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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10
A. o. .. W. GRAND LODGE.
The Local Delegates Lett Yesterday After

The Local Delegates Lett Yesterday After
noon.
Yesterday afternoon the local dele
gates to the annual meeting of the
Grand Lodge, Ancient Order of United
Workmen, which convenes at Erie, Pa,
this morning, lett over the c., l. &
W. railroad. John c. Devine repre-
seuted Excelsior; DR., George 1. Garri-
son, Upchurch; Hon. ]. Z. sommervilIe,
Reliance; John Waliord, L0Belle; W. O.
McCluskey. Welcomes Capt. William
Schockey, Herman, There is consider
able interesting business to be trans
acted at the meeting at Erie, including
several amendments TO the constitution.
The lodge will be in session several
DAYS. and after it adjourns the entire
delegation will attend the Worlds Fair
at Chicago. The local delegates expect
to be back the latter part OF next week.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10

On Thursday evening Hon. L. Dan
ford, one of tho ablest orators in eastern
Ohio, will address q Republican meet
ing at 4Etnaville. Arrangements have
been made to make this one OF the
notable gatherings of a notable camp
afgn. Capt. Danford is an eloquent
aud candid speaker, and always enter
tains while he is convincing. Wheel
ing people who desire to hear him can
90 over on the electric cars. Bellaire,
Bridgeport and Martins Ferry will
send large delegations
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10

Yesterday another young child OF
Martin Mclaughlin, who resides on
Caldwell's Run, died, 1t was his son.
eight or ten years oil age. The ailment
was Group or diphtheria. This is the
second death in Mr.. McIaughIin's fam
lily within ten days. His young daugh'
ter died of diphtheria. Tie many
friends OF the family sympathize with
them in their misfortune,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10

The corner stone oil tho new brick
church 10 be built at Cameron viii be
laid next Saturday, October H. at
o'clock p. m. sharp. Everybody in the
vicinity is invited to turn out and help
to make the event one long to be re.
membered.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10
National Eucnmpment Union Veteran
I.cg,on nt Cincinnati.

For the above occasion the Baltimore
4 Ohio Railroad Company will sell ex-
cursiou tickets, October 10 aud II,
Wheeling TO Cincinnati and return, at
the rate OF 81, good returning until Oc-
tober II inclusive.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10

Iegnl Notlce--Fiith Page.
Notice to Water Consumers
House for Rent -GconG T. Nckown.
The lntcligencer PlRu-IhIrd Page,
priCc5-Stone y IhOmas-Elghth rage.
iecr .ha Hall- MegaiIra's oae.Priee store
Eighth Page
Wuutel-BOy
Tor sa.o-Elgine Lathe
llouseiurnlshing Good3-Geo. W. Johnson
Sons.
V&C.-L g. Dillon & co,
IuyeSioR-simpiOn & llNlett.
Eid Gloyes--J. T. Rhodes < Co.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10
Wheeling to the Worlds Fair, october II,
Win PennSrlNnnin Llnrs.

Tuesday, October II, special coach ex-
curaion train will leave Wheeling at
$3.50 q. m.,Icity time, sll 90 round trip.
valid returning ten days from date Of
sale.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10

Drop intothe INrELLiaENCER Office and
tGlk about the acknowledgements popular
Worlds Fair trip. Ii you can't come,
write.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10
LooAn nitGylrlEs.

now to mako money without work-Buy
dress at stiFel y Co.'s this week ana save
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10

TuE people quickly recognize merit,
and this is the reason the sales Of
Hoods Sarsaparilla are continually in
creasing. Try it. 8
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10

sTTTEL & CO.'S Wraps arc the most sty.
lISh out this soRson.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10

HAVE you read stirel & Co.'s nd. this
morning? Fifth page.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10
ATTENTION, uuIClEGI ASD DaEWERs'

For cOmfOr; and durability should wear
orr soamirRs Al Wool Knit Jackets. They
@. HESS IL SONS,
Merchant TnIlUrs and cents Eurniahers,
No. 1891 and 1895 Market street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10
Ghs GGaelligettEee.


oaico. w., 20 and - Fourteenth street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-10
FOR ALL MANKIND.
MEMS AND BOYS CLOTHING,
FURNISHINGS AND HATS

Have wrung words OF praise from competitors while the
paudts people being directly benefited by
paaed bargains music and
on to extra efforts
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-12-21
ACRUSADER'S DOOM
Vicious People Warn DIR. Parkhurst
That He Must Die.
CHRISTMAS IS HIS LIMIT
He Is Not In the Least Alarmed but
Adopts Precautions for the Preser-
walton of His Life.

New YORK, Dec. 1s.-Dr. Parkhurst's
crusade in the Tenderloin district is
bearing more than one kind of fruit.
While it has stirred the police of the
precinct up to heroic outbursts of virtue,
1t has also placed the aggressive
leader of the Society for the Prevention
of Vice in great danger of assassina-
tlon, If the threats he has received in
the past two days are any indication.
Nineteen persons have written the doc
tor in that period, warning him to de.
sist in his work of determination on
pain of never seeing another Christmas
Day.
Some of them were from the women
themselves, driven into the streets by
the operations of the society, and
few were from their male friends and
associates, who see before them the
horrifying prospect of honest labor.
The letters suggest the various methods
of accomplishing DR.. Parkhurst's doom
that the writers most fancy. They all
bubble over with the desire to reach
the bellicose doctors hearts blood.
DR.. Parkhurst does not appear to be
has not released his energy in the anti
vice crusade one iota. On the con-
trary he proposes to rush the matter
more vigorously than before. "Yes,n
said the reverend gentleman to a re-
porter, Il have been warned
repeatedly that I have only
until Christmas to live. l do not fear
death through this source, for the
reason that the writer's of the threaten
Jog letters defend vice and crime, and
that alone, If nothing else, is sufficient
assurance to me that am working In
the right cause. Only today received
a half dozen such letters from men and
women who have been compelled to
give up their disreputaple business
through the efforts of our society.
do not feel that should give these let
tiers publicity, although there is one
that ought to be printed. 1t is from a
man, but-well for the present | will
not give it out. 1t is couched in the
most abusive language and shows the
mans desperate nature. l am not
afraid, and yet / have taken precautions
not to place myself within reach of any
of those offended mortals. I have not
asked police protection. Why should I
ask the police to protect me2 I do not
accept packages of any kind that may
come by the mail, for these might con-
tain dynamite or an internal machine,
which some of the writer's have prom
ised to send me. l take unusual
precautions to protect myself, and still
may be dead before Christmas"
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-12-21
4 coNucr,s srosY.


JACKSON, Mich, Dec. 19.-The state
prison authorities are much interested
in the confession of William Repke,
lifetime convict Nearly IS years ago
Robert Molitor was murdered at Rogers
City, Presque Isle county, by unknown
assassins, being shot down In his own
room. One year ago William Repke,
while drunk, made confession upon
which he and August Crossman, August
Foreman, Charles Foelger and Henry
Jacobs were convicted and sentenced to
solitary confinement for life In the state
prison in this city. All the convicted
men had grown to be well-to-do farmers
since the Molitor murder except Repke.
He owned 10 acres of land, had wife
and five children, and the day he was
arrested forest fire burned up every
thing he had In the world except the
land.
Repke, who was 60 years old, together
with two boys, made a living by doing
something outside of the farm. The
day the buildings were destroyed the
boys were. placing cedar poles for
telephone company some distance from
the farm on the lake shore, while Repke
himself was at the Rogers saloon hav-
ing good time. His wife was in De-
troit visiting her father and mother.
When he returned home, at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon, and found everything
swept away by fire, he, being partly
drunk and his family gone, went imme-
diately back to town and got crazy
drunk. In his cups Repke was brawl-
er, being disposed to pick war of
words with anyone he could, and then,
If made angry, would say anything he
could to get even. In that condition,
as was proven at the trial, Repke ut
tered words which finally landed him
behind the bars, together with the four
others, for life. He quarreled with
man named Banks and accused him of
killing Molitor. An officer overheard
him and he stated that he was "on1y
crazed with liquor he was taken before
the prosecuting attorney and related a
story of the murder. He afterward re-
pented but on the witness stand adhered
to his statements, in the hope of saving
himself. TIe now swears that the whole
story was false and that all the men
are innocent, SO far as he knows.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-12-21
A MAD GOVERNOR
Rumor That Lewelling Has Soften
ing of the Brain.
THE FRIEND OF TRAMPS
yagrant Law Declared Unconstitutional
and Police Instructed Not to Molest
the Unwashed Tourist.

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 19.-Governor
Lewelling has been sick several weeks
and his physicins refuse to say what
his ailment is. The rumor has been
started that he is suffering from the
first stages of softening of the brain,
produced by the terrible struggles dur
ing the legislative war last winter, and
that his taamp circular was inspired by
his brain trouble. The governors mail
from sympathising tramps and others
who indorse his action, and from people
over the state who are excited on ac-
count of the army of tramps who go
from house to house begging, will al
most fill a mail bag each day.
Governor Lewelling's circular in
structing the metropolitan police forces
not to molest tramps and declaring
that the vagrant law was unconstitu-
tional has been widely advertised
among the armp of vagrants who are
focking into the state in great num-
bers. Freight train men report that it
is impossible to keep them off she cars.
In cities of the first class, where the
police are under the control of boards
appointed by she governor, no arrests
are made for vagrancy and as result
worthless vagabonds throng the rail
road yards and boldly demand food and
clothing at private residences. Reports
of petty thefts and robberies are being
received from all parts of the state in
been forbidden to make arrests for
vagrancy, they are powerless to rid
the communities of Objectionable char
racters. Had the governors famous
the officers say the state would be
literally overrun with tramps. AS it is
now in midwinter, there are more
tramps in the large cities than ever be-
fore and they are coming in on every
train.
Twenty tramps boarded 4 Missouri
Pacific freight train at Fort Scott and
came to Topeka. The train crew
was compelled to let them ride. When
they arrived here they were arrested
and then discharged by the police
Judge, under the governors order.
Reports are coming in from towns in
southern Kansas of incendiarism and
assaults made upon farmers who refuse
to contribute to bands of tramps who
came in from Texas. One night seven
tramps appeared at the farmhouse of
John Skinner, in Summer county, and
demanded lodging SINNERS wife was
sick and he told them he could not ac-
commodate them. They left in the dark
and within two hours SINNERS barn
and haystacks were set on fire. A dozen
similar ofienses have been reported
from other sections. In the towns and
cities women are afraid to go out on
the streets at night and they do not
know when they will be met by a
gang of trsmps during the daytime,
when their husbands are absent In
several towns the sheriffs are enlarging
their force of deputies because the po-
lice will not act. There are 200 tramps
now in Topeka and every freight train
brings from one to three dozen.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-12-21
FINDS A HOUSE ON HER LOT.


mrs. Williams Owns the Ground Upon
Which Building IL Put by Mistake.
New YoRK, Dec. 19.-When Mrs. Mary
A. Williams, of ABS West Twenty-third
street, received tax bill few days
ago for her property ON Bradhurst ave-,
near One Hundred and Firty-fourth
street. she was greatly surprised to find
that she was assessed for $4,000 instead
OF 5000 as she had been for the past
four years. Upon inquiring the cause
she was told that four-story apartment
house of light pressed brick could not be
assessed for less.
"But there is no house on my lot,"
she said, in astonishment.
"Oh yes, there is" they told her.
And there was, sure enough. The
surprise to Mrs. Williams only equaled
the surprise to Mrs. Ellen j. Shanks,
who owns and lives In the house on Mrs.
Williams lot. About FIVE years ago
Mrs. Williams bought the vacant lot,
which is No. 76, with clear title. The
lOIS IN the DlOCh are not uunOc III
regular order, and lot A was owned by
Martin Barron, of 2o15 Eighth avenue.
Less than a year ago Barron began
building on what he supposed to be lot
Al, but was really lot as. Before the
building was completed he sold 1t to
Mrs. Shanks, whose husband was car
penter, and the latter finished the work.
Barron gave Mrs. Shanks clear title
to the property and the surveys of the
Hand. The property is worth about ST.,
900. Now neither Mrs. Williams nor
Mrs. Shanks knows exactly what to do.
One owns the lot and the other owns
the house. All the legal rights OF the
case are on Mrs. Williams side, as she
can lay claim to the house. She can
tear it down or board up the front door,
and If she concluded to let it stand she
could collect the rents or dispossess the
owner,
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-12-21
LAFAYETTE'S ROMAN SWORD.
Carpenter at Columbia, S. C., Digs Up "A
Very Valuable Relic.


Very Valuable Relic.
. COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec, 1S.-R. M. Stev-
ems, Columbia carpenter, has made a
find that may prove of great value to
him. While making some excavations
recently he unearthed an old Roman
sword. The weapon was shown to a
number of old citizens, and one of them
recalled tradition of Lafayette's visit
to this city and gave color to the theory
that the sword might have belonged to
lafayette. The story was told Lafay-
ette when he was here. In one of
Charlemagne's battles he had furious
hand-to-hand conflict with an opposing
general, Charlemagne was victorious,
cutting off the head of his adversary
and taking all his weapons. One of the
weapons was a two edged sword, like
that found here. Charlemagne decided
that the weapon should always be
kept in the royal family of France as a
trophy of the greatest fight he ever
had.
One day the king of France gave
Lafayette dangerous mission to per-
torn and the king was so pleased that
ne offered Lafayette honors and money,
all of which he declined. In moment
of Joy the king presented him with the
sword of Charlemagne. He was to
keep 1t until his death and then it was
to be returned to France. When
Lafayette visited this country in 1925,
he brought the sword with him, and
had it when he reached Columbia.
Here it disappeared and lafayette be-
lieved that it had been stolen by some
negro who had been searching for
money.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-12-21
VERY REMARKABLE CURE.
suffering Boy Relieved From Pain at the
DictatIon of Dead Persons.

Suffering Boy Relieved From Pain at the
Dictation of Dead Persons.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Dec. 19.-A most re-
markable occurrence is agitating the
community eight miles uorth of this
city, in the Savannah, Mo-, neighbor-
hood. Some time last June Thomas, the
11-year-old son of a farmer named Alex
ander Gilpin, was stricken with rheu-
matism of the right side and leg. The
pain was so severe that his parents
were obliged to keep anything from
touching the body or limb. Drs- Kerr,
Martin and Jefferies, of Savannah, could
do nothing TO stop the pain. The pain
became so severe that the boy had
lockjaw.
He fell into what seemed to be a
trance and could not be aroused for
some hours. When he finally awakened,
being unable to talk, he wrote on a
piece of paper to his parents that he
had seen his two little dead brothers
and sister. He said they told him to
send to a certain field and at particu-
lar place to scrape away the snow until
they would find bed of moss and under
the moss a bunch of roots, which they
were to bring to him.
The doubling parents yielded to his
entreaties and going to the place found
everything as the boy had stated. They
brought the roots home and the boy
told them how he had been instructed
to prepare the ointment with them
The ointment was made and applied Il
the seat of pain, the result being tina
the next day the boy left his bed ant
all traces of lockjaw disappeared. H
can now walk as we'll as ever.
These facts are youched for by o. J
Hurley, the editor of the Savanna
Democrat, the physicians and all Q
Gilpin's neighbors.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-12-21
A Pioneer Woman Dead.

BUTTE, Mont, Dec. 19.--Mrs. Clara
Wissel, wife of John G. Wissel, recently
died in Bremen, Germany, where she
and her husband went to spend the
winter. For some time past her health
had not been very good. Mrs. Wissel
was pioneer, having come to Montana
in 1864, and for a long time lived in
German gulch, afterward moving to
their farm near Race Track, Deer
Lodge county. She was a woman of
broad intelligence and refinement, pos
sessing cheerful and affectionate dis
position. A pleasant acquaintance, a
staunch friend and loving and tender
wife, her loss will be sincerely mourned
by all old timers in Montana, who held
her In the highest regard.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-12-21
ELEVATORS OVERLOOKING.


the Grain Centers.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2O.--There are stored
in the elevators of Chicrgo more than
21 ,0O0, 900 bushels of wheat, an amount
unprecedented in warehouse records.
OF this 10, 1000, 900 bushels and over are
in licensed elevators, by which is un-
derstood those houses recognized on the
board of trade and under the inspection
of the state registrar. The remnant,
100000 or 100000 bushels, the
amount being uncertain because trad
ers take no note of the stock, is locked
in private elevators. One year ago the
licensed elevators held but l0,706, 1872
bushels, and on the corresponding date
In 1891 the state registrar reported but
S,O03, ,9l4 bushels of wheat in town.
These figures are said to be the aver
age for December under natural condi-
tions.
The only time in the history of local
trading when the figures came any
where neae those now reported was
uuIluS Tue llSlOllC hdI pei SOluCi
when the bears were thrown down and
all wheat declared regular. Even then,
with supplies pouring in from every
direction to swamp the Cincinnati
crowd, there were less than 5000, 900
bushels in sight, perhaps not more than
100000. Although the elevator
facilities of the city have greatly in
creased of late years, 1t is said they are
now within 5000, 900 bushels of their
storage capacity.
The stock now in Chicago is more
than half the visible supply of an
ordinary year Old traders say 33,000,-
600 bushels is about the average amount
in sight for this season. This year,
however, the visible supply is away up,
100000 or s0,000,000 bushels being
regarded as an accurate estimate oi
etock
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-12-21
NEW SILVER TICKET
White Metal Declared to Be the
Paramount Issue.
TO BE A NATIONAL PARTY
Alliance, Grange, knights of Labor and
Populists Seek to Unite on One Plank
and Capture Congress.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-The conference
of leading silver men of the country to
devise ways of continuing the fight for
free silver opened today. Among those
present were: Generals Weaver and
Field of Iowa, Stewart of Nevada, Kolb
of Alabama, Moreton Frewen, the
British authority on bimetalism, and
Grand Master Workman Sovereign
of the Knights of Labor, About fifty in
all were present, representing the bone
and sinue of the silver movement.
General Weaver says the conference
will probably last several days aud will
be very thorough canvass of the
situation. The possibilities of a new
political party with free silver as the
sole plank of the platform was among
the developments of the days secret
session of silver leaders. The day was
devoted to expressions of opinion of
the representatives of different states.
They were uniformely to the effect
sN"S shS "oihin6 puppy anu iui iiSiS
are dissatisfied with. the course of con-
gress in repeating the purchase clause
of the Sherman act.
Senarors Stewart and Jones, Master
Workman Sovereign and National
Lecturer Whitehead of the grange
were among the speakers of the after
noon. During the address of Senotor
Jones an interesting colloquy occurred
between him and Master Workman
Sovereign. The latter suggested that
when labor ranks had assisted toward
securing free silver there should
be reciprocity by which the silver
leaders would assist In sG.@lins .sher
reforms. Senator Jones ccntended
that all labor questions were merged
in the money question and its solution
would settle them all. Sovereign and
the senator at last met on common
ground in agreeing that the silver
| question be made the paramount issue
of all labor and industrial organizations.
Frequent references were made dur
the speaches today to the necessity of
organizing a a silver party, made up of
the elements heretofore gathered under
the standards of populists, National
Grange, Knights Of Labor, Farmers
Alliance, etc. The tendency of the
conference is toward this new organ
ization. The probability is that the
first fort of the united forces will be
exerted to carry the congressional
elections next fall. 1t Is undecided
whether this will be done by nominal
ing independent silver candidates for
congress or by indorcing such candi
dates of the old parties who have shown
by their records that they favor silver.
1t is the belief of those attending the
conference that national silver ticket
will be put in the field as result of
the pressnt meeting and of the
victories that they hope to achieve in
the congressional elections. Senator
Jones said at the close of the days con-
ference that this new national party
was among the strong PROBABILITIES of
the meeting.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-12-21
TEXAS FEVER CASE in COURT.


Kansas Farmers Suing for the Loss of
$4,000 Worth of Stock.
EMPoRIA, Kan, Dec. 1s-The celbrat-
ed Spanish fever cattle case was called
in the district court today. There are
$50 people seeking damages for cattle
alleged to have been lost by Texas or
Spanish fever
In May, 1882, Hosier Brothers, of
Kansas City, brought about 1900 head
of Texas cattle from Midland, Texas,
via the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, to
Hartford. From there they were driven
to the Brogan ranch, in Chase county
A short time after native cattle all
along the route began to die at an
alarming rate. A commission COM
posed of t. G. Wibley, John Minnick
and William Rogers reported the loss of
800 head, valued at $45, 1000, ranging
all the way from widows only COW to
Harrington & Lantrys loss of $4,000.
In this suit the parties who lost cattle
seek Judgment against the Hosier
Brothers, owners of the Texas cattle,
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the
Brogans for shipping the cattle and
driving them to the Brogan ranch.
There is a great array of famous legal
talent engaged from various sections Of
the union, and representative cattle
men from different portions of Texas,
from Chicago, st. Louis, Kansas City,
Omaha and elsewhere, who are fnan-
cially interested in the case, are in at
tendance