Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-25

Clinton, III LAS 'uS LNeSot SAHHnuA ID
the West. Its capacity Is $4,000 feet per
hour. Eight hundred men are employed.
The wages of the girls ia HitchcoCk's
knit mil at Hartford, Conn, have bsen
reduced . cents per dozen on mittens, o.
81 per week.
Italian shoemakers at New 0;lsans who
have been rsceiving 81 per pair, ksstx-
pensss 10 esnts), have struck for 81 25
per pair.
There are :. O0O, 900 negroes in the Unit
al Ststes. In the South there are 16, 900
colored school teachers. They have col
leges. universities and seminaries, and are
worth s.. 900, 600 in property.
The potato production in the United
States this year is over 2l6. 600, 900 bush
els Micnigsn leads with product from
l5s. 46S acres, each acre averaging SO bush.
els.
The smallest steam engine ever MAUI
sactured is on exhibition az Paris. 1t is
only three-fiths of an inch in heighth and
weighs less than one-pinth Of an ounce
A wat ,hmaker Constructed it of oae hun
bred and eighty pieces.
/ The l25 Albany IN Y switchmen, who
received $40 month, and ysrdmen and
pin pullers, receiving $55 and $50 month
aud who struck for an increa CT psy
equivalent to SO a month, have won thei,
demand. They were out tAirty.six hours.
The AmcricaR Builder says: "Th are isro
mat rial that can be used for construction
equal TO brick. Every brick bears its OVID
weight Bricks have already pissed the
iefy ordeal before they are use1 in build
iugs, aad are tempered"
Toe Birmingham ala glass works are
iu SUI, essiul operation. The sand and
limestone are within half mile Of the fac
tory. l. is 81 open tank shop. Jars and
bottles are made. This production is 100
gEOss per day.
The Rochester IN. y Jelri6 Things
slys that the Jews ara not ca peDters and
in other trades because the European
gu Ids did not permit them to become
members. Il adds: 1T is true that the
Jews have not in the last few centuries
shown a great inclination to engage in
farming or any other occupation requiring
manual labor, bat they are rapidly drift
into these cslliags. Tie Jewish commu-
ties Of farmers in the West and the Ali.
ance cnloaJ in New jersey are evidence of
rh9 prOgreJs that has been made"
The London Pottery Gazette says: "The
present condition, SIS a whole, Of our man
ufscturiog, mining a1d commercial prog
reSS is u-qRestionably q great industrial
triumph, bat this wonderful picture Of
national growth has quite naturally, q
series Of reverse sides as we'll. Oae
of the most touching illuItrations of this,
perhaps, is found in the present condition
of the his o5ic flint glass trade of the an
Gent city Of Newcastle, which is the i'm
mediate suhject Of the present notice.
Newcastle has been the peculiar home of
the Eog'isd flint glass trade for the last
three hundred years. As the blown trade
increased and developed however, evil
days gra lually overlook the hitherto un-
surpa:s a crown and window glass trade
The introduction of commOl sheet, and
especially the importation of superior
German Window g'as1, and then the re.
mOTai OF the duty on glass, were among
tie c8uSes that oreratsd against its further
cIreer ofp7CspsTity.
The White gas works, Bssver Falls,
Pa, will be ready to start up in about two
weeks.
\ local branch Of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firenea was instituted at
BlAirsyiue recently by Grand Chief Han
nahaa.
The trades unions of Great Britain re-
presented at the twenty first Annual Con.
gre5S recently held at Brad ord, England,
numbered membership of 8l6,944.
Fifty girls of Rochester On. Y. hos
iery mill went out ON a sympathy strike
lsst week when they learned that their
foreman had bean discharged for voting for
Cleveland.
The eight miles of 20 inch pipe made for
Pi,tsbarg's big Nataral Gas Company by
the National Tube Works Company weighs
Is, 900 tons.
John Young, of Pittsburg, has bee1
shipping the sheet iron work for Melting
plant to be established a. Tieutsip, China,
under the auspices of the Imperial Gov
eroment.
I: is stated that the German coke pro-
ducsrs have f1rmsd 3 syndicate patterned
after the Conceivable syndicate. 1t now
controls 80 PEI cent of the production and
{ Pc cent mora will be 'de1 on the lst Of
Decamber. The syndicate on November
1t advanced prices from ST.. IS to S2.25 per
ton. This is equal to the price 10 Belgium
aud IS 81 higher than the C1nnel syille
fasl.
There are only two carpenters in Ne"
Boston, Neb, a town which is small but
growing rapidly. One of them was taken
sex few days ago, when the other man
promptly gave i. out that be would lend
his services to the highest bidder. Some
thing like sn auction was held, and the
lucky carpenter dropped the hammer a.
s. 80 dag for a oh Of tire weeks.
A Cleveland, o, telegram of November
10 Gays: The report that the Chicago,
BurIirgson and Quincy strike is about to
BE- settled is denied at the headquarters OF
the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
in this city. Chief Arthur was not to be
seen at his Office this forenoon. First As
sistant Grand Chic: Engineer Iugraham
stated, however, that there was no foun-
datiol for the story telegraphed from Chi
cjgN.
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