Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-22

quadrllled, half billion dollars polka
ed and sch0ttisched and jingled by cou-
pies. Enough, says the New York
journal, to Duy CUBA and the Philip
pine Islands. Enough to free nation
OF slaves; enough to ransom any king
ever captured in the history of the
world. And so it was that.
The Bricklayers and Masons' Inter-
| national Union is SO years DID,
In Galveston, Texas, the carpenters
have adopted a weather vane in the
shape OF an arrow. which is displayed
| upon frame houses built by union car
Denters.
| 1t is reported that there is a strike
| of textile workers at st. Petersburg,
+, Russia, who are causing considerable
trouble. The strike censorship does not
allow the newspapers to mention the
strike.
Non-union glass workers at Rich
| mond, Ind, struck. The association
| has agreed to help them in their eff
forts to resist the reduction and will
| furnish them financial aid, but it re-
| fuses to admit them or put them on
the relief roll. These blowers" says
| the Glassworker, ARE responsible for
the introduction of the machine for
making jars, owing to the severe COM
petition they forced on union houses
by their lower standard of wages
At meeting of the Washington Cen
trail Labor Union it was stated by the
delegate from the Columbia Musical
Protective Association that the Marine
Band recently secured an engagement
at less than the scale of prices sub
mitted by civilian musicians, and he
| laid before the c. l.. V. protest
against the unfair competition, which
will be sent to Secretary Long.
Washington, D. c., Central Labor
Union unanimously adopted a resolu-
ton condemning the proposition to ap-
point an outsider to the Office of post
master of this city.
| Duluth bookkeepers will organize.
| Missouri has 377 coal mines.
The report Of the Amalgamated So
| ciety Of Carpenters and Joiners is eX-
ceedingly encouraging in regards the
/ state of trade. Out of total member
| ship of 56101 only 423 were unemploy-
| ed, and of these 120 were in the United
States, Canada or Australia, leaving
only 303 unemployed in the United
Kingdom and that number includes any
| on dispute benefit. There were, how
| ever, 1,020 on sick benefit and 627 on
approximation allowance.
In London, government laborers de-
mand minimum wage of 24s. week.
Scotch steel workers were conceded 5
per cent. advance in wages.
A proposed Indiana law will abolish
the saloon free lunch.
The Amalgamated Society of Rail
way Servants of England, have deter
mined, if possible, to have direct rep
resentative in the House of Commons.
There are no warehouses or regular
systems of pauper relief, as known in
the United Kingdom in the Australian
colonies, although in several, New
South Wales, for instance, there are
government asylums for the aged poor,
the rule being where there is an excep-
tional dearth of employment to start
public works for the absorption of the
unemployed.
Municipal management of tramways
is the coming policy in all British pro-
vincial towns. Glasgow was one Of the
first great towns to undertake the op-
Grafton of tramways as a branch of the
municipal service. This was done on
July i, 1894. the day following the ex-
piration Of the tramway company's
lease. During the last four years the
fares have been reduced from 33 to so
per cent, the service has been increas-
ed so per cent. and the hours of drivers
and conductors have been shortened
and their wages raised. N. Y. Tribune.
New York has 1856 drinking saloons.
Wednesday,, Eng, molders secured
an advance of 71a per cent; they de-
manded Is.
A lady correspondent who travelled
by the Southeastern Railway on Tues
day from Blackwater to Tonbridge
complains that she was unable to OBJ
tain a foot-warmer, although willing to
pay for it. She was informed that the
railway servants had strict orders not
to supply them to third-class passen-
gers.
The Purity" is the only high grade
Butter on the market. See that you
get it. Take no other.