Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-29
THE INDUSTRIES.
what In Being Done In Our Midst
Foreign Notes.

y hat In Being Done In Our Htdsa-
Foreign Notes.
Bells foundry Is on full foree.
The new stove works at Sharon, Pa.
Fave started up.
North North Wheeling glass works II
working fnll force.
The Belmont blast furnace will start up
in q very few days.
The heaters at the lower Riverside mill
were of Wednesday night
All the cooper shops in the city are
working full crew Of men.
The pressed glass ware factories are all
running to their full capacity.
The Belmont mill is on iu'l in all de-
| psrtments, as also sll the nail mills In the
city.
Hobbs, Prockunier & Co.'S glass works
are running as usual, two furnaces out OF
| possible three.
Ed. Grogan, an employe at the RIVER
size mill, had his hards badly burned
It''e at work Wednesday.
Ine planning mills throughout the city
are workingly steadily though there Is no
immediate rush for material.
The coal operators OF Central Ohio have
notified tueir men of O reduction of 10 per
cents to take place on the LIST OF March.
The district conventions, to appoint dele
gate to the National Scale Convention OF
the A. A. of l. L 8. w., will meet on the
Sth of March.
The green bottle blowers say that no
further conferences will be held except at
the man ufacturers' request. They are very
determined not to accept reduction.
The difficulties between the green glass
manufa ,turers and their employees nave
not yet been settled, although several
meetings OF the manufacturers were held
within the last week.
Word was received at miners headluar-
| tells yesterday that all the men worsing
| for Rafferty, d Drwees, at the Buena Vista
miles, had been induced TO come out At
last account only five were working in the
| pits. Secretary Flsnnery has written .
| !e,,er to Hon. James H. Hopkins, at Wash
| ing,on, Directing on behalf of the miners
| % The reduction of the tariff on coal con.
zen plated by the Morrison bill. Mr.. Elan.
| merry urges that if the present duty OF
| seytpty.five cents per ton is taken Off, the
seabosrd trade will be ruined by foreign
Con petition.
Tie reduction proposed in the wages Of
| en- ployes at Singer, Nimick Il Co.'s mill
On and after March 10th, has caused feel
| !Dl Gf uneaslneSS among the men, VINO
have not yet been officially notified OF the
| extent to which their wages will be cut.
| 1t is said that reduction will be mace all
| around except in the case of the puddlers,
who are working according to the scale.
| which cannot be changed until the !st OF
| June. 1t was learned on good authority
yesterday that The firm contemplated re-.
| duction of 10 der cent. The men, 1t is
said, will work for lower wages rather than
| / ave the mi closed.-Ex.
The following statistics OF the pig iron
| business of the United States will probably
| be of in crest to our readers. In 1888 the
| total product of the United States was s.
| lac. 912 tons of 1000 pounds eoch, as against
5,l7S, l22 tons in 1882. The total produc-
| ton of Pennsylvania in 1888 was 2,63S,s9l
| tons; In 1882 1t was 2,4i9, 256 tons. S:stis-
tics full of significance in references to the
number OF furnaces in blast were also OBJ
raired. On January |, 1884, there were
| GS3 furnaces in the United States, OF which
FL were in Pennsylvania. OF these 6Si
furnaces 307 were in blast at that date, of
which l42 were in Pennsylvania. Ga jan
uary /, 1882, there We're Ais furnaces in
blast in the country, OF which lS5 were in
PEI nsylvania. On July /, 1888. th,re were
3 4 furnaces in the entire country ia blast,
of " Inch Isl were IN Pennsylvania.