The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-21
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The Belmont plate mill is running.
The Wheeling pottery has increased the
force in its decorating department.
The Bellaire Cob company Ia shipping
large orders to their New York agent.
The Nail City Lantern Company reports
business good. 1t has added two new
stylea.
The sheet iron mills are experiencing
the usual lull in trade, but the industry is
prosperous.
Mr.. W. L. Glessner, President Of the
Laughlin mill, has gone to Findlay on q
business trip.
The Martins Ferry key and barrel fac.
tory Is making good time this week, large
shipments being made daily.
Mr.. F. ]. Park, of the North Wheeling
glass works, has gone TO Washington, D.
O., on q business and pleasure trip.
The Buckeye glass works have been en-:
Toying steady run since the 10th, and
their shipments are large and frequent.
Claus Beneke has purchased the inter
est Of M. Weilman in the furniture fac
tory Of Beneke & Co., on the South Side.
The Belmont blast furnace lost guam
tity Of ore by the sinking OF the Towns
end, and had to bank down early this
week.
The Steubenville nailers were organized
this week into lodge Of the Amalgamated
Association. The new lodge has forty
members.
F. Brewerman, Of st. Louis, and Will
lam II. Kite, OF Cincinnati, well known
glass buyers, are here making their spring
purchases.
Thomas B. Taylor, mansger Of the
spaulding Iron Works at Brilliant, has
returned from an extensive trip through
the great Southwest
The model barge Columbia, lying at the
Benwood mill, got aground on account Of
the falling river and all her nails, several
thousand kegs, had to be unlosded.
The people Of Guernsey county, Ohio,
are again sgltating the question Of build.
ing q railroad from Cambridge to Free
port to connect with the O., L. & W. road.
All the railroads running into the
Gogebic and Marquette iron region will
reduce rates on iron ore to lake points
20 per cent. The Milwaukee & Northern
has already made the reduction.
An establishment for Strengthening and
shipping dressed meats Is to be located in
Greenbrier county, West Virginia, for the
purpose OF supplying eastern markets.
Greenbrier and Mercer counties ship an.
nuslly 5000 beeves and $4,000 sheep.
The Louisville & Nashville road recently
contracted with the Ensign Oar Works,
Huntington, West Va, for 1000 fiat cars
OF 10000 pounds capacity. Tho first Of
them have reached Louisville. They are
thirty-iour feet long and heavily built.
The sewer pipe manufacturers at New
Cumberland and points near there, are
anticipating lively trade the coming sea-
son. A large number Of cities will put In
extensive Systems Of sewerage, and the
quantity Of pipe consumed will, 1t Is
thought, be enormous,
Mr.. A. W. VoeEhtly, Secretary and
Manager OF the Crystal Window Glass
Company, returned from Washington this
morning. He says the window glass men |
adopted the French price List Of prices on |
all window glass except the third grade OF
double thick, The meeting was the largest
they have ever held.-Bslidire Independent.
The nailers' and stselworkers' lodges Of
the AmalgRmated Association Of MinRo,
held joint meeting In that place Thura-
day, but nothing resulted toward q settle
ment Of the wage trouble at the Junction |
works. The Board Of Directors Of the
junction iron works company also held a
meeting, but there was no conference with
the Workmen.
On February l the Central Traffic Asso-
citation will make glassware in carloads
third, and less than carloads second class.
At present they are third and fourth.clRss.
Under the new classification 1t will be re-
leased by the shipper at valuation Of 10
cents per pound. When not released It
will be taken Of first and second-class rates.
This 10 9 considerable increase In freight
rates.
The repairs at the Mingo steel plant will
be completed this week and the works
will probably reaums next week, unlesg
something connected with the scale will
prevent such resumption. The rebuilding
81 the soaking pit, remodsling Of the
hfenderap at conveItoTg, the pl' cling Of
he blast pipes under ground, and the Inn
proved arrangement for the heating OF the
ovens in the dry house, might be men.
.ioned as the most prominent among the
repairs made.
CONCERT by the Grand Opera House