Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-02
INDUSTRIAL ToPICA .
Points Picked Up About the Mills and
Factories.


Factories.
The Etna STANDARD is now occupying
all its elegant Offices at the newly i'm
proved building in Etnaville.
Michael O'Mally, OF SberrodsvIlle. o.,
is guest of John Sullivan, well known
heater OF the Htna-Standard.
The Bellaire steel works Will resume
next Monday. The company is sending
for the Workmen 10 be ready.
Not so much Of the Etna-Standard Is
on now as last week. The management
reports nothing new in the situation.
Part Of the Laughlin mill, Martins
Ferry, will 20 on next Monday. The
coal diggers have been ordered TO 90 TO
work.
Orders are coming in surprisingly
well at the tube works II labor differ
ences do not interfere the management
looks for good run this spring.
Something about the engine at the
Riverside steel works broke yesterday.
The whole works were of from o'clock
IN the afternoon till o'clock at night.
The local miners union held an In
teTesting meeting 81 Trades Assembly
hall last night President John Nu-
gent, OF the n. NJ. w. OF Ohio, was
present and addressed the members
The Etna-Standard Iron and Steel
Company is making out rs contract for
the appliances, changes and new ma
chinery for the manufacture OF tin
Mate. Several Of the mills are 10 be
changed.
The gas producers at the Ia Belle
mill were lighted yesterday. One OF the
heating furnaces is rebuilt. This fur
mace will be started to-day II II can be
gotten hot enough. This IL hardly
probable, however.
Workmsn have about completed
large well at Bloch Bros. tobacco works.
The we'll Is 20 feet deep and Is feet 10
diameter. Water will be kept In the
we'll so that It can be pumped 10 the
large tank on top Of the new ware
house.
George Bedson, an old man. one OF
the best known ex-mill men OF North
Wheeling, Ia in dangerous condition.
He was at the North Wheeling hospital
and had q dangerous operation per-
formed on him for cancer. He was re-
moved to his home yesterday, aud the
physicians have given him up.
The management OF the Bridgeport
BEETLE works have made propositions 70
90 to work. II IL understood that the
MANAGEMENT offers the blowers and APP
prentlces enough weekly for market
money. or about SO a week until the
ware is sold In paying quantities. The
men are inclined 70 accept and arrange
ments are being made 20 put part OF
them on by the 18th OF this month.
Last Wednesday evening there was
pleasant social event At the home OF
John HoaE, a we'll known mill man OF
the Ktna-Standard, at Etnsville. The
occasion was the celebration OF this
popular gentlsman's thirty-hfth birth
day. A good crowd was attendance.
WIN. Ball and Harry Bishop, well known
Bridgeport musicians, gave the music
for the dancing. A number OF MILL men
with their wives and best girls attended.
All the miners Of the Etna-Standard,
over one hundred Ia nun Der, have been
offered and have accepted reduction.
The cut will effect both the Etna and
Standard mines. The reduction was
not une1 pected by the miners, and even
now they think they are favored above
Others 10 the same business who
have suffered greater cuts Formerly
the men were paid 20 cents . ton for
their work. and now they get bat IS
cents a ton, or q cDt OF IS cents II is
aIso probable. too, that the company
will pot in scales 70 weigh the coal, and
then the miners will be paid bat little
over &c cents . too. Bat this will be
about the same as 20 cents ton for
clean coal The mines are COW work
ing not over tWo-thifds time. and II
they we're working 10 JUL, the best Of
she miners could not make Dger $50 3
H. IN 1hn Innt esIf