Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-18

Honolulu boilermakers organized.
Denver has a municipal repair shop.
Baltimore is to have a Lulu Temple
Denver carpenters now get SO day.
south Wales has 10000 union miners.
English farm laborers are organic
ing.
Labor Day is a legal holiday in the
Philippines.
Tobacco costs Chicagoans $25,0O0,-
600 year.
Kansas City painters get 81 for eight
hours work.
st. Paul plumbers wages range from
$3.50 to $3.50 a day.
The minimum wages of Montreal
moulders is now So day.
New York and Louisville street rail-
way men have organized
The salary of the City Marshal of
Nevada, Ia, is SIS per month.
Sacramento has exterminated nickel
in-the-slot gambling machines.
In many of the Southern cities negro
mail carriers outnumber the white.
Toledo street railway employees
wages have been increased per cent.
Three Toronto, O., fire clay ompa-
MES have conceded an advance of Is
cents per day.
This country produces 2,5O0,OO 900
gallons of petroleum annually, half the
worlds output.
Ten liquor dealers at Lake Massabe-
sic, in Auburn, N. H., have agreed to
quit the business.
Hay has advanced from 81 to SIS
within the past two months in Rock
1ngham county, n. H.
Men who shall remove snow from
the streets of New York next winter
will be paid 81 for eight hours.
The paupers in Japan number fewer
than 10000 out of a population of 49,
100000. In that country it is consid-
cred a disgrace to be an idler.
The initiation fee of the st. Louis
Typographical Union is fixed accord
ing to the age of the applicant, the
minimum being SIS and the maximum
$50.
No contractor for any public work
done for the city of Seattle shall re-
quire or allow any employee to work
more than eight hours on such public
work in any one calendar day.
The Tin Workers International Pro-
tective Associations new scale will
take effect July l. 1t calls for a gen.
eral advance of about 25 per cent. and
benefits about 10000 men.
The business men of Portland seem
to believe that local band is a good
thing for small town, for they have
contributed $3.50 toward the purchase
of new instruments for the organiza-
ton.
Beat the school furniture trust by
establishing municipal school furni-
ture plant, is the proposition of school
Director Sargent, of Cleveland, as
stated in his annual report to the
school council.
Baltimore broommakers protest
against prison labor competition. Blind
broommakers in Philadelphia, earning
S. week, struck for an advance.
Their employer is sightless. The men
held a parade.
More ships sail the Detroit river than
enter Liverpool or London. The Suez
Canal, which carries the commerce of
VIZ O-Ad, poSSCQ ldSl year O,OUU,UUU
tonnage, while there were floating
through the locks of Sault Ste. Marie
16,500,000 in eight months
The proposition of Mayor Jones, of
Kansas City, to increase the saloon IL
cense for Kansas City from the mini
mum license allowed. $3.50 a year, to
$3.50 year. has raised a storm of op-
position The Independence saloons
pay $3.50 city license
Twenty New York contractors. en-
ploying three hundred children's Jacket
makers, last week signified their will
ingnesS to agreed to the demands of
their employees. For the first time in
the history of the trade the contractors
on children's pants have joined forces
with the strikers, and are now actually
enrolled as members of the union.
A comparison of the earnings of
men and women in the State of New
York shows that 69.2 per cent. of them
earned between $50 and Sis in the
quarter. while 37.S per cent. earned be-
tween SIS and 500; the number that
earned more than $3.50 in the quarter
equivalent to 81 a day. was insignii-
can't On the other hand, more than
one-half the men earned more than $3.50
each.
On the request of the merchants of
the county the Supervisors of San An
dreas. Cal. adopted an ordinance fixing
license of SO month or S25 a quar-
ter on drummers and peddlers selling
goods at retail on foot and s25 a month
or $50 quarter on the same when
using vehicles, drummers in the whole
sale trade being exempted. The ordi-
nance is aimed at shirt. shoe, clothing
and other statesmen selling by sample
and subsequently filling orders by mail
or express
Cleveland Street Railway Mems
Union asked the company sign a con-
tract with the officers of the Street
Railway Employees Union, which
world prevent the company having in