Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1886 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The completion of the Kansas City and Memphis Road has made the latter place the distributing point for the South in the line of coarse grain and provisions, and given the trade of Chicago a serious blow. There is a revival of shipbuilding interests in Eastern yards, no less than 1,800 men being employed in the Philadelphia yards on orders that will keep them busy for the next ten months.... At a meeting of the New York coal manufacturers it was decided to advance the,prices of coal. The citizens of Wheeling, West Virginia, assembled by thousands the other evening to witness the lighting of natural gas, from a pipe tuning into Pennsylvania. A marked change in the manufacturing line is certain to occur... .Two hundred persons are thrown out of employment by a strike of the puddlers employed at the East End and Lights & Kapps rolling mills at Lebanon, Pa. They were refused an advance of fifty cents per ton. Because of the refusal of seventy-five local assemblies of the Knights of Labor at New York to contribute toward the Home (Rub’s building fund, they were suspended by Master Workman Maguire. Many more assemblies will be suspended.