Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-04-15

| there are paid and lO cents per hour and
few receive II cents an hour.
There are about 2, 500 matters idle at
DanSury, Conn, and il is believed that
the number who will shortly be out on ac-
count of dizziness in trade in that city and
around will reach several thousand.
Psuusylvania's hsmlock belt covers fifty
miles square in Potter, Mexican, Elk,
Forest aud Cameron counties. An acre in
this field contains about 900 feet Of
lumber and ten cords If baIk.
Omaha, Neb, stone cutters want an
eieht-hour day and 50 cents an hour. The
brick-yard mOlders and settlers have struck,
the former for So per 9, 900 and the settlers
foI s. % per $1,000.
The c3pyicts in the San Quentin, Cal,
prison work in 4 jute mill, the bag output
of which is sold to farmers in all parts of
the Safe. The price per bag is not to ex-
coed ; cents.
The 1000 miners employed at Irwin,
Pa, have returned to work st the COM
D ,ny's offer o. so ceats tor for mining,
20 cents an hour for drivers and Is cents
an honr for is5orers.
The failure of the Eagle Oh Refinery at
Lima, o., strengthens the opinion of Oil
City, Pa, operations that the Ohio oil can
roc be prCfGbly manufactured into en-
illuminsnt.
Progressive Painters Union, No. 8, of
Brooklyn, n Y, has decied that for the
ensuing year So shall be the pay for nine
hour day, with an eigSt-hOur Saturday.
Hundreds of negroes are arriving in Cali
loraiA f,om the Southern States They
are paid SIS per month. IL is claimed
that they will work for less than the
Chinese.
Nearly forty MASTER painters OF New
York city have agreed 70 the demand of
their men 20: q E'Ee-hour day, at So so
per day, and an sigh.-hour Saturday.
ClUcinuati, o., ice dealers have met and
decided that prices 10 families shall be 40
anG 50 cents hundred, and % and 80
cents hundred 20 large consumers.
Tea and grocery clerks from all over the
country ore 70 inset ct Phtsburg in July
b take action, among other things, or ap-
plying for K. OF L. charter.
New Haven, Conn, strikers have been
fined 81 each los Ealing u man "scab."
Cbe Judge decided that the offense in
calliDg "scsb' was threat.
A factory in which coffee-pots, tin-cups,
plus, etc are made is in operation ut At
lsuts, Ga. A complete cofee-pot is made
in five MINUTES.
TIE engineers on the Belt railroad at
Chattanooga, Tenn. have been voluntarily
given so increase Of per cent. an hour,
or so cents.
The Austin Tex Psnitentiary Board
has refused the request Of the Palo Pinto
Coal Mining Company for convicts to work
its mines.
Albany a. Y. stolecutters have struck
for nine hour day at 80 cents an hour in
stead Of ten-hour Cay and 30 cents an
hour.
Over one hundred bod carriers at Mont
clair, y. J., struck for an advance of %
cents an hour or 81 % q day. Several
bosses gave the increase.
1t is claimed that the Brotherhood of
Carpenters AMI JUiusrs has raised wages
in 179 cities to the extent Of 1000, 900 q
year.
Branches Of the Tile Layers Union, Of
New York city, have been formed in Phils-
delphia, Boston, Chicago and Baltimore.
Eight hardred house painters of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, have struck for nine-hour day
at 30 cents an hour, instead of 25.
The k. Of L. carriagemakers of Boston,
Mass, have Withdrawn from that organi-
zltiou. They will form an open union,
The miners of Northern Illinois and
their employers have sgreed to continue
last years scale of wages daring 1893.
Some New York clothesp;n box-packers
can pack ~, 900 day. They ore paid one
cent fur packing box Of five gross.
Al iron company at Turkey Hill, n. j.,
hFs Just discharged !thirty-iye ore miners
because Of trade siscknss4.
Tlirty-soyeu English tunnels are over
1000 yards long The Severn" is the
largest, being 1864 yards in length.
Omaha (Neb. brewers have decided on
IS - the price per barrel for beer. No
faucets noe ice will b furnished.
Mount Vernon IN. " masons have
struck for q njae.hour day, with an eight
hour saturday and s. 50 per day.
Bsds Of mesrschsun az Crimea, Negro
po5t ard Asia Tiaor furnish employment
for 1, 600 miners.
Mr. Z L. Eaton, of Washington, D. c.,
has been elected District Master Workman
Of the Is. of L.
A wood spit pulley company has been
formed ut Chattanooga, Tenn, with cap
jtal Of $50, 900
Klngstcu Gam journeymen painters
have been given an advance Of from 81. 6U
TO 81 per day.
The City Councils Of Atlanta, Ga, last
week authorized the opening of barber
shops till 10 o'clock Oh Sunday morpiug.
the shops haze heen closed on that day
for the last three years.
The wages m the Connellsville pa
coke district were reduced from st 10 10
per cent. last week
TIE Buffalo u. " plasterers have
been grated iHelr demand Tor & nine-hour
day at 50 pay.
Que hundred employees of the JsfferSon-
VILE, Ky, car works have just been laid
of
new glass house at Salt Lake city,
Utah, IS in operation with ffty-six men at
work.
Hrron, Oak, miners have struck against
q reduction Of frcm $3.50 to 81 IS dag.
TIE X. Of L. ticket for Mayor and other
Offices Of Malddn, OAK, was elected.
A clcthespiG factory Of Montpelier, VT,
has petty OF 300 gross per day.
The big American sugar refinery at San
Francisco, Cal, has smut down.
st. Thomas, Can carpenters have been
granted q nine hour Saturday.
A stove factory is to be erscted NJ Flor
encs, Ala at g cost Of $50, 600.
The cooperative shoe factory at Detroit,
Mich, has ceased eperationa
The striking eompOsitors of Lansing,
Mich, hare started paper.
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