. Review of reviews and world's work. tire nation. Relief agencieseverywhere set to work promptly to forwardfood, clothing, and money to tlie impoverishedsurvivors. Great corporations like the SouthernPacific Railroad made haste to restore their Gal-veston facilities, and ingenious engineers broughtforward suggestions for protection of the cityagainst future inundations. These suggestionsembraced such improvements as additional break-waters, jetties, dikes, and the filling in of a por-tion of the bay, between Galveston and themainland, Tlie United States Government inrecent years has spent $8,
. Review of reviews and world's work. tire nation. Relief agencieseverywhere set to work promptly to forwardfood, clothing, and money to tlie impoverishedsurvivors. Great corporations like the SouthernPacific Railroad made haste to restore their Gal-veston facilities, and ingenious engineers broughtforward suggestions for protection of the cityagainst future inundations. These suggestionsembraced such improvements as additional break-waters, jetties, dikes, and the filling in of a por-tion of the bay, between Galveston and themainland, Tlie United States Government inrecent years has spent $8,000,000 or |10,000,000in engineering works to deepen the approach toGalveston harbor. The cliannel, which was for-merly only 20 or 21 feet deep across the bar,is now 27 feet deep, and the action of windand tide between the jetties cuts the passagea little deeper every year. Tlie foreign trade ofGalveston, particularly in cotton, has been growing by leaps and bounds. It will assurevily notbe allowed to languish or come to a standstilL. ^v_ A CRY FKOM THE SOUTHLAND, From the Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer. j^^ There are about 140,000 men em-Coai-Miners ployed in the anthracite coal-minesof Pennsylvania. For a number ofweeks their dissatisfaction with tlieir lot hadtaken the form of a serious proposal to join in ageneral strike. The order was at length givenby the National Executive Board of the UnitedMine Workers of America, and it took effect on Monday, September 17. A week later it wasreported that fully 125,000 out of the 140,000men had left the mines. Their grievances in-cluded the long-standing objection to being com-pelled to buy their supplies at the coal companiesstores, where, as they claim, they are obliged topay double the market price for some very
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