ross Ovn Ows Comearoxeer Huchow, Oct. 5.
That coal is being mined on the White Bird Mountains, less than two miles northwest of the city is a fact hat has lately come to light. It appears that within the last two or three months traces were discovered there, and a company was formed to ook into the possibilities of the situation. Work was begun, and it is now Yeported that one or two tons of coal are being taken out of the ground daily.
One of the large silk factories of the city has closed permanently. The reason given is that the proprietor was losing money. The workers, numbering over 600, protested, and appealed to the mayor, declaring that ifthe factory should not continue they' would soon have nothing to buy food with. Despite pleas and protestations the factory was closed. In a final settlement the workers were partially satisfied with a rather large bonus, amounting in the case of the mien weavers to $33 a man, these times the loss of a job or a reduction of wages is a serian: matter, A clerk in a large shop who had received a salary only sufficient barely to support his family of six, suddenly found himself on half pay. He hung himself.
A troupe of Russian dancers have keen giving entertainments in the city for several weeks. Probably this the first time in Huchow that foreigners have been seen in thie capacity. The attendance was not good. and the sponsor for the show {ip said to have lost money, but the troupe received the compensation agreed upon,
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