Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-09

refuses to enforce the agreement, the Onlo
valley to work on q new list to be prepared
by the sane committee. The manutactur-
ers, however, decided last Friday to with
draw all offers made BY them heretofore.
Mill Notes.
The mill at Girsrd, o., is still idle, With
but little prospects for an early start.
The Hartman steel works, Beaver Falls,
Pa, (non-union) is running full time.
Peck Stow, Wilcox & Co.'S rolling mill,
Birmingham, Conn, which shut down In
definitely while ago, has started up.
The Allentown rolling mills have entered
uyon the manufacture Of railway signals,
switches and intsrlocking apparatus.
The trouble at Sligo mill, this city, over
DOOR coal has ended, the firm agreeing to
give good coal. They were out two weeks.
The strike a. the Joliet rolling mills end
ed last Monday night, the blast furnace men
going TO work at the price they were getting
before they quit.
We understand the rolling mill Of Med
ipehsus Bros, St. Louis, which has been
closed since May l, has opened with full
force OF men.
The Lookout Rolling Mill Co., Chatta-
noogs, Tenn, has been organized oy A; NJ
johnson and others, with capital stock OF
$4,000 tor the manufacture Of steel.
Puddle mills and 1 and all the finish
ing mills Of Brown, Bonnell & Co., loungs-
town, O., started up Monday morning, and
prospects are fair for steady run.
The first ins,allment Of steel rails from
the Cambria Steel Works, Johnstoan, Pa
under a contract for $4,000 gross tons, has
been shipped for the st Paul Minneapolis
{ Manitoba railroad.
The West Lebanon, Pa, Rolling Mill
Company has secured from the government
a contract for 10000 feet Of chains, which
will carry the works over the summer
months.
The Cowles Horse Nail Company at Chi.
csgo, H., capital stock $4,000, has been
incorporated By Harley D. Cowles, John X
Kline and Edward Williams. Object, to
manufacture and sell horseshoe nails
The Atkins mills at Fishback, Pa, are
COW working full time and tull handed, all
the departments being in operation. Work
on the steel nails is progressing rapidly, and
the company fully expect to be in operation
BY the FIRST Of December.
The rolling mill at Cuyahoga Falls has
been sold By /. W. Lozier to James Ring
and Andrew McEwen, of Youngstown, who
will operate it under the name Of the Cuya-
hcgs Iron and Forge Company making a
specially of hexsgon and staple bolt iron.
A false impression is caused BY the fail
ure of the Wheeler Iron Co., West Middle
sex, Pa They are now in no wise affected
by this failure, but are still running the
mills and chain works at West Middlesex,
and manufacturing steel and iron chains,
steel bars, bar and rod iron, special melting
bar and blooms and all CRATES of muck bar.
The iron workers remaining on the strike
from Morris, Tasker 4 Co. mill, Philsdel-
phia, are still cut and are bitter in their
denunciatiols Of the men who returned to
work. They say that many Of the back
shders were the ruling spirits in causing the
strike, ard that under no consideration will
they return until their demand for an In
crease Of wages is aeceded to.
dimes and Miners.
Tie Hoffman mines, at Vale Summit,
Nd, are running full time at present.
A thick vein of coal is reported to have
been discovered near Sslladsburg Lycom-
irg county, Pa.
Coal has been found near Hot Springs,
Ark, which will be developed by the owner
Of tie land.
Tie mines Of the Buffalo Company, at
Clzrmout, Pa. have been closed for an in,
definite period.
The Blsck Warrior Coal Company will
operate in the Warrior river coal region
Alabama.
Work on the new coal shaft at Bloom,
iugtoD, ILL.,, is progressing and it is expect
ed the shaft will be in operation BY fall.
By sn explosion OF powder in the New,
port mine, ST Coalition, o., Lev. Sly was "a
tally injured.
John Lsyne, miner, dropped dead from
heart disease while at work in mine al
Coalton, Q.
The mines at What Cheer, Ia, are over
crowded with men and only running three
days a week.
The X. Of L. Cooperative Coal Company
at Augusta, Iowa, have met with q failure
in sinking shaft where there is no coal.
Another shaft will be sunk as soon as pos
sible.
The Daisy Coal Company. Of Daisy,
Tennessee, are making extensive improve
meu;s enlsrging their works, building new
railroad connections, 100 coke oveus,chutes,
etc.
The Pittsburgh X Wheeling Coal Com
paw has ordered reduction Of ten cents
per ton all around, to 60 into effect imme'
diately.
The Mobile / Ohio Railroad Company
have contracted for their next years sup
ply Of coal-ierty thousand tons-to be
Alabama splint coal, mined in Walker
county.
Messrs Powers Bros K Co have tenn
porarily shut down the Soldier Run mine at
Reynoldsville, Pa, owing to scarcity OF
cars. They continue to operate the Old
Hamilton aud Pleasant Valley mines.
About 500 boys under twelve years ofage
were discharged from the co!ierier IN the
vicinity of Shamokin, Pa, last Saturday in
accordance with the act of the Legislature
prohibiting the employment Of children IN
der twelve years Of age in colheries.
The miner Of the Hooking Valley held a
mass meeting Monday night and decided to
call district meeting to consider the ad-
visibility of joining the Tuscarawas Valley
men in demanding sn advance Of from 40
to soc in mining.
At the recent State Convention OF the
coal miners of Iowa, at Des MONIES, there
was warm discussion on the motion to
adopt the order of the Knights of Labor as
State organization, and it was finally
carried by majority of ten.
The Tacoma Coal Company, Washington
Territory, has found BY tests made b. sew,
eral blacksmiths that they have wen OF
coal which compares fsvorably with the
Cumberland blacksmith coal All black