Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The great rolling-mill at Wheatland, Pa., is being repaired by Pittsburgh capitalists, ami will be converted into an extensive ,pij>e iron mill, employing hundreds of men. The Knights of Lalxyr and tha Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers are in conflict at Mingo, Ohio, regarding a strike in the Junction Iron Works. The leaders, of the Knights have ordered their men back, while the association will not permit its members to return until their demands are conceded. A conflict between bpih orders is imminent... .The Meier Iron Works, erected opposite South St. Louis at a cost of sl,soo,'(!()<>, are about to bo started up, after having been idle for several years. ThE meat company organized by the Marquis de Mores proposes to shut Chicago dressed beef out of New Y’ork by making every retail butcher a stockholder. Should this scheme fail, the monopoly threatens to open several hundred shops on its own account.