Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-23

4 oNIDuCA DlO . WAANlOW 6h y
ut Baltimore, Md, has been Lit up and
Is now ready for business.
The st. Louis glass works, ]. Z.
| Cummings proprietor, started up on
the 18th inst. with q full force Of hands.
The Acme glass works, Of Gill Bros
ut S~teubenville, started up In full turns
last Tuesday night, after a shut down
all summer.
The printers employed On the Au.
burn, n. Y, Dispatch are out on a
strike against a reduction from % to IL
cents per thousand.
At Cold Water, Mich, all the princi-
pal cigar makers have locked out their
men, two hundred in number, for refus-
ing to abandon the union.
II. NJ. Myers u Co., Of Beaver Falls,
Pa, rolled their firSt piece of sheet steel
one day this week. The machinery is
| all of first class material and worked
well.
The North Chicago Rolling Mill Com
| pany have decided to build q Sl00,00O
| nail mill at Bay View, and will employ
| 600 men. The building will be put up
at once and the first nails made and de-
| livered by January l, 1884.
Work on the Spaulding iron mill, at
Brilliant, O., is still going on as rapidly
as possible. A night force is at work on
| the engine. and it Is thought by some
they will be making nails within two
weeks. A meeting Of the stockholders
was b ED last week and directors elected.
On the Continent of Europe the con-
dition of the iron trade is certainly more
favorable to the manufacturers, and
there are plenty of indications that q
brisker condition of affairs may be ex-
pected for the rest OF the year. A more
hopeful feeling is noticeable, and re-
ports of producers have to a large extent
lost the depressed tone recently so pre-
valent.
1t is announced that ten of the bust
ness men of New Philadelphia, o., have
incorporated the Goshen Iron Co., with
a view to purchasing the interest Of the
Ward Iron Co. in the New Philadelphia
rolling mill. The new company designs
paving off the liens on the mill as soon
as possible, and will avail themselves of
the benefits accruing from the town &C.
cOrding to the original contract. The
capital stock is 100000.
The total production of coal in France
for 1881 was 10, 766, 900 tons, an increase
of little more than half a million tons
over the previous year.. Returns show
a continuously increasing importation
Of foreign coal, which in the year 1881
supplied about 80 per cent. Of the con-
sumption Of France. The exports of
extent, but they show a proportionate
decline for 1881.
The prices of coke have been ~ruinous-
ly low for some time, aud hence there
has been a decrease in the amount pro-
duced in the coke regions. There are
nine thousand one hundred and ninety
six ovens erected. Last week eight
thousand and seventy-eight of these
were in operation, and but eleven hun
bred and eighteen idle. Price OF coke
is 81 10 per ton.-Greensburg Herald.
The NJ. NJ. Co. have shipped some
men to Pardoe mine from Pittsburgh,
and have misrepresented their mine and
its workings to them, making the men
believe they could make from 50 so to
"a or SIS per day, and n man agreed
for s.. 81 per day as blacksmith. When
he got here MI. l.. presented an iron
clad for him to sign to agree to work
for 81 40 per day. He left a. soon as he
could get his baggage. The coal is too
much OF a muscle tester to suit men that
don't know anything about mining
Labor Tribune.
The trouble continues at the glass
works of A. & ]. II. Hamilton, this city.
This firm proposed to start their factory
on the first of the present month with
n furnace. They took all the boys
they had blowing on both furnaces and
put them on one furnace and hired just
nine journeymen. The same with VIM.
McCully & Co., they were only going
to put on one furnace with nine jour-
neymen and twenty-four apprentices.
No union mar need apply at either of
these factories. labor Tribune.
In response to q call issued by the
Tallors' Union, of Philadelphia, repre-
s~entatives Of the trade in all the princi-
pal cities of the union convened in that
city last Saturday, An effort will be
made to establish q national union. 1t
is proposed also to establish a beneficial
sick and death fund. The introduction
OF a normal working day of eight hours
the regulation of the apprentice system,
the formation of q State bank of credit
| for labor organizations, and assisting Of
all wOrkingmen endeavoring to better
| their condition will be considered. The
convention will be in session four days.
Work in the mines in the vicinity of
Barton, Nd, is improving. Hoffman
and Eckhart mines are working full
time; Borden Shaft has not improved
any since my last, working half and
three-quarter time; Borden mine has
not worked over half time for about
four months; Midlothian is no. doing
much; Bl9n Avon generally full time;
New Hope and Allegany nearly idle;
occasionally they load coal for the en-.
gines but that is all they do. 1t is hoped
that the New Hope and Allegany mine
will start up in the winter, for it is too
hard on the men to walk to Ocean and
back every day.-Lonaconing Review.
We learn that Messrs. Robbins & Rend
are preparing for the most extensive APP
p~licatiOn of machinery to coal digging
that has yet taken place in this vicinity.
They have recently purchased a tract of
400 acres Of untouched coal land near
McDonald's Station, Pa, and intend to
mine it by machinery. Air compressols
are being put in position for furnishing
the motive power to Lechner and Har-
rison coal digging machines, which will
be used exclusively. Mr.. Robbins and
w. p. Rend are the owners Of the right
to use these diggers in the region named,
and the latter's success with them in
duced Mr.. Robbins to engage in their
use on a larger scale. The Lechner
machine "bears in" by operating cut
ting knives, while the Harrison ma
chine operates a reciprocating drill.
In pursuant to a call issued by John
Mcbride, President of the Ohio Miners
Association, a delegate meeting OF the
miners Of the Mahoming Valley on
vened at the Diamond Hotel, Youngs-
town, o., last Tuesday afternoon.
Every mine of any importance in the
valley was represented, and President
Mcbride presided. The miners have
been working IN a basis Of sixty-five
cents per ton, while those in the Hook.
inO NaI1py and TuScar a WAS Valley re-