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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04

There has been some discussion
about she Presidency Of the Board
Of Eduestion in Kiugwood District,
and many persons thinking that
there vas vacancy to eli at the
coming election. This is mistake
az the present incumbent, Mr.. NJ.
g. Feather, h0lds to the end Of the
term, two years yet. The State
sapt. Of Schools and Attorney
General have decided that all school
officers appointed to fIl vacancies,
hold 70 the end Of the term instead
q I'll the next election. Mr..
Feather makes a very good official
and win continue 20 serve the term
out. The only yaoancy on the
Board Is that Of Commissioner and
% i generally agreed 10 re-elect Mr.
A. g. Gibson.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04

We will publish the list Of the
Election Commissioners. next week,
as re-appointed at the last session
OF County Court, with some
changes. There will be but one set
Of Commissioners. and one voting
place at each point, aud no challen.
gers or booths or other red tape. as
nnder the Australian system of
voting. so that we will get one more
trial Of the old system. This will
be the last special school election,
ss this will all be doEe hereafter in
the fall at the regular general elee-
ton.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04
Commissioners Notice.

The above entitled cbqnccry cause. by d.
cree 81 The Circuit Court ~ Prc.ton so1nt~
mtre therein. on the first day of kpril a N
nso. having been referred a. tho undsrsixns.i
commissioner IN cb.ncery, with the foiiass,,,s,,
ol,ss,is,s To ascertain and report the real
Inc state and condition OF the title thei et., the
hens and charges thereon. their an,orufs ch.r-
actsf pr.orittc<. and To whom owing. 10 state
sndit and settle the administration accounts ~
~ Feather. Administrator Of the estat.. ~
~. aseeisn,: and apport,on the personai funds.
n,a:ns .he creditors Of the said estate accord
Ing 20 their respective prforifies: and nsc,rfain
an1 rci'prt what debt and lien the defend ants
-. y. s4ulres and Elizabeth squires. have bv
virtue % the matters set up in their answer
si ,,. soa. se report any other pertinent matter
Qulfci ny the parties any OF them.
=. me parties 10 said cau<e. to Wit. Maronres
= brown, plainiih and NJ G. Feather Adm,r
~ n. squares; y. Ami Martin. Trustee. Mareery
sluires. and John W. Watson. q A. l. defen-
an,nts. vii therefore. take notice that ON tbs
.th Gay or June A. d.. lsD2, al my office in ginr
wova. Preston county, W: Va. shall proceed
~ execute said decree. Given under INV bsnd
THIS l,7ii day of April A. ID 1853
ID: VI. wOrRIN0. Commissioners.
Brown 4 HYDE Aft'ys for Plaintif1
Hl3334t$S.c5l
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04

County Clerk Martin requests us
to say that the poll books for the
coming school election will be sent
opt to the Commissioners by mail
and that the old ballot boxes can
be used again at all the voting
places, except couple Of the new
places. and that ballot boxes will be
sent there, so that no one need
come ia at all for any election sup
plies. The election IN this county
VIII be held here the same as the
hast school election. two years ago,
and all the candidates for school
Offices viii have to get their own
tickets printed aud distribute them.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04

Luther f. Mckinney, Of New
Hampshire. appointed By President
Cleveland Minister 70 Colnmbia. il
a native Of Ohio, from which State.
II tbe ago Of eighteen, he enlisted
and served ~ sergeant ia Co. ID, in
she FIRST Ohio Cavalry, until 1868.
After tho var Mr. Mckinney stud
ied f0r the ministry, graduating in
New York in 1870. lie moved 10
New Hampshire in 1873, was do.
feated Tor Congress 81 Democrat
in 1884, elected 10 1886, defeated
again in 1888, but was aaain sue
oessfui in 1890. and served through
The 52nd Congress. Mr. McKu.
noy vas candidate on tho Demo.
cratic ticket for Governor Of his
State lsst year, but was defeated.
lie wug also prominently mentioned
fqr Commissioner q Pensions. The
position 70 which be bas just been
appointed pays The handsome sslarg
Of $4,000 per scar.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04
NOTICE TO LIEN HOLDERS.

IS Az PERSONS Holding Liens by Judgment or
0.netwlsc. on the Real Estate. or apy part
iheie col OF Joshua II. bowman:
IN pursuance OF a decree Of the Circuit Court
% frcstoh comfy, made In a exuse thereir,
tenalnE; 10 subject fine real estate Of the said
y,oshnn ~. bowman to the satisfaction of the
,vns 'here9n, you are hereby required To pro-
~ 80 .i"Hhs held by you ard each of you
against the said Joshua II BOWMAN. which ara,
en- on MS real estate. any part uf IL. for
D. iiSa,,.h 10 me, at my Office In Kingwoad
SttstSn county West Virginia, ON or before tb..
<'nd day of May. A. D.. Isl3 "e
A. ID, 1919. ' VI Api"'
..oo, NEIL J. FoRTNky. Commissioner.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04

The great long looked for and
much talked OF Worlds Fair was
formally opened at Chicago, Mon
day Of this week, with elaborate
ceremonies. President Cleveland
made tho dedicatory address and
touched the electric button that set
all the ponderous machinery in mo-
tion, and declared the great Expo
sitioa open for the general public
and the people Of the whole world.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04
ANOTHER WEST yIRGINiAN TO
THE FRONT.

Thomas Il. Thompson, of Santa
Rosa, California, has heen appoint
ed by President Cleveland Minister
TO Brazil. He was born at Charles
ton, w. Va, May 81, 1888, went
to California in 1856 and started
the Petaluma Journal, the first pa.
per established in Sonoma county.
In 1860 he purchased the Sonoma
Democrat, ut Santa Rosa, now the
centre OF q great fruit and WINE
producing section, and has been
identified with it as editor and pub
Usher for over thirty years. In 1862
Mr.. Thompson was elected Secre-
tary of State on the ticket with
Governor George Stoneman, and
before the expiration of his term of
four years, had to. certify to his own
election rs member OF the Fiftieth
Congress, being the third in line of
his family TO serve in that capacity.
His grandfather in the Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth, and his father
IN the Thirtieth. Mr.. Thompson
was defeated for reelection to Con-
gress on the ticket with Mr.. Cleve-
land In 1888, and has since taken
an active part in the campaign OF
education, by which his district and
State were converted to tariff re-
form. lie was delegate to the
Chicago Convention and member
OF the famous Whitney committee.
The position of U. s. Minister to
Brazil is quite an honor and pays
a handsome salary besides, 81, 900
per year, and We congratulate Mr..
Thompson most heartily. We had
the pleasure of meeting him and
accepting his hospitality while Wis
ting Santa Rosa last May. He
showed us through his splendidly
equipped newspaper building and
around the beautiful little city of
Santa Rosa, one of the most delight
full places in California. Mr..
Thompson seemed very glad to
meet with anyone from West Vir-
ginia, and one ''just from the sod."
He told us that he was born at
Charleston and related to the
Thompsons in that part of the
State. and spoke of State Treasurer
Thompson, and asked about quite
a number of other prominent West
Virginians. The Sonoma Democrat.
his paper, is one of the leading pa
pers in the State, and, all in all,
MIR. Thompson has succeeded we'll
IN his far western home, and we re-
tain very pleasant recollections of
him and his adopted home on the
Golden Shore" and VIC take pleas
ure IN thus noting the success of
another West Virginian.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04

Tho big Naval Reyiee IN The bar.
Dor at Now York City, last week.
vas one Of Che grandest displays Of
modern times and attracted people
from all over the world. Some Of
The most powerful ard best equip.
ped war vessels Of the leading ma.
tions q The world we're present and
participated ia Che big review.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04

Other places are already talking
about Decoration Day and several
towns are preparing to observe it at
home in a proper manner without
going off to Grafton on q spree and
desecratlng instead of decorating
the occasion. We are in favor of
this, and propose that the day be
observed right here at home with
appropriate services, and hope that
the G.. A. r. Post here will take
the matter in hand at once and
make the necessary arrangements.
We suggest that meeting be held
IN the Court House Square, if the
weather is Cue, or in the Court
House If it is not, and addresses
made by speakers invited for the
occasion, music by the Bands, and
parade or march to the Cemetery
here, where arc buried about fifteen
veteran soldiers, and their graves
decorated. Let those who prefer,
60 to Grafton, aud the others OBJ.
serve the day u. home. II the mat
ter Is stirred up, quite a crowd will
attend here. We call attention OF
the Post hero to the above, and
hope some action will be taken.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04

In renting money on subscrip
ton, il is entirely unnecessary to
say, "Please End enclosed" etc.
You can leave of the please" II
is a waste Of words to plead with
an editor in this way. II there is
any money, slsmps, checks or any.
thing ia the letter representing col.
lateral, be will find it, II he is blind
and both hands tied behind bin.
and don't you think he won't. II
lac doesn't, he is a fraud and a bo-
gus member u the craft and you
are better of without the paper.
just slip billin the letter, address
it plainly, say who it is from and
what Tor, and IL we don't get 1t.
the Democratic Administration will
be 10 blame for tin not turning
DOT aIl the Republican postmaster
soon enough.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04
LADIES ONLY.

pr: DU M0NT's FEMALE REGULATING
FILLS are always safe ard reliable ~ 90 t.
.mvnials from All over the world Ecwarf
DANGEROUS snbstitutes and iusifations PM. Sv
pee package Sent by mall securely sealed n, I'M
Address Bn r.. DuN.xr
- s. halstcd ST +. Chicago, m. a.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04
FOR RENT.

The Room nnfer the ola Feilous nan q. a..
ioMnei kccdsyilie, Preston county W Va. The
s.s'i is 5oAl feet In the clear, with good lot
.uacHt3s irntinR ON TunneitoD STREET W..
desire 20 rent for one, two or three ycar. IT,
room y well arranged for Furniture store alH
~. .eSttesirg Establishment: or any person
VA h'gs To- handle Farm Machinery or Agrisui-
niai IMPLEMENTS, could not find y more ds.ira-
bic location IN the county.
For further particulars call os, All, ,.yr,,. A.
Trustees If Rcedsvilic. ' e'o
r. J. WATSON
MASON WATSON I rru~f~s.
JOSEPH GKAhAN,
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04
FREE TRIAL.

Wpok Mon Sufferers from youthful e~
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encct a = eedy cure by It's use. thoussnds az
Sa,es 81 The Very worst kind and ~ long stand
ink nave bsel restored To Perfect health 5000
testimonial, from all over the w,rhi Price rsr
package 81 on. six for $500. trial package sent
Se'ureiy scaicd Ter 10 cents postage.
- . address, DR r. DuMoxr
~ :. Hnlsted ST., Chicago, Ill, q. s.A.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-04
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

TO THE cnrDiroRs or b. NJ. soursEs. Dxc.u.
~ pursuance Of "A decree OF the cfreuft Court
9t IA county Of Preston made In n cause thnr.
~ w tena,nR, to subiect the real estate of the
ri , -, ~ 10 the payment of his debts You are
.etnlteo 10 pre- cut your claims against the es-
, ,S 81 ne said B.sM. Squres for adjndicntion
~. - ~ ~ n0trsng, Commissioner, at his Office In
.ne sai1 county on or before the 9Th day OF June
neNt witness. y. w. Watson, Clerk OF said
Court TINS nth day OF April, 1898
10 'S"t' Sils J w. WATSON, Clerk.
WANTED I General Agents, either
,,r-... salary or coinmission
w rite az once giving experience. Alse all per
terms and particulars. w
SMITH PUBLISHING CO..
$40 West Washington St. Ifagerstown. Nd
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-23
A Very Remarkable Fly.

The African tsetse fly is small insect
rather larger than the common house
fly, of a brown color, with a yellowish
fly attacks men and beasts both day and
night. 1t can easily bite through kharki
breeches or flannel pajamas. Where il
existS-and it is extremely lOcal-it ap-
pears in much greater numbers on dull
or rainy day. Its bite in man, though
very sharp and needle-like, leaves no ir-
ritation, and ii invariably chooses those
parts that are shaded from the rays Of
the sun-such as under the brim of the
hat, behind the ear, neck and under the
throat, IL not protected by a beard. If
allowed to suck itself full, its body be-
comes so distended that it has the ap-
pearance of a small unripe purple grape,
and it is unable to fly more than a few
yards before settling. An African trav-
eler says of it:
This fly is really harmless to human
beings, but its effect on domestic ami
mails is of the moss disastrous nature
in fact, as far as my knowledge goes, all
domestic animals, with the exception of
goats and perhaps Of the gray donkey,
when struck by this fly are bound, sooner
or later, to die. 1 do not believe that
donkeys are impervious 20 its bite, and /
think that the wasting disease which
kills off so many of them comes from the
effect of being bitten by these flies.
have seen a bullock cut up after dying
from these wasting symptoms, which /
knew to have been bitten by the tsetse.
The whole of the juices Of the body were
turned into greenish yellow slime"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-23
WE'RE THE TIGHTS PRETTYs
Asbury Park Shocked Beyond All
Precedent.

ASBURY PARK, n. j., Aug. 16.-The
eyebrows of all good folks here are ele-
waited and frozen so with amazement
Mrs. Angelina Allen of Newark, a guest
at the Lafayette hotel at this place,
caused a sensation on Founder Bradleys
board walk late this afternoon by ap-
pearing in an extremely decollete bath
ing suit the skirt being exceptionally
short, hardly reaching to her knees. Her
limbs were encased in pair of tights
which barely came to her ankles.
The sight of the woman in the abbrevi-
ated costume attracted the attention of
several thousand people and it was with
considerable difficulty that she managed
to make her way to a neighboring photo
grapher's. With the assistance of a
policeman she managed to get back to
her hotel, but before she entered the
carriage that had been secured she was
compelled to wrap herself in a sheet
Thousands of men followed her to the
hotel. 1t was the first time in the history
Of Asbury park that woman had ap-
peared on the board walk in such
costume.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-23
GOOD BYE, PROHIBITION.
THE IOWA REPUBLICANS TURN IT
DOWN AS AN ISSUE.
Declaring That Belief in PrOhibi-
ton Is No Longer n Test of Re
publicanism i'm the Hawkeye State
"A Bitter Fight-The Ticket.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Aug. 16.-The fea-
ture of the republican state convention
today was the formal turning down of
prohibition, which the party has made
an issue for many years.
The platform. adopted after three
hours debate, declares that the de-
mocracy is responsible for the present
financial stringency, because it threat
ems to wipe out the Mckinley law, which
it indOrses as the highest form of states
manship. 1t declares for gold and sill
Yer money and their maintenance at
parity; opposes state bank money. 1t
indorses the Harrison administration
and expresses the belief that it is the
democratic purpose to destroy the whole
pension system. 1t declares that pro
hibitiOn is no test of repubIcanism,' -
and relegates the whole prohibition ques-
ton to the consideration of the legisla-
ture.
After the convention had assembled
ex-senator Harlan made a speech paw
ing the way for the turning down of
prohibition. A minute later the COM
mittee on platform was announced and
there was not a prohibitionist on it.
When the platform was reported there
was a three-hours' debate on the sub
ject. But prohibition was killed.
]. S. Lawrence of Sioux City was made
chairman, but not without determined
opposition. The following gentlemen
were placed in nomination for governor:
Gen. F. NJ. Deake of Centerville, w. II.
Torbert cf Dubuque, F. d. Jackson of
Des Moines. J. A. Lyons of Guthrie Cen
ter. L. S. Coffin of FIT. Dodge, +. S.
Ormsby of Emmettsburg, Lafayette
Young of Des Moines and Albert Head
of jefferson.
Jackson was nominated for governor,
Warren S. DUNCAN of Lucas for heuten-
ant-governor j. w. Luke for railroad
commissioner c.. s. Robinson for SUI
preme judge and Henry Sabine for SUI
perintendent of public instruction.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-23
MISS POLLARD'S FIRST LOVE.
Aiding Her in the Effort TO Ruin
Breckinridge.

NEW YORK, Aug. ia Washington
correspondent telegraphed his paper re-
garding the Breckinridge-Polla suit
this story:
Miss Pollard when quite young lady
was sent to college by an elderly admirer
upon condition that when her education
was completed she would marry him.
She met Breckenridge and her generous
lover was discarded without explanation
Years elapsed and he meantime assumed
that Miss Pollard's only reason for re-
fusing to marry him was that he was
not sufficiently educated and stylish for
her.
Recently, when driven frantic by
the marriage of Breckenridge to another
woman and in her dessolation, Miss
Pollard confided the truth TO her old
admirer.
He possessed ample means and he
promptly agreed to supply her with all
revenge. He said he wanted to kill
Breckenridge socially and politically; to
condemn him to a life of Ostracism; to
make him an outcast, Stunned by the
people who had so long honored him.
TT was through his persuasion that
Miss Pollard consented to file her suit
The old admirer, who is not the senior
of Breckenridge, not only sustains and
supports the woman he fancied in her
girlhood, but he is willing to make her
his wife when he shall have driven
Breckenridge to utter retirement"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-23
VICTORIA'S REIGN.
No Other English Sovereign Has Come
Near 1t for Real Duration.

The New Haven Palladium has this
to say of the reignS of the three SOW
ereigns who have remained longest on
the throne of Great Britain:
Queen Victoria has now reigned longer
than any English sovereign except her
grandfather, George III, who rCiCned
fifty-nine years and ninety-seven days.
A few days ago she passed the record
of Henry III, who reigned Iifty-six years
and twenty-nine days. In one respect
she has exceeded the records of either
of those kings, for they were both in
sane for several years while they were
on the throne. All conservative En-
glishmen hope the queen will live many
years, for they dread what may come
after her She is likely to be the next
to the last sovereign of Great Britain.
Neither Henry III nor George III can
be rightfully said to have ruled or
reigned so long as Victoria. Her grand
father crazy more or less of the time
after he had driven the American col
onies into rebellion. was seized in 1919
with his final attack, and during the re-
naming ten years of his insanity
(Which lasted as long as his life) his
son, the dissolute first gentleman in
Europe ruled as regent. becoming in
1920 George ". His fathers reign did
not really last for longer period than
forty-nine years-for a lunatic IS not
properly king. AS TO lIenrv III, born
in 1906, ten years also must be taken ont
of his long and wre-cned nominal reign;
for he was called 70 the throne when n
child of eleven years. A coward and a
notorious liar, like his father. King
John, he was forced, like that despica-
BILE fellow, to yield to the forces in arms
that his misrule had evoked As his
father by compulsion signed Magma
Charta Q215l, so his weak son, forty
three years later, agreed to the transfer
of his power TO the barons. A few years
later, when events. not his own force of
character, had seemed to restore him to
the throne, he was again beaten, by his
relative Simon de Montfort, and COM
PEELED to agree to even more humiliatinfz
conditions. To call such a persons life
a royal reign may not be to discredit
the average run of Britich royalty, from
John to George ~, for no excess of
vice or meanness could we'll discredit
much of it; but it is the fair and Just
distinction of Queen Victoria that her
reign has not only been a virtuous and
clean one-conspicuously in contrast
with that of many who have reigned in
England-but 1t has been, in reality
longer than that of any of her prede-
cessors. Whether she Is or not to be
placed in history as 1.-The next to the last
sovereign Of Great Britain" is a ques-
ton that time has not yet decided. The
prediction may not improbably- be veri-
fed by the fact
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-23

realty. Each year the 1.250,000 paid him
by the company for the privilege of
carrying on their nefarious work in
his province is applied by the present
prince of Monaco to the building of
churches, schools and hospitals In ad-
dition the company pays the entire cost
of government of the province. The
population has the schools free and pays
no taxes. but has no part in public af-
fairs The company pays the theater
100000 francs yearly, the orchestra costs
the same amount and the payroll for
officers and servants, among them 100
croupiers, foots up 100000.
To the press is paid yearly 100000
francs, one Paris paper alone receiving
$4,000 others $4,000, and the provincial
papers from 1000 to 10000. according to
their Importance. Newspaper cores
pondents also. among them several
Englishmen, stand on the list, paid not
for what they write, but that they SIM
ply keep still. The company has also
it's pensioners" people who have lost
their whole fortune in play. and re-
ceive support in proportion to the
amount which they have lost. For ex-
ample, one Englishman who lost 1000 900
receives 40 francs a day, another 10. and
others the same amount per week
Among the other expenses is that Of
the removal of the victims Of play. The
hotel bill is paid a railroad ticket bought
and 20 or 40 francs given them accord
ing 10 the IeHSln OF the journey. Inc
entire expenses of the company are
II. 2500 900 francs yearly.
The number of suicides during the last
year was five. These happened in the
hall itself, the numerous other cases
never coming to light. A young Ameri-
can, having lost his own fortune and
that Of his mother and sister, threw
himself Under the wheels of a railroad
train. Two Americans from New Or
leans shot themselves not long ago
after they had, lost 100000 francs
Harper's WeeklA