Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-06-24
ploys 140 persons and has weekly output
OF 80, 600 yards of gipgham.
MILL NOTES.

Operations at the Western steel works
ST. Louis, Mo, are about to suspend on &C
count of dull business.
The Swedes furnace, at Norristowa, Pa
has again gone into blast, employing abou
sixty persons. 1t is operated by Herkshel
q Sons, OF Philadelphia,
The Troy Steel and Iron Company, Troy
n. Y is usibg oil under the Heine boileri
1t the new blast furnace plant and are ex
psriInenting with the same fuel for pud
ding.
On Friday last five men were horribly
burned by the oyerturning Of a lsdle at tbs
Bessemer mills of the Pennsylvania steel
works at SteeltoD. Wilson Sbafer died in
an hour and Samuel SeariosJ cannot live.
The Others sre seriously burned.
A notice posted in the Cleveland rolling
mill on Monday last informed about SOC
employees that from that date their wages
would be reduced 10per cent. The notice
effects the employees of the Dennen-
Martin and Bessemer steel mills. The men
have taken no action on the matter as yet.
The merchant mill of the Pennsylvania
Steel Co, at SteeltoD, for the month OF
May made the heaviest tonnage during the
history ofthe mill. The 20-inch train was
running rails and billets, and the 13.inch
train general merchant steel. The frog,
switch and signal department is very busy,
and has the machinery in operation day
and night.
The Coatesville Iron Co at Coatesville,
Pa, was unable to meet the interest on its
$40. OGO of bonds, a msjority of which is
held by Andrew Williams, of Plattsburgh,
N. Y. The Sheriff has levied on the COM
pany's. mills there AID at Laurel on writ
issued by G. II. Warner, of French Creek,
for several thousand dollars worth OF
blooms.
The employees of the Reading, Pa, iron
works were notified of reduction in their
wages, to take effect on the 18th inst. 1t
will affect all the employees in the tube
works. rolling mills, blacksmith shops, an
thracite furnaces and sheet mill. At VIM.
McIlvain K Sons boiler plate works, en-
ployiug about $50 hands, q reduction OF 10
per cent. in the pudding department will
take place on the 18Th inst, and similar
reduction will take place at the Keystone
iron works.
On Saturday last the Southern Wire
Co., of 81. Louis, discharged ninety-seven
hands. This was the preliminary step TO-
wards settling up their accounts and NOV
ing their establishment to Pittsburg. The
work ofloading the machinery on the cars
preparatory to moving. WAS begun immed-
lately. President Gates says that railroad
rates are as high from st. Louis to Texas
points as they are from Pittsburg to the
same place, and the profits have been con-
sumed 10 getting raw material aud fuel
hauled to st. Louis.
An enumeration taken at Reading of the
furnaces in the Schuylkill Valley which
have recently gone ont of blast because OF
the depression of the iron business shows
that out of 81 first-class furnaces in the
district from Conshohocken to Pottsville,
which were going month ago, II have
closed down and arc taking advantage OF
the temporary dullness to make repairs.
la this II ia the Robson furnace, prOduc-
ing 800 tons per week, the Mount Laurel
and the Macungie furnaces, two at Birds
boro and one in Reading.