Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-11
MINES AND MINERS.

The Eclipse coal mine, at Coal Centre
Pa, is on fire. 1t belongs toJerd. S. Nsel
The miners at Pekin, Md, are working
at the advance.
At Cincinnati river coal sells wholesale
on board, at 5 and cents per busbel.
The Ellsworth mines, at Dsnvilie, Ill.
worked but one and halt days in two
weeks. The coal trade there seems to per
fsctly demorshzed.
The coke workers at Mcclure 4 Co. q
mines held 8 mass meeting last Tuesday
and demanded that all men found filling
MeClure's contracts be called out on strike.
A miner named Morris Coshley was
badly injured by fall of slate at the Coal
Bluff mines last Friday. He will probably
recover.
Fire broke out in the coal mines Of the
Roans mining company at lockwood, Ten
nessee, and Is now raging with great fury.
The fire is in the mine opening, aud spreads
with great rspidity.
The miners employed by W. c. MobleY
L Co, of Parker, Pa, have given notice OF
their intention to strike unless an advance
of Is cents per ton is paid. Mobley u Co.
refuse to make the advance. Their works
are at Harms City, P,
The delegate convention of miners and
coke drawers at EVerIon, Ps last Tuesday,
chose an executive committee to work in
conjunction with that of tie NJ. and l.. A.
A. as q board Of Cancellation. A j. Will
liams, 81. ]. Byrne and Jos. Marshall were
chosen.
There were fully ten thousand coke
ovens in blast in the Conneilsyille region
last week, and the output was very large.
The shipments averaged $50 cars daily, Of
which ITO were pool cars and the balance
independent. A number Of new ovens are
being erected.
James P. Cumming, formerly OF Mat
teou, ILL.,, has removed to Fsncher, H.,
and opened up coal mine. The product
is block coal and of excellent quality. The
vein is two feet thick, but is believed to be
thicker further in the bluff. TGey will be-
gin shipping coal this week, but will be
ready for the fall trade.
Saward's Journal says that in the Bra
I'll, Indiana, district fully 1900 miners, or
about one-hslt, are idle or iusuticiently en-
ployed. The miners demand eight hours
"a a days labor, and May LEI is 10 witness
not only this change, but the beginning OF
the new scale of prices arranged 5y arbi-
tration at Colur bus last month.
The FIRE in the coal mines at lockwood,
Team, Is raging furiously. IL is in thsee
vertical drifts. Efforts are being made to
seal 10 ali the vents to stide the flames,
Il is feared the mines will be entirely des,
troyed. Four hundred hands are employed
there. Four OF Chattanooga Gremen
we're injured by falling boul1ers, and two
miners were seriously hurt.
hansss Taylor Rapids il booming; q
force ofmeu are busy sinking coal shstt.
aud twenty more men will soon be added
TO their number. A vein o! coal estimated
to De from 1 to feet in thickness and of
excellent quality has been reached at La
Cygue at a depth of l40 feet. Mr. J. W.
Mcfarland has discovered vein of coal
two and one halt miles south of Burln'
game. The coal is Fl inches thick.
The spectacle viii be presented during
the coming season of navigation Of Ohio
cosl pouring into the northwest by four dit
terent lines of railways from various lake
ports. Iowa coal now possesses two, and
will perhaps haze three channels before
long; Illinois coal, not including Spring
Valley, strives for the supremacy over three
roads, soon to be assisted by fourth
Cosl dealers in Illinois, Iowa. Wisconsin
Minnesota and further west will no dcub
have q chserful time of it this year, and
the farmers out in NebTssss and Montsns
may not be compelled to barn corn oecaEs'
of it's Chespuess in comparison with coal
freights added, as was done last year
| SaSsrd's Journal.