Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
BUSINESS BREvITIEs.

IoE in the upper Michigan straits is break
ing up.
The Reading Iron Company will reduce
wages next month 5 or 10 per cent.
RAIN has ruined millions of bushels Of un.
threshed wheat fr the Red River Valley.
THE Montreal Board of Trade has petit
toned the Dominion Governments to reim-
pose the export duty on sawlogs.
PARpRIpeE, the big Chicago grain operator,
boasts of having made s., 100000 in short side
wheat deals.
ENGLISH capitalists have 60. day option
on the Memphis Cotton Compress. Purchase
price 81, ,50Q, 900.
BorH Houses of The Mississippi Legislature
have passed memorial to Congress for the
Improvement of rne Mississippi river.
THE Treasury Department. has decided
that Canadians must not be employed as
seamen on vessel, flying the United States
flag.
PHILADELPHIA sugar brokers believe the
purchase of the refneries there by the Sugar
Trust will not be efollowed by the closing of
any of them.
A RUMoR circulated in Bethlehem, Pa,
yesterday where 4 was officially denied, that
the Carnegies were about to purchase the
iron works there.
INSOLVENCY proceedings agains Everett &
Frost, the leading zinc merchants of st.
Louis and Chicago, were discontinued yes
terday in the latter city.
THE Duluth Imperial Mill Company is this
week making a second annual apportion-
ment OF profits to employees About 5000
will be distributed among 150 men.
Two HUNDRED acres of coal lands fronting
the Monongahels river at Millersvtlle, be-
longing to Leckey Wall, have been bought
by Robert Jenkins, the coal operator.
BUTCH Bros. & LIoHrENwALER, Allentown
iron ore miners and joint manufacturers,
failed yesterday on an execution for 1000.
Due to the Lehish Iron Company embarrass-
mont
- The United States Rubber Company. with
a capital of $50, ,oOO, 900, has been incorporated
in Middlesex county, N. j. 1t is trust in
Guiding every important factory in the
country except one.
THE plant of the Anchor Manufacturing
Company, which failed last fall at Detroit,
was sold yesterday by order of the Circuit
Court for about $4,000 by trustees for the
first mortgage holders.
THE assignee of the Wisconsin Lumber
and Manufacturing Company, at La Crosse,
Wis. has filed his schedules; assets, $74, 900,
which is $40, 900 less than cost, and every
thing is comparatively new.
GOVERNOR MERRIAM, of Minnesota, has
purchased the Richelieu Hotel property at
Chicago, for $4,000 H. v. Bemis will con-
tinue as tenant for 20 years at q rental of
per cent on the selling price.
SToCKMEN west of the Missouri river are
making active preparations for the spring
roundup. All report stock in fine condition,
losses through the winter so small as not to
be worth mentioning. 1t is believed ship
ments this season will be the heaviest ever
made from the stock ranges of Western
South Dakota.
A QUO wARRANTo was filed in Chicago yes
terday by Charles F. Palmer against the
National Unicycle Elevated Railway Con-
struction Company, charging that E. NJ.
Turner, of st. Louis, and his associates,
issued the stock of the company to them
selves without having obtained any bona
fde subscriptions.
ADvIoEs from Candelaria, New, state that
the Miners Union in that camp has dis
banded, and that the men formerly EN-.
ployed in Holmes, Mt. Diablo and other
mines have prepared petition to the mine
owners to be allowed to go to work for s.
per day against $3 80, which was exacted
after the Miners Union was organized.
The maple sugar crop in Vermont is about
ten days later than last year, and little sugar
has yet been made. At the Government
laboratory only "a samples have been re.
cetved so far. The fact that 80 of the SO sam
Piles of sugar received polarized over so de-
grees, and are entitled to the bounty, seems
to warrant the belief that the great bulk of
the sugar crop of 1892 will be entitled to the
bounty of ~ cents per pound.