Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-08-18
Labor Notes.

Women working in many German fac
tories are forbidden TO wear corscts dur
ing working hours.
An order has been placed by a firm of
London merchants for the entire butter
product of the Iowa Agricultural College
amounting to 500 pounds daily.
rhc Australian Legislature has sane
TONED the building of an aqactluct which
will cost Si2,590,Uj0 and will supply tho
Cool. ar lie gold mines with 5000, 900 gal
Ions of water daily.
Spain, among her desperate resorts to
procure money for the war in Cuba, has
established monopoly for the sale and
manufacture of Gunpowdcr. In the call
FOR bids it is announced that none
under $600,000 q year will be cOnsid-
cred.
The Beaufort Is. C.)Knitting Mills Com
pany, anticipating difficulty in procur-
ing suitable white help, when 1t began op-
eraiions several weeks ago, followed the
example of the Cha rleston Cotton Mill,
and have filed its factory with negro
operatives, chiefly women and girls, with
white foremcn and experts.
summer school for employees of ma
chine shops, and others working on cotton
machine, temporarily out of work, has
been opened under the direction Of In
structor Hedrick, of the Lowell lMass.)
Textile School, assisted by Machinist Nc
Dermott. There are 50 pupils attending.
The term will continue two months.
In few commodities has the increase
in production been so great during :s:S
past decade and half as in copper. \
feature of this enormous increase is that
nearly all of it has come from American
mines. The constantly growing demand
for this metal and the development of
electricity has given tremendous stlmu-
lus to copper mining, and the richest
mines have been found right here in
America, says the Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
Havoc is being made of the best cedar
swamps in the country to supply the in
crcasing demand of the long distance
electric transmission plants and the pow
er and lighting lines, for poles. One
firm handled 15G, ,o00 poles last year, and
has been making large consignmcntS to
Buenos Ayres, South America and Cana
da, we'll as shipments to Texas, Utah
and Colorado. The poles are RATED from
the forest lakes in lots of 10000, and
lifted from the water by steam elevators
They are then sorted and placed in sep
arate piles. Those which are not of high
standard are used for fence posts, shin
giles, railroad ties and paving blocks.
The efforts of London syndicate To
limit the production of iodine in Japan
have not met with the success desired, and
the announcement of new French pro
cess for extracting iodine from SeawecdS
promises to further reduce the influence
of the manipulators in the market for
iodine and the resultant products unless
they gain cantrcl Of it. 1t looks as though
Japan would soon become a large eX-
porter of iodines as well as other chemi-
Gals. The effect Of the new process on
prices remains to he seen, hut the very
loM producing cost in Japan can hardly
be overcome, it is believed, by the
Frenchman'S invention or other proba-
BILE Developments of the near future
Following close upon the visit North ot
the Southern Yarn Spinners' Association,
to confer wit the commission merchant
here with n Wow To the adoption OI new