Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
TRADE NOTES

Large BeSSemer steel works are 10 he
GREETED At Wareham, Mass.
The Knights OF Labor propose TO start a
start a shop in Birmingham, Conn, TO
manufacture pocket knives
There Is a strike of thirty lasters in the
shoe house Of Chick Brothers, Hayerhlll,
Mass
Edison has opened his schenectady shops,
having removed them from New York and
Brooklyn on account oflabor dictatiOn-
\ cooperative company has purchased
the glass works Al Wilmington, Del, and
viii open up with fifty men.
The Knights Of Labor at Frankford, Pa,
are building a cooperative textile factory.
and are issuing 10000 shares AZ - each TO
start with.
Three thousand Welsh tin-plate makers
wilt thrown out Of employment by the
closing of SIX large works on account oflow
prices.
Seyenty-fye weavers in the Cleghorn
mills at Ftchburg, Conn, have quit work
because of a sudden reduction OF ten cents
q cut" in their wages.
The Knights Of SOuthington, Conn, Will
establish a $4,000 cutler works and
stamp their goods. The Norwalk, Conn,
matters have more hat orders than they
can execute.
Nowhere in the history of potting has
such a rapid growth been shown As that
which has taken place in Trenton, y. J.,
the StafOrdshire Of America,
A railroad building company has been
organized in Kansas 10 build and operate
htty-two railroad lines. The capital stock
has been fixed At Sl54,00O,OoO The com
mileage viii De s,214 miles.
\ combination Of English lock manufac-
turers has been formed to initiate the Ger
man locks and the system ofmakng them,
in order 10 arrest if possible, the flooding
Of English markets with German locks.
Marshall x Co. Irvine and thread manu-
faCturers. Of Leeds and Shrewsbury, Eng
land. have decided 70 Close their works ~
that country and remove 10 the United
States. They viii supply their English
trade from the United States.
The building trades IN all the larger
. cities are crowded with work, and builders
saw their contracts Will take every hand
and hammer they can command late into
the fall. Besides, a great deal OF winter
work Is coming up in the nature OF shop,
mill and foundry repairs, extensions and
house Improvements
The urgent demand for bridge iron and
elevated railroad work in the West has
stimulated enterprise, and an extensive -
adjustment J. 10 be erected in Chicago,
. with a capital Of Sl.25O,UO. All the Larger
western streams viii be SPAWNED with tine
and costly bridges during the next eighteen
months.
The threatened strike among the bee,
men al the SiOc6yaTdS Chicago. has com
menced, and nearly 5000 men are now out
from the slaughter houses OF q. L Swlil
X Co. and Nelson Morris. The trouble J:
over the adoption of the ten-hour system
the men refusing 10 work the two eNtrs
hours without additional pay.
4. Trunk. the representative Of a large
cutlery firm az Meriden, Conn. has leased
the Beaver Falls, Pa, cutlery works fol
/ FIVE wears. The works, which have long
been practically idle, viii be started NJ
shortly by a new company Is A branch oI
the Meriden establishment, and viii give
employment 10 about three hundred men,
The locomotive engineers convention or
Saturday last decided to divide the $1,000
. life and accident policies, and they were
I divided into two policies Of Sl,5OO each
the assessment 10 he 80 cents for eact
death on a policy of : $500. Another
clause limits the age in taking risks to /;
wears. and only 10 members. The chang,
u a. NJ I "
The threatened lockout which was sci
for November 5 by all the textile mills II
. Philadelphia, and which would have al
fected nearly o 5000 employees, has beer
averted. As the the result Of 4 conference
with the manufacturers, Grand MaStel
Workman Powderly ordered the striker:
in Trott's mill 10 resume work Pendln.
arbitration.
Ground has been broken for the founda
lions Of a new nail mill al WatsontoWn
Pa ,
The carpenters Of Quincy, III, are still
on strke-about thirty unemployed, tht
balance working nine hours.
The knights of Labor Of st. Paul have
one Of the handsomeSt halls IN the city.
The ladies' assembly Is u Of the laTgeS,
IN the order.
The Cooperative Foundry Company.
Rochester, y. Y, expect 10 occupy then
new foundry and shops about the begin
ming Of the coming year.
The cooperative store al Palatine, W
Va, Is a decided success The capita
I stock Is 5000. They Own their Owl
buildings, and are on a tirm basis
4 Natural gas pipe has been completed
70 Johnstown, Pa. for the Cambria lroI
Co. and the large force OF miners tner'
Will soon eel the effects.
Chicago G~eomargeriDe makers will now
70 PittSburg TO use natural gas The gov
eminent tax on the product will be sl,5H
per day.
In Durham. y. C., there are two Whit
and two eolored assemblies knights o
Labor. with a total memberrhIp OF 2,VO
The North Carolina Knights prevented III
EMPLOYMENT OF conyiCtS on the Durham
and Lynchburg railroad.
The carpenters are well organized Il
Western PENNSYLVANIA. There are tw
unions in Rttsburg and one in Allegheny
with q combined membership Of nearly /,
800. Unions have also been Organized Il
Braddock and McKeeSpOrt, and organizer
are visiting all country towns building NJ
branehes-TRe Carpenter.
GLASS NOTES.