The Indianapolis journal., 1903-02-12

The wage increase agreement of IL per
cent. to passenger trainmen and 10 per
cent. to freight trainmen was signed on
Wednesday by the st. Louis Southwestern
Railroad Company.
At the fifth annual convention of the Ili-
nois State Bottlers' Protective Association
Association, at Chicago, on Monday, state
associations were formed for all of the
central Western States.
At meeting of the board of managers
of the Adams Express Company on
share from the proceeds of the sale
of property not needed in the conduct of
the business was declared.
The executive board of the International
Brotherhood of Paper Makers. which has
been in session at Watertown, n. Y, this
week. has decided to hold the next interna-
tional convention at Erie. Pa on May IL.
general plan for raising 100000 defense
fund was adopted.
The capital stock of the Bay State Gas
Company, of Massachusetts, was sold at
New York on Wednesday at public auc-
ton and was purchased for $l1.000,00 by
Kidder, Peabody & Co., of Boston. pro-
test against the sale, made i'm the interest
of j. c. Hand and other stockholders, was
ignored.
Owing to a strike of the ring spinners
and carders, numbering $50 in all. the cot
ton mills of the Cocheco Manufacturing
Company, at Dover. were shut down
Wednesday. throwing 1,5o0 out of employ
ment. The strikers complained that they
were forced to work twenty minutes over
time without extra pay.
The Team Owners International Union
of America has brought suit In the Toledo
courts to compel it's rival organization, the
International Team Owners Union, to
change its name The last named union
was organized about six months ago as the
result of a split in the old organization and
has locals in all parts of the United States.
According to dispatch from vladivo-
he Irrrafan Of Tor n nal~
Morroran. on the Island of Yesso, to be a
free port for the free expectation of all
Japanese goods and for the free importa-
tions of sugar, provisions, railroad ma
terials, agricultural and commercial imple-
ments. machinery, hemp, printing paper
mineral and vegetable oils. cords and
braids.
The Marseilles correspondent of the Petit
Journal, OF Paris, announces the formation
of syndicate of French ship owners, which
practically includes all the French navi-
cation companies. Nj. Lebon, formerly
minister of commerce and president of the
Messageries Maritimes Steamship Company,
is at the head of the syndicate, which is a
veritable trust and represents steam ship
ping amounting 10 100000 tons.
Practically all mines in the Hooking and
Sunday Creek valleys of Ohio suspended
operations on Wednesday owing to a short
age of cars. The Hooking Valley and T.
& o. c. roads have 5000 cars loaded ready
for transfer. but roads to which they are
consigned have refused TO take them from
the roads mentioned because of an inability
to handle more traffic. The mines viii
remain idle until the congested conditions
are relieved
The Niagara Falls Power Company has
made a bid for 100000 feet of redwood
timber to be delivered at Buffalo next
July. The offer has been accepted and the
deal probably will be closed within few
days The redwood is to be used instead
of steel for great tunnel to be constructed
this summer The reason given for the
af ha 70 40 s.
when water passes over liz continually there
forms surface of soapy and pasty nature
which Is proof against corrOsion, whereas
I'm the case of steel. particles of sand and
matter carried with great velocity from the
Niagara river cuts into and destroys the
steel In an incredibly short time
The directors OF the North American
Company on Wednesday declared divi-
dend of per cent. on the capital stock
OF the company. According to the ofYicial
announcement the dividend is derived
solely from the interests and dividends re-
ceived by the company from its permanent