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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-18
A West Virginian in Trouble for
Countsrfeiting.
A Bold Woman Arrests a Burglar
and Holds Him
UNTIL He IS ARRESTED
THE SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY
At Lacrosse and the Further De-
vsIopments in the Start
ling Affair.

LACROSSE, Wis, October l7.-Business
was practically suspended here to-day. the
allabsorbing topic being the tradegy Of last
night, the murder of Frank Burton and the
subsequent lynching OF his slayer, Nathaniel
Mitchell. 1t now appears that Mitchell had
intended, if possible, to kill at least two
more citizens, one Of whom was Charles A.
Mcdonald. II was only question Of
whom he met hrst. he was equipped
with two selfcocking Smith 4 Wesson re-
volvers and pulled them as fast as the tick.
ing Of a watch. Ex.Chief Of Police Hatch
is out OF the city, but evidence now points
toward Mitchell as the man who attempted
his assassination several weeks ago, and
only left him when he supposed he was
dead. An inquest has been ordered and a
large number Of witnesses will be exam.
ined There is no disposition to prosecute
any one, the general verdict being that it
vas righteous execution. The funeral Of
Mr.. Burton takes place Sunday afternoon.
I:l3 P.NTThe inquest on the body OF
Mitchell, the lynched murderer, is now pro
ceeding at the Court House corridor, which
is packed and hundreds are standing out.
side the building. The Coroners jury ex'
amined II witnesses in the Mitchell inquest
among whom we're the Sheriff, policemen
and eve witnesses of the murder aud lynch.
ing. No one recognized any Of the multi
tude who did the lynching The verdict is
substantially that the deceased was the man
who murdered Mr.. Burton, and that he
came to his death bv banging at the hands
OF parties to the jury unknown.
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THREE THOUSAND SLAIN,

rSe French Attack of the Chinese Fortress
of Chu-The Ground strewn With Dead
Chinese-Their Chief Commander Among
the Killed The French Loss Twenty
Killed and Thirty wounded-The Chi
nese Forces Driven Toward LangsOn.
PARIS, October l7.-Gen. de rlsle tele-
graphs from Chu, on the upper Loochuan
River, under date Of Monday, as follows:
Col. Dounier, after brilliant engagement
Oh Friday, carried the heights commanding
the fortress of Chu, formerly the pout
d'spPu of large intrenched Chinese camp
which was defended by five case-mated
forts. The Chinese forces were very large.
their losses during the engagement were
heavy. On Saturday they attempted
to assume the offensive, but our artil
l.rv srewed the ground with
Chinese bodies After losing all
their positions the Chinese fed towards
Langson. They halted near Phutruong
and Khanh. The French loss was twenty
killed, including one officer, and ninety
wounded. Two officers received slight
wounds. Our troops were animated with
the greatest srdor. The Chinese in this en-
gsgement were part Of the best troops Of.
The Empire. They were perfectly armed
and manpuvred in European style. The
Chinese losses were 5000 killed, including
their chief commander. The Chinese in
vasion of Tonquin has been arrested in the
direction OF Lsngson. The wound sustain
ed BY Gen. Negrier during the recent en-
gsgement near Kep is healing satisfactOr-
ily."
Official aivices to the French Govern
ment state that the loses Of the French in
their recent defeat at Tsmsui were sixteen
killed and forty,nine wounded. Ofthe latter
thirty-two received only slight wounds.
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oHlo'S SMALL MAJORITY.

A Great Disappointment to Republican
Managers-Fifty Thousand Majority Ex.
pscted-The Small Greenback and Pro-
hibition Vote.
CoLUNBrs, O., October l7.-0nly 10000
Republican majority in Ohio in total vote
Of nearly 100000, and eleven Democratic
to ten Republican Congressman, has knock,
ed much Of the glee and not little bluster
out Of the Republicans The big rascals
have fed and left the little managers in
charge at Republican headquarters, aud
already they begin to be affrighted at the
size Of
The Democratic Ghost
in Ohio. They have reason to be. They
know how much il cost to purchase their
poor beggarly margin, and with the Deputy
Marshals, repeaters, ballot box suffers, Fed
ersl officers, money all gone, they may well
tremble st the spirit and courage being
shown By the Ohio Democrats. The Ohio
Democracy is the gsmest political organiza-
ton the world ever saw. They polled near
" 800. 1000 votes, or 81, 900 more Democrat
ic votes than were ever polled before, and
this against the invasion Of
Federal Rascals
and tide of pollution and corruption.
Every honest man who voted the Demo
cratic ticket last Tuesday deserves the
thanks of the country, for. had not the Dem
ocratics and Independents made the glori-
ous sght they did, Ohio would have given
$4,000 Republican majority. This was the
Republican programme. They expected to
overwhelm the county BY tremendous ma
iority in Ohio, and settle the 6ght before the
November battle. -.
The Greenbaek vote in the State has al
most disappeared. They did not east more
than $500 votes The Prohibition vote
Will not exceed 5000, if It reaches that.
Beer and cold water have shaken hands
once more across the bloody chasm and
aided rasesHty and corruption to figure ont
a mesgre margin for Repubicsnisn.
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IN A BOX.
A Man Who Carrie. Hi. Skull In Box

Man Who Carries His Skull In N Box.
ATLANTA, Ga, October 1T. II. Wood
all. of Hartsell, Ala, is 50 years Of age, and
STA nds feet. On the 22d Of January, 1882
while alone il a room be was seized with
ft and fell into the FIRE from which be ~as
removed after having been horribly burned,
Els head and face were almost consumed.
and for days fingered in torture 80 terrible
that death would have been relief His
friends had no thought Of bis recovery, bat
finally be arose from the bed upon which he
had suffered so much: his head was hair
less, his eyelasbes were gone, and
his face was terribly SCARED. Some
time after getting mp Ar Woodalfs 5
physician discovered that section Of the
skull was loose, and was compelled to re-
move II. Other sections became loose and
were removed, too, until the entire top OF
the skull was taken away. The sections
were removed at intervals and as piece
was taken away the opening was covered 90
as to protect the brain Soon after remov-
ing the 6rst section II was sscertained that
a thin skin was growing over the skull IN
such q way as 70 cover the brain, ana a.
sections we're taken sway the skin extend
ed The operation lasted long tune. II
rss reformed With remarkable success
.nd to-day Mr.. wooial isvalking around
!, tout snY skull on the top his bead, rhiis
~ = the removed skuil m box, The
heesrne. Il Is covered with cloth, ant
top Of his be- oilcloth cap which
over this he vears A- ':s hat His lef
/, rotects bis head from 49, q. bis righ
eye Is sightless, bat ne sees H0'
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sRANNoN AND GIBSON

Certain to Be Elected to Congress-An In
dependent Greenbaek Electorxi Ticket
Probable.
BALTIMORE, October 1.-THE Sun says:
The outlook for the Democrats in the Con-
gressiOnal districts has greatly improved.
In the First or Panhandle district now
represented by Gen GOH, Republican, the
Democrats claim that their nominee, judge
BTAnnOn, whose competitor is Gof, VIII re-
ceive at least l 500 majority. The Rspubi.
cans, it is now thought, win scarcely make
much Of 6ght, except in the Fourth dis.
trict. Here the Republican Greenback can.
didate IS d.. A. r. Barbes, man Of wealth
and influential connections His opponent.
Hon. Eustaee Gibson. VII not, il Is said. be
able 10 put much money into the coa-
tcs!, sEi there axe elements
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COUNTER FEITER
A West Virginia Young Man In seriou.
Trouble.

- WeS virginia hounk hah ih seEiou-
Trouble.
CUMBERLAND, MD., October lI--Porter
Worl, the young man arrested at Mckees,
port yesterday charged with swindhng
Daniel Albright, Of Cranberry Summit, W.
Va, out OF 5000 here Tuesday by changing
an envelope containing that amount, which
was to have been placed in hotel safe, was
brought here today He had hearing be-
fore Justice Harbaugh for nbrajning money
under false pretenses, when interesting de
velopments were made. The principal
prosecuting witness, Daniel Albright, was
reluctant to testify but finally he described
how he saw Worl put the money in
an envelope and as he supposed. placed
il in the safe at the Lindell Hotel
Given for Goods.
The money was 10 be given. he
said for goods, which were to be deliy-
cred. When pressed by States Attorney
Richmond Albright admitted that the
goods he proposed to buy we're good
money" He said Worl showed him as
samples i've and ten-dollar note. Wit
ness would not say how much OF the money
he WAS to get II might have been two
or three dollars to one, He refused TO call
the money Counterfeit Albright who is
old and apparently ignorant, said he mad
never seen the prisoner until he had me,
him here Tuesday A. I, Albright, q
cousin OF the first witness who was in Cum
b. rlald with him Tuesday, test
ed he had heard at his home, near
Cranberry. that Worl had good money.
On Business.
lie came here on business and me,
v on who asked him TO deal with him,
buI he refused Chief OF Police Morgan, ol
McKeesport, testified that over pine han
dred dollars was found on Worl when Ar
rested There was one five hundred dollar
! cote and one fifty. Albright had testified
,ba, .hese notes were in the package sup
aossd 70 have heen placed in the safe The
proprietor ofthe Lin-."'! hotel produced the
package left By Worl IL I'D never been
~ntireiy opened, only pierced with knife
It sss opened BY the magistrate and founo
70 contain pieces Of newspaper, neatly folded
immi,ate bank notes Ii is supposed Wor'
,ubstituied this package for the one contain
ng Albrights money The magistrate asked
g., 900 bail for Worrs appearance before
The grand jury. He wen, to jail. Warrant
were issued By United States Commissioner
Sloan for the arrest Of Worl and the two Al
briehts on the charge Of dealing in counter
teit money 1be two Albrigb,s each gave
800 bail for their appearance a, a hearing
10 morrow in government cases, and the
.anie amount FOR appearance as witnesses
before the grand jury here to morrow. Up
10 this evening the money taken from Worl
by the McKeesport police, and claimed TO
be Daniel Albright, had not been restored
to the latter, but it is said il will be. Worl
is a Young man Of fairly good appearance.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-18
OHIO NOT CERTAIN
For Elaine In Noyember-AEothsT DesPe.
rate Bsttle to be Fought.

For Elaine In Noyember-AsothsT DesPe.
rate BattIe to be Fought.
CIXcTNSAfL October 1.-THE Enqu quifer
editoually says
We do not believe this oyerthru~ OF free
election can be repeated in November,
There viii be no Congressional contest II
this State then to furnish pretext for the
presence o. United States Marshals. There
are msny Republicans who were steadtast
in their faith up to the Ifth Of October, aud
Who intended to vote for Blaine and Logan
in November, who are now ripe to
Rebuke the Federal Interference
with popular rights By voting for CLEVELAND
and Hendricks
Besides these there are thousands OF In
dependent Republicans who are with the
Democracy this year on the question OF ad'
ministrative reform, but did not make them
selves manifest in that direction at the
State election. Not having abandoned
their party allegiance. they were satisfied to
vote for General Robinson sad his asso
cisses on the State ticket, bet their gote toi
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WELL DONE, WEST VIRGINIA.

The Democratic Victory a Great Triumph.
BALTIMoRE, October 1.-THE Day says:
In West Virginia, on the other hand, the
election was a great Democratic triumph.
Elkins' personal influence and the vast In
terest of Mr.. Blaine were used for all they
were worth. The Republicans were claim
ing the State and money was spent by the
Republican State committee in vast sums.
To supplement this the Democrats were
handicapped BY formidable coalition OF
Republicans and Greenbackers, and con-
fronted by a bitter factional contest, which
threatened to disrupt their organization:
Now look at the result. In the face of all
these unfsyorable circumstances the Demo-.
Gratis have saved their State, and they have
saved it by the largest majority ever given
in West Virginia against the combined Re
publican and Greenbsck vote. Verify, as
the New York Tribune said yesterday,
West Virginia has done grandly
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70 .
Recognized and Cheered..
A HARD FIGHT.
Tie Republican Party Not Yet Through the
wilderness.

Tie Republican Party Not Yet Through the
Wilderness.
WASuIYCTON, October l7.-Republicans
are not little depressed over the reduced
majority given their ticket in Ohio. They
really expected $4,000 to 10000 majority.
1t was their hope that they could surprise
even the members Of their own party BY the
landslide. Col Dudley. who had charge oi
the monetary matters Tor the Republicans
in the State, SAID to correspondent TO day:
Il don like the way they cut down our
boom; il takes some oS the wind out Of il
and decreases the aid it would have given
us in other doubtful States could MOI
see when ] left Ohio on the night
fyllowing the election, how we
could possibly get less than
IL OO0.' Now the Republicans will have
to fight for New York and Indiana, won t
they?' Yes; TO be frank about it, We
have very hard fight before us" | met
Jim Wood, the renowned Irish miner, OF
Indiana, who has been doing the mining
regions of his own State and Ohio for the
Republicans. He was standing on the
street at noon today, looking blue. Said he:
II am very, very much disappointed that
We did not do better in Ohio looked for
10000 majority. But its big thing to re
veIse 1000 Democratic majority. That is
my conclusion. If We had gotten 10000
majority in Ohio we could easily have car
red Indiana. Now it is very doubtful in
deed" What saved Ohio p asked "The
tariff issue" replied Wood. Protection is
our salvation from now on.
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CONFIDENT DEMOCRATS
Say the Ohio Republican Majority is
a Blaine defeat
And November Will Give the
State
TO GROVER CLEVELAND.
Frank Hurd, the Maumee States
Talks of Contesting His Defeat on
the Grounds of Fraud and
Corruption.
TO GROVER CLEVELAND.

CoLrmUs, o., 0ctober 1.-THE official
vote was counted by the county clerks to
day Returns from 60 and semi-oficial
from the other 2, gave Robinson for Secre-
tary of State ll.32l, Fiickinger for Board
of Public Works l7,476, semioficial returns
do not report on the other Republican
candidates but with sixty counties, the Plu-
rality of johnson for Supreme Judge is es.
timated between $4,000 and 5000. The
total vote or msjorities By Congressional
districts cannot be given, but the vote BY
countieso on Congressman shows 5S,5f4 Re
publican mejorities and 40, l26 Democratic;
net Republican majority on Congressional
vote lS,jlS.
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PAINTING ON THE STAND.
A Witness In n Murder Trial Overcome
Seeing the Fatal Kuife.

A Nitness In n Murder Trial Overcome by
Seeing the Fatal Kuife.
New YoRE, October 1.-The trial oi
Christian A. Busch upon the charge Of mur
der in the first degree, in stab6ing and kill
ing Joseph Mcclure al lJ4 Canal street on
MAY II. was continued to-day in the Gene
raj Sessions. The evidence for the prose
crtion was that Busch and McGuire had a
pEbt in the saloon, and that Busch wen
cut, followed by McGuire, A moment later
Mcclure cried out that he was stabbed
and blood stained pocket knife was found
near where Busch and Mcclure were strug'
rnrg Iu.-,S z: Carthv Young girl, test
fed that on the night 5cfore the killing she
met Busch in Canal street. he took hol'
Of her arm and said
Cassie you have a pretty arm"
She told him not 10 be so free with her
aud be took the knife that was found from
bis pocket, and opening it, said: Don't Dc
saucy, Cassie Remember that carry /
pocket knife.
as this the knife? asked the prosecutor
takirg the knife from his table and adyaac
ing to the witness stand.
The girl shrank back as he approached
and with an indistinct cry, tainted, A ply
sician who was among the spectators loos
ened her dress and applied restoratives, and
after a iex moments she was restored to
consciousness. She was only able to say in
faint voice that the knife was the one tha
Edsch menaced her with, and then she was
supported from the court room.
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THE NEVADA,
TIE Famous Steamship, Has Miraculous
Escape.

Escape.
QvEENsTuWN, October 1.-THE G. lion
lie steamer Nevada, Capt. Brennan, from
New Icrk October 7th for Liverpool, ar.
we'd off here at 8:45 this morning. She re-
rorts Ere aboard and great excitement pre-.
,ails among the passengers. Instead Of
proceeding to Liverpool the Nevada enter
Cd this harbor. The cargo has been Oh fire
since Wednesday. A tender from the Ne
ada has been here and returned to the
steamer with gang OF laborers to bel sub
Gue the FIRE. 1t brought no passengers
ashore. 1t is supposed the fire was caused
by spontaneous combustion amongst the
cargo.
3p. m.-The Nevada on entering the
harbor had heavy list to this port Ten
feet of water was in her hold. Admiral
Leithbridge offered the services Of the crew
Of the English gunbost, in the harbor, ba'
the agents of the steamship declined the
proHered assistance. No passengers have
vet been landed.
4p. m.-The captain Of the Nevada de-
MES that the FIRE is still burning. The own
ers Of the steamship expect her to leave
Queenstown this afternoon for Liverpool.
How Il Happened.
At noon Wednesday the discovery WIS
made that portion Of the cargo was Oh
FIRE. The Captain and other officers went
below and found some cotton and hops
burned. They returned to the deck nearly
sm0thered. Water was at once poured
upon the burning cargo and the FIRE got IN
der control, after some hours Many pas
sengers lent their assistance A quantity
of the cargo was thrown overheard. From
Wednesday the Captain, officers, crex and
passengers worked without ceasing They
were in a state of exhaustion when the! ar
rived at Queenstown. Before sailing the
Nevada listed heavily to the starboard and
the boats on the port side were flled with
water to assist in righting her. She left on
An even keel 1t seems that on Wednesday
! the flames we're subdued, but again broke
out on Thursday night.
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PARKERSBUR6.
some Interesting Reaections on the state
Election,

some Interesting Reflections on the state
Election.
PARKERSBvBG, October III Exclusive. ]
The Republicans of Wood county fail to
understand why the fusion ticket did no:
give them the majority they have claimed
for the mOngerl ticket from the day the
nominations were made even up to last
Monday night. The combined vote Of
Sturgis and French amounted to 1892,
DedUcting Gov. Jaekson's vote Of =, l4S
from this aggregate, it appeared that the
Fusion majority ought 10 reach 600 or 500,
but the results foot up less
than they anticipated. Various reasons
are assigned. Some Of the brethren who
have spent a great deal Of time in figuring
out the big majority are ungrsteful enough
to blame Unarilse;; Caldwell =-,,u Ii. And
from all accounts ;9ere may be something
in Il. It appears that day ar IEo
before the election Charley male
5 speech out at Rockport, in Steel
disgict. which has sl#sys given sbou
90 ReFubhcan majority snd the results
that the uSaal order Of things were reversed
and the Democrats carried the district By
small majority, and Lytle sxears that the
Democrats sent CsldEell over into the Re
publican camp for the purpose of weaken
ing their forces. Then it appears that
Charley made another speech up at Burn
ing SpringS in Writ county and increased
the Democratic vote thereto the tune Of 10.
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PAlGE'S DEFEAT.

One of the Causes That Led to it.
WAsHInGToN, October 1.-THE defeat
of Congressman Paige in Ohio, is very
amusing to me and teaches a moral that
other Congressman should profit by" OBJ
served an old employee OF the documen,
room, House Of Representatives, in conver-
sation with correspondent to day. "Was
not Paige good member p | asked. He
may have been good enough member"
replied the gentleman, but he was crank
on public documents He bought $1,000
worth of public documents last winter and
sent them out to his constituents. That was
enough to defeat four congressman for re-
election" "How soY Why, congress
man can't begin to send documents to all
Of his constituents mot more than one
tenth OF them-ani those who are slighted
VII oSended, and will vote against the
congressman who is partial told
this to Paige, but he seemed to
have plenty Of money to throw
away, and bought thousand dollars worth
OF books from other members. Ill bet
there are lot Of mad men in Paiges dis
trict, who did not get some Of those books.
DO members generally send out all their
allowances OF documents Not much
Few Of the old members send their docu
ments to their constituents, unless they are
asked for them. They have learned, that
where they make one vote through thank
fulness on account OF documents they lose
do en- On account of revenge by those who
feel sighted Two-thirds Of the old men,
bers sell their allowance OF documents to
new and verdant members, or send them to
the second-h hand dealers often hear them
make remarks about new members being
cranks for documents, and believing agri-
cultural reports will fetch them votes. l
guess Mr. Paige has concluded that he has
lost one thousand on documents anyway.
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WHEELING w. VA. SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 49, 1884

Of doubt and uncertainty in por-
tons of the district which caused the Dem
ocratic leaders before the recent election to
view the canvass there with some anxiety.
The h. 'avy Democratic gains in Park rs
burg and at other points, however, have ma,
terially changed the aspect Of affairs, and
very little doubt is entertained OF Mr.. Glib
sons election by at least 1000 majority.
The Greenbackers, on whose support the
Republicans have been relying, are said to
be getting more and more restive, owing
chiefly to the fact that the two Presidential
electors nominated of Greenbackers by the
Republicans under the fusion arrangement
are not acceptable to an infushtial element
in the Greenback party. There is even
some talk of running an independent
Greenback electoral ticket
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-18
The counties of Nicholas, Pocahonta'
and Mcdowell will increase this to 3Sl7.
Republican Naiorlties.

What the Secretary of the Committee says.
CHARLESTON, October 1t Exclusive,
The official majorities for Wilson are:
Monroe 1913. Summers 22l, Greenbrier 500,
Clay I. Estimated majOrities based upon
reliable information are Mercer 600,
Pocahontas 800, Nicholas 25O, Webster 400,
Boone. POO; Logan, 100; Mcdowell, 200;
Raleigh, POO. Maxwells official MAORI
ties: Kanawha, 1850; Fayette, l43; Up
shur, COS and Wyoming estimated at 100;
Wilson's majority about $500. The reas-
sessment trouble and swapping Of votes
causes the small majorities.
ID. c. GALLAGHER,
Sec Dem. State Com.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-18

IL hundreds Of instances where Hot
Springs and other treatment failei TO care
scrof1la and sEphihtic disorders, the su9erer
has sought and found cure in Or. Guy
sott's Yellow Dock and SarsaparIla Il
euriches the blood, strengthens the urinary
and digestive organs, and quickly removes
al indications Of in health and blood dis
ease IRON pimPle to a running sore, from
headache 70 rheumatic pain. It's supe-
rio-ity over sll other blood purifiers aud
strengthening medicines Is admitted by III
uho test is curA.i7e sfect aai ina1sace.