Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-08-25
Labor Notes.

RusSia's railroads stretch 10000 miles
America has 10000 200 cotton spindles
Gotham's dwellings arc worth Sl,355,
| 900 900.
over $500, 200 acres of land are irri
gated by farmers in Colorado
Seventeen cotton mills are IN course oil
| construction in North Carolina.
American machinery makers propose
to open big show room in London.
| At steam shearing plant in Wyoming
recently 80 men sheared 3io0 sheep in one
day
r over 400 mining companies were -
eefrsed to mine gold in tls Rosslanc
| gion, D.sG.. last year. -
several snl.l 4 Noionl -aiffp7,c-p,e -.
tablished by Maju" 81 ncheIl Of the Saliva.
| tion Army on land in California donated
| by Claus Sprcckcls.
The force of car builders of all grades
| of labor at the Wisconsin Central -huI'> at
Stevens Point, Wis, will be increased by
| the addition of iOo men.
City Collector Martin of 9 hIoagp,
holds that department store i u, cutI-
tied To license for the sale of mcal. and
referred the matter to the Corpora, 'on
Counsel.
One of the best known loan agents in
the state is authority for the statement
that the people of South Dakota in the last
four years have paid of s5n,LUU,OUO of
their obligations
\ statistical fiend has figured that the
i.15O .0co ,u0o cigarettes manufactured dur
ing 1896 would reach lSU.I2l miles if they
were placed end to- end in line, or would
cirllc the earth more than seven times.
\ company haS been organized al Seat
tie, Wash. to develop the coal and oil
fields recently discovered in \ laSka $50
miles west Of juneau = o. feet of rip,. has
been ordered for the purpose from this
district.
Ground has been broken for a new shoe
factory for Nashville. The promoters Of
the plant are !. W. Carter and j. II. Full
ton, of the wholesale shoe firm of J. "
Carter & Co, who will do business under
the firm name of Carter, Fulton ~ Co.
The Wholesale butchers of Butte have
formed a trust to maintain prices and the
only firm not in the combine has brought
suit against il for $1,000 damages, claim
ing that the trust has prevented retailers
from buying meat from the plaintiil.
A proclamation has been issued by the
Governor of Texas calling Il convention
1T R"ckport, August % and 26, 1897, for
The purpose of considering the important
sub iect of opening Ia navigation the chain
Jf bays, lakes and bayous along the gulf
coast, from the Rio Grande to the Missis-
sippi and the mouths of the tributary riy-
.rs, and deyising ways and means for its
accom- mplishment.
The exports of yarn from England dur
ing the month of June were 1850, s0G
pounds, which is nearly three millions of
pounds less than in June of last year. In
the six months of 1895 there were sent
away 29,l32. 100 pounds; in 1896, l23, 800
200 pounds, and this year 1880. 5un
pounds. This shows a steady contraction
in exports during the three years, the de
crease being about per cent.
A change un the part of the Western
railroads in their mode of fixing rates ON
the ..lipment of live stock, for which
change the stock yards here and ut uthrr
important centres and the stoc kmcn Gf the
fians NJ isSouri country have been plead
ing for several years, is about &" bc made
There will bc AN abolition of the present
practice of charging the shi pment of live
stock at SO many dollars per carload and
I conversion 1" the more desirable Gus
tom of making rates at So many cents for
every 100 pounds of live stock shipped.
Shippers in Chicago are actually send
IN" freight from that city To this 10y way
| # Galveston, as matter of economy.
| That is to say they are having this freight
| hauled by rail greater distance than
/ from Chicago to New York, and carried
| by sea three times that distance, in order
| to reach this city When men still living
were born il would have taken the better
| part of "A yeas To haul freight from Chi
| -ago to Galveston, even if Indian aud
other depredators had permitted it to-
| pass. Moreover, there was no Chicago
then, where a princely city now stands,
and there was no Galveston.