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

ore or two other OF the local factories o.
the kind.
The Reading Iron Works, Reading. Pa,
started up on the 27sh ult. with force d
go men, who are paid an increase of
per cent over the wages paid before sus
pension.
There are On the ''City of New York
sixteen Wcrthington steam pumps for feed
ing boilers and other service. These work
ed perfectly throughout the voyage, givins
no trouble whatever. The pump which
gave out was Of foreign make, and was &
circulating pump.
Forepaugh told Boston man the othel
day that he had an acre of teeth. Their
be brought him in the circns and showed
him the large audience with its mouth
open. He says one OF three city and nine
of every ten country reaidents show theil
teeth during the show.
The German Company silversmiths, o.
Providence, r will erect structure in
H shape at Elmwood, suburb, that will
cover almost mile of ground, and viii
employ 1900 persona The main building
will be 4l9x256 feet. The place will be in
operation in two years.
The week has been fairly satisfactory In
trade. Though the volume of business
was moderate, there il q healthy tendency,
aud dealers are awakening from their sum
mer lethsrgy. Glass is in slightly better
demand and the crockery market is i'm
proving. Pottery aRd GldSStcdre.
Five st. Louis laundries have organized
to kill commission branches, the proprie-
tors say. But since the late reduction In
prices the small dealers claim that the
combine" intends to run its shops at a
lOss till the small factories are killed. The
Chinese run seventy-fiye places in St Louis,
and take in $40, 600 per year.
A Chicago man who Was down in Ala
bams recently says he saw geese at farm
work near Porter's Gap They were run
into a cotton field, and they eat all the
weeds, not touching the cotton. The far
mer places q small vessel Of water under
the neck Of each goose, 80 that they eat
aud drink till he takes them away.
L. A 81, composed of glass eugrsyers,
met on Sunday in their hall IN Pittsburg.
Reports received showed that at no place
in the western district, with two excep,
LUIS, law NhC uCuldutb DCCh nOooAoSSAJ
refused, but that the proprietOrs of the
glass houses have paid under protest, and
assert they will discontinue glass engrav-
lug of the cheaper wares.
During the summer the greater part Of
the machinery of the Birmingham, Ala
Rollipg Mills has been oyerhauled and
thoroughly repaired. The small mill and
the bar mil have resumed operations.
This also includes the pudding mill. The
remaining pudding mills were to resume
operations last week. The sheet and plate
mills will begin regular work again some
time during September.
The English skilled labor market is re-
ported TO be steadily improving. The
number Of people unemployed is still in
excess of years when trade was active, but
a nearer approach is being made to the con-
ditions noted four or five pears ago. The
building, engineering and shipping trades
note the most improvement. Wages in the
engineering trade are gradually recovering
from the reductions imposed several years
ago.
The importance of cheap fuel to met
allurgical works is receiving an illustra-
ton in the proposition TO remove the Great
Boston and Colorado Smelling Works from
Argo or Denver to Trinidad, Col. The
works are said to use some 300 tons dsy,
which at Denver costs 81 so ton, while
the town council Of Trinidad has offered to
make sn agreement to supply the works
with coal at 81 a ton, as an inducement to
locate them there.
Bayaria's salt minCs have an annual pro-
duction of 30, OOO tons Of table and 1000
tons Of rock salt, and are extensive enough
to supply the world. By King Ludwick' g
orders, all visitors who enter the beds
must divest themselves of their clothes and
put Oh another suit which the government
provides. The clothes for men are all
white. and women must put on loose
black trousera, n skirt like q ballet girl,
a leather seat aud a skull cap, The mel
also tie on leather seat. The latter is
for sliding a Ia toboggsn from one gallery
astrids long board to another bed that IL
being developed, maybe 300 feet below.
Deep in the mines there are pretty lakes.
The S.onecutters' Assembly, K. of l. ,
of CINCINNATI, which left the Knights last
spring. has been followed by the With
drswal of the Stonemasons' Assembly.
The latter organization has 800 members,
aud leaves because aid was refused in 8
strike against non-union men who were
working for So 30 per day. The union
wages are So p per day. They will join
the Stonemssons' Union, the headquarters
of which are at ST. Louis.
The Association Of German Statesmen o.
Detroit opened its club house on Friday
1t is handsome three.story building, and
has all modern eouveniences. II has lis
active and Is honorary members. They
pay S. week for four months per wear tf
sick members. When q member dies each
man is assessed 80 cents for the benefit o.
the dscease,i's family.