Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-09

total production in 1883 has been 3, 723,
143 tons, against 2S.1s6,749 tons in the
frat ten months o. 1887.
The combined carpenters unions IF the
Brotherhood in ST. Louis and vicinity have
made formal demand for eight hours as a
davis work, and IS Is day IS the mini
mum wsgss, to 90 into effect April 1st,
1889. Circular notices to the above Ell CT
have been sent ont TO 393 contractors and
builders, and to "a architects. The st.
Louis unions are ell growing splendidly.
The steel works of Pittsburg are grad
ually becoming connected by marriage.
F. 3. Ninick, cfSings-, Nimick & Co was
married last week to Miss Howe, whose
relatives are of the Howe, Brown q Co
works, and s couple of years ago q. d.
Singer was married to Miss Smith, daugh'
ter of the senior member of Smith Bros. d
Co., La Belle steel works. The father OF
Young Singer. W. II. Singer, owns an IN
ter, St in the Homestead works, and the
Nimicks ere also in Phillips, Ninlck q
Co., Sligo Iron Works
Chow can I bscome coed mechanic?
Wool and Iron Age ssys: The watchWord
of advance il, think. Think in all times
and places. Remember that one hours
earnest thought upon subject on which
you have b:e1 reading is worth ten extra
hours Of reading upon il. The mechanic
who will persistently study and think OF
his business will not down. He will GER
tainly come to the front even though ne
were confined in the walls of a prison"
A point for blacksmithS from the Scien-
tifc american, Take battery or mag
neto maohine-one that gives a. light cur
rent, say such as can only be felt with
mois; bands. Attach one terminal to the
animals bit, the other to the shoe. II
the horse suffers from the shoe or nails ne
will suuirm undec the test. If there be
no irritation he will pay no attention
to it."
The employees of Brooklyn street-car
company will strike if the owners do not
let up on fines. A conductor and driver
we're iued $40 because their car had been
scratched dursng parade. Another time
they were faed S. for scratch that boy
made.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says. "The
iron manufacturers OF this country have
had two years of activity, AID from indl'
cations-observsble in the o!e trade q
Cieve'ani-a year Of even increased pros
pe'ity is ahead"
The Toronto Trades Council has re
auested the city to inform intending en-:
grants from England that the Canadisr
| labor market is overstocked. The legis
ture will be asked TO abolish the existing
| immigration laws.
William F. Nsvigold, of Bristol Pa.
has been in Rome, Ca, making final ar
engagements for the establishment CT
large rolling mill plant ia that place. Tn
product will be largely hoop iron and cot
TIN ties.
At Lawrence (Msss the Atlantic cot
ton mills brra1-lOom Wesvers havs hat
their wages reduced 20 per Ceat, pllcinl
their pay slightly above the wages II
Salem and Walthsm.
At Santa Barbra, Gal, carpenters ge
fro n s.. 80 to So 90 per day; Kansas City
fton 81. so to 81 rs; Denver s. so to So U
and an eight-hour day; Hutchinson, Kan.
81 50 to 1926.
Micsiah Henley, of Richmond, Ind,
woods aver, imp toved crude roLer-skat
made by o poor felOw-tOwnsnan. III
patented it, and sfIer hard coaxing go
soma moneyed men to build factory TO
the manufacture of the skates. In tw'
years he was worth $25O,O 600 and OWNED
big house. About thirty factories WEI
erected at Richmond ts supply the de
maud. To day all the shops are close,
except one, aud it is only making few.
A company with 100000 has beer
| formed at Denver, Col, which will manu
facture pipe. This pipe is to have tw'
bowls and two stems. Ths inner bow
and stem will absorb the nicotine ant
other impurities, 60 that only pure smok
will come to the smoker.
Nine girls in the Buffalo Telephone Elk
change have struck against handling fit!
additional wires, or one hundred alto
gether. They fear that one-hait OF thei
number will be laid off if one girl is to b
made 90 the work that two formerly hand
led.
Every important State in Europe has it
fot.stry department which yields ne
revenue. Saxony gets revenue OF s.. 2
Tor every acre of forest, and Alsace-Lor
raine about az much.
Flour mills ip various parts of the Coun
try will shortly shut dpwn two weeks
Others for three, aud some Others will Gu
dow their production.
Tne brick'a ayers, plssterers and stonecut
tiers are not in the Central Labor Union
New York. Taey tx wages aud othe
matters by the year.
The Building Trades Council of Rich
mond, Va, will ask Cor gress to discOn
tinue the granting of contract work CT
government buildings.
A cooperative cotton mill is being bnil
at Atlanta, Ga for $3.50, 600. There sr
$500 shares al 800 pr shara, payable s
per week.
Prot. Woodward, Of the Washington
University, recently addressed the Work
ingmen's Self Culture Club, of st. Louis
The daily increase in the wealth of tn
states is 81, 5OO,0O0 This sum is one
third Of the gain In the rest Of the world
Thirty moldsrs Of North's shop, at NeI
Haven, have won strike against tel
per cent. reduction in wages.
The jIurneyGen plumbers are again
working up their union. 1t is said theI
lost 800 900 in trying to regulate the EN-
ployment of apprentices in 1886.
MARTINS FERRY.
Amenber of the FIRE department propose