Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-08
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


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The building trade has the greatest
number Of strikes. The coal and coke
Industry comes next.
New York has the greatest number
OF wage-earners of any State in the
Union. Pennsylvania is second,
The public lands vacant and subject
to settlement in the United States on
the LIST of last July amounted to ia
$4,000 acres.
Women as stenographers have been
greatly increased in number in New
York City during the last year and
there are now about 200 of them.
Auction sales of thoroughbred cattle
and swine are not uncommon in the
West, but an auction sale Of thorough
bred corn, wheat and oats will be a
novelty to many of the visitors at the
national corn exposition at Omaha. At
ter the show is over prize corn and
other grain and grass seeds will be Of
fcred for sale TO the highest bidder.
The prices for corn. it is expected, will
range from 81 an ear up to $3.50 to
$500 for ten-ear samples.
Recently electrically welded chain
has been made commercially by auto
matically cutting the blanks from a
bar so as to form socket in one end
and corresponding taper on the other
end Of the link blank. This is then
bent and joined on one side and these
joints welded. This obviates the usual
amount of upset in such cases. The
laps, or area of contact, are much larg-
er than in the squarely cut ends, and
a Incorporating and good weld is made.
The authorized capital of Japanese
electric undertakings in 1908, $l4, 1884,
600, rose to SOS, 900 in 1907. The
electrical works undertaken chiefly rep
resented lighting and railways, The
humber of lights supplied in 1908, $685.
600, increased in 1907 to $50, las, Toxic
and Osaka require each TUOUU0 lights,
Electric railways show equal develop
mcnt In 1903 the mileage was thirty
eight, which rose to 1l9 in 1907, and
will be largely added to by construction
during the present year.
According to Il table published in the
current number of the Federation Re
view, 6y225 immigrant Jews entered the
port of New York in September, 1908.
OF these, 2,433 were women, 1901 men
and 1,79l children. Russia contrib
uted 4,607; Austria-IIungary, I,234 ;
Roumania. 273; England, &C. Germany,
%; Turkey, 10; Sweden and Spain,
each, and Holland 8. The record also
shows that 1866 Of the immigrants
went to homes outside of the metrOpo-
lis. In the corresponding month last
year the number of Jewish immigrants
was 3,033 greater
The State of Washington recently
celebrated the nineteenth anniversary
of its admission to the Union. In an
address the president Of the State His
torica' Society brought out the fact
that the great Northwest has never
been under the domination OF any for
eigu power Said he: "All other por-
tons Of the United States have at one
time or other been ruled by one Of the
European countries. You. as children
OF the great State Of Washington, may
be proud Of the fact that you live In
the only place in the United States that
has always been American territory,
ana over which no other flag save the
Stars and Stripes has ever 1oated."
The revolutionary party In Persia is
circulating on postcards and in larger
form a picture descriptive of Persian
justice" which shows three bandits
Ranging by rnelr feet from the city gate
OF Tauris. The men, almost naked, are
shown suspended from an opening in
the wall, the ropes binding their feet
being fastened to a pillar, next to
which a military guard stands at "at-
tention." For hours" runs the legend
under the picture, these wretehes, the
robber Ago and his companions, hung,
In their badly wounded condition, be-
fore death relieved their agony. Thou
sands Of people Of all ages and classes
looked mournfully upon these victims
of Persian Justice"
Two veteran journalists of Chicago
dined together last Thanksgiving, as
they have done for number Of
Thanksgiving, and recalled their edi-
torial experiences back in the sixties.
This year the reunion was Of special
interest because occurring upon the sew
enty-fifth anniversary Of the initial is
sue of the first newspaper in what was
then known as the Northwest" This, -
SAYS the Boston Transcript, was the
Chicago Democrat, started on Nov. %,
1883, and both had served in connec.
ton with It in its later history II
vas at one time owned and conducted
ty John Wentworth, but in 1851 was
merged with the Chicago Tribune. No
opies are now supposed to exist, as all
the files were destroyed in the big Ere -
The exhibit on the ground floor OF