Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-10-07
TRADE NOTES.

II ANAL" xNoANo$
The stove foundries of Allegheny C!y
all went on double this week on wintel
pattsrns.
The Birmingham Rolling Co. has al
many orders % hand as can be filled be
tween row and the first Of the year.
Bells foundry, Wheeling, repoi IS o good
demand on all kinds Of iron ware which II
produces. It ia running full and shipping
freely.
The National department. of Labor is a
present engaged in investigating the wages
and condition Of persons employed OF
railroads Throughout the country.
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works sg.ir
broke their record on Saturday Eight las
by turning out 1850 rails This is TIT
largest run ever made in eight hours.
The employees Of the Nimick- Britain
ManufaGt turing Co., Pittsburg district
were notified Saturday last of 10 per CEN
wage rsduct:oc, to take effect this week.
The German trades Assembly of Pitts
burg have 6loided 10 hold number o.
public meetings in November to push the
III, rests of organized labor among German
artisans.
A Philadt lph;a street car employees
organization has brought suit sgainst tie
suoeIiutsndents of the several lines for vio-
lstion of an &C. of the Legislature making
the working of street-car employees longer
than ts eve hours daily misdtmeanor.
Tie National Tube Works Co., mas been
asked by the employees to restore theiI
gee to what they We're prior to the May
reduction. The company asserts that
their contracts ale at low figures. Piece.
work prevails gere5ally in the works, and
the men have Lot b en- fully employed.
Pendent Smith of the American Ftints,
returned to headquarter, Piltsburg, en-
Tuesday last. The result of tie confer
enCe meeting at Sand Sieh, Mass, unsatis-
factory, bat the lockout will be settled in
few days. At Port Jarvis, n. j., the
wage lit was presented to the manufac-
tu era, who adopted them and agreed To
all the WORKERS asked.
A Philadelphia telegram says: Railroad
men here ssy that the demand for Amer
lean locomotives and railroad cars 10 Sou
America is unpreeedente, especially for
tie shsrp curves OF which demand pecul-
iArIy constructed cas-. The bark Boyles-
ton will begin loading at this port this
wee K full cargo Of railroad material for
Rio de JaneirS.
It is reported that the Pioneer Mining
snd Manufacturing Compsn, of which
Sam Thomas, Of Pennsylvania, is Pfesi-
dent, will build 3 new furnace and rolling
mill at Thomas, four miles from Birming-
ham, Ala. The total cost will he $780,
600. The furnace will have 3 cap lcity CT
100 tons of pig lion per day, and the roll
ing mill $50 tons of msIchsntable iron
daily, and will give employ ment to over
!, GOO men.
The Clinton, the old southside mill and
furnace plant of Graf, Bennstt Il Co., bs-
gan operations in all departments this
week, making skelp iron. 1t is being run
by the committee of creditors of the old
firm who toughtit. Mr.. James NJ. Bailey,
of the committee, stated to reporter OF
this pspsr that tho creditors will not IN
der any probable circumstances start the
Millyale mill. 1t is in the market.
TIE Real Estate Record says: "The bust
ness interests of the country fell less con-
Germ lust now over future trade probab II
ties tbs N for some months. The reasons
for more confidence are assurtd-larger
wheat, corn and cotton crops, q gRd sx-
port ttade, batter prices, greater control by
legislation over railroads, rock bottom
prices, exhausted stocks among the pro-
ducers, high earning power among the
people, an sSur dance o. circulating medi'
um and an enlarging coasumptivs cspic'
ity."
The strike of tbs Toronto plumbers and
the steam filters who went out to help
them win is over. The men struck for al
advance of five cent?. The scale was fixed
at % cents per hour, an advance Of 2!
cents ptr hour. The strike about sppren-
tices was Loot Oae hundred and twenty
plumbers sni twenty stan filters want
ont on the l4th of June.
When the hrst baby horn in Denver wa;
announced By her father, Lish Harvey,
twenty Light years ego, pubic nesting
vas keli in the town, and among ethel
presents 8 l)t of lind 6oasted. The piece
we.t cut Of Haryey's ownership by hi
refusal TO ray lis taxes. To-daytfe g;i
sings in concert garden at Denver, ant
the los that was given her is wo.th ",
600 coo Flour in those days was worti
500 PSF barrel.
The Indianapolis switchmen and freigh
hands want the wages paid in Chicago
Ksnsas CT and St. Louis. They als'
want additional men. The advances il
wsQes asked If from $40 to SIS per month
Braken e, get 81 05, ard switching crew
from 81 % to 81 45. Local coaduntoIs &c
s. 45 par day.
The annual statement Of the Britis'
Iron Trade Employer Association report
numerous successful demands for advanc
in wsg,s duiing the year, despite the fic
ttas trade did lot warrant the Increase.
Six thousand South WSles iron worker
are affected by the strike Of tie 500 EN-
ployes of the Eobw Vale Iron and Cos
Go npany about contractors and the di;
aharge of . man.
The New York Housesmiths' Union wo
ON a demand thst locksmiths aud railip
makers on q baildipg cease working to
hours 9 day, and that they JOIN the union
An Allentown firm has on exhibition tn
largest knife and fork ever Manufactured
Each is ten feet long. and each has a
ivory hsnile' The cost of manufacture
was $1,000.
A case containing Q railway earrings
recently sent to Melbourne, was To
largest ever shipped from Great Britain
It was 81 feet Ing, 10 wide and weighe
164 tons.
The fourth annual meeting Of the Raj
way Station Agents ASSOCIATION o. to
4 United State, was held as Chicago son
days ago. The society has ], leo men
bers.
Sir John Lester Kaye has q col ny
100, 600 acres in Northwest British u
Iumbis. Last season his cattle numoere
!, 900 ard his sheep $4,000.
Siikworkers' Criterion Assembly, &.
IL, of Uoton Hill, N. j., has employe
teachers 70 instruct its German memosl
in English.
At Aberdeen, Scotland. 1000 iron voEi
ers rece.tly struck for ID Pr cent. AZ
vsrcs, and refused ctmproniss Of IS p
cent. inc'e Sc.
TIE Kansas City Star and local FIR
! viii givs $3.50 each in mocey prizes to u