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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-01
ALEXANDER,
SHOE SELLER,
1O49 MAIN ST.
GRAND PICNIC!
or THE-
BUTCHERS ASSOCIATION
or Wheeling, W. Va. TO be held os the
Kew Fair Grounds, Thursday August 3.

A grand street parade at socloek a m. Dauo-
log, horse and bicycle races. All Meat shops
will close on tie aleve date Al A. m. The eat.
Ing stands will be In charge OF compliant ladies.
Music by the Opera House aud Meister's
Brass Bands for parade and coacert mnsic, and
Meisist's String Band for dancing.
RACES--Trotting aud paciug race, purse 500
hrst sS5. second SIS; mile heats. two IN three
Second. half mile RAINING raoe. free for AL.
parse toO FIRST as. second So, two IN three.
Third. a race between r. q. hcClellAnd agAiatt
a horse OF John McGsnnon's foe pare nom
the butchers OF so, the winner 10 take ali Mo-
Gannon's horse Is 10 ruu half = mile While No.
Clelland rams four hundred aud seventy yards
Fourth. two bicycls raceG enc too nile "a "a
and the other oRe-hAlf mile dash; prizes, Gold
Medals. Two prizes go the win0crs OF The two
mile dash and one prize TO the winner Of tho
one. half mile dash.
Calf Killing Contest. In white linen suits. for
the best tine and neatest work. Purse ti,.
hrst s.. second ais third tl5. three % start.
q. h. Ne dick has the regula loss. Lamb Kill.
Ing for boys under eighteen years OF ace, for
best time snd neatest work. Purse N5 lfst
Q o second g..
Admisaon to tho Ground, 10 cents. Grand
Stand. 10 cents. No charges Tor Vehicles.
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-01
Omces Moved.

The room at the north end Of the
electric power house, in Upper Ben
wood. has been altered to be used for
an Office for the Central Construction
Company and the street railway CON-
pany. The west wall has been re-
moved and replaced by bay window.
The Office furniture has been removed
from Tenth street, and the Construc-
tien Company's Office in the Hawley
block.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-01

The Wheeling Butcher Association
have agreed 10 have q barbecue In connec-
tion with their picnic, august 3. Five
qead OF cattle viii be roasted.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-01

Go to the new Fair Grounks to-day enn
to-morrow and sss the grea,est wing
sbotsfn America ~ rhe traps. Take boat
foot 81 Twelfth afrees
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-01

two barrels.
Event o-Fifty single targets. Price OF Targets
Individual State Championship Race for N. L.
S. A. Individual Trophy.
Event l0-FifteeD single targets Surplus
shoot .............. Price OF Targets
Known traps and unknown angles.
The shooting will commence this
morning at 900 o'clock, and tomorrow
morning at o'clock. There will no
doubt be large attendance OF specta-
tors. A small admission fee will be
charged, and ladies will be admitted
free.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-01

Don't forget the great trap shooting n
new Fair Grounds to-day and Tomorrow.
Take beats foot or twelfth stree.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-01

NEW YORK, PITTSBURG, GIN
IN cinnAti and other leading daily papers
delivered. Pictorial aud Literary Weekly Pa
pers and Magazines, Fashion Monthlies. Cheap
BooEs, Base Bali Goods. CroQuet and Ham
mocks, at low prices.
set Street
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-01
HOTELS.

DRESSER HOUSE, MRS. CHAs. PRESsER,
i IL South Mississippi avenue, Atlantic City.
Rates tI25 per day. s. Fer week Open all the
wear House established ~ years. Airy Rooms.
New furniture. ly4M4TuL
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-01

Children Cry fer Pitchers Castsris
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-01

ChHdrsn en- Ear PItshsr's Castsria
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-01
GENERAL NOTICES.
ASSESSMENT MOTIF
Board Of Equalization and App

CIKKK's orr cK. Chr o.
Public notice 10 hereby given -
interested that the Asststofs ~
Council Of che city Of Whesing ~
their asssss1enE for ne Tsaf anY
thereof % my odicc. AnJ PER
appeal from sid astsssmsnt
Corrections made viii spper
lag. before the Boari o.
peals. on the follDvingds
a. the board Will nsst
City Building 70 bear
sessmsnt and revise =
Hirst uafd-Tbgfs
second uard-Fri
Third uafd-N
Fourth ward
beTeath va
Fifth war
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Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
A RATTLING TIME,
Given stick and a Picket Fence the
Boy Is Bound to Have 1t,

e'iven Stick and n Picket Fence the
Boy is Bound to Have 1t.
Every middle-aged man of sound
memoir who was brought up IN town."
said Mr.. Gratebar, will recall the fact
that when he was boy he found
great delight in rafting a stick along
the picket fence.
This amusement of childhood like
many others of that period of life, ap-
pears to have been transmitted from
generation to generation without ma
terial change. The strings of spools
and the soldier hats and so on of the
children of to day are substantially
like those of their forefathers. But it
might seem to some that this success
sion is in danger of being broken
I'm many suburban towns and viii
lages there is now no picket fence.
The modern spirit says lawns, and so
there are many places where the
houses are as if in parks, and where the
younger children might not know a
picket fence if they should see one.
Il have two children, for instance,
who | am quite sure have never en-
joyed the felicity of rattling a hard
stick against the rcsounding pickets.
1t might indeed seem, under such cir
cumstances, that this is one of the en-
Joyments of childhood which in some
families might be lost altogether: that
one could scarcely expect the children
of these children who have never
ratified picke.s to think of it them
selves; but | cannot believe this.
81 believe, rather, that if in their
youth the children of these children
should come upon n town where
picket fences still remained they
would pick up the han tiest stick and
go quite naturally and very gleefully
rafting it along the picllets; for can
not believe that habit grounded for
centuries in the human race can be
utterly lost by its lapse in a single
generation.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
INHABITED BY A GHOST.
A House IN CO chroos, \. H.. all to
Re Hauntpd

A House Co cbrook, \. H., all to
BE Haunted.
The community of Coebrook. \. II
is very much exercised over the ghost
which is said to nightly haunt what i
known as the Warrington pace. a
small house situated about mile and
2 half from town. This ghost is said
to be that of the houses last tenant.
Cornelius Warrington, who a few
months back hanged himself there.
For some years Warrington had been
unpopular with the townspeople, ow-
ing to suspicion that he had been in
strumental in bringing about his
brothers death, which left him heir to
his relatives property.
The body of water was privately ex-
humed and examined, but there being
nothing found to sustain the suspicion
of foul play Warrington was never
publicly accused, though most of the
community still believed him guilty,
and accordingly tabooed him. This
finally SO affected the mans spirits
that he made way with himself
veral responsible persons who
knew Warrington well in life testify
to having seen him about the place of
late, but that on their trying to accost
him he disappeared. The house now
belongs to a distant relative residing
in New York, and when he heard of
the ghost he ordered an examination
made of the premises. This task was
John Flemings well-kno@n citizen,
who saws that he distinctly saw Corne-
Illus Warrington one night enter the
house, but on going to search the
place found it locked up securely and
without living creature in it.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
ELECTRIC LIGHT CURES.
Experts Claim the Treatment Is More
Rapid in Action Than Drugs.


Now the electricians have advanced
the proposition that electric light has
curative properties. The new appa-
ratus is arranged to throw rays of
electric light upon the whole or any
part of the body. The doctors all
know that ozone is powerful disin-
fectant. DIR. Ohlmueller, the Berlin
expert, has killed the typhus bacillus
in two minutes with ozone, and the
cholera bacillus in five minutes. 1t is
also known that the transmission of
the electric current through atmos-
phere converts the oxygen into ozone
A thunderstorm clears the air. On
such established facts as these the
electricians base their claims that the
electric light has curative property.
When the rays are directed from
the apparatus to any part of the body
the effect is to increase the circulation
and bring on a copious perspiration
where the light strikes. If it is de-
sired to treat some particular part of
the body, the screens and reaectors
are adjusted so that the electric light
is thrown to that place alone. If gem
eral treatment, as well as local ap-
plication, is wanted, the patient sits
with his back to the apparatus The
specific rays are thrown upon the
diseased spot and the general electric
light is thrown upon the whole body.
Different colored lights are employed
for different oiseases. For some cases
the electric light is thrown through
blue glass. For special effect on the
blood red electric light is used, and
for results on the nervous systen the
color is yellow.
Sun baths are as old as the hills.
Electric light baths are something en-
tirely new. The doctors examined
the contrivances with a good deal of
interest The astonishing claim is
made by the electricians that this
treatment is more rapid in its action
than drugs. They tell great things
of what it has done for grip-stricken
patients. There is almost nothing to
which the electric light treatment is
not applied.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
Snow of Different Colors.

The pure white color of snow, as
we were all taught at school, is due 70
the fact that all the elementary colors
Of light are blended together in the
radiance thrown off from the innu-
merable CRYSTALS of which it is COM
posed. But all snow is not white, and
exactly why it is not is puzzle to the
meteoro ogists At the head of Holy
Cross Creek, Colorado, and at several
places on Mount Shasta, Cal, blood
red snow is found. At Carniola.
Germany, in ls1S, five feet of red
snow fell and was followed by about
an inch of fine blue hail Pliny men
tions snow black yellow, red and
green.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
renting d, Breach of Promise suit.

The following story of 4 suit for
breach of promise, tried some years
ago, was recently told by n relative of
the defendant: The case began to look
very much as if it should be won by
the fair plaintiff when one morning
as the friend came down street he OBJ
served the attorney for the defense
waving his hat and wearing a happy
expression of countenance As he
came near the attorney exclaimed:
''We've beaten them, We've beaten
them" How so?" queried the rela-
tive, wondering what new phase the
case could have assumed ''She died
last night" joyfully replied the at
torney.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
His Opinion.

Rufus Choate was called into Maine
to defend brother lawyer who was
under cloud; and, while preparing
the case, he was taken sick, the party
In whose cause he was acting having to
appear before him in his chamber with
his witnesses. One of the latter was a
good deacon who was deeply inter-
ested in the case, and was very earn
est in depreca ting the wrong done his
legal friend. We'll deacon" said
the great lawyer, what do you think
of the treatment of your friend?" II
think" was the startling reply, that
1T is ID shame!" That is my
opinion" said MIR. Choate; ,'but you
have given it a pious emphasis which 1
would never have aspired to-"
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
sCfenc 70 N. le s5oc-,r Retter

A s!in char &c. you iarcy. Well. read and
judge 'or ,Cu self You have catarf. $500 i.
fer. r an ncurchle ca.c Of caIarh in the
he al. by the proprietor OF Dr SAGE. Catarrh
Femedv.
:, mproms of Catarrh- c"Gachc. obstruction
of the rose, discharges falling no the throat
sometimes prufuse, watery aId acria. al urhc rs
thicr, tenacious, mucous. purulenr. bloody
puirid ard offensive: eyes week, ringing in the
ears, 6eofn"sS; ffsns'v, bIcat :-mell and taste
IMPAIRED. and Cnetai tb V. tniy few of
these = mptoms are likely b resent AT once
T. Sase's RrnresH cUr,s The NCr>T ca-es, only
~ cents. Sold by drrg- SIS evtrN where 500 or
a cure. Either Wou'd be a cepI ahle
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
HE SHORTENED THE DAY.
What Joseph Gales Did for His Work
men Years Ago.

Inth hehrs ago.
The labor element of this country
owes n debt of gratitude to a long
since deceased Washingtonian whose
ashes repose on the banks of the An
acostia river in Congressional ceme-
terry.
Love thy reighbor as thvself' was
one OF the many maXims Joseph Gales,
who lived the early part of the CEN
tury, loved to follow.
As member of the firm of Gales 4
Seaton, he for years published the
National Intelligencer, which in ante
bellum days was one of the most sue
cessful newspapers in America. Here
he amassed wealth and lavishlv spent
it. His enter r-ainments at Eckinrtou
are to-day matters of history. With
all the magni fcent surroundings that
money could procure he was ever
thoughtful of his subordinates and to
his mind the laborer was worthy of
his hire
The National Intelligencer building
in 1880 was located at the northwest
corner of Seventh and D streets At
the time mentioned the stru cture was
being remodeled ana large force of
laborels was employed. Their hours
of labor were from daylight to dark,
and their compensation 81. % day.
Mr.. Gales learning of this sent for
his superintendent and on verifying
what he had Learned from another
source instructed his foreman to no.
tify the men they would be required
to work only ten hours u day and
would be paid S1.5O instead of 81. 25.
Thus was inaugurated the ten hour
day.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
LUKE'S IRON CROWN.
A Terrible Mode of Punishment Used in
the Middle Ages.

the Middle Ages.
One of the most awful modes of pun
ishment inflicted by the law-invested
barbarians of olden times was that
jocularly referred to by the old in
quisitors as "Luke's iron crown" l
can only find record of one country
Hungary-where it became the recog-
nized mode of killing criminals con-
victed of enormous crimes (and there
it was only used on regicides) but
several other governments are known
to have used it in aggravated cases.
This mode of punishment with an
apostolic name consisted of placing a
crown of red-hot iron upon the head
and leaving it there until the sizzling
flesh and bone burned away and al
lowed the very brain of the writhing
wretch to be fried to crisp before life
had entirely left the body Gould
even hoofed and horned, spike-tailed
devil, fresh from the Internal regions
devise more inhumau method of in
fiicting the death penalty?
The term "Lulle's iron crown was
applied to this method of legal killing
because II was first used in ridding
Hungary of a rebel named Luke Dosa.
Luke and his brother George headed
a revolt and the former allowed him
self to be crowned king by his fol-
overs. When finally taken by the
government they made the crown
business too hot for him"-an ex-
ample to future would-be kings.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

The feeling of good many men
with regard to public Office is no doubt
much the same as that which a certain
distinguished Frenchman had, or pro-
fessed to have. toward the academy
that group of forty who are called 1.-The
lmmortals." He was asked one day
why he did not propose his candidacy
for the academy. "Ah," he said, ''if
applied and were admitted, some
might ask. why is he in it% and I
should much rather hear it asked.
why isn't he in it?''
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

A creole, strictly speaking, is any
person born in this country or the
West Indies of European ancestors;
also any person born in or near the
tropics, and this is the sense in which
the word is usually employed The
use of the word, however, has been by
some restricted first to children Of
foreign parents born in Louisiana, and
second, to children of Spanish or
French parents born in Louisiana, and
then IN the North the word has been
perverted so that it is believed to imply
some strain of negro blood in person
to whom it is applied. 1t does not
imply anything of the sort.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

SENATOR SHERMAN denies tnat he
ever uttered the eulogy of Mr.. Cleve-
land which is going the rounds OF the
press. 1t was thought little
strange that he should have given
public utterance to sentiments at
once so patriot and so devoid of par
tisanship. 1t is well known. how
ever, that in private the Ohio sena-
tor does occasionally concede that
there are democrats quite as able and
patriotic as himself,
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
VALUED PLAYING CARDS.
They We're Once Used by Alexander H.
stephens of Georgia.


Il have pack of silk playing cards
that value very highly" said patri-
archal-lookiug Colonel Fitzhurh of
Texas. They We're given to me by
Hon. Alexander II. Stephens Of Georgia
while he was in congress a good many
years ago. He was vcrv fond of PLAY
ing withstand one evening had invited
Senator Frye Of Maine, Senator David
Davis of Illinois, and ex-senator Rob
ert Toombs, of his own state. to his
rooms for social game They sat
good while, every member of the quar-
tet enjoying the pastime with keen
zest. In the cut for partners Mr..
Stephens and Mr.. Frye were pitted
against the other pair and won nearly
every game, both ranling as master
players. l think Mr.. Toombs was the
most Indifferent player of the four.
He was of too impetuous a disposition
to master the science of whist After
the play was ended the host presented
me with the cards, and | would not
willingly part with them.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
HIGHLY ENDORSED
A Reliable Druggists Opin-
ion Of Kickapoo Indian
Remedies.

Every Chemist, Every Botanist and every
physician who is unprejudiced recognizes
in the Kic1apoo Indian Remedies rare and
valuable qualities not possible to be found
in any others.
They also recognize the fact that the In
dians by their life, training and natural
knowledge, secure the very choicest kind of
roots, barks and herbs, gathered at the
right season and properly prepared to pre-
serve their medicinal virtues.
No class of people in the world can CON-
pete with the Indians in this particular.
That is why Kickapoo Indian Sagwa and
the other Kickapoo Indian Remedies al
ways give such satisfactory results.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

CH NEsE smuggling across our
Cana dian border has received tenn
porary check But it is doubtful if
5000 miles of boundary line can be
80 guarded that this kind of SNUG
Cling can be entirely prevented. When
Canada is annexed all these problems
will settle themselves.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

THERE is one thing greatly to the
credit of that sailor who died lately
in Philadelphia after fasting for sew
enty days-he was doing it because
he was mad at his clearinghouse
keeper, and not with the intention
of going on the museum circuit.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

THE public has already concluded
that telegraph and telephone wires
should 90 underground. If many
more electric accidents occur it will
decide that electric cars ought to go
underground or else considerable
distance above ground.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

A DETROIT book dealer says that
nearly twice as much light literature
is sold during the summer months as
in the winter. The increase is caused
by tourists, who, as a rule. prefer
novels and books of fiction - those of
standard authors.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

IT has been many years since Lew
Wallace brought out Ben Hur," and
not until recently has he brought out
another book. 1t is better to write
few books worth reading than a hun
dred that are good for nothing.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
Nj lSf he Trna.

A North Carolina woman has lock
OF hair sent to her by friend two
years ago. II was then an inch and a
half long. 1t has been growing ever
since, and nov it is over a foot long.
AT least that is the story she tells, and
there is no one in the town who will
venture to deny it
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

A JOURNALIST at Rome threw a
bomb with evident intent to create a
sensation, and succeeded. His own
proportion of the sensation, it is be.
lieved by those who picked up the
scraps Of him, was too much for his
vitality.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

The financial distress in New York
has reached pass that almost battles
comprehension. A pawnbroker failed
the other day, and people are even
looking with suspicion on the most
prominent faro banks. w
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

THE realm over which the duke of
Edinburgh is to hold sway in Ger
many, is only about half as largo as
Rhode lsland-.'a little kingdom for
penny some of the Britishers feel
disposed to call it.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

THE people of Nicaragua are tired
of revolutions and would welcome an
American protectorate. But why
should the United States be asked to
go to the expense of keeping the
peace in a revolutionary country
that cannot keep its own peace?
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

SEVERAL persons have of late laid
stress on the point that ministers
work Sundays for pay. Clergymen
can easily ward of further attacks of
this sort by preaching free and rails
ing rates on the midweek prayer
meeting.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

THAT plot to reinstate monarchy In
Hawaii was deserved izzle There
Is still secondhand throne for sale
in Honolulu but it must not be used
on the premises.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

SOME one seems to have told the
sultan that chlorate of potash is
a dangerous explosive. Consequent
ly no druggist or pharmacist in Con
stantinople is allowed to sell it. The
grand master of artillery alone is al
lowed to have it in keeping.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

FRANCE is getting a bit too rapa-
cicus. Not content with ravaging
Siam, she now proposes to annex
Hebrides. Why doesn't she show
her spirit and valor by regaining
Alsace-Lorraine if she is so land
hungry?
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

A MAN in Philadelphia has gone
for seventy-six days without food.
This story would be remarkable
coming from any other city, but
Information is very common in Phil
adelphia.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

THF average pay of college profess
sors now Is Sl,46O a year. And yet
most OF them probably will keep
right on processing instead of look
ting Cor an opportunity to play base
ball
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MoLoNEY is
preparing to prosecute the Adams
county white caps.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-09-22
FRIDAY, SEPT. %. 1898.

THE United States mint will not
coin any more $3.50 gold pieces. A
good idea.