Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-04-29
pbsrIias Register
OF ALL SORTS.
,,r CHANCES FOR NEN ON THE WATCH
FOR WORK.
,.,a., Big Steel Plant al ChissSO-A List Of
New Mills Rountres and
FSctonS-POmhS
TRADE NOTES.

and steel trade is becoming stsgnant
S.tSsr big steel manufacturing plant is
:, 10 be started at Chicago. The Illinois
fling Mill Company was incorporated
t5s Goth instant with aespital stock OF
an 600. According to ]. L. Pau, Jr.,
- AZ the ~incOrporetcrs, the mill will be
mil blast in q very short time and will
IN ont q fine quality of Bsssemer steel.
Among the new industries are q steam
Is,-miil at Ashton, Ne; corn factory,
bsrr,fsld, Me-; iron foundry, SOuthing-
H. Conn. sugar-min Topeka, Kan. iron
buudry, Orange, Mass; rattan factory,
EAktfald, Mass optical instrument mill,
$,nthhridge Mass ; pulp and paper mill,
Gususts, Me-; coffin trimmings works,
Ts-x. Conn ; stocking-mill, Manchester,
* H; foundry, Mechanic Falls, Me
naDer-mill, near Ewing, Mass Erist-mill;
NCoOk, Nea.; cooper factory, Portland,
Ne :wOOlen-mills, Delaware county. Ia,
and a lumber developing company at Port
land, Me.
y The men employed at packing brick in
Denver, Col, yard struck because only
a & cents per 1,OO0 lsst years wages) was
ka,rsd them. while they claim that 35
4 ,spts was agreed ON. All the employees OF
hat ward siraek to force that rate. Then
s. the association OF owners shut down every
ward 10 the city, throwing over /, 900 men
ont The capacity Of the Denver yards is
$4,000 bricks . day. Molders receive
q 80 per 10000, settlers So so q day,
whselers 81 aud ~Of-bearers 81 % q day.
Coal is being developed in the following
States and Territories: Alabama, Arkansas,
California, Colorado, DlkOta, Georges,
I~liaois, Indians, Indian Territory, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan,
Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, anthracite and
bituminols: Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Yir-
GINA, Washington Territory, West Vir-
guia aud Wyoming Territory.
Mr. Chamberlain, Of the Sheffield Ala. !
iroa mines, think that iron ore may be alb
andOaed before long, He says that alum
iuum. which 10 three times as strong as
s.sel and but one-third IS heavy, will
soue day BE- extracted from clay at q small
est. At present il casts $500 to extract q
ton. he believes that an invention that
will extract the metal viii be mAde at no
late day.
Some coke operators have consolidated
and formed j company with q capital of
SL,2O0,O 600 which will control !, $50 ovens,
the second largest in the COnnellSville
region. Frick * Co own :, 765 ovens, the
SchOOamaSer Company 1907, and the
Conceivable Coke and Iron Company has
1000 There are IL, 46S ovens in the Con-
nellsyille district.
Every year hundreds of ~stoneeutters
come from Scotland 70 this country, joia
the union a0d 70 back to Scotland at the
end OF the season and live in luxury OF
what thsy haYs earned here. To put a
stop to this the stOuecutters' unions Of
Pittsbarg and New York raised the initia-
ton fee from $40 to so.
Employees who were building railroad
between Rockford, Ill, and FreepOrtaSked
for straw beds in place Of the blankets on
which they had been sleepieg in the cars.
The boss refused the request and the men
gave him - good threshipg. The beds
were on hand the following day.
The Oil City Derrick say that IS, 600 pc
trOleum wells have been driven in Penn
s~ylvania and New York. The product sold
for $500, 900, 600, 3 profit OF $500 ,OOO, 600.
The expectation of the oil was 1921, 1O2,-
923 gallons. About $50. 900, cool invested
in natural gas in this State.
Pittsburg and Allegheny X. OIL. cigar
makers in $50 factories work ten hours .
day and are paid 81 80 less per thousand
than union men 10 osber cities, where eight
hours constitute a day. The Pittsburgers
will ask for tins boafs and wages in force
in other towns
The Indianapolis Leader say the Knights
Of Labor are succeeding beyond all expec-
tations in establishing assemblies in Eng
land. Notwithstanding that wages are
lower than here, the membsrs there pay
their dues a good deal better than here.
1t is probable that Machinery Construct
ors' Assembly, No 79l, OF Pittsburg, will
withdraw from the knights atthe Conven
ton in Wa3hiogtOn in jane and join the
Federation Of Trades. This organization
has 13GOO members.
Toe employees of the Newark IN. J.l
Steel Work., who were on strike for o q
weeks, have gone out again because nom
union men have been employed. TIE pro-
prietor now says that he will not employ
union mep.
The Boston Mass J street ear companies
have granted the rSquest OF their 5,OOO
drivers aud conductors for q ten-hour day
al 81 a day, with time for meals. Promo
tiOns will be made on the civil service
plan.
Hamilton. Can, stOneeutteIs want 81
cents an hour, an advance Of 4 cents over
last seasons wages. The Toronto cutters
are paid So cents an hour. Hamilton
painters have struck for 20 cents "a hour.
A Butchers and Meatcutters' Union has
bsen formed at Bnffllo, n. j. The boiler
makers have organized u branch OF the IN
ternational BOilermakers and Iron Ship
builders Association.
The american MaR1fdsiErer shows that
25S blast furnaces in the Uoited States
with q weekly output OF 1l6 347 tons were
in operation on April I, and 3O3 with 3 ca
pAcity Of So, 297 were shut down.
A Pittsburg firm will establish at Find
lay, Ohio, \ factory foe making seamiess
steel pipes where the uss Of natural gas az
the plant will operate % cause q saving OF
$3.50, 600 = year on fuel.
A company with 3 capital Of $50 600 600
has been formed at New York 10 engage
in the refining of sugar by electricity,
which Henry Friend claims can BE done
a. IS cents per ton.
Newark, N. j., workingmen have de-
,nounced the boss brewers OF New fork
VS0Sose men are on strike. New York crafts
.ra,ve also decided to fine members VINO
rink pool beer.
The Producers Protective Association OF
OIL men has decided to close the Canon.
burg field to strengthen the shut down"
agreement which Is to last till November
next.
Pittsburg timers have formed q brancn
Of an International organization OF TIM
nsrs aud corniee workers which proposes 70
join the American Federation OF Trsdes'
One OF the leading stores OF Sacramento,
Cal, has placed seats behind its counters
for the accommodation OF women and giris
while not waiting on customers.