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same.
An investigation into his alleged immortality
has resulted in his exonerauon.
Mr.. Everett w. Bedinger announces in the
last weeks issue of the West Virginia Democrat
his retirement from that journal. His jour
nalis,ie experience was short, but it was sweet.
Mr.. Mason has control and will work it for all
it is worth in the interest of the Syndicate
which DE represents and which. il is alleged,
supplies the money wherewith he makes a
gratuitous circulation of hundreds of copies Of
the so-callei state Edition. THERE'S ground
for the belief that this is so-for is it not writ
ten I'm the Democrat that it is independent of
local patronage Thus does Mr. Mason snap
his fingers in the face of home people. Some
are curious to know how many of the original
shareholders Of the Democrat remain. We
know that some have skipped out from under
the deadiall
The Chesapeake & Ohio Tax Case has been
occupying the attention of Judge Jno. J. Jack
SON. Of the T.. $ Court at Wheeling the past
few DAYS. judge Ferguson Of Charleston and
Judse Robertson of Charlottesvilleto for the Rail
road. and Attorney General Caldwell and Gov.
Wilson for the State I'm the report Of the ar
suments as found i'm the Wheeling Register
there's am occasional cropping out of pungent
things said by Court and Council
Since putting the foregoing i'm type We learn
judge Jackson has rendered decision restrain
ins the collection until November lst The
question as to- the Oper cent part of the state
claim he holds under advi,ement.
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News was received i'm Madrid Friday night
chat Germany had hoisted her flag over Zap,
one of the Caroline Islands, ON August "a
The news created intense excitement i'm Spain,
and caused In Madrid am attack on the quar-
ters OF tine German embassy. The Spanish
ministry has dispatched am ultimatum 70 Ger
many. requesting the evacuation of the Caro-
line Islands. Upon the water spain IS quite
equal 90 Germany. We have mo- doubt if Al
phonzo had accompanied his ulumatum 10y
BRIGADE from the Cholera hospital, Bismak
would have advised an immediate evacuation
ofNap
Anyone who reads theucwspapers nowadays
cam see for themselves how heavily the admin-
istraton is sitting down ON the many small eX-
trtvasanee- which have heretofore giaddened
the hearts and filed the pockets of Republican
rl,cemen. 10 issood policy 20 stop up the mi-
nor leaks-but attention should not thereby be
diverted from the larger ones.
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The Administrator iS 'i''''''' 10 ",i 20
ssr,-ori,r .uarte,,. COMPOSED of Mes,rs. Shcr-
mann Lo-,n. Fimunds ana Cullom will give
the Presidents recess nominations better
H.at-e,peeially where offensive partisans 80
were concerned.
Secretary Manning spent some four hours
with Mr. rilden at Grey,,one yesterday week
and the Ne" York ''' ana A''.s'' understands ,,
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''''5' q, 49, , 49, -. ' ,-a.sntin the
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ing somewhat in spain but. it is making new
nroal- in France and promises to stay there
ye' awhile America Is no" per'.'l's 'e, ,r
'-.' 'o'' .-, sg'','7 ,'-', ' r.isroJ
n-.,f5si a- the Mansfield reunion of the Sher-
man BRIGADE las. week. 1t is sad to note that
neither Of them got in a word ON the bloody
shirt. They probably knew the veterans would
not stand he
Oo-. f''l Gran. snow ,' ms --' y, a, INV,
"l-.'7 '' - -. .honl.s tbor far
'''o','J' -''''' HIS mother became Mrs
,..-.. Co. ,t. ,vrbc General died
-. Tnrr pprss publisbed NJ
(,..-,.-..,.. h,s commenced it, seventv-
eel roIrrs n is the oldest paper in the
So. and e.. edi-eJ with commendable care
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and enterprise IL II one ui ''ie s''U "O''0''
The Winchester Times says; The
Cbarlestown W. Va FREE Press begun