of the largest and most perfect in the
country.
President Ramsay's final answer to the
striking shopmen Of the Wabash Railroad