Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-18
IEDUsrnAAL NOTES
the News Of ths nea who Ton and
Labor.

me News or the Men who Ton and
Labor.
The Rtna mill started up yesterday.
Pay day at the Riverside mill Saturday.
Pay day at the Belmont Mill next Satur-
day.
Next Wednesday is pay day at the Bel
mont blast furnace.
The nail feeders at the Riverside and
Belmont factories were on in full force.
yesterday.
The Times, the colored organ of this city,
urges the colored workingmen to join the
knights of Labor.
The Belmont blast furnace made the
largest turn out Tuesday that has ever
been made there, it being ~ tons of iron in
"a hours.
Hobbs, Brockunier & Co. Sre having six
new elevators made for theiI glass works,
one of which will be used in the new
mould shop.
A picked nine of the South Wheeling
glass house boys will play picked nine OF
Wellsburg boys a match game of base ball
in Wellsburg on Saturday week.
John Jenkins, the railroad engineer at
the Riverside mill who has been slightly
unwell for few days, was on duty yester-
day, and says he is perfectly cured.
The digging of the foundation for the
new addition to the Schmulbach Brewery
was commenced again, yesterday, and it is
expected to have it finished by Saturday
next.
The new gas furnace at the Laugklin
mill is doing famously. Yesterday turn
out of over 1000 pounds of iron was made
with a consumption of only twelve bush
els of coal.
The stone masons finished the founda-
ton for the west side of the wareroom at
the South Wheeling Glass house Tuesday
evening and the carpenters went to work
on their part of the job yesterday.
At Ashland, everything in the various
industrial departments is moving along
smoothly. The rolling mill, both blast
furnaces, as we'll as the coal mines out at
Coalition and Geigerville, have been busy all
week The Monitor charcoal furnace, OPP
posite this place, was blown in again last
week, by Mr.. John Peters, and a steady
blast is promised.
Our advice to the coIored workingmen is
to ioin the knights of Labor, cultivate
feeling of sociability and brotherhood with
all its membership, heed its teachings,
stand firmly by its principles, and one inn
portant barrier to the progress Of the color
ed race toward equal rights and full privi-
leges with the white citizen will have been
removed forever.--Y Yesterdays Times.
The Frostburg, Md, Mining Journal OF
Saturday, speaking OF the prolonged strike
in the Georges Creek regions, says: Not
ripple has passed over the surface of affairs
since our last report. A meeting was held
here last Saturday of representative miners
but not word OF what transpired can be
reliably stated. Various rumors concern
ing the action have been current, but all
are doubtless mere conjecture.
A certificate of incorporation was, yes
terday, issued to the Wellsburg Gas Com
pany, a corporation formed for the pur-
pose of boring for or otherwise obtain
ing gas, erecting any works necessary
thereto, and for selling and distributing it.
Wellsburg is the place of business, and
$500 have been paid in on stock subscrip-
ton of 5000. The future capital may be
$4,000. +. w. Paxton, William II. Tarr,
!. H. Duval, Benz. Harvey, and William c.
Barclay, all of Wellsburg, are the corpora.
tors and hold stock to the extent each of
ten shares of 500 each.