Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-02-05

6Eneu Dy the ueCi0Ou OF the arDltratOrS IN
the case OF the L6cy furnace.
The estimated wages lost by strikes last
year aggregate S1S, SOC, 900. A total OF
$50, 600 strikers lost, during the year. TO-.
600, 900 days time; and 16l, 600 strikers, in
five strikes, lost $40, $50, 900 in wages. II
is estimated that about one-tenth of the
industrial employees Of the country struck
10 1857, losing an average Of one months
time each.
1t is said that a syndicate of four men
who have $25, OO0, 900 invested in mann
featuring establishments, namely, Conger,
Raymond, Perkins and Barber, the latter
OF matchmaking fame, are now examining
the natural gas fields of Ohio and Indiana.
They are credited with the intention OF
locating important manufacturing enter
priseS.
II. S. Knowles, of East Liverpool, o., is
President Of the American Pottery Associa-
ton. In his address before a meeting of
the association held at Washington, ID. c.,
q few days ago, he asserted that America is
making the best pottery in the world, and
at the cheapest prices considering the cost
Of labor.
The state of Alabama has rented 5000
convicts for ten years, at SIS per month, 10
dig coal in the pratt Mine, which produces
5000 tons of coke per day. An inspector
Of convicts is there with his gang of whip.
pers to see that the Pratt people shall get
their moneys worth out Of the cOnvicts.
The English GOLFERS are at restriction
again. In Northumberland they want q
10 per cent advance, seven hours per day
under ground, eight hours a day for sur
face work, an idle day per week, and a
weeks holiday at some time to be fixed
hereafter; nothing else.
A twenty mile electric railway system is
to be constructed from Detroit, Mich, to q
fashionable resort. There will be three
motors, aud $50, 900 worth of half-inch
copper wire conductors will be used.
There will be three closed ears for winter
and three open ones for summer.
In 1865 the United States produced p
$50 tons of steel rails In 1887, lust %
years thereafter, she produced 2,295, 594
tons. In 1865 they sold for 81 80 per ton,
and in 1857 they sold for 1913. This
country now produces more steel rails than
any other nation on the globe.
The consumption of coke will shortly in
crease throughout the west. A great many
manufacturing concerns are altering their
machines TO depend upon coke rather than
upon coal, in the belief that the supply
will be more regular and the cost ulti-
mately lower.
The spirit oftrade organization is extend
ing into every channel. Some twenty re-
representatives. of threshing machine manu-
IscturiDg establishments between Ohio and
Wisconsin have organized an association to
prevent cutting OF prices.
Philadelphia users of kaolin are in
Georgia getting control Of 140 acres Of de-
posts of that material, which is twenty
four feet thick. They will put up a big
pottery somewhere near. A great deal OF
the kaOlin can he mined above the water
level.
They are getting out walnut trees in
Boone, Wyoming and Mcdowell counties,
the extreme southern counties Of West Va,
worth from $500 to 81, 900 each. This
State has a greater wealth in hard woods
than any other state in the Union.
The stock on hand, and the estimated
production OF sugar tor the year ending
October l, ISIS is placed at / 99S, lSS tons.
Against this the estimated consumption IS
5,l72, 900 tons. This probably accounts
for the advancing price Of sugar.
There are at the present time $4,000
striking coal miners in the country, 5000
striking railway employees and $500 idle
employees in manufacturing establishments
aud Il blast furnaces closed for various
reasons.
Strikes have stimulated the building Of
coke ovens III numerous localities, ana in
all sections OF the country where cOkipg
coal can ne found the erection OF such
ovens will 90 ahead OF last year.
The National Association of Stove Manu-
faCturers have held their regular annual
meeting at Cincinnati, the past week.
Mr.. Walter Rell and Dir. Benz. Fisher,
were in attendance from Wheeling.
The Rochester Pa Tumbler Works
turned out, last week, Il monster specimen
in the tumbler line, it being . inches high
and Is inches in diameter at the top, and
having Il capacity Of so ounces.
IL is reported that the West Virginia
Central and the Western Maryland rail-
roads ave formed 4 syndicate for the pur-
pose Of leasing a portion Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal.
A bonus of 50, 00O and seven acres did
not prevent the stove works of X. Duncan
x Co, at Sharon, Pa, from suspending
operations Wednesday, alter running three
years.
The first Trades Councils meeting held
at Youngstown, o., on the oath inst,
proved so successful that preparations will
soon be made to hold another at that place.
The first payment of $4,000 has been
made by the oil we'll producers organiza-
ton to those who did not pump oil so that
those who did could sell it for more money.
The coal miners in the southern part Of
this state, who have been on q strike for
several weeks, have adjusted their diff
terences, and all returned to work again.
The Scotch miners have asked for an ad-
vance OF II cents a day, and at two coal
regions a strike was ayerted by the grant
ing of a l. per cent advance.
1t is said that enough Bessemer ore has
already been located i'll this country to
supply it's wants for 100 years, and more is
being found every month.
The reports submitted at the annual
meeting OF the Cooperative Stove Co., OF
Bloomington, ILL.,, shows the company Is
in a tlourIshing condition.
Out OF the 2,912 actual fires in New
York city only - have been attributed to
electricity. while 474 have been put down
to kerosene.
A st. Louis steel company has Just
bought u large magnetic orc tract in North
Carolina, and is looking for a site for Its
works.
Ship building interests all through Great
Britain are booming. The contracts now
call for 500, 900 tons of carrying capacity.
The increase in the production Of pig
iron in 1851 was Is per cent over that Of
1886 and IS per cent over that OF 1855.
The hinge manufacturers Of the country
met at PittSburg, Monday, and advanced
the price on screw and strap hinges.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad Company
will have 200 additional locomotives as