Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-01-01
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


B'Iiilait. O., j. Idle this week.
rhe rolling mili at Mat!ic'd, Mass,
is ~ he removed To lirurtuE, Mass.
The Forest Cily m.,l, at Cleveland,
hrs started inuhic turn in several de-
p.rtmcuI-.
The rcilirc mill at Whtatllnd, Pa,
Is running light on rails, bars and sheet
irDu. The four furnaces trr oUt of blast.
1t is said the Falcon Iron and Nail
Company, of Niles, O., are soon to
ace more nail machines n their fac
,"ry.
The new opcn-hcalth furnace at the
soho iron mills, Moorhcad X CO., Pitts
rMgh, is completed, and will soon be
I at in operation.
The railing mills Of Pittsburgh are
u.oduoi.g about half as much iron rs
ihvy Cou'd turn ont Were they TunHing
double turH to their full capacity.
The difficulty will The naiIers having
been satisfactorily adjusted, the Kelly
mill, at Irontou, O., has started up, and
Is driving ahead in all departments.
|; is scIaimcd 10y the Bessemcr Steel
Company, Of Homestead, Pa, that by
their new process they can now pro-
duce steel containing hut the ,JJDlh Of
one per cent. Of carbon.
The rolling mills connected with the
nail factories of the country Will run
but little, il any, during the stOppage Of
the nail department.
The Chattanooga steel works COM
mcnccd operations November Il, and
d, g., Ia, Ia
in the South.
Miller, Metcalf & Parllin, Of the iCrcs.
cent steel works, Pittsburgh, are build
ing a new melting furnace, which will
be the largest and must complete furn-
ace III the country.
The plate mill attached to the Bli,"y
mai works. in Harrisburg, has Si.ut
down, ami about loo men are thrown
out OF employment.
The rail factory at Bayview, Wis., is
ah,u; ready for business. Tie plate
mill j. nearly completed.
It's aid lhc Pennsylvania Steel Com.
many, at ~tcr!lon, Pa, will shut down
its Cutirr works early next year for lax
of mGcr-. This stoppage, if it takes
pirvc. Will be the first that has occurred
III lhe history OF the company.
The lUddivrs at the Bayview, Wis,
MIL are idle.
The glass tableware factories are
stocking up for tlIesprlng trade. Labor
IuhW:v.
Nome 81 tfc green glass factoric- have
yet started Up.
Campbell, Jones y co.'s Pittsburgh
glass factory /, teml orarily idle.
Bryce, l!;sbcc y co.'s factory, Pats
burgh, il RAINING iui! time.
Tie ruGiler- at the Nittsinrch Forcr
and Iron co. were oil two days thi,.
week. Tie lar ara guide mill of al
week lui!dinc furnaces ana making
genera. r.lai;s. \ general revolution ~
going on in the hammer department
Hereafter he lUruaceS will br heated
hv gas. The heater will have no gratt
to keep clean nor firing to do, ami the
furnace will heat that much faster ana
the work hc tuat much easier on the
men. THIS company is Sparing nctthoi
time nor exp Uses 10 make this the
model works # this state. They have
spent at least calculation ~l1.o'h IN The
last two years pEp, rimrllting with the
different models OF Usiu. gas, and now
their Efforts arr anUu. To- he crowded
with success.
The mincTs Of the third district have
uublishod p.acard in which they ic-
scribe the HUuGuriaus Is ~ low de-
spicable people, VIII" are degrading to
American labor, an injury to our COM
cumWealth, (which will not lie won Ter
ed ut. No one is more tit lOJuige than
these vino ale among them daily.
Tie Yorkshire miners demand a 10
per cent. advance, and threaten q uni
versal strike.
The iron workers al StocktOn'On-
Tees rcfusi 10 lake q holiday i'll honor
oI the prince of Wales visit, or TO sub
srrIUe 10 Il md to decorate the town.
Tie majority OF the iron masters in
the north Ni France are reGWytpg wages
ard 10 per cent. and many furnaces
have heen blown out.
Twenty-s \ thousand cotton looms
are idle in Blackburn, "i'l fourteen
Thousand in Darwin aud padisham,
Englald. At many places the work
men arc accepting Il per cent. reduc'
ZION.
The glass factory at Brilliant, O., is
running steadily, with good prospects,
The prescription ractory al Butler,
Pa, is running quite successfully.
1t is announced that new prCscrip-
ton far.rry!s to be- built at Venice, III.
\ rNlr wsa born in Genet 'ry st Mar.
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