The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-03
Trade, Industry and Labor

working eight hours day. were notified
yesterday that their days work would be
ten hours hereafter The storehouse en-
ployes were to-day put on full time. These
two orders affect 200 hands. 1t Is probable
that the hours of the employees in the repair
shops will be increased within few days.
Uncertainty hangs over the future Of the
500 100000 Consolidated Lake Superior Com
pany, says a dispatch from Philadelphia
Its fate is now in the hands of Speyer &
Co, bankers, of New York, who have the
right to sell the property under foreclosure
proceedings. on Dec. Is, because of the in
ability of the corporation to pay on a loan
of 5000, 600. The intention of the Speyers
probably will be announced In day or two.
Frank c. Helm, forty-one years old, who
is said to be the owner of valuable mining
property In Alaska, was arraigned In court
at New York yesterday on charge. of
grand larceny. The complainant against
him is State Senator John j. Laughlin. of
Buffalo, and the specific charge Is that he
sold 81, 600 worth of stock to Senator Laugh
lin, which, 1t was alleged, was not his prop
erty. Mr.. Helm returned from Valdes,
Alaska, Tuesday night.
The hearing in the reclamation proceed
ings in the matter Of Daniel Leroy Dresser
and his creditors was continued at New
York yesterday, the examination being par
ticularly directed to the discovery Of the
disposition that had been made of 316 bonds
received by. Mr.; Dresser from John w:
Young, of the United States Shipbuilding
Company The bonds were stated to have
which has since been reduced
Petitions in bankruptcy were filed yes
terday by former Governor Q. ". Coffin
and his son, Seward V. Coffin, both or
Middletown, Conn. The older Collins liza.
81, 231. Seward V. Coffin's liabilities are
$51,534 and his assets $Sl0 Former Gov
ernor Coffin was president Of the L. ID:
Brown & Sons Company, manufacturers OF
silk thread and CLOTH in Middletown, Conn.
This concern recently went into receivers
hands.
The twenty eight-inch mill of the Home
stead Pa-) steel works has resumed after
being shut down for several weeks. and
every other department in the Homestead
works, with the exception of the convert
ing and 12S-inch mill undergoing repairs,
is now running. The Howard axle works
will resume in full next week and many of
the men who We're laid off recently at the
Mesta Machine Company's plant. In West
Homestead, are being called back to work,
as orders are fast accommodating.
1t is announced that the American Bridge
Company has decided to give up for the
present Its construction department so far
as the New York district is concerned This
Will enable work to proceed on large num-
Der of contracts. The main reason is said
to be that a number Of contracts which
have been submitted to the company by
members of the Building Trades Employers
Association have been held up because
the latter body will not recognize Local No.
of the Iron Workers. The American
bound by the agreement which 1t made
last April with Local No. 2. and work has
been at a standstill since then.
President Roosevelt yesterday received
the delegates in attendance upon the an
nual convention of the United States Pot
| ters' Association. In addition to a cordial
greeting extended personally to each dele
| gate, the President delivered brief COM
plimentary address to the members of the
association. He expressed his profound in
| terest In their work. both from a CONNER
| mercial and artistic viewpoint, congrat-
| ulating them upon the high development to
which they had brought 1t. He hoped at
| some time to be able to visit some of the
| pottery industries at East Liverpool, o..
| and at Trenton, N. j., when he would be
! able to more fully indicate his apprecia-
| ton of the great industry which they had
built up.
| Details of the operation of an alleged
| plumbing supplies trust will be heard by
| the grand jury at Chicago to-day. The
charge of perjury will be presented for
| consideration of the grand jury in connec-
ton with an affidavit made by officers OF
one of the companies alleged to belong tc
| the so-called pool that the company was
| not a trust. The Illinois law requires such
affidavits to be made. To show that this
| affidavit was false evidence will be pre-.
| scented to the grand jury that there were
| two combines working together in a pool
one controlling ordinary plumbing fixtures
| and supplies, the other plumbers bras.
| goods. Other details indicating the exist
ence Of a tightly-bound pool will also b.
| presented.