Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-24

tuie re gut cars, car Whsels ana ca5lnge
generally.
Eleven molders from Philadelphia were
taken to Auburn, n. Y, recently By D. NJ
Osborn & Co. to take the place of strikers.
The men, on arrival, admitted that they
had Just come for the purpose of work
ingn the firm and went of with the strik-
ers. About ]. 200 men are idle.
Many Of the large stove foundries at
Albany, n Y, are closed wholly or in part,
throwing hundreds of skilled employs out
of work, b,cause the manufacturers can
get the work done much chelper in the
West Rathbone, Sard & Co. state that
they could save from % to 40 per cent. on
a certain pattern of stove by having them
made in Cleveland.
At Baltimore this scale of wsgss is paid;
Bncklayers-UnioD, $500 per day; non
union, S225 Pnnters-Uoion, 81 20 aud
$500 per day; non-union, 81 % aud $1.50
Painters and ecOratOrs-Union, 81 80 per
day; non-uniOn, Sl.50. Carpenters -
Union, $3.50 per day; non-union, Sl.25
and 81 80.
The movement in the Minnesota L,gis-
lature to appropriate 500, 900 for the pur-
chase Of seed wheat for farmers this spring
gives q glimpse of suffering in that State.
There is reason to believe that the situs-
ton is much worse in some parts Of Da-
kOta.
The Hat Finishers' Union was organized
in Philadelphia ON June 5, 1854 Il he's
1000 memhsrs and fifteen locals. The
initiation is S15, aud the dues are Is ceat.
per week. Brooklyn hands average Sl2
per week.
Nearly all of the 200 Minneapolis cigar
makers are idle because of the eompeti-
ton of goods from the Eighth district OF
Pennsylvania and the New York tenement
houses
Troy, n. Y, at ore time made rs pei
cent. OF the stoves manufactured in this
country Now che turns out only % pel
cent. Western foundriss have caught the
trade.
The California State Board Of Trade will
receive names of psople wanting work and
employers in search Of men. These list
will be KEEP: in different towns.
I-4ac Halden, the Yorkshire represents
tive il the II luse of Commons, gets ST.
600, 600 per year out of his invention o.
wood-carving machinery.
The Iron MOulders' Uaion YVES organ
Esd in 1859, snd has go locals and p, OO(
members. Wages have been raised frOa
3 to s. 10 for ten-hOur day.
DR.. Blsc&uer is Addressing the S.
Louis factory girls free evening school OF
diseases OF children aud their treatment
The international Typographical UniOr
was organized on December >, 1850. i
has 275 local unions and 81, 600 members
The Colorado Legislature has passed {
bill which cOmpels children between toe
sges Of s and II years to attend school.
The yield Of corn in the United State
in 1868 was 1000, 100000 bushels, or 3
bushels to each inhabitant.
st. Louis master builders have agree.
20 pay carpenters 50 cents per hour for a
eight hour day this season.
Edwerd D. Davidson, a paupsr in the
New Haven. Conn, almlhouse, was onc'
worth $4,000.
When some Chattanooga colored freigh
hand struck the other day white men tooi
their places.
Cincinnsti city employees nOw worl
sight hours per day and get the sam
wsg>s as formerly.
Three Hopedale, Mass mill cOmpanie
have givea 81. 900 toward a school fo
their employees.
Hartford, Conn, brieklayers get 50 81
for nins houi day.
Tbs Indiana legislature has repaa'ed tbs
conspiracy act
Some Csiro cigarette workers can make
/ l, 500 p,rday.
TIE Asbe7iIls, n. C, Citizen is printed
by electricity.
SEQ lads wooden mills are RAINING
overtime.
ST. Louis, Nc, carrisga drivers are OF
gained.
Chicago has !, SEQ union ciearmskels.