Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-04-01

! Yesterday additional suits were entered
as follows:-
| Whitaker Iron Works...................S6 & %
| J. c. Forgey " o...................... 5O6 AZ
| Citizens K. K. Co...................... 1US W
Moundsville Sand Con-. ....... 10 90
John Riley ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ~ 81
Total GA 81
That brings the total outside of the
multitude OF wage claims up to $780,
9O5. %. The claims for wages, ETC.,
will add between IS, 900 and $4,000 to
this, bringing the total up to about
S31, 500 or So, OO0. The local assets OF
the firm, as stated in the REGISTER OF
yesterday, are more. than sufficient to
pay off the indebtedness, complete the
bridge, satisfy claims for damages, etc.
The representatives OF the firm in
| Wheeling are resting on their oars,
awaiting developments. Mr.. Hal
| lock had conference with
| the bondsmen Of the firm on the
bridge contract, yesterday, but nothing
| looking TO an immediate resumption OF
work came of it. Mr.. Gilmore Brown,
the authorized representative OF Paige,
Carey II Co., said yesterday afternoon
ut udu ItCClFtu ~ NOAh - JILL
| General Paige, but was looking for
! letter with instructions from him. The
whereabouts Of the head of the firm are
not known to anyone, so far as is
known, except, perhaps, the employees
in his New York Office, and they won't
tell. On this subject telegram from
New York says
"David X. Paige. Of the firm of Paige,
| Carey & Co, is still out of town, and no in
! formation can be gained as TO where he is.
| Atthe office, in Aldrich Court to-day it was
stated he left several days ago TO try TO set
! tie some of his complicated business affairs.
| The clerks said that, in the absence of Mr..
! Paige. they would not discuss his business
affairs. They added, however, that the
report that the firm was heavily involved
in the gainesville Savings Association
| failure was not true. Mr. Paige's brother,
! A. n Paige is now in Ohio. When asked
if MIR. Paige was really lost, or was where
he could be reached if it was thought de-
sirable. the clerks said that they thought
those interested would have no difficulty in
finding him at the proper time. 1t was re-
ported On good authority yesterday that
Mr.. Paige and his wife mad sailed on the
Trave on Tuesday, going on board at the
last moment under assumed names. Ihls
could not be conclusively verified, how
ever
On this point, the Cleveland Leader
saws:
meanwhile, the question on everybody's
tongue Is: What has become OF ID. Il.
Pager The friends and attorneys Of Mr.
Huntington are strongly inclined to the
opinion that he has gone in direction that
will take him further away from MIR. Hunt
iEqtoa instead of nearer to him.
Speaking of the matter generally, the
Leader says:
"A gentleman in this city who has known
John Huntington intimately for % years
expresses the opigion that Mr. Huntington
will not show any disposition whatever TO
compromise with men who have abused
mis- kindness and betrayed his confidence
TO be sure said the gentleman, Mrs.
Huntington and Mrs. d. K. Paige are
sisters, and Mrs. Huntington will exercise
very great influence upon her husband to
induce him to show leniency TO her sisters
husband. But Mr.. Huntington is man
of a great deal Of hrmness. In his
younger days in this city, when he
was active in city politics, he was noted
for his obstinacy, and was very frequently
dubbed "a bull-headed Englishman.'
He is naturally man OF very KIND
heart, and will go to any extreme TO 90 a
favor for a friend, but when his friendship
has once been betrayed that is the end OIL
il. | might cite a dozen instances. well
known in this city, where he has stood
by men with his hard work and his big
purse until he found proofs that they were
unworthy of his friendship, whereupon
they were Immediately set adrift as FAR as
he was concerned. There is peculiar gray-
ity in the degree of ingratitude with which
he has been treated in this matter and 1t
will not fail TO have its full effect upon
forming his conclusion how TO act. When
these forgeries were committed he was
5000 miles away from home on SICK bed.
and the men who betrayed him very PROB
ably thought that he would never recover,
and that before the forgeries were discov-
cred there would be no man living who
could positively swear that the signatures
were not genuine. He will feel this very
keenly, and be will not be disposed TO
show any mercy to men VINO nave thus
wronged him with the expectation Of hay
ing the evidence Of their acts buried with
him in the grave. Besides, IL is fact tnat
there is not ready money enough In the
Huntington estate TO take up these notes,
even if he were disposed 70 pay
them. His money is invested in
lake vessels. in ships that are now
in course of construction, constantly
calling for more outlay, and in mines,
ouaries and real estate Before leaving
this city he arranged all his affairs so that
they would not require any special atten-
ton for a couple of years, and he went
away firmly believing that he would come
back again, 10 use his own words, able to
put in from ten TO twenty years IN active
business His son-in-law, A. 9. Hord,
went from this city with the intention OF
reaching Carlsbad at the earliest possible
day. He took with him complete state
ment of the situation from Mr.. Hunting
toms LAWYERS and business managers. He
will present TO his father-iu-law the cold
facts only, and IL is not at all likely that
they will excite very warm sympathy Tor
the false friends who have caused him al
this trouble.
"Mr. Huntington's attorneys would say
very little about the matter yesterday. In
Justice to Mr. Huntington we must De re-
served said II. G. Ranney, Esq. We
cannot tell al we know. We are doing
everything we can do in Mr.. Huntington's
interest But there is one thing you can
say as coming from me, and that is that the
runors that any Of the Cleveland banks
hold large amounts Of the forged paper are
entirely rntrue The amount OF the paper
held in this city is very small and can be
figured among the ordinary losses IN
the way Of business which banks
EXPECT to sustain in the course
Of the year. Il is a matter Of pride with
bankers not TO admit that they have been
imposed upon. even for small sums, and
that is one reason why the bank officials do
NOT care to state for publication how much
Of the forged paper is in their possession
But II is avery small portion Of the whole
amount / say this because see that an