Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-22
MINES AND MINERS.

Connellsville coke sells in Chicago at
81 40.
Pittsburg coal sells in Chicago at 50 10
to 50 so per ton; Hooking Valley at 50 %
to - 45.
Clearfeld coal sell at Baltimore at 81 so
and at New Iorkat % rs.
Cumberland coal sells at Baltimore at
81 50 and at New York at s. %.
Westmorelsnd and Penn Gas, at South
Amboy, at 81 20; at New York, 81 30.
Cannelton gas camel coal sells at Newport
News at s. 25; at New York, 80 so.
Kanawha gas coal sells at Newport News
at 81 10; at New York at 81 80.
The two cooperative coal companies at
Dell Roy, o., are success.
The Hooking Valley strike, it is estima-
ted, did not cost less than $3,jOO,OOO
A tin mine has been discovered at Mil
ton, Cabell county W. Va.
An 8-foot vein of cosl has been discov-
cred at Britton, Dakota at a depth of 73
feet.
First and second pool cosls sell in the
Cincinnati market at ! cents. hsnawhs
river coal brings g and ! cents per
buShel.
The miners at Port Royal, Pa have
signed an article for steady work at 50 cents
/ per ton.
The outlook is not very bright in the
coke regions at present. Wages continue
low, with no immediate prospect ofimprove-
ment.
The strike of the miners at Centrais,
! Pa, was against reduction to 10 cents
per ton for mining. The company offered
to compromise at IS cents, which was re-
/ fused.
Harry Yinchess, a miner of 0snaburg,
/ O.. was missing from home for short time,
when his body was found in an old well
near. Foul play.
4 miner named Nicholas Fensler was
! terribly injured by fall Of coal at Filters
coal works, near Hermitage, Pa, last Satur'
day.
! Arthur BOYLE, miner, was murdered IN
cold blood By a member OF the coal aud
iron police at Lost Creek, Pa, last Saturday
night. Coyle was shot throug n the heart
| and fell dead. He leaves wife and family
Thomas Thomas, well known as Tom
Star" the Jolly engineer, was killed at the
| Central mine, Mineral Ridge, o., last Mon
day night. He was caught in the machinery
and terribly mutilated.
According to a resolution adopted las
Saturday, between 1900 and 2,OOO Goa
miners struck at Irwin Station, Pa, for al
advance of 10 cents per ton in the price o
mining. Both sides continue firm and con
fdent Of victory.
The Buckye Coal Company new organ
cation. at Mspleton, ILL.,, has purchased
INOO acres of fine mineral land near tha
place, and have opened their mines. Messrs
| J. n. Morrow, George 5. Chase ana " j.
Wolcott cOmprize the company
The new Genital Coal Company contem
plste placiug another stationary engine u
their Koontz mine, for the purpose OF haul
inc coal out of the dip" heading, 1t WI
he a vreat improvement and will greatl
facilitate the output OF coaL-LonSc0n'Hs
Nd, Review
A German miner, Charles Valling, d.
| Tberately Jumped over the safety gate at
nine near Wenona, Ill, last Saturday, an
landed in the case at the bottom OF the shaf
- distance of $50 feet. Almost every bon
:, his body was broken. Valling had bee
in moor health for some time, ana II
thought that his mind was affected
Work is some better in Elk Garden, "
Va than II was last month. The mine
are running about three-quarter time. In
ItIsrtic mine, near Elk Garden, has shu
down, 1t is said, until Fekin niue, y
GEORGES Greek, is worked out; Mr.. fran
HarsRbarger was instantly killed 0y ia
Of breast coal. while st work IN ELK useue
nine No. Review.
At the annual meeting Of the trustees
.he State Miners Hospital, held at Ashland
Pa the following officers were elected
President, Robert Allison, OF Fort 0sreou
treasurer, Peter E. Buck, OF Ashland; Se'
rstary, Thomas Foster, Of the S6ensncoA
Mining Herald. The Executive Commute
= GsneraI IiIley, Peter Z. Buck, Rooel
P,Iton John Wagner and Edward Rees'
Miss Gerterman, the matron, handed IN N
resignation.
, A d;spatch from Dsnyille, Ill, March l
saws Five hundred miners employees =
he Ellsworth Coal Company struck to-da
,, g. the restoration of the price OF mining
81 oants ton. from which It was reduced
Io cents February 2. They also decided
: .sS;r ont ill the demandsot the miners
~ same company at Mt oliyet and stan
; ; ~ shau bs aeceded To- 1t IS reported tn
! s Thousand miners employed by the GrsI
: Creek Coal and Coke Company wih sun
l 4 A. r~crrOW