The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-16
TRADE, INDUSTRY, LABOR

indefinitely.
The Sharon and South Sharon Pa.) plants
of the Carnegie Steel Company, which en-
ploy about $500 people, will not start for
sixty or ninety days.
The Chilean government has decided to
construct docks at Valparaiso, to cost about
$1O.0o00O. bill providing for this. work
Will shortly be presented to the chamber
The American Smelling and Refining
Company has declared q dividend of Ia
per cent. on its common stock. payable Jan.
l, next year. This is the first dividend de-
clared on the common stock.
Colonel Verdeckberg announced yesterday
that all troops guarding mines In the Grip
pie Creek district Of Colorado, will be i'm
mediately withdrawn to the central camps
and the military forces in the district will
be reduced to $50 men.
The puddlers of Lockhart steel and wire
mills at McKee's Rocks, Pa, have been laid
off until Jan. !, and the pressed steel car car
same period In CoraopOlis the Consolidated
Glass Company, employing about 400 hands,
has shut down.
The strikers at the Royal mine at Hod-
son. Cal, at a mass meeting have threat
ened TO take forceible possession Of the
property. and the company officials are
HSI tRe State militia. m The Strikers f have been zen
reinforced by the striking miners from
Angels Camp.
At the annual dinner of the Paper Asso-
ciation of New York city, held last night at
Delmonico's President William D. May an
nounced that a national association was or
ganized to-day to be known as the National
Paper Trades Association. which is com
more, central Ohio, Chicago and New York.
A petition was filed in the United States
District Court at Philadelphia yesterday
asking that the Manuel ]. Portuendo Com
pany, of Philadelphia. cigar manufac-
turers, be adjudged bankrupt. The petit
ton was filed by creditors representing
s6s,0oo of the $4,000 liabilities of the com
National Bank, the Fort Dearborn National
| Bank and the State National Bank of Chi
cago.
A demurrer to the petition of creditors,
which resulted Dec. in the appointment
| of two receivers to take charge of all the
property Of John Alexander Dowie at Zion
City, was filed yesterday In the United
States District Court at Chicago by counsel
for Dowie. Dowie raises number of tech
nical legal objections to the form of Ehe
creditors petition. and asks to have the
bankruptcy proceedings dismissed. The ie-
| murrer will be taken up for consideration
by Judge Kohlsaat next week.
On a petition filed in the United States
District Court at Chicago yesterday by
creditors living in Wisconsin, whose claims
amount to $50. 600. Judge Kohlsaat appointed
Lester c. Childs receiver for the firm of
| James H. Collins & Co, general contractors,
with headquarters in Chicago. The princi-
| pal claim is that of the Lacrosse &c South
| eastern Railroad Company for $4,000. which
grew out of the failure of the defendant
| company to construct an electric railroad
between Lacrosse and Viroqua, Wis.
| Peace between the Chicago packing
| houses and their employees practically was
assured yesterday, when all but one of the
| grievances of the striking coopers were ad-
| justed. The truce brought an end to the
| talk of a general strike. The coopers are
| to receive an increase of Is cents a day,
| the strikers are to be reinstated and not
| Disseminated against and boys are not to
L pmDl0yed hereafter.
| left to be settled concerns the subbosses
who went out with the strikers.
| At meeting of the directors of the Cru
| chile Steel Company in Pittsburg yesterday
| it was decided to pass the dividend on the
preferred stock. When seen after the
| meeting. Frank B. Smith, president of the
| for the action of the board. The dividend
| on the preferred stock is per cent. cumula-
/ tive. The passing of the dividend had no
material effect on the preferred stock at the
| exchange as the fact that il would be
passed was generally admitted and the ef-
| feet had been discounted.
The Trades and Labor Assembly of the
| CriDple Creek district has Endorsed the res
olution of United States Senator Patterson,
providing for an investigation of the strike
| situation In Colorado, and copies have been
| forwarded to President Roosevelt, Senators
Patterson ndsTeller. and to the president
| of the Senate On Saturday iast the Grip
| pie Creek Citizens Alliance and the Cham
| ber of Commerce adopted resolutions char
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false and grossly misrepresenting the
conditions that prevail in the State"
| In the United States Circuit Court at
| Pittsburg. Pa. yesterday the case Of
| Palmer Window Glass Company against
John Phillips. tr. and others, members and
| managers of the Window Glass Workers
Association of America, hearing on the mo-
tion for permanent injunction was heard
| by Judge Joseph Burlington. The PLAINTIFF
/ asked for a continuance of the hearing.
| which was granted, and Wednesday. Dec.
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recommended that the parties to the suit
get together and settle their differences.
well attended conference of Southeast
/ Lancashire master spinners at Manchester,
/ Eng yesterday considered the present state
| Of the cotton trade and passed resolution
| as follows: That communication be en-
| tered into between the American and Conti-
mental Associations engaged in the cotton
| trade and that the following cable mes
| sage be sent to each: Lancashire has sug-
| gested short time In the cotton trade Are
| you prepared TO do the same% That a mass
/ meeting of all interested in the cotton trade
be called at an early date to consider the
4 position.
Representatives of several of the impor-
| tant independent steel and iron interests
| in Pittsburg. Chicago, Cleveland anu other
/ trade centers arrived at New York yester-
| day and conferred informally regarding the
proposed meetings of the steel rail and billet
! pools, which will take place on Thursday
| and Friday. The best information obtain
/ able points to a continuance of the present
| S23> rate for bilets, but there Is good au-
1 thority for the statement that strong In
| fuence will be exerted to cut rails 10 $26
/ per ton. Reports are current that earnest
| representations will be made to the rail
| pool by leading railway interests
The trial Of the union miners charged
| with completely in the blowing up of the
| Sun and Moon mine building, at Idaho
| Springs, was begun at Georgetown, Col,
| yesterday. Twenty-three men were arrest
ed and charged with the crime. Four of
these were to-day discharged on motion of
| the district attorney, and FIVE failed to ap-
| pear for trial The other fourteen were in
/ court. The work of securing a jury is ex-
| pected to consume three days. The princi-
/ pal question asked by the State is whether
| the prospective juryman Is a member OF
1 the Western Federation OF Miners, while
the defense asks IL he belongs to the Citi-
| xens' Alliance IL he answers affirmatively
in either question he is excused. -