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$50 according 10 accommodations.
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Nem pnbllrallons.
yy,uE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY
FOR JUNE.

THE FINAL EFFORT OF THEOLOGY. by Andre" T.
White.
An account Of the hostile reception giveh 10 D"'"
ocb-making book by misguided theoloslaas'
,,,c,p,c,-A AND THE MOSQUITO COAST. illus
trated) by DR.. r. y keely IT,
Describes the country about Buehelds WnCn and
O., ,hreateninr 70 absOTS: government nhaD''s anu
fruit plantations.
PLEASURES or THE TELESCOPE. dilustrated) Dy
Garrett y. Serviss
Advice and directions for amateurs in astronomy
DAIRY SCHOOLS AND DAIRY PIoDCCl9' N"
trated) BY Professor F. W. No"
r,,,r, schools are a new thing In This country anu Wv
,ioneer institution founded only four years ago. 10 W
fully described
OTHER ARTICLES;
vvrtsNANN's CONCESSIONS TIE ClNSIESHIItu III ~
DAM; THE EYE AS AZ 0l,rIIAtt TIS2Y sIioTLD
Pp0fi IRITORY LAWS BE AROIISiEDr i Inn ~ =,
AGE AID IT'S WORK "; SKETCH or "Ei'Ai'"
TROOST with Portrait
CORRESPONDENTS EDITORS TABl'E. ,rI III Ei'-Nii
NOTICES POPULAR MISCELLANY NVIH''
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-23
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends TO personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet.
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
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the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health Of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in TIC
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due TO It's presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the TASTE, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties Of perfect lax
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dispclling colds, headaches and fcycrs
and permanently curing constipation.
II has given satisfaction TO millions and
met with the approval Of the medical
profession. because it acts on the Md
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cring them and il is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for salc by all drug.
gists in 50c aud 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufacturd by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrnp Of Fig.
and being we'll Informed, you will no.
Gcccp. any substitute ii offered.
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BERLIN. Juno 2o.-The Cologne Caste
has caused n sensation In court and
other Clrclea by announcing that Coun.
Won koCtgo, ono OF tho masters OF core.
monios OF tho imperial court, was ar.
rested GU Sunday last on most extra.
ordinary charge.
Tho arrest OF Count Won Koctzo IL tho
result oil four years o! patient police in.
vestiga.ioa. Daring all that period
members OF tho highos. aristocracy OF
Germany have been in receipt Of anony.
moua letters and postal cards. These
mlssivcs, in most instances, wcTo used
by the anonymous writer TO mako tho
most indecent personal accusations,
cithor against tho persons to whoM they
worO addressed, or against their init.
mate fricnds or dearest relatives. Moth.
ing seemed too vilO for tho anonymous
writer to intimate Of tho objects OF HE
v0nomous attacks, and tho result TRs
that very bitter feelings wcrc caused in
many worthy families. Husbands were
led to suspect their wives; fathers
learned 10 doubt their sons; daughters
began to look with suspicion on their
nothers; lifelong friends woro scpa-
rutad, ;ahd, In briVf, irrcparablc wrong
wac done In great number Of noble
familics.
In number Of cases 1t would seem
tho people who received the ANONYMOUS
communications. instead o. tearing
them up with contempt, broodod over
them and did exactly what tho aDony-
nous enemy wanted them to do. In
other instances. however, tho persons
who received these communications
placed thom in the hands OF tho police.
After long and patient work they dis.
covered tho source OF these dcIpicaOlo
missives.
On Sunday last Count Won Koctze,
uponrcturuing from visit to Schroeder
shun, PEussian Silcsia, was arrested i'll
this city by Gen. Won Hahnke. chief OF
the emporor's military cabinet and
aidc-de-Calnp to lis majesty, charged
With being tho author OF this long Sc
ries OF anonymous ISLANDERS. Shortly
alter the arrest, upon the suggestion OF
Con. Won Hahnke, who personally eX-
amined tho prisoner, physicians wore
sent for in order that Won kootze's
mental condition might bo determined.
It was shown that tho prisoners father
died in IN asylum for tho insane, aud
the examining physicians opinion was
that tho son was the victim OF mania.
The inquiry is proceeding. The coner-
81 opinion seems to be that as convc-
nicnt way on. OF q mos. disrracefuI III
fair Won koetzc will DO confined in an
asylum.
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80 REPORT YET

From tho Grand Jury Regarding tho
;Ccusant Sugar Scandal Witnesses.
WASHINGTON, D. c., juno 22.-The
conclusions reached by the grand jury
in tho casos Of tho rccusant witnesses
before tho senate sugar t,us. inye=tI-
eating committee will not be officially
announced before next week, il ,hen,
the jury evidently having some reluct-
ance to act. A short session vas held
to-day. The only witness was Senator
Gray. chairman Of the investigating
committee, who testified to tho action
OF Broker Chapman, OF New York,
whom he was called before tho com.
mittec. He dwclt on the refuaals TO
reply to the senatorial inquiries and
submitted to an examination on this
point by tho members OF the jury. He
pointed out the Illegally OF tho actions
OF tho witnesses and cited the law bear.
ing on the case. His testimony swaa
very brief, as the session OF tho Jury
continued less than al hour. At noon
the jury adjourned until Monday.
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MOUSDSVlLLE.
= Miscellaneous Nelauso Of Minor 1Iat
tiers from MnrshaIrs 3lctropolis.

= Miscellaneous Nelau.o of Minor 1Int.
ters from MRrshaIrs metropolis.
Tho EpwoItt League has elected the
following delegates to the district con.
vention in Wheeling next Thursday:
Miss Anna Sunderland, Mira. ADA Car.
rick, Miss India Evans. Miss LetLIa Dick,
Miss Mary Scott, Charles Manning and
James 4. Sigatoose. The league will
spend the Fourth OF July on the farm
of Thomas Scott, ut Round bottom.
The coal works had 10 shut down yes.
terday on accoun. OF broken pump.
II was reported around that the miners
had COMO out on another strike. Dir.
Brooks went 10 Pittsburgh on the
early train yesterday morning for Q
now pump and returned in tho aitor,
noon. The worko will go on again this
morning.
Tho Republican county executive
committee vii! meet in tho court house
next Tuesday, at which timo the order
for q county convention will most likely
be rescindcd, as the sentiment OF tho
party seems 10 be almost unanimously
in favor Of primaries instead Of the con
vcntion.
Solomon Lightno9. stannch Repub.
lican OF Webster district, was in the
sheriti's Office yesterday settling his last
years taxes. lie was compelled to sell
his clip OF wool Ut eighteen cents d
pound in order TO raise the necessary
funds to meet his tax bill.
Tho Moundsville Driving Park and
Fair Association will give picnic and
numbar Of good horse and bicycle
races on July I. A foot race will be O
feature.
The wife of D. B. Ray died on Thurs.
day o: consumption. She had been IN
invalid ior long time. The funeral
took place yesterday.
An infant child OF Rudolph laugh
died on the camp ground Thursday
night. It vii! be taken to Bellairc for
burial.
A marriage liccnse was issued to Mr..
Barney Shalvoy and Miss Mary Z.
Nagcl, OF Cameron, yesterday by Clerk
Lewis.
4 colorcd woman convict in the poni-
Tertiary was released Yesterday after
serving four years' term.
]. X. Chase. assessor for the second
district, was ut tho county seat yestc.,
day fixing up his books.
viii Bryan, baggage master Of tho
baltimore s. Ohio, !s away on ! vaca.
ton.
A colored band has Been organized in
the city.
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Condition OF the Irou Trade.

CLEVELAND, O., June 22,-The Iron
Trade Rcriclc says: The heavy decrease
in pig iron stocks in May, amounting in
the case OF coke iron to 10000 tons, in
dica,es that the market has complied
with ono o. the conditions Of az nd.
vance, but Views differ as to whether in
foundry and forge irons there will be
such 4 sustained demand az will justify
higher basis. :.
Pittsburgh furnace,nen have made
further sales OF bcsgemcr pig, three
months delivery, beginning in July. O.:
Sll rs, and, whore only July aud August
deliveries arc specified, this price has
been bes,ered, one 1900 tons sale, with
q delivery IN these two months, being
reported ut SIC p, anu Que OF 1000 tons
at SO.
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Il DlsG..ACEEun SCENE.

Tho Notorious breckenridge Receives IN
Ovation ut Hinton, W. Va.
HINTON, ". Va, june Cool. W. c.
Breckenridge passed through to-day on.
route homo from Washington. About
800 citizens assembled Mt the depot and
mado calls for him. flo appeared At
tho car window aud shook hands with
the multitude, whose cheers woro deaf
ening.t One man not friendly to Brock
inridgc pinned up banner: "Protcc-
ton TO American womcn," which was
torn into shreds by the cougressmau's
admirers
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In rural communitlog whcrc lilo Is
ono monotonous round day after day,
aud wharo the most insignilcan,
diversion 10 au event In tho simple
chronicles Of existence. It is no wonder
that tho somnolent village OF West Lib.
orly and surrounding country wakcucd
carly yesterday morning aud douund
holiday uttiro In honor Of commence
inens NJ tho Normal SCHOOL by 0
o'clock tho grounds OF the Normal
building presented an animated couu-
trysido picture OF various colors, tinta
aad shades, and when tho doors Of com.
menccmcnt hall were opened It did not
take long to I'll it to OVERLOOKING. The
heat had no dGterring effect on these
people, who packed in T. small space,
patiently sat out performance OF two
hours. and the only cry Of discomior.
that WIS raised came from au infant,
which was not to be robukel under tho
circumstances. The close attention
paid BY tho audience spoke volumes for
its intelligence md was an unspoken
compliment to tho performers, rarely
bestowed on occasions OF this character
Tho Wheeling Opera Houle orchestra,
after toiling up the mural activities be.
tween this city and West Liberty, IN.
limbG!ed in front Of tho hail and in Il
short timo were attuned for their part
in tho entertainment, which to many
was the chief attraction. When the
melodies OF their brass. string aud reed
poured forth, Principal Doahl. followed
by the graduating class, entered aud
took seats on tho platform. There wero
also seated on the rostrum State Super
intenlent OF Free Schools Virgil A..
LOWS, ex.oiIicio president OF the board
OF regents, Dr.. John A. Myers, OF tho
experimental, station of the State Uni.
versity, Prof. r A. Armstrong who oc-
cupies the chair OF English literature in
the same institution, and who for seven
years was principal OF the West Liberty
normal school; Attorney General T. s.
Riley, eX-rcsent and graduate OF tho
school. and Regents II. D. Post, OF
Wheeling, and |. @. Sonerville OF PIT.
Pleasant.
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Tho judges wero Prof. +. II. Crayo
and Henry Ostorling. Of Wheeling, and
PEot Mitchell, OF Wcllsburc, whose de-
ciaiona wero in favor OF Mr. Muldoon.
Mia, Epstein, Miss Finley and Miss
Writ
Hon. Melville d. Post. OF Wheeling,
regent Of tho Normal school, entertain.
cd largo audience on Thursday oven.
ing with a lccturo on "Dreams Of Agita.
tors"
Yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clocl,
tho middle Class" gavo their enter.
tainment, tho following programme b..
ing rendered:
pecIaNa'ion............ The Famine
- Albert lOuay.
Essay".",..'....""; ..... .,..~..Th0 Use Of Words
Emma shorts
DCblE-Questi0u. Resolved, That the Principal
VI college Games are lujlrOuI.
ANlrinRtivC-f.E Gibson.
Negatively. II. Whitman.
Dec'anauou""",.,.. ..,.-. .......WheTe's AuuOtto!
Maggie Curtis
uTation... NOGu uicntg Of Antiquity
Mary rimnOns.
E1say...... Nothing 80 Needs Reforming ne Other
Peoples Habits
MOlllo Stlller
Ofatlon.." Moral Influence Of Soap
George Hubs.
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IT a r r. Y j.. EsE TT "
ui3Mayscts:rce- TcIsphonoGST jcls
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PECULIAR MANIA
OF q Member Of tho Nobility In
Germany, Gnd tho Result.
COUNT VON KOETZE UNDER ARREST

Charged With WrItln. Anonymous
Letters That Caused Domestic
Troubles Among tho hrlstocracy.
How Family Ties We're DroISon by
DCspicnblc Plan that Had Bccn
Parsund for Four Ycars-lt ia Sup.
posed the Count Is Insane.
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REAL ESTATE.
Rents Reduced !

tw9 tenants, or one. anI put IN firs:.c,ass order
No - Th!t;T'Scyenth street. second tlOus, 81.
Ma 10 Zane strcct, second AoOr. ST.
No ?Sll EOG Street. one or two lGmilicX
No 500 Main street, two-story bricE
No. 3l29 McCOllOch street, two-stOFy irnce
No. d9 Main street, large modern brick dwell.
lug, fourteen rooms.
No 1921 MrCOlloch street. brick. Gil o.
No % Ohio street three rooms. $3.50.
No u Virginia Strr.t. frame. six royrnA
The W4diiGgIOD Place. house and = ccrcS
No Go Main street brick lWGlllcy
No. aiJ2 MIN StrrGt. iiTit floor, three rooll
No. ~ Ths-ty-thirG street, brick Two rOonS
Two splonc!d Office rOoms III Masonic building.
No. 29J1 ChEalinc street. I've rooms, Sl3
No. IjlG Marie: street. oElce rOonL
No III ThrIy.th.r street. five ROOMS. $50.
No gJj Na!u strAl. twelve Rooms ali bath.
Oi!iC0 rooms In IIibbarL BIOct. ISl Markets.
No. ljl1 Mi!G greet. SECOND and third loo:L
Store rooms o.: South street, IN EGatra Tab.
eslac.o building
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Archbishop raCuE DEED.
Tho Famous Northwest Missionary Sud
LnniY DIG nj NyinnIpcH

The Famous Northwest Missionary Sud-
denly Dies Mt Winnipeg.
WiNSEPEo. Man, juno 22.-Arch-
bishop Tacho, Of St Bonifaco, tho vet.
Gran northwest missionary. died at ESQ
this morning. Deuth came suddenly.
as Yesterday there was every indication
that his grace would recover.
The dead archbishop belonged 10 ono
Of the oldest aud mos. remarkable fam.
lilies OF Canada. He was chiefly promi.
nent in Canadian northwest circlcs for
active intcrcs. taken in tho Rcd river
rebellion troubles OF lS70.71 and later
in 1855.
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Last night the exercises OF com nence.
mcut week closed with IN elocutionary
entertainment by Prof. Byron King, o.
Pittsburgh.
Mr.. Paul, OF the Open House o,ches.
ira, had TO 20 to the stove TO warm his
fingers before ho could manipulate the
drunist!cks.
Prof. Eugene Uankc, OF Wheeling, the
tight rope artist, awod tho crowds with
his performances yesterday afternoon
and evening.
Tho alumni hold an interesting meet.
Ing yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, ad.
dresses being mudc by many visiting
members OF tho association.
Dr.. john A. Myers, Of the West yir.
GINA Experiment Station, at Morgan.
town, was the first valcdc.orian O: the
West Liberty Normal School.
How many people IN Wheeling have
ever recalled tho TACT that Yves, Liberty
was onco tho county scat oil Ohio
county. cts long timo now"
though.
Superintendent Lewis got In Il sly dig
at Prof. Armstrong in introducing him
TO the audience, calling attention to tho
fac: tha. he was still enjoying lie with.
out wife.
Hiss Clendennen's Illness was 4 great
disappointment to her friends. She was
one OF tho three In the graduating class
taking first honors. She made 4 heroic
efor. TO appear on the platform, but waa
finally compelled to take to her bed BY
her physicians ordera.
Prof. Armstrong in his address said
that person could no: read al inter.
es!inG story these days without finding
40 advertisement At the end OF It, and
he therefore fal. privileged to do little
advertising himself, which no did by
booming the unworthy.
Attorney General Riley in his speech
referring 10 tho graduating class snid
ho would like to putthem on the stump
this year. The General rockoned with
out his host, az they are all Republi.
cans. a student informed the reporter
that threo-fonrths Of tho achool we:o Of
the Same heroic mould.
Among tho many visitors present wero
the following: Mr.. Charles Busbey, wife
and family. Mr.. Sam Bushoy and wife,
Short Creek; Miss Della Busbey, Mrs.
W. l. McNGeley, Mrs. Reich and daugh.
eera Amelia, Buelah aud Grace, Miss
Nettie DobbiEF. Mrs. Mitchell, Mr. Job n
i. Wilson, OF Wheeling.
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TEN ARE GRADUATED
From tho West Liberty State Nor.
NAL School Yesterday.
NINE LADIES AND ONE GENTLEMAN

receive Their Diplomas After Enter.
'a'ning u Highly ApprcoiatIyc und
attentive Audience With Very
creditablc Productions--ContcSt OF
Irving and bryant Literary soGic.
tics-hlddle Glass Performances.
Personal Notes aud Gcncral Mon.
tIon.
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societies took plncc, which resulted IN
The Irving society taking every honor
except debate. The following was tho
prOgraininu:
DeUHie'-Qnc'il0n. Resolved. That Woman
Should Have the High: 10 Universal
huIlmgc.
Ai.rmativO-jOhu D. MuldGup.
. NCgntlgc-Chaflry IT, fbYrH
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-07-15
Light Will FLOAT.
TESLA SPEAKS OF A GREAT DISCOVERY IN
ELECTRICITY.
We Will Have Light, Not Lights-Ths Lumiuant
Will Stream in Floods from Walls and
Doors and Ceilings, With Chandeliers Dis
Cardsd.
[Copy,ght. 1s041


New YORK, July 14.-"Hail holy
light" are the words with which Milton
begins his invocation TO the Offspring
of the heaven first BORN" and, perhaps
because he was blind, the theme always
possessed an awesome fascination for
the patriot poet. That was wonder
full piece of prophecy on his part when
he declared that light would yet prove
ian undiscovered country wherein
beauty's citadel rearS high emoattle-
ments," but not until these century end
days OF marves has even the dream OF
It's fulfillment come. For al this very
moment we are on the eve OF revolu-
tion in electrical science that seems
destined to make of light not beauty's
citadel merely, bat the bestower
of beauty itself. Without light,
beauty would cease TO be evident. No
wonder, then, that lig bit has become the
Nile of physics, with scientists seeking
night and day for its ultimate source.
The secret seems to have been learned
at last, and science is now the land Of
the unsetting sun.
Imagine the ever-playing fountain OF
light, century plant in unending
bloom, OF which the petals are shesfs OF
light. There is no graceful dream too
extravagant in this respect for realiza-
tion now. The chandler, the globe,
the bulb, the painful mechanism
which has made the connection
Of light and machinery so unaestheti-
cally obvious herstofore-all are des-
tined to be swept away. Light in the
next century Will we'll impal pabIy out
OF walls. 1t will stream from brackets
or from picture frames, none divining
whence it comes, like the perfumes OF
Lucullan banquetS.
Nicola Tesla's eyes gowed as he pre-
dicted the results of the discovery that
has been made, Then they were
dimmed by passing regret as new
thought came.
"The one impediment, he said, "is
cost. That problem will be solved yet
perhaps in three months. perhaps not
in as many years. The existing waste
of electric light is Observation-Disclosures.
Ninety per cent. OF the material en-
ployed goes for nothing. But when we
have settled the question OF cost, the
new era will dawn. Light will become
really a great transforming factor in
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THE NEW OIL CITY.

Almost like a fairy tale is the history
OF the growth of Sistersville from a
little country village few years ago,
to q thriving, growing city Of three
thousand souls. At the magic touch Of
the great oil king the sleepy village
was transformed into a lively little city,
full Of activity and vim, its people were
awakened, the earth gave forth its hid
den treasures, and wealth has taken
the place Of poverty and squalor.
Great fortunes have been made,
and much Of the wealth acquired
has been expended in the
town where il was made. New build
ings have been erected, both for bust
ness and residence, commercial activity
has kept pace with the requirements Of
the town, and its people are to-day as
we'll supplied with all that civilized man
stands in need Of as those Of any other
town Of its size or larger. The people
Of the city are prosperous-more so
than in many other cities twice
large-and the contrast between the
Sistersvile Of to-day and that Of several
years ago is too great for comprehen-
sion.
But wonderful as has been the growth
OF this magic city, the end has not
been reached and the changes of the
next FIVE years will be as great as have
been those Of FIVE years past. The en-
ergies Of the people have been aroused
they know the value of progresslveness
aud not a step backward will they allow
their town to take.
Sistersville is admirably located to be-
come city OF manufacturing and COM
merclal Importance, and the right move
has been made in the formation OF a
Board Of Trade which will see that
these advantages are properly present
ed to the public.
The town has promising future and
the prospects are that in the future
more than in the past, the town will
prosper and increase in size and wealth
until there's not a town IN all the Ohio
valley its equal.