The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-04-18
GENERAL NEWS
Of INDUSTRIES

The Pennsylvania Railroad company
made return in the United States CIR
cult court at Philad, lphia Monday to
tbs writ of alternative nandamus in
tho proceedings brought BY X. B..
Wigton Il Sons, in which the company
was charged wsth discrimination IN
carrying rates for bituminous coal
The railroad company contends that
the court has not jurisdiction, as the
state courts of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey should determine the dispute.
Ii denies that the plaintiffs have been
charged more than other shippers, or
that by means of device Of rebates,
drawbacks or allowance such result is
attained.
Reports from twenty of the leading
industrial plants in the vicinity of
Wheeling, w. Va, show that fully So
per cent. of the men employed BY them
at this time last year are now employed.
The percentage of men employed would
be very much higher. were it not for
the glass and pottery strikes affecting
four concerns. -Four concerns of the
Wheeling Steel and Iron company have
resumed within the past ten days, em.
ploying over /. 600 men.
1t is announced that the Lshigh Val
ley Coal company will store in the
vicinity of Boston 500, 900 tons of an
thracite coal, to be shipped from Perth
Amboy as speedily as possible. The
coal will be shipped in bee-line barges.
A feet of thirty of the barges have
been tied up at Perth Am6oy, out Of
commission for four months.
Holland" says. apropos of lie
Grand B. Cannon's departure for Eu.
rope that it may be get down as assured
that the proposed So, 900. 900 Issue Of
new Delaware and Hudson stock will
be issued at par in exchange for the
bonds dollar for dollar. The opinion
grows that before many months Il prop
osition will have been made to the
stockholders to lease the Delaware and
Hudson system, for 80 long 4 term of
years MS practically to be perpetual, TO
the New York Central upon an 8 per
cent. basis. thus again illustrating the
inevitable tendency of that corporation
TO control every interest whose associa-
tion would provide protection through
sympathetic management.
MINOR News OF INDUSTRIES:
Receiver Paxson and Superintendent
Sweigard are making a tour Of inspection
OF the Reading railroad.
A deal has been effected between the
assienees of Robert H.. Coleman and Jacob
NJ. Shenk and Thomas Evans, Of Lebanon,
oy which the anthracite furnaces at Corn
vail will De Leased to them. Extensive
repairs axe Cow IN progress aud the capac-
ity Of the furnaces will De doubled tc il-
sure on output OF 100 tons Of iron a day.
Mr. Coleman will manage the works.
About | 500 miners in the Lehigh region
will return TO work on May /, after an
iGleness of ten weeks. The WORK of strip
ping will be begun o. J. W. Crelin & Co,
Dick Z Ment1 and Coyle Bros.
The new bridge across the LacEaTaula
river at Duryea, Just opposite the Will
lam A. colliery, is finished and the APP
proaches are now being filed ia. Tue
structure will be ready for Use 10 a few
days, and will be a great convenience for
the Connell Coal company and its EN-
ployes.
Reading trains composing the Reading
Dispatch will hereafter be run via the
main line to Williansport, thence over thu
Willlamsport and North Branch TO a poinI
near Bernice, from which point to Buffalo
and Suspension BrIdg- it will use the
tracks of the Lehign Valley. This will
give the Beading a haul of 20S miles oyel
Its own lines, whereas under the old route
the distance over its own route, Philadel-
phia to Bethlehem, was only IS miles.
The freight business Of the Schuylkil
Valley division Of the Pennsylvania road
shows signs Of improvement. The night
shlfter at Norristown has again beer
placed in service.
PREVENTION Is better than cure, and you
may prevent that tired feeling by taking
Hoods S%arsaparilla, which will Keep your
blood pure and free from acid faint ant
germs OF disease.
HOOPS PILLS do not purge, pain OIL
grippe, but act promptly, easily anC
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