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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-11
THE sPoND
WASHINGTON, Pa, May II,

WASHINGTON, PA, May II, 1887.
Mr.. Richard s Wills
My object IN writing to you is 10 let you
know what / expect to dO--to see that |
am righted. I am one that will not be
trihed with. / have your letters that you
wrote while at my home, where you en-
gagged yourself to mt upon your own sug-
vestions and wishes, obtaining my mothers
consent after conyersing with her. Even
your sister wrote that she should think
that / would he indignant at the terrible
manner in which you had treated me. |
thought that | would TritG you q personal
letter first to see what compromise you
would make, satisfactory to me. I want
fifteen thousand dollars, but will take ten
Thousand dollars if settled amicably. l
will wait until next week for an answer.
TILE.
The following is the bill Of Mr.. Willis at
the Fulton House, and some Of the numer-
Gus letters which lilly received.
The following are copied directly from
the originals, which are in the possession of
Miss Ingersoll:
WASHINGTON, Pa, June II, 1884
Received Of Miss Ingersolk, SIS. 90 in full
for board of r. s. Willis to Wednesday,
July I'd, 1884. = E
THos. NJ. HALL,
Per II.
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Is GooD&Co sell dry goods the chespes,
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Hsw advertisement,
FOR SALE CHEAP,

house, With two lots SoIlOO feet esSs Dwelling
=: e. RoBISsoy
Insurance aud Real ystsio ssoN,
Or Aadrsss Mes : Bridgeport or,
felIeajq '"ckley, "a.
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Index TO New Advertisements.
SECOND PAGE.

SECOND PAG
For sale-Pool and Combination Tables.
Notice 20 GlaSSworkers
los Diamond Stud.
FoI ~Rsnt-FrOnt Room with Board.
HonSe Therm0me:ers-Ewing Bros
Rsdnetion OF PriceS--I. G. Dillon 3 20
Rose CreAm-R. n. List.
FOURTH PAGE.
Tor sale-Residence in KirkwoOd.
Lisa of Letters.
Religious Notices.
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No Quorum.

The Council Committee on Accounts was
called to meet at the City Hall, last even
ing, but a quorum tailed to respond. The
balances shown by the books of the City
Clerk and Receiver, which we're to have
been examined by the Committee, were as
follows;
General fund .......... ........ ..."..'' ''''''''s o'oii ~
Contingent fund ...... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 3,l69 az
Ten cent levy fund ....."... ...."."..... see. 1871 -
AUTHORIZATION fund. 2 %
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"The Highest Bidder"

Next Monday and Tuesday evenings
that talented actor Mr.. f. II. Sothern will
appear at the Opera House in his new
play, "The Highest Bidder" a very clever
and amusing comedy, which was written
for Mr.. Sothern's father by Madison Nor
ton and Robert Reece, two well-known
English playwrights, but was never pro-
duced by the popular actor, whose genius
is alive in his son. An exchange says OF
Mr.. Sothern's acting: Like all comedies
of its type, the plot of The Highest Bid
der is slight. 1t is nevertheless sufficient
to introduce a series Of excellent scenes
and situations. The comic breakfast
scene of the first act, the burlesque auc-
tion scene of the second, aud the love cpl
sodes of the third are the prominent fea-
lures of the play. The interest of the
piece is of course centred in Mr.. b. ID.
sothern, whose performance as Jack HAM
merton was admirable. The eccentricities
and blunders displayed were most anus
ing, and the rendering of the character IN
the auctioneer pulpit and the impersona-
ton Of the timid lover were most artistic. i"
Reserved seats 60 on sale at Banners
music store this morning.
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LETTER NO. /.
FULTON HOUSE,
WASHINGTON, Pa, -, 1884
My OpR, Dear Darling Girl:
1t was q sweet little note you sent me,
and l would like you to send me another
like it. but much longer. Tonight we
will take q little walk together, will we
notP You do not wish me to keep asking
you if you love me? Well, l will
not. ! do not for q moment doubt
you, but 1 do love to hear you tell me 50
often, for it makes M happy. No, l do
not like a firt- Tomorrow my time is
up. / go home on Friday morning or re-
main another week. 1t is for you to de-
eide. You know, darling, I would be
happy to be with you always, but we must
part, but ! trust it will not be for long,
and then when we shall be together all the
time, how happy we al be!
Lille and / had q very pleasant time TO-
gether this morning, of which / will tell
you this afternoon, / should think you
would all be tired Of seeing me eyery day,
and what . relief it will be to youall when
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~ Rag Baby"

This we'll Unknown absurdity was pre-
sentsd at the Opera House last evening to
all audience which, from the amount Of
noise made, seemed to extract a good deal
of enjoyment from what transpired on
the stage. "Old Sport" was we'll taken
by Mr.. Charles Reed, and the remainder
of the company were good. Handsome
maintained his reputation for ugliness
very we'll, and the young ladies were
pretty as pictures. The drug store scene
was immense, and the incidents enacted
within were con ulsing.
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Some Very Rare Bargains !!

stsD,e Goods and Choice Novelties for present
and later use. p,,oS,
1,ais awnSS : ; and 10 cents. worth 10, IS and
CHECK stripe sud Lace NaiusOoks at same price.
Scrim-Plain, stripe, Check and Fancy IRON I'VE
Embo1idaries and Laces never known 80 cheap.
BramtieS in SeerSuCkers and Ginghams.
SeT STYLES OF Prints at 3, 4. 5, . and ! cents per
yerd.
Heavy MuSlinS for five cents per yaru; N
Cssbmeres and Henrietta Cloths extremely
Che9p
Extra Bargains in silks aud Pushes
Jersey Jackets from so ceutS up.
SILK Gloves 10 cents per pair
Bnstles ". a piece, Nice silk scars Oc.
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Migusni.S ieerlst Company.

The return engagement of the Mignani-
siegrist company will no doubt be a most
successful n g It will m at the
Grand Opera House Monday evening. The
Cincinnati Enquirer says: Decidedly the
best speciality company that has appeared
at the Peoples Theatre this season, began
an engagement there, at the matinee yes
terday. 1t is the Mignani-Siegrist combi'
nation. The bill is an exceptionally clean
one throughout and there il not n weak
feature in it," Seats are on sale at Sheib's
music store.
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Transfers Of Real EstAte.

Transfers OF Real Estate.
The following transfers of real estate
was left for record at Clerk Hooks Office,
yesterday:
Deed made January 10, 1888, by William
Il. Kasley and wife to the Wheeling Elec-
tricai Company, for one-half Of lot No 100
on the northwest corner of Chapline aud
Twenty-secoDd streets. Consideration, S3,-
100.
Deed made January l3, 1883, by M. w.
Amick, special commissioners, to the Wheel:
ing Electrical Company, for one=half oil lot
No. los, at the corner Of Chspllne and
Twenty second street. Consideration, ~
$50.
Deed made February G., 1888, by Edward
V. Gillies aud wife, TO Mary Ann Utter
mohlen and husband, for all right, etc, to
lots Nos. %, 30, 80, 81 and 81 in square
No. 80 in the Eighth ward. Consideration,
SIS.
Deed made August 80, 1887, by Simon
Horkheimer and wife, to John II. Rosen-
berg, for twenty three and one-balf acres
Of land on Wheeling creek. Consideration,
1850.
Deed made February 0, 1888, by John
a. Rosenberg and wife, to Simon Hork-
heimer, for part of lot No. 17s, on the
northeast corner Of Huron and Ohio streets,
Island. Consideration, $3.50.
Deed made March "A, 1877, by Michael
Lally and vile, to Mary McGinnis, for part
of lot No. 8, in Buens Vista. Considera'
ton, $40.
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CECoND PRESBYTERIAN CaURcH-REv.
= VIM. H. Cooke, D. D., pastor. Services At
1890 a. IN. and $50 p. N. Sabbath school Al y
a. IN. All are welcome.
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TANE STREET NJ. E. CHURCH REV. c.
II b. Graham, pastor. Special services con.
tinue and there Is \ welcome To all: Bible
reading aud Recognition of new members al
1890 q. NJ Prayer service at 600 p. m. Preach
ing at Z 2. m. Sunday school at 2N pm.
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ST. LIKES CHURCH-REV. J. GIBSON
= CAN'T, rector. Services tomorrow at 1880
a. m. and 100 p. m. sunday school at ? p. IN.
Seats free.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-31
WASHINGTON.

ATTORNEY General Garland says he has
been wearing the same hat for twelve
years.
1t is now said that the wedding OF Miss
EndicOtt and Hon. Joseph Chg mberlain,
NJ. p, will take place in June.
PROF. E. B. ELLIOTT, who III former years
held the offi,a of government actuary in
the treasury department., died suddenly
this afternoon from a stroke of apoplexy.
The Senate has confirmed James D.
jenkins, of Usage, Iowa, to be agent for
the Indians of the Sisseton Agency, in
Dakota.
THE house of representatives, having
closed the debate of the tariff reduction
bill IL Committee of the whole, has laid
that measure aside during the present
Weekin order to give It's attention to ap.
preparation bills.
MR. MANDERsoN, from the committee on
military affairs, reported favorably the
bill to increase the appropriation for the
militia from $4,OOO,OOO to $6,OO0,0OO.
THE Republican senators are very con-
fdent that they will be successful in their
efforts to have the fisheries treaty dis
cussed in open session.
IHE s6udt6 COulmlGJ66 on uHdDCB has OF
dered an adverse report on the fractional
currency bill, but in its place bill will be
reported reducing the fee upon postal
notes for less than one dollar to one cent.
The select committee of the house
which investigated the late strike on the
Reading railroad will recommend some
drastic legislation that is likely to be IN
palatable TO both the railroads and their
employees.
MISS DAWES, the daughter of the sena-
tor from Massachusetts, is lady of note
worthy literary talent. She has publish
sd several books and has for long time
been a contributor to the magazines.
She was one regularly employed on
newspaper in Plttsfield, her home.
HE senate committee on appropria-
tiops has completed the consideration of
the Indian appropriae ion bill and will
probably report it tomorrow. 1t has
made net reduction of $226,000 making
total appropriation of $8,172,000 in
round numbers.
The senate committee on agriculture
has ordered a favorable report on the
Hatch bill to enlarge the duies of the
departmeE of agriculture and make it
an executive department.. The commit
tee has, however, struck out all that por-
tiou of the bin which looks to transfer
of the weather bureau to the department
of agriculture.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-31
FttREiGN.

THE improvement of the emperor is
still gratifying.
TIE mperor of Brazil has had a
serious relapse. He is i'll at Milan.
AN attempt to assassinate King Milan
while returning to Belgium was thwarted.
FIVE hundred persons have been
drowned by floods in Mes o potamia.
NEW lire of German steamers will be
started between Hamburg and India.
PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico, is worth
about S1,OO0,O0O and lives in modest IN
assuming style.
QUEEN LOUISE of Sweden, is threatened
with a return of the cancerous troUble
wfleh nearly took her life year ago.
BERL1N.-The progress of the disease
III the throat and trachea of the emperor,
though slow is certain.
IT is estimated that LOG persons be-
longing to the fishing fleet lost their
lives il the recent gale off Ireland.
The Vatican journals note that Catho-
lie publications in America unanimously
approve the Papal rescript.
The Chinese commission for Man
churia has conclued, at Tieu-Tsitt, a con
tract for gold loan OF 100000 taels
with Germar-Chinese syndicate.
THE police OF London have an alarm
ing report of secret plot among certain
Irish Home Rulers for the assassination
of British officials.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-31
Sledge Races on the Neya.

A welcome novelty in the way of newe
comes from st. Petersburg in the snaps
of an announcement that sledge races
had been organized in the Russian CAPT
tai, in which ladies of the aristocracy are
to be the drivers. Each fair Amazon will
have their own colors, which will distiu-
guish not only her own costume but her
sleigh and the harness of her horse. The
com petitors must not be less than twenty
years of age and not over forty. Ladies
of the 6ourgeoisie will not be permitted to
take part in the competition. The prizes
are to be diamonds, which have been of
fered by the Empress, the Jockey Club
and other fashionable bodies in St.
Petersburg. There is nothing surprising
in this novel idea being developed on the
Neva, for Russian ladies have always been
tres en1dncipses, and continually startle, il
they delight, the cities of the vest and
south of Europe by the independence,
the originality and the fascination of
their social conduct. The races will be a
lovely sight. The dazzling snow, the
shining steeds, the polished and glitter
ing harness, the beautiful drivers, the
'sweet" costumes. Imagine the start,
the progress, the rafting pace, nearing
the goal, the intense rivalry, the joys and
waDgs of energetic anxiety, the move
ment Of victory, the triumph of the fair
victor, and finally the diamonds. They
are welcome to woman from it matters
not whom, and it matters not when. But
imagine the JOY of winning tiara, Or
necklace, or a stomacher of diamonds IL
sledge rece-winning them from every
other woman between twenty and forty,
and the diamonds the gift of the Czarine
herself. But to the excitement of driv-
ing and competing is to be added the
still greater excitement of dress, and no
one would dream of asking women: as
life worth living?" who had ever listened
to them celebrating in solemn conclave
over the color, composition and make Of
a gown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-31
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES

The Methodist conference rejected a
resolution against the use of tobacco.
The National Prohibition camp-meet-
ing will be held at Decatur, ILL.,, July
1921, inclusive.
4 WELL. read man of fair ability is said
TO use from 5000 to 1000 words, and to
be able TO define and understand from
$4,000 TO 10000. Shakes peare's vocabul-
ary contained about 900 words.
Mr.. CLAUS SPEECHES was given an i'm
pressive farewell reception by his 800 San
Francisco employees and their families on
the occasion of his leaving that city to
make his home in Philadelphia.
THE National Tube Works Company at
McKeesport, Pa, has notified its 1900
em ployes that a general reduction in
wages of from to 10 per cent. will be
made on June 1.
NEARLY 1,400 boys were cared for in
Girard College at Philadelphia last year.
There are twelve buildings on the college
ground now, three of them having been
erected since 1877.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has reached
American soil once more, having recon-
sidered his determination to expatriate
himself in Canada.
ACCORDING to the reports received by
the Agricultural Department, at Washing
ton, the prospect for the Winter wheat
Gro o in Illinois and Iowa is decidedly IN
favorable.
DURING the year 1887, there were 1871
deaths in the State of Minnesota. More
than 8 per cent. of the deaths resulted
from consumption.
THE prediction comes from Kansas
City that the st. Louis and San Francisco
road will have Kansas City extension
before snow falls.
Miss LINDA GILBERT has found en-
ployment for 5000 discharged conyicts
during her fifteen years as a philan-
thropist.
The Nevada Bank of San Francisco has
been reOrgapized, and ex -Senatnr Fair
and his party now control the great
financial Institution.
TIE next session of the Presby terrain
general assembly will oe held in the
Fourth Avenue church in New York next
year.
The Irish National League of America
has been called to meet in Cleveland, Ohio,
june ~. The object Is presumably TO
take action in reference to the papal
rescript.
The decline in the price of iron means
the cutting off of one of the large sources
of railroad income, aud will result in a
dimlnution of revenue on the coal and
iron roads.
THE Methodist General Conference has
elected as Bishops he Rev. DIR. j. 81. Vim
cent, of Illinois, the Rev. DR.. j. W. FItz-
gerald, of New Jersey, and the Rev. Dr..
j. W. Joyce, OF Ohio. Two more Bishops
are to be chosen.
DR.. AGNEw, of Philadelphia, said that
no man has lived to be 100 years old since
Biblical days, and that ali such reports
come from ignorance Or mistakes. Out
of twenty cases he Investigated, 10 one
proved authentic.
A SYNDICATE of Canadian and American
capitalists, representing over $1OO,OOO,-
OOO, has been formed TO construct rail
way tunnel under the river at Detroit,
connecting Michigan with Canada. Prac-
teal civil engineers pronounce the pro-
ject entirely feasible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-31

(by requesD to retire ex. soldiers and
sailors who have been wounded in battle
after twenty-one years of service in the
civil service. The following bills were
introduced and referred: By Mr.. Town
send, Ills, providing for an assistant
secretary of war. Mr.. Plumb. Ills, INV
request) to provide for the issuing of
bonds to refund the national dept. The
house then wen. into committee of the
whole on the Legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-31
Not an Utter Failure.
Philadelphia Press

There ia always pleasure in accumulat-
ed power, but few pause to consider that
it is only to be had through vigorous ex.
ertion. In one respect this sort of rec
ompense is unique, for it may come not
only with success, bat with much that is
called failure. A man may find his hopes
disappointing him one by one; he loses a
position he supposed to be secure, or his
business does not succeed; perhaps his
work, too, appears Intellectual, and his eff
forts seem lost. Yet even in all this
crushing adversely, although he has failed
in all he has tried to do, he may have sue
ceeded in doing something else of which
he had no thought but which may be more
important and enduring than that which
he attempted to accom- plish. If he has
really tried hard and honestly he has gain
ed wisdom and power and experience and
caution, which will stand hIm in good
stead in future exertions. This is con-
ISOLATION seldom offered in times of trouble
yet it is q real one. There is no such
thing as utter failure to one who has
done his best.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-31
FIRES AID GAStJALTi HIS.

ALL the street,car drivers of Rochester,
N. Y, are out on strike for a reduction
of hours.
THE popular summer resort hotel at
Blue Ridge Springs, n ear Lynchburg, Va,
has been destroyed by fire.
Two FREIGHT trims plunged through q
bridge into d ravine twenty feet deep
near Randolph, Kansas, killing five men.
THE extensive iron aud machine works
of the Belmont Iron Company, Philadel-
phia, were destroyed by fire Tuesday
morning; loss, $4,000.
A HA1L-sToRM al Pratt, Kan, and vicin-
ity of extraordinary violence, crushed the
roufs OF houses, killed cattle In the fields,
destroyed fruit richards and did much
other great damage.
LIZZIE and Lena Baker, aged II and Is
years, were struck by lightning White
playing on the common in St. Joseph,
Nc, and every particle of clothing torn
from their bodies. Lena was not hurt in
the least, but Lizzie was so badly shocked
that her life is In danger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-31

The pope assures Archbishop Walsh
co fear from the holy see; there will be no
interference in Irish politics.
GENERAL BOOTH, of the Salvation Army
whose daughter was married the other
day in London, sold 1000 tickets to the
wedding at S. each.
ALGIERs.-Immense swarms of locusts
are advancing up TiareI. The insects
extend in a semi-circle, the diameter OF
which is calculated at 10 kilometres.
BERLN.-Prince Henry, second son of
Emperor Frederick, and Princess Irene;
third daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig of
Hess, were welded today. The bride and
bridegroom are first cousins, and are
grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
LoNDoN.-A dispatch from st. Peters
burg says that the Gear in the course of
the summer will attend the maneuvres
of the troops la the Odessa district and
from there will proceed to the Caucasus,
extending his tour, probably, to Turk
estan.
The town commission of Ballinasloe
has unanimously adopted resolution
declining to accept the Pope's ruling in
political matters.
The French Senate has adopted pro-
posal exempting schoolmasters and
students of theology from three years,
but requiring one year, of military ser
vice.
The Radical members of the French
and Italian Chambers of Deputies are
making arrangements to hold d meeting
st Marseilles to protest against Italy IS
foreign policy, as tending to destroy her
good relations with France.
SIR CHARLES UPPER has resigned his
position as minister of finance in the
Canadian government, and has been re-
appointed high commissioner for Can
ada in London. Foster, minister of ma
rine, has been appointed to succeed Tup-
per as minister of finance.
The Temps denies that the Government
has received any complaint from Ger
many regarding charges of interference
with German subjects on the French
frontier, and says that nothing has trans
pired to support the statement that Ger
many is preparing to take measures OF
retaliation on account of such interfe err
ence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-31
CHI " &.

EIGHT prisoners effected their esca pc
from jail at s pring field, Mo-, by tunnelling
their way out underground.
THE village of Anderson, S. c., Is great
ly exci'ed over several recent attempts to
fire the town.
In the cases of Sullivan and 9udd,
two of the men tried for the Indian
apoljs tally sheet forgeries, the jury dis
agreed.
CAREY, the Bridgeport tough, VINO
wantonly shot and killed a Cinnamon re-
Gently in Chicago, has pleaded guilty and
been sentenced to Joliet for fifty years.
CONSTABLE PORTS, of Des Moines, Iowa
who was convicted of bribery in oonnec
ton with liquor cases which he was prose
cutting, has been sentenced to five months
imprisonment ia the county Jail, and to
pay fine of 500.
REUBEN DRAKE, g well-to-do farmer, so
years of age, and his wife and two grand
children were murdered in their home in
the town of Kickapoo, Wis, Thursday
night. 1t is supposed that the murder
ers were after some pension money which
Mr.. Drake had secured about month
ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-31
If Y6u Feer an Attack

of fever and ague, or bilious or remittent fever,
don't resort TO quinine, a cumulative and rer-
nicious drug that has ruined many constitutions.
Use without delay remedy which the leading
hy sicians of America have recommended for
over thirty years past--Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers. Dunno ague and agEe cake, no less than
the actively febrIle forms of maarial disease are
promptly relieved aud ultimately uprootsd by It..
In the tropcis where febrile complaints OF this
sort more virulent than in the temporal
zone, Hostetter'S Stomach BItters has established
reputation for preventive and remed al efficacy
which competition has not been abe to affect
prejudicaly-nsy, has even served TO strengthen.
Disorders Of the stomach and bowels, particle
Larry those to which malaria gives rise, speed
lily relieved by 1t. Kidney complaints, rheuna-
tsIn, nervousness, sick headache and constipation
yield - t. Appetite and sleep are both p~proyed
by IL.