Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-02
BUSINESS BREVITIES,

THE Niles Tool Works at Hamilton. o.,
will be sold to a syndicate for 100000, and
will be extended.
THE Allen firm operating the steamship
line has been reorganlzed at Montreal under
the title H. & A. Allen.
ID. I. HUFFBINEs. wholesale dealer in boots
and shoes, Hillsboro, Tex, has assigned.
Assets and liabilities unknown.
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, JR., is in Chicago
in connection with the Worlds Fair light
ing contract. He protests against the size
of the s., 600. 900 bond required.
KALAMAZOO (Mioh.) capitalists organized
yesterday evening stock company with
Sl25,000 capital to manufacture vehicle
wheels 1t will fight the Wheel Trust.
THE case at Boston of Jordan, Marsh & Co.
and CHI. Hovey, appealing from the decision
of Collector Beard in the matter of assess
ment of duty on certain articles Of wearing
apparel, has been decided against them.
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL SrANHAN has
asked the court at Harrisburg for an order
restraining the Order of Fraternal
Guardians at Philadelphia from making
the first disbursement or over 100000 by
order.
THE Edison General Electric Company and
the Thomson-Houston Electric Company
have ceased to exist under these titles.
Tuesday they became merged in the Gen
eral Electric Company, formed two months
ago in New York.
THE stockholders of the Edison Electric
Illuminating Company at New York yester-
day voted to authorize an increase in the
capital stock of $2.0O0,OOO to s6,5OO.O0O. The
new money is to be used for extensive bet
terments on the company's system.
ALL the 400 employees of the New England
Granite Works at Concord, n. H., went on
strike Tuesday night, the bill of prices
which was signed on May 81, 1884, having ex-
pired and the company refusing to rene W it
except on condition that 1t terminate with
the calendar year.
AFTER fighting the gas companies a year,
the city of Cleveland has gained valuable
The price has been fixed at so
cents 6% per cent of which goes into the
city treasury. This price extends back over
the time of contention, and the companies
pay the costs of litigation.
THE cotton movement during May, as
shown by Secretary Hesters monthly New
Orleans report, makes deficit of s,672 bales
as compared with May last year. Compared
with the April movement, there has been a
decrease of 6,l23 bales in the number of
bales marketed, while on the other hand last
May was ILL., o The The monthly t9sa ss sSa Of
against 1877, 535 bales last year.
A NOTICE has been posted in the Office of
the franklin sugar refinery of E. c. Knight
& Co., Philadelphia, recently absorbed by |
the Sugar Trust, announcing that no more
orders will be taken from purchasers of |
sugar, as the firm had oversold for all grades, |
and that the refinery was running night and |
lay TO fill what orders had been taken. This |
Is taken as a move on the part OF the trust |
10 facilitate the rise in sugar.
FERDINAND AND WILLIAM s. CHELsINeER, Of
yesterday purchased of William
Vanderbilt and M. A. Hanna the Chaplin
ron mine near Iron Mountain, Mich, and
The Menominee Transit Line, which includes
Xix steamers engaged in the ore trade be-
;ween Escanaba and Lake Erie ports. The
were forced to dispose of the
1napin mine and the other properties last
year because OF the stringency or the money