Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-21

graph and telephone wire. Copper is tax
ing the place of iron for these purposes.
Five thousand laborers are coming east
ward on the Canada Pacific Railway, work
on the mountain sections having been stop
ped for the season.
The constitutional amendment prohibit
ing convict labor, which was submitted to
the voters ofIllinois at the recent election,
failed Of adOption.
The cigarmakers of Wernersyille, Pa,
recently defeated in q strike, have started
n cooperative cigar factory and are doing
well.
Smithington, Conn, Knights of Labor
are about to establish o cooperative cutlery
company. They are thinking of locating in
New Haven.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has APP
pointed Patrick Blewitt, of Scranton, to be
inspector of mines in the first anthracite
district.
The present season seems to have been
rather prolific of failures in the shoe manu-
featuring business of Haverhill, three or
four heavy firms having one under within
the last few months. -LGbOrer.
Cooperative manufacturing companies
are ~springing up all over the Northern
States backed up by the Knights Of Labor.
The General Cooperative Board of st Paul
has appropriated $40, 900 for cooperative
projects.
Inquiries from all quarters of the u
try show that buyers, builders, projectors
and investors are quite confident of a con-
tinuauce of the vigorous trade and manu-
featuring conditions that have existed
since the LIST of September.
The strike of molders in the locomotive
and machine shops of Patterson, n. j.,
which has been in progress for seyearl
weeks, has been settled. Mutual cOnces-
siOns were made and the men receive an
advance of wages.
Tweuty-nine discharged employees of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. have
brought suit mt Columbus, o., to recover
money paid by installments into the fund
of the Baltimore and Ohio Employees Re
life Association.
The Knights of Labor Assembly at
Housewife, Pa, is in a most il%Ourishing
condition. The members have purchased
the Masonic Hall in that place and paid
" - Az ~ AA'NAFAAP - NAS s
* ut present about 100.
The negro Knights Of Labor are trying
to realize something out Of their connec-
ton with the order. In parts of Arkansas
and Texas they are asking $3.50 per day
for picking cotton. These are very ex-
IRENE rates, but the planters have no i'm
mediate prospects for relief.
One year ago there were but four
Knights of Labor assemblies in Georgia,
with less than 1000 members. Now the
membership is 5000. The membership
is claimed to be far short of their actual
voting strength. They hold the balance
of power in the centerS Of population.
The h. of l.. Cooperative Refining
Company. Clean, y. Y. limited, is doing
well and will have oil on the market about
December. They will start with one still
or 200 barrels per week; when that is in
good running order they will start another
with the same capital.
The National Brotherhood of Railway
Brakemen is the youngest of the several
railway organizations. Ii was founded ON
September -. 1S~3. At the recent con
veutiOn ut san Antonio, Texas, 2ll lodges
were represented, being an increase of 80
per cent. since the gathering OF the year
previous. The membership is now nearly
10, mo, and embraces men employed ON
nearly every large railway in the United
States.
During the past few days projects Tor
the construction ot between 1000 and
S,uUU miles of railroad have been made
public. The demands for these ley
roads, il presented this winter, ~ they
probably will be. will have the effect Of
crOwding prices mp to u higher limit aud
! of stimulating industry in every branch.
Railroad building will he entered upon
next year on u scale OF unprecedented
magnitude. Nearly all the leading rail-
roads throughout the country have been
gaining in strength, and Il competitive
spirit is now developing itself which will
result in heavy investments for the pur-
pose of railway extension.
The first annual report of the president
of the Quakrr City Carpet Company, OF
! Philadelphia, shows cOncluSiyely that the
men who declared such an institution
would prove 4 paying investment were not
mistaken. This company, says the IocSin,
although compelled to compete with man
ufacturerS most OF whom would do any
thing to bankrupt a cooperative enter
prise of any kind, has achieved Il success
that will prompt members of the order IN
other yocatiOnS To attempt the manage
ment of cooperative enterprises.