Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-09-30


tured by them.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-.
gineers, in convention at Atlanta last
week, formally approved of federation
with the engineers aud switchmen.
The Carrie Furnace Co., Braddock, Pa,
has broken ground for the erection of az
additional Is foot bosh furnace. 1t will
be ready to blow in March, 1889.
A general strike Of New York city furui.
ture workers is talked of in case the EN-.
ployers attempt to enforce the ten-hour
rule and to institute .''free shops"
The western window glass msnufactur,
ers have decided to resume work generally
on October /, instead Of October 8, az
originally intended. The resumption will
give employment to 5000 men.
The representatives of sixty three labor
organizations, which met at Troy last
week, pledged themselves to take measures
for the repeal of all industrial conspiracy
laws antagonistic to the spirit of free in
situations.
Anesrly general continuance of previous
ly existing favorable trade condition, with
further improvement in certain sections Of
the West and South, is reported in the
special Biographical adyices of Bradstreeps
of Sept. %.
The pipe works at Admission, Ala, COM
menced last year, are nearly finished. 1t
is clsimed that they will be the largest
works of the kind south of the Ohio, and
will consume 200 tons Of pig iron daily.
They are to start up about the LIST of Feb
rusry. The capital Of this company is
$500, 900.
The loeked-out cigarmskers at Havana,
Cuba, have sent committee to this coun-
Try to obtain money with which to buy
food TO sustain the operatives. The lock-
out began on August Is, and grew ont OF
the discharge of one man for refusing to
accept reduction in wages.
The Connellsville Courier says that the
present year is fairly prosperous one in
the coke trade. Many long idle furnaces
are being religh.ed. A general scarcity OF
cars is reported. Railroad men say that
this condition of affairs is not confined to
the coke trade. Strikes are getting more
common.
NJ. V. Smith, the well-known metal
lurgical engineer, has just been appointed
engineer for the Minnesota Car Co., of
Duluth, MINI, with headquarters in
Pittsburgh. The works will consist OF
rolling mill, machine shop, foundry and
car works, and the greater part of the
machinery will be supplied by Pittsburgh
manufacturers.
Admission, Ala, projects: The Univer-
sal Horseshoe Co., Of Baltimore, Md, have
erected the buildings for branch factory,
and the machinery for the same is now on
the road. The factory will, it is calculated,
turn ont 4, 900 kegs Of horseshoes weekly.
A stove foundry has recently been organ
ICED, with capital of $4,000. The
Southern Smelling and Reduction Co. are
building a SOS, 900 plant for the smelling
OF gold and silver ores, taken out by a
large number of mining companies in east
ern Alabama and western Georgia.
The iourneymen natural gas filters Of
Indianapolis struck last week for decrease
of hours from ten to niue per day, aud an
advance in wages from So so to $3.5 per
day. One OF the employers said: ut is
getting to be pretty state of affairs when
men who never before had any experience
at gas fitting until they came here few
months ago, undertake TO fix rates as they
want them" TIE employers claim that
the men imagined they we're worth $350
after Democrat raised the pay of bis en-
ployes to that figure. They claim that the
increase was made for political effect The
strikers say that the bosses raised their
charges so per cent. recently, and that
they deserve some Of the advance.
The Baltimore Critic asks: "Who pays
your taxes? Who supports your courts
Who is foremost among our best citizens
Answer-The workingman who quietly at
tends to his duties and supports his wife
and family on his earnings. The laboring
man is the man of the day and the hope Of
the future of America"
A New York mining expert brought
four skilled men TO China, and has 200
natives at work developing silver mines
for the government 300 miles northwest of
Tier, T5in. Fifty thousand dollars worth
of machinery has been brought from the
United States.
Chattanooga Tenn. has been buying
200, 900 pressed bricks annually In the
North at cost {. o. b. of from $25 to S35
per LOCO Lately they have discovered
clay at home that makes as good brick as
the Northern article, and big kiln has
been erected.
Baffalo cooper5 receive five cents for pa
tent hoops, eight for fat aud ten for round
hoop barrels. Some have struck for six
cents for the patent hoop vessels. Lock
port coopers get eight cents for patent
hoops and ten for fiat hooped barrels.
San Francisco harnessmakers have struck
against reduction to 81 for four traces for
double harness and other like cuts. The
former wages were 81 and $l10 on the
traces, and the men could make 81 50 per
day.
The Grief, one of Germany's armed
cruisers, is the fastest in the world. Its
displacement is 1000 tons, and its indica-
ted horse power is 5, 400. Recently it GOV
cred twen.y-four knots in an hour.
Isaac s. Demont, of Chicago, won a
prizs of $500 for being the fastest short
hand writer at the recent stenogrsphers'
convention at New York. He took down
1877 words in five minutes.
Lewiston and Auburn, Me-, bIicklayers
have struck for a rine hour day. They
promise to resume if the employers will
agree 10 allow the reduction in the next
year.
At Aberdeen, OAK, the Farmers ALI
anee and the Knights have agreed to sup
port no man for office who shall not pledge
himself TO the objects of both orders.
The wages of Montreal b,icklsyers on a
city job in drains were reduced from 81
to $3. 5Oper day The men struck, but ac-
copied sfterward.
Each of John Bright's sons have learned
BIZ, trade in his fathers works. Mr.. Bright
himself learned o trade when young.
Two hundred of the New York striking
metal and slate roofers are still on strike,
They want last years scale adopted.
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