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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22
Signed TEE ROLL.
ONE MILITARY COMPANY SURE, AND PER-
HAPS TWO.
Quite a Large Meeting at the Chamber Of Com
msrcs Las! Night Thirty Names on
ths List to Start With.

The call issued for meeting OF young
men at the Chamber Of Commerce, to
take definite steps looking to the forma-
ton Of one or more military companies,
was well responded to, last evening
and a healthy and comuendable in
terest was shown in the movement.
Major b. B. Baguley was called to the
chair, and Mr.. Sam Harper was chosen
secretary.
The desirabiity Of having the city OF
Wheeling, the largest in the State,
represented In the ranks OF the National
guard was promptly introd dced to the
attention of the meeting, and the SUBJ
ject OF forming one or more companies
was discussed In all its bearings and
for quite a time. Past discourage
ments were referred TO, and the state
ment made that it was now probable
there would be no further difficulties
thrown in the way OF the projected or
ganization, and that il could go
forward with every assurance OF sue
cess.
The question Of forming at least one,
and probably two companies was then
definitely put TO the meeting and was
unanimously carried, and suitable
roll being prepared, thirty young men
signed IL in very few minutes. A
Com mittee on Recruits, consisting OF
Frank B. Ross, Robert Luxe, Jr., and
Walter Higgins was appointed by the
Chair, and il is confidently expected
that one hundred names will be secured
in a very few days, as that number will
ing TO join the National guard were OBJ.
tai ned some months ago, when the mat
ter was first brought up. AS a
matter of fact, it would take very little
work TO enlist battalion of three COM
panies of fifty or sixty men each in this
CITY, with gattling battery attached.
There were three companies in the city
more than a dozen years ago, when the
men had TO buy all their uniforms and
got no pay, and there is no reason why
the military spirit should be not as
strong now, when the Legis-
lature makes fair appropriations
and furnishes uniforms, equip
ments, allows pay for services
and has an annual encampment be-
sides. Lax and insufficient as the mill
tary law of West Virginia still is, IL is
vs.y satisfying when compared with
the System under which the Matthews
Light Guards, the Schmh.0&ch Honaves
and the Golf Guards 6ourished.
After the roll had been signed, last
evening, there was long dis
cussion upon the armory question,
and considerable number OF
good and bad localities were sug-
gested and discussed. After a full in
terchange of opinion, the matter was
referred to the recruiting committee for
investigation and report, at the next
meeting.
1t Is the idea OF the gentlemen at the
head OF the present military movement
to have the membership somewhat
select, and to provide a handsome dress
uniform for state occasions, the State
furnishing the usual fatigue uniform.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22
CONTRACT AWARDED
For Twelve Hundred Dollars Worth OF
Fire Hose, Last Night.

For Twelve Hundred Dollars Worth oi
Fire Hose, Last Night.
The Council Committee on Fire De-
partment met last evening to award the
contract for 81, 200 worth Of fire hose,
and was In session until about 1876
o'clock. There were eleven bidders be-
fore the Committee, representing about
all the leading hose manufacturers oil
the country, as follows
Columbl Rubber Works Company, OF
Chicago; d. NJ, Campbell g. Co., Wheel
ing; the Gutta Percha and Rubber
Manufacturing Company, CincinnatIi
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Com
pauy; Revere Rubber Company, New
York; Lewis g. HAzlett, Wheeling, rep
resenting the Trenton Rubber Company;
the Fabric Fire Hose Company, New
York: the New York Milling and Pack
ing Company; W. II. Cooper, Mineral
lied Rubber Company, New York; Aug.
+. Carl, representing the same com
pany; Chicago Fire Hose Company.
The bids ranged from SAC to o0c pei
foot for first quality, and from zoe down
for second quality. The contract was
let to the Fabric Fire Hose Company, oil
New York, the city making q very ad'
vautageous deal for good hose. The
new hose will be stamped at the various
hose houses, and this will DO the begin
ming OF a hose record, something the
department has never mad.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22

Moore, Robert NJ. Patton, Walter E.
Reeves, Earle Wiley, Allen wilson,
w. 81. Brandenburg, VIM. Z. duinett.
Students completing the classical course
and receiving degree of A. B.: Henry
w. Allen, John G. Anderson. Harry
Buckley, Charles Darsie, Mary +. Men
del, Manton NJ. Scott, William b. Vod-
rey, Jr., John E. w. Wayman, Howard
L. Townsend.
Students completing literary course
aud receiving degree OF Phi. B.: Ira w.
Bowman, Grace Fortier, Charles L.
Jones, Grace McGrew, Minnie E. Mil
Ter, Louise j. Meyer, Brooking d. Hicks
man.
Students completing the Scientific
Course and receiving the degree OF b.
s.: Allen B. creighton, Frank A.
Chapman, Harvey NJ. Prewist, Cyrus
w. Pritchard.
Mrs. Linnie K. WoolerY completed
the musical course, and received the
degree of Mus. B.
The honorary degree of A. NJ. was
conferred upon L. j. Mercer, OF ALI
ance, O., and E. o. Levitt, of Char
lottesville, Va. For the degree Of B. s.,
E. o. Levitt,
The honors were then announced. j.
E. w. Wayman and Fl. L. Townsend
graduated, S,mnnla cum l1IdG; G. c.
Johnson and Minnie E. Miller, magma
cum Iaatda; and W. NJ. Scott. Mary X.
Mendel, Louise ]. Meyer and Bessie
Farrar, cum lauda. Mr.. Wayman and
Miss Meyer are both from this city.
In delivering the diplomas President
McDiarmid made an excellent address
to tbs graduates. Then the glee club
rendered a number Of selections, and
benedlction was pronounced by Rev. j.
A. Lord, pastor OF the Central Christian
Church, Cincinnati, o.
The annual meeting OF the alumni,
trustees and faculty took place at three
o'clock, and the session was both inter-
esting and profitable. At eight o'clock
Rev. Mr.. Lord delivered an address in
the Chapel, which was followed by the
alumni banquet at Phillips Hall.
During the evening the customary re-
ceptlon to pupils and friends took place
at Pendleton Heights.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22
SMALL TALh.
Minor Matters OF IntersIt Briefly and
PlthIly Told

Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
Plthily Told.
THERE were no cases in Police Court,
yesterday morning.
WEST LIBERTY voted Yesterday, on
the question OF cooperating the town.
The majority was agains the corpora
ton.
THE Eureka and Zane lodges of the
Shield of Honor are arranging for big
picnic in the near future at Mozart
Park.
THE St. Alphonsus school picniced at
Wheeling Park, yesterday, and spent a
most delightful day. The attendance
was very large.
ANNIE KELLY was arrested by Officer
Malohey, last evening, for drunkenness,
and Enix Hendricks by officer Wiikie
for the same offense.
THE Kings Daughters Of the Second
Presbyterian Church will give a social
this evening at the home Of 5. A. KEEP
ner, No. 1873 Fourteenth street.
A VALUABLE terrier dog OF Henry
Frohme, OF the Fifth ward, took sick
yesterday and was shot by Officer
Donovan. The dog was worth s25.
RESERVED seats for the Concert and
Commencement of the Seguin Business
College aud Conservatory of Music are
GU sale at +. w. Banners mnsic store.
FOURTEEN Of the mem bers OF the
Gymnasium class Of the Y. NJ. G. A.,
graduates Of the course OF this year,
have had their pictures taken in group.
ALARGE crowd were In attendance
yesterday at the picnic at Seibert's,
given by the members of St. Johns
Church. The event was q very success
full one.
A MARRIAGE license was issued yes
terday TO George W.. Hess, a native of
Ohio county, aged "a, and Lena |.
Eckhard, a native OF Monroe county,
O., aged %.
COMPANY G, First regiment, located
at Bethany, Brooke county, has been
disbanded and the arms and equipments
returned TO Charleston. Lax discipline
caused the movement.
THE Dovener club Of the South Side
had a big blowout last night at its head
quarters on South Jacob street.
Speeches were made and generally in
teresting time was had.
EIGHTEEN men are at work build
ing OF the foundation Of the add
tlon to the Sixth ward school. Good
progress is being made. and the 10 unda-
ton will soon be completed.
ISAAC SHEPHERD. Of South Eof
street, who was rendered irrational last
Wednesday evening, as the result Of
the accident near the Drover's Home, Ia
upper Benwood, was much better yes
terday.
MANY people OF the South Side have
been going to the ice plant for the fl
tered water, and they found 10 great
convenience. Now the company has
posted notices warning the people nos
TO trespass.
THE picnic to be given by the First
English Lutheran Sunday school will
be Friday, June 80, instead OF to-day,
as was mentioned by mistake In this
paper on Wednesday. The school will
picnic at Flushing. ..
THE sth Of next month is the time set
for the convention Of the ST. Alphonsus
Church societies. and the invited guests
OF the societies OF the Catholic Churches
of Pittsburg aud vicinity. Fully four
hundred guests are expected.
JOHN RExSAkD. William Grade and
Edmund jackson, col posing the Joker
Fishing Club, d the South Side, left
yesterday for khe sg6nmer's camp out
wheeling crdk. n Purity Quartet
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22
BETHANY COLLEGE.
THE FIFrY-THIRD ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES,
At Chapel Hall, Yesterday Morning. Class Of
Thirty-Ons Graduates = The Exercises
Of the Wsek-NOtes.

Staid old Bethany, nestled snugly
among the verdure clad hills of Brooke
county, yesterday assumed holiday at
tire, in accordance with its annual Gus
tom, In honor of the commencement ex-
ercises at the noted College, which is at
once the pride and support OF the COM
munity. For the ffty-third time the
institution sent forth class Of young
men and young ladies, equipped with
the thorough and practical education
which the College gives. The country
folks for miles about were astir early,
and all the roads leading to Bethany
were dotted with conveyances during
the morning. hours. Many alumni also
came from a distance TO attend the
class reunions and participate In the
festivities OF the week.
The crowd yesterday was about the
same as usual, which means that the
hotel facilities In the little town were
taxed TO their capacity to supply the
wants of the visitors. Mayors band, OF
this city, which has been present all
week, was stationed on tho college
campus in the early morning and called
the visitors together by number OF
stirring airs, which were rendered in a
iaultless manner.
The commencement exercises were
set for ten o'clock. At that hour, the
band marched up TO PendIeton Heights
and escorted the President, faculty and
students of the institution to the COM
modious commencement hall. The
chapel was
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22
Let psmocrat. stsH Arnr.

Many Democrats have been impor-
tuned by friends Of toe Republican
Congressional candidates TO vote At the
Republican primaries tomorrow, they
being assured they can vote for their
choice at the regular election aud for
the remainder OF the Democratic ticket.
Democrats Offering TO vote to-day may
be sworn to vote the whole Republican
ticket 10 November aud then, u they
don't do IL. may get snto trouble. Let
all Democrats remain away from the
Republican primary. That is the best
and safest course.
Euhscribo fer thu lending iocal and toIs
raphio paper, the Wh4eling Daily and
uday Register, deiiver9d 60 every part
the city or 8arrounN : tOWnB Ter "A
ats per week
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22
ASSIGNEE FOR ALEXANDER PREE, III MAIN STREET.
IN sOCIETL
some Past and Prospective Events in the
cay World.

some Past and Prospective Events In the
Gay World.
Wednesday evening Mr.. Louis Tiers,
OF the Island, and Miss Mamie Green,
OF Bridgeport, were united In mar
rage in their own home on the Island.
Rev. DR.. ]. w. Robins, Of Martins
Ferry, oficisted. and the ceremony was
witnessed 0y a number Of friends Of the
principals Mr.. and Mrs. Tiers went to
housekeeping at once.
Last evening at : o'clock there was
pleasant wedding in upper Benwood,
uniting in marriage William Hahne, 3
we'll known business man, and Miss
Emma Greube, a handsome young lady
OF MingO Junction, o. The ceremony
was performed before q large number
of invited guests at the home OF the
groom. Rev. Herman Hass united the
young couple In marriage. After the
wedding, one Of the most pleasant of
evenings was spent. The Mozart Sing
ing Society went TO the house and sur
prised the happy young couple oy rem
dering some OF their choicest music.
After a wedding tour, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hahne will 60 TO housekeeping in Ben
wood.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22

II your ewes water. twitcb, tire. burn,
or your head aches after reading or
sewing, consult and hare them exam
med for glasses, free Of charge, at ITO
Main street, next to Shook & Co.'S, by
Prof. Shelf, the optieian. swf
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22

a Three-Story Building Badly Damaged,
Last Night

- Ahree-Story buiiding bauly Dana ged +,
Last Night
About twenty minutes Of midnight,
last night, fire broke out in the three
story building occupied by W. A. Wise
ga feed store, in the Fourth ward OF
Beilaire. The ire department respond
ed and the building, which was owned
by the c., L. & w. r. R. Co, was saved
10 a damaged condition, but the con-
tents were almost ruined.
The loss TO the building will be $500
10 500, and 70 the stock 81, 900 TO 81,
200, or say $500 10 ali. The fire was
undoubtedly OF incendiary origin, as il
started under the building in the rear,
80 a locality where q fire could not start
from legitimate causes
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22

CO IN Gentlemen, you can buy for
Do. UU. $500 pair OF our Hand
Welt Shoes that will give you the most
comfort and satisfaction Of any Shoe
ever offered at that price. We make
them. Best Shoe on earth for the price.
THE c. c. SHOE Co.,
1143 Main Street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22

$40. To Atlantic City yIa,B. 8 o., Thur
day, july .. 1891 $40.
Thursday. July 9Th, I B. & o. will
sell excursion tickets & atlantic City,
AT $40 for the round Tickets good
u days with stop o eye At Wash
ingIon, D. G.. retui
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-10
Hard Work on the Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON, Feb 10-The Democratic subcommittee engaged in shaping the tariff bill is working from early morn until late at night. The committee announces its purpose to sit all the time that the physical endurance of the members will permit of until the bill can be put into shape for presentation to the full committee. While there is a great deal yet to be done, the subcommittee has progressed so far that Senator Voorhees, said today that he was hopeful the bill might be completed by the latter part of next week.
 The committee has almost if not quite abandoned the idea that held such strong possession of some of the members for time of changing the entire form of the bill, so as to conform more closely to the ad valorem system, and it has decided that the present form as to the schedules shall be retained and that the bill will still be the Wilson bill as it goes to the senate. Senator Voorhees, holds that the house committee gave the bill a great deal of painstaking labor and believes that that committee should not be deprived of credit by so radical change as was suggested.
 Another reason for the hesitancy of the committee to change from the specific to the ad valorem system is found in the fact that it would be necessary to begin at the beginning once more. If any change in structure is made, it apparently will be more in the line of the Mills bill than the Walker law. but 1t will certainly not be so marked as to rob the house bill of its dis tinctive features.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-10
MINCED MESSAGES.

Two Poles were killed by train near Ashland, Pa
 The police have been called to protect an Italian bank in Waterbury, Conn.
 Nine French officers have been killed in an engagement Tith the Tuaregs.
 Worlds fair stockholders may receive a dividend of 10 per cent on their stock.
 Bob Marler, who accidentally shot Mrs. Bowden in Pineville, Ky, was hanged.
 A plot against Peixoto's life is said to have forced the decree for special elections. Two children who were locked in house in Bloomsburg, Pa, were burned to death. A squaw claiming to be the wife of ex- Governor Rice of Iowa is trying to break his will.
 The report on the project to build rail way through Mexico and South America is finished.
 The great Lake Side nail plant in Ham, mond, Ind, is about to resume, but at a reduction in wages.
 The records have been so mutilated that evidence of fraud in Michigan's vote is partly destroyed
 The decision of the Union Pacific cases in Denver is in favor of the employees and against the receivers
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-10

meals were taken to his room by Mrs. Davis. It appeared in the evidence that Mr. Whitman had spent $4,OOO for a mausoleum in Harleigh cemetery, where he was buried.
 Mrs. Davis denied the allegation of the defense that when she received the S1 ,OOO beQueathed to her by the poet she relinquished her claim for her services. Horace s. Trauble, one of Whitman's literary executors and the poets private secretary, testified that he knew Whit man when he first moved to Camden in 1873, but visited him very little until 1888. After that time he saw much of the poet, who was regularly engaged i'll writing poems and prose, with the ex- ception of short time when ill with paralysis. Whitman wrote two poems a week for the New York Herald up to within short time of his death.
 From 1885 to 1888 the poet did not need any particular care or attention, but in June, 1888, he had three partial paralytic strokes and was compelled to take to his bed. He recovered sufficiently ill few months to resume his work and go about town accompanied by nurse provided by his friends. In speaking of Whitman's s appetite it was said that he was hearty eater. but always accommodated himself to circumstances.
 Mrs. Davis sued for $5, ,O00. The jury awarded her $500.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-10
Concressman Honk,s Death.

WAsHINGToN, Feb. 10. Representive George w. Houk of Dayton, O., died sud denly of heart disease Mir. Houk was ap- parently a man of robust constitution, and the news of his death, which was rapidly communicated about the hotel Hobbies, came as an unexpected shock to his many acquaintances and was at first received in credulously by congressman and public men generally, as he had attended to his congressional duties during the day and was to all appearances in the full vigor of health. Mir. Houk made social call on Mrs. A. Reynolds and her sister at 127 Con- necticut avenue and had stepped to the window in the parlor and looked out, pre- kumably to see if a car was in sight. At the window he stopped as if to pick up something from the carpet and then fell forward on his face Medical aid was at once summoned, but it was found that Mir Houk's death was instantaneous.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-10
Long Talks.

Parliamentarians and orators in gen. eral claim that no man could talk CO., herently on a single subject for more than six hours, yet hundreds of cases to the contrary could be cited. When De Cosmos defended the settlers land bill in the lower house of the British Co., lumbian parliament, he talked contin- ually for 26 hours. The act contiscat- ing the property of De Cosmos constit- uents had to be passed by noon of cer- tain day; De Cosmos was the only de- fender. He took the floor at 9:55 o'clock the day previous to the date when the law would become a dead letter and kept it until 12:05 the following day. It is said that his tongue and lips were cracked in hundreds of &aces and his shirt front covered With blood. A speech II hours longer than the British Columbian S famous argument was de- Iivered in the Roumanian chamber of deputies in 1887. It was on the occa- sion of the Impeachment of ex-Minister Bratiano, the leading deputy support ing the articles of impeachment talking continuously for 37 hours.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-10
RUSSIAN PRISON HORRORS.
A Convic. Island Worse Than the Mincs
 of Siberia.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. l0-The govern ment commission appointed to investigate the alleged scandals in the convict prison at Onor, on the island of Sakhalien, has is- sued a report which unfolds a terrible tale of suffering and crime. It shows thatin this prison there have been instances with out number of merciless cases of beatingS and looping off of fingers and arms by sa- Der strokes, while canuibalisn, under stress of famine, has been of common oc currence. Murder, followed by Cannibal- ism, has been frequent, with the sole ob- Ject of ending a miserable existence.
 It is related that there even have been cases where several couviCts have endeav- ored to be convicted of murder when in fact they were not guilty of any such crime. During the whole year of 1892 there was an almost continuous string of con voys carrying the corpses of cOnvicts from Onor to Rykovskaya, the residence of the authorities.
 In nearly every case the bodies were so mutilated that they presentedo pitiful spec tacle and moved the persons who looked upon them to tears and words of indigua- tion. The bodies were inferred without the slightest inquiry on the part of the au- thorities as to how tue wounds were in ticted
 The neglect of the prisoners at Onor is said to have been most shameful and crimi- nal. No doctor ever visited the institu- ton, and convicts who failed to perform their work on account of physical incapac- ity were placed on half diet in the place called hospital, end when it became appar- ent that they would be unable to perform further duty they were dispatched like ami mals with a revolver by the inspector and were registered on the prison books as hav- ing died from a disease. The principal au- thor of the atrocities, it is asserted, is former convict of the name of Shakotf, who was favOrite of the district cOmmandant and was promoted to inspector general.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-10
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

The case of Timothy Fogarty and James J. McGrath is being heard before Justice Brett this afternoon. The case is to recover a balance of wages which the complainant alleges the defendant owes him.
 Edward Oaks, aged 26, died at his resi- dence, 4G South Riverside street, last night. The funeral will take place at 30 tomorrow afternoon with services in St Patrick's church. Interment will be in Calvary cemetery.
 The taxpayers of the South Brooklyn school district are little tardy in coming forward with their taxes, and the collector will find it necessary to resort 10 some severe measure to collect them unless the people show desire to come in and pay themselves.
 Andrew Geremia, a barber in the en- ploy of Joseph Spallons of S6S Bank street, met with a severe accident yester- day. He was walking through the room in the rear of the barber shop when he slipped and fell, thrusting his arm through a light of glass in one of the windows, making frightful cut on his hand. Dr Benedict attended him.
 Charles Urban and Matthew Rogers, a committee of St Josephs $ Lithuarian parish, went to New Britain yesterday, upon in vitation of Bishop-elect Tierney, bringing the plans and specifications of their pro- posed new church. Bishop Tierney made some suggestions regarding the work and promised to send a Lithuanian priest to Waterbury after his conservation.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-10
Ran AWAY With an Engine.

TOLEDO, Feb. l0-Miss Emma Moulton of Findlay, while temporarily insane, jumped out of bed, threw up window and leaped to the ground q distance of about 10 feet; clambered over a fence, ran almost half mile into the yards of the Ohio Central railroad and dashed into the cab of yard engine which was temporari- ly deserted by it's crew. The insane woman pulled on lever and started out of the yards toward Toledo The engine was overtaken before it was far out of the yards. Miss Moulton is a schoOlteacher.