Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-02-26
LOCAL NOTES.

TLa LaEs.le CaS DtSn UAAluS AioeIaA
,,;,rs,ts the past week, and IS running
fall.
.,,,riirg to The S~:eUbenville Gazette,
everything IS ruuGias tuli blast at MingO.
Tho f.rit iar manufacturers report prices
81, init iars sufenirg materially, with the
npsp,cls ci . god fruit yield.
The strike OF the diGt glass workers con-
nm il st,.g gio, with poor prospects for
an immediate adjustment.
Thu C-ntral Glass Works started up the
fr,ory at noon Thursday, and will be run
nog IN all departments 10 morrow morn
ilg
The Belmont nail mill is running the
',ryer part Ct her machines, and Is making
sI,nmsnts The blast furnace is still
banked down, awaiting favorable develop
men:s.
TIE Too Mill nail factory is running
nearly :ull and the plate rolls are kept
blSy.
TIE Speuce Machine Works, Martins
Ferry. besides q fair run Of general work,
are busy on threshing machines getting
ready :or the coming summer.
Nessrs Sweeney < Son are engaged on
TIE 6a,te,7 NJ boilers for the new Spears
Axle Works. They are to be 30 feet long,
l. inches H. diameter, and three in num-
Der.
Trade y c2c3 with tie Bridgeport Glass
Company. La, weak they shipped eleven
car leads Of .ruit lrs TO st. Louis, and Z
fue invoice 10 Cincinnati By the steamer
Sdirlsg.
Captain John Porter has recently added
to his immense l-e-bTirk establishment at
New Cumberland, VI. Va, a new and
powerful automatic brick machine, making
the third one he has pat Up within a yesr.
The Eso1 class Works are shut down,
waiting the outcome Of the strike. They
have plyrly of orders and are making daily
shipments o. such goods as they have in
stock.
Eyerg,lioc IS on in fall, at ;lie Jefferson
at StsuhrHv,i.e, v,.h good prospects ahead
I'll, July; then j. Is hoped it will be the
same irom thai On a. il is now. They X
psCI 20 have all selt-ieederS on before long.
In tact, '0sre is not nary handled ma
chimes AZ present. MlRgo has all self
feeders except the spike and q few Ore
The published report in the morning
papers that the wsgeS of iurnacemen at the
Bellaire Mill had been advanced 10 per
cent IS a error. The wages of q portion
OF the !uIugC men, not all as reported,
were advanced 10 cents day, tOeVen them
up with the Junction scale.
At the Riverside matters are running
smoothly; the skrlp, bar and nail depart
ments ale RAINING full, and the plate and
steel works are on double turn. The skelp
mill will % on double turn tomorrow.
The demand fo- their steel pipe continues
steady, and receipts Of orders are liberal.
One Of tie important industries Of
wheeling - The box malutsctory of Mr..
CHRIS SreiGmetl, On Main st. He has
reSen'.g c,c ted y dle brick block, four
stores high ada specially adapted to that
business and filed It with firSt-class ma
chinery. Il Is probably one of the best
equipped and most COnTsCieut factories of
The Eind Ia the c0untry, and gives employ
ment to twenty-five hands.
The old Kenyon foundry. at Sseubep-
vile, is TO be revived by Uiso. l. Conn &
son, who Will, at present, contine them
selves 10 castings, aud after q little will
commence the manufacture OF stoyes,
CRATES and fronts.
2~Jeaoeayule is to have another pottery,
WIN a capital stock Of $5O,OsO. A charter
nS Ceeh applied lar. ard an organization
"iI ne mad Immediately. The building
wiz o9 2'INlOS ieet and four stories high.
I'm hundred eerches Of stone and 600
wv OF'cS will be required for its construc-
SOn. II will be arranged for six kilns,
Ou' q Will only be put up at present.
At the West Virginia China Works the
Iarp-ntsr wogk on the main buildipg il
S,"P's'e', aud the machinery is now
SsIls put "a position under the superinten-
TehGy OF Mr. Cooley, Of New Jersey. who
ou5t H. The work is bei5g pushed rapidly,
andlt IS expected that 6perations viii
commence ny the middle OF March, and
rI " ready to I'LL orders By the first of
I~"' Suu PROBABLY before.
Everything lively and busy about the
Tina, Of bridgeport, Thev ore nsL;nC
49, ''e additions and Improvements 10
sDeS, machinery department, which will
or.U 'osm to increase their facilities and
No. pu'' and improve the economic arrange
Inc Warwick Pottery Companv will
piSca aTty n3'e their engine and boilers in
re- re- .! the end OF the present week.
snS 1sauEg apparatus will be elaborate,
encs ~ new principles, with special refer
n-oS 20 pottery manufacture. They will
5io Iy commence operations by the mid
Vi April, will stsrt with four Rims
G 7 ~pu',s3 Tor an increase to nine. Mr..
Co,sLI n,aasoaw, formerly with W. T.
&c. q Sons, Of EuglSnd, has been
Nanen" superintendent and General
ne employees Of the LsB.Ile plas,
The GA a. Bridgeport, o, have reorganized
future n;T M union of that place, and in
lure Will be known as No. 81.
fuN i oGniaFd mill at Bridgeport was on
III all departments the past week,
as. pOudlers have been working with coal
sSsst r;n us gas Is somewhat scarce. Tn.
OWN .niS mad to lose one day last weeb
inc Is % tne gas. The company are max,
krvsm.uscesSary preparations for the en-,
nssSa"1Ci the mill. They have had
taxing the dimensions Of tn