The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-13
TRADE, INDUSTRY, LABOR.

Fifty-eight employees of the Lawrence
Furnace Company, at lronton, o.. struck
yesterday because four union men had been
notified TO vacate company property. The
plant is now closed.
An examination of the sales sheets of
the iron manufacturers was made at
Youngstown, o., yesterday. No change In
the prevailing wage scale will be made dur
ing November and December.
The British ship Osborne cleared at San
Francisco yesterday for Liverpool with
$1,000 cases of salmon. This makes 29l 500
cases of salmon which have been shipped
from San Francisco for Europe since the
middle CT September.
John w. Young, a hardware merchant
of New Bedford, H., was declared volun-
tary bankrupt by Judge Kohlsaat at Chi
cago yesterday. j. w. Ross was appointed
receiver Liabilities scheduled at $50, $40,
mostly unsecured; assets $39.9S4. chiefly
merchandise.
The new steel tank steamer Toledo, built
ledo, for the Sun Company, of Pitsburg,
cleared direct for Galveston, Tex, yester-
day to engage in carrying crude oil from
the Beaumont field to the Sun Company's
refinery at Philadelphia. 1t has capacity
of one million barrels
The Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Com
pany, Of Canada, limited, with an author
lied capital of s5,OO00O0, has been incorpor-
ated by the provincial secretary. The in
corporators are William r. Green, of New
York: j. w. Greenshields, Montreal; w.
II -. D.
countant, of Toronto. This is the parent
Marconi organization in Canada.
G. c. Eppers, of Chicago, who is in Los
Angeles is authority for the statement that
a corporation known the Southern Cali
fornia Trust Company, with a ready capt.
tai of 81, so. 600, most of ii Eastern capital,
has secured an option on 1000 acres of
orange groves and proposes to absorb under
trust mortgage a heavy portion of the
southern California citrus belt interests.
Philip ]. Mcguire was yesterday ap-
pointed receiver for the assets of the Mar
quette Mutual Life Insurance Company by
Judge Hanecy at Chicago. The receiver
was appointed on a petition filed by State
Insurance Superintendent Yates, who de-
Injunction was also secured restraining the
officers of the concern from further pro-
ceeding with it's business.
over 300 employees of the Ellsworth e.
Co. cereal plant at Chicago struck yester-
day and business is practically at a stand
still. The strikers held a meeting and
formed the Cereal Workers Union, and il
is asserted the strike will spread to other
cereal concerns unless their demands are
granted. The majority of the workers are
girls and they have been receiving paw
on the piecework plan and under this ar
rangement the weekly wage ranged from
Sc to SIS. They now demand a straight
wage of 81. n minimum wage for day
work and sl.O for night work.
Fourteen cranemen in the Schoenberger
plant of the American Steel and Wire Com
pany at Pittsburg went out on strike Tues
day afternoon, and, as result of the act
$50 men in the open hearth department were
laid off yesterday The men claim that II
the strike continues twenty-fo hours the
plate mill will have TO shut down. throw
ing $50 workers out in that department
The cranemen have been receiving 81 40 a
day. with fourteen days pay for an extra
heat The company wants them to work
on the tonnage plan. which the men claim
would be n reduction instead of an Increase
Ii is thought at the works that the com
pany will endeavor to fil the places of
the striking cranemen at once