Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-03-25

factory at hammond, III, from runn1pS
douple turn.
Fifty-Hye heats or 275 tons Of steel,
were made by Bellairs (O) employees in
one turn recently.
The Pan Handle line, known asthe Den
yer, Texas and Fort Worth Railroad, Is
about finished.
The 1900 looms in the Andrcseoggin
Mills, at Lewistown, Me, are being re-
placed by 40-inch looms.
The employees of six cigar factories Of
New York city, numbering 1,sOO persons,
are still ont.
Striking Sandwich Mass glass house
workers are to establish q CO operative fac
tory.
c. G. Harris, of Niles, o.. has invented
an automatic feeder that will cut 300 nails
q minute.
A Pittsburg blast furnace recently ship
ped 900 tons Of stock pig iron in less than
ten days.
Fort Worth, Tex will soon have facil-
tiles for producing 500 barrels Of flour per
day.
The Dalzsll people at Wellsburg, Ohio,
are running two shops with non-uuion
men.
Pueblo (Mexico) residents who raise cot
ton are exempt from taxation for ten years.
Flint glass workers will start a cooper
alive factory at East Liverpool, o.
The Scott Haven PA miners have re-
turned to work at the old wages.
The Youngstown (O.) Knights have
nominated Q city and county ticket.
Mexico's mines are being largely deyel-
oped by American capital.
The Master Builders Of Pittsourg have
adopted the nine-hour rule.
PittsSurg brickmskers say that there is
promise Of q good season.
South Australia's wheat crop will be
about 90, OOO, coo bushels.
A Builders Exchange has been orgau-
lied at Rochester, n. Y.
Cofse sells for % cents q pound whole
sale at Vera Crus, Mexico.
The Meadyille PA Glass Works are in
c~reasing their plant.
Indianapolis barber shops were again
closed IaSt ouuuay'
London (Ont, labor men have purchased
q site for q hall.
There are 10, 900 Knights Of Labor in
the Detroit district.
A Bath Sic, firm hes fifteen coal barges
In use.
Indiana mining is dull.
A new spinning wheel In operation in
England has two rows Of spindles to one
row of rollers, and holds about 30 per cent
more spiDdles than has been held in the
regular space.
Daring 1887 England produced $780,
665 tons Of pig iron, an increase of 3 90 peE
cent over the output in 1885. This conn
try increased its production in the same
period by AS 80 per cent.
There is $35, 600, 900 invested in manu-
featuring in KansSs-5,0 600, 900 more than
was invested in 1886. Six thousand hands
find employment in the lead, zinc and coal
mines.
Omaha (Neb) brick manufacturers have
decided not to sell bricks to bricklayers
during the strike of the latter. By this
move the contractors have q better chance
Of winning.
Despite the fact that Michigan lumber
has been drawn on for thirty years, the
production OF lumber aud shingles in that
State in 1887 was over half Of the output
of the Northwest.
The white pine mills OF the Northwest
increased their production in 1887 by over
| 800, OOO, 900 feet of lumber. The output
was 1857, 916, 754 feet of lumber and 4
116, 436, $50 shingles.
The Elyton Land Company, Of Bir-
mingham, Ala, has purchased the Nash
Vile Tenn rolling mill and will remove
il to Birmingham. Five hundred men
will be employed.
The Los Angeles Times reports = revival
of Legitimate mining in California. 1t be-
lieyes that only q small portion Of the
mineral wealth of the State has been de-
veloped.
The employees oHthe Scott Foundry at
Reading, Pa, have lately been granted
time and quarter time for night work,
which the firm had previously refused to
give.
The Nottingham Colliery of the Lshigh
and w~ilkesbarre Coal Company, at Ply
mouth, Luzerne county, Pa, is the great
est mine in the world where one tract is de-
yeloped through one hosting shaft. An
average of LOTS mine cars, or :, 200 tons of
coal, are hoisted every ten hours.
Senator Stanford's ranch in California ia
the largest in the world. 1t contains SO. 900
acres. He has q wine cellar which holds
/, 900, 700 gallons in 2,OO0-gallon packages.
The first seven.story building ever put
up in Alabama will shortly be erected at
Montgomery. Philadelphia press brick
will be used in the construction.
The lumbermen of Coos county, N. H.,
and Essex county, VT, have logged 300
OOO, 600 feet of spruce lumber in the season
Just ended.
The Connellsvills Pa brick-yard, after
a three uonths' shutdown, has resumed
with full force. An additional kiln will
be constructed.
Blast furnaces in operation in this conn
try on March / hsd q weekly output OF
lIlT,57e tons, and those not In blast q Ca
pacity Of s4,SS2 tons.
President Gompers, of the Federation OF
Labor. has finished his Western lecture
tour, aud reports trade-unionism 10 be
growing.
The Granite Mills, at Fall River, Mass ,
are replacing their 200 print cloth looms
with 40 inch looms. Twills will be man
ufacturGd-
There were 5000 shoe makers in attend
anos at the meeting last Sunday, in Gin
ciunati, whea q resolution to remain out
was adopted.
The coOpers employed by q New York
firm are out because . few n%on-union men
were employed and non union material
used.
MILL NOTES.
A shortage Of plates prevents the nail
factory at Hammond, Ind, from running
double turn.
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