The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-25
MANuFAoruR1Ne pR1Ers.
All Sorts of News and Notes from all the
Factories,

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double turn Monday.
Sweeney & Son are making the boiler
for the spears' axle works.
The engine at the Wheeling Croel
mines broke down yesterday.
The Bsllnire flint glass house Is max
ing some Canadian shipments.
The Top mill has full complement o
men at work In the nail factory.
The Warwick China Company is fast
getting into shape 10 make ware.
Quite large run was made at the Ben
wood steel works night before last.
The machinery Is being put in the
West Virginia Pottery Company's works
The Ohio Valley foundry at Bsllaire Ia
running right along and selling lots oi
stoves.
The Central is running once more ct the
glass sworkers' scale. The engravers 60 on
Monday.
The stock Of the alnt glass houses at
Bsllaire Is very low, and all the old stock
Is sold of.
The HIP. Nail Company, Of Cleveland,
have discontinued the usa oi petroleum as
fuel on economic grounds.
The Elson glass works still continue to
ship goods daily. Ten employees are work
iug in the different departments.
A fuel gas plant is to ps erected near
Chattanooga, Tenn, at 9 cost Of $3.50, 900
by stock company OF capitalists.
Tho Lantern Globe company, Bsllaire,
II tha pY,lNy 01ouo hnuaa Pnn ninu fbaRn ave
It Is chipping immense quantities Of
goods.
G. ]. Bradshaw, formerly with W. T.
Copeland & Sons, Of England, has been
chosen superintendent and general mana
ger for the Warwick pottery.
At the Ls Belle mill thinga arc boom
ing. The nail factory Is running full and
loaing no time and the nails are being
shipped almost as fast ca made.
The LRughlin mill is running full in all
departments. Owing TO a scarcity Of
ANAL nails the cold machines have been
working until 8 o'clock at night this week.
The Standard mill, at Bridgeport, ex-
peCts 10 have an addition completed by
July that will allow the company to turn
ont hssyier plate and some special grades
OF steel.
The Buckeye glass works are running
along smoothly with plenty Of orders.
The decoration shop was idle one day this
week owing to the scarcity OF glass for
decoration.
The Northwood glass works have kept
up steady run since starting up in jan
usry. The shops arc nearly al on grade
Of fancy blown ware, aud shipments are
being made daily.
To-day's pay at the Belmont ia said to
be the first iutl two weeks pay those en-
ployed in that nail factory have received
sinGs the long strike. There will natu.
rally be some iubilsting.
The Warwick Pottery Company expects
to have its engines and boilers In place by
to-day. The heating apparatus Is some
thing specially adapted TO establishments
Of this kind. Active work will probably
be commenced in April.
After a two-months' strike for higher
wages the 800 miners employed at Pal
myra, O., by the Scott Goal Company Of
Cleveland, Filler & 90. and P. L. Kimberly
& Co., Of Sharon, Pa, have resumed work
at the old rate. The operators held that
the demand was more than could be
granted.
The new glass works will bs O ;go.
George L. Hill, late county treaserer, has
consented to take stock and accept the
management Of the business. This will
insure . careful and able administration
Of Its atfairs, and will render the matter
Of subscriptions 10 the capital etock easy.
-WdshiRgton, Pa, Reporter.
It's reported that the Pittsburgh flint
glass manufacturer are little weak, and q
break ia expected TO occur there which may
close the lockout. Thisreportcomes ifoma
firm in his district. The Pittsburgh men
emphatically deny that they are weaken
ing. The workers believe the trouble will
soon be adjusted and work resumed at ths
different factories in that city.
A railroad manager stated TO the Iron
Trade Review the past week, that it was
impossible to place orders for locomotives
at present with any hope OF having the
same filed inside OF four months. BY
special favor he was able to purchase two
moguls, deliverable one In March and one
in April, but not passenger locomotive
could be promised short Of the first OF
June. The same difficulty was also expe.
rienced In placing orders for cars. To his
mind this was convincing evidence that
this was TO be q prosperous year for the
iron and steel industry.
The Sheriff took charge on Wednesday
OF all the Graf, Bennett & Go. mills, ex-
cepting the furnaces. Tho works seized
were the two at Millvale, employ
ing $50 men, and the Clinton, on
the South Side, PittHburRh, with
400 men. The Grafton furnaces are
still in operation, although they are pre-.
paringto close down. These furnaces EN-.
ploy seventy-three men. The Fort Pitt
works were cold by John Graft some time
ago. They employed 250 workers. In
the neighborhood Of ], 800 men are there
fore thrown idle by the suspension and
they are reported to be looking for new
jobs.