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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24
Braye Hearts.

The full particulars of the terri
BILE disaster which happened to the
American and German navies at
Apia, on the Samoan Islands, on
the 18th of March last, have been
received, and detail as thrilling an
episode as is to be found in all the
story of the sea.
In that little harbor were some
seven or eight war vessels and u
number of smaller craft. When
the work of the fearful cyclone was
ended six of the ships of WAR and
ten other vessels were wrecks, and
142 officers and men of the naval
forces had lost their lives. The
huge pillows, resistless to all human
power, tossed these ships about,
dashed them against each other, and
threw them on the jagged reefs as
though they were mere toys.
Amidst the wild scene, when the
elements were fiercest and destruc-
ton fankest, there occurred an event
which thrills the heart with admir-
alton for those brave and dauntless
seamen who preserved their collness
and discipline while encompassed in
the very jaws of death. The narra-
tor, who was one of the few surviv-
ors of the Vandalfa, tells lis that
"about half-past six the Trenton,
which had had her fires put out by
a large sea, came dragging on top
of us, helpless, with almost GER
.tainity OF crushing us to death and
sinking herself on us. AS she
came down, her rigging was full of
men, and filling and sinking as she
was, they gave us three rousing
cheers 'Hoorayl Hoorayl Hoorayl"
which we answered with heavy
hearts, but with will" And then
he adds to this simple statement of
superb heroism a sentence that fills
the record: "Not a solitary act of
cowardice was shown"
1t was sad calamity sudden
chilling of brave hearts, but an ever.
lasting tribute to the manliness and
heroism of the American sailor
Kdnd1chd Gazette.
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JOS. HORNE & cos
Penn Ave. Stores.
Largest Stock of Spring
and Summer Goods.


Dress Goods and Silks our great spe-
High Glass Novelties in exclusive pat
terms.
Printed India Silks at As cents and up
wards
Special values ca inches wide) at 75
cents and S1-O0, high novelties at $500
to S4cO yard.
Plain India Silks. 4s cents and up
wards.
Fancy Striped surah silks, SO cents to
sL5O.
New Spring Shades in surah, Failles,
Royales and Gros Grain Silks.
New Black Silk Grenadines, plain,
striped and brocaded.
Novelties in Black Dress Goods in
wool and silk wool fabrics.
Spring Dress Goods, fancies, IS cents
to $3.50 yard.
Plain. Striped, Plaid and printed Mo
hairs.
Printed challies, cents to so cents
yard
French Suit Patterns. $4,000 to $500
each.
French Wool Cashmeres, all shades.
so cents to Sl.5O.
Fifty inch Wool, Spring suiting Cloths,
40 cents to $3.50 yard.
Dress Ginghams, 8 cents, finest Scotch
Goods at 10 cents yard
French and American Fine Sateens at
lowest prices.
Gable Dye" fast black, Hosiery, viii
not stain or come off in wearing.
The best SI.OO Corsets. Boys Star
Shirt Waists. Mens' White and Fancy
Shirts
Our Lace Curtain Catalogue is ready.
We send samples and prices promptly.
Dress Trimmings, CIoaks. Suits, Wraps,
Jackets, in largest variety. Address
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24
I'M FURMITURE
POMEROY
COFFIN FACTORY!
B.F. BIGGS. PrOprIefOr.

B. #. BEGGS, Proprietor.
HAVING had twenty-three years ex-
IL perience in the manufacture of
Collins and UndertakGrs' supplies, and
being Ontside the Coffin Pool, I am able
to furnish, at Wholesale and retail, all
goods in my line positively cheaper than
they can be bought elsewhere. As an
evieence of this, will sell Caskets at
from s. to $40 less and common work
s. less than the same can be bought of
anybody else within ONE HUNDRED
MILES of P0meroy- Thus save to pur-
chasers one mans profits. Fine Copper
and Steel Caskets always in stock. For
one year, will offer 400 Burial Robes at
half price. An undertaken will be sent
when necessary. A stock of at least 400
Coffins and Caskets always ready. All
goods will be delivered at Mason City
depot on one hours notice. Also
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Sash,
Doors, Shingles, Lath, Nails, Glass,
Paints, Oils, Varnisbes,- Fire fronts,
Crates, and General Hardware, together
with full line of Colored and Figured
Glass for builders.
jan. 9, sS9-ly
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24

Arkansas is the first State in the
Union to convict a White Cap In
Indiana, where that orgaIizatf6rl
had its origin, there has yet to be-
the first one of those outlaws pun
ished, and but a few days ago they
were at their cowardly work with
as much rigor as at any time in their
history.
The Arkansas chap gets twenty
one years in the penitentiary, and
yet people in Indiana doubtless re-
gard Arkansds as a iawless State.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24
JAMES r.. MENAGER.

j ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR at
Law. Practices in the Courts of Mason
and Putnam Counties and in the Su-
preme Court of Appeals of West V4s-
ginia. Office, Room No. 2, Court House,
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
april z. 1886.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24

No G01ered Men Need Apply.
Pittsburgh Post.
Color prejudice is not a question
of sections or parties. Two or three
of the leading hotels in Jacksonville,
Fla, are owned conducted by
Northern Republicans; and their
patrons during the winter season
are almost entirely from the North,
and, of course, largely Republicans.
Frederick Douglass recently visited
Jacksonville, and d delegation of
cotored clergymen called on the
directors of the Sub Tropical Expo
sition to ask that during his stay
he be quartered at one Of the frst4
class hotels. The directors, of
course, had no control of the hotels,
but suggested application to sncb as
are run by Northern Republicans.
The application was made, but it
proved impossible to secure quarters
in any one of them for the best
known colored man in the United
States. Phe race question as thus
presented was simply a matter of
business, and the Northern mana
gers of Jacksonville hotels filled
with Northern guests refuse to ad-
NIT negro for business reasons
a strong illustration of color pre-
judice in the Republican party is
presented IN the election of Con-
gressmen from the Southern states,
where the eofored element consti-
tutes four-fifths of the voting power
of that party. At the late Con-
gressional elections but one colored
Republican was returned from the
South to some twenty white Repub-
lirars, white At the North not a
single blessed SON of Africa gets a
smell at the Congressional corn crib.
at would seem," sighs the Phila-
delphia Sentinel (coiored organ),
"that the colOred brother is to be
left out inthe cold as far as represen-
tative positions are concerned, and
he is to fatten on the satisfaction of
knowing that once more the grand
old party is in power to throw its
protecting shield around him and
guard his vote as a specially designed
instrument to advance the fortunes
of its State and national leaders. /"
The indianapolis Freeman and the
Detroit Plain Dealer, colored organs,
are much disgusted at the discrimi-
nation against their race by the
Harrison Administration. We don't
wonder. They are the backbone
of the Republican party and with
out their support that party would
be a hopeless minority.
The papers namsd think it wrong
that President Harrison and MIR.
Blaine should propose to send a
white man as Minister to Hayti and
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24

Mr.. Fred Douglasg Who is trav-
cling in the South, says in an inter-
view published in. the New York
Ift6une:
al am amazed at the progress of
the colored people. There is mo-
race problem. All that is necessary
TO be done is to live up to the Con-
stitution. It is not u question of
social rights. j have nothing to do
with that. If civil rights are Sc
cured, all minor questions will set
tie themselves, In few more years'
the sectional feeling will be almost
like the Wars of the Roses in En-
gland. We will not care which
side our ancestors were on so we
are Americans. My belief can be-
put in one word-unification."
Still the Tribune will continue it's
sectional howl Wheeling Regtstert
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24


1t is remarked that in this couns
try an eS-President stands on an
equal footing with h1sfellom citizens.
He is not pie6s of fragile bric,a-
brack to be kept in a glass case, and
be is not intftIed to q pension. Mr.
Cleveland had not been out Of the
White House month before he was
made commissioner TO look after
the estimates and assessments ih
the matter of High Bridge Park.
1t is a yery. modest and humble
Office compared with that of Presi:
dent of the United States, bdt there
lis NO reason why Mr.. Cleveland
should not serve in it. Heis in the
prime of life and full of energy and
it is the common impression that the
abilities which enabled him to rise
to the Presidency will enable him
to earn his own livelihood.
One of our early Presidents acted
as a road commissioner after he left
the White House, and eS-President
Monroe became a justice of the
peace.
There was no decent, no l6wSff:
ing of dignity in the acceptance of
any of these offices. Beyond doubt
Mr.. Cleveland takes precisely this
view of it. He is simple, plain
American citizen, and believes in
our way of treating :ex-Presidcnts.
The Parliment of Canada is con
sidering measure to suppress trusts
and combines, and it is confidently
claimed thM the same will become
law.
The measure provides, ausong
other things, that every person who
conspires, combines or arranges
with any other person, or with any
railroad, steamship; steamboat, or
transportation company, unlawfully
to limit the facilities for transport
ing, producing, manufacturing;
supplying, storing or dealing many
article or commodity which may be
subject of trade and commerce, or
to restrain or injure trade or COM
merce in relation to any such arti-
Gle or commodity, or to prevent5
limit or lesson the manufacture or
production Of any such article, or to
enhance the price thereof, is guilty
of a misdemeanor9 and liable, on
conviction, to a penalty not exceed,
ing $4,000 and not less than s2OOS
or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding two years, and if a cor
poration, to a penalty not exceeding
$40, 900 and not less than $1,000.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24

During the year ending last week
s22, 2,546,391 were paid out as pre-
miums to bond holders in the pur-
chase of United States bonds,
Were it not that our treasury ~
overAowing with money need
lessly taken from the peoples
pockets and the channels of trade,
this waste of twenty-five and half
millions included in n total bond
purchase of s135, ,7s6, $50 would not
be- and Mr.. sherman's fnnding biIls
must have reserved the right of re-
demption. But Mr.. Sherman hav.
ing along with his party particu-
larIy warm side for the bondholdSrs;
and seeing d hundred miliions q
year taken from. the poopfe above
the necessary expenses of the Cow
ernment, to keep up monopoIies,'
the waste is made and the bond
holders profit by it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24
No 6O1ered Men need Apply

CHARLEY s. BLAckBuRE.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24

cabell county people will be givers
another opportunity TO vote on a
proposition to subscribe $4,000 to-
the stock of the Huntington 4
esuyandotte River raiIroady tagg
election to be held on May 2l. The
road, If bnilt, will undoubtedly be-
an almost incalculable benefit to, ta.ss
county.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24

What a charming world this
would be if every man would mind
his. own business.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-04-24
POINT PLEASANT MASON COUNTY. WEST VIRGINIA. WEDNI


Is sAII-Nose,, pete.
He was a ssganglin youth of
nineteen, with a pale, thin face, and
a nose so prominent it was so hard
to tell where it left off and his fore
head commenced He did nothing
but loaf, which gave him a tired,
anxious air, as if he were expecting
something to happen job Of work
to present itself, or some such pro-
voking calamity. Ho was in love
and being SO, and possessed of moth
ing, was consequently unusually
anxious to marry People called
him sAll-Nose Pete,p for the facial
eccentrieity mentioned, and doubted
that he would ever be more than
the tnatchnlborn vagabon' the com
munity knew him.
aHowdy, Miss Suclsy," said Pete,
stepping into the kitehenlone after
noon where she was scleanin' up
things. She was a slattern girl of
sixteen, with black, shortcut hair
and decided suspicion of SCOT and
grease ON her faded cotton Dress
But she was pretty, and being her
fathers housekeeper, and he being
a drunkard, her toilet could not be
| aIuyax,s ,,arfacf-
She looked up, but said nothing.
eMiss suckey," he went on ataint
no harm fur me ter ak yer ter day
what axed yer yistiddy."
mo, an taint no harm for me to
give you the slime answer
"But ef we wuz married I could
keep yer pap"
"Yes, help him drink whisky"
al never tuck er drink NV liker in
my life,"
aBut you're alters loahn' aroun'
the grocery"
"There hain't nowhere else ter
60"
40, yes there is"
"Where2''
"Go to work"
The idea seemed to be new one
to Pete. He actually looked as if
thinking of something.
"No, Pete, I've got nuthin' and
you've got less. I'd be er purity
fool too marry you an fetch ernoth-
er pauper into the family"
Pete walked out the front gate;
and stopped in the middle Of the
road. To the left it would down and
up the red hills and was lost amidst
the brilliant autumn foliage of the
forest trees; to the right it struggled
off to the lazy town.
"suckey's right he muttered;
Pm NO ereount."
He sauntered across the field that
lay before him. Stepping on a
mound of dead grass, a rabit ran
from beneath it. "Don't be skeered
ole molly hare, fur All-Nose Pete
amt got ernuff fnnurgy ter ketch
you eff you wuz tied" He stopped
at the spring in the chincapin thick
ct, dipped up water in his sFouch
hat and drank.
@Hello, young fetlerj" spoke a
man in big top boots and fur cap,
Chow far is It to town."
"'Bout er mile an er half"
care you busy?"
"Yes, doin' nuthin'."
"You're the chap I want"
Tt started Pete; somebody wanted
him. He answered:
"What fur?"
"To go to town and got me a bot
tie of whisky"
@Can't do it."
Now the man was startled. He
asked:
a"Why not2"
"Don't drink it myself, an never
put it in other folks way"
"But this is for very sick man"
ashore nuff2''
"Yes."
"Where's he at?"
Cup at camp, there" pointing to
a smoke in the woods.
Pete went the errand and return
ed. 1t was a railway surveying
party. He took supper whith them,
''The sick man will have to go
kome," said the one he had met at
the spring. "You look like you
were used to the climate, AND if
you've got nothing to do I'll give
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-28
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

Races at Gravesend, l. l., yesterday, were
postponed on account of rain.
Twelve women are walking six-days -12-
hour match at Washington City.
About 800 ore-handlers are on strike at
Marquette, Mich, for more wages.
A heavy white frost at Dover, N. H.,
Monday morning did great damage to crops
1t is announced that Senator Allison is to
marry Miss Theresa Stoughton, daughter of
a former patent attorney of Washington.
1t is understood that the president has Sc
lected the successor to Indian Commissioner
Oberly, and viii name him in few weeks
Capt. Farquhar, commander of the war
ship Trenton, which was lost at Apa, in the
Samoan Islands, has arrived in Washington
City.
The Connecticut senate Monday passed the
house bill for a secret ballot, the Republicans
voting for and the Democrats against the
measure.
Tchigorin and Weiss, the champion chess
players have played four games, each a
draw. They viii now divide the first prize
of 81, 750 offered at the chess tournament at
New York and also the title of worlds
champion.
Fire at Reno, New, Monday, destroyed
thirty -one buildings, including five hotels, an
old theatre, five business houses, ten resi-
dences, two Touring mills and the Central
Pacific roundhouse and turn-table. Loss,
about $500, 600; insurance, about $125, 900.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-28
Police Points,

Albert Redmond was arrested by OFF,
Ger Kramer this morning for using indie
cent language. and Magistrate Wivill
fined him So and costs
The McGee-Cox neighborhood broil
dwindled out when it came before Magis-
trate Wivill last evening, and the result
of the hearing was the dismissal OF Cox
with costs assessed to the plaintiff.
Last night Officer Schaab found the
door of Will R. Johnson's jewelry store
open, and gong to Mr.. Johnson's
house informed him of the discovery.
The latter proceeded to the store, found
everything all right and satisfied himself
that the door had been left open through
the carelessness of clerk.
This morning ex supervisor ]. H. Fos>
ter and Constable E. E. Reynolds, of
Drury, brought to Rock Island and
lodged in the county Jail one S. B. Smith
who had been held in bonds of $500 by
Justice John E. Wray, of Drury, for
burglary. Last Friday night the general
store of Mr.. Foster in Drury was bur.
glarized and goods to the value of $40
taken. this including groceries dry goods.
postage stamps and money. Mr.. Foster
traced the burglar to Smiths house in
Mercer county, and procuring a search
warrant, found the stolen property there.
Hence Smiths arrest.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-28
Court Cuttings.

The jury in the case of Gould Il Co.
VS.. j. w. Wheelock, returned verdict
for the defendant yesterday afternoon
and motion was entered for new trial
A jury was then selected for the case
of E. Okerberg VS.. the J. Fl. Porter
Printing Co, and was composed of
Messrs. Michael Kane, Wilson Harris,
David Welsh, j. d. Beecher. ii. letter,
w. T. Tindall, George Bromley. T. j.
Ellinwood, Charles Peterson, John Bopes.
G. ]. Carlson and T. F. Vincent. The
suit was for 1926 rent. money alleged to
be due Okerberg from the defendant and
it was shown that the Porter Printing
company mas organized while Porter had
possession of the property, and that
Porter was responsible for it. The pro-
ceedings were therefore dismissed and q
new suit will be entered against Porter
individually. w. A. Meese appeared for
the plaintiff and McEuiry & McEniry for
the defense.
John Felber plead guilty to forgery
this afternoon and was sentenced by
Judge Glenn to one year in the peniten-
tiary.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-28
Base ball.

Davenport defeated Burlington again
Yesterday through the superb pitching OF
Hollacher and daring base stealing OF
Routcliffe and the brilliant fielding OF
Allen, and but for the errors of Strothers
and WEIGH at most critical moments,
would have ended the game with but one
run to Burlingtons credit. The best fea-
ture of the game. as far as the visiters
were concerned, was the first base play
and the heavy hitting OF Reising. The
score was 5 to 4. Harrington, the Dav-
enpo<t catcher, met with bad misfor-
tune in the seventh inning, the ball
striking him on the little finger and tear
ing the ligamcnt from the bone. He will
be laid off for two weeks. Cady and
Weckbecker constituted the opposing
battery. The same clubs are playing
again TODAY.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-28
Presbyterian Action on Prohibition.

NEW YORK, May 2s-The Presbyterian
assembly was charged yesterday by Judge
Wilson, of the publication committee, with
holding the committee in an attitude of CEN
sure. He said he would resign rather than
submit to it, while other members said the
committee was not doing as well as former
committees, and should be looked after 1t
was finally decided to appoint a committee
70 confer with the publication board and
report to the next assembly. A resolution
was adopted bidding all wise and proper
movements for suppression of the liquor
traffic Godspeed, but later another was adopted
calling upon all Presbyterian clergymen to
take an active part in such movements, DR..
Crosby and others vigorously protes ling
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-28
A SAD MISHAP.
John Devine Meets with n Terrible
Accident at the Upper Rock Island
Yards.

John Devine Meets with n Terrible
Accident at the Upper Rock Island
Yards.
John Devine, Car sealer in the upper
Rock Island yards, met with terrible
accident while in the performance of his
duty this morning, and one that cost him
his left foot. He was walking between two
detached and slowly moving cars. as was
his custom. and taking the seal of the
forward car when the brake beam of the
car Immediately back struck him on the
heel and threw him down in such DO
sition that his left foot was caught
upon the rail and frightfully man
gled. Henry Rosenfield, switchman,
saw the mishap. and quickly seiz-
ing Devine pulled him from under
the wheels and thereby probably saved
his life, for in another instant the wheels
would have passed over his head; they
graZed his shoulder as il was.
Upon examination by DR.. Truesdale,
who happened to be at the depot, it was
found that apputation of the foot below
the knee was the only remedy and the
unfortunate young man was placed in q
coach and conveyed to Davenport for
Surgeon General Peck to perform that
operation.
Devine is young man who has just
attained his majority, who was reared
here where his parents reside. and during
his service in the employ of the Rock
Island road, has proven himself faithful
and. trustworthy.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-28
The Weather We Nav Expect.

WASHINGTON City, May 2s-The indica
lions for thirty-six hours from D. m yester-
day are as follows: For Indiana-Fair, warmer
weather IN northern portion, stationary tenn
perature III uthern portions: northwesterly
winds. For lllinois-Fair weather: northerly
winds; st tionary tempe allure in southern
portion, slightly warmer in northern portion.
For Lower Michigan-Fair weather. except in
eastern portion, rain, followe d by clearing
weather; cooler in southeastern portion
warmer in northern portion: northerly winds.
For Upper Michigan-Fair, warmer weather
variable winds. For Wisconsin-Fair weather;
northerly winds; warmer in eastern portion.
stationary temperature in western portion.
For lowa-Fair weather Tuesday, showers on
Wednesday; variable winds; slight changes
in temperature
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-28
MAIL ROBBERY AT CHICAGO.

Eighty Six Registered Packages Disappear
and Leave No Trace.
CHICAGO, May 2S.-When Postmaster Sex
ton came down to his Office yesterday morn
ing he was met by subordinate official,
who told him the details of one Of the larg-
est robberies of registered mail ever COM
mitted in the Chicago postoffice The vault
in Superintendent A r Hubbard's division
had been entered, evidently by an employee
familiar with the place, and eighty six regis.
tered packages, all ready to put in pouches
for their destinations, distracted, and no
trace left.
Night Clerks Omission of Duty.
An investigation was at once begun, when
it was learned that the night clerk coming on
duty Sunday night did not receipt for the
packages to the day clerk, whom he relieved,
the latter being in hurry to get away, and
deferred taking receipt till yesterday morn
ing, when he, in turn, relieved the night
clerk. It was then discovered that eighty
SIX registered packages were missing and
could not be accounted for.
Two Employees Suspected.
The robbery was committed Sunday night,
but the amount Of money contained in the
packages cannot be ascertained for some days
Two employees Of the postofice are suspected
Of the theft, but Postmaster Sexton declines
to make public their names pending further
investigation.