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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-03-15
YELLOW FEVER hAvAeEs. /.



Rio JANEIRo, .Maren 1.-THE Rio
News says: According TO private ac-
counts from Santos the situation IN that
city has become something indescrib-
able. The authorities are clearly in
competent t. grapple with the epidemic,
and the assistance from private sources
is totally inadequate.
The stories about hospital treatment
in Santos are terrible. a man named
Beemer sent boy 10 the Misericordis on
Friday afternoon with fever. On Satur-
day evening he went to see the boy. but
was unable to find any trace of him UNI
til he went 10 the dead house, where he
found the poor lad, still alive and con-
scious. The boy died that night, but
the idea of putting him out among the
dead so long before death is enough to
make one wonder what kind of beings
these hospital attendants are.
Another story is to the effect that an
English merchant went to the cemetery
to attend the burial of an engineer,
whom he knew personally. On arriv-
ing at the cemetery he had the coffin
opened, and found that he was burying
stranger. The difficulties of getting
men to dig even the sLallowest of graves
has already been referred to. and also
the digging up of the remains of former
burials. The whole situation is a blot
ON civilization, and is an indelible dis
grace to the country.
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MINE ACCIDENT.
Over Two Hundred Belgian
Miners Lose Their Lives.
Series of Explosions Far Be-
meath the Surface.

Many of the Unfortunates women-sad
Scenes About the Mouth of the Pit in
which Fathers. Mothers. BROTHERS and
Sisters Perished-The Mine on Fire.
BRUSSELS, March IA frightful col
hery disaster has occurred at Anderlues.
Three hundred miners are entombed in
the pit. A series of explosions of fire
damp has apparently cut off all access
to the men.
An attempt was made to reach the
imprisoned miners, but without success.
The explorers We're beaten back by the
foul fumes.
The shafting and ventilation were de-
stroyed.
Three female miners were rescued.
and it seems almost certain that all the
rest are dead.
Intense excitement prevails, and thou
sands are thronging to the place. which
is one of the leading mining centers of
Belgium.
The scenes at the pit mouth are most
pathetic, multitudes of people bewailing
their relatives, supposed to have per-
ished in the mine.
Thirty of the entombed miners have
been rescued. Five corpses have so far
been recovered.
Later particulars regarding the ex-
plosion showed that it occurred in a gall
lery 400 feet below the surface. Here
were working go men. Of this num-
Der forty escaped by means of the sec
ond shaft, and sixteen others We're res
cued in terribly. and. it is believed,
fatally injured condition.
BRussEIs. March 1.-THE Anderiues
calamity increases in horror. The pit is
now burning, and smoke and flames bar
the searchers in their work of rescue.
1t is feared now that less than 240
miners have persisted, including a large
number of women, of whom there were
many employed in the mine.
The most touching scene at the mouth
of the pit was the spectacle of children
weeping for their mothers who had been
lost in the mine.
The fact that some, if not all, of the
women employed in the mine have met
their death by the explosion will afford
an almost unanswerable argument for
those who oppose female labor in under
ground employments.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-03-15
cHARITY's RICH RETURN.

He Gave Bread and Received in Return
Stone, but the Stone is Worth S., 600.
We find the following in the Hin
ton Independent Herald, March 10.
DIR. A. Brilliant, of this place,
many years ago, while in Philadel-
phia one evening walking through
a well-known quarter of the city,
was stopped by pale-faced gentle
man who begged piteouslY for as
sistance. His story of wrongs and
misfortunes was so plausible that
the doctor handed him the amount
asked for and was on the point of
continuing his walk when the stran-
ger stopped him again, asked his
name and address, promising that
when fortune smiled upon him he
should be well remembered.
Yesterday, upon opening a small
package directed to him from NELL
more, a mining town in South
America, the doctor found glisten-
ing in downy bit of cotton a brill.
liant, scintillating with all the colors
of the rainbow. Enclosed with the
gem was card reading:
"Dr. A. Brillhdrdt:.
DDAR SIR: Several years ago j
met you in the streets of Philadel-
phia. / was starving and asked
you for bread; you gave it to me-
For your kindness 1 return you a
stone. 1t is of great value, but
nothing, l assure you, in comparison
to the gratitude L feel for the kind
ness you extended.
"BARoN INo RoTsA."
That the Doctor was amazed, goes
without saying, and no wonder.
The gem weighs twenty karats and
its value is estimated at $4,000.
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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
March Report of the Distribution q
Wheat md Corn.

March Report of the Distribution of
Wheat and Corn.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE March
report of distribution of wheat and corn
by the statistician of the department of
agriculture makes the stock of wheat in
growers hands 10, 900, 600 bushels, IS
per cent. of the crop-63, 900, 900 of
spring wheat and 10S .OO0, 900 of winter
wheat, much of the latter in states
which have practically no commercial
distribution, but entering into local con.
sumption for bread and seed. This is
the largest reserve ever reported, that of
the largest previous crop (of 1880 being
1859, 000, 900 bushels.
The exports from July to March 1
We're 1874, 900 900 bushels, the fall seed
S6, DOC, 900 bushels, the consumption APP
parently 200, O00, 900 bushels, but a large
proportion is taken for consumption in
the fall and winter, and the actual con-
sumption is proportionally greater than
In the spring and summer.
The assumed consumption from
March 1, 1891, to March 1, 1899, is 800
000. 900 bushels for population of "a.
SOC, 600, the exports 206, O0O, 900 bushels.
the seAd re n6n 0nal hushels. distribu,,
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Worthy of Reading Twice.

Mr.. McMillin's speech on the lead
ing issue of the day-the tariffs
worthy of more than one careful
perusal, not only by the people, but
by their representatives in Congress.
1t is one of the most concise and
practical speeches ever delivered
on the subject. Among other
things, Mr.. McMillin said:
Mr.. Chairman, the last Congress
imposed the highest tariff taxes
ever levied in this country 1t also
made the most extravaganza appro-
priations ever made here in time of
peace. This Congress was sent
here to correct both evils. The ex-
penditures in the two years for
which the last Congress appropriat-
ed besides the deficiencies, aggre-
gated 81 600, 000, 000-s40p per family
annually, or more than $500, 600, 900
each year. About one third of all
the money in existence in the United
States. When we take from our
currency the one hundred millions
ofgold held for redemption purposes
in treasury, the reserves required
in the National Banks, and the diff
ferent reserves held from circulation
in other ways, we find that these
expenditures reached annually
nearly one-half of all the money in
actual circulation. Can there be
permaRent prosperity while one
third of all the money has to go
through the hands of federal tax
gatherer every year? besides the
taxes for State, county and munich
pal purposes. There is a remedy.
Impose less tax and spend less
money. That is what this Con-
gress means to do. Mr.. Chairman.
the tariff law has now been in
operation for one year and five
months. Where are the beneficial
effects that were to follow from it?
Where is the magnificent prices the
farmer and wool grower were to
realize from it? Where are the in
creased wages the laboring man
was to get?
And echo answers, Where2 The
cost of living has gone up and the
wages of labor have gone steadily
down. Despite an unprecedented
crop year which has brought an
inflow of gold from abroad, business
failures have increased and industry
is generally stagnant. The cause
of this is plain; and equally plain is
the duty of the Democratic House.
Register.
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A Remarkable Case Reported from a
N~w York Hospital.

A Remarkable Case Reported from a
N~w York Hospital.
NEW YoRK, March l4.Another re-
markable medical case has come to light
in Bellevue hospital. Charles Kranfz, a
butchers journeyman, nineteen years
old, slept almost continuously for five
days and five nights, and then died
without awakening He walked into
Chamber street hospital, saying that he
felt sick and that he had no friends or
t , m this this country His symp-
was transferred to the Bellevue hos
pital. There, as he was being taken to
his proper ward, he fell asleep, and
stayed so until death.
He was not sound asleep all the
time, said DR. Hollister, -who had
charge of the case. I'VE could shake
him awake, and he would speak half a
sentence, yawn and be asleep again. We
could not shake the rest of the sentence
out of him. The autopsy showed that
death was due to softenfng of the brain.
Otherwise Krantz was physically strong.
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no 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 s0th, 1892, at 1
O'Clock p. NJ, and select 10 delegates
to represent their 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-
MENTIONS. BY order of the Elk. Com.
w. g. wHALEY, Sec'y.
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HAVE SUED THE CITY.
Damages Asked by Families OF the II.
ians Lynched at New orleans.

Damages Asked by Families OF the Ital-
ians Lynched at New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS. March IA new and
unexpected chapter in the history of the
Hennessy assassination and the lynching
of the Italians that followed has leaked
out. A suit will be fled in the United
States courts against the city this week
by the families of the Italians who We're
never naturalized for damages. This
claim will vary from $4,000 to $40, 900
and the total Will amount to between
$780, 600 and 100000. Not one of the
families of those who We're naturalized
is included IN the claim. It is claim
against the city. Judge Sa1nbola, one
of the best known citizens of the state,
is bringing the suit. The heirs of the
mobbed Italians have a claim against
the government already, but 1t is said
that it viii be worthless unless suit is
brought against the city within one
year after the occurrence. The year has
almost expired
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Trust Sale
OF a Valuable F'ar11a


RY virtue Of the authority vested Ia me by
- a certain deed 81 trust, executed By Jacob
Ecssiek 10 the undeftl gncd trustee IN 81.
Clerk : Office Of the County Court, or Mason
Comfy West ylrginin, in Trust Deed Book,
NO. II. folio 54l 70 secure the Payment Of "A
certain promisory nofe for the sum 81 sew
enty-dve dollars and payable one year amer
date which note was executed by the said
Jacob Messlch. aud payable 10 the order or
w. III. IOlnlinsOn, and j. fully described fn
made In the payment OF said note, and being
requested by the owner and holder 81 said
note 10 make sale Of the real estate In said
trust deed conveyed, J., Rankin Wiley. .Ir..
trustee as Aforesaid, Will sell by way 81 pub
lie auction, In Point Pleasant. 1t the front
door OF the Court House OF Mason county, on
Wednesday. the 25rd day OF March,
1897, the following zeal estate. tolwff. Thirty
two acres, lppreof lest, except four acres sold
70 Nelson HoFe, and the same tract 81 land
purchased by The said Jacob tlrsefrIr 81 II. X
Howard, Special Commissioners on the lsf
day OF June. 1851 1t fitsdI Of that date aud OF
record IN the Clerk oflcc of Mason county.
In deed book Mo- f0iio4 81 ard SIS 4,
and complete des.tripllon or said land said
land has good dwelling house thereon. nnd
the same where Ne said II ,..slcl< now resides
aud y well iliproted AMI confaIns = acres,
Terms OF sale, 5fe-:h bird cash in hand on
DAY 81 sale AND the residue IN one ana Two
year, tom dnylsf snies taxing from the pur-
entser uotee ~ equal payments with good
eee,sfttss. soesfln8 interest from day Or sale,
and refnfuing the title rs u further 4eeurlty-
s. HANkizs> " LEY, Jf<-,
leDS]-lW Trustee
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a BIG COMBINE.
This Time 1t is Coal. Iron. steel and RAM
road Companies

ru1'U Co'1' i''r''l's' -
NEW York, March Negotiations
looking to the union of the Tennessee
Goal. IRON and Railroad cofn,,o,v wifi,
sl,e Observation-Disclosures, ,,sI an, r.,
49,, ss.ss 60. So,
ps'iiy' anu s.le sio's 1roil oiA9 Queer co.il-
pany, whlcn nave been gong on Tor
some time, have resulted IN salisfac-
tory agreement being made between the
two first-named concerns.
Ex-senator Thomas e. Platt. president
of the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad
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PRoHlRlIloN mi IOWA
Practically killed by the Adoption of n
Local OPTION Bill.


Dies MONIES, March 10.-The Iowa
prohibition law was practically wiped
out of existence Tuesday. The state
senate, by vote of 81 to 90, adopted
the Catch bill, which allows county
option, each community being given the
right to settle the liquor question for
itself by elections to take place not
oftener than every five years. The mat
ter can be brought up only ON petition
of one-fifth of the legal voters. Three
Republican senators sided with num-
Der of Democrats in passing the bill.
There is little doubt that the measure
will receive the approval of Governor
Boies and become a statute. An acri-
mcnious debate preceded the final roll
call, the question at issue being as to
where rested the political responsibility
for the bill. The announcement of the
vote was received quietly, but with signs
of relief by the big audience present.
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CONDENSED NEWS


"a
Gus Subjects. Especially Prepared for
the Hasty Reader.
According to census just completed
New York city has population Of $780,,
The Chicago water works tunnel. ex-
tending under Lake Michigan four miles,
Is pronounced failure.
1t is said the settlement of the Behring
sea dispute is now 10 nearer settlement
than il was in June, 1890.
William J. Davis, CT Sydney, n. S. W.,
has started for America with the inten-
tlon OF swimming the Niagara rapids
wearing nothing but ordinary swimming
trunks
1t is said that little but tariff win be
heard in the national house for the next
two months.
At Brazil, Ind. Mrs Amy Biggs gave
birth to doable-headed baby that lived
but IN hour.
Sullivan has wired his manager to cover
Corbett's forfeit for fight 10 take place
in August or September.
At Plttsbtrg Ernst Wakefield secretly
married DR.. H. II. Clark's daughter and
then asked forgiveness. The doctor was
mad He Drew up check for 8, 200 and
told them T. git They got and are
now IN Chicago on their honeymoon.
There seem TO be this winter an cpl
demic of grip among leading men and
officials at v Washington Blaine, Springer
and Mills are in a bay way, and some
thirty senator's and congressman are ON
the sick list The number of absentees
from sickness was never so large.
The most unique church row in years
Is now in full blast among the colored
members Of the Central Baptist church at
Memphis. II is fight between the male
and female members, the former sup
porting what is known as the Cooper
crowd" and the latter upnolding Rev
Iaylor Nightingale, the pastor for the
past TWO years Some 200 colored anna
IONS armed with clubs are now watch
ing the church to prevent the Cooper
ties" from gaining possession of the edi-
nce-
Gas Weiis IN the vicinity OF Noblesvilie,
mo- are iaiilng.
Large numbers OF destitute negroes are
leaving Arkansas and locking into Okla
mona. Hundreds reach there in starv-
ing condition.
MI Ryan, our minister to Mexico, in
an interview in Chicago, said the reports
OF the revolution We're greatly exagger-
aSed. lie say President Diaz is very
popular man, and will be reelected in
j nne
Mrs. Amanda Bentley was married
Thursday, at jackson, Mich, to w. A.
Plumb, Young man of twenty one years
OF age. The groom received 500 immedi-
ateiy after the ceremony, and the bride
took the train for Grand Rapids. 1t APP
pears that Mrs. Bentley's first husband
n
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-03-15

General Alger has announced that he is
presidential candidate.
Colonel Polk, president of the National
Farmers Alliance, expects to be nomi-
mated for the vice presidency by the third
partyites-
Secretary Elkins has practically de-
clined to become a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for governor of West
Virginia
nessee Coal company, who is responsible,
so the miners allege, for all the troubles
in the Coal Creek and Briceviile mines is
candidate for governor of Tennessee on
the Republican ticket. He now has the
miners and also the Farmers Alliance
with him. He is only twenty-six years of
age and a Ggnter.
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RESTRICTING EMIGRATION.
An Important Measure Now Pending In
fr..,..-..e.-.

Congress.
PITTsBURe, March 1.-THE Junior
Order of United American Mechanics,
who have been advocating the passage
by congress of bill restricting iinnii-
grafton, have been much encouraged by
a letter received here from Representa-
tive w. A. Stone, of Allegheny, stating
that he believed the bill would become
a law. The bill provides that all immi-
grants must be mentally, morally and
physically sound to be admitted to this
country.
The bin is the especial effort of the
Junior o. u. a. NJ, and the order has
done excellent work to secure its
passage. 1t has already secured the sig
nature of over 100000 persons to pc
ution asking for the passage of the bill,
and the work is still going on.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers and many other labor
organizations are circulating petitions
requesting the passage of the bill.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-03-15

Chairman Riley, of the Demo
cratic State Committee, has called
meetings of the Democratic clubs of
each Congressional District to be
held on the first day of June at the
places at which the district conven-
lions are held to send delegates to
the Chicago Convention. The Club
Convention for this Congressional
district will be held at Ravenswoed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-03-15

The recent town elections in the
States west of the Mississippi, show
that they are wheeling into line
with the Democratic States. They
are tired of being tax-ridden by the
Republican high tariff. Look out
a "little" aud you will see the new
States of Washington and Montana,
rolling up her vote for the Demo
cratic Presidential nominee.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-03-15

A woman entered the depot at
Huntington the other day, and APP
preaching matrohly looking
woman, requested her to hold her
babe for a few moments. The moth
erly old soul in whose charge the
waif was left kindly cared for it and
it now has a home.
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THE POLICE GAZETTE

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Send Five Cents for sample copy.
RICHARD X FOX.
franklin Square, New York City.
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VS..
George Poffenbarger, Administrator of Peter
Tillis, deceased, and Others
In chancery-
DY virtue of the authority vested in me,
d the undersigned Special Commissioned,
by decree of the Circuit Court, OF Mason
county, West Virginia. entered In the above
entitled cause on the 18th day OF December,
$50, Il shall on
Thursday, March oath. 1892,
at the front door OF the Court House, OF said
Mason county, proceed 10 sell by way OF pub
lie auction 10 the highest bidder the follow
ing described real estate situnte in Union
district OF said county, bounded and describ-
in line of lands of G. w Maupin and corner
TO dover; thence $. 39' r. ls2 poles TO a stone
pile; thence n. Sc +. IS poles 10 a blaclS-oak
thence N. 3go w. 142 poles to where q small
black oak formerly stood; thence =. 74n w.
AZ poles TO the place OF beginning, estimated
to contain thirty two-ncress-
TERMS OF SALE.-One-third OF the pur-
chase money cash in hand on the day OF sale,
and the residue IN two equal instaillnenfs
of sale, taking bond with approved security
from the purchaser for the deferred INSTALL
menfs Of the purchase money, and retaining
the title to said land as n further security
until the purchase money is fully paid.
JAMES ii. COUCH JR.. {
Special Commissioners.
February IS, 1892.
I, r. f. Mitchell. Clerk OF the Circuit Court
Of Mason county, West Ntrginia, do certify
given by the above named special Commits
sioner, as required by law
II. +. MITCHELL, Clerk.
IeUz3W4
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On the sth inst. PhiIabeInhia tn,

On the 9th inst, Philadelphia the
great corrupt Republican strong
hold, was turned upside down,
politically, the Democrats sweeping
away the 1000 Republican majori.
ty, and electing a majority of the
city Council, and their candidate for
Mayor, by big maiorities.
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Notwithstanding the fight against
him. Gov. Hill is growing daily in
popularity and States are coming to
him in way that alarms his ene-
mics. He will be hard man to
down in the Chicago Convention,
and we don't believe it can be done.
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SENATE-Resolutions agreed to: Ask
ing president for copies of Venezuela cor
respondence; relative to election of United
States senators; calling on secretary of
treasury as TO amount of treasury notes
issued under act of July IL, 1890. Bill
passed: Making appropriation for APP
pointment of meat inspector.
HoUsE-The tariff debate was contin-
ned
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CONGRESS.


science of spelling; appropriating money
to certain Indians. Several bills were re
ported. The president submitted mes
sage in regard to the Behring sea sealing
controversy with Great Britain.
HoUsE-The tariff debate was opened
with speeches by Representatives McMil-
lin and DinRley
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THROUGH IHE I'D AMEs.
An Indiana Farmer Performs an Act o
Hcroisn,.

Hcroisu,
FoRr WAYNE. Ind, March 14.-John
Miller. farmer residing a few miles
south of this city. performed brave
act Sunday afternoon that is exciting
much comment. His spacious country
residence was discovered to be IN flames
Knowing the imminent peril Of his
aged mother and invalid daughter, who
We're on the second floor of the burning
house. he dashed through the flames and
rescued them from immediate death.
But his heroisn resulted in serious. if
not fatal, injury to his daughter, who
was burned. He was badly burned him
self. but the aged lady fortunately
escaped unframed.