The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-03-06
WORLDS NEWS.


Tokyo has one horNe-car line.
America contains thirty tiag fac
tories
Cleveland. O. has thirty brass
foundries.
Porto Rico has 800 coffee pIanta.
items.
china exports 100000 fans an
nually.
Shreveport. La. Is TO have cot
tonmlli.
Partisan. cat 100000 pounds OF
snalla daily.
In South America a parrot costs
| rs cents.
London boasts 600 pound sewing
machine.
Cleveland. O.. has the largest car
bon works IN the world.
City OF Mexico's electric road will
be in operation In June.
: The Dallas WOODEN mills. Dallas.
ore. are TO run day and night
The RAmshorn WOODEN mill. Mill
bury. Mass. Is running night and
day.
W. o. Stamps. Greenviiie. Tex,
contemplate establishing a Knitting
mill Ter the production OF hosiery.
4 half million dollars worth Of
/ Aaiatle silk has come into the port
% Tacoma. Wash. within less than
q week.
A cotton and wooien-miii win prob
ably isa established at the Texas
state Penltentiary NJ the town Of
Rusk
A sfoa. coo cotton mill company In
b.ing organized at Ashland. Nd.
by the J. y. &. Talbot. Joshua Horn
er and Captain v. Herman.
An American syndicate has been
formed To- cxpend millions In provid.
lng modern electric street railroads
for Iapan's large cities.
Arthur sewail's ship Shenandoah.
the second largest wooden ship
afioat. has been chartered to load
lumbs- at Port Biakeiey and Port
Gamble, Wash. for Australia.
The area OF rubber producing ter
rltory In Brazil that II stiii I'M
touched amounts to So. 600 square
miles. or nearly third Of the area
Of the unusd States. exclusive Of
Alaska.
Representatives OF an Eastern cot
ton mill have been looking over the
ground az Beilextiie. Mo. relative TO
establishing a mill there whiehwould
cost 500. 900 and employ 1000 hands.
The principal tobacco factory At
Manila IL the Isabel. with n capital
OF SIS 900 600 employing 10000 hands.
and making u. ooo. 900 cigars. too.-
0oo. 900 cigarettes and 5000 600 pounds
Of cut tobacco a year.
The Fulton bag and cotton mills.
Atlanta. Ga. will add eco operatives
TO Its working force at once. The
present force numbers 500 hands.
/ The company will erect 100 cottages
10 accommodate its new employees.
The M.rrinac manufacturing com
many. OF Lowell. Mass. has signed n
contract for the erection. In Hunts
vile. Ala, Of a cotton mill with 200. :
s1o rpindles.
At birmingham. Ala. the railroads
have all the business they can
handle. The wages ~ railroad en-
ployea have been raised. and there
I is not a practical railroad man cap
able 81 ming any position from the
highest to the lowest. who has not
employment
New Zealand has twenty-five er-
Establishments for freezing meat for
European markets. and these handle
4 900 600 sheep n year.
Needless TO say says the London
Financial News. 'Hritain atili heads
the Ia, of rhipbuIlders- Agains, our
total output Of i.bss.i7s tons Of war
shlps and rnsrchandissmen. all for
elrn countries and British colonies
+ combined have only 70i.o9i tons TO
put 20 their credit"
During the next i've years the ties
for the Great Siberian railway are 10
he supplied from Hokkaido Province.
Japan. -Four million pieces In all are
TO he sent during that time. at the
rate of 500. 600 pieces n year. the
price being l yen each.
one OF the chief purposes of Mr..
| Odasaakra visit TO the Pacific coast
is TO engage boys from Is to 70
/ wears old 20 send TO japan to be
educated in Oriental business meth
DDS and 20 carry into japan Amert-
can ways.