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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-03

T1oR RFNT-THE OLD HUBBARD SAW
n Nju Excellent storage room, and may ,i 1e
used for other purposes Enquire at J0s ss1 IL
MERR,S 10Y Market street. InyoeIut
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-03

LELAND LOTS FOR SALE-GOxlOO feet, $4,000;
| S0xlcO feet. $4,000 Terms easy. Apply TO
W. H. RINEHART Real Estate Agent, ll6S Mar
ket St dprlu
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-03

T1oR sALE-A MOsLER, BAUMANN & co.
II Donbla-door safe Price s75 o.. Can DC
seen nj G. MESDEL 4. co.'s, ll2i Main Street.
my3erdQ
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-03
PINE APPLE HAMS.

WE ARE THE ONLY DEALERS IN THE
w city who handle this celebrated brand OF
hams The finest cured. Order one from us.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-03

moR sAIE-FINE large BAY PACING
h Horse. Perfectly ssfe: does not scare al car tI
or motors Can pace under three minutes H.
Nothwood, Martins Ferry .. m!'s
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MEN WANTING STEADY EMPLOYMENT
references. No 1927 Main street. myT
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
THANKSGIVING DAY NAMED
The Presidents Proclamation Fixing
the Date.

The Presidents Proclamation Fixing
the Date.
The following proclamation, setting apart
Thursday, November 2s, as day OF National
thanksgiving, was issued:
:, By the President OF the United States-a
proclamation:
A highly favored people, mindful OF their
dependence on the bounty OF Divine
Providence. should seek fitting occasion to
testify gratitude and ascribe praise to Him
who is the author of their many blessings.
1t behooves lis, then, to look back with
thankful hearts over the last year, and bless
God for His infinite mercy i'll vouc.satinG to
our land enduring peace, to our people
freedom from pestilence and famine, to our
husbandmen abundant harvests, and 10 them
hat labor a recompense of their toll.
Now, therefore ]. Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
do earnestly recommend that Thursday. the
twenty-eighth day of this present month OF
November, be set apart as day OF National
thanksgiving and prayer: and that the peo-
pie of our country. ceasing from the cares
and laborS of their working-day. shall assent
BILE in their respective places of worship and
give thanks to God, who has sprospered us on
our way, and made our paths the paths OF
peace; beseeching Him to bless the day to our
present and future good. makingit truly one
of thanksgiving for each reunited home cir
Gle, as for the Nation at large.
In witness thereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington, the first
day of November in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine,
and of the independence of the United States
the one hundred and fourteeth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the President.
JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary Of State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

T. w. d. PHILLIPS. Of Burrillvile, K. l.,
has become insane in consequence of his re-
moval from the postmastership in that town.
EIGHT workmen were seriously injured,
some fatally by the collapse of two houses
built on Buddensiek principles at Passaic,
NJ.
WILLIAM HENRY CRESSoS, cashier of the
Tradesmen'S National Bank. of Conshohock-
en-, Penn. is defaulter in $4,000. The
bank is closed.
HARRISON LoRING. of Boston. has been
awarded the contract for building cruiser No.
II, one of the 2GO0-ton type, for $6I4,OO0.
ARCHBISHOP SAToLLI. the Pope's delegate
to the Catholic Centennial at Baltimore, has
arrived at New York on the steamer La
Champagne.
Moses ROBBINS. one of the most prominent
and wealthy men in Bloomsbury, y. D.,
committed suicide by hanging.
IN the first ten days that the subscription
books for the Worlds Fair at New York
were opened. for the purpose of raising
guarantee fund of s., ,O0O, 600, about 81 son, OOO
was subscribed
TIE boiler of the steamer s. S. Brown e1-
ploded off HercSford Inlet, Y. j. Three men
were fatally scalded and the vessel badly
wrecked.
ABRAHAM HATFIELD entered the Milford
Mass Methodist Church during service and
set fire TO oil-saturated cushions. The fire
was soon discovered and e1tinguished amid
much excitement.
SIX men We're burned to death at the
Colebrook furnace at Lebanon. Penn, by
the escape of rlolten iron. Two other labor
ers were fatally burned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
LATER NEWS.

HEAVY SHOWS have blocked traffic on the
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth Railroad.
ALL the freight conductors and brasemen
of the Evansville and Terre Haute and
Evansville and Indianapolis roads and
branches of the Mackey system have struck
for an advance in wages.
Miss MAE LESTER, the pretty blonde 49,
year-old daughter of John T. Lester, the
s1O,OOo,oOO Board of Trade operative of
Chicago, has eloped with young Phil
Armour.
NATIVES of the Solomon Islands decoyed
an Englishman named Nelson and three
navive boys to one of their villages, mur-
dered and then devoured them. Upon learn
ing of the massacre, the Captain of the
British cruiser Royalist shelled the villages
along the coast where the murders were
committed.
EMPEROR WILLIAM and the German EN-
press sailed from Constantinople on their re-
turn to Berlin.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE has arrived in Lon
don.
BARON AsHBoURNE, the Lord Chancellor
of Ireland, has called Judge Gowan, of
Canada, to the Irish bar, in recognition of
his services as jurist.
THE Russian Government, in order to avoid
anti-Russian demonstrations, has postponed
the elections in the Baltic provinces until
proclamation has been issued placing the
provinces under Russian supervision.
THE closing of the Paris Exposition was
marked by brilliant fete. Four hundred
thousand persons were present, the largest
attendance since the opening of the Ex-
hibition.
IT is reported at Zanzibar that the Masais
or Somalis have massacred DR.. Peters, the
German African explorer, and his whole
party except one European and one Somali,
who were wounded and who are now at
Ngao.
The sum of $4OO, 900 was paid over by the
Provincial Government of Quebec TO the
Jesuit Order in Canada in consideration OF
the orders total and perpetual abandon
ment of claims TO the estates which became
the property of the Crown when the order
was suppressed nearly a century ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
TORMENTED TO DEATH.
Robbers Subject an Aged Couple to
Fearful Torture.

Masked robbers perpetrated an outrage Oh
an old couple living at Jackson Cross Roads,
Mo-. which ended in the death of the wife OF
Jasper James and the serious injury OF the
husband. James keeps small store at the
cross roads and is known to have dislike
for banks. What money he has he keeps
hidden about his place, and as he is accredited
with being missr, it is generally supposed
that he had considerable money hidden The
other night his house was entered by three
masked men, who demanded that the ola
man tell where he had his money concealed.
The information was stubbornly refused by
both Mr.. and Mrs James. The robbers tied
the couple back to back, and began torturlng
The old man, hoping that his agony would
make his wife give up the secret;
They stuck pins in his feet and
legs and even burned his face and hands with
matches. The old man was plucky and in.
sisted that his wife keep still. At last he
fainted from pain. His wife then told where
part of the money was hidden and the rob,
bers released the couple. Mrs. James worked
20 restore her husband and after he had re-
covered consciousness she was overcome with
exhaustion and sank fainting to the tioor
Her husband summoned aid, but she died in
the morning. The robbers secured S40o.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
a YEARS COINAGE.
Interesting Facts i'll the Report OF
Director of the Mint.

Interesting Facts i'll the Report OF
Director of the Mint.
Edward O. Leech, the Director of the
Mint. in his annual report for the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1889, reports the coinage at
the ,nints during the year as follows:
Gold coins lin value), s25, 5+3, 910; silver
dollars, S33, 793, 800: subsidiary silver, S12l.-
Csc: minor coins, s9O6, 472; total. s6o 965, 929
In addition to this gold bars valued at SSS,-
94l ,121, and silver bars, valued at S. IC9,A
were manufactured at the mints. Geld bars
were exchanged for gold coin, principally al
the assay office at New York, during the year,
mainly for export, of the value OF s3I.5o'.-
S12.
The profit OIL the coinage OF silver dollars
and subsidiary coin during the year was
Sa4OS. O49. The total coinage OF silver dollars
under the Bland act up to the first OF Novem-
Der was S343, ,G3S, ,001. Gold imports during
the year amounted to so, l42, ana exports
to sGO. O33 246. Silver imports amounted to
s34 $50, $50. and exports $50, 716,1S3 These
6o1,res show a loss to the United States, by
excess of exports over imports of gold, S49,-
661, ,1O1: silver Sl2, OBJ, 403.
The Director estimates the consumption OF
cold and silver in the United States IN the
industrial arts for the fiscal year to have
been: Gold, s16,000,0C0; silver, IS, 0O0, 0OO
The product of gold and silver in the United
States for tine calendar year 1855 nc reports
as follows: Gold, S33, 175, 0Q1; silver, COM
mereial value, s43, 1000; coming value,
$50 195, ,OOO Tine product of the world for
that year was: Gold, sl05, ,so+, 15o: silver
commercial value. $l03, j56, otC; coming value
$142, 430, $50. 900.
The coinage of the world for the year 1SS''
was: Gold, S134, 720 639; silver, sl49, 137, ~
Deducting recoinages reported and the coin
age of Mexican dollars, the net coinage for
the year approximated: Gold. sloe, 600, 600:
silver, $95,06O,00 Of the latter, about
eighty per cent. was full legal tender coins
executed by the mints of the United States
India and Japan.
Director ieech recommends legislation
looking toward the discontinuance of the
coinage of the three-dollar and one-dollar
gold pieces and the threecent nickel piece:
and withdrawal from circulation of pieces OF
those denominations now outstanding
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
Nine Men to Hang at Fort Smith,
Arkansas

Judge Parker, of the United States Court
for the Western District of Arkansas, has
passed sentenced of death at Fort Smith upon
Sam Coins, Jimmon Burris, Harris Austin
John Billy, Thomas Willis N. James, Jeffer-
son Jones, George Tobler and Charley Bull
lard, execution to take place Thursday. JAN
uary 16 1890 This is the largest number
ever sentenced in the court at one time, and
as there are no extenuating circumstances
connected with any of their cases, they will
all likely be executed on the same day and at
the same time, making the largest number
by three ever hanged in Arkansas on the
same day.
Coins and Jinmon Burris. Choctaws, killed
Houston Boice in the Choctaw Nation in
November, 1855. Harris Austin, Chickasaw,
slew white man at Tishomingo in 1884.
John Billy. Thomas Willis and James. Choc-
taws, murdered Matison Williams in the
Choctaw Nation in April, 1889. jefferson
Jones, Choctaw, killed Henry Wilson in the
Choctaw Nation March l3, 1899. George
Tcbler colored, slew another colored man at
q dance in the Choctaw Nation. Charley
Bullard, colored, murdered Walker Dean
near Gibson Station. Cherokee Nation, IN
March last.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
Later Returns.

Corrected returns put the plu: ality of Rice
for Secretary of State in New York at about
10000. With this change the Senate will
be composed of 10 Republicans and IL Demo
Gratis. The Assembly will contain Is Repub-
liceus and 90 Democrats. This is a gain OF
II for tn, Democrats in the Assembly and of
. Democrats in the Serate. In New York
city Amos j. Cummings was elected to Con-
cless IL; the successor Of the late ). >. Cox,
without opposition.
In Ohio the Democrats have elected Camp
bell for Governor over Foraker by about
TO. 600 plurality. The Democrats also elected
u majority of members OF the Legislature @
in both branches, insuring Democratic sue
cessor to United States Senator Payne.
Governor Foraker sent Il dispatch OF con-
pratulations to Governor-elect Campbell.
Later returns make Abbetts majority for
Governor of New Jersey about 12,0oo Inc
Senate stands. IL Republicans 10 lo Demo
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
Washington.

THE President has appointed William B.
Sheppard. of Florida, Collector Of Customs
at Apalachicola, Fla; also the following
Surveyors of Customs John Mahood at
Galeua, ILL.,: William H. Alexander at
Omaha, Neb.; Henry c. Macarthur at Lin
coin, Neb.
The Government Directors Of the Union
Pacific Railroad in their report to the Secre.
tary of the Interior say that the interests OF
the United States demand early action to Sc
cure the payment of the company S indebted
ness to the Government.
L.P. DAWSON, son of eX-Education Com
missioner Dawson, is under arrest in WASH
ington for stealing postage stamps from the
rooms of the bureau.
PosrMAsTER-GENERA WANAMAKER has
made public an order fixing rates on Govern
ment telegraph messages for the current
fiscal year. :
The estimated stock of gold and silver coin
in the United States Treasury for November.
/. shows gold coin, sGl9, $40, $50; full legal
tenders silver coin, $33ii3, 63S, ,O0l; subsidiary
silver, SIT, CPS, ISL.
THE total gold coinage at all the mints dur
ing October was 81 .966.3o: total silver
coinage. s., 310 564.35, total minor coinage,
S6,0lS 1894.
THE treasury department. olliCialS eSt'
mate that the public debt reduction durlrfs
October amounted to about 50, 9,0O0OO
THE cruiser Charleston has been formally
accepted by Secretary Tracy.
CHAIRMAN COOLEY, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, has expressed his official
opinion that passenger rates III the west
are too high.
THE President has appointed Jerome A:
Watrous, of Wisconsin, to be Collector OF
Customs for the District of milwaukee,, Wis.
SECRETARY TRACY has written letter to
Rear Admiral Gherardi, complimentlng him
on his conduct of American interests at
Hayti.
Mrs. HARRISON left Washington on a visit
to Mrs Wanamaker at Philadelphia.
DURING the past fiscal year the United
States MirtS coined total OF @, l4p
pieces, worth $50, 9Gj, RI.6l.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed War
rem c. Savre. of Indiana. member of the
Cherokee Commission vice john r. Hart
ranft. of Pennsylvania, deceased.
By touching his finger to n telegraph key
President Harrison set in motion the wheelS
of the Southern exposition at Montgomery.
Ala.
The President has pardoned John a.
kimball convicted of violating the posta!
laws and sentenced to imprisonment at hard
labor for two years.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20

MANY things are reversed in Aus
.ralia. It is summer there while it is
winter in America. Trees shed their
bark instead of their leaves; fruit has
the stone or kernel outside; swans arc
black; there is n species of fly that
kills and eats the spider, and fish
called the climbing perch walks delib-
erately out of the water and, with the
aid of its fins, climbs the adjacent
trees after the insects that infest them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
KILLED THEIR CAPTORS.
4 Sheriff and Deputy Murdered by
Eight Indian Prisoners.

4 Sheriff and Deputy Murdered by
Eight Indian Prisoners.
Sheriff Reynolds, W. A. Holmes and
Eugene Middleton, while taking eight Apache
Indian murderers and one Mexican to Yuma,
(Arizona, Penitentiary, were killed by their
prisoners. The Sheriff had removed the
shackles from the legs of six Of the
Indians before they started to walk up
heavy sandwash, but they were handcuffed
together by the wrists in sets of two, their
outer hands being free. Alta signal from one
of the Indians, the Sheriff was seized by the
two Immediately back of him, while the two
Indians Immediately in front of the deputy
secured his gun, with which, after killing
him, they shot the Sheriff, who was held by
their companions. During the massacre the
Mexican ran to the stage, and warned the
driver, Middleton. The latter drew his pis.,
5ol. but was shot twice by the Indians and
Ina 6ly wounded
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
Foreign.

Fru-R Peruvian revolutionistS were caught
while trying to capture n cruiser IN Ca!iao
Harbor.
THE overflow of the river Pc, in Italy, has
:used the less If several lives and the de-
struction of much property.
THE French Government has suspended the
rsyment of the StinendS of fitty-hEe priests
in various parts Of France for preaching
political sermons on the occasion of the re-
cent elections.
NICOLAS GABRILovITCH TsCHERNIscHEw-
aged sixty years.
THE Swiss Government has apologized for
q mistake made last August in the arrest OF
five American gentlemen on the charge that
they were pickpockets.
THE members of the Irish Home Rule par
ty who have been travelling through Aus
tralia have finished their tour. They col
lect"d 500, 600 to advance the Irish cause.
A LETTER has been received at Zanzibar
from Stanley the explorer. which reports
that he and his party are well.
THE Spanish Government proposes 10 i'll
crease the import duty OH wheat flour.
THE EMPEROR and Empress of Germany
arrived i'll ConstantinOple and were received
10y the Sultan with great honor.
MANY families at Terrence Bay. Nova SEQ
tia are bordering on Starvatlon, owing 10 lEc
failure of the fisheries
AT the fortnightly meeting of the
Irish National League 1T Dublin 1t was an
nounced that contributions amounting TO
$40. 600 had been received from America since
the last meeting
IN the municipal elections throughout Italy
the Liberal and Radical candidates were sue
cessful in the great majority of cases, the
Clericals winning in only few towns.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
South and West.

WEILE portable engine was being worked
on farm near Hamlet, Ind, the boiler ex-
ploded, killing Adam Mann and seriously
scaiding five Others.
Ina saloon row at Nashville. Tenn, Sheriff
Grigshy. Of Dickinson County. was shot to
death by j. c. Arelidge, distiller.
THE 2000 Indians occupying the Wind
River Reservation. just north Of the Yellow
stone National Park, w T.. are in want and
many may die of starvation before spring.
The attempted assassination OF China
man in Chinatown, San Francisco, led to
pitched battle between highbinders in which
several persons were wounded.
EARTHQUAKE shocks have been felt in
Illinois and Missouri.
SENATOR KENNEDY has announced his
withdrawal from the defense in the Cronin
murder trial at Chicago.
AT the Cronin trial in Chicago Martin
Burke was identified by three witnesses as
Frank Williams, who rented the Carlson cot
tage where DR.. Cronin is supposed to have
been murdered
A FREIGHT train was derailed 107 miles
west of Savannah. Six cars went off the
track. A colored man stealing ride on one
of the derailed cars was killed.
DEL P1No BROTHERS immense cigar fac
tory at Key West, Fla, containing over one
million cigars, besides large quantity of
Havana tobacco, has been completely con-
sumed by fire. The loss is $4,000.
THE Supreme Court of Michigan has deci-
ded that adopted children cannot inherit
from their foster parents.
FIRE destroyed the West Refrigerator
Company's building in Chicago, ILL.,, causing
a loss of two million dollars.
K. L. BOONE, q member of the Georgia
House of Representatives, was found dead
in his bed at his clearinghouse in Atlanta.
Apoplexy was the cause of his death.
BY collision of freight trains near
Wawak, Ind, two engines and fifteen cars
were completely wrecked, and the track
badly torn up.
LEoNAEDs mill dock on Muskegon Lake,
Mich. has been burned with large quantity
of lumber. The loss is not less than Sl5O, OOO.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20

Gratis and the lower House 81 Democrats to
23 Republicans.
In Massachusetts Brackett (Rep.) for Gov
ernor has plurality of 6OOO. The Leg,
,islature will stand 1862 Republicans and rs
Democrats.
In Iowa the Democrats elected Boies Gov
iernor by plurality of about 5000. The rest
,of the Democratic ticket was also successful;
The Republican State Committee claimed
the Legislature by three majority on joint
ballot
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20

AFTER destroying ver:- large num''
ber of letters, Mr.. Gladstone has se1
lected 10000 for preservation, and has
built for them q fre-proof room. When
his biographer comes to overhaul them
he will find MS work halt done in adj
N
vance.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20

THE physicians of a lunatic asylum
have found new use for rabbits. A
number of these little creatures have
been turned loose onto the fields ad-
Joining the institution. SO that the in
mates will be amused By seeing the
rabbits run about, and to divert the
minds of the patients is o2e OF the
oreat objects of the asylum.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20

The Boston Transcrip. gravely adj
.ises its readers not to pick up horse
ehestnuts in the street and pocket
them. They may be horse chestnuta
that somebody else has loaded up with
rheumatism and thrown away.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20

The latest scheme 10 relieve the enp.oyec
from liability in the case of injury to an enl-
ploye is the design of an insurance company
in London. The workman takes out au ac-
cident policy and the premium is paid from
his wages. He also signs a contrsc! in
Identifying his employer. t.. - :
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20

IT seems to be settled fact that a large
body of colored colonists will be given
tract of land by the Mexican Government.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20

The New York Club won the series OF
games with the Brooklyn Club-the former
representing the League and the latter tne
American Association-for the worlds cham
pionship. Score, six games to three.