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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-10
Highest of ali in Lcavcning Power
FAILED TO ANSWER If.

some Pertinent Questions Which tho RcE.
Istor Would Not Publish.
10 he Editor of ne Ia'Gi'ioeaoGr.
SrR:-I wrote tho following card &c
the Wheeling Register, but it has failed
10 publish and answer IL Would you
please insert 1t in your paper?
WuKsLtSo, W. VA, August Q.
To he Editor Of The Register.
Who Is to blame now for the non
settlement OF tho tariff question: One
month ago last Friday, August 8, the
tariff bill passed the senate. To-day
after q whole month in conference II Ii
still not on the statute books. When
the Republicans, while tho tariff CUES.
ton was pending in the house and
senate, insisted upon u full discussion
OF Its radical, discriminating aud danger
Gus provisions, you assaulted them lor
neodlessly delaying settlement OF tho
tariff question. Now, sir, please tell
tho people through your paper who ha.
delayed the settlement OF the tarin
question during the past thirty'tye
days. Has it not been the Democratic
President and tho Democratic ConGtess
who have spont over mouth IN bitter
disputes and recrlminations? II this IL
not a humiiiating spectacle. tell me
where ono eau be found; aud II any
further evidence wore needed OF Dem
ocratic incapacity to govern the coun.
try, has II not been. FURNISHED? Aud II
tho people did not make y mistake IN
1892. what In the nHme OF God is ~ mis-
take, anyhow? Yours truly.
D. W. MARTIN.
Go Ttrcntv.third Street.
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IIIaINFNN DE'I0IETN'
It HIS boon nine or ton weeks since
Pittsburgh has been visited by rain.
fall, mud as II consequence tho crops
throughout western Pennsylvania ARE
suffering to an alarming extent. VIII.
inn Grubhs. aged scvcnty yrnrs, OF Me-
Cuudlcas township. declared Yesterday
that this summer Is tho drycst he Gun
remember since 1851. Jnincs Dickson,
Il Neville Island inrmcr, claims that tho
Ohio river hn4 not been 80 low but
twice within His recollection. The No.
willie Island vegetation ~ suffering tor
rihly, no sHya, from the continued dry
guOlL.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-10
ALIrrLE NONSENSE.

"What do you think OF the board OF
directors OF tho new joint stock com.
pany?" "Well, my opinion is half OF
them aro mon who are capable OF moth,
ing, while the other hall are capable OF
anything. "-BO,ton HOm' .I0t1ldL
Little Johnny-"Our school teacher
is going to get married. ! think there
ought to DO law against schoOl teach
ers yettin' married." Mothcr-"Dcar
mol Why so?" Little Johnny-"Just
think what an awful time their poor
children will have."-GoOd Nc'r&
Mr.. Timmidd-"Ilow would girl feel
II she received n proposal by lettcrY'
Fricnd-"lf she didn't care for you,
she'd feel insuIted." "Um-well--er-
suppose sho did caro- for me?" "Sho'd
say yes by telegraph. "-M:O York
Weekly.
Iicutenant-Wc advanced only five
miles yesterday. Captain (of Arctic OK
pCdi,ion-Thats what ] rcckoned It..
We've got TO do better than that or our
relief expedition will DO catching up
with us.-Iidrinc Journal
Binks-lIotel servants are very hon.
orablc In their treatment OF one an
other Sinks-How SOP BInks-Quick
Ms you fec ono ho disappears so as TO
give his comrades chancc.-MU York
Weekly
MA, what's tho cab stopping torH'
awe have 10 pay toll hero. Willie.
"But who pays tho toll when tho cabs
cmptv?" ~ don't know, dearest ;
mamma mover has ridden in IN empty
cab "-TWth.
May-Ncxt to n man, what's tho jnl-
licst thing YOU know OFF EthCl-My'
solf, II hos niCo.-BroOEivm Lie
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whole crew Of wrsckers. schemsrs and
political pirates beaten and national
protection upheld In its integrity. In
q word, they want ali Democratic tariff
legislation OF any sort undertaken
under any pretsnse. put forward In any
form, rejected, stamped upon and
killed. This is the highest duty OF Re-
publican senators.
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acknowledgement
What tho People Want.

Tho New York Press has strike
f,om.tle.shlulder style that challenges
the admiration OF even its political
enomies. There is no mincing oil words
with 1t, aud its Eight for tho cause OF
protection to American industries is
conducted on aggressive lines. Its
daily call upon the Republican senators
10 stand firm and defeat, II possible.
tho Democratic un.American tariff bill
is always couchcd in vigorous terms
On Wednesday one Of tho most viRor-
Gus of these articles was published.
Besides containing good advice 1t eln-
bodies some truths that should DO kept
before American eyes.
For moro than eleven months. says
Tho Pres. the tariff wrcckcrs have been
at work in Washington tinkering scied'
ules and upsettiug industry. What hns
been done? In the way OF construc'
ton nothing; in the way Of destruction
everything. There have been botches
and compromises, intrigues and counter
intriguos, scandalous GALES Of legislation
to great trusts, vehement charges OF
ialsehood and deception flung from
Democrat to Democrat, from tho Presi'
dent to senators, from the senate cham
her back to tho white house. But no
result has followed these manifold con-
spiracics. sacrifices OF honor and be.
trayals Of patriotism, except the one re:
sult-inevitable il tho protective system
of this country was TO DO assailed-of
universal, tremendous, unparalleled
disaster.
Tho Pres then proceeds to recall the
history OF the past few months, since
the Democratic tinkering with the tariff
began. The industry of tho whole
nation has been crippled, 1t says. I'm
counted millions Of property have been
destroyed, vast multitudes Of American
citizens have been deprived Of comfort,
OF contentment, oil tho very ncccSsarics
of !ife itself. More than half tho rail-
ronds oil the United Status are in the
hands ol receivers. More than million
families are enduring dGstitution be-
cause their breadwinners can find no
work. Mines arc untenuntcd. Factories
AFRO idle or working OIL terms that sui
flee TO afford but baro subsistence to
tho men aud women employed within
their walls. Farmers from Maine &c
California are Impoverished. Business
men have been made bankrupt by thou
sands, Trade is ut u standstill. The
triumphant march OF industry has been
transformed into ruinOus retreat.
Tho whirr Of looms, the cINng Of ham.
lners, ;hr roar oi furnaces and tho hum
Of workshops has been superseded by
the silence OF stagnRti0n and tho cry oi
bitter poverty. That Grover Cleveland
might pose as the great apostle Of
"turill REFORM" children have begged
in vain for bread OF haggnrd mothers
who had none to give them. That the
greed OF foreign nonopoIists might be
satisfied, American interests have boon
smisten with paralysis and Amer
lean homes made dcsolate' That i'm
plncabIc Bourbon hostility TO tho north
might triumph, want and misery aud
despair have filed every industrial com
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in sfx weeks. II tho expectations Of in.
terror department oticials are realized.
The adjustment Of allotments have been
completed aud allotting Agent Mose'
Neal has submitted his report to the
bureau Of Indian Affairs. Il will be for
warded 70 Secretary Smith Ia a few
days. The schedule Of allotments elbows
about go allott0es.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-10

KrSxETu BA2EMonE had tho good for
tunc to receive small bottle Of Cham
h"rIain's CoIic. Ghaler" and DiaErhma
Il, m,ly WHOM three members OF his
family wcrG sicl; with dy'cntcry. This
one small bottle curcd them all and no
Ind some loft which lIc gave to Geo. ~.
BakOr, n prominent merchant. OF tho
place, Lewiston. N. c.. aud It Curcd him
Of tho Same complaint When troubled
with dyacntGry, diarrlma, collie or
cholera morbls. give this remedy a
trial aud Won will 10 moro than plcnsed
with tho result. Tho praise that natnr-
ally follows it's Introduction aud use hGs
inado ii worry popular.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-10

Up to tho present Mr.. German has
not resigned in response to the demand
of Maryland Democrats. In this he is
following the example Of Senator Cam
den, who treated the demand Of the
Hickory club at Parkersburg with silent
contempt.
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Tho opposition nre already talking about tho
DrrM6craiic Legislative candidates being pledged
tD C&u.tleIl, Not 0uu Of these men are pledged
10 my candidate. and they arc free 10 vote Tor
whom they please.-Rea''ier
Certainly, thcy are free to vote for
whom they please, and they will please
10 vote for Camden. Do tho Ohio DEM
ocrsts suppose for one moment that
they will got assistance from Mr.. Cam.
denis 'bar'l" unless tins fact is thor
ouchly understood?
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IT is announced in tho dispatches
that the Kickapoo Indian reservation
in Kansas will DO opened in three
weeks. Itwould be interesting TO know
what tho Wheeling contingent gets out
Of this deal with the great father ut
Washington.
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TIE Democratic New York Mral'i
calls it "acandaIous deadlock" II is
woraO than scnndalous. 1t is criminal,
and tho Democratic party will be hold
responsible by tho people.
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WIrH tho risn in corn, due to the
continued drouth, came sympathetic
increase in wheat. 1t seems that Mr..
Dobs hasn't monopoly Of the sympa.
thctic strike business after all.
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TnE citizens Of Colorado who worc
banded together in an oAth-bound soci-
city to suppress lawIessness by lawless
acts deserve tho fullest punishment.
Tho object did not Justify tho means.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-10

SIScE President Cleveland has oil.
ciulIy recognized tho Hawaiian republic,
what has become Of tho "greas wrong"
that was to have bucn righTd2.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-10

TuE tariG situation at WNshin gton
shifted again yesterday. Following out
the experience Of the past month, 1t
will probably shift to-day back to where
1t was Wednesday. In the meantime
tho country waits.
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AND now the contGrees on tho sundry
civil service bill cannot agrou, and will
report disagreement to-day. Is there
no way that tho Democratic statesmen
Gun harmouize long enough to do tho
business for which they wore elected?
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-10

II tho tariff compromise is to give lis
dutiable coal and FREQ iron ore, what
will BIO the effect, to say nothing OF the
idiotic Inconsistency Of the PROPOSE
ton?
The iron ore product for the year
ended June 80, 1890. according to the
report OF the eleventh census, was 19,-
57S,O4l tons Of 2,240 pounds each, valued
at $50, S5l ,O7S. The number Of miners
employed was 9S,927, and they earned
sl4, 4O0,l5l. Tho capital invested was
SlO0, 7GG,l70. Tho President proposes
to open our doors to free foreign orc.
Does anyone pretend to say FREQ iron
ore will not affect our own iron mining
industry tho wrong wnyH
II FREQ coal aud free iron open our
markets to competition with these for
eivn "raw materials" tho only way the
competition can be successfully met is
bv tue reduction OF miners wages.
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"pAss the bill and adjourn" shout
the Democratic papers,. What do the
Democratic papers mean by advocating
the passage Of measure tho con-
tents Of which they do not know? Arc
party necessities SO great that they are
willing to accept a compromise before
they know its provisions?.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-10

WHAT do you ,nko medicine for?
Because you arc sick and want TO get
well. ofcour.c. Then remember, ltood'a
Sarsaparilla cures. 8
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-10

The Britannia has won another race
over tho vigllanL This is growing tire
some
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wAsnSGroN. D. q. August 0.--'rho
Kickapoo Indian reservation in Kansas
will be thrown open 10 settlement with.
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Mr.. DYxuM no doubt realizes that
King Caucus has been dethroned. The
sugar king ia moro powerful.
The evening world., 1894-05-10
HORSE AND TRUCK BURNED.
Fire-BoRt Playing on the Clyde
Steamship Docks.

The nre-boat New Yorker played sew
eral streams of water on the smoking
ruins of the Clyde steamship docks all
this morning, which were burned yes
terday.
On pier "a, where the flames had been
quite extinguished. workmen found the
remains of II horse and truck. driven on
the dock by Cartman II. J. Fisher. who
Is in the employ OF a firm at Rpade and
Elm streets. Fisher, when the fire broke
out. had to fight his way to safety and
his face and hands were blistered.
The horse and wagon belonged to
David Hawis. a liveryman at Sc James
slip. He had rented the rig to Fisher.
The outfit was valued at $500.
Passengers on the Catharine Ferry line
are being LANDED at the old slip. The
boats began running last night. III
freight for the Clyde line IL being un-
loaded at pier %. belonging to the Com
pany.
Malcolm Alexander to-day instituted a
suit for salvage against the Long Island
Railroad Company, his tug. the James
Roy. having saved a float and ten cars
belonging to the railroad when the fire
broke out. The tug towed the float,
which were moored at pier 80. out into
the river and e~Xtinguished the flames,
1t having caught fire.
The evening world., 1894-05-10
THALMAN WROTE my WIFE,"
Club Friends Listen to Hi Tes.
timony in Court.
Somers Snys He Didn't Offer the
Plaintiff Money.

When the trial OF the suit OF Mrs.
Sarah G.. Thalman for a separation from
Samuel Thalman for the purpose OF es-
tablishing a common-law marriage was
resumed before Justice Ingraham in the
morning the courtroom was crowded, a
great many OF the defendants club
friends being present.
Mr.. Thalman was recalled to-day, and
swore that he had never told the plain
tiff that he owned an interest In the bus
mess of Isaac Somers 4 Co, of 20 Vesey
told her that he drew sl25 n week from
the firm. He said that of the S125 he
draws weekly SIS OF 1t, is allowed him
for expenses as a liquor salesman. and
the remaining $50 is his salary. He de-
MED ever having told the plaintiff that
he owned real estate in this city. and
said that he did not own any.
At times during Mr.. Thaiman's testi-
mony the plaintiff smiled at his answers
and shook her head in a negative man.
ner.
Counsel for the plaintiff handed Thai.
man a letter which he admitted looked
like his writing.
signed Samuel Thalman. The letter was
and referred to my wife"
DR.. Charles +. Simmons, Commission
or of Charities and Correction, testified
to having attended the plaintiff in the
illness attending the birth Of her child.
Witness said Mr.. Thalman told him
the plaintiff was not his wife.
Isaac Somers, of Isaac Somers & Co,
20 Nesey street, a brother-in-law of the
defendant, swore to having met the
plaintiff in the office OF MIR. Hess. Mr..
Thalman's counsel.
What did she say when you asked
her II she had ever been married to Mr..
Thalman?" asked Mr.. Leventritt.
she said she had not, and she re-
peated that settlement later when Mr..
Hess asked her the same question"
did you ever offer the plaintiff a
sum of money to drop this action"
II did not!" said the witness. with
emphasis.
Lawyer Hess testified to the CONVEX
sation in his office when the plaintiff,
defendant. Mr.. Somers and himself met
there.
The evening world., 1894-05-10
TO CONTEST The WILL
An Estate of Over Half a Million
at Issue.
James Thomson Says His Mother
VA UnduIy Influenced.
He Alleges Her VIII Was Not Vol
unfairly Made.

A notice has been filed in the Surro-
gates office by counsel for James Thorn
son. that he will contest the will of the
late Anna ID. Thomson. his mother,
which disposed of about $3.50, 900.
Mrs. Thomson was the widow OF
James Thomson. and died March Is
last at Montclair. The will Ia dated
Nov. 6. 1899. and divides the property in
almost equal parts among the testator's
five other children. David, Elizabeth,
Anne. Giraud and George. but no mem
ton Is made of the son James. who has
filed tho notice OF contest.
The sons. David, Giraud and George
are named as executors OF the will.
James Thomson contests the will on
the ground that the will was not his
mothers voluntary act. but was
prompted by the undue influence OF
persons moi mentioned.
The cont. stant's father. James Thorn
son. was a member OF the firm OF Foster
g. Thomson, and was at one time civil
Service Commissioner He died last year.
The evening world., 1894-05-10
L|z1E's BEAU THE HuGGER?
Mrs. Low Embraced by an Ardent,
Vanishing Man.
Police Suspect That His Action Was
CnintentionaI.

Police Capt. Early and Detectives Raj
eigh and Kelly. of the Bergen street
station. Brooklyn. are to-day engaged In
a hunt for an unknown man who
sneaked into the home of Mrs. Fred
Low. 420 Dean street. and after fright
ening her and her servant almost Into
Mysteries by hugglng them disappeared
as completely as II the earth had opened
and swallowed him ~.
Mrs. Low was sitting in her parlor
last night. and called her ervunt. Lizzie
Niorell, to instruct her in regard to her
household duties.
While the women were talking a pet
dog rushed out into the hallway and be-
gan barking. Mrs. Low and the girl went
out to learn the cause. AS they stepped
out. OF the parlor Il mans arms encir-
cled their waists. After embracing them
the fellow made good his scape
The women ran out upon the street
and called for help. Several neighbors
reached the premises, and the police
were notified OF the AFFAIR by telephone.
Capt. Early and a squad OF officers hur-
ried to the house and found all the doors
IND windows secured. Nobody saw the
man leave by the front door
The girl told the police hat a young
man OF her acquaintance had left the
/ ouse just before sac was called into
the parlor. and she Is certain that she
locked the door after he went out.
The police think that 1t vas this
yCl ng man who hugge I'd the women.
The evening world., 1894-05-10
MARK ON HER BOYS BODY.
Mrs. Hepknus Thinks Little Harry
Was Benten to Death.

Mrs. Anna Hepkaus, OF Maple street,
Flatbush. called at tho Coroner's office
in Brooklyn this morning and asked for
an investigation into the death Of her
ei~ght-year-old son Harry.
The boy died in the Brooklyn Orphan
Asylum at go yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Hepkaus says when she was sum
moned to the asylum, the boy had been
dead an hour. and there were black and
blue marks about his thighs and legs.
She says the boy had been whipped
the night before. and she also thinks
the punishment caused his death.
Mrs. Hepkaus says when she visited
the asylum this morning the doctors
waited to make an autopsy on the body
and have the funeral take place from
the asvIum.
She refused to allow them to dc 80.
and went to the coroner's office TO get
permission to remove the body to her
house.
AT the asylum It was denied that the
l.. y. Prime, who has charge of the
boys department. admitted that he
struck the boy several times on the
hand the night before he died.
DR.. L. c. McThail, the physician at
tending the children OF the asylum. says
that he was called in to attend the boy
yesterday morning.
The little fellow had all the symptoms
of kidney disease or a lesion OF the
brain. He denied that the boys body
was discoiored by punishment.
The dead boys brother Alfred. who
seen by an Evening World reporter
and confirmed the story told by Mr..
Prime. The hoy denies that his brother
was beaten about the legs.
The evening world., 1894-05-10
DISPOSSESSED 30 TIMES.
White Sent TO Jail, and His Family
Cared For.

Philip White was sent to jail on a
charge of intoxication by Justice Wat
son, in the Even Street Court, Will
iamsburg, to-day. His wife and three
police.
Policeman Kraupt. OF the Sixth Pre-
cinct, found the family at n late hour
last night sitting on the curbstone at
the corner Of Broadway and Flushing
avenue. The children were crying for
food, and Mrs. White was e~ndeavoring
to quiet them. but her husband was
dead drunk. .
Mrs. White told the policeman that at
2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the fami-
ly had been elected from the premises
they occupied at 23s Hopkins street.
As they had no friends to &c TO they
wandered aimlessly about until they
finally decided to pass the rest of the
night on the curbstone.
When White was taken before JUS
tice Watson, in the Even Street Court.
his landlord. Daniel Rees, of 240 Hop
kins street, told the magistrate that he
had dispossessed the family thirty times
for non-payment OF rent during the
seven years they had lived in his house.
on every cccas!On they had begged their
way back again.
The evening world., 1894-05-10
ON THE ROLAND.
And a Case of Measles Aboard the
White Star Liner Majestic.
No Discrimination Shown to Society
Man Potter.

The steamer Roland. which arrived
from Bremen this morning, reported
two cases of smallpox among the steer
age passengers. There were is3 persons
In the Storage. The patients are two
children who became i'll soon after the
steamer left Bremen. They will be
transferred to the Reception Hospital.
The Roland was thoroughly disinfected
before being allowed to dock.
The names Of the Children are Gustave
Bergen. three years old. and Robert Ber-
gen. fve years Old.
Richard Potter, a weil-known young
try Club ut W~estchester. Is a patient
in the observation ward OF the Recep-
ton Hospital. Mr., Potter believed last
Saturday that he had contracted small
pox while visiting a house in West
chester. and Immediately went to the
Reception Hospital.
tagious Diseases, said to an Evening
World" reporter to-day: II saw Mr..
Potter last Monday. He had pimples
and a rash on his face and arms. While
smallpox. | think the symptoms will
so develop. I shall know that to-day
when | visit the hospital. Should Mr..
Potter,s case not be yirYlent; possibly
Island. but kept in the observation
ward till he RECEIVERS. Should the case,
however, prove 10 be Vlfulent ne Will
be sent to the island.
There has been no discrimination
made in MIR. Potter's case. 1t Is q
common matter to keep cases that are
not well defined in the observation
ward"
Richard Potter is a brother of e. C.
Potter. who married Miss Emily Have
meyer. and of Robert l.. and Julian
Potter. Though obliged to use ~crutches.
he is an expert swimmer and a prom
inent m or Newport society.
The Board OF Health officials boarded
the " hite Star liner Majestic as soon
as she docked yesterday. and removed
George H.. Walton, eight years old.
from the cabin of his father, John w.
Walton. to the Reception Hospital. The
boy was suffering from measles. Mr..
Walton and his 500 were on their
way home to Pittsburg. When but a
few days out at Gea the boy developed
the disease. The cabin occupied by the
Waltons was fumigated.