Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-10

device has been patented. Ii combines
receptacle Tor carrying the najls, with
hammer head, and, an incline or duct To-
feeding the nails thereiTom GutometicNll,
by the swinging Of the hammer, GCi q ne
vice for clamPjrg or hO.diCy each s,gsr
Sicily delivered nail before setting and dsiY
ING it.
The Joliet. Ill, Steel Company recent,
made ever nine hundred tons Of iugos o..
tur-ri out three thousand Ealsned rail.
thirty tsetlCng, weighing eight huudrgdtous
four hours, and for the week, owe
three thousand tive hundred tons Of lin
shed rails and four Thousand two hundred
tons OF ingots. The ingot5 were made Il
two elglt-ton convs-tsrS.
The q ton the o~oycottjug commi.ei
have taken in regard 10 the condition O
affairs q. Cummings, Ill, has not as sc.
been made pu6ic; but that meous are 0e
ing devised TO strike the corporation IL o
tender part is well known. The ooycottng
committee are men of a business turn, and
are thoroughly conyersant with the con
tracts they have undertaken TO tuihlL.
The Wellstsn, Ohio. Steel Nail Mill Co.
is nov completely organized and on foot
| The enterprise has already set II motion
its corporate machinery IN the P~urcnaslng
OF SUPPLIES, material, contracting tor the
| erection and construction OF its buildings
/ Harvey Wells aud Colonel j. b hastings
President and Vice President, lett tuesday
morning lasi for New York, 10 contract tor
the machinery. etc. J. NJ. Woodward Is
/ secretary, VIM jordan manager, and Jonn
W. Potter assistant secretary.
The employees Of the Edgar Thomson
/ Steel Works, at B~raddocks, Pa, accepted
the firms proposition OF a 10 per cent 90,
varce with y hours q LAY 5 work, and
s;gned the scale for the ensuing Year. The
mill resumed operations in al departments
on Monday. The furnace men to the mum
Der Of 700 were paid Of Saturday evening
and discharged because they refused TO
ac.eot a 10 per cent advance and work
twelve hours q day. The workmen want
ed three turns a day, eight hours each.
This vas refused b. the firm, and the fur
naCss were banked.
Tae recent advance in the price Of steel
rails wili oe the result Of 9 corresponding
iucrease in the wages Of members OF the
A A. OF |, aud 5. ", employed in the
South Chicago rolling mills. President ..
". Potter has decided to give the increase
Notwithstanding the fact that the members
OF the association have a scale OF their
own, although it has vacils'ed considerably
of lste. The action OF Manager Potterre
c-jyed warm praises, and well wishes fox
the future prosperity OF himself and The
iron trade we're extended 10 81 enthualas-
tic manner.
Tee following Ct ppi0g from the North
Western Miller, pu5i!sbej in Minneapolis,
MINI, nav be OF Interest, &! Though We
were no, aver that our enterprise was ex-
tending itself in that direction
"Oa- OF the LAKES, industries proposed
Tor Minneapolis is q nai, mill. The mills
use s. con iI-vAbls number OF ba.rrl ual.s
YEARLY. and Il. l. Whea,, OF Wheel n, v.
Ia, IS here ~canTassiu- the matter. lie
proposes TO form u iJint stock company oy
interesting the miii.rs, ~. h,s P ate IL
Wheeling. aud believes The usils can be
cut hsrc and laid down 4. the mills ut 4
cheaper price than they EoT command.