Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1890 — FOR MACHINE MINING. [ARTICLE]

FOR MACHINE MINING.

Schedule of Prices Adopted by the United Mine-Workers. Columbus (Ohio) dispatch: The United Mine-Workers have concluded their sessions. The report of the committee o« defensive fund was received and adopted. The following scale of • prices for machine mining was adopted: Hocking valley, 70 cents; Indiana block, 85; Indiana bituminous, 75; Western Pennsylvania, 80; Braidwood, 111., 95; Streator, Ill.,”90; Springfield, 111., 62X; Peoria,’ Hl.; 741; Stratton and Modnt Olive, Va., 56X; Moundville, W. Va., 40; MonongaheU river, 80; Pomeroy, Ohio, 42X. Reynoldsville, 40. The following rates for day labor were also ratified: Entry price, per yard, >B2; drivers per day, at 80 cents, $2.25; trappers, $1; trimmers, $2.10; dumpers, $3.10. An effort will be made to have a meeting with the operators to agree upon the scale for May 1. The convention adjourned to meet in this city the second Tuesday in February, 1891. River Steamer Burned. ’ Owensboro (Ky.) dispatch: The river steamer De Soto, plying between Cincinnati and Memphis, was burned to tho water’s edge near No lives were lost. She was valued at $15,000, and insured for $10,000; Hurricanes in Germany. Berlin cable: Hurricanes continue in northwest and central Germany. Much damage has been done to the forests in those sections, a heavy snowstorm prevails in the Ersebirge mountains.