Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-21

CHINA takes most OF our cotton.
GERMANY has 10000 locomotives.
UNCLE SAM has 80, 600 millionaires.
AMAcHlNEweighs six cars a minute.
WESTERN roads viii have rate
war.
HOLLAND has 10000 union rail-.
readers.
RATrLEssAKE Oil is worth sl6 an
ounce.
EACH ocean steamer employs $50
men.
BALTIMORE Qreland) has a fishing
| school
TX Sweden locomotives use peat FOR
fuel.
INDIANAPOLIS is agitatlng a labor
temple.
omoAeo's milk trust charges scents
quart.
FLORIDA win ship 1900. 900 boyes
of oranges.
BERLIN peddlers distribute Socialist
doctrine.
INDIANAPOLIS hasn't one non-union
stonecutter.
CHICAGO wants rag pickers TO work
at night only.
LONDON carpenters have been out
seven months.
SAToRrA (Neb. girls win not dance
with non-union fellows.
SUPERIOR has turned out S., 600, 600
feet OF lumber this season.
Gov. KNAPP estimates the produc.
tion OF gold and silver in Alaska at
sl,000,00O.
THE New Bedford Mule Spinners
Association donated 400 to disabled
member.
UNION men are steadily gaining
recognition and increased wages Ia
New York.
IN the city OF Berlin, with a popu.
lation of 1915, coo, there are but 90
800 dwelling houses.
A NEW YORK clergyman has mar.
ried 1000 couples and received over
$50, 600 wedding fees.
OVER 500, 600 worth Of pearls were
found in mussels on the Sugar River,
Wisconsin, last season.
THE trade unions OF Paris have
contributed SO. 600 TO the stri q fund
OF the carpenters in London.
THIRTY per cent. of all the women
OF the United States are working for
a living, an increase OF 0 per cent.
over 1881.
THE coachmen Of Berlin wear dis
tinctive hat when conveying physl.
Clans. and are granted the right Of
way by city ordinance.
COAL mining requires an average
sacrifice of two lives per day. or each
$50 men working in the mines Que
must lose his life within a year.
CANADIANS are pouring into the
United States. On one train the
other day there were $50, who intend
30 live hereafter in the United States.
BosToN masons', builders and
bricklayers' unions will establish
evening schools for teaching regular
apprentices in the science of their
trades.
THE National Liberal Federation
Of England demands the nationalist
tion of the land and Government con.
troll Of the railways, water, light and
coal.
The Retail Clerks Union OF Dem
yer has decided to place agitation
matter on linen busters, and have its
membership take turns in wearing
them on the streets.
THE Quarrymen's National Union
this year has established the nine
hour day almost universally for 1000
members, and advanced wages ? TO 10
per cent. for ] 500 members.
THE first large quantity OF Ameri-
can sponges ever sent to European
markets was recently shipped from
Philadelphia. The lot comprised c.
600 pounds each Of two kinds Of
sponges from the Florida coast.
ACCORDING to census bulletin the
amount paid by the railroads Of the
Middle States, in interest, rent
ais and dividends aggregates 1912. :
3S7.0l6, which averaged equals $4,-
S02 per mile for each year. Allowing
! this to be 5 per cent, the roads as an
Investment, are worth 500, 052. go per
mile. Estimated in the same way
New England railroads are worth
| $53, 522 per mile.
SOME prominent New York officials
| receive very generous salaries. Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew, as President of the
New York Central railroad, has $751;
600; A. Stewart, Jr., President of the
United States Trust Company, $780,
600; Fl. B. Hyde of the Equitable In
surance Company has $50, 900; w. III.
Beers, President Of the New York
Life Insurance Company, $50, 900, and
F. p. Alcot, President OF the Central
Trust Company, has also $50, 900.
CHAMBERMAID Qately from the