Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-08

ing its magnificent saw-mill plant at
Dobbin, which will be one of the finest
in the State. An electric light plant
will be installed, among other I'M
provements. Several million feet of
logs are already in their boom, ready
for saving.
The Coketon Lumber Company has
just completed the erection of large
plant on the West Virginia Central,
between Coketon and Thomas. Their
saw-mill will have capacity OF
about $4,000 feet per day, and lum-
Der railroad will be built through the
10 600 acres of timber land they own
there. Rumbarger Brothers, of Elk
ms, w. Va, and Philadelphia, Pa, are
the principal members of the company.
They last week purchased F. o. Gill
pin & Co, IS store at Eldns and moved
, it to their plant. Mr.. Gilpin has been
employed to operate it.
Electric motive power will be in
stalled in the plant of the Shenandoah
Pants Factory at Martinsburg, just as
soon as the wires which are now being
placed can be connected up. A gas
G. E.. Sidwell is saving a tract of
timber land on Mill Run, near Mont
rose, which he purchased from the
heirs of the late DR.. Ed. Parsons last
fall.
A modern dairy has been started on
the Jackson farm, near Keyser, by F..
NJ. Wilson, who moved here from
Elkins and purchased the farm for
dairy purposes some months ago.
The Potomac and Petterson's Creek
cutoff will be 6b miles long, and will
reduce the distance on the main line
of the B & D. in West Virginia ten and
spne- half miles. lit is stated that the
company is ready to receive bids. This
line will include a tunnel 1000 feet
long. The road will be between Pinto,
small station sixteen miles east of
here. and the mouth of Patterson'S
creek, about nine miles from Cumber-
land. 1t will be one of the greatest
improvements made by the b. e. 0.
in years.
Japan boasts paper handkerchiefs.
Every Japan street has a public
oven.
Nome City's only paper costs so
cents.
B. ]. Sugar is a Louisiana sugar
planter.
Carnegie's Company includes 81 mil
lionaires.
New York Post Office clerks demand
pay for overtime.
Hudson county, n. j., carpenters
now get SO a day.
New York machinists won an eight
months strike for the zine hour day.
indianapolis infant Street Railway
Union has been throttled by the com
pany.
Assessments on special franchises in
New York City show valuation Of
$500, 573, COG.
Sowing of cotton seed has been conf
menced in Upper Egypt and will soon
begin in the Nile Delta.
California workmen are becoming
alarmed at the steadily increasing
number OF japanese immigrants.
A colony of 400 Missouri farmers
will settle in the valley of the Concho
River, State of Chichuahua, Mexico,
this spring.
Iowa's Senate passed the bill 10 pro-
hibit the manufacture of pearl but
tons and butter tubs in the State peni-
Tertiary.
The town OF Westhoren, Germany,
still enforces an old ordinance which
forbids anyone walking in the street
with lighted cigar.
Davenport & Treacy, OF Greenwich,
Conn, the largest piano plate manu-
facturers in the country, voluntarily
raised the wages OF their employees 20
cents day.
New York Electrical Workers Union
has decided to demand an advance of
wages to 81 day and Saturday half
holiday on May I, and TO enforce their
demands by strikes If they are not
granted.
In the Borough OF the Bronx, IN. "
and in Mount Vernon 900 carpenters
struck last week. They demand $3.50
for eight hours work in the Bronx,
1925 in Mount Vernon and a Saturday
half holiday, wages to be paid weekly.
The demands were unheeded.
The New York Socialist Labor party
has secured a permit from the city al
thorities for the use of Union Square
plaza for May /, for mass-meeting 10
celebrate the International Labor Day.
A parade will precede the meeting, ard
a conference of the Progressive Trade
and Labor organizations viii be held
tomorrow to make the necessary ar
rangements.
indianapolis is 10 have a co-opera-
tive department store Stock Is 10 be
sold on the installment as well as paid
uD plan The small payments are Is
cents week. All stockholders are en-