The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-07
STRIKE CAUSES SUFFERING.
cOAL FAMINE Is TIfRE4TENED AND
 TRADE IS ICTU.iLLf STOPPED.

COAL FAMINE IS THREATESED AND
 TRADE IS ICTUiLLfST STOPPED. Factories Are Closing for Want of fuei- Tons of Perishable Freight is Rotting- More Than Half a Million Idle Because of Strikes.
 New York. July 6.-Bradstreets to- morrow will say:
 Aside from the intervention of holi- day there is sharp ref~;iction of gen- erai trade and industrial production due to the railway troubles. The com bined railroad strike and boycott has had a steadily increasing damaging in- niuence upon the general industrial situation. There is little doubt that the total number idle as n result of this railway tie-up far exceeds the outcome of any previous labor trouble in this country. The present disturbance Is affecting every portion of the country and if much prolonged n general shut down of industrial operations in all lines will be threatened. The number striking or idle through strikes and boy colt so far this year has already ex- reeded 100000. With the combined strike and boycott under headway in a little more than week one-third of the railroad mileage Is tied up. coal famine Is threatened, trade with coun- try merchants is in many instances hctually stopped, owing to inability to ship goods, factories are closing for want of fuel or because of sympa- thetic strikes and producers and re- ceivers of perishable produce are suffer- Ing serious financial losses, owing to checked shipments, or inability of Eoads to handle freight. From Cali fornia information is wired that thous- pnds of tons of fruit Is rotttng for want pf transportation. All cereals except wheat have shown a decided advance in prices; pork and lard are up sharply, as are fruits, vegetables, wheats and other perishable produce. Pig iron west is commanding twenty-five cents more per ton and cattle, hogs and sheep are noticeably higher even at far western markets, where receipts are restricted.
 The foregoing features are most con- spicuous at Chicago and San Fran cisco, but are having very unfavora- ble effect at Minneapolis, St. Paul. Milwaukee, Omaha, Kansas City, St.. Louis and Cleveland.
 General trade at New Orleans, Mobile Savannah, Nashville and Memphis has been unfavorably affected by the rail- way tie-up. Persons interested in shipping vegetables and fruit have al- ready suffered great loss. Charleston reports trade dull, Augusta as good for business, while at Birmingham the trade is very quiet in all lines. Favor able crop reports from Texas stimulate merchants to expect good fall At the large centers in the east there is trade.
 no material change beyond a specula- tive spurt in wool, which increased the volume of sales of the same at Boston to a total four times as large as that reported in the week a year ago. Six New England cities shipped 105,0O( eases of shoes last week, against 107,. poo in the week a year ago, while Bos- tons receipts of hides were 30l,000, o1 all varieties compared with 247,000 in the week year ago. One of the largest cotton manufacturing corpora. tions in Rhode Island has closed dowr for week, and other cotton mills con- tinue to pile up stocks.
 Aside from the increase to restriction of trade at Pittsburg, due to the rail way situation, there is revival in de mand for billets for future delivery a k19. Baltimore reports an unsatisfac tory trade. Reports from Philadel phia are that the volume and the re eults of business in nearly all lines art unsatisfactory. Trade is mo better a Buffalo. The United States and Canada carried over on July l fully 73,5O0,OO bushels of wheat against 75,5Oo,Oo bushels one year ago. The total here In Canada and in and af1oat for Europ' July l was 146, 1000 bushels compared with 152 30S000 bushels a year ago With Australian stocks included tn, world's available wheat supply July was 164, ,319,00O bushels against 7,2OS, 900 bushels year ago, when the tota was the largest on record for a likt Hate.
 Materially higher prices for wheat a pn early date would appear to depend pn the truth of the assertion that do tnestic invisible wheat supplies ar' practically exhausted, of which fac there is no certain evidence. Total ex pox.ts of wheat, United States and Can ada, both coasts, flour included, thi week, are 1,S50,000 bushels against 8, 677,OOO bushels in the week a yea ago.
 Business failures in the Unite' 1tates this week number only 16 against 319 in the week a year ago.
 There are thirty-nine failures report ed from the dominion against twenty six in the like week a year ago.
 A Sad Bereavement.
 The large circle of friends of MT. an Mrs. J. L. Nesbit deeply sympathiz with them in the loss of their little boy bright, winsome and very attractiv child who endeared himself to all an