Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-07-05
TRADE NOTES.

The Knights of Labor cooperative store
at Milton, Pa, which opened not long since,
is having q good trade.
The new glass works at Ottawa, Ill, is
rapidly approaching completion. The brick
walls are up and the root is nearly fu-
ished.
The Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific shops,
and the Kerr-Murrsy Iron Works at Indiana.
polls, have resumed operations, the striking
employees having returned to work.
All of the window glass factories closed
down last Tuesday for the season, or until
September lst. There are fifteen factories
in this city employing about q thousand
men. During the recess the question OF
wages will be settled for next year.
1t is announced that Rathbone, Sard i
Co., of Albany, N. Y, have decided to fit
up apartments in their works for the &C
eommodation of non-union molders who
will work under the Berkshire system"
The molders will lodge and board at the
foundry.
The following carpenters unions were
granted charters last month: Wheeling, W.
Va, Chanute, Kansas, and Martins Ferry,
Ohio. Our general secretary during his
May trip secured new unions in Louisville,
Ky, New Albany, Ind, st. Louis, Mo-,
Dayton, Ohio, and Springfield, Ohio. They
will be admitted this month.-Csrpenter.
Some of the eastern iron iron makers are
turning out enormous tools and pieces of
machinery. A Philadelphia firm recently
sent a 70-fOot lathe to Buffalo. Another
firm recently bought q 10 600 pound anvil,
sll in one casting, Philsdelphia's largest
foundry is about to ship a centrifugal pump
ing engine, the largest ever made in the
country, and the largest, with one exception,
ever made in the world. Each pump weighs
l65O 900 pounds, is IL feet in diameter, and
has a capacity Of 10000 gallons per minute.
A st. Louis mechanic, George ". Bald
ridge, has invented a telegraph transmitter
that operates like an ordinary typewriter,
Il is a good thing and is to be taken hold OF.
The Virginia tin mines are attracting a
good deal OF attention from dealers IN
metals. Cash Mine NJ. l produces oxide
of TIN, carrying from 40 to so per cent;
No. ?, 80 to SO per cent, and is ten feet
thick and two wide. The best ore will pay
q profit Of 800 per ton for shipment to
England. They are said to be the richest
Tin mines in the world. There are thirty
other mines in the neighborhood.
In Eastern Ohio the smaller industries
are booming up as though hard times were
unknown. a new twine and cordsge com.
papy has been organized with q capital OF
100000 and will begin work at once. In
Akron a 100000 capital stock company
has been formed to make straw boards. The
mower and reaper works are busy IN the
eastern end Of the State.
The fifth annual meeting Of the Work
mems Co Operative Bank was held recently
in Boston. The membership is 5O7; shares
1896. The earnings for the year have been
: per cent. The assets we're SlOl ,OO0. The
hank is in q prosperous condition, ana It's
success has led to schemes to start others.
The first attempt to mine coal by electric.
ity was made in the presence OF q number
ri Illinois operators and mining experts at
S,reator. Ill. A ehisslshsped pick fastened
a, the end OF the piston does the work oy q
direct reciprocal molten, instead OF 0 yrotsry
molten. 1t is said that 1t VIII GO twice IS
much work IS compressed srr. Inc expen-
msnters are satisfied with their progress.
The Joliet rolling mill viii start up on
,JpIv 8. with a new automatic process, which
cost siOOCOO, and which viii dispense WITH
- large number of laborers. The Edgar
Thomson mill has done the same. Other
mills are trying to do likewise
The State of Mississippi has q very pros
na+ons AGRICULTURAL and mechanical college,
rh;cb nroyides facilities for $50 Students
A S0O6-acre farm belongs to the school
wbsre scientific agriculture Is taught All
nnn;ls are required to work fifteen hours per
~ Tor which they are allowed eight Genus
~ bour. The mechanical department Is
vet in its infancy, but it Is intended 10 ae-
yelop this branch As rapidly rs circumstances
viii permit
Andrew Carnegie, n jeivering an address
hefore the Curry Institute and BUSINESS Gor
- of Pittsburgh, Tuesday evening OF is3
- aid there were three things TO Dc
.Snnnsd by every young man: FIRST hquof
drinking; second, sPecuia1ng; mug, ns
;ndorse' BE says. in speaking OF sneisy.
"put al your eggs in one OasAe' anu
thst one"
Industrial arbitration q 70 -
..aSwax but it's progress is due largely 70
$500 ,hss IL rests on 9 vigorous organiza-
" -. - Ishor. Without such orgsnixshon
uon IT,. would be unwilling 70 srb'trase,
en ND ssy, as they have often sA'a 70
iahor. what do you represent
I.oun;..;Op in France which has been
Ioa1 time studying the sdvisabihty o.
Tor . eng uHesI.h,r Eoud recommend IT.
s snel - ire fact that English and Ssrman
~. nnst;t;on would underssil French WORK