Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-04

The StOgie Makers League, emDrac-
ing the districts or Western Pennsyl-
yania, West Virginia and Ohio, con-
GUIDED their annual meeting IN this
city last Sunday and elected onlcefs.
W. H. Riley and Frank Thomas, OF tnlS
city, were reelected President ana oec-
rotary President Riley was Also
elected representative to the annual
meeting OF the American FederatloI Vi
Labor which copyenes IN AaneSFiiio
this week. President Riley reports
that the Stogie Makers League is pros
pering and increasing. lie THINKS ehae
it will succeed in being recognized DIS
a national organization by the feoerd-
ton of Labor, Notwithstanding the OPP
position of the Cigar Makers Inter
national Union.
Civil engineers surveyed the premises
of the LaBelle plant last week Tor the
pll. pose, it is understood, OF liking the
boundary lines of the tin department,
which has been purchased by the TIN
plate trust. All material on hand is
being worked I'D by the LaBelle mills,
preparatory to turning tnat poflioA VI
the works over to the trust.
Officers of the tin plate trust have not
been elected. A rumor is IN circulation
that VIM T. Graham, general manager
of the Aetna-Standard mill, is slated
for the vice presidency OF the trust.
It was reported previously that Mr..
Graham was to be the president, but
this was denied.
The Belmont Central Trades and
Labor Union meets this afternoon at
Bellaire.
The Bellaire Steel Company will dis
continue dumping slack in the river
on account Of complaints made by the
river men that the dumping process
was closing up the main channel ana
interfering with navigation. The COM
pany have purchased tract OF low
ground near the mill, where they VIII
hereafter dump their refuse.
Wires were spread from the electric
plant at the Bellaire steel works TO the
coal mines, where new electric ma
chimes will be placed to dig coal. Ihey
will not be able to work them 1or
several weeks yet.
Since the Glencoe mines, west OF
Bellaire, equipped their works with
compressed air machines for mining
some wage difficulties have arisen and
a meeting was held last week at the
plant for the purpose of adjusting
them.
Pat Mcbride, of Columbus, ex-secre-
tary of the United Mine Workers of
America, and one of the best known
public men in the country, was in the
city last week. He came to Bridgeport
for the purpose of writing up the Sit
uation among the miners and to get
railroad statistics for the Columbus
DISPATCH Mr. Mcbride was secretary
of the miners organization two terms
and is a candidate for vice president
of the antional organization this year.
Caldwell & Peterson companys
works are busy supplying a number OF
important contracts on hand. The firm
has been given the job Of furnishing
the new Potts hotel building, on Mar
ket street. with metal ceilings. Cald-
we'll & Peterson have some large gov
eminent contracts-lining the entrance
to vaults of the U. S. treasury build
ing, and fitting the elevators OF the
Capitol building in Washington, d. c.,
also fitting throughout the government
barracks on Tybee Island, Georgia.
The firm is putting in beautiful dec
GRATED embossed metal ceiling in the
First Baptist church, at Savannah, Ga.
This is considered one of the biggest
jobs of the kind ever undertaken.
Word comes from East Liverpool
that the pottery combine is assured.
Of the thirty-four pottery firms in East
Liverpool, all but five have given OPP
tons on their plants.
The Peoples Ice Company, which
was recently organized in this city to
build o pfant and furnish ice to local
wholesale consumers, are making ar
rangements and negotiating with diff
ferent firms for the machinery to equip
their plant. The company still holds
q noption on the Twenty-eighth street
site, but have not yet made a lease for
the ground.