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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-02-28
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DEATH OF GEORGE W. CHILDS
The Great PhiIanthropist Passed
Away Saturday Morning.
His Last Sickness Began with . Painting
Spell on the Afternoon of January
16--Thc Printers Friend
Sketch of His Life.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3.-George w.
Childs, philanthropist, and editor of the
Ledger died at 3:0l Saturday morning.
Mr.. Childs' last sickness began with u
fainting spell which seized him while he
was in his Office il the Ledger building
on the afternoon of January 10. Res
toratives We're applied with the result
that within III hour the patient was able
to be taken home. His physicians issued
a statement that Mr.. Childs' illness was
an attack of vertigo arising from in
digestion, from which he would soon re-
cover. On the following Saturday
night, however, the physicians admitted
that paralysis of the lower limbs accom-
panied the attack, which was in reality
a second attack of apoplexy.
From that time on there have been al
%ternating periods of hope and fear as the
semi-daily bulletins announced changes
for the better or worse, until at mid
night Friday night came the noun
ment that hope was gone and death was
imminent. All the day upon which the
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ooNaRssslonAL paocEED,Nes
II. ss@.e.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Sl.--The vice presf-
dent laid before tho n Mr..
Stswart's resolution declaring that
the secretary of the treasury
is not authorized to issue n sell bonds,
and Mr.. Allen, pop, Nebraska, made an
argument in response and contradictory
of that of Mr.. Sherman yesterday.
WASHINGTON, Feb. "A joint resolution
authorizing the secretary of the treasury
to procure suitable cases for the bronze
medals awarded exhibitors At the Worlds
Columbian exposition was reported and
passed.
gave notice OF an amendment which he
proposed to offer to the house tariff
bill. 1t consists of several
sections. One permits silver bullion
to be deposited and coined for the benefit
Of owners, and the other provides for the
purchase OF $4,000 ounces of fine gold
every month, aud the issue Of treasury.
notes in payment therefor, and y third
repeals ali acts authorizing the issue OF
ponds.
The resolution Of inquiry offered yes
terday by Mr.. PETER. pop, Kansas, re-
curing the names of firms making Offers
for bonds and those to which bonds were
issued, etc, was agreed to.
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VIII Test the Ordinance.

SIOUX FALLS. S. D., Feb. 1.--James
Hettiy, a saloonkeeper, was yesterday
tried for keeping a d%isorderlv house
and fined S75 and costs. His attorneys
gave notice of an appeal and in tho
upper court will test the constitution"
atty of the ordinance under which the
saloons arc fined as disordcrly houses.
The custom for the past year has been
to fine the keepers s75 per month and
to cause them no further trouble during
that month, but no protection under
the ordinance is guaranteed or prom
ised and the ordinance distinctly states
that each and every day constitutes a
separate offense for which the keeper
may be arrested and fined. Even if
the ordinance is declared invalid it is
probable that the saloons will keep on
paying the fine as the police will not
let them run without it. Public senti-
mcnt seems to be strongly in favor of
the fine system as the only feasible
way Of securing revenue out of saloons
which otherwise would run without.
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PHILADELPHIA MouRNs.
Great City Bowed in Grlef-relerram.
of Coincidence Pouring In.

of Coincidence Pouring In.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 3.-Never
the history of Philadelphia has the
death of one of its citizens caused more
widespread regret than has the
demise of George W.. Childs, the
eminent philosopher and philanthro.
pist. The city is bowed in mourning
and kilograms of coincidence from
prominent people in this and other
countries are being received by the
score. Mrs. Emmett Bowler Peterson
Chitds, the wife and loving hclpmate OF
the philanthropist and an earnest
and atfectionate partner in all
Of the latter's labors, pleasures
and a%vocations, did not witness
his death. So buoyant were
her hopes yesterday that Mr.. Childs
would recover, a fact partially at.rib.
uted to the encouraging morning bull
letin of the physician, thut she con-
ferred with her family associates n. to
what she and Mr.. Childs would do whey
the husband should regain his health.
Tie sudden change for the worse and
finally the bulletin of the doctors that
dissolution was inevitable, were toe
much for her and she could not bea,
the agony of seeing tho life depart
from the person who was closer
to her than any other being.
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The Maine Mans Effort Enthusi-
%astica|Iy Applauded.
Chairman Wilson Closes Amid
Wild Enthusiasm.
Mcn Throw up Their Hats and Women
Wave Their handkerchief as h Au-
thor of hi Tariff Bill Closes
Carried on tho Shoulders
of Bryan of Nebraska
and Fucker OF
Virginia.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Interestin the
closing hours of the tariff debate was
shown this morning in the attendance
at the house. The public galleries
were thrown open at 8 o'clock and
within five minutes were packed to
suffocation. Meanwhile the corridors
in the vicinity OF the private galleries
were filed with an expectant crowd,
in which ladies chiefly predominated,
and when these were opened it was
seen that their capacity was not
sufficient to accommodate n frac-
ton of those present. Mr.. Reed put in
an appearance at 10:45. He was recog-
nized by the spectators in the galleries.
who rose to their feet and cheered him
wildly.
A generous round of applause greeted
the arrival Of Mr.. Crisp, who came in at
IL o'clock, and Immediately assembled to
to the speakers chair.
Mr.. Wilson. the chairman of the ways
and means committee, was reported
this morning to be. in a very nervous,
exhausted condition, as q consequence
of his severe labors in connection with
the preparation of the tariff bill during
the past four months.
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TOURING
Ararty of Lake City sotables on a Pleas

AParty of Lake City Notables or a Pleas
ure Trip.
New YORK, Feb. 1.-When the Ham
burg-American steamship Fuerst Bis
marck sailed down the bay this morn
ing her cabins were occupied by a num-
Der of notable C~hicugoans who propose
to spend nearly three months in trip
along the coast Of the Mediterranean
and in the interior Of many countries
whose shores are swept by that great
sea. Among them were Lyman j.
Gage, president of the First National
bank of Chicago, at u time
president of the worlds fair;
.Jamas w. Scott, publisher of the Chi
cage Hernld and Chicago Evening Post
and president of the American News.
paper Publishers association; Hon.
Lambert Tree, ex-,ninister to Belgium;
Hon. F. S. Winston, e%x-minister to Per-
STA. All of these were accompanied by
their wives. The entire party com
prises fourteen couples, eleven young
ladies, and sixteen prominent society
and business men Of Chicago. The e.
cursionists will visit Gibraltar, Algicrs,
Genoa, Corsica, Alexandria, Cairo and
the pyramids, Smyrna, Constantinople,
Athens, Malta. Messina, Palermo,
Naples and Jerusalem.
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The lssn.t..

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The bond resolu.
tion offered by Mr.. Stewart, rep, Me-
vada. some days ago, having been laid be-
fore the senate, MI. Sherman, rep, Ohio,
read an extract from q recent letter of
Charles Foster. late secretary of the
treasury, explaining that tho only prepar-
alton which he had made for is.
suing bonds had reference to thu 4 per
cent bonds, a bill for which had passed
the senate about q vear ago, and which 1t
was supposed would pass the house. Mr..
Stewart argued against the sccretary's
authority, to issue bonds under the pro-
visions of the resumption act. (,
At the close of tho morning hour, 2 p.
M, the bill to repeal the federal election
laws was laid before the senate, but as no
senator was prepared TO speak upon 1t, it
went over Informally till tomorrow.
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INSURANCE COMPACT WINS.
Texas supreme Court Decides the Com
panies Can Continue Husinc...

Texas supreme Court Decides the Com
panies Can Continue Rusincss.
AUSTIN, Tex, Feb. 3.-The supreme
court reversed and rendered an Opinion
in the use of the Queen Insnranc,
company ct al VS. the state Of Texas.
granting the companies permission to
continue their trust in Texas Thi.
was brought on an error from the Third
supreme judicial district and is n case
in which the attorney general of the
state sued for forfeiture Of the charter
of the Texas Insurance club, un nssoci.
alton of insurance agents representing
t~ifty-seven companies. These compan.
les have formed n compact for fixing
uniform rates of insurance throughout
the state, thereby preventing competi-
ton, and i fixing a rate of commits.
sion to all agents, which wa thought
10 be in violation Of the act OF March
81, 1880.
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siou. Falls, Mayoralty Campaign.

SIOUX FALLS. S. D., Feb. 1.-The
m%ayoralty campaign in this city has
already been precipitated by the an
nouncement of Roy Williams that he
is a candidate for the place aud that he
will remain in the fight to the end.
Williams is now city auditor under the
Peck administration and it was re-.
ported that Williams had gone into the
fight in order to retire at the last mo-
mcnt with II promise of two years more
in the auditors office. In a letter to a
local newspaper Williams declares that
there is no truth in this story. There
will probably be three candidates in
the field If not four, or more. The pro-
hibitionists will have a candidate IN
the field, who stands a good chance for
election with the anti prohibition vote
lixilod
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A MEwseoY's ROMANCE.
In Very Hard Luck, but Claims Very Blue
Gar,pap Rloo1

In Very Hard Luck, but Claims Very Blue
German Blood.
New YORK, Feb. IA bright boy of
164 years went to police headquarters
and related a romantic story to Super
intendent Byrnes. He said that his
nane was John j. Kaiser, and he thinks
he is the son of a German count. AT
present he is a poor newsboy. He says
Tint ten years ago he was kidnapped and
brought to this country from Munich
by n family named Tester. This fam
lily now lives at No. 1923 Montgomery
street, Philadelphia. For the hrst
two years of his residence in
this country he was charged
by the family with being a
thief. He was locked up in a dark
room by them and made to sleep on tho
bare floor. After two years had elapsed
he was sent to the house of refuge in
Philadelphia. He escaped from that
institution after eight years incarcern-
ton and came to this city on the 18th
inst.
The German consul will take the
case in hand and the newsboy's ro-
a n may end IN the most approved
story book fashion.
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e --
LOTTtE COLLINS MAD.
She shakes Her Fist at unapprec,atlve sap

h Shakes Her Fist at Unappreclatlve sap
Francisco Spectators.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3.-Lottie Col.
Inns. the dancer, is angry over nm nd.
verse criticism published in a morning
paper. She came to San Francisco ex.
pecting to repeat her triumphs in east.
ern cities, but her hopes were dispelled.
Lottie struck a frost. The people re,
fused to appreciate her singing o,
dancing. Then Miss Collins shook lie,
fist md told those who didn't like her
performances to leave. She attempted
to explain after the show and her cx.
PLANTATION was published with the
criticism
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Playing a waiting Game,

LONDON, Feb. 6.-The Standard says a
letter from Rio de Janei1o mentions an
alleged plan of Admiral de Mello te
transport 1000 troops from Rio Grande
do Sui and land them outside the harbor
of Rio de Jaheiro. and to make a com.
bined lanl and sea attack upon this city.
Both sides, the writer says, seem to be
playing a waiting game.
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LEAGUE.

CINCINNATI, Feb. a.-The annual
meeting Of the. committee on playing
rules of the National League and Amer
lean Association of Professional BASE
Ball clubs opened at the Gibson house
today with John T. Brush presiding.
a large number OF individuals inter
ested in the game are on hand to give
advice and suggestion to tho commit.
tee, while Chairman Brush, in response
to u pu blished request, has becndelugcd
with recommendations and suggestions
from base ball editors, captains. man.
ayers and officials.
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FIVE PER CENT O

The Subscriptions Already Amount to Over
Sixty Millions.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The subscrip-
ton to the new S per cent loan 80 far
amounts to 1854, sos. 100. There was an
offer OF 200 for one bond of $50. There
nre known to be on the way additional
subscriptions amounting to more than
$4,000, 900 which, owing to delay in the
arrival of the mails, will be entitled to
consideration when received.
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Does Not AFFECT the Public Lcdver.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 3.-The death
of George w. Childs will not alter the
policy of the Public Ledger o will
any changes be made in the
ment of the paper. By an agreement
entered into by Mr.. Childs and the late
Anthony U. Drexcl and in Accord
ance with the provisions of the l%atter's
will, the DreXel estate will now pur-
chase from Mrs. Childs the interest
Mr.. Childs held in the Ledger and will
accordingly own the paper absolutely.
The four surviving children of Anthony
J. Drexel. John B. Drexel, Mrs. John II.
Fellnee, Sarah Drexel. Anthony H.
Drexel and Geo. r. Childs Drexel, will
hold equal shares in the property.
George W. Childs Drexel was Installed
as publisher of the Ledger early in
October last and he will continue in
this capacity and have sole charge of
the plant.
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snubbed the united states,

NEW YORK. Feb. Ga dispatch from
Rio Feb. s says: The rebel warslips in
the halbor formed in line of battle in
front of the city wharves. This asdone
with a view Of landing the troops. For
Admiral da CANA had received promises
that the battery and others of Peixoto's
forces would revolt, join him, and make
a landing possible. He was doomed to
disappointment, however, as no revolt oc.
Cured. He asks recognition as belliger-
ents for his followers from England.
Italy, France and Germany.
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Indicted Banker. Gave Ball.

KANSAS CRY, Feb. Nv. p. Holmes,
the indicted banker, appeared in court
and gave bond for his appearance on
Feb. 20 for trial. George w. Toulmin,
another Of the ex-bankers, also gave
bond to appear Feb. 81. Dalragh and
Sattley, who were indicted a second
time, gave bail for 5000 for their ap-
pearance on March8.
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stransled Herself to Death.

YANkToN, S. D., Feb. Mrs. Han
sonson, wife of a Norwegian farmer,
committed suicide. She fastened a rope
about her neck and thentied the other end
to the farm wagon. She then pushed
the wagon down hill and the weight of
the wagon strangled her to death.
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When Mauritius was coded to Grea,
Britain in 1910 there was a gigantic
turtle in a court of the artillery bar.
racks at Port Louis, which is still there,
although almost blind. 1t weighs $40
pounds and stands feet high when
walking. Its shell is feet 6 inches
long. and it can carry two men on its
back with ease. 1t is believed to be
at least 200 years old.
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Plot Against President Barr;o,

New YORK, Feb. CA special from
the City of Guatemala says: Plots Of
revolutionists against President Barrios
have been discovered. The disafectiop
is especially strong at Ruezot-N Mango.
The president threatens to declare a state
of siege at the least sign of a revolution.
Those who advocate a revolution point to
the fact that the president has not car
ried out any of the promised reforms.
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Mrs. Gumps-My husband says my
now bonnet is not a bit becoming to
me.
Fricna y hos prejudiced. / sup.
pose h !ie bill.
Mar Did you learn how Mrs.
Upton WAS?
Servant--Please. mum, I pulled at
The doorbcn half mn hour. and couldn't
make anybody hear. / think the bell
kas been mufied.
MistresS-Ihe idea! How 10 the poor
s3nvalid to know that all her friends are
ssanxioussab bout her. Il her haartlesa relas
Ayss hare mnfied the door bsll2
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she-This narrow band of gold il:
very sweet Of course; but you-you
said you intended to bring me n eluste,,
diamond ring.
He-Y-e-s. but afterward it occurred
to me that such a ring would hide those
lovely dimplcs in you fingers.
She-Oh, you darling.
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Nicaragua the Allv of ;,on,,,..

WASHINGTON, Feb. e.-United States
Minister Baker has transmitted to the
state department a decree of the govern.
ment Of Nicaragua, dated Dec. rs, recog.
nizing the provisional government OF
Policarpe Bonilla president of Honduras,
Nicaragua is declared the ally of the pro.
visional government under Bonilla.
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A manufacturing concern in Birming
ham drives something of n trade il
crowns. They are real ones Of solid
gold, with cap of crimson velvet, in.
c%rustations of garnet, topaz and othe;
kinds OF cheap but snowy stones, and
IRE supplied to the kings of Africa, Of
whom there are severafhundred, at s
highly satisfactory return of ivory and
other merchandise.
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FIRE AT ~ POINT.

Residence of f. C. Erickson Destroyed
Banker In Jail.
ELK POINT, S D., Feb. 1.-The fine
residence owned by Z. c. Ericsson lind
occupied by j. l.. Smith, took fire this
morning in an upper chamber and
burned. The furniture was saved.
A. j.. A,nes, late banker and sporting
man at Beresford, s. d., is now in Jail
here. He was arrested at Fort Dodge,
Ia. Several indictments were found
against him by tho grand jury for
illegal banking methods.
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BERLIN, Feb. Ga dispatch from
MINK, Russia, says a rich Jewish fam.
lily of the name of Milanovitch, consist.
ing of 10 persons, including two servants,
have been poisoned to death. A number
of arrests have been made in connection
with the tragedy.
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One of the shortest wills on record, q
document containing but forty-twc
words, wa filed for probate in San
Francisco recently. The maker of the
will, Nine. Lerda, devised a large es,
tste to her husband.
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Among the notable ones nay
be mentioned the stained glass win
dow which he placed in Westminster
Abbey in c-0mmemoration of the poets
William Cowper and George Herbert, tho
monument over the hitherto unmarked
grave of Leigh Hunt in Kensal Green, the
gift of u plot of ground for n cemetery for
printers in Philadelphia and the presenta-
ton OF the Shakespeare memorial foam
tain to Standardization.
Loveable characteristics.
The friendship which existed between
Mr.. Childs and the late Anthony j. Drexel
was the most intimate. One of the
strongest points in the character of Mr..
Childs was his ability to win and hold
friends. n faculty, it Is hardly necessary
to add, which was exerci.ed almost I'M
consciously. 1t belonge, t. his hearty,
hopeful and generous nature to inspire
regard i'll kindred souls. Among the
friends who were drawn to him early in
his career was Mr., Drexel, a gentleman
whose name, like that of Mr..
honorable. iibsrai and public eStss' spir.
tied. On several important oc-
casions in the life of Mr.. Childs the
ever ready help OF the great banker was q
tower of strenS th to him. They were side
by side ut the turning points in Mr.. Childs'
career; the capitalist being always prompt
" ASoS ltG SuplbOEI y MS CTeulL ana
wealth to the execution of the publishers
plans. The death of Mr.. Drexei, some
thing over a year ago, was n severe shock
to Mr.. Chtlds, n ut his age probably
produced physical results which contrib
nted to his own fatal illness Mr.. Childs'
attitude toward women was of the high st
noolest. Nothing rejecting upon wo-
mankind was ever admitted to the columns
OF the Publ Ledger after he became its
proprietor The mother in law Joke in its
various forms was strictly and specifically
tabooed. In his relations with his wife
tins chivalry assumed its most beautiful
form. Up to the very last he displayed
her the Difference, the courtesy
n the devotion of the lover.
No character, however exalted, entirely
escapes the shafts of calumny. The vir-
tues of Ny. Childs we're perhaps rs uni
versally recognized as those OF any man,
put ever ne did not entirely escape. It
mas been suggested that his philanthropic
enterprises and his gifts were prompted
by a desire to advertise himself and his
paper. To the first suggestion it is sufi.
cient to reply that the suns he gave away
In secret. and which were known ONLY to
his intimate friends, were almost as great
as those OF which the public necessarily
became informed; the second is amply re-
iuted by the fact that the total of his pub
lie gifts far exceeded in amount anv pos.
s1bic returns he could have received in
the way ofadvertiSing
The attitude OF Mr.. Childs toward the
printers craft has already been referred
to. In this connection it NAV be added
That his practice of p%ensioning employees
connected with all departments Of his
great printing establishment is unique in
american journalism md probably stands
nlone In the journalism of tho world.
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The Baron Was n hi

WEST UNION, H., Feb. 6.-Baron Carl
0 Witter, late Of Nashua, is wanted
several hundred dollars worth. He is
n tailor and getting into the confidence
of the proprietor was sent ont collect
ing. He gathered in $500 and failed to
return. The 'baron" is a large,
smooth, portly gent, fnultlessly attired
and a great ladies' man
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The town of Maynard has a budding
e~nsation. When the town was started
5 female barber named Mrs. Hit opened
, barber shop, and all the male popula.
ion for miles around iocked to her chair
o be shaved. The female portion of the
'illagc became suspicious and held IN in.
lignation meeting. This did no good.
iaturday Mrs. "Buck" Neigh called upon
lie barberess and notified her to leave at
nee. This she has not yet done.