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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-12
WAGON LOADS oFPLUNDER.
Systematic Robbery Of freight Cars on the
NLcLaI PIata Rnad

Systematic Robbery OF freight Cars on the
Nickel Plate Road.
CHICAGO, March 11.-August Newman,
farmer living at Round Lake, Starke
county, Ind, was arrested in this city yes
terday and taken back home to-day.
Newman, it is claimed, has been e.
gagged in a systematic plundering of Nickel
Plate railroad cara. Anton Kring, paintr,
and a railroad man named Caldwell would
board freight train at water tank some
miles from KUox Station, break into car
loaded with merchandise and throw what
they wanted OF the track. Newman, it is
charged, would cart away the Dlunder to
hiding place on the farm of Peter Har-
mon.
Some ten days 0go, when the officers Wis
tied the Harmon farm, they found four
wagon loads of miscellaneous goods con-
ceaed in pit dug for the purpose. Other
roads besides the Nickel Plate have suffer
ed, il is said, from the operations of the
gang. The total value of the plunder Te-
covered is about So, 500.
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a PessImlstIo View of the Mines.

CHICAGO, March IA. B. Powers, o
San Diego, who represents Chicago com
pany that ia dredgingin San Diego barbor
arrived here yesterday, and fouod tele
gram at his hotel telling him that all the
employees Of the company had left work fol
this Iew gold fields.
"I don't know" said Mr.. Powers lsst
evening, "whether the Ensenada mines
have been salted, but l do know that as
long az the mines have been known they
have never been worked much, and my
impression is that the present excitement
has not very good grounds for existence,
although have always believed there was
gold there in paying quantities. Those
who are now locking into the country find
heavy duties as they cross the line, neither
protection nor provisions when they reach
the fields, and when l left the coast there
were already rumors of privstiOn and
euff .ring.n
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axe. He will either be removed from his
ctiice in a week or his resignation viii be
demanded. The District Court OF West
Virginia meets on Thuradsy, ard before
the bar of that court will appear o Repub-
liCan United States District Attorney, who
will Immediately take charge of the cleo
tion cases now pending. Rspub have
been persscnted and arrested on the timsi-
est charges, and it was only necessary to
show this TO President Harrison to have
him st once say this must stop" He
has stopped it eflectually.
Tomorrow, it is ssid, among other ap-
pointments which 20 TO the Senate. will
be that of w. J. w. COwden to be United
States District Attorney of West Virginia
in the place of O. @. Watts, either resigned
or removed. Mr. Cowden will see that in-
iOrmatiOns-that have been placed in the
bands OF the Distric; Court Of West Vir-
ginia against Democrats are served at once.
At least twenty five OF the most hsgTant
cases have been made against leading Dem
ocrsts of that State for illegal voting at the
last election. Not one Of them have re-
ceiyed the least attention.
NIB. CowDEN's HEROIC TAsK-To PROSE-
CUTE HIS FRIENDS
A new District Attorney, whether it be
Mr.. COwden or some other Republican,
will have tine distinct pledge and promise
from this Administration that every fscil-
ity will be given him TO punish all intrec-
tions of the law. He will be nOtiieu that
illegal voting, either by Democrats or Re
publicans, must be punished. The gentle
men who called on the President yesterday
weIe more than pleased with the result Of
their interview. While they did not feel
at liberty TO say that the Federal offices Of
the South would be at once filed by Re
publicans. the inference 10 he drawn from
the Presidents action, they think, was
sufficient guarantee that it would only be
a short time before a number Of Democrats
now on the Day-rolls of the United States
would be stricken of. The removal of Mr..
Watts is the first under the new Admins
tratiOD, aud was due very largely 10 that
gentleman's action during the late cam
paign.
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General Watts Nails His
COlOrS to the Mast.
If HARRISON WANTS HIS PLACE
I'm Order to Shield Criminals
Against the Election Laws
he CAN HAVE IT BY REMOVAL.
There WIN be no ResignatOn-The PreSi-
den, Must Remove Him and Accept the
Responsibility for Defeating the
Ends Of Justice.
SPECIAL r.,-mtol, the Rss.stg.

Spe-a, rIegras 90 he Rcsissr.
CHARLESTON, March l1.-There is but
one word to express the sentiment here in
regard TO the demand for the removal Of
Attorney General Watts 1t is indigus-
zion. It has ceased to be looked upon as a
personal OF political matter. The people
90 not regard it ss question whether a
Democrat shall be replaced in office by a
Republican, but whether the laws Of the
land shall be enforced and the vile oonspi-
racy against the purity OF tie ballot be un-
earthed and the conspiratOrs brought TO
Justice. General Watts friends sgreed in
nrring him to refuse 60 resign and he tele-
rsphed tie following answer to the AttoI-
ney-Gensral;
CHARLESTON, March TO, 1889.
Ha d. H. lGIa, attorney General, Wash
ine0n, %. C.:
Your telegram Of this date, by direction
of the President, requesting my resigna-
ton of the Office Of U. S. Attorney, for the
District of West Virgins, hac bean re-
csigei. know of no act Of mine, either
official or otherwise, which in the absence
OF auss being ass gned would justify me
1rser existing circumstances in rendering
ny resignation. therefore respectfully
decline 10 make such resignation, and if
che President wants noe to vacate the office
o. nited States Attorney without cause
being assigned, let him assert his pre-
ngahye.
signed c. c. WATTS,
United States Attorney.
The United States District Court meets
in Wheeling on the fourteenth of this
month. over two hundred indictments
duplicating some of the most prominent
Republicans in the State were to be tried.
This is considered the secret Of this sud
den demand that Mr. Watts tender his
resignation. More than o month ago It
Was whispered around that an effort wonld
te made 20 decapitats both Watts and
sehon soon after Mr. Harrison
came into power The Cincin-
natl ComsroaLGDrts correspondent
proclaimed that they would not
be allowed to stay in Office one month
after March fih. 1t was plain then that
the indicted boodlers were behind the
movement but no one thought or antici-
pated that Mr.. Harrison would make the
abisct surrender that he has.
The proposition to put Cowden in Watts
place is regarded with contempt. So far
as anyone in this end of the State ever
beard. Mr. Cowden Is about a sixth-rate
lawyer. whose practice has been confined
to appearing before Justices Of the peace
sni managing Republican campaigns.
Eilher Huichison or Flick would be much
preferred.
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AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE.
A Pennsylvania Farmer is Bound Hand
and Foot by Robbers.

A Pennsylvania Farmer Is Bound Hand
and Foot by Robbers.
UNIoNTOwN, PA, March III. CALVIN
Core, a substantial farmer living in Frank
lin township, about six miles from here
had an exciting experience with masked
burglars late last night. About IL o'clock,
inst as the family were about to retire lor
the night, a man came to the door asked
for something to eat. He was admitted
and almost Immediately followed by hye
Others masked, who proceeded to bird Mr..
Gore hand and foot. The hired girl whc
escaped to give the alarm was captured by
the robbers and brought bank. From II
o'clock to 1 this morning the robbers
searched the house for money. They
fouud about $500, part of which belonged
70 Mr.. Cores aged mother-in-lsw, who
lives with him. The robbers made good
their escape. There is no clue as yet to
LEAD 10 their capture.
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rowNsHEND,s SUCCESSOR.
Indications of a Spirited Contest In the
Nineteenth Illinois District.

Indications OF Spirited Contest IN ths
Nineteenth Illinois District
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE vacancy
in the Nineteenth Illinois district, caused
bv the death of Representative Richard
W. Townshend, will bring on spirited
contest.
There is practically no danger of the
Democrats losing the seat, as in vote OF
some 90. 900 the Democrats have always
carried the district by large maJori'les,
Mr.. Townsbend's plurality at the last cleo
ton being A. 300 votes.
Politiciass here seem to think 1t more
than probable that Quincy E. Browning
at present special inspector OF the Pension
Bureau, will he nominated as Mr.. Town
shend' a successor. Mr. Browning is bright,
clever. young politician, who Is very pop
nlar at homs. He will encounter a strong
onncsitinn fer the nomination, but the
Illinois Democratic politicians st this point
claim that Re will undoubtedly win the
fight
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Iabor organ at sherifrs Sale.

snecial Telegram 70 me hesIsIeI'
PARKERsBURG, March 1l.-Auchoneer
Taonard sold at public sale this afternoon
the office fixtures, presses, type, etc, OF the
S,ate Standard. the labor organ OF the
STATE edited by S. H. PiersOl, late candi-
date for Governor. The Standard has been
nnblished for about ten years, but VIII
never sppesr again. It was sold to satisfy y,
oIa;T,s of various creditors. Plersol Will
deal in real estate in the future. He was was
ooca once O;tv Superintendent of Schools and
hos hen editor and politician.
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Probably no ore thing has caused such a
oapersl revival Of trade at Logan & Co .
Drug Store az their giving away 10 their
customers Of 80 many free trial hotties of
DR.. Kings New DiscOvery for Consump-
ton. Their trade is simply enormous in
this very valuable article from the fact that
il always cures and never disspp ints
Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Group,
and all throat and long diseases quickly
cured. You csu t,st it before huying by
getting trial hottie free, large sizs 81,
Every bottle warranted.
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New OIL Field.

Special Telegram to the Register.
CAD1z, o. March 1.-THE Berea Gri'
Grit Oil Company, of this place, to-day
rscaivsd a $50 barrel oil tank'tO be placed
a. the Holiday well, and the DILL will now
he allowed to flow. This we'll was drilled
a few weeks ago and plugged withou
making known its worth, the company
desiring TO lease more land before giving
,bs rss1lt 70 the public. Oil excitement
"a letting high and a number Of parties are
leasing sil the land TO be picked mp, pay
;,o, c,ood prices for the same.
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CoSDENsED TELEGRAMs-

Specials fiom points in Pennsylvania in
dicate an improvement in the iron trade.
A small anti. Chinese riot took place IN
Milwaukee last night. The windows OF 8
half.dozsn laundries were smashed.
Emmons Blaine will 20 to Baltimore
where he will be associated in the manage
ment of the West Virginia Central rail
,Oad.
Representative ToRnsbend's funeral vii
take place this morning.
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THEY WERE WARNED.
Fatal Explosion of Fire Damp 10 Mine At
Pittston.

Fatal Explosion Of Fire Damp 10 Mine al
Pittston.
PITTsTON, PA, March l1.-An explo-
zion occurred here yesterday morning in
No. ! shsft of the Pennsylvania Coal Com
pany. Ooly three chambers of the mine
had been worked, and as Alex. Thompson,
mine boss; NJ. NJ. FsirclOugb, fire boss,
and VIM. Kintz passed into the mine to
to change the air courses, body Of gas
was encountered which WAS accidentally
ignited. The result was an explosion
which fatally burned Fsirclough and seri-
ously injured his companions.
A few minutes previous the party had
been warned of the presence of fire damp,
but the warning had not been properly
needed. FaiIclough leaves family IN
needy circumstances
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A HOTEL IN ASHES.
A Close Call for Sixty Guests-One Of Them
Breaks Leg.

A Close Call for Sixty Guests-One Of Them
Breaks n Leg.
LAKEWOOD, n. Y, March 1l.-Clifton
Hall, one of the largest hotels here, wa'
burned to the ground this morning about
four o'clock. There were over sixty guests
in The house at the time, who all escaped
in their night garments with the exception
of DR.. +. Willano, of Philadelphia, who
jumped from n second story window and
broke his Leg but was otherwise uninj ured.
The fire spread to the Presbyterian church
and six adjoining houses, bat was quickly
extinguished by the fremen. The total
loss is estimated at $35, 900, only partly
insured. Tire guests lost all their personal
property, and were housed in the other To-
ga1 hntelg
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SESSION OF THE SENATE.
Mr. Beck Sworn In and the Executive MOI
nations Considered.

Mr. Beck Sworn In and the Executive Nom
nations Considered.
WASHINGTON, March 11.-Mr Beck, OF
Kentucky, appeared in the Senate chamber
this morning and took the oath of office
before entering on his third Senatorial
term.
He was welcomed most warmly by his
brother Senators and by the officers and
employees of the Senate His general sp-
pearance gave little or no indication of re-
cent illness.
For over quarter of an hour there was
no movement made to proceed to any kind
of business, and then a recess was taken
until 1:3O o'clock, presumably to await
the presentation of Executive nomins-
tions.
On reassembling at | 80 p. m, a num-
ber Of nominations were received from the
President, and the Senate, on motion OF
Mr.. Sherman, went into executive session
to consider them. Ten minutes later the
doors were reopened and the Senate ad-
journed until tomorrow.
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ny.terIou, Epidemic In kentucky.

DIXON, KY, March 11.-Webster conn
ty is in a state of terror from the rayages
of a mysterious and fatal epidemic which
is now prevailing The local physicians
saw that the disense is identical with that
which swept through the New England
States few years ago, killing 30 many
people that it was called BLACK death"
Some thirty five cases are row known to
exist. and the reports from the interior,
probably exaggerated, state that thirty or
forty deaths are occurring daily. Hun
dreds OF cases of the mysterious disease
have occurred since it first broke out early
in February
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Treasnry OmcIals Resign

WASHINGTON, March 1l.-Judge Carey,
Solicitor of the Treasury, has rendered his
resignation to the President, to take effect
upon the qualification of his successor.
Mr.. T B YOumans, chief clerk of the
Treasury Department, has placed his resig-
nation at the disposal of Secretary Win
dom. This is position of a confidential
character, and will probably he among the
first 10 be considered.
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A PICrUREs QUE LIE.
Five Imaginary French Tourists Who
Were Slain With Much Gore.


ST. PAUL, March 11.-Within the past
few weeks specials from Cheyenne, Wyo.,
have been published giving accounts ofv
rious kinds of crimes, casualties, ETC.
These have been doubted by those ac-
quainted with the out of the way regions
mentioned, but no positive denial has
yet been published. Yesterday the
Cheynne special correspondent sent out a
most blood curdling account of the killing
OF five French tourists, and the subsequent
mutilatiOn OF their bodies.
To-day, General Passenger Agent Chas.
S Fee, Of the Northern Pacific, was seen
by the Associated Press correspondent, and
said:
None of our agents at Ligingston, Boze.
man, or Helena, know OF any party at
tempting to make the trip of the park this
winter, and Superintendent Lamertine, in
charge of roads and bridges in thr park for
the past five yesrs, wires me that there is
no such place as Rsttlesnake Canyon in
the park; no person in the park named
Ferry, and no tourists, and that an Indian
has not been near the park for over two
years. The whole report is a hoax ON the
face of it.
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CONDEMNED TO THE MINES.


George MoDanIels, the Famous Burglar
Sentenced for Twenty One Years.
SAVANNAH, GA, Mach 11.-Gsorgt
McDaniels, the celebrated burglar, and one
of the most desperate criminals in the
country, was sent out TO the mines to-day
to serve a sentence of twenty-one years
imprisonment.
Yesterday he declsred he would escape
again at the first opportunity even II ne
had to commit murder in the attempt.
"Heu couldn't have more terror for fel-
low than those mines" he remarked pas
sionately, "and I'd sooner be sentenced to
thirty wears in Northern prison than TO
five underground"
MeDsniels was convicted of burglary
last April and sentenced to tltteer years IN
the mines. Two months later he managed
IN escape, and although the police IN all
the nrincipal cities were notified, he sue
ceaded in eludiDg capture until last week,
when he was taken in Philadelphia. Dur
ing the summer and fall he WAS the guest
of one of the most fashionable hotels at
SARATOGA. The jobs in which he ia belieV-
ed N have been concerned in the past ten
years would fill a volume. Among them
are burglaries in Chicago, Louisville, In
disnapolis, st. Paul and Cincinnati
and numerous other cities and several
nostoffice rohberies in Illinois. Hiesweet-
hearts have been legion, while of wives be
has had more than a sufficiency. One was
a yaung girl of high plrentage, living near
Cincinnati, who went TO prison rather tnan
reveal how some of her husband's plunder
got into her parents house, while the last
Y was a sixteen-year-Old Southern oeeu'y oi
wealth and position. This honeymoon
was interrupted by the groom $ arrest, ana
last month the broken-hearted wife OF a
month secured a divorce.
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RIs Usual HaTangue

CHICAGO, March 1l.-Anotber branch
of the Arbeiter Bund wss organized bere
yesterday afternoon. Jens Christensen en-
tertained a large crowd with his usual
haraDgue against capital, and reiterated
his prophecy Of an impending sociol reyo-
luton and blOodshed. He also denounced
the movement for the placing OF q monu-
ment at the scene OF the Haymarket riot.
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Gladstone to ArraIrn the Ministry.

LONDON, March 1.-THE now evident
intention Of the Parnell Commission 10
refrain from making an interim report on
the Parnell letters has awakened tie wrath
of the home rulers, and i' is likely On at
tack will be made upon the Government
BY the opposition Leaders, with view TO
eliciting an explanation Of the Govern
menps connection With the case OF the
Times. The attack will very probably bo
led by Mr. Gladstone, who has already
sigaifed his purpose OF arraigniDg The
Ministry for its partitan course IN mat
which should have b.eu conducted with
the utmost impartisliiy, and the tquirm-
ing of some Of the Ministers under his lash
will be interesting 10 witness.
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The Senate Committees Completed.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The Republi-
can Ssnatori i caucus met again this
morning and completed their list of mem
here to fill vacancies on the several com
mittees. The minority list will be fur
nished to the Republicans after a caucus
of the Democratic Senators Tomorrow
morning and the completed Senate com
n.ittees announced in the Senate, probably
on its assembling tomorrow noon.
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tn. white Hou,o olo.ed to vI.Itors

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE White
House was closed to callers this morning,
with the exception of those having ap-
pointments with the President and Con.
gressmen about to leave the city. Among
these were Senators Hale, Frye, Allison and
friends, SpOoner and Evarta, and Repre-
sentatives Fuller, McOreary and Bergen.
Secretaries Window, Noble and Proctor
eaw thu Presiden; during the morning.
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FIFTEEN CONGREssMEN SICK.
Result Of the sad Weather at wAshinEto
on IuAuquration DRV.

Result OF the sad Weather at Washington
on Inauguration Day.
WASHINGTON, March 11.-As a result
of exposure on Inauguration day, fifteen
congressman are more or less Ill and con-
fined to their rooms.
Ex- Representative Symes, of Colorado, is
dangerously i'll with complication of dis
eases. Representative Lee, of Virginia,
was reported as improved this morning He
is still very sick of pneumonia. Represen-
tative Buchanan, of New Jersey, who has
pneumonia, was better o.dRy. Represen-
tatiye Laird, of Nebraska, is still very ILL.,
Representative CutcheOn, of Michigan, is
much better and will be out in day or 80.
Ex Representative Yoder has recovered
from brief illness, and is now able TO be
out sgain.
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A Msssare From the PresIdent.

WASHINGTON, March lin the ex-
ecutive session of the Senate to-day, mes
sage from the President, transmitting cor
respordence in response to a resolution in
regard to the execution Of Louis Riel by
Canadian authorities, and who claimed to
bs an American citizen, was laid before the
Senate.
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FOR sEAsICKNEss

Dr. Price, of the White Star S. S. Ger
manic, says: 81 have prescribed it IN my
nrectice among the passengers travelling
10 and from Europe, in this steamer, ana
the result has satisfied me that If taken IN
time. it will, in a great msny cases prevent
seasickness.
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MASON CITY, IA, March I'D. W.
Shook, grain dealer, money loaner, justice
of the peace ald farmer, who recently ab-
seconded Gom Step e5s, Mi1n., with
SIG. 900 Of other peoples money, has been
heard from at Vancouver leland, Briiish
Columbia. His family lef. Plymouth yes
terdsy 10 iOin him.
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Rsfused 10 Walk Home with Him.

WATFoRD, ONT, March 1L-Aloer'
Wilson shot and killed Miss Sarah Mar
shall. last night, because she refused tt
allow him to walk home with her from
church. He then set fire TO a straw stacB
TO draw attention from his movements
He is still at liberty.