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TRADE, INDUSTRY, LABOR The Anvil mine, at Bessemer, Mich., operated by the Schlessinger syndicate, shut down yesterday, letting out 250 men. Schreiber Brothers, wholesale clothiers, at Chicago yesterday went into the hands of a receiver. Liabilities were $47,000 and assets $35,475. In the case of the North American Trust Company, New York, against the Eastern Tube Company, of Zanesville, O., appraisement was fixed yesterday, at $160,000 and day of sale, Feb. 10, 1904. Several months ago the company went into the hands of receivers, and the sale is the outcome. An involuntary petition asking that the George Taylor Commission Company be declared bankrupt was filed by creditors in the United States District Court at St. Louis yesterday. Last Monday the company made a general assignment to George M. Block for the benefit of the creditors. The Sharon. Pa., plant of the American Foundries Company, which has been closed for the past two weeks pending a settlement of a wage scale for the molders, has resumed operations, an agreement satisfactory to both sides having been reached. It is understood that the men accepted a cut of 10 per cent. effective from Dec. 1. On account of the peaceful condition of affairs in the Carbon county coal district of Utah two companies of militia were yesterday relieved of further active duty and ordered home. All the mines in that district are being operated by nonunion men, and unless trouble should arise it is believed the remaining troops will be withdrawn in the near future. The Union Trust Company, of Baltimore, which went into the hands of a receiver on Oct. 19, opened its doors yesterday and resumed business, Receiver White, jr., having been discharged by order of the court at the request of all interested parties. The managers announce that the company is in a position to promptly meet its obligations and pay all depositors. An important industry is tied up and 250 men are idle because a union engineer, Joseph Freeman, employed at the South Chicago plant of the International Salt Company, was told that his wages would be cut on Saturday. With a cry of "unjust discrimination," he succeeded in getting a strike called that threatens to spread to the other plants on the great lakes. The company has arranged to employ nonunion men. The San Francisco Call says: "The organization which for two years past has controlled the export lumber trade of the entire Pacific coast, has gone to pieces, after conference in the city of representatives of the leading millmen of California, Oregon and Washington. The disruption is attributed to a refusal of the California representatives to sign the yearly agreement unless certain modifications were made. The disruption will mean a loss of fully $1,000,000 a year to the producers along the coast, as present prices cannot be maintained. A strike of union boxmakers which began at the big factory of Atwood Bros., at Whitman, Mass., yesterday, is said to be the first step in a movement for higher wages and union recognition in this branch of the business in southeastern New England. This plant is the largest of its kind in that section, and it is understood that this will be the battleground for the present. Out of 139 men only forty-two showed up for work yesterday. Seven other shops are interested in the outcome of the contest here and the manufacturers have agreed to support Mr. Atwood.