The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-09-14

OtsdufAtu.
Chicago has a6 local unions of
teamsters, with total membership
OF over $4,000.
International sheet metal workers
union paid 10 death benefits during
the past year.
Cement Construction, Floor and
Sidewalk Layers union ut Chicago,
has l, zoo members.
The great City Front federati ion at
San Francisco has membership OF
5000 union men.
There ATE 100, 900 men employed In
the tobacco trades OF the United
States, of whom one.half are organ
ized.
United Coffee Roastefs and Help.
ers' union OF Chicago, H., is prepar-
ing to affiiiate with the Wholesale
Grocery Employers union.
In all probability the lonsghoremen
at San Jaun, Porto Rico, will be or.
ganized properly aud incorporated
with the American Federation Of
Labor.
The executive council OF the Long.
shoremens' association has decided to
push organization work In several
localities by means Of paid organizers.
A benefit insurance system will
come up for action before the con-
vention OF the International Associa-
tion Of Engineers, to be held at
Toronto, Can, In September.
The mayor aud the police have or.
ganized the bootblacks at Ponce,
Porto Rico. The union has a men,
bership OF 55, under the direction OF
three sergeants and several corporals.
A proposal has been submitted To
the Canadian government with a view
to bringing out 1000 Scotch girls as
domestic servants. The government
looks favorably upon The proposal
Uniform laws governing child labor
were advocated by Egdar Il. Davies
OF Chicago, chief factory inspector
OF Illinois, In an address recently be-
fore the national conference Of chair.
ties and corrections, IN session at
Portland, Ore.
Prof. Clifton +. Hodge urges the
extinction OF cats on account OF thei +
destruction to birds
1t has been estimated that should
any one desire to purchase the rail
ways OF the world his outlay would
amount to something like $50, $50.
600, 900.
The Marquis OF Ely owns a country
seat originally designed as a stable.
1t was made over into hunting
lodge and has entirely lost any sug-
gestion OF It's former uses.
An intelligent elephant Is attract.
ing attention In New York. This
animal not only bowls, bit, with a
piece OF chalk, keeps record OF the
number Of pins II knocks down.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Delorme OF
Worchester, Mass. recently celebrat-
ed their golden wedding anniversary
they attended mass. the choir being
composed OF IL OF their grandchil-
dren.
Aaron Burr Is the historic name
over restaurant In Spring street,
near Mercer, In New York city. Al.
most directly across appears the
name OF Alexander Hamilton. Z"
carpenter and builder.
The "public domain" Is still nearly
one-third OF the whole country.
1t has been surveyed In squares six
miles on side called townships,
then into squares OF one mile, called
sections, and these aglan into qnnr.
ter sections.
Dyers and fiinishers OF Meerane,
Saxony, and surrounding districts,
are on strike.
Women weavers numbering 1900,
in the silk factories OF JEST, Italy,
have struck work.
A lockout In the marble Quarries
Of Carrara, Italy, has thrown 6.OO0
men out Of employment.
Yorkshire, England. glass bottle
makers have decided 10 resume work
on the employers terms--5 per cent
reduction.
About a dozen conyicts OF the
Oregon pepitentiary at Salem have
been put TO work In repairing the
read from the city 10 the state in-
sane asylum farm. Later on more
coDyIcts will be put 10 work on this
road. Altogether there are now
working on the Marion county road
about 90 conyicts.
Great Falls, Mont, Is hoping 10
have a cold storage plant before long
A Minneapolis party Is behind the
scheme. IL is understood that the
Commerica club will secure a free