Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-01-20
TRADE NOTES.

| OOm6 DOu6mlhQ WOLuou ClRdIudk6I5 OF
San Francisco make SIS per month.
The entire type in a recent issue of the
Hartford Post was set by machinery.
Some Brooklyn carpenters struck last
week against reduction to So per day.
The only Spanish moss mandatory in
the United States is at Fort Worth, Texas
The shortage in the stock of domestic
wool in the United States is 100000
pounds.
Omsha's trade unions have presented to
the legislature petition calling for new
laws that will help labor.
Since the United States prohibited Chi
nese immigration, Japan laborers are COM
planning of their competition.
The Crandall Stove and Manufacturing
Co. has been organized at Los Angeles,
CAL, with capital stock Of 500, 600.
Tull time has been resumed in the Read
irg Railroad Company's shops. This al
fects about 4, 600 men, nearly all at Read
ing.
In the year just past the weekly blast
furnace production increased about 800
tons, having been on the LIST inst. 142, 1877
| tons.
H.K. Porter & c., Pittsburg, are pack
ing six small locomotives for coffee planta-
ton duty near BuenoS Ay1es, South
America.
Work was commenced on the great
bridge to be built across the Mississippi
river at Alton, H., for the Toledo, st.
IOuis and Kansas City road.
The Jefersonville, Ind, Boot and Shoe
Co. will drop contract labor, as 1t doesn't
pay, and will establish shop at st. Louis.
The daily output is 600 pairs.
The International Plumbers Associa-
ton reports that it is making money at its
cooperative shop at Milwaukee. The
shop men are paid S. so per day.
Citizens of Kittanning, Pa, have sub
scribed SIS, 600 and several acres of land to
have pottery located at their town. 1t
will be erected next summer and employ
100 men.
The Westinghouse Electric Company
has Just finished the contract of lighting
the Hoossc tunnel with incsndescent
lamps. The Mari Construction Company
of Pittsburg did the work.
The Master House Painters and Decor.
ators' Association of Pennsylvania will
hold their second annual convention at
the Monongahela House, Pittsburg, on
Tuesday and Wednesday, January 30 1
and 30th.
The year lust closed has been that of the
greatest output of the Schenectady On
Y } Locomotive Works. There were built
30l locomotives of an average weight Of
96, 600 pounds exclusive of the tenders.
The Toronto, Can, Trades and Labor
Council sent questions to all its branches
on the condition of labor. The reports
show about all occupations over-crowded
and rent increasing.
The Journeymen Plasterers' Union of
Kansas City, has decided that So 90 per
day shall be the minimum wages after
April 1, and that nine hours shall consti-
tnte the ordinary day, with eight hours on
Saturday.
The Manufacturers Record: 1.-THE South
is every year shipping less and less OF Its
cotton away to bemsnufactured elsewhere.
The textile industry is moving South.
Where the cotton grows there 1t Will be
manufactured"
Horseshoers employed by the street rail-
way companies Of Brooklyn asked, through
the Horseshoer's Union, that the number
of horses each man should be obliged to
attend to be reduced from 80 to 70; their
request was refused.
NJ. J. Bsumbacb, of PittsbuIg has in
vented pair of rolls for the manufacture
of barbed wire fencing. By this patent 1t
ia claimed the cost of making barbed wire
is reduced one-fourth. The machine mak,s
what is known as ''buckthorne" ribbon
barbed wire
There are a great many more people
whose product is less than 90 cents worth
day each for themselves and those de-
psndent on them, says the Forum, than OF
those who earn more; yet this is the rlch-
est. most productive and most prosperous
country in the world.
The Niagara River Iron Company's
nlsnt At Irontop, below Tonawanda, n Y,
which has been standing idle for the past
eleven years, has been leased to parties IN
terested in iron manufacture IN Western
Ohio. The plant will be put in order and
elbow in" as soon as possible for the man
ufacture of pig iron.
At Troy, n. Y, 900 persons work on
collars and cuffs, and their wages are S4,-
500 900 annually; 1880 people are iron
workers, and they receive s.. 400, 900 per
wear in wages, and the store industry
brings 81 OOO,0O in wages to its 1000
hands. There firms employ about one
third of Troy's population.
of no h.
ern Pacific Company, states that the din
Guilty between the Brotherhood OF Locomo-
tive Engineers and Master Mechanic Ryan,
of the Southern Pacific road, has been ad-
iusted after a conference with Cnlei AT
tbur aid his committee, and on terms sat
isfsctory to the company and the engl-
neers.
The thirty seven fine wire-drawers in
the employ of the American Steel Wire
Co at Cleveland, o, struck few days
ago on a grade of wire for which the men
have hitherto been paid 81 Is per 100
mounds; under the new scale they receive
81 O5. the reduction in other grades beng
proportionste. The men state that wire
drawers in other cities are making $l25
per month. while at Cleveland, under the
prices prevailing last month"; tney were
barely able to make $40 per month.
There are no laundTymen in China. No
linen is worn there The rich use silken
and wooden under garments, and the poor
WOODEN or cotton. As starchiDg and iron
ing are unknown, the female servants do
all the laundry work. The reason of the
great number of laundrymen here is that
when the Union Pacific Railroad threw
hundreds of Cinnamon out of employment
they cast about for something to do, and
As there was great demand for washer
women. and a scant supply of them in the
West, the Monaghan turned his attention
to her trade.
Gamblers Suicide.