Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — LABOR AND INDUSTRIES. [ARTICLE]

LABOR AND INDUSTRIES.

New York will not let Italians sweep the streets. Sheet-iron lath are being very largely used in building. Rolling-mills are being built entirely out of steel in some places. Italy exported last year $24,000,000 worth of products to the United States. Russia has just borrowed another $100,000,000 for the extension of railways. Kansas farmers planted 2,000,000 acres more of wheat last fall than year before. —ZZ The Pullman company employ one thousand men in their large plant at St. Louis. A big Pottstown rolling-mill is to be removed to Salem, Va. It will employ seven hundred men. Compressed air is being much more generally used in Europe for power than in the United States. English naval engineers admit that Americans are building faster and better ships than they. In San Francisco last week one thousand shoemakers struck'because a-patent lasting machine was introduced. Iron-mill owners and coal producers in Pennsylvania and Ohio profess to regard the coping strike with indifference. Edison can drive a hole through hard rock with electricity at the rate of two and a half inches per minute one and a half inches in diameter. Crops look exceedingly well. The indications point to a yield of 118,000.000 bushels of wheat more than for last year, and wheat is worth 20 cents per bushel more than last year. There are 1,418 different ways o! coupling cars, and 328 different kinds of padlocks. There are 1,160 patents for grain-bipders. There are patents out for 651 different ways of digging potatoes, and 307 different kinds ol hoes. A new way of heating railway cars has Heat.i& stored.-in an earthenware tube, which is enclosed in an iron pipe. Steam from the locomotive forces the heat. The cars can be kept comfortably warm this way for five hours L