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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-30
An ARMY OF IDLE WEN.

There are thousands and tens of thousands
OF men out OF work, including miners from
Ohio and West Virginia, iron workers from
Ohio and Pennsylvania, cotton operatives
in Rhode Island, and all representing $780,
100000 Of capital. Ii is anticipated tina,
thousands viii be added to this army OF
idlers. The Republicans are trying to keep
this disastrous picture from the public eye,
but it stares them in the face at every turn
let four hundred millions are piled up in
the Treasury they say, for the benefit OF
these idle workiugmen. In Pennsylvania
iron workers work for 80 cents day, and
not Iull time, and in Ohio the miners work
for Gj cents day; while agriculturists,
with wheat at 70 cents per hushei get 81
day and find themselves. The immense
surplus is not for the farmer but for the
delivers under the earth. Yet while miners
get only 65 cents in Ohio Jefferson county,
W. Va, can pay 81 day for working in
the broad sunlight of God. The mills, as
the Edgar Thompson, are shut down, but
the farmer does not close out and shut
down, and he cannot until machine is in
vented that will suspeue the work called
living.
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Ask Edmund f. Booking aud C. Menke-
miller about Acker's Blood Elixir. the only
PREPARATION guaranteed to cleanse the
bleed and remove all chronic diseases.
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FoR bargains in Dry Goods. Carpets and
Clothing, goto J. W. Perrers, cor. Main
and 2lst streets.
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W5eelin9 8e9istes
THURSDAY. OCTOBER so, 1884.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE,
Index to New Advertisements

Fer Rent-Frout Room.
Artificial Plsnts-Eirk's Art Store.
Wanted - Furnished Rooms. - Local
Page
Breeeh-Loadiug Guus-k G. Dillon.
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To the L.a,li.,

Just received another lot osI,X.,.
Sewed Walkenphas, Button Sba., , :. :
Blends. u
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-30

Edmund +. Booking and c. N,,,..
state tina, indigestion prepares ers,,'I
disease, bat guarantee Acker, h,,j
Tablets 10 cure all forms OF inI;,.:.,.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-30

MoRSrSG GLORY Baking Powder. Ask
yosr grocer for il. It never fails. G. s.
Feeny. proprietor, lil0 Main Street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-30

Doors and Shoes at all prices, at L. v.
Bonds.
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UNFINISHED ROOMS wAETED-yDI
60 rent for six months n small iurpsss
on three iurui,Lsd rooms, suitable ior bOss'
by two persons. Must be IN ctnI,l lsss
Third vard. Address tblsofiite, BDAkIfi
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Snecinl ENcMrsiOn

CLOSING out Buggies and Spring Wagons
away below their value. j. ". Ferel.
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NaarNCURA SOAP. An eITcias
WI aEA furssry hshsu'e
70 INVEsT0R&

DEesoss INCLINED 10 sansi
L mali lnysAnens In dsGnhS -
RAPIDLY GLOWING CITY. o. b 80
.eeurl.l.. paying ga mt. Of $500
10 eonspeei .ils tAs undsns'A :. 80
Capital q xisssssta, = stss'ss n 81
ss,iOo Of tbs great hisisips' n n
rls-sy 70 and oemssrcasi sss'sIS1
Horthvssi, bsins sz inpefan' xosp|
enc ot lSs seruini Of The srs -. ~
IsI.r.a. nov sosp;etsA Te 49,,
xem 70 insure foT 3. spaad fasaH -
b, "a. eonptzoiisrs s.sisn<n' =
5000; 10 Juns, 1850, II 90 49,
Ia-usansau nsSs Of bon
ti'a-''' "''''''" ''i siEaY c.los
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\ POLITICAL SUIT.

TuH Dude Wslkeupaast Sho>, at l.. '.
Bonds
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la Coed q Co, sslls the cheapest Dry Goods.
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MARTINS FERRY.

LADIES, if you want nice style Of shoe
call at l.. V. Blouds.
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MILLS AND FACTORIES CLOSED.

Here Mr. Lucas read several newspaper
extracts, showing that in every direction
mills, factories and shops are closing down
and working half time and reducing wages.
Iet this four hundred million dollars was
paid in and gathered up IN order that they
all might run How is all this done? The
answer is plain. Go to the Hooking Valley
and ask why those 500 Polish miners were
ofSaSbt in, aud the answer is aiTen. The
RepubicahE In caring for the poor working
men, passed a law allowing contractors to
bring in the Chinese, italian and Hunga,
rians and giving them d lien on them. No
matter what the homestead laws maT BE,
they have no hold on the contract made for
these paupers, in the heart of Europe Aud
this Law was passed on the blessed day of
American Independence! An that now
model statesman. John Sherman, was the
man who had said the price Of labor il
very high and We must have importation. ~
This is the key note TO the Republican love
for labor, Vanderbilt and Gould, those
great lovers oflabor, think there should he a
resdjustment Of the relations between capt.
tai and labor; they think 65 cents a day is
too much 10 pay the coal HEAVIER, so they
each contribute 100000 to make James
G: Blaine President. Applause. Now
look at the other side of the picture. The
last House, which was Democratic, pas ed
bill to prohibit the importation Of this
contract labor. What did the Republican
Senate dof II bow-strung i'll The lower
House passed the bill and unfortunately the
vote is nOt recorded. 1t might be
INTERESTING TO Know
how one of our Congressman, he who rep
resents the industrial interests Of Wheeling,
voted on the bill, He may have voted
right, but he is an eloquent orator, why
then did he not raise his voice in support
of this bill? Applause He may have
voted for it, but in not lifting his voice to
support it, he missed the best opportunity of
his life. Applause and laughter
The novel plan of Blaine aud Got, in re-
lation to the surplus, by taking it from one
pocket of the people and putting it into the |
other, was humocously alluded 70. But the |
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-01
APRIL FOOLS.
The Late Gold Discovery In Colorado Re-
ported to be . Great Fraud.


ported to be q Great Fraud
DENVER, COL, April 24.-From later de-
velopments made there no longer exists any
doubt but that the alleged discoveries of gold
at Mount Pisgah, this State, which have set
the country a-ire with excitement, is one of
the most colossal and best-planned frauds
ever perpetrated in mining country. Tele-
grams from there state that hundreds of
disappointed men are leaving the new dig
gings, never moro to return 1t has been
proven beyond doubt that the ground was
'salted." This has resulted in so many con-
fiicting assays, and tests made from gravel
taken from the Teller shaft ran high in gold,
but samples of dirt taken from neighboring
points did not show even trace of gold.
This created suspicion, but the sailing of the
mines could not be proven in time to head
off the rush of men who came pouring in
like mad from all the neighboring towns, in
some cases to such an extent that many
points in the mining districts were nearly
depopulated. The railroads were taxed TO
carry the excited multitude travelling toward
the new Ell Dorado. For miles and miles
the country was taken up by the new COM
ers, all of whom were sanguine that it was
indeed the new Mecca which they had
stIuck. Few of them were experienced in
placer mining, or for that matter in any
kind of mining, and were best described by
the ancient class name of Hay Seeds"
Being unable to determine whether or not
the gravel contained the gold in q concealed
form they set about proving that it was free
and succeeded in completely doing so to
their own satisfaction, and to the Satisfac-
ton of others who knew better, but who
were willing to believe anything that would
temporarily encourage them. By the PAN
ming operation considerable black sand was
found. and this was interSpersed with the yell
lowish mica which is abundant In that re-
giOn. This collection was exhibited around
and to every fresh arrival as black sand and
gold dust, and the major portion of those who
saw it believed what they were told, but as
time passed and assays of the ore from all
portions of the district proved it to be worth
less, the suspicion of Sailing" grew in gen.
eral belief and now becomes an established
fact. The men who owned the Teller
claim seem to have been at the
bottom of it all. They were free with
samples of ore from their shaft, but were
always careful to select the samples them
selves. These samples, when assayed, gave
big returns in gold, and these gave rise to
the excitement. AT a time when the Teller
shaft was not guarded, party of Leadville
men descended the shaft and got ont more
than a score of samples for assay. Except
in one case not even n trace of gold or any
other mineral was found. There is great
excitement, and the safety of the men guilty
of the 'salting' process is feared, should
they fall into the hands of wrathful miners
1t is thought the ground was sailed with
liquid chloride of gold
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About VI heat.

WASHINGTON, April 25.-The President
sent the Senate report from the Secretary
of State in reply to a resolution Of tfe Sem
ate requesting information as to the average
production, consumption, expectation and
importation of wheat, rye, corn and cotton
in foreign countries, their probable require
ments of such products from the United
States before crops the coming year are
ready, and other information bearing on the
question of the demand for grain and cotton
products of the United States. The Secre-
tary in his report, says: Calculations
and estimates submitted prove, as far as
statistics can prove under the circumstances,
that the stock of wheat on hand in Europe
at the close of 1888 did not materially
differ from the stock on hand at the close of
the previous year; that the wants of Europe
are as imperative and as great as they were
in 1888, and that the demands upon the
United States should naturally be as great
as they were in 1888. How long Europe
may or can draw upon her reserve stock, or
what are the exact considerations which
control the several countries, especially the
United Kingdom, which may be said to
regulate the wheat market of the world,
time alone can develop"
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THE SOUTH.

THE Democratic State and Parish tickets
were generally successful in Louisiana at
the recent election. A light vote was
polled.
The Alabama State Mineral Exposition
opened the other day at Birmingham, in
that State, with ten thousand people pres
ent. Governor O'Neal delivered an ad-
dress.
NEAR Irving, KY, recently, Joe Finn
| and Bill Hale, two desperadoes, engaged in
| a shooting ARRAY. Finn shot Hale through
the heart, but before Hale fell be shot
Finn twice, from the effects of which he
died in few hours.
DOUGLAS and r. B. Spencer, managers
of the Henry College Lottery, were ar
rested at Covington, KY, by General Ed
CARTON Herrick and Hanna, Post-office In
spectors, on the charge of using the mails
for lottery purposes.
The formal opening session of the SUI
preme Lodge of the World, Knights of
Pythias, took place at New Orleans in Odd
Fellows Hall. The building was decorated
with banners, pendants and other insignia
of the order. The Supreme Representatives
were escorted to the hall by the Uniformed
Rank of Crescent and Orleans Lodges.
NATHAN LoCKET, a colored laborer in
Russell's planning mill, in Marshall, Tex.
had his hand terribly lacerated by being
caught in the planer.
REV. F. c. TRICE, a prominent divine of
Randolph County, Ark, died recently, near
Pocahontas, in that State, aged seventy
three years.
c. AMBERG, Postmaster at Ruttersville,
Fayette County, Tex, died the other day,
and was buried with Masonic honors. He
was the oldest Postmaster in Texas, having
been appointed before the war.
The Waco, Tex, cotton mills have closed
or the season. The low price of material
manufactured, and the scarcity or high
price of cotton are the causes.
THE Knights Of Pythias had a grand
parade in New Orleans on the 9th.
TIE largest gas well in the country was
struck at Well>burg, w. W, recently, at
a-depth of ,2S5 feet. The well was owned
~ Dalzell Brothers & Gilmore, of Pitts.
burgh. The gas escapes from six inch
pipe with deafening sound.
The Henry County lottery of Louisville,
KY, las suspended operations. The OH.
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INDIAN TROUBLES.
The Reported Battle With Indians In
Southern Colorado.

Southern Colorado.
DENVER, April 25.-A. johnson, who was
present at the recent battle between Nava-
joes and whites, at Mitchel's place ON the
lower San Juan River. in Southern Colo
RADIO, arrived at Durango yesterday. john
son says: Myself, VIM. Greene and Victor
Neff arrived at Mitchelrs store ON the 18th.
A party of a dozen Navajo Indians came to
The store, and one drew gun on Edward
Mitchell. While the quarrel was
progress a Navajo named Rye
Lily commenced removing the buckskin
from his rifle and the other Indians ran for
their guns that were standing against the
store. Both Indians and whites then began
firing. After about twenty-five shots had
been exchanged, the Indians reiterated across
the river, leaving one dead body on the
ground. None of the whites were hurt.
The whites then proceeded to throw up
fertilization while the women showed
great nerve carrying tubs of water to
supply them in case of siege. John
son then started for Fort Lewis and the
commanding officer Immediately started
squad of mounted cavalry to the relief of
Mitchell. Nnen tney redcneu Bowen FeTTy
Navajo came in and reported that the
UteS had killed all the whites at Mitchells
place. So far no other word has been re-
ceived, and johnson fears all the whites
have been massacred. 1t is not improbable
that the Utes went to the scene to
.venge the death of a Navajo IN
dian. 1t is common for one tribe to lay its
crimes to another. The district commander
has ordered Captains Ketcham's company to
leave st. Louis early this morning. Troops
are also being brought up from Fort Win
gate, New Mexico. 1t may be several days
before anything definite can be learned.
The following is list of whites, when
johnson left at Whites place: Old man
Mitchell ard wife, Edgar Mitchell, wife and
three children, Henry Mitchell and wife,
Joseph DOugherty and wife, Peter Christ
man, William Poland, William Greene and
Victor Neff.
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Figures Don't Lie.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, April 25.-The re-
oort of Secretary Sturtevant. of the Chamber
Of Commerce, shows that the receipts OF
wheat at Minneapolis during the year 1888
were 1000, 600 bushels more than the re
ceipts at Chicago. This statement seems
almost incredible. but the figures show it.
The receipts at Chicago were 2O,35l, 900
bushels, and at Minneapolis 22.273, OOO
This will give some idea of what MinneapO-
lis is likely to become as great grain mar
ket, The business on change is increasing
with wonderful rapidity In Another yeal
it will be greater than that of the Milwaukee
Board of Trade. and crowding upon the
heels of Chicago in three years.
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BADLY BUNKOED.

An Illinois Banker Badly Fleeced by Denver
BunkO MeD-He Returns to His Home
Only to be Oyertaken Suddenly by Death.
PEORIA, ILL, April "a.
When Harvey Holman, an old citizen and
banker of Chillicothe, in this County, died
suddenly here last Sunday, on his return
from Denver, it was rumored that while
in that city he had fallen victim to the
bunko steerers. The amount of which he
had been defrauded was placed at several
hundred dollars. Yesterday it was ascer-
tanned that thesum was really SIG, 900. Mr..
Holman had drawn checks for the sum,
and, as he supposed, saw them de-
stroyed. This pretended destruction
was simply to keep Mr.. Holman from
omplaning to the police. The checks
were sent on to Chillicothe, and the face
paid by Mr.. Holman's bank. Mr.. Hol-
man became aware of this when he
reached here, and it is probable the
distress and anxiety of mind he expert
enced FASTENED his death. Mr.. Holman
was one of the oldest and most highly re-
spected citizens of this county.
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THE EAST.

-FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY Mormon emf.
grants arrived at New York the other day
Three hundred were from Great Britain
and the Others from Norway and Sweden
JOHN CoYLE was hanged at Gettysburg
Pa, for the murder of Emily Meyers, or
Nay 50, 1881.
A PARTY of leading Democrats and
friends of Tilden, who visited him, say thai
under no circumstances will he be a can
didate for the Presidency, and under nc
circumstances will he accept if nominated
The Washington Flannel Mllls st South
Coventry, Conn.,, burned the other morn
ing. Insurance, $l35,OO0. Two hundred
hands were deprived OF employment.
The Western Nail Association met at
Pittsburgh, Pa, recently, and completed
arrangements for the proposed nail pool
By unanimous vote the association en-.
dorsed the action of the iron manufactur.
ers in demanding reduction of employees
wages.
ExCTTv TREASURER FRANCIS /. SMITH,
OF Bayonne, n. Y, was short in his ac-
counts S41 900.
SUIT has been brought In the Superior
Court at New York by Charles NJ. Simpson
ssainst Roland n. Hazard and Stephen F..
Moriarty to obtain possession of s., 9S1 ,O0v
bonds of the Mexican Republic.
HIRAM y. KELLER pleaded guilty a.
~dkeso~rre. Pa. the other day, to the
murder OF John Clair, mine boss at Lu-
scarborough, November Il last.
THE aduiteration Of mustard became SO
open at New York that the Board of Health
caused analysis to be made. The report
stated that mastsi d, besides being adui.
terated with nspthal yellow, has also from
eighteen to sixty per cent. of h1ur and SIX
to twenty per cert. of terra alba.
SAesNoRE Null No. l, at Fall River
Mass. was burned the other morning.
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Dynamiters Sentenced.
GLASGOW, Apr

GLASGOW, April ..
Peter O'Shea, charged with the nine
Glasgow dynamiters sentenced some time
since with causing the explosion of the
Trateston gasometer and blowing up the
shed of the Caledonia Railroad station,
was to-day found guilty and sentenced to
eighteen months Imprisonment The
Chief Constable received a letter this
morning in which the writer informed
him that his life had been forfeited for
the activity be had displayed in the con-
viction of the dynamiters, and stating
that the avengers were on his track.
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Loss, $500, %; insurance, $4,000. The fire
was alleged to be incendiarY, the mill be-
ing the scene OF recent strike.
The steamboat Saratoga struck pier OF
bridge at Troy, N. Y, the other day. A
hole was stove in her side and her boiler
was cracked. The escaping steam and the
water rushing in created a scene of the
widest confusion among the passengers,
but no one was injured. The vessel was
lowed to the stocks
The strikers Of the stove foundry of
Sherman s. Jewett & Co., of Buffalo, n.
Y, resumed work at q teen per cent re-
duction in wages. They were satisfied
after conference with the firm that the re-
duction was necessary.
RUGG was found guilty of the murder of
Mrs. Maybee and daughter at Oyster Bay,
L. L A motion for a new trial was denied.
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Another Lea que.
BOSTON,

BOSTON, April 25.-Charies Francis
Adams, Jr, John Quincy Adams, Charles
Rodman and seven hundred others issued q
caIl for a meeting here April 90, to form .
eague. The call says THE present enormous
surplus in the national revenues is democrat
;zing and dangerous. that it should be
ut down without further delay, not by in
reasing public expenditure, but by lessen
ng the burden of taxation That this bur
len should be removed from the necessaries
Of life and not from whisky and tobacco
md that the policy of taxing imports no.
or the purpose of raising revenue. but OBJ
structing trade, is unsound and must ulti
uateiy be abandoned"
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Slightly Puzzled.

WAsHISCTOS, D. u, april "a
Politicians are somewhat puzzled
over the result of the New York State
Convention. They do not clearly under
stand the meaning of the success of the
Acknowledgements combination. Some are
inclined to believe that it confirms what
has been asserted for some time, that if
Arthur anrotreceive the nomination at
Chicago he is DESTROYS of the nomination
EdDuuds. The Blaine men here do
net Ike the turn of affairs at Utica. They
think their forces have been out-gener
Ied.
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THE LATEST.


THE steamer Peruvian, from Liverpool
for Quebec, was forced to go to Halifax to
discharge mails and passengers. She
could not make Quebec owing to the ice.
CHARLES HASTINGS, William Cam and
Frank Pease were drowned the other after
noon at Midland, Ont, by the upsetting of
a yacht.
| THE grain elevators of Smith, Hippen g.
Co. and Hudnut & Co., at Pekin, ILL.,, were
destroyed by fire the other night. The
grain was partially insured. The total loss
was estimated al $4,000.
AN old man named Jellenson was
dragged out of bed at Audubon, Iowa, by
four men and hanged naked to tree. He
was an inoffensive farmer and the crime
was supposed to have been committed by
relatives. one of whom was a desperate.
THE arbitration committees of the Carpet
Manufacturer Association and the Carpet
Weavers' Protective Union of Phlladel-
phia agreed not to change the present
scale of wages. During the past five years
the manufacturers and employees have met
together every six months and arranged a
schedule of prices. Trade was reported
good.
A TERRIBLE cyclone devastated Mont
gomery and Greene Counties, O., on the
afternoon of the 9TH Jamestown, a city
of seven hundred inhabitants, was almost
swept out Of existence, and six persons
were killed. There was loss of life at other
points devastated by the storm, and the
destruction of property was immense. At
Garnett, Kas., the evening before there
was also a cyclone, but the damage was
light.
A BAND of ffty-three Hay,ian Creoles
landed in Cuba to reinforce Aguero's band.
GRAND MASTER of Orang-men at Belfast
has received letter warning him that the
Invincibles are on his track.
The Polar conference at Vienna has ter
minated its labors. Lieutenant Ray of the
United States and oSh~r delegates were
presented to the Emperor
The International Exposition at Turin,
Italy, was opened to the public recently by
King Humbert and Queen Margaret. Many
foreigners were present.
UNUSUAL activity has been displayed by
the police of Dublin of late. 1t is believed
the Government has received information
which renders it expedient to be keenly
alert.
The Senate was not in session on the
18th. The House considered the bill TO re-
move certain burdens from the Am 4rican
merchant marine, and to encourage the
American foreign carrying trade. Several
important amendments were adopted and
the bill passed.
e OF De-
burned recently.
PULLMAN, ToMPKINs & Co., of New
York, have made an assignment.
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GERS claim the company could not b
operated under existing laws.
FRANK JAMES wss acquitted at Hunts
vile, All, of the Mussel Shoals robbery.
He was Immediately re-arrested for com.
plicity in the train robbery at Otterville,
Mo-, on the night OF July 8, 1875. The last
arrest was thought to be for the purpose OF
thwarting his arrest by the Minnesota
authorities foc the bank robbery and muir
der at Mortified, in that State, September,
1876.
REPRESENTATIVE REAGAN, of Texas,
Chairman of the House Committee on Com.
merce, was reported seriously i'll from blad.
der complaint. Two operations have been
performed. Approximations that he will
not recover are entertained by his friends.
GENERAL HANCOCK presented the di-
plomas to the graduating class at Fortress
Monroe, OF the 18th.