Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-26

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about completed, and will be put INTO
use at once.
Swanton mines, at Barton, Md, Is
filling six hoppers per day. The .
| mac mine Is working steady, with an
extra quarter occasionally.
The Pullman Palace Car Company
has ordered $3.50, 900 worth OF macnin-
cry for their new works at Pullman
Ill, from q Cincinnati firm.
The glassworkers who struck against
the employment of non-unicn men at
Water Cure, Pa, are at work, the nom
union men having been discharged.
The proposed new glass works at Mid
way, Pa, is taking shape. The pro-
iectors propose to have it ready Tor
business by the 1st of January, 1854.
The Coopers' Protective Union OF
North America met i'll convention al
Peoria, Ill, on Monday, August 18th.
Thomas HeLneberry, of Cleveland, pre-
sided.
w. p. Rend & Co. IS mine, McDonalds,
Pa, is mining fifty car loads of coal a
day, and there il Hot a pick in the
mines. 1t is all done by coal cutting
machinery.
A coal miner named David Aichlie,
of Taylorsville, o., Was making a bear
ing in when a huge mass of earth and
slate fell Oh him, crushing him to the
earth and killing him instantly. His
body was crushed to a jelly.
The Ottawa Glass Co., Of Ottawa, ILL.,,
are pushing their work along as fast a.
practicable. When finished they will
nave one ofthe finest factories in the
country, three Spot furnaces and every
thing of the latest improved style.
The Redstone Coal Co. will, it is said,
break ground within the next thirty
days for a new rolling mill on the Red
stone branch of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, in this state, either at Shocks
station or at Hil's Bridge, n mile
above.
At the Jefferson iron works, Steuben-
vile, o., q new nail factory is being
Uuilt adjoining the old one, and will be
thrown into the old when complet-
ed. There will be 10 machines in the
factory, which, with rs in the old,
makes the number l45-an increase OF
80.
BELLEvILLE, ILL, August 2l.-The
old nail mill has been idle for four weeks.
The repair men will be through with
their work about the middle OF the
coming week. The factory will start
up with ten new machines. Waugh d
sons are making a thorough job OF the
repairs this time. Prospects are good
for the fall business.
The three hundred cOlliers at the
Wellington colliery, VancOuveI's Island
went out strike August 10th. The out
put is | /, 100 tons 3 month. San Fran
ci-cO has usually taken this coal, and
will get supplies from Seattle mines | n
Washington Territory. This strike is
therefore a benefit to American inter
ests.-Saward's Journal.
HUBBARD, O., August 1S.-1n regard
to the mil here / have very little to say.
1t is still idle, and very probably it will
remain so. Many of the citizens hope
1t will never run again under the man
agenlent of the Hall family .-lf any
ore knows ofthe whereabouts ofJOhnny
Jones, Of this place, they will please let
Ills parents know. as they are very anX
iCus to hear from him. He left this
D ace three weeks ago and has not been
heard OF since.
The Homecoming, Md, Review of last
week SAYS: Work among the mines of
Frostburg has not been so bad as it has
been two or three weeks ago. The
Borden shaft worked about half time
and three.quarter; the miners will re-
ceive the largest pay next Saturday
since before the strike. The Borden
mine worked half time this week;
Hoffman and Eckhart nearly full time;
Midlothian has been doing much for
about a month; New Hope and Allie
gheny idle.
r. w. Ratclif and John NJ. Stull, the
assigness of l.. b. Ward Il Co., have
leased the Russia mill at Niles, Ohio, to
Cleveland, Brown " Co., well-known
iron merchants and capitalists OF Cleve.
land. The Russia mill is known to be
"a very profitable concern, and will be
run to its fullest capacity by the new
proprietors. Cleveland, Brown Il Co.
are u wealthy concern, and opposed to
thatsystem ofiron manufacturing which
pays the employees in scrip. They VIII
pay every workman spot cash at regu-
lar periods, which will probably not be-
more than two weeks intervals. This
will be a welcome surprise in the his
tory of the Russia, and we hope a step
ping stone to that confidence in each
other which is so much needed in our
town between the employers and work
men, and which has been abused SO
much by iron masters of late in Niles.
All the personal property OIL. b. Ward
& Co. has been bought by Cleveland,
Brown x Co. of the assignees. The
Russia could not be sold until January
|, but a lease for an indefinite length Of
time has been secured. Monday will
again witness the lighted fires of the
Russia mill, and Niles will turn over a
new page.-News.