Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The citizens of Wheeling, Wert Virginia, assembled by thousands the other evening to witness the lighting of natural gas, from a pipe runing into Pennsylvania. A marked change in the manufacturing line is certain to occur... .Two hundred persons are thrown out of employment bym. strike of the puddlers employed at the East End and Lights A Kapps rolling mills at Lebanon, Pa. They were refused an advance of fifty cents per ton. The building strike at Detroit is over. The stonecutters and bricklayers have resumed work. The Labor Congress in session at Toronto protested against the Government placing the results of convict labor on the market The miners in the Oakhill pits, near Brazil, Ind., went on a strike. The trouble grew out of some alleged lightweight scales, and 150 men left their picks and shovels... .There was 183 failures in the United States last week, against 153 the previous week, 148 in 1885, 305 in 1884, 177 in 1883, and 139 in 1882. The total failures in the United States this year are 7,187, against 8,193 in a like period in 1885.