Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-01-06


Company, Beaver Falls, Pa, got orders on
the . h Of December to start up at once
on double turns. These mills employ
quite large number OF men and have been
idle for several months.
The stockholders of tho Union Iron
Works, Of Chattanooga, Tenn, have filed
an application in the Charcsry Court for
the appointment Of q receiver 70 wind up
the affsirs Of the company. The schedule
of liabilities shows $40 600, and assets
sos. 600.
The Wisconsin Lead ard Zinc Company,
which has psid mp capital Of $500, 600
hiss purchased six valuable tIscts OF min
ing lard in Lafayette county, Wisconsin,
aud 10 Daviess county, Illinois, aggregs-
ting !, 900 acres, which are to be developed
at once.
The Ben Asbestos Company will take
out Of their Quebec mines this season
about 1900 tons OF sshesio1. Air COM
pressors, steam drills and the latest laSor
saving appliances ara in use in these mire7,
and It is estimated that their profits on the
present seasons work will figure close
upon $50, OOO
At Bangor, Me, compositOrs get 16i
cents PEI thousand. In New York, Gin
st. Louis, Louisville, New Or
Leans, Nashville and San Francisco $40 per
week is the aversge AT Auburn, n. Y,
Is cents per /, 200 ems IS paid. Al Washoe
S23 Der week can be made. In southern
Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa small towns
81 80 and 50 per week and board IS the
salary. In San Francisco, after gold had
been discovered, 50 per thousand was the
wsg'a Before the war compOsitors in
New York city made S11 per week, oihsr
towss IS low as 81 AID s..
switchmel on the Cleveland, Colum-
hu-, Cisc.nnati and IEdiseapOlis and New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, at Cleve-
land, o have been granted an increase in
wares IS follows: Night conductors ad-
vaaoed from 81 90 to 81 20 per dsy; night
hrAkemsn from 81 90 to S220 day brake
msa from 1895 70 81 10. The pay Of dsy
conductors will remain at 81. The Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern and New
York. Chicago and ST. LOUIS roads have
also increased the pay Of their switehmen
at Buffalo aid Cleveland.
The ifeen great American inventions OF
worldwide adoption are: let, the cOttoa
gin; I'd, the planiugmschine; 81, the grass
mower AID reaper; 4th, the rotary printir 6
pres; 9th, navigation by steam; 9th, hot
air engine; 9TH, the sewing machine; 9Th,
the india rubber industry; 9Th, the machine
manufacture Of horse shoes; 10th, the sard
bl-st for carving; 18th, the gauge lathe
l2.h. the grain elevator; 18th, artificial ice
making on a lsrge scale; 14th, the electro
magnet and its practical application; 18Th,
tho telephone.
CoDgrtssman Ford says Of the work Of
the labor investigating committee: We
have full retains flom oil over Europe.
They show conclusively that every gov
eminent on the continent and the British
Isles has made systematic efforts 10 gather
its paupeIs, lunatics, criminals and riffrsfi
generally, and dump them into the United
Safes.
Kingston, Can, grooers have followed
the lumbermen in protesting against any
increased in the duty on poik-one cent
per pound on mess and two cents on other
kinds TIE pork packers declared that they
could not c,mpgte with American pork
under the existing duty, and the lumber
men declare that they will be the losers
by the increased tax, as the American
pork must be had at any price.
Three houses near the Hsymasket, sgd
uey, sre occupied by no fewer than 533
Chinese, who beast that they are lodged
tor an ayersse Of 104d per week. The
beds sre mere shelves ranged round the
room in tieIs, and fully 80 Chinese are
located in some Of the rooms.
The New Eugland Boot and Shoe Last
ers' Union, organized December %, 1879.
now hss 10, 600 members. II has procured
an ircresse ia wages from g. to SIG PEI
week, has reduced hours from twelve to
ten per day, and has spant 100000 in
1900 strikes.
Judge Duffy, Of Baltimore, has sustain
ed ths decisioa Of the State Board Of Com
miseiousrs of Practical Piumbisg in declAr-
ing that plumbers mu.t 90 through an sx-
animation Annually. The plumbers union
made a test case.
Arthur Lepine, Of Montreal, who had
both srms pulled ont in q cotton mill, hes
refused s., coo offered by the company. A
bill proposing to regulate damages for in
juries in mills is to be presented in Parlia-
ment.
Vanderbilt" says the Forum, "became
the great communist Of The time when he
reduced the cost Of moving years supply
of food 100 miles to the measure OF q day Is
wages OF an ordinary mechanic.
Hoboken's Silk Workers Union ia get
ting ready to fight. They have been de-
prived OF the Saturday hslf-holiday, extra
hours have been pat on, snd now they fear
a cut in wsges.
The Whisky Trust represents 50 pei
cent. Of the business. A st. Louis dealer
SAYS the distl ers can make enough wh's-
Ky il three months 10 supply the country
for three yeare.
Tack machines make 275 pr minute
Taunton, Mas4, has the largest mill.
There are $50 skilled workers in America.
They make from $3.50 10 $3.50 PER month.
Woburn, Mass, moroCcO-BoTkers have
had their wages reduced f;om 81 TO 50 pei
week. A public indignation meeting wa
he'd and the cut denouaced.
The New York uptown clerks and sales
men talk Of dropping the early-elosing de-
mand until they shall have gained twelve
hour day.
Hamilton, Ont, bakers were fined S
each for selling lightweight bread. The
modey was handed over to the local char
tiles.
The Car Of Russia recently picked uI
zoo pounds of steel in Petershof gun fsc-
tory. The workers cheered.
In Paris, France, a big company has q
monopoly Of the funerals. This company
handles 80, 90 bodies yearly.
George Hotis, of Albany, got Sl2, 900
damages from the Central HddsOn railrosd
he lost a leg while brskiDg.
Thsre are $1,000 men in the Stationary
Engineers Association. The union was
formed in New York in 1882.
In Germany workingmens' societies can
not held political debates nor carry banners
Il.