Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-09-02

The Gainesville Steel and Furnace Co.
has been organized for the purpose Of erect.
ing at Cartersville, Ga, q large furnace to
cost about $30s, 900.
II is said that a California company,
with capital of s., SOC, 900, will establish
an iron pant near Milford, Utah, that will
employ about 800 men,.
0'Lsary Bros. & Co. have remodelsd
their window glass factory at Monongshela
City, Pa, so a. to operate with natural gas
at the resumption October 8
The two labor leaders, Mr.. Powdsrly
and Mr.. GOmpsrs, pressed palms in New
York this week and are now, apparently,
friendly. -7Re Craftsman
The agitation Ofthe Knights has brought
about the abolition of contract prison labor
in Minnesota. The law takes effect on
September i. At present the eonvicts art
working on sacks, because the present
supply comes from Scotland, and therefore
does not compete with home labor. In
California, Cleveland and Detroit the pris-
oners work only at one kind of manufact-
ure. Over As, 900 convict laborers average
about % cents per day.
The London correspondent of the Mems
OWtftter says: "Ths Irish Exhibition
shows some very perfect specimens OF linen
collars and cuffs. The best hosiers OF New
Bond street tell me that the Irish quite
take the palm in collars and cuff; the fin
ish, and the purity of the linen, and the
perfect bleaching OF the linen itself, are
not approached by even the best houses in
London.
The North Carolina Farmers Allianee'
representing 40, 600 members, in convsn-
ton few days ago demanded the discOn-
tinuanee Of the practice of making con-
yicts work for railroads and corporations
for no pay. They also declared that no
State official should accept railway passes,
and requested that railway commission
should be formed.
The stream of gas that shoots from q
Canonsburg, Pa, well looks like solid
shaft Of blue steel They say that the
pressure of this boring is the strongest OF
any in the world. When the gas was
struck tools weighing 5000 pounds were
blown before it like feathers.
The Sisters Of Charity of Lesvenworth,
Kan, have announced that for $40 per
year any person will be taken care of in
their institution at any time he may be
taken sick. They announce that the charge
is made because the hospital is not self
sustaining.
The greatest cattle market in the world
is ut Dep,tord, near London, and, of
course, the statistics show that the Amer
lean breed il iR the greatest demand, de-
spite the finely built Dutch and Portu-
CUES cattle.
Bangor, Me, receiues 10000, 900 feet
of lumbsr yearly down the Peuobscot
river, the value of which il one cent per
foot Names lumber production is worth
IS, 900, 900 per year.
Omaha expects to be supplied with oil
from the Wyoming field before two years,
lust as the stuff 10 now being piped from
Lima, O., to Chicago, nearly 800 miles.
At Jersey City the Workingmen's Sick
and Death Benefit Association has been or
ganizsd exclusively OF members in labor
unions.
The rice planters and receivers who Or
ganizsd at New Orleans to fight the mill
era combination have already purchased a
factory.
Two hundred East Saginaw, Mich, log
drivers, who make from $50 to 500 q
month, have struck for an advance OF s. q
month.
The largest china vase in the world is IL
feet high, is valued at $40, 600, and it took
eight years to make it-at Hsnley, Fog.
Many Martins Ferry, O., iron workers
who went to Alabama have returned home
because of the climate. 1t made them
sick.
The cedar shingle mills of Oregon and
Washington Territory have combiDed.
The production is worth 81 600, 600 year.
The entire output of a Lisbon, N. H.,
shoe peg mills, 600 bushels for the past
seasons shipped to Germany.
The tiniest of screws 90 in watches.
The smallest is 1000 Of an inch in diam
eter.
At Norfolk, Neb., q cooperative coal
yard has been established by the K. of L..
At Chicago the Seamen's Union has aG-
vanced pay to 81 from 81 so per day.
Montana received 10, OCO head Ct cattle
from Texas in two weeks recently.
Seamen at Toronto make from 81 10
81 80 per day.
Suit is to be brought against several
Pennsylvania manufacturers to recover
the penalty provided for the violation Of
the United States contract labor law.
There are a number of new "lsbor"
papers starting up Just now with political
tendency. There will be some lonesome
funerals about the middle of November.
The Lawrence Furnace Co, of Ironton,
o., proposes to build Bottom coke furnace
in the vicinity of its present idle charcoal
furnace at Culhertson, Lawrence county.
The Rosena Furnace, New Castle, Pa,
operated by Oliver Bros. e Phillips, has
been undergoing extensive repairs the past
three months, and will be blown in soon.
A new window glass factory will be
erected at Pendleton, Ind, q company
having been formed for the purpose by
Charles Fl. Roach. The building Is in
rapid progress.
The total value OF all kinds of minerals
produced in the UuitCd States during 1897
was $5SS. O56, 3l5. This is the largest TO-
tai ever reached by the mineral industries
OF any country.
The Comfy Iron and Steel Co, of Cbica-
20, capital stock 81, $50, 600. WAS recently
incorporated by Arnold Brecher, Lsiug
Leland, j. Rowland SilveTs and Sumner
stowe
workmen engaged in the consolidated
Rockford and Astabuls bit works, to the
number of AZ, have moved from Rockford
to Kokomo, Iud., to work in the 4 rekford
bit works now being built there.
The Crystal and the Enterprise Window
Glass companies. of Bellaire, o., declared
10 per cent dividends on tbs 18th of Aug
gust. The latter will apply its surplus to
the erection OF window house ut Findlay,
o.
WitherOw's iron works, at New Castle,
Pa, will in few days increase the pres
ent force of 40 msn TO no, having just
received contract tn erect three more
blast furnaces for the De Bardaleben Iron
Company, at Bessemer, Ala
n Il