Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-02-19
twenty-five miles long. The distance
from the shipping port to New York isl $40

from the shipping port to New York is ], S4C
miles.
Superintendent Baermsn, Of the Troy
IN. " Water Department, has written a
letterin which he disapproses of the plumb.
ing done by the department for the general
public, in that il is not only properly with
in the scope of the department but COM
petes with the individual plumber besides.
A convention of textile workers will be
held in Philadelphia on February II, aud
the carpenters and joiners will hold their
convention in Cleveland on March 6. Each
local assembly of these different crafts will
be entitled to one delegate for 100 mem
bers or majority fraction thereof.
A large number of union cigarmakers
of New York have formed the International
Revenue Abolition League, through which
to agitate the removal Of the tax on cigars.
President Strasser, of the International
Cigarmakers' Union, says they must not
take part in any such agitation.
Two divisions of street railway employees,
attached 10 the National District Assembly
recently formed, have been organized, one
including the men on lines in New York,
and another in Kings and Suffolk u
ties. A call will soon be issued'to form
another in Philadelphia.
Some Milwaukee, Wis horseshoers have
gone out because their employer wanted
them to work on machine-made shoes.
They have J cen receiving g at the fire and
81 rs on the floor. The HorseshoeTs
Union has 40, 600 members and a fund Of
$40, 600.
At Birmingham, Ala, the real estate
craze hiss ended, and many spectators
have been muleted. Nevertheless enter
pIiaes are busy and new ones are talked OF.
Additional miDeral lands are being disccv-
cred throughout the State.
Tue Swindell Construction Company, OF
PitisbuIg, have contracted with the Henry
DiSstOn Saw Works, Of Philadelphia, for
the erection of Crucible steel smelling fur
naces, which will increase its steel produc-
ing capacity so per cent:
The clothing trades and the other ten
sections of the Central Labor Union snd
all the Assemblies of the knights Of Labor
of New York and adjoining cities have 70
ted moral and financial support TO the
Reading strikers.
". II. Tiff, of Triton, Ga, has Just pur-
chased 10, 900 acres of yellow pine timber
lands for $40, 900, making his present pos
sessions Of timber land in Georgia amount
to 100, 900 acres.
1t has been stated on good authority that
it will require upward Of 1900 ears to
transport the orange crop OF California,
now just coming to perfection, 10 Eastern
markets.
Il Is said that the strike Of the employees
of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Gem
pany, at Sandwich, Mass, is killing local
trade and practically running the town.
Work on the main building of the South
ern Agricultural Works, at Atlanta, Ga +,
has been carried on night and day, electric
lights having been introduced.
The cfcmatory for the consumption OF
garbage at Chicago has been completed. 1t
ia the intention 10 erect similar buildings
in each district of the city.
Electric railroads have been laid in thir-
teen cities. One of them at Montgomery,
Ala , covering eleven miles, carried l,COO,-
900 people last year.
The Southside Land Owners Protective
Association, of Pittsburg, has resolved to
publish the names Of tenants who do not
pay their rents.
Harper, Kan, has refused to accept the
water works constructed for it by a Mr.
Hill, the test having proved unsatisfactory.
At Irwin, Pa, a company has been or
gauizsd 10 manufacture hardware novelties,
lawn W and other machinery.
A 81, 0O0, GOO Iron and Coal Company
has Just been organized at Tiapeville, Ky.
the center of a rich mineral district.
There is an Italian Chamber of Com
merce in San Francisco composed OF ltal-
ian merchants of that city.
Westchester, Pa, offers new manuiacto-
ries immunity from taxation for ten years.
The Indianapolis Gas Trust intends to
have 200 miles of pipe laid by Junel.
There are go. 900 Knights OF Labor in
good standing.
Trade is reported brisk in the clothing
line.