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Is natures own true laxative. It Is the
most easily taken, and the most effective
remedy known TO cleanse the system
when bilious or costive; to dispel head:
aches, colds, and feyeri to cure habitual
constipation, indigestion, piles, etc
Manufactured only by the California Fig
Syrup Company. For SAFE in 30 cents
and s. bottles by Logan Drug Company
Anton P, Hess, R. B. Burt and O. Men
kamallhK.
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The Best in tie Market.

TRlApElputA, w. Va, Oct. 2, 1880.
AtsEa S. Rasr'S soHs'
sIRs:-Enclosed please find twenty
FIVE Panhandle Coffee tickets, fol
which please send one Of your framed
pictures TO Johnny MCCardle, Of thi
place. / find your Panhandle Coffee
the best In tho market.
Respectfully yours,
MAGGIE ROLES.
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IF yOn cannot see aud need gpOCtatlCs
yOu should call OH Us mud have your Eyes
tested without charge. We have The
finest instruments and more experience
tllan any other Opticlan In the State,
and guarantee satisfaction or money 10.
funded. JACOB w. GRUDB,
JeWeler aud optlclan,
Cor. Twelfth and Market Streets.
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Are Using It Right Along.
NUI.u,varou pA 0ck 1 1890

WASHINGTON, PA. Oct. l, 1880.
AtSsrt. $, BGer's SoHS'
GENTLEMEN;-Isend enclosed twenty.
1--WE Panhandle Coffee tickets, taken
from that many packages OF your excel
lent Panhandle Coffee, which we are
using right along. Please send me one
OF your framed OIL Paintings, In care Of
our grocer, Mr.. George Anon, and
obllge Yours respectfully,
MRs. FRANK BRoDY.
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That The Foraker meeting al 1leilalrt
tonight will DO boomer, grow tnors
probable every honr, The number 81
Wheeling people who have Uxpressej
tlielf intention 10 attend 10 aulaSlbp con-
BldOting that the meeting "a In ahoLhel
Slate, and In the interest Of ahoLhel
States campaign, The steamer Bciiaiff
which leaves the wharf al 1880 o'clock
will no doubt carry large crowd,
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Yesterdays BASE BALL
About 100 People See Some Pretty Good
Sport philadelphia Wins.

About 100 People See Some Pretty Good
philadelphia Wins.
The game Of ball played at Island
Park yesterday afternoon by the Phila-
delphia League club and o picked nine
composed Of well known professional
players from this city and vicinity, was
attended by about 700 people, Il
was lovely day for the sport,
and the game put up was q
very inteIestine one; everybody was
well pleased, and judging from that fact
II Is believed that much larger crowd
may be looked for to-day, The enter
prise shown by Mr., John Wright in
bringing the Phillies here and getting
together team 10 meet them certainly
ought 10 entitle him to the warm sup
port Of the base ball enthusiasts, and
they are many In this section,
Tho Phillles won yesterdays game by
a score OF 0 10 2, IT was almost to be ex'
pected that they would win, but still
that did not detraCt from the Interest
taken In the game to any appreciableex'
keuts WHtlp tu1 WhuVAub NSNNh Sssess
tanned some excellent material
| 1t had not practlced together
and labOred under other disad
yantages; despite all drawbacks
however, the Wheellngs put up a rat
Ting good game, one containing o mum
Der Of brilliant features,=such as double
plays and corking good hits that m9d'
the bleaching boards howl with delight
Sam Barkley's three.baser would hayt
been a home run had he been able Il
run.
Delehanty and all the rest Of the boy
got a warm hand as they took their TURF
at the bat, 1t was good, jolly audience
not disposed TO be Captious, and every
thing passed of very pleasantly.
The same clubs will play again this al
ternoon; Gleason and Clements will bt
the battery for the Phillies. and Bennett
and Haller for Wheeling. The full scor'
Of yesterdays game is as follows;
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ALWAYS ask your grocer for Marvin
Shell Oyster Crackers.
A Question.

Do you suffer with habitual constipa.
ton or biliousness2 II so, try the pleas
ant fluit laxative, Elixir Of Dates. II
will cure you. Sold in 80 cent bottles
by @. h, Goethe, W. w, Irwin, W. E,
Williams, John Laughlin. Logan Drug
Company and Goodwin & Co., Wholesale
agents,
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Peculiar

In the combination, proportion, and pre-
paration Of itsingredients, Hoods Sarsa'
narilla accompanies cures where Other
preparations entirely fail. Peculiar itt
good nanO at home, which ia a tower
Of strength abroad" peculiar In the phe'
nomenal sales 1t has attained, Hoods
Sarsaparilla is the most successful med,
icino for purifying the blood, giving
strength, and creating an appetite. 3
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they Think ills lEiegant.

BELLAiRE, o., Sept 30, 1880.
AessI g. Bda'S EohSi
DEAR siRs.-EnclOged you will ant
twenty-five Pan. Handle Coffee ticket
which obtained from packages Of Pan
Handle Coffee. YOU will please send m,
q framed OIL Painting We have beer
using hn,Handle Coffee for the mai
three years, and will continue 70 do 10
We think L elegant Send II In care n
Frank Mack, the grocer,
Very respectfully,
ANsiH y, Mummy,
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THE STATE or WE1T VIRGINIA.
To the Sheriff Of Ohio County, Greeting
We command you that you summon Sarah E
pear ii tho Clerks office Of the Circuit Court b
Ohio county Rt Rnles 70 BIO held for the said
Court. on the first Monday In October, 1850, u
answer bill In Chancety exhibited against heI
In the said Court, by John 4. Slater: and hRXG
CLERK Of our said Court, at the Court House o.
said county, In the city Of Wheeling, tho 10Th
day OF August, 1850, and In tho twenty'Ieyenth
year OF the State OF West Virginia.
JOHN W. MlfChELL, Clerk.
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Wheeling Instalment Co.

Low prices Is one OF our chief Charac,
terIstiCs, Since We have taken hold ri
this place We have labored increasingly
70 place within your reach compleis
line OF House Furnishing G GODS al strirt.
" cash prices on the Instalment plan
That we have succeeded goes without
saylng,-To this our very many custom,
ers In this city and State can testiiy-Nnd
our immense stock Is a substantial prooi
Of Tive arc the Championships
Peoples Champions OF Low Prices-and
we have waged war-yes-war 10 Ina
knlie-with that terrible monster-that
robber OF every man-High Prices,
Wheeling InstalmOpt Co.
Small profits are prominent featura
here. Our policy Of buying goods for
spot cash, thereby saving ciscounts-
combined with our steadily Increasing
trade-iustIfy us in selling our goods on
the smallest margin Of ploRt-Besides
We are, % well as you are awaro-practi,
cally-"Llye aud lot live" people,
Wheeling Instalment Co,
To live and lot live we arc determined
- ANY 70 1--WE comfortably We have put
wltnlh your reach everything necessary
70 mIke nome Somlottable-But that Is
n.y. alive oler you credit advantages
t tnM ~ you cannot procure elsewhere,
(Sl2 % worth Of goods for 81 90 down
and 90 cents per week, or 81 10 per month
W 81 ~ " worm OF goods lot y 90 cash,
an1 ~ W per week, or VI % per month.
-th M you can pay as Il suits you
y Weekly, Seml'MonlhIy, Or Monthly,)
1nu ouL go9us Nv strictly Cash Prices
tuen Thy uehy yourself o. anything In
t house l9rnlshlng goods Of any, descrip.
t .iom SnS W, We oler you such liberal
E Istms t-w rny c, 40 without Furniture
ier coal Or co@ SSSs-liiSasss
ked, White l,,.n or Grey andbBIeddlng Of all
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-10

Thursday, oetober 10, the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company will sell excur.
sion tickets 70 Pittsburgh, including ad.
mission 10 the Exposition, at the rate
81 good returning until October l2
inclusive,
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Gen. l. II, Dpyal left for Omaha Tuesday la1t
TO be absent teyeEAlWeekS,
The new Catholic Church at ColllOrs will b.
dedicated next Sunday, The church Is In charge
Of Rev Father Reynolds, Of this place,
AFs. Mary RimoerlAud, rellctoi Henry kim
heTlAnd fell on Wednesday morning, feceiylnl
serious Injuries. She Il In her B6th wear,
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10 per cent discount on Carpets and
Cloakb. Remember, 10 per cent cheaper
than you can buy thom anywhere.
Prices on all goods guaranteed to be the
lowest. SToNR 4 THOMAS.
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MARviNs Eagle butter Otackets, mar
excellence, delicate flAvofAnd symnetfl.
cal beauty, are the envy Of OUT Com.
poLltora. For Gale BY oil gtoCefs.
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Nll..Inr Man i.nnnd mi llln lll...

II was reported here yesterday that
while Ben Hartman, Of Texas, little
village down the river, was fishing ihe
Other day, he drew from lhSrlvefln his
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1irI,inY Ilnrrnlna.

1000 Towels at l3c, worth zoe.
1000 Towels at 17c, worth 26c.
100 dozen Napkins at SOC q dozen,
so" 50 dozen zen Napkins at $50 a dozen, worth
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wAsntSoroS, oct. 6.--For West Wiz.
glnlR and Western Pennsylvania, fair OK.
cent light rain on the lakes stationary
Temperature, westerly winds,
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

ORDER OF fubLlUATloN'
The object OF this suit Is 10 obtain divorce
from tho defendant by the complainant. And
II appearing from an affidavit filed In The cause
that the defendant, Sarah L. Slater, IL nOn'reg.
ldcnt OF the State Of West Virginia, II iSordered
pear within ono month after the date Of tho fltst
publication Of this order and do what y neces'
iary 70 project her interests, i % further or.
dctch that this order DO published and posted
as required by law,
Witness, John ". Mitchell, Clerk Of our Cir.
cult Court. III the Court HouAe Of said county,
this 9th day OF October, 1889, 10 Wit: October
Rules 1890
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@ HESS y bUNHJ
1891 q ll20 Market Street.

FALL md Winter Opening OF Hats
and BOnnctS at Mrs, A. ]. WORKS. La.
dies arc cordially invited. Wednesday
mud llnrSdaY, October 8 and 10.
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FALL and Winter Opening Of Hats
and DOnnets at Mrs. A. j. WOrlS. La.
dies arc cordially invited. Wednesday
and Thursday, October 0 and ~.
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INTELLIGENlRRTELEpH CALLS
Counting Room, 41G.
Editorial Rooms, 481.
FOR FALL AND MINTER.

Just received a complete aud artistic
assortment OF Sultlngs, PantalOOnlngs
aud OyereOallngs, which We warrant 10
mako up In ilIst.Class style, and at rea.
sOnable prices. Fit guaranteed.
SpeCldltlGs-Just received, 80 dozen
more OF the best 50 cent White shirts
lradC. Fancy Flannel shirts at so cents
and upwards. Full limo Of our Cele.
brated Knit Jackets. 1870 -
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MARyiN's EAGLE BurfER CRApKERa
are the standard Of excellence, Always
buy them,
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AIuIury and NsSeaAlly

for rich and poor who wish 10 enjoy
good health, aud who do not wish 70 70.
sort to bitter, IianseouB liver medicines
aud CathattlCs, Il the concentrated Call.
Iofnla liquid fruit remedy, Syrup oil
FIGS, For sale In 30 cent and 81 90 bot.
Ties BY Logan Drug Company, Anton r.
Hess, r, h, Hurt aud o, MenkOmeller.
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wlEEbIS0, E,IB,IF1IA.IE IFlllLA'FlA. p, 70 IF'IA
wnEEbINo' B'IB'IPIA,IE FllILAFlIA. III IFIA,IE,
HIc'losou,9 q q A q lIDelhanty,l 4 q 9
BArklCy,. /. 2llel olMyersl 2'."l I
Whltc,W 81 Cl il q llt0Haf!y, M II II EVl
George, To- q q VI Qlih0myhtI
HHller, c.., 0l 81 VI llMnlVey, vi !
StAplon, mi Of Of u Vi 0lylenentA,cl VI VI q VI
Miller, a.,.. OF OIL q j 0lSAndefSI p,l VI 81
White, j., II II II u 0l 0IEafrRFi l,rl wv q
MoIriSou,p o. 0l llilallmRn, q l
Totals, 81 Bl9ilt6 Il Totals, 81 pl27llsll9

FGiisasiEss i'ii:: J 8 sc .;
Earned pasN NV q PhIESsPhI4r w'
base hIiS-NiCholSou Mailman, Mulyey. FarfeF
Three base hlt-Barkley. Double plGyE-Hark
ley 10 Nicholson; Nicholson To- parkleyi .Myer
10 FArrar; Mailman, Myers aud FRrrar. paSset
balls lIAller 2. Sacrifice hils-- DelehAntY
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TIM wheeling Bakery %. will make a
great specially q Vienna Bread. Ffesh
every afternoon al their saleorooni.
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Always ask your grocer for Wheeling
Bakery. Ce,'e vienna" 'ljubllee6 and
"pute Rye" Hieads. N
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Thy our new Vienna Bread.
WHEELING BAKERY Co.
TO.DAY'S BARGAINS.

Prices that TaIk-You will Buy Can't
Help It,
Come to-day for Black goods.
!. 81 rs silk Warp Henrietta Cloth, 40
inches vide, only 81 IS to-day.
81 25 Rll.Wool Henrietta Cloth, 40
inches vide, only $3.50 to-day.
81 all.Wool HeHrlotta Cloth only 73c
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oELLuloip Collars and ouns at s. H.
Kasley'B.
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"wElLsuuRa will have a gala day on
next Saturday. Many visitors are ex-
peCted there. Excursion rates"
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A PRINTED guarantee given With
every pair OF tho ienllemen's Excelsior
80 90 Shoe. j. w. AMlCK u CO.,
HAS Min Street.
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3AcoBi 4 issSnHsu closing out retail
sock. NoRi5youf time buy bargains.
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Sarah E. Slater Is no inhabitant OF my bAill
wick, nor found therein, this 7th day Of October
1850. JOHN i. WHITE, p;s.
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wANAaAAna 4 BRowS's Agency haJ
come toSlayA al BIOL Main street. j. W
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Prefers 4 10 Any Other.

"snAN BATTLE at wOllSburg next Sat
urday. Big Excursion rates."
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vienna BREAD has alwaysbesn Wheel.
ing,s fayorlte, We now offer II In oil Ito
perfection, WHEELING BAKERY %.
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ASK for tho Gentlemcn's Excelsior
SO 90 EhCC-beSt shoe In the world for
the money. j. w. AMlCK u CO.,
1l43 Main Street.
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wAsANAkEa 4 llRowS's Agency baa
come com. TO STAY at 0lOl Main Street. !. W.
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Tho thermometer at sChnept's drug
store, Opera House corner, yesterday,
reulRinred N folloWBi
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nCot. ROMIO II, ERnIR, Of tue First
Regiment u West Virginia, will conduct
lhc Sham Battle d w6llsbIrs next Bat
Uydavn
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New Advertisements.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
j. Ohio County, West Virginia. October Rules
John E. Slater
VS.. In Chaneefy,
sarAh Z, Slater.
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Our latest novelty Is "New Vienna
Bread" Always ask your grocer for II.
WHEELING BAKERY 90,
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FALL and Winter Opening Of Hats
and IiOnnCts At Mrs. A. ]. WORKS. La.
dies are cordially Invited. wednesday
aud I'lluTSdAy, October 0 and 10.
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Clothing. Etc.
GAVE THE CONSUMER.

WAnamakCfA brown, Ohh Hail, lhll1dtPllll1
has sent JOt l,iI0 New Samples VI .lplG M M
UAlalmeftA 10 helUcl stylish UVit0ai all w w
from, and lavN y0u on pet eo1i-nO ihltili,t...II
Informed one dOubN-dnd ever W guNah'''-
J,W, TERllEb, Agehl,
SVia 2lOl NAln siftth
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THE most healthy breakfast cakes arc
made by Marvin's Self Raising Pancake
EInnr
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1. s, Coon uolla dry goods Ito cheapest,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14
PERSONAL,

CHARLES kuHNs,a Lehigh county farmer
who died recently, has left about sl6, 600 to
tho Lutheran theological seminary of PhiIa-
delphia.
ii. WILLIS BLAND, of Reading. an
nouhces mat he II candidate before the
pe.locratlc county convention for Judge.
Judge Hageninan'st term expires next wear.
GIN. +. NJ. BIppLE died ON Monday i'm
carlisle, Pa. He was adiutaut general
under Governor Curtin, and at the time of
ms death was secretary and treasurer of the
Cumberland Valley railroad.
DR. WILLIAM w. KEEN has been elected
by inc trustees of tho Jefferson Medical
college To the chair of the principles of sur
gerry ana clinical surgery, made vacant by
the death OF Professor s. w. Gross.
SIR FRANCIS De WINroN, president of
the Emin Bey iefcommittec, in speak mo
before the Royal Geographical society. Of
London, predicted the early return of
Henry NJ. Stanley. He described several
routes mat were now open TO the coast.
GOVERNOR HILL has vetoed the Saxtop
ballot bill, which provided for secret
Noting' The governor says the Saxon bill
gfasps beyond the constitution after tho
understandable and returns empty handed.
III should approve the bill, SO MANY of
It's provisions would be null and void
uhdef the constitution, so many other pro-
visions would be conflicting, and SO MANY
others absolutely unworkable. that the
CONFUSION, expense and litigation which
would result would so disgust the people
Win The name OF ballot reform as To sci
nack real progress for wears afterward. "
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The Arizona Brlgapds.

The bold and successful attack of :,
band OF Arizona outlaws upon ,ietacb.
nlent OF United states troops escortjnp 81
paymaster, should he followed by their
unrelenting pursuit regardless of ex-
pense or trouble. The men are as
dangerous as any Apaches, and future
attacks Of the same kind can only be
discouraged by giving them no res,
whatever, and hunting them as fiercely
- the savages were hunted through
those same mountains. No reasonable
prccaution could have averted the
murderous attack of these bandits upon
ne troops Of the United States, and If
they cannot be taught TO let Uncle
HAms police alone there is very little
hope that private citizens will ever have
thelr rights Of life and property in those
regions.
a tew years ago the bandits of italy
successfully defied the goyernmen,
troops, and our papers were full of scor,,
~ government that would allow itself
= ne 70 insulted. Now the boot is ON
sne other leg and Italy is doubtless won.
aering what We are going to do about n
the tactics OF our Arizona outI,,,s
c3osely resemble those of the Italian
bandits. There was an ambush i'm |.
UOuutain defile, deliberate and steady
~ With intent to kill, and after victory
- booty had been gained a scattering
IA ~ band. The lesson in this case
- oaken from the Apaches, or rather
snear country, 80 well adapted TO
pelnansss, and unless the government
cpo0 70 allow the establishment of
tnegeean brigands this first move In
= direction should be vigorously pr.l-
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14

EXPORTS of breadstutfs I'm April reached
value of ~, 537 $50, about a million and a
half more than in April 1885, The great
gain Is in corn, which WAS exported to the
value of S,76o,29l or nearly three millions
more than year ago. There is u large de-
crease In flour exports. The exports of
mineral oils show AN increase of nearly ten
million gallons over the exports of April
1855, but the increase in value is only about
half a million dollars Cotton exports for
the month were valued ut Sl5, $40 9lO, which
Is again OF about two and half millions
over April 1858.
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their marriage she gave birth 70 twins. For
four successive years aftcrward she gave
birth 20 triplcts. In the seventh year she
had single son and died soon a}tcrward,
OF the seventeen children she left the oldest
was only years Of ago Heffner engaged a
young woman 20 look after his large brood
vfkmbtes, and also soen beRan TO lay siege 20
the woo,an's heart. She tApitulatcd and
three llounths amer the death Of the first
Mrs. Heffner she became Mrs. Heffner No.
2.
She presented her husband with two
children In the first two years. In the
next Ave years she added ten to the family,
giving birth TO twins every year. Then for
three years she added only one year. She
died before another year came round. Of
the thirty-two children John Heffner had
been presented with twelve had died. The
twenty that were left did not appear to bc
any obstacle 10 young widow with one
child consenting TO become the third wife
OF tho jolly hunchback, for he was known
a. one of the happiest and most genial OF
men In Reading, although II kept him
toiling like slave to keep his score Of
mouths In bread.
The third Mrs. HefYner became the mother
Of nine children TO her husband in ten
years, and the contentmcnt and happiness
Of the couple were provcrbial, One day
the father of the forty-one children was
crossing the tracks of the Reading railroad
and was run down by locomotive and in
stantly killed. But for that sad ending of
his life IL In impossible 10 estimate what the
size Of the little pctldler's family would
have been. His widow and most of the
twenty eight survivors of the forty-one
children reside in Reading. They are
thrifty and respectable people.
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FATHER OF FORTY-oNE CHILDREN
Mr.. Heffher, Jolly Dwarf. Who Had
Ihree WiNcs and Was Killed


The recent death near Allentown of IA
man named Hefiner, developed the fact
that he was one of a family of forty-one
children. His father was John UctTner
who In lssS was accidentally killed by the
cars IN Reading, where he resided. He
was 90 years of age, and besides being the
iather OF forty-one children had one stem
chiid who also called him father.
Iie1her was one of Readings characters,
aho was IN the full yigor of health when he
Was killed. II is doubtful il his record i'm
,he parental line has ever been eaualled
outside of Mormondom. He was a dwnrfed
hlihcnback, and not by any means of pre
possessing appearance. lie was born i'm
ne,lin iSa, III lsl5, and, coming TO this country
IN 1913, settled in Reading. Until his death
ne made his living by collecting and selling
rags ana paper. His remarkable Gamil9
history is part Of the records of the Berks
county courts, II having been elected a
short time before his death while he was a
witness in a law suit. -
lie was first married in Germany i'm Is4o
~ eight years his wife bore him seventeen
children. The first and second years of