Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-06

ployes and of common laborers in. cluding domestic servants. are today 70 per cent. higher at Leghorn, Italy. 'han In the spring of 1909. Mems clothing sold in 1909 for $11.5S- to qAo.4o per suit and in 1911 for $13.50 to Sl7.37. In 1909 five-room apart ment rented for $4S2 to s6.75 per month and 1911 for SG.75 to s9.65 Apartments of 10 to 12 rooms rented Tor $9,65 to s15.44 per month in 1909 ana Sl350 to $19.30 in 1911. Domes- JIG servants received S2.32 to S2.SG per month in 1909 and s4.83 to s6.75 in 1911.
 Dublin, Ireland.--The potato crop in Ireland for 1911 is estimated at ,694,- ooo long tons, or 137,941,290 bushels. an increase of 30,730,336 bushels over the previous year. The acreage of the crop was 591,259, as against 592,- 9S3 in 1910. The largest results were obtained in the north and west of Ire land, where the ordinary yield was about 2SO bushels to the acre. The average for the whole of Ireland for the ten-year period, 1901 to 1911, was ll4.46 bushels, so that the yield for l9ll was more than 20 per cent above the normal crop.
 New York.-Following the signal victory for working men in the su- preme courts indorsement of the fed eral employers liability act, it is an- nounced that a new state liability in- surance bill has been prepared for in- troduction at Albany, following the lines of the Ohio act. It assesses ten per cent. of the cost of insurance upon the workman, 90 per cent. upon the employer and makes acceptance of insurance voluntary, while loading it's rejection with the full rigor of present disadvantages under the law. The state is to administer tho funds.
 Cleveland O.--."Tne Cleveland; Elec- tric Illuminating company must come to the .cfty's terms. or be forced out of hasiness,'s Councilslan, Joseph Pei i cinsli declared recently. F Peicinski. chairman of council lighting commit tee, is the father of the ordinance providing for an issue of $2,000,000 in bonds for municipal lighting plant. The city's plants will sell cleo l tricty for three cents and the coin. pany will have to meet the cut in i price, he explained.
 Boston.-Boston Cigarmakers' union expended total of $12,112 last year in booming its union label and the sale of home products. The main ex- renses were for newspaper advertis- ing, for the union label calendar, which were distributed by the thou sands, and for the union model cigar factory and exhibit of Boston made cigars at the New England Industrial exposition and at the chamber of con- fnerce.
 Washington.-The wage board of the Washington naval gun factory has announced that the wage schedules for 1912 will remain the same as those that were in effect during 1911, with the exception of the unorganized wood caulkers. The wages of these employees have been reduced from a minimum of $2.3S to SPA per day and from a maximum of $3.60 to $3.36 per day.
 Atlanta, Ga.-The troubles over wages which have been holding back the granite industry in Georgia since May have been settled, and a four year contract signed at compromise nrice The workmen had been draw ing s3.2O per day and asked for $3.5O. Boston. - Massachusetts state branch. A. F. of l.. executive board, approved the proposition that the leg ;slature investigate the Lawrence strike and the causes which lead up to it, as well as general conditions m inc textile industry in this state.
 Minneapolis.-The new Minneapolis scale provides for an increase for ]op nrinters from $1950 to $21 a week. For linotype machines the pay Is in' creased from $23 to s245O week TOT dav work and from $25 to $27.5O 2 week for night work.
 Chicago.-The funeral, old age and disability benefits of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America Will De increased under the new constitution which went into effect January l. lsl2'
 Boston.-Boston Bricklayers union last week approved the acts Of the strike committee in Lawrence anu voted s1oo to assist those workers. nownton Mercantile Engineers union 2sa gave $25 to the same cause.
 washington.-Fatalities in coal r,,nes over the country average well ahove 1000 from year to year and are double the number of decade ago Tho employment continues far more dead,y than railroading.
 Altoona, Pa.-As result ol tne sevare blizzard and demands it makes on motive power and rolling stock De' longing to the road, the Pennsylvanla railroad shops here, which were run. ming on short hours since before tne holidays, hI resumed on full tine Of Do v.,1vy nI0Y09