Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1888 — TRADE AND LABOR. [ARTICLE]

TRADE AND LABOR.

Philadelphia Record. A $2,000,000 iron and coal company has just been organized at Tinneville, Ky., the center of a rich mineral district. Electric railroads have been laid in thirteen cities. One of them, at Montgomery, Ala., covering eleven miles, carried 1,000.000 people last year. The crematory for the consumption of garbage at Chicago has been completed. It is the intention to erect similar buildings in each district of the city. _ Work on the main building of the Southern agricultural works, at Atlanta. Ga., has been carried oh night and day, electric lights having been introduced. It ia said 1 hat the strike of the employes of tbe Boston A Sandwich Glass Companv, at Sandwich, Mass., is killing local trade and practically ruining the town. Thq Richmond (Va.) State says: “Southern merchants are placing heavy orders in Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore in anticipation of a vigorous spring trade.” W. H. Tift, of Tifton, Ga., has purchased 19,000 acres of yellow pine timber lands for $19,000, making his present possessions of timber land in Georgia 100,000 acres. The Wheeling, W. Va,, Chamber of Commerce has issued a call for a meeting of business men on Feb. 28 to devise means of attracting immigration and manufactories to that city and the State in general. At Birmingham, Ala , the real estate craze has ended, and many speculators have been mulcted. Nevertheless enterprises are busy and new ones talked of. Additional mineral lands are being discovered throughout the State. A list of the names of thirty-five saloon-keepers who sell boycotted Milwaukee beer in New York has been furnished by the Journeymen Brewers’ Union to the Central Labor Union, and the secretary of the union will send copies of it to all the labor organizations. A large number of union cigar makers of New York have formed the Internal Bivenue Abolition League, through which to agitate the removal of the tax on cigars. President Strasser, of the International cigar makers’ Union, says they must not take part in any such agitation A convention of textile workers will be held in Philadelphia on Feb. 17, and the carpenters and joiners will hold their convention in Cleveland on March 6. Each local assembly of these different crafts will be entitled to one delegate for 100 members or majority fraclion thereof. - Superintendent Bierman, of the Troy (N. Y.) water department, has written a letter in which he disapproves ot the plumbing done by the department for the general public, in that it is not only not properly within the scope of the department, but competes with the in-

dividual plumber besides. The Pittsburg German Trades Assembly proposes a novel way of enforcing the boycott on Milwaukee beer. It will secure the names of all saloon keepers who continue to sell the boycotted beer, and when the May license c sees shall come up the assembly will protest against each of the saloon keepers being granted a new license. Russia is awakening to the importance of improving her milling industry. The Minister of the Agriculture has called for a meeting in February of a congress of millers, agriculturists and all others interested in grain and flour. The object of this meeting is to discuss the present condition and future prospects of milling in Russia. The proposed repeal of the law imposing a revenue tax on cigars arid manif-“ factored tobacco continues to agitate the cigar makers of New York, who are divided on the subject. Those who are in favor of the abolition of the tax will have a mass meeting on Feb. 14, in Everett Hall, where prominent speakers will deliver addresses. Says the Savannah News: “Gen. George T. Frye thinks there is no doubt that the Atlantic, Atlanta A Great Western railroad, of which he is president, will be built. He says work on it will be begun in April next, and that the entire line will be completed by July 1890. The shops of the company will be located at Savannah or Atlanta, according to the inducements offered. Ths Sloss Iron and Steel Company own all the land and buildings in and around Coalburg, Ala., to the amount of 13,000 acres, and a large number of houses. The little village is regularly laid out in streets and is furnished with hydrant water, which is supplied by the waterworks at the mines. There are over 12* frame dwelling-houses, which the company rent at from $1 to $1.50 a room per month. These dwellings are well built, containing from two to six rooms; According to the Kansas City Star: “A new. society, called the WHeel, is being organ: z?d among the farmers in southwest Missouri. The wheel is an organization which claims as its intentions the uniting of farmers and the breaking down of monopolies. They do this by, as they claim, compelling merchants to sell to all members of the Wheel at 10 per cent, above cost price, and in case the merchant refuses their proposition they will put up a stere of their own and furnish the members all