Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-02-19

The Standard glass works, Of Wellsburg,
W. Va, owned and operated by Mr.. Sam
uel George, are now running n furnace
on fine colored ware and one tank on fruit
jars.
The W. B. Wood Furnace Company
Birmingham, Ala, is now building a for
mace which will have acapacity Of 125 tons
and is expected 10 BE in blast by next No
yeyuber.
The silk business, which Is the life OF
Patterson, n. J, has been very dull for
months past, but indications this week are
for q general revival of trade. A number
of mills are running fall force.
The Welsh tiu-plate makers are trying
to corner tin. A committee has been ap-
pointed, and it is 10 communication with
the Paris crowd that cornered copper. The
Welshmen want to borrow 81, $50, 900 On
Paris to buy up stock. American mer-
chants are standing on to see how 1t shall
turn out. As q general thing the latter
ridicuJe the idea. The programme is to
buy up 400, 900 boxes.
There is a great deal of mistaken talk
going on about railroad building in the
northwest. There are even now nearly
10, 900 miles of railroad projected, and, rs
there is anxiety put money into railroad
building, il is probable that the outside
rather than the inside limit Of railroad
building will be done. -
The Massachusetts, Labor Commissioners
are watching the employment Of child
labor with extreme care. The public
school system has suffered ly factory in
dustry, aud it is now proposed TO correct
this evil.
Oae hundred thousand acres of valuable
coal land in West Virginia have been pur-
cha4ed By Eastern capitalists for immfdi-
ate development. Hard timber, splint,
camel and bituminous coal are abundant.
The general prosperity of the cotton
goods industry of New England is shown
By the enlargement of various plants and
tie introduction of improved machinery.
An Illinois manufacturer recently
shipped uine carloads OF corn shelters to
South America, aud several 10 South
Africa, New Zealand and the Sandwich
Islands.
The construction of railroads through
the mioing regions of the far West has led
10 the projection of quite q number Of new
mining companies.
The largest glass tumbler ever made
inches high and 6 inches across the top
was made at Rochester, Pa. 1t holds so
ounces
Daring the past year textile producing
capacity in the South has been doubled,
a,I fha y,l,a - DrNIunIa baS ipnreaca1 in
light proportion.
According to the Kansas City Star: "a
new society, called the Wheel, is being or
ganizsd among the farmers in Southwest
Missouri. The Wheel is an organization
which claims as its intentions the uniting
of farmers and the breaking down Of mo-
nopolies. They do this by, IS they claim,
compelling merchants to sell all members
ofthe Wheel ut ten per e n above cost
price, and in case the merchant refuses
their proposition they will put up a store
of their own and furnish the members all
their goods ut the actual wholesale cost. "
The Southern Pacific Railroad turned out
.thirty-seven heavy locomotives from the
Sacramento shops in 1887, some weighing
t~fty-SiX tons, and Master Mechanic Ste
vens claims that an engine costing Sll 900
in the Fast can be built at Sacramento for
50, 900. The road has lust ordered twenty
eight more engines, fourteen being freight
engines with lSx20 inch cylinders; seven
will be fifty six ton, ten wheelers, with
16x3O inch cylinders, and seven will have
lsx2S inch cylinders.
Local Assemblies 4119 and APO, of Am
sterdam, n. Y, have decided to bring suit
against the General Executive Board for
the recovery of 81, $50, for which sum they
claim the notes of members Of the Board.
These notes were given to the Amsterdam
knights during the big strike in the car
pet mills there in 1886. This is the first
time In the history Of the Knights of La
bor," says the New York STIR, that the
general officers have been called upon to
defend a suit at law"
The Sloss Iron aud Steel Company own
all the lands and buildings in and around
Coalburg, Ala, to the amount Of Is, 900
acres and 4 large humber of houses. The
little village is regularly laid out in streets,
and is furnished with hydrGnt water, which
is supplied by the water works at the
mines. There are over l25 frame dwell
ing honses, which the company rents at
from 81 TO 81 80 a room per month. These
dwellings are well built, containing from
two to six rooms.
SAYS the Savannah Ncrs: Gen. George
I. Fry thinks there is no doubt that the
Atlantic, Atlanta and GSeat Western Rlll.
road, Of which he is President, will be
built. He says work on it will be begun
early in 9pril next, and that the entire
line will he completed by July, 1890. The
shops of the company will be located at
Savannah or Atlanta, according 10 the in
ducspents offered"
The New York ErSaiRg World says: "a
circular is being prepared by the Execu-
tive Board Of n. d. A No. 2l0, OF the
knights of Labor, showing the adyant-
ages and benefits of a consolidated crgani-
cation of painters, paperhangers and house
decorators. 1t will be sent to all the local
unions Of those trades throughout the
United States and Canada"
The New York EreRiRg Sun says: War
ia being waged against mud gutter bands
by organized workmen. 1t is claimed By
them that the business is of the same order
as the Itsl0n padrone system. Musicians
are imported and bOand 10 the contractors
for from 81 to 5 - day. This is claimed
to. be Il great detriment to the legitimate
trade
The proposed repea Of the law imposing
a revenue tax on cigars and manufactured
tobacco continues to agitate the cigarmsk-
ers of New York, who are divided on the
subject. Those who are in favor of the
abolition OF the tax will have q mass meet
ing on February nth, in Everett Hall,
where prominent speakers will deliver ad-
dresses.
Russia is awakening to the Importance
of improving her milling industry. The
Minister of Agriculture has called for =
meeting in February Of a congress Of mill
ers, &pseuliuralists aud all others interest
ed in grain and lo1r. The object of this
meeaugis to discuss the present condition
and future PROSPECTS Of milling in Russia.
The Pittsburg German Trades Assembly
propose a novel way OF enforcing the boy