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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-16

LONDON, May l5.-The evidence fos the
Crown in the case of Cunningham and Bir-
ton dynsmiters, wss completed to day. The
last witness introduced BY the Crown we're
Drs. Ford and DuYe, the Goyernme,t chem
lists Who testified with regard to toe poser OF
explosives and the chemicals Contained sn
tbe oetonaior foaBd in Burtons trunk Toe
csse sor the defense vas then opened. Mary
d Brien, the GIzt =itness called, ssore pos'-
lively tbs. Cunningham was At the house oi
Miss Cannon at the time OF the eIpio5Ion
a. The Cover street stsfioa OF the Under
ground Rsiiroad. Catherine White. tbs
next witness, fully eorroborated the y Brer
wonsn's testimony. Burton's counsel sub
mined thst no evidence had been adducst
70 show thst there vas q conspiracy. Th'
Judge declared that the jafy INST decide
that Question.
Burtsn Addresses the Jury.
At the conclusion Of the evidence TOT to
deferse. Burton YES granted per1ishion .
s6dress ibs jary In his oEo bFhsh he e1
pls;r - his presence in EGglsnd a; the an
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A Celestial Head.Lreht

A railroad engineer, recounting his
experiences. said that he had thus far
escaped smash-ups, but that be
thought he was lin for it, one night
Said he: ut was a clear autumn even.
ing, and l was running a passenger
train in Virginia We were a little be.
hind time, and was whooping the old
machine along at a good pace. There
was strip of cypress forest to 90
through, and the road, on clearing It,
took sharp turn to westward. just
as We made that turn my liver came
right up between my teeth, for there.
coming straight down the track, was
another engine. with her headlight
flaming in my eyes l blew down
breaks and had my engine reversed
before I'd drawn half a breath, and
sent the train back on dead run to a
switch station about a mile behind us.
1 got 1t on siding, and waited for the
other train, that supposed to be Just
on top of Us, but she didn't show up.
got the agent to wire up the line to
see If there were any specials or wild
engines in the way, but the answer
was that the line was clear. The pas
sengers got out, and began to talk and
ask questions, and as for me, was
stumped. l thought of runaway loco
motives and train-wreekers and tramps
Everything was quiet around the bend.
SO far as could see and hear. While
standing on the station platform hap
Pened 70 glance westward across a
clearing: there was the headlight
shining through the Expresses, as
serene and steany as You please 1t
was the planet Venus Well, if any
man had offered fifteen cents for me.
he could have had me just as 1 stood.
l got away there Ia a hurry, and 1
didn't allow the passengers to discover
what was the matter. Lor'i If il had
got around that had laid over 10 let
the evening star 90 by, I'd nevor nave
heard the last of it ''-E0it0r'S Lyrduer.
in H0'per'S Magazine FOR october.
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Vice PresldentH endr,oh..

ST. LOUIS. Oct 9.-Vics President
HENDRICKS was taken on change abou,
noon to-day by committee of repre-
sentative merchants, both democrats and
republicans. a great crowd awaited
hun, including large number of ladies.
MIR. Hendricks WAS introduced from the
rOstrums by President Harstick. and
made brief speech. cOmplimentinR St
Louis on her commercial prosperity.
He also spoke nf the unity of the great
Mississippi valley, the greatest unity,
save that of the Union itself, and predict.
ed that its influence would eventually
extend to every part of the country.
Governor Marmaduke, in q ehort speech,
welcomed Mr.. Hendricks on behalf of
the citizens of Missouri. General John
B. Henderson was called out and REFER
ed TO the fact that from the very plat
form on which Mr. Hendricks stood q
address them he had been nominated for
the presidency nine years ago. He re-
ferred TO his pleasant relations with Mr.
Hendricks; that having tried six years
TO convert esch olher, they had
finally made good com
promise, and Mr. Hendricks wa
only about one-hslf Democrat and half
Republican. and 50 was he. Mr.. Hen.
bricks was then escorted around the hall
and the members welcomed HIM With
constant cheers After q short stay, the
vice president was taken in charge by :
committee of four ex-mayoFs Of the CITY,
with whom he drove to Mr.. Hendersonss
house, where = light lunch was served
The party then drove out 10 the tall
grounds. Mr.. Hendricks will leave for
home to morrow morning.
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SD SsoS~.

WIILIAAsPoRT. Pa, Oct 9-Some
weeks ago Clarence Clark. formerly a
wealthy druggist, committed suicide,
and yesterday afternoon hIs wife took
opium and died. Mrs. Clark was q
member Of one Of the most respectable
families in the State, and formerly lived
In Wilkeeberre. Seon after their mar
rage CLARK took 70 drinking heavily aad
lost all bis money. The wife was SO de-
pressed over their losses that she became
. confirmed opium eater. Friends Of
the couple deserted them, and at last they
took what remained Of their fortune and
came 90 Bellefonte, where for years they
were known as hopeless drunksrds.
They lived IN IN old shanty until thelT
money was gone. The husband, driven
70 despair, blew his brains out, and bis
wife buried HIM By selling Q diamond
ring which she had kept during all heI
Wanderings. AFTER her husbands death
abs drank worse, and yesterday after
noon she was found dead In bed with q
phIal of opium IN her hand. By her side
was 3 note which read: al have wasted
my life and don't want 20 live longer
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TIE aILYRR nnITAp

The New York Heral1 recently sent
out . corps oGreporters to interview one
hundred tradesmen in different lines of
trade on the subject Of the sill
Yer dollar and its effects upon
trade generally. Taking the glst
Of these interviews as a ground
work, the Herald. In an article of mark
cd ability, says OF these tradesmen;
They agree that their autumn trade
shows cheerful signs Of . recovery from
the depression that has prevailed for
three years. but also that the continued
coinage Of the dshased silver dollar casls
dark cloud oyer the future and make
these siRn8 uncertain. Until that coin
ago cea8es there can be no we'll settled
condolences In any trade, wholesale or
retail; and meanwhile everybody who
receives one OF these dollars makes
haste 70 pass It OF, in anticipation Of the
shrinkage of its purchasing power to the
bullion value of the silver contained in
It-thaR is 70 say. to about so cents at
the present market quotations for silver
bullion. The testimony Of the hundred
tradesmen is unanimous that their Gus.
toners generally resist receiving the
Bland dollar In making chAnge,n and
most OF them certify that the principal
way In which they get rid of the coin a.
II aocumulates IN their tills is by paying
Il 70 employees for wages, leav-
Ing them, in their turn, to get rid of It ss
best they can. What Is true with these
tradesmen Is doubtless true with other
employees OF labor. industrial or com
mercial. In this testimony that the
bulk Of the Bland dollar IN circulation
II forced into the hands of wage earn
ers; and that. when the sudden collapse
70 an eighty cent purchasing power OF
this kind Of dollar comes, as it Is sure
70 come If the coinage continues, It is
wage earners who will be caught with
most Of them In possession. Supposing
that nifty millions Of them are then In
wage earners' hands and that silver bull
Ion maintains its present market price,
the ahrinkage will be loss to the poor
OF ten million dollars 1t q stroke.
Ana for WhGti To enable few thous-
and owners Of silver mines TO pervert the
public treasury into an artificial marke,
for their product. and few thousands of
uuscrup1lous debtors 70 pay their debts
With > depreciased currency.
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Some idea Of the excitement under
which members Of the stock exchange of
New York labor is afforded in the case
of Gouverneur Rogers, the principal in
the firm of Rogers s. PendIeton, stock
and grain brokers in that city. Al the
close of business on Thursday Mr..
Rogers did not return 70 his Office from
the stock exchange at the usual hour.
His absence was not particularly COM
mented upon. At z O'Clock he rushed
into the office as the janiior was sweep
ing out waving his arms and beating
the air wildly, and shouting for his
brothers The next instant he fell upon
the floor and commenced clawinR the
carpet. The ianitOr ran for the nearest
surgeon, MIR. Rogers was raised to a
sitting posture, Snd on the ARRIVAL OF the
surgeon was taken to the Chambers
street hospital. The general formula
common to newly admitted patients was
attempted to be gone through with but
he would only reply to tie questions in
figures. To tue question where were
you born. he replied. 45, and the same
answer was given to all the other inter-
repositories. Upon being closely searched
he was found 70 have thirty 500 bills in
A-vest pocket, also check for $50, be-
side valuable gold watch and chain.
The united wisdom of the hospital sur
geons decided that the patient was suf-
tering from clot on the brain produced
by the violent excitement of the day,
and that the malady could be overcome
by absolute ehstipsnce from all excite
mept. t-fts
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NEW ROOK9

American Commonwcalths, edited by
Harvey Scudder. Kansas-the pre-
lude to the war OF the Union, by Leverett
w. Spring, professor in English litera-
ture In the University of Kansas. Bos-
ton-Houghton, Mifflin & Co., River
side Press, W. B. Brownell, general
agent, Lawrence, Kansas.
To the Kansan who desires to have a
complete histsry of the struggles
through which the state passed on the
high road to emancipation from the en-
croachments of slavery, Mr.. Springs
book will be exceedingly welcome. II
deals with the subject in language at
once terse and vigorous. 1t carries US
back to the days when men of giant in
tellect took part in the affairs of the ma
ton. 1t shows infinitely and clearly
how, step by step. from the time OF the
compromise of 1850, through all its
sufferings from attacks of adverse
Legislation and border ruffianism, il
come at last to Its deliverance and how
'the history of Kansas, which began
three decades ago with q wilderness
with the fence and skirmish that pre-
ludes a tremendous civil war, closes
with q great commonwealth rich In tn,
natural and immaterial things essentia
to life." The book is artlslically gottel
up, Is printed in bold, clear type OF
heavy paper, and should be IN the hand
of every man and woman in the state.
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THE CINCINNATI GRAPHIC.

1AE O1NOIHHdII UhAf~dIO.
The illustrated Weekly Graphic, Of
Cincinnati, tor October 10. is a superb
number, its illustrations being on q par
with. If not utterly eclipsing any of its
older contemporaries In the field of arr
journalism. It's illustration of "Pro-
methsIs bound to the rock" from the
celebrated group in the Berlin national
gallery. by Edward Mueller, Is a mas
ter piece of engraving, at once chaste
and beautiful. The three graees illus.
trated in the persons of three gamins
types of which are to be met with II
every large city, Is so perfectly
true to nature, that one pauses In won
der to see whether the ragged little ras.
calls won't step out into q cellar door
breakdown. All the illustrations are on
par with these, and are fully equalled
by the reading matter.
The Graphic Is published weekly by
o. o. Hall & Co. at 1876 Main street
Cincinnati. at the exceedingly low
price of ten cents copy or 81 per an
mum. There Is hardly an illustration in
to- days issue that is not worthy of.s
handsome frame. The Graphic is .
peer among art journals.
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Afterthe Kedskinn.

DEMING, N. NJ, Oct. 9.-Reports are
coming in from various parts OF Arizona
that the old pioneers of that territory,
tempted by the reward OF $3.50 for In.
dian scalps. made by several counties in
Arizona, have started out on q hunt fol
redskins with q view Of obtaining theiI
scalps. They think this the most prac.
ticable method yet suggested for forever
ending the Apache Indian war. The
$3.50 Is merely incidental 70 the hunt.
1t pays for the whiskey and tobacco
used in camp. It is believed several
New Mexican cities aud counties viii
adopt this plan of exterminating saw
ages. The fight At Gallarp's rancho
yesterday has thoroughly aroused West
ern New Mexico, and additional
troops, besides q squad from Albu-
qurque, which went TO the rancho, are
now being held in readiness at FL Paso
The Indians are roaming in small band!
and TINS enables them to commit crimes
and escape or hide easier than when
they were all together. Some killing il
looked for
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Aann,na e sarpane.

Nry YoRK, Oct. 10.-CAptain A. N.
Smith of The schooner E. 81. Harryman.
whicn arrived some daye ago, efter !
twelve days voyage from NueTite, re-
porss thas his vessel met with genuine
sea serpent On che fourth day out The
captain Ieils shs following story Of his
meeting with the great marine monster:
an latitude 81 deRs. 10 Minis, longitude
"a deks. 80 NINA, saw what at first
shoueht 20 be q school Of whales, bat BY
cIose observation I knew &c was some
oeher great thing. Il Was coming toward
us without spoqtiDg and With more than
ordinary speed It came mp from Les
ward. and as soon a. Is gns within half 9
mile OF us il sank and egain made ias
appearances two miles 20 WIn6Ward /
nov discovered that It Ves sea eerpant
with three very largo bumps on his
back, each being about seventy
ave fest apart. The whole ser.
pene must have bee0 e least
three hundred feet long. Of Q black col
or and IL Is doubtless what 90 many sea
captains have reported % b a. Island IN
the gulf stream. / Tow believe ID oea
serpents. Is may look like . HsA story
bat it was certainly more than snEee
hundred feel long WooderfBi thin8s
are in the Bible and also in the So cQt
this is the greatest UoBdeF ] hsVe eses
sen. The ecbOoBsE, =. b. HaFSymeo.
also encountered On the see00d dsv Qua
too water spouas bali . mile ep@1l.
They Wsre funnel shaped e0o eWep.
aioag at terrific pace. They pe-sse
aio1R wafhlB 9 quarter Of mile g ne
sehnoBer aad s0oa dissppeareo usice
the hSNzca-
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Robbery OF United States Timber
Lands.

The fraudulent practices permitted
under the Timber rAct." which APP
plies only to the timbered lands of the
States of Oregon, Nebraska, Califor-
mia. and the Territory Of Washington.
demand investigation. The condi-
tons of this act are that the land
shall be chiefly valuable for timber and
unfit for cultivation; that no one per-
son or association shall be permitted
to enter more than one hundred and
sixty acres; that the entry shall not be.
made for speculation nor for the bene-
Mt of any other person than the party
making the entry. The applicant IS
required to swear, among other things.
that he has made no contract or agree
ment by which the title that he may
receive from the United States shall in
ure 70 the benefit of any person ex-
cept himself These provisions are
hardly noticed Large operators cause
their employees and procure other per-
sons to make afidavits, enter the lands.
and then convey 70 their employers
In this manner large tracts of timber
lands are secured and controlled by
individuals and firms contrary to the
intention OF the statute. Some wealthy
corporation advances tine money to
pay AOE TIC u41kluk u 1OfcAhAIAS-1N
survey of some well-timbered town.
ship. having their men engaged and
ready to file their claims on the chcic-
est selections IS soon as the surveyor
runs the lines, and before outsIders, as
other people are termed. know any
thing about the lands The money adj
vaHced Is paid back in land A tract
of i've hundred million feet secured ia
this manner is not unusual; so that BY
reason Of inefficient laws, or through
the connixance Of officials in the exc
cution thereof, the government, in this
as in all other cases, parts with its
choicest lands for the merest trallc 10
scheming spectators by unfair and
unlawful meanA - Eeeder B. EtlfHe, sss
HGEpey's Aegazsne for October
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Information reaches Us that poor Bob
looms IL dying at his home in Wash
ington, Georges, under circumstances
that are exceedingly pItiIul-not from
poverty, as he has an ample abundance
Of this worlds goods, but from a malsdy
that Affects his brain. aRd makes him the
unhappy victim Of mental halluncla-
tions. He appears TO be constantly i'm
Agining himself in the field, leading the
confederate hosts, and fighting the bat
ties Of the rebellion over again. Some
times in tie night he calls to his attend
ants TO raise him In his bed, saying that
the enemy is coming and that he must
prepare 70 meet them. Then the imag-
mary battle is gone through and the ex.
element runs high until, out OF sheer
exhaustion, he SINKS back and in feeble
voice. exclaims "the battle is over"
How long he will remain in this dread
full state it is impossible to say, but his
death will b . relief to himself and his
friends. albeit II winds up life the bet
ter portion OF which has been passed in
opposition TO the government OF his
country. He IL the one man who vowed
he would die unreconstructed. HIS vow
n on the hIRhroad TO fulfillment.
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washlnxsoa NOssa.

WAsHNeroE. Oct. e.-Colonel Thos.
T. Barr. deputy judge advocate general
and Colonel Asa P. Blunt have been an.
pointed by the secretary of war 20 rem.
resent the Fort LeevenWorth milisary
prison AZ the meeting Of the National
Prison association to be held in Deeroal
from the 18th TO the 2lst inst. Colooa]
Barr Is one OF the commissioners of ~
military prison and Colonel Blunt 1.
commandAnt
The president has selected Thomas n
Smith Of WarrertOn, PennsyIvania. -
United States attorney for the disfricI
of New Mexico.
The October term of the euprene
court of the United States begins rex
Wednesday. It's docket now contain
loo cases, anG otheTa are coming n
daily The docket viii probably num.
Der 1900 cases before the end OF ~
term of court By reason of Its ener.
getlc york during the last tour or Az
years, il hiss ceased falling farther -
bind. Four hundred and efxtv esse.
were disposed of last year. which 40
If continued TO the last cases. the prassoI
docket will be adiudicaled within fE.ras
years The judges are all In good heaIsh
and there will probably be fun beneh
It the opening Eleven cases are aseipned
for sreumeDi on the 18th Inss-. and iii
De taken no seriatlm as fast &c poesrEIa
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1t is a matter OF some curiosity to
know how people In metropolitan cities
are housed, and SO far as New York is
concerned that curiosity is fully gratlfied
in the statistics recently gathered by the
New York Tribune. The figures given
rs by that paper show the population OF
New York city TO be 1 ,400, 900, and that
it requires ~ ,235 dwellings to accommo-
date them. The total number of build.
inGs in the city by the last count is 1OS,.
900 OF these 4S.790 are used exclusively
for dwellings. OF the latter number
$1,000 contain one family each. There
are $3.50 tenement houses, q, $50 OF
which have from two to four families on
each floor; 1925 buildings have families
on the top floors only. Seventeen thou
sand six hundred buildings, including
4, 100 tenement houses. are built of wood
II is q singular fact that out of the 1O3,.
600 buildings, all told, there are only
forty-seven of them that are estimated by
the fire department as being absolutely
IRE proof, seven of these being apart
ment houses aud the balance private
dwellings.
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The national bank of Scotland has
just had constructed q gigantic strong
room or portable vault, which lie esti-
mated as being the largest safe, II 1t may
be 30 termed, in the world. 1t is fifty
feet In length and weighs 100 tons. 1t
lie constructed entirely of steel, and is
divided into three separate compart-
ments, entrance to which is had through
three doors, seven by three
fest and SIX inches. and weigh
Ing one ton each. The structure
contains forty-eight locks. and has c.
pacity for storing 1850 tons of gold
bullion. equal in value to $500, COO, 900.
II was manufactured IN 600 sections
each section containing 1000 rivet holes
through which q corresponding number
OF bolts will be driven and invited. The
doors are Of steel, seven inches thick
and, notwithstanding their great weight
can be turned by an office boy. Tn,
bolts shoot out from the docs at an angle
Of forty-five degrees into the steel frame
work, Tins forming n hooked doVetall
Each bolt weighs 200 pounds.
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Arr1en1rnrnI afntIerl1..-

ToPEKA, Oct. f0.-Tbe following is q
correct synopsis of the tables now pre-
pared for publication in the fortbcom-
ing report of the state agricultural board
for the monfh ending September 5Otb
1885.
Wheat-Prob&ble product Of winter
wheat for 1885, 9ss2 III; spring wheat,
997 $50: total. winter and spring for
1885. 1885; 40I bushels. short Of aver
for i've years about d ,Oo0. 900 bushels,
and very llttle, If any. in excess Of the
demsnds Of the state for seed and bread
during tbs year
Cern-Probabie product for 1885,
194. 1854; q little in excess Of the
crop OF 1884 and an increase over q i've
yesTs average in ronnd numbers Of ST.
900 coo bushels
Rye-Producs for 1885, 2,7i47O5
bushels; short Of last years product
abonf 8 500 90 buSkels
Barley For 1885, the psnbsble pro
0uet Is s4s $40 bushels. which IS sc I'M
erase oyeE the product Of 1884 Of 292,-
81 bushels.
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While the street car strike at St. Louis
came of at a most unfortunate time,
when the city was crowded with thous-
ands OF strangers from abroad, its effects
do not apper, from the St. Louis Globe,
TO have been very disastrous, that paper
stating that there has been no percepti-
BILE diminution in the attendance at the
grand fair, that of yesterday being the
largest OF any day yet. A most inauspi-
cious time was selected by the car drivers
to lnaugurate their strike, and the move
ment al this juncture deprives them of
much public sympathy which they
might otherwise have commanded. 1t
IL fast coming TO be understood that peo-
pie living IN large cities ride too much,
A strike among the street car drivers oc.
caslonally may therefore be accepted as
= blessing in disguise, by causing an en-
forced pedestrianlsm not altogether un-
healthy.
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The authorities In Montreal hAye sue
ceeded In completely subdulng the
smallpox riots In that city. and the peo-
pie have 30 far snook on their supersti
lions that they are now coming forward
In droves to be vaccinated. AS many as
400 were operated upon in the city
health ONCE there in one day. 1t ap-
pears now that In addition to their
superstitIons and religious fears. the
more ignorant were possessed with the
idea that the operation was terribly pain
tul and liable to result In death.