Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-06-17
TRADE NOTES.

cate and sgitste, and the public will Sc,
that the workingmen are treated fairly
The Chicago Times says the knight,
have lost thousands of members in thai
city since the kick in last October
About 80, 600 have Joined q society formed
by the kickers. The shoemakers talk o.
forming a trade district. The painter,
have dropped on, and nearly all the car,
penters have also left the organization.
The workiDgmen OF Indianapolis held q
mass meeting last week, at which resolu.
tons were passed denounciDg the contract.
or, who has the contract for laying the
natural-gas pipes for employing Italians,
who work for 50 cents day.
They have been making 50 ton guns al
Portsmouth, England, and are talking OF
introducing the Alton variety. Nearly
30, 600 people live at Portsmouth on wages
errned in doing some kind of work on
Eogland's big guns.
Thirty eobblestenes PAYERS employed by
the city of Brooklyn struck last week for
81 day in place of So so. The men have
been working eight hours day. 10 New
York city the PAYERS get 1926 for q ten
hour day.
The Knights in the Albany breweries
| have been back on q verbal agreement,
which provides about the same rules as
have been in force heretofore. 0aly one
brewery is yet non-union.
The capacity of the Findlsy co. nat
ural gas wells spurting already is so, 900,
600 feet, and 10 is claimed that if all the
beds were developed sufficient oil could be
obtained to supply the world.
The miners at the Blue Creek Gala.
beds have accepted the offer of the COM
pany-40 cents a ton for coal when the
iron sells for Sl3, and 40 cents when the
product is worth SIS.
The Knights intend to start a co-opera-
tive colony on several hundred acres o!
ground near GlenwoOd Springs, Col. Can
ming factories and other establishments
will be operated.
Belgium exported 10,13 tons of steel
rails in January, February and March
3, 900 tons less than the quantity sent to
other countries during the same period Of
last year.
The National Steam-Fitters' Union has
been formed. Ii has members in Massa-
ehusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois,
Wisconsin and Minnesota
The International Workingmen's Educa-
tional Society of Omaha, held it's first ball
some days ago. The society engages lee
turers on various topics.
The glass workers at Gate City, Ala.
where about ssyenty-fve men will be en-
ployed, are to be in operation in Ssptem-
| Der.
The value of the mineral production Of
Canada during eSST was s., 429, 7l2 more
than that of the previous year.
The largest fiour-mill in the world will
be established at Duluth, Mimi. The ca
paeity will be 6. 600 barrels day.
The bricklayers' strike at Omaha fol
eight hours has been lost. The men will
work nine hours a day for $3.50.
The export of tea from Annoy, China, to
WAS Is, 297, GIT pounds.
Nearly 4, 500 girls and women are en-
ployed around the Oppels mine, many Of
them at night
Seyenty-fVe machInists at Rochester, N.
Y, struck last week because the windows
were nailed down.
The twenty-eight lasters of Rochester,
| IN. Y }, shop struck last week for Satur'
day hatf-hOlidsy.
The bootblacks of Lincoln, Neb., have
formed q union and raised the price of
shine to 10 cents.
The st. Louis grOcers gave $500 in prizes
to the victors in athletic sports at theiI
picnic last week.
The Middletown del Transcript says
the peach crop this year will be about TO-
600 baskets.
Many Arkansas farmers who have here
tofore cultivated only cotton have begun
to plant fruits.
The merchants of Yickshurg, Miss,
have begun early closing The employees
quitst $50.
The weavers and spinners in Stafford
Springs Conn. mill have lost their strike
A Wallingford Conn firm has just
made fifty silver urns for the Khediye oil
Egypt.
The Knights will not support the strike
in the Pratt Mines, near Birmingham.
A south Keene On. H firm has orders
from France for sewing machines.
The stove molders of Toronto have been
granted Saturday half-holiday.
Three Georgia counties viii ship as many
as /, OOO, 600 melons this season.
Anew York cigar manufacturer will re-
move his plant 10 Tampa, Fla.
The sails of agricultural implements has
been unusually large this year.
Rolling mills in South Germany have In
creased prices As cents per ton.
Nearly all the candy manufacturers Of
Buffalo are in combination.
The Cooperative Society Of Darwin,
England, will erect new mill.
The worlds production of Bessemei
steel in 1897 was 1869, 767 tors, or 20 pei
cent. more than the output of 1886.
Cargo boat coolies at Hong Kong, China,
have lost a strike.
The Chicago brickmskers haFel lost then
strike.
The capacity of England's ships Is s,'
OO0, 600 tons.
The Hartman Manufacturing Company
of Beaver Falls, Pa, has been ineorPor'
ated with q capital of 500, 900. ID. W.
Hartman, f. NJ. Shellaberger, Charles W.
Wylie, Michael Shsllaberger and A. III
Eicholtz are the incorporators.
The Cambria Iron Company. at Johns
town, Pa, has completed large tough
eping machine under Coffto's patent fol
turning ont locomotive axles tor the
larger Sizes
The first casting made in steel forging
works of the Bethlehem Iron Company,
BsthIehem, was made recently. The
casting is the base for large steel com
nresscr, and over 100 tons OF iron were
used in making it.
The Findlsy, Ohio, land syndicate have
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