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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01
MOI Appreciated.

An old lawyer, who says he plays
"no kind of musical instrument
whatever" has told the reason why
he never learned. When he was a
young law student he and his broth
cr, who was studying medicine, both
boarded at home, and at one time
they both conceived tho idea that
they had more than ordinary musi-
cal talents, and determined to culti-
vate them. $50 John bought a
flute" he said, @and l bought fid.
die, and turning one of the attics
into study. we practiccd there half
the night through.
awe didn't want any one to know
about it, especially our father, who
had very strict notions as to the
value of time and no taste for music.
Sol to make him think we were hard at
work. ] had quantities oflaw books
heaped up and John had skull and
lots of bones scattered about, to the
horror of Betsy, the house-keeper,
who slept in the attic.
"She was once our nurse, and was
the only one who could hear us
practicing, so we had no fears of her
telling.
zone morning, a week or two
after we had begun our musical night
we were late at breakfast, and look
ing somewhat unrefrcshed, father
said
boysp
'No, sir, not at ALL we both an
swercd smilingly.
Gust then Betsy appeared at the
door, and looked mysteriously at
mother.
"'Yes, what is it2' asked mother,
surprised at the the furry Betsy
seemed to be in.
"'Woll, ma'am' l want to say that
I'll have to leave you, ma'am'.
"Leave me? Why, what doryos
mean, Betsy
eyes, ma.am; it's the boys at last,
ma'am. It's going on twenty five
years that I've lived with you, and
it's the boys at last. It's not Chris
tan like, ma'am, and can't stand
it noways'
"'Why, Betsy, what have the boys
been doing? Do tell us at once.
".lt's Mister John, ma'am; and
sometimes / think Mister Tom helps
him. He's got some poor cretur up
stairs, ma'am, land he torments him
awful, all night sometimes, ma'am,
when your are asleep. The poor
cretur groans and screams and al
most shrieks right out, and what il
suffers / don't know, but it's dread
full
Know they say doctors must do
such things when they are learning,
but can't stay where such things
are going on. 1 never thought Mr.
John was the one to do so, but he
does, and if it's all the same to you
I'll go, ma'am.
Mother saw that there was some
mystery about, and telling Betsy
she would talk to her again, sent
her from the room, when my BROTH
er and ] were called upon to explain.
we never heard the last of that
poor cretur' upstairs, but that was
the end of my violin practice,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01
What is. tbe Use

to ray .s1.OO when you can buy the
Scotch sarsaparilla for so cents per bot
tie, 80 doses. Scotch Little Liver Pills,
20 cents. For sale by A. C. VanGilder
Why Pay $l.0o
when you can buy the ScoTcu SARsAPA-
RILIA for so cents per bottle, 80 doses
at YanGilder's drug store.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

Fight to days temptation. Do
not weaken and distract yourself
looking forward to things you can
not see and could not understand if
YOU saw.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01
Scotch Little Liver PILLS

never nauseates. never gripe. Cure
headache, bi:iousness, vertigo, and a
specific for constipation. % cents per
box.
; ScoTcn SARsAPARILLA. so cents per bot
tie, so doses. For sale by A. C. Van
Slider. dec3-Iy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01
sacaeity.

she-Don't you sing? Why, how stupid
of youi : :
He-H you'd ever heard me try, you'd
think It was everlasting smart Of me
: West Shore.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

We are all of us apt to think that
our own way is the best, and tits
in our opinion.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

Ifyou want to keep your friend
do not tell him disagreeable truths
about himself or fiattering ones
about yourself.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

When Baby was sick, VIC gave her castOria.
When she was a Child. size cried for castoria.
When she became Miss. she chung to castoria-
When she had Children. she gave them castoria.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

The only certain way to judge a
mans position in society by his dress
is when you see him in the peniten-
iary garb. 2 80
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

BE cheerful and you are bound 10
be healthy. The despairing patient
is the one who dies.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

AT lager heads = two tramps
working the same pile of beer kegs.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

An echo is like woman, always
determined to have the last word.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

Many people would take advice if
they could do it before it is offered
to them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

An Attractive
ConsbiTsrI POCKET ALMANAC
and EIEhIOfsANDuM BOOK
advertising BROWN'S IRON BITrERS
The best Tonic, given away ut Drug and
general stores Apply ut once.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

The man who would shine in so.
ciety must first learn to dance-be-
gin at the foot, as it were.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

Many Persons nre broken
DOWN from oyerwork or household cares
Browns Iron Bitters Rebuilds tho
system, aids digestion, removes excess of bile.
and cures malaria Get the genuine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

California vineyards in 1890 pro.
duced I6,5OO.o 900 gallons of wine and
l97. .46s boxes of raisins.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

The man that knows it all rarely
misses an opportunity to tell it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

The goods made by these Companies strictly and
WILL WEAR Orders taken discounts goods
for FALL DELIVERY and will make the liberal Rubber
Terms of and deliveries We solicit your detailed
full memorandum goods for FALL AND WINTER
trade of 1891 and 1892 in either of the above brands For orders
of size ha fairly ore where details
will deliver the GOODS WHEN WANTED, Except goods
immediate want and make bills payable Dccer present dis
counts ordered Cdnd Fs Seconds. Discounts
for goods for immediate shipment subject change without
notice and will apply only such goods may be prior
chance
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01

Fourth-fhat there should be legisla-
tive cnactme-- regulating the width ct
the tires OF t':e wheels, and that the
minimum wi,ltn of all cart, dray, wagon
or other he ? draught vehicles should
be four incl :, to be increased when the
capacity of the vehicle exceeds half a
net ton per wheel at the rate of one
inch for each 400 pounds in excess.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-11
A HAYWARD HORROR.
Midnight Fire Which Carried
Death in Its Train.

HAYWARD, Wis, Nov. 10.-A terrible
explosion, with loss of life, occurred at
1890 this morning. Shortly after mid
night fire was discovered in the ware
house of the North Wisconsin Lumber
company, and burned rapidly owing to
the infammable nature of the contents.
Blind TO the danger that stared them in
the face several firemen and citizens
entered the building to save some of the
contents, when 4 charge of dynamite.
stored therein. exploded, fatally injuring
three, seriously injuring four and doing
slight damage TO fifteen or twenty others.
Fred Nelson was struck on the head by
flying timber, his scalp torn off and his
skull cracked so that the brains pro-
truded. A boy, Eugene Davis, was
hurt about the body by the flying tim
Der, and will die. John laval. prOpri-
etor of the LAVAL house, was seriously
hurt, and will also die. ID. McWilliams,
proprietor of the hotel Namakados was
seriously injured, as was also Clate
Beall. a travelling man named j. Ii.
Wade was also badly injured.
All the glass Within a radius of two
blocks was shattered by the explosion.
The total damage to the warehouse is
only $1,000, and the other buildings are
damaged to the extent of $4,000.
The names of the other injured are as
follows: Martin Johnson. of Stinnett,
leg broken; John Patriotism. slightly
hurt; E. j. Smith, badly bruised; Bert
Nelson, slightly hurt; Hans Amundson.
painful bruises; Edward Larson. of
Haywood, injured, but not dangerously.
1t is now thought that the fire was of
incendiary origin. j. Z. Wade. the
travelling man injured, is from New
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-11
Had the Wrong Men

OMAHA, Nov, 10.-Whlle the adjust
ment board of the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Engineers was in annual session
to-day a squad of police swooped down
and arrested G. II. Hansen, A. E. Brees
and the chairman, all of the Union
Pacific system, for alleged participation
in the hold-up of the Missouri Pacific
express last week in this city. The
board of adjustment of which the ar
rested men are members has been in
session here for the last six weeks and
is composed of twenty-One of the most
prominent engineers between here and
the Pacific coast.
The arrested men told who they were
and asked the detectives who arrested
them to go with them and they would
furnish the most convincing proof that
they were just what they represented
themselves to be. They wanted to send
for other members of the committee,
but the officers would not listen to it
and hustled them away to Jail. The
prisoners were taken to the chiefs Of
fee and closely catechised and finally
ordered below, where they were care
fully searched and then locked up III
separate cells. 1t was not until an in
dignant delegation of other members of
the board had visited the chief of police
and eXpostuiated in language more
forcible than polite that the three men
were released.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-11
CORN AND POTATOES.
Yield Large in Volume and of
Good Quality


WASHINGTON. Nov. 1O.-The statistl-
cal returns of the department of agri-
culture for November make this corn
crop one of the largest in volume, with
rate of yield slightly above the aver
age of bushels per acre. Condition has
not been very high at any period of its
growth, but it has been quite uniform.
with no record lower than 10 per cent of
disabilities from all causes. An extra
ordinary crop has not been possible.
FrostS early threatened disaster, and
then delayed their appearance through
out the entire month of Septem-
Der, which was warm and fore
ing. drying out soft corn and
shrlveling the immature grOwthS. The
result is well-ripened crop, somewhat
variable in quality, with a moderate
proportion of chatfy, untitled and i'm
mature ears. The eastern and western
ends of the corn belt, Ohio, Iowa and
Nebraska, gave somewhat better Yields
than Indiana and Illinois, or Missouri
and Kansas, the lower levels of the
great corn belt suffering more from
threatened drought than the higher
elevations.
The highest rate of yield as estimated
appears in New England, from So to 40
bushels per acre; in the South the range
Is from IL in Florida to % in. Maryland,
while IN the surplus corn states the fig.
ureS are as follows: Ohio, 33.7: Indi-
ana, 800; llliTaiS, 3l.2; Iowa. 301; Mis-
souri,, 299:. Kansas, 26.7; Nebraska. sc. 3.
Frost in A lSt wrought some injury in
the NOrthwI :; in Wisconsin the yield
is 26.7; Minnesota, go; North Dakota,
27.2. Both drought and frost con-
Splred to reduce the yield in
South Dakota to % bushels.
Much OF the crop is yet in the stack. and
the condition and rate of yield may be
somewhat better known after garnering
and marketing. Yet it is evident that
the product will not make less than
1000, 100000, or 81 bushels per unit Of
population.
The October condition of potatoes has
only been eQuafed once since 1880, and
the average yield, according to these
preliminary estimates, has not been sur
passed in the past ten years. 1t averages
8.9 bushels per acre. The warm
weather in September dried out the
soil and checked the incipient potato
rot which was threatened after the
rains OF August so effeclually that it is
scarcely reported, except in PennSyl-
yanla, some counties in Southern New
York and certain districts in New Jer-
sey. Quality is generally reported good
except Ill these regions infested by rot.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-11
The BrandboPg Murder Case
Comes Up IN Fergus Falls
Courts.
Great Partisan Feeling
Throughout the County
Over the Case.
Hayward Has a Midnight Hor-
rop Of Death in a Fires
Train.
Hansbrough's Opposition to
the Minneapolis Convention
Shown at Fargo.
Special TO the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
FERGUS FALLS, Nov. 10.-The grand
jury brOughtin an indictment last night,
which was not made public until this
morning, against Charles w. BrandbOrg,
president of the Otter Tail County
Farmers Alliance, for murder in the
second degree. President Brandborg
struck Ole Anderson with a club on the
4th of July last, and Anderson died
three days later. The leading facts of
the case are as follows: There was
big celebration at Henning on the 4th of
July which attracted some 5000 people.
In the afternoon there was an Alliance
political meeting, which was addressed
by w. w. Erwin, of st. Paul. A farmer
named 2. Halv0rson, OF Vining, who
had been celebrating the Fourth by
drinking, got on the stand and created
some disturbance. He was arrested. as
his friends thought, at MI. BrandbOrg's
instance. When Mr.. BrandbOrg started
for home he had to pass the lookup
where HalyOrson was confined. A
crowd was assembled there, and the
crowd called BrandbOrg over. They
wanted him TO have HalvorSOn released.
Words enSued, when a man named Tim
roth made some remark to BrandbOrg
He Knocked him down with his hand
or fist, and started down the road home.
Presently number followed, as they
say. to bring BrandbOrg back for as
saulting Timroth. When about two or
three blocks from the lookup President
BrandbOrg saw the men coming, and
he stepped up to the fence and
selected a stick about feet
long and 81 inches in diameter. with
which to defend himself. Ole Ander-
son was in advance, and, as he drew
near. President Brandborg raised his
club and warned him not to come
nearer. Anderson, who was unarmed,
II is claimed, told him not to strike, but
BrandbOrg, who was somewhat excited.
struck him across the head such blow
that the Skuli was fractured and Ander-
son died on the 7th of July. Fhe case
will be prosecuted by County Attorney
DAILY and Assistant Attorney General
Chiids and defended by II. f. Woodland,
of this city, and, it is understood, WV.
Erwin. of st. Paul. The defense will
be Self-defense. Alliance and anti
Alliance sentiment as entered into the
case to some extent, and the whole
county has taken sides. Around Hen
ming the feeling of partisanship is par
ticularly bitter and violent. BrandbOrg
this afternoon entered a plea of not
guilty.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-11

the question of freight determinations
made by the railroads against Duluth
and St. Cloud. He maintained that
were the commerce of the Northwest
allowed to take its natural course, it
would invariably find its outlet at the
head of the lakes. Several of the prom
inent members IF the excursion re-
sDOnded in similar vein. Among
these were Secretary S. G. Thompson,
of the Duluth chamber of commerce:
Vice President Barber, of the Jobbers'
union; Judge Page Morris, of the Du-
luth municipal court, and Mai. NJ. Bald
win, president of the Duluth chamber
of commerce. All of the Duluth speak
ers dwelt emphatically upon these I'M
just freight determinations. Several,
however, eXonerated the Great North
ern from such actions, and the state
ment that President Hill had always
leaned in the right direction in the mat
ter was received with applause. Mai.
Baldwin also stated that the interstate
commerce law would have eventually
its effect in removing this wrong, as it
encouraged water navigation. After
remaining in the city for three hours
and half the eXcursionists proceeded
to Fargo.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-11
WORK OF THE MINIS.
Figures Concerning Coinage Dur
ing the Past Year.

ing the Past Year.
WASN'T, 5TON. Nov. 1O.-Edward O..
Leeeh, d., director of the mint, has sub
mitted to IL secretary OF the treasury a
report of the operations of the mints
and assay offices for the last fiscal year.
The value of the gold deposited at the
minis and assay offices during the year
was s50,625,67S, against $40, DDS, S23 in
the preceding years, an increase of S1O,-
396,S54. The deposits and purchases of
silver aggregated 71,S69.663 standard
ounces, of the coming value of So. $780,
l54, against $40, $50, l35 in the preceding
year, an increase of S40,O65, 019.
The coinage at the minis was the
largest in the history of the mint in
this country. aggregatlng 1854, SS7
pieces, valued as follows: Gold. S24.-
a12,202; silver dollars, $50, 2352, SOP: sub
sidiary silver, S2,039, 2lS; sminOr coins,
81, log, 936; total, $63.6ll, 15S. The seign-
forage on the coinage of silver dollars
was 81, 221, 1873. and on subsidiary silver
coinage $92, 434, a total of S6.3l3, 767.
The total coinage of silver dollars I'M
der the act of 1878 from March |, 1873,
to the close of such coinage, has been
$57s, 166, 1874. The coinage of silver
dollars under the act OF July IA. 1899, to
Nov. l, 1891, has been S31 ,3OS,575, a total
coinage of Silv dollars since 1878 of
500, 475.36S. The net seigniOrage on
tho coinage of !Yer during the thirteen
years ending ne 80, 1891, has aggre-
gated 1858
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-11
STRIKE AND BOYCOTT.
Engineers and Firemen May In
augUPate a Blockade.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10.-The difficulty
between the Belt Line and the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and Fire
men eliminated this morning in the
declaration Of strike and boycott,
which IS likely to be tar-reaching i'll it's
effects. The causes leading to the ac-i
ton taken this morning briefly are as
follows: Some three weeks ago the
engineers and firemen on the Belt Line
became dissatisfied with the scale of
wages paid. Chief Arthur, of the
brotherhood, was sent for, and
an adjustment made on basis of
engineers and $1.90 for fremen for
eleven hours work. 1t was supposed
that fair sailing would be the order for
the winter, but last Sunday, when sew
enteen men were discharged for refus-
ing to work during their noon hour
with out pay, matters came to a crisis.
The discharge was summary and uneX-
pected.
Chiefs Arthur and Sargent, of the
BrOtherhOOds of Locomotive Engineers
and Firemen, were telegraphed for.
Mr.. Arthur arrived in this city yester-
day, and at once met the chief officials
of the railroad company. The inter
view terminated unsatisfactory and the
result is strike and boycott. The active
force OF engineers and tiremen is about
fifty. The result of the strike will be
that ali brotherhood men on lines COM
ing into East st. Louis will refuse to re-
ceive freight from or deliver freight to
the Belt road. If this policy is pursued
it will mean freight blockade of huge
proportions.
The Belt line handles nearly all
the freight send over the Eastern roads
for this city, and tie-up of the Belt
line would leave an immense amount of
freight consigned to ST. Lonis, and
seriously affect tile trade of this city,.
Then too if the men on the other roads
refused to haul cars consigned to or
from the Virgins ferry, as Chief Arthur
says they will, the roads are
very apt to attempt to force them,
and if they do, strike on
the big Eastern roads will result.
1t can be seen therefore, that a strike
on the Belt may precipitate a general
railroad strike of alarming magnitude
which will seriously affect the trade ALI
over the United States. The strike will
probably be inaugurated tomorrow.
Chief Arthur has given his consent to
such move, and it only requires like
consent from Grand Master Sargent,
who arrived IN the city tonight. having
been absent during the day, in order to
have the strike begun.
Mr.. Arthur and Mir. Sargent were
seen in the evening after the arrival of
the latter from Terre Haute. They
stated that all their efforts toward a
peaceable settlement of the difficulty
he'd failed, and that therefore all the
engineers and tiremen employed by the
company would be ordered out at noon
tomorrow.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-11
She Is Still Going.

Special TO the Globe.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Nov. 1O.-Mrs.
Patrick Mccain, of Altoona, who was
arrested last summer with an old man
named Wickes, at Red Falls, Mimi,
while travelling overland with her two
children to the Northwest, returned
home a few days ago for her children,
who had been taken from by her hus-
band, who is employed as yardmaster
of the Omaha at Altoona. They took
the train for Eau Claire this morning to
settle their little troubles and agree as
to the custody of the children, but on
arriving at the depot in this city, Mrs.
McCann refused to leave the train. and
the conductor compelled the husband
TO return the oldest child to its mother.
The affair created intense excitement.
The husband wired to the heads of po-
lice at MenOmnee, Hudson and Eau
Claire to arrest the woman, but still she
is going.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-11
THE NEWS BULLETIN.

Weather--Wet. followed by cold.
Kaiser Williams secrets restrained.
Excitement runs high in Brazil.
Knights of Labor annual convention.
Arion, the king Of two-year-old trotters.
Duluth business men at st. Cloud.
Hayward, Wis, has a fire horror.
Brandborg pleads not guilty Of murder.
Divorces galore in Minneapolis.
Forger Stoddard overreaches himself.
Loyal Legion banquets Gen. Merritt.
Verdict in the Schroeder tragedy.
Local Republicans on to Washington.
Junior Pioneers ready to celebrate.
The usual assembly hot shot.
The Polish row goes to court.
Minneapolis workhouse Investigation.
Chrysanthemum show at Minneapolis.
Senator Kyle is interviewed
Several supreme court decisions.