Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-03-18
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SptciG! Correspondence Of he Sunday Register.
STEUBENvILLE, March 1.-THE gtiev-
ancas of the Pan. Handle freight conductors
seem to be we'll founded. There can be
no just reason why the men who have
charge OF trains and are responsible for
their proper handling and tie safe transit
of goods should be almost utterly ignored
when an increase of wages is put in force,
merely because they have not combined
together for the purpose Of forcing the
railroad officials TO a compliance with their
demands. While engineers are no doubt
entitled 70 all the ad Il they received,
certainly the conductors should have been
advanced in like proportion. In the past
two years the engineers have recsiyed two
advances, while its conductors have praC-
tically received none. Such action on the
part of the railroad officials iSan admission
that they are afraid OF the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, an admission which
may cause the conductors, who
are fully as strong in point
Of numbers, 10 combine together
for self.proteclion. There are forty three
regular freight crews between PIttsburg
aud DennisOn, and the people who are
filled with the absurd idea that the discon-
tent is confined 10 the two or three con-
duators residing in S~tepbenville may find
out in Il day or two that they are mistaken.
The conductors have good grievances, and
from the signs of the times they mean
business, and the railroad officials are liza
bic to discover that it is good policy to
treat them fairly, although they are not
banded together.
The Republicans are having a monkey
and parrot time settling the result of their
primary elections. There were thre can
didates for Township Clerk, and the first
result announced was that ]. n. earns had
o plurality of eleven over Henry
Fickes. Fickes is o Justice Of the
Peace, and the ballot boxes were
taken to his Office and left in his possession
tweIty-four hours, after which he claimed
the count had not been made right aud de-
manded a new one. Ga this count he
came out thirteen ahead AMI was declared
the nominee By the committee. earns and
his friends Immediately claimed that the
ballot boxes lad been stuffed, and the
committee and Fickis said that the Judges
of Election got drunk and did not make
the count right, as one tally sheet had fit.
teen more names on it than the other. The
question still stands in this way; Fickis has
secured the nomination and earns and his
friends are firmly of the opinion that he
secured it by fraud.
The claim that O change of sentiment
had taken place in New Cumberland and
Holidays COvein favor Of Van Baker is a
cleverly cOrcOcted story on The part of
Bakers attorneys 10 lead the outside pub
lie to believe in the innocence of their
client. The feeliDgin the localities named
remains about the same as formerly. The
people are satisfied beyond a reasonable
doubt that Baker committed one of the
most iendish and brutal crimes on record
ny numbering Mrs. McWha and Mrs. Bak-
er, aud they are desirous Of having him
punished for the acts. This is all of the
prejudice against Baker that has been SO
much talked about. There is no personal
feeling existing against him. 1t is the
horror of the crime that the people of Han
cock county condemn.
NtO' cCuuotCI' W DSIIallS, -NODLo Nlabu
Arch Druid for Ohio, was in the city yes
teTday on business connected with that
order.
Rev. r W. Grange aud Chas. Gallagher
left Wednesday for Cleveland to attend a
special DIOCESAN Convent On Of the Episco.
pal Church.
Rev. Chauucoy N Pond, State aud Gen.
eral Secretary Of the Sunday School Unioo,
10 in the city and will remain here loT
several dGys. conducting his CORRESPONDENCE
FROM this point.
Col. Hugh Sterlingcame up from Wheel
ing Tuesday to see his Steuoenville
friends.
Mrs, Charles Dougherty, Of Bellaira, is
visiting at the residence of her father-iuS
law, William Dougherty.