Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
GENERAL NOTES.

The Chattanooga steel works have
begun operations.
The rolling mill at Cumberland, Nd,
is on double turn at present.
Work has been resumed in the small
mills of the Allentown rolling mill.
The Albany iron works, Troy, y. Y,
employ ! 800 men and are running.
The journeymen plumbers of Louis.
vile, Ky, have organized union.
The glass works at Cumberland Md,
has resumed work after al idlenesS of
several months.
The sheet and plate mills of the La
clede Rolling Mil, st. Louis, are still
running double turn.
Andl ew Bros. & Co, of HaseltOn, O.,
are operating their mill double turn in
all departments just now.
Summers Bros, of Struthers, Ohio,
expect to make quite an addition to
their mill this spring.-News Reporter.
Tie mOulters at the Maleable Iron
Works, Merlden, Conn, are again at
work Tor the first time since Christmas.
The rolling mill of Kimberly & Co,
at New Castle, Pa, has started up in
both the nail factory and other depart
ments.
The brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen has l95 lodges, all in good con-
ditiOn as regards membership and
finances.
Carnegie Bros. Il Co., are refusing or
ders under $50 80 at miIl. The Cambria
Iron Company refuse anything under
$36.-News Net.
The Bayview, Wis.,, nail mill has
started up. The plate mill is running,
and all of the little mills are on. The
puddle mill is idle.
The Northwestern Horse Nail Co.'S
works, which shut down oQ the lst
int. to make the necessary annual re-
pairs, has again started.
The wharf builders of San Francisco
have followed the example of the car
penters of that city, and adopted the
nine hour rule with success.
Brown, Bonnell & Co. had several Of
their finishing mills running last week,
also their nail factory, but the forge de-
partment was idle.-Labor Tribune.
The Western nail mill, Belleville, ILL.,,
has lately completed an addition TO its
plant. The machinery for this new
section of the work will be in position
this week.
The workmen employed at the estab-
lishment of the Cincinnati Barbed Wire
Fence Company were out on strike
against a reduction of from ii to % per
cent.
To every subscriber of the New York
Weekly Tribune who cancels his sub
scription at once the BoycOtter will be
sent for the unexpired term.-Boycot-
ter, l9 Center street, New York.
Fifty glass workers employed at the
Acme chimney factory, Steubenville,
Ohio, struck last Monday morning
against 8 reduction of wages. The men
on strike operated the crimping ma
chimes.
Chiefly owing to the distance being
too great from the converting mill to
the blooming mill, at the Edgar
THOMPSON Steel Works, the soaking
pits.bsve so far proven q fsilure.-Brsd-
dock News Net.
The explosion of what is known as 8
mech anical puddler in the west mill of
the Phoenix Iron Works on Friday
knocked w. H Reeves, the general
superintendent Of the wor ks, down, but
did him no serious injury.
The Benedict & Burh I'm Manufacture
ing Company, Of Waterbury, Conn.,,
will next year erect andtner large mill,
measuring l20 by 10 feet. This concern
is the largest German silver and brass
rolling mill In the world.
TIE Reading. Pa. Iron Works Is idle
owing to the bursting Of fly wheel at