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Show TRADE AND TRAFFIC. The trado ot Chill Is almost entirely entire-ly In tho hands ot Kuropcans, Franco imported $300,000 worth ot ipples from Cannda last summer and tall. (' In 1901 Denmark sent to England over (5,000 tons ot butter, valued at f45.O0O.O0O. It Is thtimatcd that 1,000,000 tons ot steel rails for 190' delivery aro under negotiation, and that fully half that ttonnago has already been placed. It ts said that tho hides of American live cnttlo sent to England to be killed and eaten aro by prearrangemcnt all sent back across tho Atlantic, there to bo tanned, and, mayhap, rcshlpped to . Englanil as leather or In boots and shoes. Shipments of anthracite coal during May amounted to ;t,'.'5l,:i20 tons,ngalnst 6,005,168 tons In May last year. For tho year, to date, the shipments aggregate aggre-gate 11,70U,763 tons, contrasted with 24,872,1154 tons In the corresponding period last year. |