Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-01-20
STATE Of BUSINESS.
Bradstreets Report Says That Dis
tributive Trade Is Quiet
EXPERIMENTS ON DISEASED CATTLE.
Healthy Calves Can BE Raised In Spite Of
Tuberculosis Illinois Miners Want .
Wage Scale Adopted-Fined
for Using Butterine.
New YORK, Jan. 15.-Bradstreets
Commercial report saws:

Commercial report says:
Distributive trade remains rather quiet mild
weather throughout the country tending to
check distribution Of winter goods Prices
generally remain steady or tend upward. ex-
cept for some grades Of iron, and orders for
spring trade, where received, are encouraging.
Industrial activity Is most manifest at the
west where the demand for iron is very large.
feature OF the week was the placing Of an Or
der by one railroad for 100000 tons Of steel
rails with smaller orders, aggregating in the
neighborhood Of $1,000 tons more Pig iron
production Is now at an unprecedented rate,
furnace capacity being estimated at 100000
tons month At the south manufacturing &C.
tivity is feature sales Of iron being very
heavy. A good export demand for cotton and
grain at steady prices Is feature. At the east
number Of strikes against wage reductions
are reported, or expected in the cotton indus
try. Some wooden mills working on heavy
mems wear goods, are refusing orders, their
capacity being fully booked
Anthracite coal production is such that 1t is
expected that the trade will be restricted sum-
ciently to allow OF the advance Of 20 to 40 cents
per LOCO being maintained. The weather has
been disappointing at the northwest but an
improvement in the demand developed at some
quarters as the week advanced The rush to
Alaska has already begun on the Pacific coast
Freight charters are reported lower. Export
trade continues large gain Of eight per cent
on the total export Of breadstuffs cotton, min
eral oils, cattle and hogs and provisions being
shown, both for December and the calendar
year
As was expected, the failures are slightly de-
creased In number, amounting to 1928, against
1888 last week, 40 In the same week Of 1897, 4l2
In 1895. S7S in 1895 and 4O4 in 1904
EXPERIMENTS ON DISEASED CATTLE.
MADISON, Wis, Jan. 15.-For two
years past the state experiment sta
ton connected with the state univer.
sity has been experimenting with tu-
berculosis in cattle, operating on a
herd near Cedarburg. The expert.
ments were conducted for the purpose
Of ascertaining II 1t were possible to
raise healthy calves from cows having
tuberculosis They were entirely sue.
cessful, as during the two years a
healthy calf has been obtained in ev-
cry case. The calves were taken from
their mothers at once after birth and
fed pasteulized milk. Equally success
full have been the results obtained in
stopping the progress Of the disease
entirely by isolating the diseased ami
mails. Part Of the herd has now been
purchased by the university expert.
ment station, and it is proposed to
carry on the work under Prof. H. L.
Russell. These cows will not come in
contact with the cows on the univer-
sity dairy farm.
WANT A WAGE SCALE ADOPTED.
CHICAGO, Jan. l5.-Nearly 600 coal
miners and operators, representing
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pcnnsyl-
vania, will meet in joint convention in
Chicago on Monday for the purpose Of
bringing about, If possible, the adop-
ton of wage scale and working
agreement in order to prevent a gen
eral strike next summer The major
ity Of the miners agree that it will be
difficult to avoid repetition of the
troubles Of last year.
FINED FOR USING BuTTERINE.
MADISON, Wis, Jan. 10. y Four hotel
keepers of this city paid fines of $50
and costs each yesterday for serving
oleomargarine on their tables without
posting a notice telling what it was,
as required by law. All pleaded
guilty. Deputy Dairy and Food Com
sioner Chadwick played detective,
dined at each Of the hotels. and thus
secured samples of the articles used as
butter.