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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26
INDIANA CHOICE
For Leader in the Race for
the Presidential Stakes.
Ex-President Cleveland or Elk
Governor Gray.

II the Nomination of the Former is Not
ExPedient the Delegates Are Instructed
to Use Every Honorable Effort TO Sc
cure the Selection of the Latter-FuIi
State Ticket Nominated.
INDIANAPOLIS. April %. - For gov
ernor, Claude Matthews; for lieutenant
governor, Mortimer Nye; for secretary
of state, Captain w. R. Myers. This
is the head of the ticket-a ticket as
long as comets tail that was placed in
nomination yesterday by the representa-
tres of the Democracy of the Hoosier
state in convention assembled. 1t was a
great day for Uncle Isaac p Gray.
cleveland gets resolution, Gray gets
the ticket and the votes" was the way a
disgruntled delegate from the ..pocket''
section of the state summed mp the do
ings of the convention yesterday even
ing. and he voiced the feeling of good
iy third of the gathering.
The forces of the old Indiana Demo
cratic war horse were in full control,
and the adherents of the ex-president
fighting to the end than had been antici-
pated. If there Is a single man ON the
ticket who does not put Ex-Governor
Gray at the head of his list of political
gods he has very cleyerly succeeded in
conceaislg his predictions.
The speculation Is TO the position of
the national delegates on tins presiden-
tial question is intensely interesting, and
the claim 10 the majority is fiercely dis
puted. While the instructions of the
state convention imply an obligation
upon the Indiana delegation it is proba-
BILE that few will not obey them
whichever way they may be given. If
the delegation were upipstructed poll
tician who is capable of judging thinks
it would be Cleveland 16 votes and
Gray II.
The instructions the delegates received
are contained in the following resolu-
lions:
RESOLVED, That this convention in.
dorses the wise administration of Grover
Cleveland; that the presidential campaign
OF ISt2 should be conducted on the issue
OF tariff reform as defined in the presi-
Dental message Of 1851; that upon this
issue Mr.. Cleveland Is the logical candi-
date of the Democratic party.
RESOLVED, That the Democratic party
of Indiana expresses its unalterable conf
denos Ia, and attachment to its gallant
leader, Isaac r; Gray; that it holds him
TO be worthy of any honpr in the gift OF
the American people, and that his mama
be presented TO the convention by the
delegation this day appointed, and in the
event that the pattaaal convention deems
pedient. the delegation is instructed to
use every honorable effort to secure the
nomination of Ex-Governor Isaac p. Gray
for the presidouoy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26
Use Wheat OUTLOOK
From che Latest Reports Sent to The
Fnrmers, Rerie,r.

Farmers Review.
CHICAGO, April e1.-This week IS Farm
ers' Review says that spring work is in
full blast in most of the states covered
by the report, though in some of the
more northern states the work has been
greatly delayed by rain.
In Illinois oats are being everywhere
sown and some spring wheat.
In Ohio and Indiana these two. crops,
with the addition of the potato crop, are
being put in, but little other seeding has
been done.
In Kentucky spring wheat and po-
tatoes are in and corn is being planted.
In Kansas spring wheat and oats have
been sown and the same is true of Ne
braska and Iowa.
In Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakotas
little seeding has Zet been done. The
condition of the water supply is good in
nearly every county reported in all of
the states, with probably not a half
dozen exceptions, and these are mostly
in Wisconsin.
The condition of the winter wheat is
as follows:
In Illinois about 45 per cent. of the
correspondents report the condition as
the others poor.
In Indiana 40 per cent. report the con-
dition as good. 30 per cent. report the
condition as fair, and % per cent. report
the outlook bad.
In Ohio 33 per cent. report good, 81
per cent. report fair and the others re-
port poor.
In Michigan 45 per cent. of the CORE
spondents report the condition as good.
10 report fair and 20 per cent. bad. -
In Kentucky Ga per cent. of the cor
respondents report the outlook as good.
2S per cent. fair and the others poor.
In Missouri % per cent. report as
good. 80 per cent. as fair and the re-
mainder as bad.
In Kansas 40 per cent. report the con-
dition good, "a report the outlook fair
and the rest poor.
In Wisconsin only per cent. of the
correspondents report the condition as
good, Al per cent. report fair and 4S per
cent. poor.
In Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and the
Dakotas not enough winter wheat is re-
ported to cut any great figure in the
total of the crop.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

An Enort Being Made to Have such =
Measure Enacted by Congress

An 1nor' Deins maze TO Have such =
Measure Enacted by Congress-
WASHINGTON, April "a strenuous
effort is being made by persons interest
ed in the passage of the bill recently in
troduced in the bonse nv Ranres..,,tsfiv
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from, I've to , :, a-,t ass.sr
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sxrared that tha .st,,,',..5 an
domest;c mail mate, os tba ft ION I
charceabje with ,,ossaee ~ tt 10. e'.. -
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26
SALE OF NEGROES.
A Missouri Town ON the Eve OF a Rae
War

Missouri Town on the Eve OF Race
War.
FAYETTE, No., April 25.-This town is
again on the verge of a race war, be-
cause of a vagrant sale of negroes which
took place here Saturday. About a
month ago a good deal of excitement
was caused by the sale of three vagrant
negroes. Saturday the feeling was in
tensihed by the public sale on the block
of three men and one woman because
they could offer no visible means of sup
port Henry Thompson, William Miller
and John Wilkins Were the men. All
are hearty negroes who We're never be-
fore arrested on any charge Thewoman
was a good-looking Inulatto, Mary
Whiteside. She was accused of va
grancy.
The colored people were brought into
the public square at IL o'clock, and a
great crowd of both colors gathered.
The whites made fun of the poor
victims. and the blacks freely expressed
their displeGsure at the scene that so
cruelty brought to their minds the days
of actual slavery. The woman was put
up first. Size brought $40 for the sixty
days work that the county fined her.
The men sold for $40, $l2 and $13 a
spectively, being bought by reliable
farmers hereabouts. The woman will
work in a good family in town. Negroes
declare that this must stop or that the
whites must be sold with the negroes.
The sale took place on o block, Sheriff
Crigier officiating
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26
RennhIican Convention.


The Republicans of the Fourth
District met in this place on the
Goth inst, to choose delegates to the
National Convention.
The attendance was rather slim,
and if it had not been for the town
people attending there would not
have been a corporal's guard pres
ent, but our people swelled up the
crowd until the convention was a
very respectable looking one as to
numbers.
Hon. J. B. Menager was made
Chairman, and Gus. Northcott, of
Huntington, Secretary, and on mo-
ton, this organization was made
permanent. Mr.. Manager addressed
the convention at some length, after
which it adjourned for dinner.
On reassembling the committee
presented and read its resolutions,
to which Boss Gibbons added a sub
sLitute to instruct for Harrison.
The old man being sat down upon
by the convention, the resolutions
were unanimously adopted. They
contained all the old Republican
chestnuts, about tariff, protection,
&c, &c.
After the adoption of the resolu-
tons, the following persons were
selected as delegates and alternates
to the Republican National Conven-
ton: W.N. Miller, of Parkersburg,
and d. E. Abbott, of Huntington,
delegates; J. E. McGlothlin, Cwhite)
of Ravehswood, and Frank Reed,
Ccolored) of Point Pleasant, altern-
ates, and thus again was the colored
brother recognized at the hands of
his party.
Before adjourning speeches were
made by Charley Caldwell, late of
the Democratic party, Boss Gibbons,
Warren Miller, Manager, Poffen-
barger and others. The Parkers-
burg Sentinel in its report of the
convention, says: at must have
made old Republican war horses
feel good to look at the convention
and sec who was running it. John
X. Thompson, Doctor Barbee and
C. T. Caldwell were the three great
lights
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To the Democrats Of Mason County.

The Democrats Of the various Dis
tricts of Mason County are requested
to meet at their usual places of meet
ing on Saturday, April soth, 1892, at
O'Clock P. NJ, and select 10 delegates
to Representatives. respective Districts in
the Democratic County Convention to
be held en- Saturday, the 9TH day Of
May. 1892, at the Court House. Said
County Convention is to be held for the
purpose of selecting delegates to repre-
sent Mason County in the Democratic
State. Congressional and Senatorial con-
ventions. By order of the Elk. Com.
w G.. WHALEY, Sec'y.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26
political Not...
Oregon delegates favor cleveland

Oregon delegates favor Cleveland.
The Kansas delegation is solid for
Cleveland.
Mckinley may be run for congress in
the rk-Columbiana (O.) district.
The Republican delegates from Massa-
chusetts to tue national convention were
not instructed.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania fin
ished their state ticket Wednesday night,
and left their delegates to the national
convention uninstructed.
The New York Mail and Express says
editorially that General Alger has not
withdrawn from the presidential con-
test In a letter to that Journal, the gen
eral says that he is in the race until the
finish.
The national committee ON equal rights
will hold their national convention AT
Chicago, May &c, to nominate candidaa IS
for president and vice president of the
United States Amy Organization rep
resenting woman suffrage may send dele
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

Resolving the friendship of the
Republican for the soldier, and the
hatred of Democrats to them, the
late convention, in this place, over
looked the fact that the present Re-
publican administration of the PEN
sion Office has been defrauding and
cheating the soldier right and left
and that it has remained for Dem
ocratic Congress to expose these
frauds.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26
TRIPLE DOMESTIC Tragedy.
killed nis wife, shot Her Paramour and
Snicfdaa

Suicided.
COLUMBUS, o., April PA special
from Dennison, O., says;
At $50 Monday morning George
Moore shot his wife, killing her Instant
ly, shot Edward McClelland, saloon
keeper, badly wounding him and then
fatally shot himself.
Moore is employed by the Panhandle
Railway company and works at night.
McClelland is saloon keeper and
boarded Mt Moore's house. Moore and
his wife had had great deal OF trouble
lately, growing out of the suspicion on
Moore's part, that his wife was MAIN
tanning improper relations with McClel-
land. When Moore returned from
work Monday morning, he found his
wife sitting at worl, at her sewing ma
chine. Without saying word, he
drew revolver and shot her through
the head, killing her instantly. He
then ran into an adjoining room where
McClelland was sleeping and fred two
shots at him, one striking him in the
forehead. Moore then ran from the
house to the residence of his mother-in-
law, near by. and shot himself through
the head fatally.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26
oUADRuPLE LYNcHINe.
-Four Negroes Strung UP for n Doul
Murder In FIorIda.

Murder In Florida-
ATLANTA, April 21.-Four negroes
were lynched at Ivernes, near Ocala.
Fla, Tuesday morning about o'clock
by mob of 15O
On Monday eight negroes suspected
of the murder of Stevenson and Payne
Friday night were caught One of them
was woman. She confessed and inn
plicated two others. All were taken
from the Jail by masked mob.
Three were hanged first. and at the
hanging another was implicated.
The names of those hanged first We're:
Jerry Williams, George Davis and Will
lie Williams Then Albert Robinson.
who was left at the Jail. but implicated
by the first three for the killing, was
taken out and hanged.
The negroes with Winchesters con-
gregated, but offered no resistance.
The governor wired for the Ocala
rifles, who remained at their armory
until the O'Clock train, ready at cali,
but their services We're not needed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

The hope of Democracy and the
chance for Democratic gains lie in
the West, and it is the Western
States in which Democratic effort
should be made during the coming
election. Not only is the West the
future scat Of political power in this
country, but the Westis the fuIcrum
upon which the tariff lever has been
placed, as Congressman Bryan
would say, to raise the East into
riches and prosperity. A peculiar
appeal can be made to Western
men but cannot DO made to the
people of the manufacturing dis
tricts of the East. Political con-
versions have been rapid and sweep
in the West, while party lines in
the East have remained unbroken.
Let the Democratic leaders of the
nation turn their eyes to the West
ern States and direct their ener-
gies towards this inviting field of
political conquest.-O Omaha World
Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26


kingwood Argus
Our friend George W. Tippett, of
the Point Pleasant REGISTER, an
nounces that he is in the field for
the nomination for Auditor of West
Virginia. If long service as a
wheel-horse of the Democracy goes
for anything, Mr.. Tippett ought
certainly to have some reward. His
nomination would be a graceful
recognition by the party of the SER
vices of the press, and would un-
doubtedly be very gratifying to his
editorial brethren. = 'ShepherdstoWn
Register.
Right you are, Bro. Snyder.
You are on the right track, and we
hope you will stick to it and help to
land Bro. Tippett in the Office he is
aspiring to and is so well qualified
to fill. The press does the real
work in campaign times and is en-
titled to substantial recognition,
but when has it ever received it?
And because we do not is mainly
our fault five stick together as
we ought to when brother is ask
ing for something and insist upon
and demand it, we would get it, for
the politicians, with all their
shrewdness and "ways that are
dark" about making up states and
setting up conventions, could not
turn a wheel without the support of
the press, and we'll do they know it,
but SO long as we arc content to
lead the fight and then stand back
while the politicians who run the
machine divide the spoils, just so
long will we be left out in the cold.
Colonel Tippett is well known
among the prominent and public
men of the State, and his fidelity
and long service to the party is de-
MED by no one. He has not rushed
to the front and asked for Office as
the first thing to bring himself into
prominence, but has fought the bat
ties of the grand old party of Jeffer-
son and jackson for 10 these many
years without asking or expecting
any reward, and now we claim that
it is the duty of the Democratic press
of the State to stand by him and
see that he receives well merited
reward.
While there are other candidates,
who have their friends and papers
that arc probably under obligations
to support them, the majority of
the papers of the party have no
particular candidate, specially this
early in the race, and to these we
address our remarks. We are
young in years and young in the
business, and we are asking moth
ing ourself, but we consider it our
duty to support the old veterans of
our party, and particularly of our
fraternity, and more especially in
preference to chronic Office seekers,
who advertise themselves like ac-
tresses. show-men or prize-fighters,
by sending their picture broadcast
over tho land. Let us fill our offices
with material not selected from
among professional politicians.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

Col. John G. Vance, of Clarks-
burg, is a candidate for the Demo,
cratic nomination for State Treas
urer, and his candidacy is meeting
with favor. He is an ardent Dem
ocrat, a man of influence and stand
ing, and would make an excellent
State Treasurer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26
WANTS AMERICAN PRoTecTloN.
King Tebureimca. of the GILBERT Islands,
Starts Back Homo.

ming Iepureimca, OF the gilbert Islands,
Starts Back Home
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.-King Te-
bureimca, of Big Maxim and Little
Maxim, islands of the Gilbert group, in
the Pacific ocean, sailed ON the steamer
Montserrat for his island home at Buta-
rituri Thursday night. The kings mis-
sion here was to cultivate more friendly
relations with the United States, and he
appointed as his commissioner to repre-
sent him Colonel G. L. Daley Colonel
Daily stated to a press representative
that the king had written letter to
President Harrison stating that he fears
some European government will seize
his islands, and requesting that the
over his kingdom. Colonel Daley is
given full power to make negotiations
with this government, and viii forward
the kings letter to Washington.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26
CONDENSED NEWS.

AConection OF Interesting Items on vari-
Gus Subjects. Especially Prepared for
the Hasty Reader
Cholera at Santiago, Chilli.
modus vivendi has been agreed upon
and signed ~
1t is now claimed in Washington that
Alger IS not a presidential candidate.
Several railroad companies and the
Western Union Telegraph company are
lighting the state tax in Indiana
The new works of the American En-
caustic Thing company, at GAINESVILLE, o.,
was dedicated Tuesday. The works are
the largest of the kind in the world,
covering forty acres of ground and en-
ploying Loco hands.
Dispatches from various parts of Mich
igan state that the outlook for an album
dant peach crop Is exceptionally fine. The
recent fresss have not injured the buds.
Many reports state this years crop IS ex-
pected to be unusually large.
The only feature in the agreement con-
cluded IN the modus vivendi of last year
is contained in the article which provides
that IL the arbitrators affirm the right of
Great Britain to the seals in Behring sea,
the compensation shall be made by the
United States Greal Britain, and II the
decision Is contrary to Great Britain then
compensation shall be made by that coun-
try.
Oklahoma Harry was killed Wednes-
day in the Cheyenne and Aparahoe
agency He was killed in a drawn battle
between Texas aud Kansas boomers.
Pittsburg bricklayers will continue the
fight. The fight has been on for almost a
year.
Minister Phelps. at Berlin. states em-
phatically that he knows nothing about
I, of ~ 81 nd r.f co
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

At Niles, o., Samuel Williams tract
ured his daughters skull with poker
and then cut his throat. The girl may
die
During performance at the Worlds
theater, at McKeesport, Pa, Tuesday
night. Frank Sergeant, known as .Okla
homa Frank" shot and fatally wounded
his assistant, Frank Ferguson. Seargeant
is rifle expert and in attempting to shoot
an apple from the head of his assistant,
using a mirror by which to aim, he
missed, and the bullet pierced Ferguson's
brain.
Near waupaco, Mo-, Kelly Brock quar-.
relied with John Halsey and his son.
Brock shot and killed young Halsey and
fatally wounded the old man. Old family
feud.
AT Des Moines. Wednesday night,
James Cockerham shot and killed his cii.
vorced wife and also an unknown man
who was in her company. Jealousy was
the cause
at Reisel, Tex, Postmaster Eugene
Kaufman was murdered by two negroes.
Near Des Moines James H. Cockerman,
while drunk, shot and killed his divorced
wife and her hired hand, and then sui
cided
The body of Myrtle Sturtevant, mysteri-
ously missing for two weeks from Column
bus, o., was found in the Ohio at Cincin-
natl. The girl was evidently driven to
suicide by her lovers threat to desert her.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

1t is the duty of every good dem
ocrat to attend the conventions of
the party which meet either to
nominate candidates or to choose
delegates to nominate Candidates.
Make the very best selection in ev-
cry instance and we will have candi-
dates that will put the enemy on
the run at the very outstart and
keep them on the run to the end of
the campaign. Democrats, attend
the conventions and do your duty.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26
CONGRESS.


600 appropriation for an international
naval display at the worlds fair was re-
ferred TO the committee ON appropria-
tons. The silver question was discussed
considering the Russian and French ex-
tradition treaties and confirming nominal
lions.
HoUsE-The entire session was devot ed
to the Rockwell-Noyes contest.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

When Mr.. Capehart voted for free
silver and free wool, he carried out
the platform of his party, adopted
at the convention which nominated
him, and which the people of the
Fourth District will endorse by re-
turning him to Congress.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

More Than Five Thousand Landed in
New York on Single Day.
NEW YoRK, April 2S.-There were in
port Friday, waiting to be landed, the
largest number of immigrants landed
here many one day this year. Immi-
grant officials say the number exceeds
anything known at the highest tide of
immigration at this port. In all there
are 5,435 Immigrants brought here on
six steamers
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

w. w. Thomas who was elected
to the legislature from Putnam
county in 1890, being the first Dem
ocrat to succeed in that county for
many years, will be a candidate
again this fall.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

All the farmer candidates for gov
ernor are firm in the conviction
that the next occupant of the CUB
ernatorial chair ought to come from
the ranks of the agrlculturists.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

D. NJ. Morris, of Clarksburg has
purchased the the Ravenswood
BugIe, and will move the office to
Ripley, where it will be continued
as Democratic paper. We wish it
abundant success politically and
and financially.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

The Republicans are taking a
monstrous lot of comfort out of the
fact that they prevented the Demo-
Gratis from carrying the Republican
State of Rhode Island.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-26

1t is unfair to the colored Repub-
licans who make Republican ma
jorities in this county, that they
have not fair divide of the county
offices. Let the colored men assert
their manhood and demand fair
divide from their white Republican
masters.