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

Typographical Union viii go into septem.
Der lst Of this year.
The p, Fl ". & G. r. r. shops in Ale
ghsny laid of seventY-6ve men temporarily
last week.
Ground has been broken at Chester, Pa,
for new switch works, to employ several
hundred men.
The Huntingdon, Pa, car works, with q
first mortgage Indebtedness Of $S5, 900, viii
be sold under foreclosure in September.
The axe factory of 81. B. Black & Co. at
Chester, Pa, has suspended operations.
Dizziness in trade and oyerstock is the
cause.
OF the several hundred hands Left unem-
ployed BY the strike of the Kensington, Pa,
carpet weavers, nearly all have now secured
work.
The Donley Grease and Oil Company, Of
Allegheny, on the lst of July shipped car
loan of their hot and cold neck mill grease
to Alabama.
After q shut down of nine weeks the
Howard Stove Company, Beaver Falls, Pa,
has resumed operations Thirteen moldsrS
are at work.
A firm OF which one ]. B. Sargent is rep
resentstive is now paying so cents per day
for laborers, and has the cheek to want
them to work at 40 cents. Their place Of
business is New Haven, Conn.
The Buffalo Car Manufacturing Com
pany, Buffalo, n Y, shut down on the oath
ult., for an indefinite period. This throws
400 men out of employment. Prostitution
in railway affairs is the cause.
A patent has been secured for making
imitation maple syrup. Hickory bark is
soaked in water, and an extract is thus OBJ
tanned which, added to cane or glucose
syrup, gives it the maple taste and smell.
Mr.. George ". Chambers, Of Tslladegs,
Ga, who owns very extensive iron ore prop
critics in thas vicinity, is in London en-
deavoring to interest iron makers there IN
schemes for planting furnaces on his lands.
1t is stated that there are now 3l4 cot.
ton mills in the South, having l,2T6,422
spindles and q ,873 looms, while at the time
the census was taken in 1880 the South had
only $50 mills, with 1889 spindles and
1922 looms.
The furniture workers of the country are
being educated on the necessity for enforc-
ing the eight hour law. The Furniture
Workers International Union is the only la
Dor organization prohibiting its members
working overtime.
The strawberry crop of the Eastern shore,
MARYLAND, is more profitable than the
oyster crop. This region promises to be-
come the great trucking garden of the At
lautic coast, and there is very little i'm
provable land in it that is now under cult
vation.
The railroad system OF Japan has at
tanned a length of 225 miles, and is in
creasing steadily. 1t has been mainly
built by the Japanese government with
native capital. The business results up to
the present time have given no cause for
dissatisfaction.
1t is estimated that more than 100, 900, 900
pairs Of boots and shoes were made in Mas
chusetts in 1884. Lynn ranks first With an
annual business OF $50, 100000. Haverhill,
Brockton, Marlboro, Worcester, Weymouth
and Nautick stand next in the order
named
Railway newspapers report that the Mon
arch Parlor Car Company has capital OF
IS, OOO, 900; that it will construct aud run
cars designed from a new invention, which
is said to be superior to anything now in
USE and that six cars have already been
placed in service.