Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-08-26
TRADE NOTES.

Sttaip hbcAoAy auu oOCAh NiuO.
There are no window panes in Mexican
houses. Bars are used instead.
An Indiana company will invest $780,
600 in wooden factory at Derby, Kan.
A bakers union has been formed at Pat
tsrson, n. J. 1t has So members.
A Liverpool jam mills operatives will
soon have /, 400 cottages erected for their
use.
Columbia, Pa, puddlers are on strike
against q reduction from 81 05 TO So 10
par ton.
Last years wheat production was ?, 1913, =
900, 900 bushels, and that of 1885 was
2,O25, 900, 600.
Santa Fe section hands, who have been
getting 81 per day, have been reduced to
SO cents.
Car shops at Laredo, Texas, to be erect
ed by the Mexican National railroad, will
cost $500, 900.
Six thousand brewers supply Bavaria
with beer. The tax half supports the gov
eminent.
The rice planters and receivers recently
formed society at New Orleans to fight
the milleTs.
In 1861, 419 women worked in England
AZ printing, aud their number has in
creased to about 1900.
Chicago's 1000 boot and shoe workers
include 900 females. They are 10 four K.
of l.. assemblies.
The gathering of buffalo bones has again
become business at Manitoba. Chicago
recently ordered $50 carloads.
Colchester, Conn, rubber arctic and
shOemakers have struck against reduc-
ton in wages of from 20 to % per cent.
The Amslgamsted Carpenters Society
has unions in every English-spsakiug
country, including India and Australia.
On labor day at Minneapolis, Mimi,
the Mayor called upon all employers to
shut down. Everybody had jolly time
The Hebrew Typographical Union of
New York began its first strike some days
ago. 1t was sgaipst non-union men.
About $4,000 cattle will be sent from
the Wyoming roundup. Larger prices
will be realized this year than were last
season.
The Hebrew Peddlers' Union, of New
York, has requested Mayor Hewitt not to
allow BOYS under Is to pursue the voca-
| liou.
Boston union bricklsyers get So % per
day. There has heeu complaint that in
suburb only 81 % has been paid on q job.
Trained women cooks get $3.50 per year
in Quebec and Montreal. In some far
Western cities the craft make $500 per
year.
The great number Of big steamships that
years ago filled the Mississippi are fast dis
appearing. The railroads have taken their
places.
Nearly 435, OOO, 600 stamped envelopes
were made at the agency of the Govern
ment at Hartford, Conn.,, Daring the year
preceding June l.
New South Wales railroads are controlled
by the government Lately q steamboat
company has secured great deal Of the
trade.
Rochester shoemakers, il is claimed,
mage more wages than the craft in other
cities. Eastern men average better pay
than their western brothers, where week
work prevails.
The State convention of the Knights of
Labor Of Michigan decided to recommend
the adoption of Henry Georges single tax
ss one of the principles OF the order to the
general assembly.
The Cincinnati brass firm which ordered
its men to work so hours per week COM
promised at $50 hours. The 800 hands
will work 10R hours per day and till one
o'clock on Saturday.
A leading Pittsburg chemist says that
with natural gas and the skill of our work
men American glass ia now the finest in
the world, excelling the famous product
of Belgium and France
There are 1000 kinds of thread. The
spools are numbered by this method.
When $40 yards weigh pound its spool is
No. 1; when twice $40 yards make o
pound il is No. 2 thread, and so on up.
The strike of the 200 Kansas City stone
cutters, on March l, for an eight hour day
and fifty cents per hour has been declared
of. Only lew Of the men have obtained
work At Topeka, Kan, 125 stonecutters
struck at the same time. Their places
were filled by eastern importstions. The
employers union will not employ any
union man. Both cities are paying from
Twenty-Five to forty-fiye cents per hour.
The Montreal Star says: What Canada
vents is the kind of labor which will make
the waste places of the Northwest and
other parts of the country productive. A
larger area of cultivated land and q fuller
development of our mineral resources will
give more employment to the inhabitants
of these cities and towns. The increase of
our population, if We are to prosper, must
be symmetrical To effect this, immigra-
ton should be judiciously directed"
The Real Estate Record, speaking of the
revelations made before the congressional
immigration committee, says: "The treat
ment these working women have received
must create great doubts rs to the truth
fitness of the much Wanted dignity which
surrounds American Labor. At all events,
. disposition to make palpers of American
work people and decided preference for
the labor Of imported paupers exists right
here among American manufacturer"
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
says: 1.-THE combination Of great agricultu-
raj prosperity-great, at least, as COM
pared with any other year since the war
and vast manufacturing and railroad in
terests, bringing wealth to the lsborer and
capitalist alike, is rapidly making the
whole south rich. And unless all signs
fail or some widespread disaster overtake
the cotton crop during the coming month,
we may lcok for season Of such business
activity as the south has never known be-
| fore"
The Bessemer Manganese and Furnace
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