Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-24
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
The News OF the Men Who Toll and
Labor.

At Hobbs, Brockunier & Co.'S everything
is running full.
There are only four moulders at work at
Bells foundry at present.
Some vely fine decorating work is being
done at the Pottery this week.
The Belmont blast furnace was doing bet
ter yesterday. Nearly IS tons were cast.
The cooper shop at the La Belle mill is
turning out on an average 800 kegs per day.
Wilson & Dunlevy's cooper shop was of
yesterday afternoon, as they were out OF
headings.
visiting Manager Raney, of the Belmont
blast furnace.
Work has been suspended in the pipe
mill in the Sligo Iron Works, Pittsburgh,
owing to a scarcity of orders.
Thomas Kenney, a moulder at Sweeney
& Sons foundry, is still of, unable to work,
by reason of recent injuries.
They are making two heats a day at
Sweeney & Sons foundry now, with an i'm
mense quantity of orders ahead.
The decorating kiln at the Pottery will
he finished this week, and is nearly one
fourth larger than the one now in use.
The Riverside blast furnace was closed
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one hundred men out of employment to-
day.
Two new engines will be placed in the
Union Iron Mills, Pittsburgh, and other
important improvements made after the
first of June.
Thu Pinch mill in Singer & Nimick's
mill, Pittsburgh, which has been idle for
about a month owing to a scarcity of orders.
resumed work yesterday.
Over a million feet OF lumber is being
received at Holidays planning mill this
week from Michigan. This planning mill is
doing an immense business.
A very large plumber block for the
Whitaker works, is being cast at Sweeney
4 Sons. 1. meaSurers q feet in length,
and will weigh over five tons. 1t will be
finished to-day.
The strike Of the Knights of Labor at the
Sligo Iron Work, at Pittsburgh, because of
the discharge of their committee. will
likely end in the suspension of work in the
entire mill to-day.
Furnace D, Of the Edgar Thomson Steel
Works, at Pittsburgh, which was started
up a few weeks ago, on Friday last made
tie largest twenty-four hour run on record.
The output was 245 tons.
Between 80 and 800 men are employed
on the railroad bridge at Point Pleasant,
W. Va. The contractors are pushing the
work rapidly. 1t will not be many weeks
till the familiar sound OF the whistle will be
heard on this side of the Kanawha.
The lease of the present occupants of the
Briggs wooden mill expires with this month
and it is a matter of some doubt whether
1t will be renewed. The public would be
pleased to read that some party of exper-
ipnce in the huSiDnSS apl aIa1,ota raDitol
would take hold of and run the establish
ment- In such hands it ought to be good
property and it has made Wells
burg Herald.
The status of the proposed new glass
works now is a matter of some inquiry at
the present writing; but we cannot under
take TO say much definitely about it, fur
ther than has been said. When the cues.
ton of location is finally settled, which we
presume will be in a very short time, If not
already decided, we will be pleased very
shortly after that, to mention the COM
mencement of the building WeIsJur5
Herald.
Although workingmen are generally sup
posed not to have large sums of money
about their premises burglars seem to
watch them as closely as those more afiu.
ent. During Saturday and Sunday 5000
was received at the miners general office
for the support of the strikers. At a very
early hour yesterday morning the persons
who had been left in the office to guard the
money were awakened by a noise in the
yard, and soon, as they assert, a masked
face was pressed against the window. The
intruders were given formal notice to leave
instantly, and lost no time in obeying the
command. The would-be burglars were
three in number.-Pitsburgh Commercial
Gazette.