Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-07


time when there were no millionalres-
ana no tfamps no socialists. no anar.
rhists and no Ponullsts laughterl !
am. painfully aware that there nre many
at tiie latter laughtcrl. aud | hope they
,gin disappear somo time. But they viii
never disappear til the causes which
brought them ilto existence dlsaWeIn
The mower and reaper works of Au,t-
man. Miller & Co. at Akron. Ohio, start
Ell last week with force OF 500 men
The works Of the Akron iron company
In the hands Of receiver started today.
There are nov 5000 men unemployed IN
Akron and Graat distress exists
The president Of Switzerland, NJ Frey,
was once q farm iaborer In Onio and
Illinois, and trtmped through the West
ern states genfrully for his health. He
went home to die with consump ion. rs
he thought but recovered. and has been
elected presidelt Of the Swiss republic.
That 100000 Vanderbilt mansion in
New York woald comfortably house TO-
600 poor people--half the population Of
Kansas City--f cut up into 5000 homes.
Which is the better-one man living in
a 100000 house, or 10000 people liy-
ingn houses Of their own? Don't all
answer at once.-Chlcago Sentinel.
On Tuesday last the city authorities
of Buffalo began to furnish work for
the unemployed Of the city, and 1000
men were put to work breaking stone
al 10 cents per honr. the product to be
used for park roads, and also sold to
the paving companies. The fund started
last week for the aid OF tho poor has
reach $4,000, and is being added to
daily.
Alulhall estimates that the land in the
United States is worth Sl25OOOOOOOO;
the cattle Sj500,00OO00 the houses,
SD 2OOOO0,OOO; the furniture. etc, 81
2OO,OOOOOO: the railroads, $40 O9O,OOD,-
600 the shipping. $4,000 100000; the
total wealth per inhabitant St.O50 The
assessed ya.uation of the United States
is S0j,O00OJ0.OO0
The Burden iron company at Troy, n.
Y, called It's men, 1000 IN ndmUer, To-
gether, asked them to submit 10 q rcduc-
ton Of 10 per cent In wages, with the
assurance that when business improves
an increase Of 10 per cent will be made.
The men accepted the terms and the
mills are running. This is the first re-
dnrton in ten years at this mill.
The farmers Of tho South are on top,
the Manufacturers Record thinks. 1t
gets this idea from many bankers TO
whom 1t sent questions concerning their
condition. The Atlanta Constitution says:
THE farmers of the South are in
better condition financially than they
have been Ia years" We would like to
ask the farners themselves about their
condition.
Messrs pillsbury & Co. OF the Grcnt
Northwest milling combine have turned
tho wild cat loose by Issuing shin plaster
currency, the following Of which Is
sample; Sj,OO.-S500. Minneapolis $50.
on demand we promise to pay bearer
50, 90 for grain purchased This oblisa-
tiou is good when countersigncl by o.
OF the Swedish American bank. Mime
npolis, MINI. Minneapolis and Northern
Elevator Company by Charles A. PINS
bury, president They have been paying
this Kind Of money for 43 cont wheat
n Minnesota, the Dokotns, Iowa and
Nebraska. Gannt necessity has forced
them TO It at last. 1t is thought that
other great corporations VIII soon follow
sut