Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-15
WORLD OF LABOR.


Havana has 900 policemen.
A Filipino horse is worth SIS.
New York has a sausage trust.
America has 2,5O000 telephones.
Japan is opening petroleum fields.
St. Louis has a furniture exposition.
New York strike pickets use bicycles.
Denver carpenters get Il cents per hour.
Soon we may telephone to the Anti
podes.
Cuba is the greatest sugar producing
country.
Strausburg announces a substitute for
gutta percha.
Millionaire Marchand paid $4,000 for
bedstead.
st. Louis has the worlds largest hard
ware house.
| Doctors in Germany are increasing four
times as fast as the population.
| In Switzerland telephone can be fitted
to private houses for IS a year.
! More than one-third of all manufac-
tured goods in France are made by
women.
! In Nebraska nowadays the skins of
superfuous dogs are tanned and made
| into gloves.
! The telegraph poles along the Savannah
| & Statesboro railway, in Georgia, are
growing.
| over $1,0O0000 worth of diamonds are
stolen every year from the South African
diamond mines.
! Rome (Ga) Typographical Union will
nominate it's former secretary, Tom Tur-
| ner, for the Legislature.
The Austrian Government has intro
| he aio CHI n n in 0rlxc hnr
conducted by the State.
The approximate value of vessels built
in ship yards of the great lakes during
the past year is s1050o,000
Europe not only produces more than
one-half of the worlds wheat crop, but
consumes almost the entire wopid's sur
plus.
! on Brazilian railroads no baggage is
transported free, and a passenger is al
! lowed to take with him into the coach
only a small handbag.
Owing to the scarcity Of boy labor the
| District Messenger Company, of London,
has been forced to utilize eighteen-year-
old girls in four of its offices.
| Within the next two weeks nickel will
| have no effect with the milkman. Of Min
neapolis, as far a quart of his fluid
goes, and 1t will take at least an extra
penny to do business with him. The
price of milk has already advanced /
cent a quart in st. Paul.
/ The largest railroad tunnel in the world
! is nearly completed, through the Cascade
Mountains. west OF Kalispel. Mont. 1t is
the pet scheme OF j. j. Hill, President
of the Great Northern road. and will save
| that road twelve miles and several hours
| in the rans-continental run.
! The union label is guide post of union
labor 1t points the safe way in buying
1t shows the wageworker where to find
| friends among employers. The label
shows that a fellow-unionist has been
over the ground and fought against op-
preston. Its use is fraternai in a high
sense.-Louisville New Era.
| A. P. Wilson. Duluth contractor. has
begun work on a large building for
cooperative mercantile association of
Finps at Ishpeming. to be used as a store,
public hall. and banquet room for the
| Finnish population Of Ishpeming The
plans have been drawn by Duluth archi-
tects. and provide for a building TO con-
tain stores for all sorts of goods. and two
| stories high.
| On the new locomotives OF the Denver
& Rio Grande railway MOBILES have been
| placed on the roofs OF the cabs pointing
at the rear of the tender and the plat
| form of the front end of the baggage car
| These connect to the hot water of the
| boiler through a cock convenient to the
! engine driver or fireman. who can in
stantly send jet Of mixed steam and
| boiling water, at 200 pounds pressure that
| would effectually kill anybody happen
| ing to be in its range. The Jet is for pro-
| lection against train robbers.
| The arbitrator in the machinists strike
! In Toronto, Ontario. has handed out his
| decision as follows: The men receive 10
per cent increase in wages and the min
| imum wage for journeymen machinists
| is fixed at % cents per hour employers to
have the right TO refuse to employ incom-
petent men. Overtime up 70 midnight
rate and a quarter: after midnight double
rate; Saturday afternoons. rate and a
| quarter; legal holidays. rate and a half:
Sundays. double rate The award has
been accepted by both parties and Is
binding for year.
/ New York Is coon TO have In fits sub
urbs the largest chicken ranch I'm the
world. At Manasquan. y. j., company
| has secured q tract Of three hundred and
| nifty acres 10 establish giant hen indus-
TRY. conducted on scientifsc methods The
city or New York last year paid $znoo80oo
Tor eggs most 81 them more 81 less stale.
ths consumption being 1oo.ooo'9oo dozen.