The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-10-28
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
News From tho Mills, Workshops and

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Yesterday was pay day at the LaBelle mill.
Another sslf.ieeding machine has been pu,
in the Belmont factory. - q 5-t,s :, ,t'E''''
The work ofrelining The Top mill blast fur
mace has been completed. -.',a=i b ll5Ii
Yesterday. was pay day at the Dellalre mill
the second since the strike. N Z sf,T.I !
The Central Ola. works Is rushed with
orders aud making full time. >, Il, !.
The Tack Factory and Ewing l. Bills Ian.
tern factory are both running with full force.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com pany
has taken formal possession OF the Pittsburgh
4 Southern railroad. sjll., 1,D's7i =
The miners strike over the river takes
elect on Monday unless the advance Go.
manded Is conceded by mine owners. :,
Vim. Shields. u well.known I.aBelle mill
mar, hast two children very low with the scarlet
lever. They are not expected to live, D.
4 boiler droppeda hot ball In the BUSH at
the !Etnn mill The other day. and was badly
burnedby the explosion which followed. :.
The freight blockade at Pittsburgh during
the past week stopped the Union Glass
Works, at Martins Ferry, for day or two.
Redmon 4 Co.'s machine shops are busy
on nail mach mes md general work In their
iine: They have been making extra time
lately. ,, ! ~, n ~, -
The machine shops about town, which
complained Of dull business after tile mills
hrst resumed, now report plenty Of work OF
all kinds. Ig'E =. IS''-J7fa
Armstrong 4 Mckinley, at their Peninsula
brick yard, have kiln or twenty-five arches
n nj, Lac, IL. t.t.
This Is al extra large kiln. , -
Part Of the iron, such as the roof, lrusses,
ETC., to be used In the erection OF the l.al,elle
lnlll las already arrived, and work will be
commenced In about ten days. ,,l..
Beltz & Flading have all the work they can
10 ut their planins mill and sash ind door
factory In East Wheeling. They report
building quite brisk for this season of the
year. F'1--7f
The Reynlann Brewing Company have re.
modelled the old He's slaughter house In
Manchester into q commodious Ice house,
furnished with IN endless chain elevator to
raise Ice HON the creek. .go.2sa II,
Superintendent Watt has issued a notice
that any cmploye OF the Panhandle road
who freQuents saloon or gambling house,
either while on or oil duty, will be prompt.
ly dismissed from the service OF the com
pany.
Capt. George Whitescarver, OF Grafton,
who has been for many years connected with
the u. 4 o. road In tie construction depart.
ment, isnow In the employ Of John W. Gar.
rett, at baltimore, having charge OF his real
etate there. .7'raz7 r.
Mr.. Whitaker Is building n tram railway
from the coal bank recently purchased from
Henry X. List to the Crescent mill, which
employs a large force OF men. Coal run will
be bridged, and access thus secured to new
bed Of coal heretofore untouched. =}
The boilers In the new building al the gas
works have been set, and parties from TT,
Wayne, Ind. are putting on an iron roof.
When this building Is completed the old
purifying house will be torn down and addi
tional yard room, which Is much needed,
thus secured,
The Connellsville region Is running on full
time and there Is demand for the entire
product OF coke, but trade is somewhat ham,
percd by scarcity OF cars, Coke operators
complain also Of the excessive freight rates
Imposed upon them by the Pennsy lvania and
Baltimore md Ohio roads, md sigh for the
completion Of the new Vanderbilt road. :
Tom Rase, Unpopular ex.foreman of the
Eighth ward hose company, Is now EN-.
ployeed by D. W. C. Carroll & Co, OF Pitts.
burgh, the firm that has been engaged in put.
ting up the new Standard mill over the
river. ltisan iron structure, very complete
In all Its appointments 1t has span OF 209
Feet which is said to be next 10 the largest
in this country, ~
The Wheeling Hinge Company Is still at
work on lire shovels and pokers, though the
season Is slmostat hand for the commence.
ment OF work on their garden rakcs. They
make no hingcsnow, but handle full line
OF all styles and sizes. The contract under
which they now handle these e1pires A pril /,
and they may resume the manufacture then,
although there is no certainty abou! this rs
yet. =.
We see the English manufacturers have
put III successful operation u process By
which the waste gascssiven out In the manu-.
lacture OF coke arc utilized and made to yield
ammonia and other valuable commercial pro.
ducts. An invention for utilizing the mil.
lions OF cubic feet OF gas which duly go TO
waste IN tho Connellsyille region would make
millionaire OF the Observation-Disclosures
Muuyaetuer.
The St. ClairsYille narrow gauge railroad
has carried oyer l,0C0,0AO pounds Of wool
this seaGon. The glass factories, the lantern
iactories, the nail mill, the grist mills and
all other places OF business are booming
each one having all II can do The demand
for winsow glass is quite equal to the capacity
OF both our window factories-in fact, they
have orders coming in faster than they can
ill them. There Is more wheat bought and
ground in Bellairc an over before, more
than twice as much as three years ago.-Bell.