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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
SERVANTS MADE RICH.

Their Mistress Leaves Them Eighty
Thousand Dollars.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.-About one
fourth of the estate of the late Margaret
F. Ewing, valued at between 5000, 900
and $500, 600. is left to her three domes-
tics, Mary Frances Cole, Ellen c. Moore
and Augusta Lee, by the terms of her
will, which has been admitted to pro-
bate.
Miss Ewing died on New Years day
at her home, northwest corner of Nine
teenth and Arch streets, with the three
aged colored servants as her only COM
panions. The will directs that $4,000
is to be held by the executor in trust for
Mary F. Cole and $4,000 each for Ellen
j. Moore and Augusta Lee, and the in
come is to be paid to them. They are
granted the right to dispose of the money
at their death. They are also given the
household furniture and the privilege of
occupying her house at least 80 days
after her death free of rent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
A Center Shot.

The famous Boston economist who
is advising workingmen to accom-
modate themselves to the gold
standard by living on a dollar a
week meets with very little encour-
agement. AT a meeting of Boston
workingmen, last week, a speaker
said:
ave don't want to know how to
cook a shinbone SO it will taste like
beefsteak; we want the beefsteak.
We earn it and we want it."
This is plain English and it is the
plain truth. Our American mechan-
les, farmers, producers and toilers
generally earn the beefsteak and
they are entitled to it. There is
something radically wrong in a
financial policy which enables the
goldbugs to monopolize all the beef
steak, while the producers are
forced to dine on shinbone.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
Nihilists Plotting Again.

ST.. PETERSBURG, Jan. 16.-The French
police have senta communication to the
Russian police stating that number of
revolutionary documents were seized by
the police of the different towns of
France during the recent anarchist raids
which followed the explosion of Vail.
lant's bomb in the chamber of deputies.
These documents are said to compromise
a number of Russians residing at st,
Petersburg and in other parts of Rus
STA. The Russian, police have made a
series of domiciliary visits and have ar
rested a number of nihilists. 1t is also
said that many Russians of all classes
are now Swallowed by the police. There
was a plotAgainst the imperial family ON
New Years day, when exceptional pre-
cautions were taken to protect the differ
emit members.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
Crafty Reynard.

A most singular occurrence hap
pened in a fox hunt in Grafton coun-
ty, N. a. A fox was started, and
after lively chase reynard, being
closely pressed, ran into a cleft in
some rocks. A foxhound was imme-
diately after the fox and entered the
fissure at its heels with such velocity
that he stuck fast in narrow space.
Seeing the dog could not release him.
self, the fox turned and went out
where it came in, squeezing over or
under the dog in some way. The
hound was wedged so tightly in the
narrow space that the hunters were
unable to release him for a day or
two.-Lewiston Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
BURGLARS TOOLS IN SECTIONS.
rhey Are Thus Made to Conceal Their
Real Purposes.

They Are Thus Made to Conceal Their
Real Purposes.
To the eye of an honest man no tool is
burglars tool. Were he to find n most
approved kit, he would merely think
that mechanic had lost his stock in
trade. Drills, punches, bits and ordi-
nary jimmies have each almost a coun-
terpart in open daylight work, and only
to the sophisticated would it appear that
the bits of steel were implements of
crime. To those who know, the two
distinctive burglars tools are the sec
tional jimmy and nippers. the first being
a steel bar so arranged that it can be I'M
screwed into several pieces for conven-
fence in carrying.
The other is like a pair of curling
tongs, the clutching end being armed
with little teeth, and is used for turning
keys in doors from the outside. The
manufacture of these tools is not, as has
been supposed, confined exclusively to
any set of men. A burglar. DESTROYS of
obtaining a kit, will go to hardware
store and purchase drills. brace and bits,
punches and wedges, these latter being
in a series, from those the thinness of
knife blade to others the thickness of
ones hand. This assortment of seeming
ly innocent tools he takes to a mechanic,
with instructions to temper them to a
certain hardness. To another black
smith he goes, and drawing diagram
has piece of iron made in accordance.
Still another makes him second part,
and finally the thief has drag" the
most powerful and perhaps the most
useful tool, from his standpoint, that can
be used in opening a SAFE 1t consists of
long screw, with simple iron braces to
be attached by link to the knob of the
door.
A hole is bored through the front of
the safe by means of bit, block is adj
1usted on the inside. and ON this is placed
the point of the screw, which is turned
by crank. AS the screw revolves it
penetrates farther and farther until the
back is reached. Then, as the tremen-
dous pressure continues, something has
to give, the front generally being ripped
out.
This apparatus, in addition toits sim
plicity and quick work, has the advan-
tage of being noiseless.-Philad
11meS.
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TWO unknown FIeNps
Cut and Rob n Travelling Man and 1
Him on the Track.

Cut and Rob n Travelling Man and Lay
Him ON the Track.
WEST CHESTER, Pa, Jan. 16.-Aftel
supper w. n. Bonfeld, travelling agent
from GAINESVILLE, o.. took walk short
distance from his hotel at West Grove.
Two negroes sprang upon him along the
BaltimoreC Central railroad, who, drawing
a revolver, made him halt, then dubbed
him into Inconsistencies and cut him il
several parts of the body with razors.
He was robbed of $40 and all the valu.
ables he had and then thrown on the
railroad track. The p. m. express was
soon expected to pass that way, but the
man regained consciousness and crawled
off the track and then back to the hotel.
The country was secured all night but
the Williams escaped. They are supposed tc
be negroes who work in that section
every summer
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17

Orders had been given to the police
man to arrest all mendicants whom they
found in the streets. In obedience to his
instructions Nineteenth district police
man took into custody an old colored
woman whom he found soliciting aims
at Eighth and Chestnut streets. When
she arrived at the station house. the SER
geant in charge looked at her over the
desk in surprise. She was old. and her
hair had faded to gray, but her eyes
shone brightly. She made queer little
bow and said, Good even, mastr."
After ''auntie" had given her name,
the police official asked her age.
Laws sake, Idon' know. Been putty
long ago since my NANNY toll me. 1
clean gone fo'get." She smiled, and SO
did he.
care you married or single2"
''I dom know" came the answer. The
sergeant looked up dumfounded-
''You don't know queried he.
'sUmpum." said she, shaking her head
'tWhy don't you know
"'Cause TIE grass widow, respond
ed ''auntie. "-Ph Philadelphia Press.
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The Curse OF the Democratic Party.

~ ANA- - " AAAD A|NlAl4AfAA - ~ = 81
The Clarksburg Nescsa The one
curse of the Democratic party in
West Virginia is a Lotto protection
lists in its ranks who are masquer-
aiding in the guise of Democrats
They have not an honest conviction
on any political question, and care
as little for honest government and
the success of true Democratic prin-
ciples as the devil doesfor right and
holy living. They are Democrats
so-called for revenue only, and apart
from what is to be made by political
association, pecuniariIy, they are as
destitute of political principles as
they are of qualifications for heaven.
All such tricksters and thimble-
rigging political bummers should
go to the Republican party where
they properly belong. 1t will be
a happy radiance when they take
up their abode within the folds of
the enemy. There they can deceive
no one. An honest Republican
commands our respect far more
than they. tits high time the Dem
ocratic party was giving these gem
tIemen a rear seat and showing
them the back door. 1t is they who
put the Democratic party on the
defensive. 1t is they who now
threaten to make the great victory
of 1892 for reform count for naught
1t is they who by their cowardice
and chicanery give room for the
people to say that the party of JEFF
ferson is unfaithfuI to its pledges
and promises and no better in its
principles than the Republican par
ty. And the latter is indeed true if
such so-called Democrats as the
Governor of this State and others
of his ilk, who are posing as the
champions of monopolists and coal
barons, are the opponents of De-
mocracy. If theirs is Democracy
the sooner the people stamp it un-
der foot as an enemy of liberty and
good government the better.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
THREE WOMEN cREMATEo.
Burned to Death in Their Residence q
Barboursville. Nv.

Burned to Death in Their Residence ut
Barboursville, KY.
BARBoURsvMLE, KY, Jan. ia dis
astrons fire occurred at Mills, small
village about 16 miles from this place, in
Harlan county about daybreak in which
three persons persisted and a number of
buildings were consumed. The fire
broke ont in the store and residence of
Frederick Honson and the resident part
of the building was so nearly consumed
when the occupants were awakened they
were unable to escape with their lives.
Honson and his oldest son made their es-
cape. Mrs. Honson could also have been
saved, but for the fact that she attempt
ed to awake her two daughters, aged
respectively Il and 10, who occupied a
small garrett room overhead. Several
other persons were badly burned. Later
the fire spread and the loss is in the
neighborhood of $25, 600, with little or
no insurance. Mills is not railroad
town and is situated back In the Cum
berland mountains over a way that is
not often Travelled. A courier was sent
here to dispatch to relatives of the I'M
fortunate family, who live near Law
renee, Kan. There are several families
without houses and shelter, and their
relatives have but little to divide.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17

Our high tariff friends in West
Virginia are chuckling because they
think they have trapped Governor
MacCorkle into their anti Wilson
conspiracy by getting him to op-
pose certain features of the Wilson.
tariff bill. They will find, however,
that when their cloven hoof gets a
little larger, when their scheme to
betray and dishonor West Virginia
gets little palmer, when their pur-
pose to hand her over, gagged and
bound, to the Republicans is a little
more patent, then VIM. A. Mac
Corkle will repudiate all association
with them and their deep and dark
designs and denounce them and OPP
pose them as every loyal Democrat
should. Before these gentlemen
elect a Republican Senator from
West Virginia they will have to
find some way 70 get Grover CIeve-
land out of the White House, at
Washington, and VIM. A. MacCork-
lie out of the capitol, at Charleston.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
TYnia11,s n1odestY.

The late Professor Tyndall was
not possessed of too much of the
modesty that is supposed to charac-
terize genius. He was dogmatic in
his views and as ready, in the most
friendly way, to teach Mr.. Gladstone
politics as to instruct Mr.. Chamber
lain in business matters. 1t has been
said Of him that he never had any
doubt about anything. from home
rule to spontaneous generation, from
the composition of dust to the origin
of things. London Truth
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
a FIeatlnE Fr,ost Palnce.

PORTLAND, Me-, Jan. The Domin.
ion line steamer Labrador came up to
the harbor presenting a striking appear
ance. Every bit of iron or wood on her
surface was covered with ice. Chief
Officer Skyrsmire reports very rough
passage and that they encountered very
heavy storm. during which the glass was
remarkably low. They. encountered an
iceberg 90 miles to the eastward of Cape
Race, and the steamer Toronto, Portland
to Liverpool. off Cable, and the steamer
Titania, Baltimore for LIVERPOOL.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
WILL VOTE FOR THE BILL.
Senator Camden Gives His Position
With Regard to the Wilson Bill.

Senator Camden Gives His Position
With Regard to the Wilson Bill.
CHARLESTON, w. VA, January II.
Col. John NJ. Rowan having seen
a statement in some of the papers
to the effect that the members of the
Senate and House of Representa-
tives from West Virginia would not
vote for the Wilson tariff bill, wrote
to Senator ]. N. Camden recently
to ascertain whether the statement
was true. Col. Rowan has just re-
ceived the following reply:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. s. 1894.
'sCol. j. ~. Rocan, Charleston.
"MY DEAR COLONEL am graft
fed to receive your letter of the 9Th
inst. ]. always like to receive frank
letters from friends. You can set it
down as a mistake. do not think
that any member of the West gir-
ginia delegation will oppose the
Wilson bill because he cannot have
it as he would like. No doubt many
of us would vote for amendments
if we get the opportunity, but l
think that would be the extent of
the opposition of any of the delega-
ton: 1t would certainly be SO with
me. Our party has committed itself
TO revision of the tariff, and fail
ure to pass tariff bill would, in my
judgment, be disastrous to it. 1 sin
cerely trust that Congress will act
without delay in this matter. In
fact, prompt action is more import
ant than the details of the bill
What the country needs is to be re-
lieved from anxiety.
"With kind regards to yourself
and friends, 1 am
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The Vote Was y Failure.

The worthy Sunday school superin-
tendent was illustrating the text, What
soever man soweth that shall he also
reap"
Superintendent 1 want to raise a
crop of turnips, what sort of seed must
Isow?
Children-Turnip seed.
Superintendent-If want TO raise a
crop of tomatoes, what kind of seed must
sow2
C1ildren-Tomato seed.
superintendent-Very good. Now, If
you want to raise crop of good man
hood, what kind of seed must you sow?
And an observer who kept tally report
ed that the school on test vote was tie
between turnip seed and tomato SEED
Buffalo Times
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Poisonous Medicines.

Great care should be taken in adj
ministering remedies in the form of
tinctures which have stood for a
long time in small walls in the family
medicine closet. When the bottles
happen to be loosely corked, the al
cohol readily evaporates, leaving the
drug in the form of concentrated
tncture the pharmacopoeial dose of
which might produce very serious if
not fatal results. Sam Francisco Elk
aniner
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17

One of our Republican contempt
raries announces in screaming head
lines that if the Wilson bill passes,
big wages must go. They have al
ready gone. The McKinly bill sent
them. Wages have been steadily
decreasing ever since the passage of
the Mckinley bill and its support
ers have in addition been making
war on organized labor. The Will
son bill will not reduce wages but
it will reduce the cost of living to
the laboring man. What some i'll
informed people are pleased to call
'sthese Democratic times" are the
direct and inevitable result of the
Mckinley biIl.-DOminion.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
Sincerely yours,
[Signed] "J. N. CAMDEN"


Let Democrats everywhere imi-
tate the course adopted by the fat
fried organization that gives law to
the Republican party and send let
tiers and postals to their congress
men urging the passage of the Will
son tariff bill. That would be an
honest use of Uncle Sans mails,
compared with the bulldozing set
a-going by the Protective Tariff
League of New York. If the Will
son bill doesn't pass it will be sorry
day for the Democratic party when
called upon to give an account of
it's stewardship.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
..Your WIG or Your nc. >,

PADUCAH, KY, Jan. 16.-'.Your wife
or your life" demanded Frank Duly. of
Walker Wollen. as he displayed two re-
volvers. Duly took the woman, and the
whereabouts of the couple are unknown.
Wollen reported the case to the police,
but they have been unable to find any
trace of Duly and the truant wife. VOL
len and his wife came here from Evans
vile, Ind, recently.
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Knott would Not.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. 1t is now
stated that Ex-Governor Proctor Knott
of Kentucky was offered the position of
minister to Hawaii, and after ascertain,
ing that the president expected him to
substitute the queen for the proyission-
ais, refused to accept the appointment,
saying that he was an American citizen
and could not go to Honolulu to "over-
throw the descendants of Americans
and put heathens on top.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17

The Mckinley tariff was a gross
breach of faith with the American
people. The report accompanying
the Wilson bill pertinently reminds
Congress and the country that when
the high tariff rates imposed in 1862
were originally fixed it was done
on the distinct pledge that they
were to be lowered just as soon as
the special internal taxes levied on
manufactures to raise war revenues
could be abolished.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17

1t is said that one of the Clerks
of the Ways and Means Committee
has kept a record of the number of
persons who will be thrown out of
employment by the Wilson bill, ac-
cording to protests fled by the high
tariff advocates. The number has
reached four hundred and ten mil
lions and is still growing.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The senate, by
a vote of "a to 30, refused to confirm the
presidents nomination of Mr.. Horn
blower of New York as Justice of the
supreme court. The defeat is due in a
large measure to Senator Hill and his
hatred and opposition to the president.
This is the first really great defeat that
the president has sustained in nomina-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
PIttsburc.

Cattle-Prime, q coos 90; good, e 100
4 30; goodgbutchers', g 60@4 10; rough fat,
IS 1898 60; fair light steers, 50 1908 20;
bulls and stays, 2@9c; fresh cows, gao %
$50 90. Hogs Philadelphias, IS 45M
80; Workers, IS 35@5 so; good heavy
sows, 8 O0@5 Is: rough sows, 445c Sheep
Extra, g 1898 60; good, IS 2503 I'd:
fair, - 1902 90; common, 81 00@Sl 80.
Lambs. s. 00@3 so.
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Stockholders Nee ting.

Mason County BuLD'o & LOAN ASS,
Point Pleasant. W. Va. Jan. 8, 1884,
THE Annual Meeting Of the stock
4 holders of this Association, for the
election OF Directors, and for sueh 9th
er business as may arise, will be held
at the Insurance Office Of Tippett &
Hutchinson, on Thursday, February 1st,
1871, between the hours of and IL D.
M: G. q. BOWER, Sec'y.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
ADVENTIST Belize.
Think They VIII Return to the world
After 1t End.

AIHIIIA AHSJ VIII AkttuIH 20 ING WOFIu
After 1t Ends.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Jan. 1e.-The
Adventists here are raising $4,000 to be
used to construct medical sanitarium
at Claremont, South Africa The build
ing will be built here after plans fur
nished by DR.. j. 81. Kellogg, and under
his supervision. When completed it will
be taken down in sections and shipped to
Africa. The Adventists believe, it is
said, that after the world ends their
buildings will be preserved and they will
return and OCCUPY them,
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AFTER LYNcHeRs.
Grand jury Given Instructions to Investl

WEST UNION, O., Jan. 1e.-Judge
Davis gave the following instructions to
the grand jury in regard to the Parker
hanging: To make every effort to find
any or all of the men connected with the
mob and to indict them as murderers.
He further said that he would see that
they were tried as such. He also in
structed them to indict every reporter
that wired sensational reports which
had the effect of raising mob, and es-
pecially to indict the reporter who ac-
companied the mob and assisted at the
hanging.
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Drowned in the Rnpids

SEwELL, w. Va, Jan. 16.-While
rowing across New river between Fay
cite and Nutall, Thoms Delmo, his wife
and James Regress were carried over the
rapids to instant death It is reported
that the party came here from New
York, and We're looking for work.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17

Every true Democrat in Congress
must be found fighting under the
banner of tariff reform now. If he
can't follow his party's flag let him
get out of the party.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17

When Carnegie wrote the "Tri-
umphant Democracy" he was only
'fOreseeing the inevitable trend of
events in this country. And from
present appearances it will require
a pretty stout and high fence to
keep him out of the Democratic
party.-Parkersburg Sentinel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
Starving i'm NIanitobn.

MONTREAL, Jan. 16.-The reports of
starvation in Manitoba and the north
west are being verified. Advices state
that hundreds of destitute people are
walking the streets of Winnipeg and the
distress is terrible. To make matters
worse the Canadian Pacific has dis
charcoal a 1a,.ert. 1,I11I,I, ay of Y,,r,,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
TIE MARKETS..
Review of the Grain and Cattle Markets
For January IG.

Wheat - 5s@59c. Corn = 3s@4Oc. Cat
tle-Selected butchers, s. 9O@z .; fair TO
good, s. 00G3 IS; common. 81 1902 70.
Hogs-Selected and prime butchers, IS 20
as so; packing, IS 25@5 40; common to
rough, q 1898 Is. Sheep, 81 5003 20.
Ialiihs-S2 50l64 q
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Knled br . nurstIne sam.

PARKERsBURG. W. Va, Jan. 16.-While
Stanley Callahan was working at saw.
mill, near Rulings, the saw burst, send.
ing a piece through his breast, killing
him instantly. He was one of the own.
erS of the mill.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17

Thetariff-made millionaires didn't
care for the sufferings oftheir work
men so long as there was a prospect
of by any means defeating the Will
son bill. There is no such prospect,
and the smoke is again coming
from many a tall smokestack.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-17
Toledo.

asked; May, May, 641<c bid; July, 6SXc.
Corn-No. 2, cash, 35c; April. 371{c; May,
875<c. Oats-Cash, 29c; May, SOC bid. Rye.
Cash, Soc. Cloverseed-Prime cash, jan
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Doctor Beaten by thugs.

WHEELING, Jan. 16.-Dr. R. L. Ash
brooke, leading physician, was de-
coyed to lonely spot and probably
fatally bsaten by thugs. Lately he had
received number of anonymous letters.