Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-07-22

Pa, was sold by the sheriff on the 9th
inst, the execution creditors being some
OF the stockholders who were employed In
the works and sued the management for
about $3.50 wpges due. The plant and
patterns are secured by ehattel mortgage,
and cannot be sold a yet, and the sale
made was con6ned to coal, lumber, office
furniture etc, for which less than 500
was obtained.
A tract of land consisting of twenty-four
acres, and situated ut the north end Of
Beaver Falls, Pa, has been purchased by
j. E Emerson, Thomas Midgley aud
Others, for ths purpose Of building there
Ga q large works in which will be manu-
featured wire betting and hose under the
patents Of hr, Midgloy. II is expected
that slarge numbe. OF men will be given
employment in the new works. The work
OF erecting buildings viii be commenced
a. once.
The Jackson Furnace Co. has been in
corporated with a capital stock of $25, 900
by w. II. Peters, Q. E Murdoch, George
Peters, James +. Peters aud John Peters,
ST , to operate the Huron Furnace property
at Jackson, O., which has bsen purchased.
The purchase includes 235 acres Of coal
land. There is q shaft mine sc the furnace
from which coal will be obtained without
the labor of transporting it. Ore and lime
stone from the Lawrence furnace lands
will be used.
The San Francisco BuLetiR says: "Wheat
fields are making ~ IN some parts of the
State for the cultivation OF sugar-beets.
Forests are being cut down for orchards
aud vineyards, and swamps and oyerf1wed
lands are being reclaimed for the c~ultiys-
ton OF grain. Vineyards have been up
rooted in the southern counties to make
room for orange trees, and orange trees, on
the other hand, have been taken out to
suit the whims of the owner or to meet
the wants of the times in some other man
ner."
A company with q capital Of 81, 00O, 900
will develop 20, 900 acres of iron and tin-
Der lands IN Cherokee county, Texas. The
product OF the iron beds, they say, canuot
be excelled. A furnace operated by con-
victs has been established three years, and
the output has been sent all over the West.
The new State House at Austin used $780,
0OO worth Of the PRISONS output.
Csusds's production of iron ore in 1886
was IS, 3SS tons, and the coke output was
81, 604 tons. There are five blast furnaces
in the Dominion, two on coke iron, and
ten rolling mills on making nail plate OF
scrap and puddled bars, and one on butt
weld pipe.
The Jaw mill hands at Gravenhurst,
Canada, have struck for q ten-hour day.
Last year they reduced the day from II TO
IL hours. Two thousand men left their
work. Some employers have granted the
demand.
The labor organizations of Minneapolis,
MIMI, will probably win their demand for
conductors on all street cars. Their mem
bers will not put their nickels in the box,
aud other people are following their X
ample.
Fall River, Mass, cav have asked
for q ten Per cent advance, or as much as
the ~spinners conceded some time ago. At
the Crescent mill the men have averaged
s. q week on work that they say ought to
pay 50.
II is expected that 5000 Brotherhood
engineers will he ut the anniversary cele.
bration in Detroit on August II and IS.
The Brotherhood was born at Detroit on
August II, 1858.
japanese make their own ships, and they
claim the manufacture of the finest repeat
ing gun in the world. They bay mining
machinery in this country.
The Knight of Troy, n. Y, purchased
the State Armory in 1895, but have had to
let il drop through because of lack OF
funds to pay for the structure.
The owners Of the gold mines at the
Trsnsvaal, South Africa, say that Ameri-
can machinery is the best.
A lour mill st Wheatport is said to he
the largest in the world. Its daily cspac-
ity is 1000 barrels.
At Sioux Falls, Oak, stonecutters have
struck for 81 for q nine hour day instead
OF ten hours.
The Saturday half holiday is almost gen.
orally observed by the large houses of Chi
csgo.
German workingmen average $3.50 per
year; iron workers make from 800 to
$3.50.
The hands in the Tyne ship-ysrds have
struck for l03 and :! per cent. advances.
The furniture workers cooperative fac
tory at Baltimore has closed its doors.
At CORTLAND, Cal, thirty Cinnamon
struck for 81 so per day instead Of $1.25.
Late reports show an increasing number
Of men at work in Eugland.
They have begun to ship coal from
Japan to San Francisco.
There are extensive beds OF iron in the
Cougo.