Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-02-18


man Is running sc its capacity. There
are no works TO the city which have had
a steadler run than they during the de-
preston. The mill has not been closed
a day for several months, except Sun
days, and once when q break made
shut down for one day, necessary. The
Masonic Temple was finished yesterday
by the firm and it is a most creditaoie
contract. Lumber is being furnished
fora house on the Island.
The situation at the Elm Grove coal
mines remain unchanged. There are
az work In the mines about fifty miners,
about fifteen Of whom are the old men,
and the remainder the new labor. The
Arbitration Committee OF the Ohio
Valley Trades and Labor Assembly
went out TO the mines few days ago
60 meet the miners at work in the mine,
but they did not show up. The COM
pany has refused to recognize the
miners union or any Of the committees
sent from IL.
Yockum Bros, the coal dealers who
have a mine near RaYmann's brewery,
have received the contract for supply
ing the coal for the city electric light
plant. The amount used will be about
6, ZOO bushels a month and Wheeling
miners will be benefited as their labor
will be used To the mining. Formerly
the coal was supplied by Henry tloer-
shelm from the Finleyville Pa dis
trictS.
The pottery Of the Ohio Valley China
Company has eighty men at work. The
decorating shops are on in full, and 1t
has been necessary TO secure additional
employees for this department.. The ex-
listing strike does not effect this plant,
as the ware is not the same aSi made in
the other potteries Of the city. All the
the statesmen are on the road aud they
are sending 10 good orders. The gen.
eral outlook is much brighter.
National President Mcbride, Of the
Miners Union, says there are $4,000
miners in the Pennsylvania coal dis
trict, and they mine nearly as much
coal as the State OF Ohio. he says the
miners ana operators there cannot be
induced 20 raise prices, and that the
only way to bring them 10 time is TO
have the Ohio miners meet them In
price, which Is about TO be done.
The Wheeling Steel Works are having
a good run since they started again.
There is a good supply Of metal on
hands and more is coming nearly every
day. A break of some OF the machine
~ in the converting department de-
layad operations last Thursday. There
is also some talk OF the pudding mills
of tho works going on soon. They
have been idle for q long time.
The Joseph Bell Stove and Range
Company reports trade little dull, but
their plant az Muncie, Ind, is in full
operation and working every day. The
firm is receiving the usual number Of
large conSignments in this city. The
works az Muncie give employment TO
100 men. Salesman Bush, Of this city,
the salesman Of the firm, will leave to-
day for a business trip East.
The potters, in the strike in this city,
have still unbrOken ranks. At a recent
meeting the Advisory Committee OF the
pottters decided 10 stand firm against
tho reduction offered by the manufac-
turers. At the Warwick pottery about
twenty persons are at work % the deco
rating department. where the cutting
does not effect, aud at the LaBelle only
three or four packers are employed.
The firm OF George McMechen and
Son Company is having better trade
than for the last year Orders have
been coming 10 ia a most encouraging
manner Of late, and the firm is behind
with them. Those in management re-
gard it as something remarkable the
way business has increased the last two
weeks.
At a meeting q few days ago in this
city, delegates from the coal mines OF
Moundsville, Glendale, Elm Grove,
Wellsburg, and this city, il was decided
that the mines would be governed by
the Ohio miners' action in the present
difficulties when the action Of the Ohio
miners is made known officially.
The long strike at the Apollo and
Leechburg Pa mines continues. The
strikers claim that the new men are
leaving the employ OF the company.
The men locked out are receiving con-
tributions from other lodges Of the
Amalgamated society over the country.
Last Thursday the steamer Hudson
took frOe this city more Of the output
OF its mills than for many months
Nails were received from the Laughlin
and LaBello mills, iron from the Atna-
STANDARD, and a large consignment from
Boch's tobacco works.
1t was generally understood that this
would be the last week for the Belmont
mill until repairs were made. Orders
have come in ia such an encouraging
manner Of late that the works will be
on in full tomorrow, and will be run
indefinitely.
Morrison & Chew, Of the Wheeling
boiler works, report q good trade. Some
of the workmen are employed at the re-
pair OF the Niagara engine, aud other
small Jobs over the city have been done
the last week.
In East Liverpool, o., the Potters'
Brotherhood will probably unite with
the American Federation OF LABOR.
This, the potters think, will greatly
strengthen them during the existing
strike.
The factory and Nesting departments
AZ the Belmont mill have been running
steadily. but a short shaft broke last
Thursday, which will keep q part OF the
factory idle tin tomorrow morning.
Willard Stout, OF Morrison q Chew's
boiler works. who suffered the painful
accident recently, is able 80 be out
AGAIN. and will soon be able to work.
The machine shops Of Spears & Rid
die are going in a steady manner. The
firm is making large line Of shattlng Tor
the Wheeling corrugating works.
The coal business over the country is
o,iet and shows a big falling OF over