The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-10
creased 10 per cent, and II Is now the In.
tention 70 psy the same figure % before
the advance Was given.

creased 10 per cent, and 1t Is now the in.
tention 70 pAy the same figure aa before
the advance WAS given.
The Lsughlin Nail Company have 80.
cured the services Of Mr.. George G. spen-
Ger On general salesman. His headquRI.
teri will DO a. Chicago. Mr.. Spencer sue
ceeds Ed. y. Brainsrd and W. K. Ross %
general salesmAn.
A pat Of the force employed Of the
hinge factory Is at work on machinery to
be used for the manufacture OF strap
hinges. The balance Of the force is at
work filing general orders which are COM
ing in fairly well.
The new building TO DO erected by the
West Virgins China Company, in ad-
diLion 10 its other buildings now being
finished, will be 40 feet long, So feet
wide and Eve stories high. II will be
used as warehouse and Office.
The contract for building the Presbyte-
risn Church at Bridgeport, hiss been let to
Mr.. Murray, for $l2,650. The building
will be built OF brick, with stone trim.
mingr, and will DO erected on the lots re-
Gently purchased Tor the purpose.
The Standard Glass Works Is running
full with It's six.pot furnace and ono large
md one email tank in operation. The
product Just at preaout is colored shades
and pitchers, electric light globes, fruit
jarr, lantern globes, lamps and ink stands.
The employees Of the Junction Steel
Company have organised q relief society,
to be known as the L. & ]. 8. Co. g EN-
ployes' Relief Society. rhe organic alton
will BIZ under the auspices OF Mlngo
Lodge Nc. %, oil the A. A. OF l. and b. W.
| The nail factory at Hammond, H., Is
running fall forcs and full time. The
only trouble experienced by the manage:
ment Is IN keeping the factory supplied
with plate. Gould enough plate DO So
cured the factory would be put on double
turn.
OIthe $40, 900 asked with which to erect
9 glass works at Washington, Pa, SSS! GOO
has been subscribed by CitizSns, assuring
the enterprise. The works will employ
1876 hands, and its location there is the re-
sult OF tho work Of the Board Of Trade
4 organized three or four weeks ago.
Carnegie Bros. & Co. have started 10
: build coke ovens OF Douglass Station, on
the Pittsburgh, MCKsesport & YoughtoH'
: heny railroad. One hundred and twenty
seven have boon laid ont. 1t is stated
TINT the same company will erect blast
furnace at tho came place.
Tho $4,000 lawsuit brought by Danie'
MRdigan, o laborer, sgsinst E. 81. Everett
proprietor OF the Newark glassiworks, wa
. decided by ths jury in favor Of the de-
PENDANT. MadIgsn, while working at the
: works, fell from a Bcaffuldlng and broke
his arm. He claimed 1t was carelesslJ
. constructed,
Business at the North Wheeling glGal
] works is reported dull and the firm ex
8 poets to close the blowing department or
#. April for three or four weeks, II trade
. does not improve. The company does
. not look for any better condition OF tradl
/ until several more factories have froZer
8 themselves ont.
The Independent coke producers have
!. now agents out among the Western fur
naceH and foundries to secure coke con
tracts on an independent basist and thiE
10 the first step towards possible war or
the rates, for II the producers go below
} 81 90 I. o. b. at ovens, the cot will be mel
and probably lowered by the larger ope'
ratoTs and prob ably serious consequences
both to the operators and lsooEers will
ensue.
@. G. Harris, Of NiIes Ohio, has invent
ed, and has now In operation, an automa
tic nail-ieeder that is working very suc'
: ceasiully. This machine feeds without the
use Of barrel, Is very simple in construc
ton, easily oper6tea. end cannot easily
get out OF order. The mschineis made Of
interchangeable parts, and any part car
be replaced OF small cost. Any sizes o.
nails from Cd. to l0d. can be fed on the
same machine. tits known that this ma
chine eau cut over 800 malta per minute,
and believed, that under favorable circum'
stances the machine will readily cut $50
Last nights Bsllaire "Independent
contained the following: The boys at the
steel works made things hum last night
1t was the turn for which Joe Mcdonald
ia the steel blower, and every one Of them
was determined that the laurels for big
runs should not remain with the other
turn, and when they finished up this
morning they had made fIty.fve heats, OF
l275 tons OF steel. This is remarkable
work. II uGed to be that 90 or 100 tons
was q good days work. The turn fol
which George Gordon is blower made 2S6
tons, and that broke the record. No one
ever drssmed that 275 tons would be
resched--not even the men who did the
work