Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-01
LABOR AND INDUSTRY

more lHdu 4UU CCLtOn mills In Ian
| cashire Endland, are idle as a result
of the dispute over wages between
operatives and employers.
Canadian Pacific railway engineers
! have notified the company that they
will not run engines longer than an
other week If the strike is not settled
The Waukesha Canning company
having completed It's pack, has closed
for lhe season. A total Of 10000
cases of peas and 10000 of beans were
| packed.
The Bankers Supply company or
Denver, Colo, will open it's branch Tito
graphing plant at Green Bay. It has
acquired the quarters of the old shoe
| factory.
The Milwaukee Northern road has
been given a temporary permit TO lay
tracks in certain streets on the south
side in Sheboygan until an ordinance
has been passed.
Copper ore was discovered in rock
used to pave the streets of Superior
with macadam. The rock comes
from the vicinity of Rockmount on the
copper range nearest the city
The department of commerce and
labor at Washington issued a state
ment showing that it has found places
OF the United States. These work
men have been sent to thirty-fiye diff
ferent states.
By the discovery of an inexhausti
BILE bed OF shale clay together with
liberal deposits OF fine sand, the
Fond du Lac Pressed Brick company
may in the near future engage in the
manufacture of vitrified brick and til
| ing.
Kaukauna Wis, may go without
street illumination beginning Oct II.
On that day the present contract with
the lighting company expires and the
the contract will not be renewed be-
cause Of complaints.
Provided the trustees raise three
times its value either in money or its
equivalent, e. I'll. Van Ostrand, of An
tigo, has agreed to present the Wis
consin Farm and Trades School for
Boys with a tract of 240 acres in the
town OF Evergreen.
Orders have been received at La
Crosse from the general Off
ces OF the Burlington road
that greater care must be shown in
handling matches on account of the
dry condition of the buildings and
other property Of the company.
The La Crosse Water Power com
pany expects to have its two mile
canal between the dam at Hatfield
and the power house completed by
Oct /, when it will be in a position
to furnish electrical current to
Winona, La Crosse and other points.
Interstate Commerce Commission
ers COckerall Lane. and Judge Glenn
ents will take up the complaint Of the
merchants of Georgia and Alabama
against increased freight rates re-
Gently made by railroads east of the
Missouri river into the southeastern
territory
The losses from the destruction of
the mill yards at Washburn in the big
fires of last week have been estimated
at $123,O00. The Stearns Lumber
company lost 100000, the Wachsmuth
Lumber company $4,000, and other
companies smaller amounts. One
half is covered by insurance
! Richland county has nine creamer-
les and fifty-two cheese factories
which are supplied by $50 and 14,179
COWS Respectively. A total of 92,264
! pounds of butter and 6,208,834 pounds
= of cheese were produced the last ifs
cal year. In addition there were 49,
3S2 pounds of butter produced on the
farms.
/ Whitney Nichols and Ben Dixon of
/ Viroqua have arranged for the manu-
facture of their patent contrivance
which enables gasoline lamps to be
lit with the ease of turning On an
electric light. BY its use it is no
= longer required TO heat the light be-
fore it ignites.
/ The Kansas state board OF railroad
commissioners made a demand di
recently on George Gould, president,
and E H. Hartman, reported to be as
ISOLATED with the Missouri Pacific
railroad company, that the manage
ment Of the road Immediately take
steps to improve the condition of the
track in Kansas.
Railroads affected by the Missouri
river rate case decision, requiring
them to make effective the big rate re
auctions ordered b. the interstate
commerce commiss on received word
from Washington that a stay of thirty
days enforcement Of the order had
been granted. The rate reductions
were TO have become effective next
Friday.
OBITUARY
Bishop Carmichael Of the Church OF
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