Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-08-09
Industrial.


$500 q ye-.. -
Area of w--Sa.-rsEssss.s.z17zs1-- al, 500
square miles.
Rochester marblecutters now enjoy
the eight-hour day.
1t is said that some of the sheep
farms in Australia are as large al the
whole of England
1t is estimated that about 100000
acres of land in the United States are
planted with vines.
The sprinkler filters of st. Louis won
a strike for eight hours and $3.50. Hell
pers are now paid $1.75.
Eastern capitalists are to establish
a structural steel plant at Menominee,
Mich, which will employ G000 hands.
No one in Switzerland is allowed to
import yellow PHOSPHORUS for matches
but only for scientific or medical uses.
While Canada's tax on Chinese i'm
migrants is to be increased, japanese
are to be permitted to come in free only
for imperial reasons.
There has been a considerable in
crease in the wages of iron moulders all
over the United States. In general,
the increase has reached 10 per cent.
Slate pencils are made in Tennessee
from slate dust and other ingredients
compressed by hydraulic means One
concern made 25, ,00O0 900 in n year.
Belgium exports 100000 dressed rab-
bits yearly to England. They weigh
from SIX TO elSnt pouilnS tpitce anu
the rabbit crop sells for s1,1Io.000 on
the average.
Cleveland meat cutters and packers
demanded an advance of % cents per
day. The advance conceded them, ac-
cording to the company, amounts to
about IT cents per day.
A committee Of iron moulders called
on Governor Mount, of Indiana. and
protested against the employment of
paroled prisoners from the Reforma-
tory in a foundry in Louisville.
Burlington. Ia. people have raised
$50, 900 of the s10O, 900 which they are
asked to subscribe in stock in order
to secure a new railway that will run
north from that city and penetrate
new territory.
In Baltimore considerable interest
has been aroused by the statement of
the City Register that when the Board
of Estimates fixes the tax rate for next
year he will vote to reduce 1t from the
present figure to s1.75.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween representatives of the Washing
ton breweries and their employees which
establishes a uniform work day of ten
hours in local breweries and raises
the scale of wages of all brewery work
ers from to 20 per cent.
A working miner in a coal pit in
| September, 1890, a master of arts of
London University in June. 1896 That
| is the remarkable record of Thomas
Reese, NJ. A, who has just been ap-
| pointed to a professorship at Brecon
| College, one of the leading theological
| institutions in the principality.
Worcester iron moulders recently pre-
sented a demand for a minimum wage
| of SO a dav and the abolition of
| piece work. and succeeded in obtain
| ing an agreement with five of the
| eleven foundries of Worcester, gaining
every point except the pay. which they
compromised on at s275 minimum
The Illinois Central is constructing
a freight car yard at New Orleans
which will have 2s miles of tracks and
will hold $500 cars. The yard is being
so arranged that cars can be distributed
from the receiving point to any other
| point by gravity. This will save an
| Immense expense for switching cars
| in.
It Is reported that the Oliver Iron
Mining Company has leased the Bessie
mine at Humboldt, Mich, and that II
will be started UP soon. 1t is also re-
ported that the Oliver Company is
negotiating for the old Humboldt mine.
| which was active for more than twenty
years and produced almost 100000 tons
of ore. It has been idle for some
| years.
The railroad coal mines In the Pitts
burg district are being operated to their
fullest capacity. Operatores in some
| a scarcity of cars and also a lack of
men. One of the largest operators
In the district said that from present
indications the tonnage of the North
west shipped over the lake this sea-
son will reach 5000 900 tons. The ship
ments last season amounted to about
t.500, 900.