Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-03

and freQuerting places where such beer
is sold or dispensed.
In the jam factories of Melbourne
girls work in acid that makes their
hands bleed. They are paid by piece
work and at the best can earn $3.50 a
week.
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat warns
its readers that the statement that
Debs will poll in the neighborhood of
1000, 600 votes is not to be taken as a
joke under any circumstances.
Efforts to have the New York Anal
gamated Plumbers and Gas Filters
Union and the Brotherhood of Plumb
errs cooperate in a demand for an
eight-hour workday and pay OF 81 a
day have been unsuccessful, and the
demands will not be made by either
body for a time.
The British trades unions have is
sued a statement showing the relative
wage rates that exist in the Transvaal
and Great Britain. According to the
document wages are much the highest
in the lands of the Beers.
I. San Francisco parties are having
built at Seattle, Wash, a raft of logs
which, when completed, will be 625
feet long and contain IA, 000, 900 feet of
lumber, to be towed to Japan.
During the month of April the en-
ployes of the Brooklyn Cigar Label
Committee were kept busy sending out
labels asked for by various manufac-
turers. In all they dispensed 1885,
600, and during the week just ended
1885, 500 were sent out. The applica-
lions of six manufacturers for the use
of the transfer was granted.
In England 144,G 26 children under A
years work from 70 to 81 hours a week.
In London alone So, 900 who do attend
school study in an underfed condition.
Yet an English Socialist paper has the
temerity to say that this problem of
moment to civilization tan that the
Boer Republics have yet presented to
us for solution"
Suit has been brought in the law
courts against the AmaIgamated Soci-
ETY. of Painters and Decorators for the
sum of $780, 900 for damages because the
society refused to recognize the work.
ing cards of members of the new
Brookly Painters Union, Of the Ger
man Painters Union of Manhattan, and
OF Local Union No. /, of the Brother
hood of Painters. The three last paint
ers organizations are the plaintiffs in
the suit, which is on trial before Jus
tice Lawrence, in Part Seven, of the
Supreme Court, Manhattan.
For the first time in history our exports
to Asia and Oceanica will exceed 500, 000,-
900 during the current fiscal year. In no
part of the world has our trade grown
with such amazing rapidity. except in
South America, the total having increased
100 per cent in two years and nearly 100
per cent in eight years, for in 1893 our to-
tai exports to all Asia and Oceanica only
amounted to a little more than $27, 200, 600.
The increase is chiefly in c~ottons, bread
stuffs. provisions and manufactured good
stuffs, provisions and manufactured
goods.
Shares of the United State Flour Mill
ing Company sold at a quarter of a dol
lar on the Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
This great company OWNS no less than
nineteen of the largest fiour mills in the
world, having a total capacity of g, 900
barrels a day. That means 7,644,Oc0 pounds
a day, 45,S64,N00 pounds a week and 1884,
92S, 600 pounds a year--the mills not run
ming Sundays. The annual product of the
flour industry is of greater value than
that Of all the iron and steel factories, the
foundry and machine, the lumber, cloth
ing, or than that of all the textile indus
tries. Just think of it! There is but one
industry that tops it, and that is slaught-
ering and packing. Yet, says the New
York Press, this great concern-the Flour
Trusts in III a condition that it's
shares are selling at twenty-five cents.
Eight months ago the price was 232 times
as great.