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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10

OMAHA, NEB., January 9.-The pro.
tective board OF the brotherhood Of 10.
connective fremen continued its session
to-day. The greater part Of the session
was consumed in a speech OF G. W.
Mair. third vice grand master on strikes.
He ssid:
ave believe absolutely in arbitra.
ton and will exhaust all honorable
means to secure our jus. right, before
resorting to extreme measures, which
OF course means strikes."
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10
Plums DIstxibuted.


Special Dispath 10 he Fr.Ai.encsr.
CHARLESTON, W. Va. Jan. 9.-Clerk
Dawson has appointed as assistants: E.
E. Hood, Of kanaNha; U. s. Davis, Of
Putnam; NJ. S. Cornell, OF Randolph
T. l. Wright, OF Hsrri.oaS D. E Math.
ews. OF Cabell; B. y. Curry, OF Lincoln,
and E. Corder, of;Roane.
Clerk Harris Of the senate has named
as assistants: E. NJ. ShoHalter, of Ma.
rion; q. ". May, OF Lincoln;yL NJ.
Wade. OF Bra1ton, and Willard Worden.
OF Cabell.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10

BERLIN, Jan. 9.-At the parliament.
airy reception by Emperor William. at
PotBdam, last evening. his majesty made
long speech upon naval matters, and
pointed out tho necessity OF increasing
tho strength OF the German fleet. With
map in his hand lie showed those
present tho different naval stationsa and
distant scenes. especially those 9! the
war between China and Japan. After
supper had boon placed before each Of
tho guests, the emperor conversed freely
with all who had assembled thore at his
invitation.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10
Another 4. Il. U. Man Surrcnders

CHICAGO, Jan. s.-Director J. NJ.
Elliott, ofthe American Railway Union,
surrendered himself to-day and was
taken to Jail in McHenry county to
servo his sentence in tie strike con-
tempt case. Elliott was in Pennsylvan.
ia attending tho funeral OF his child
and was unable to appear yesterday
when Debs and his associates we're
taken into custody.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10

BosroS. Mass, Jan. 0.-The firm OF
II. VI. Burr & Co., wholesale millinery
goods. has assigned to j. b. Babcock &
Co. The concern is one OF the oldest
and largest OF its kind in Boston. The
liabilities nre said to amount to betwoon
10000 and $4,000, mostly with Now
York creditors.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10

New YoRE, Jan. o.-Siuco noon yes.
tordHy ten deaths from grip have been
reported TO the health board. Tho Oil.
cors admit that tho disease has become
epldomic.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10

FoRr WAYNE, IND., Jan. 0.-The two
children OF Mr.. John Lorrain, of Now
Haven. six miles >east OF this place,
wore burned to death this morning by
fire which destroyed tho house, tho
mother being absent 4. tho time.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10
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Onn Mora SLNlctpn Found,

ALnANY. y. Y, Jan. Ono moro,
skeleton and the ninth thus tar r"cov..
ored wn, found TODAY in the ruins oil
tho Dclavin house. Like the others, 1t
was unacceptable.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10

BosToS, Jan. 0-Tho Republicans this
afternoon rc.nominatcd Hon. George +.
IIoar for United States eenitor. Tho
Democrats nominated John L. Russell.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10

SAS FRAEcIsco. Jan. 0.-Thc Evening
Bulletin was sold at public auction to.
day to II. A. Crothers, business mana
ger Of the Morning Call, for $4,000.
George X. Fitch, the present proprietor,
bid $4,000.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10

IIiSroS, W. W.. Jan. 9.--Tho Groom.
bvicr boom ut RonCevorln broke last
night and eleven million ioct OF Irmbcr
wont with the current. 8
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-10

More than enough signatures to the
call for a caucus to Insure Its being
held Friday night have been secured.
By morning it will be signed by moro
than a majority OF all members Of both
houses. c.B.H.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
KANSAS CHURCH AFFAl r.,

The Christian church at Winfield
which was recently destroyed by fire, is
being rebuilt and when completed will
be one of the finest and most beautiful
churches in the city.
At general meeting of the Jewish
congregation of Leavenworth is was
decided to tear down the present syna-
gogue and erect a new edifce on the
same site. Bids are now being received
and plans submitted for the new struct-
ure. It is proposed to begin the work
at once, SO as to have the new building
cumpleted by September 18th, the be-
ginning of the Jewish new year.
At the meeting of the Topeka presby-
terry at Kansas City, the Gardner,
Kan, church was granted $500 and the
Clinton, Kan, church $500, to liquidate
indebtedness on new church buildings.
The committee on publication and Sab
bath school work made report through
It's chairman which was adopted. A
call for the First Presbyterian church
of Kansas City, Kan, for the services
of DIR. Mendenhall was ordered placed
in his hands as soon as his credentials
arrived and he was enrolled as mem-
Der of the Presbytery. Rev. F. II.
BoeIl announced that he had accepted a
call to the Riley Center, Kan, German
church. Rev. J. 8. Glendening of Dodge
CITY, Kan, YVES rendered and accepted
call for pastoral services at North To
peka. Rev. DR.. Harsha was appointed ia
instruct the session at Media, Kan.
church concerning the keeping of their
seasonal records. An invitation to meet
at the First Presbyterion church at To
peka for the next regular session in o.
tober was accepted.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

Cats are the most obstinately ca
PRECIOUS in their fancies about their
beds of any domestic creature. They
will follow a particular rug or shawl
from room to room, if it be removed,
in order to sleep on it, or insist on the
use of one chair, until they get their
way, and then, for some reason, take
fancy to another. The cleanliest Of
all animals, anything newly washed or
very fresh and bright, strikes them as
just the thing for bed. A nicely
aired newspaper lying on the floor or
in chair, or linen fresh from the
wash, is almost irresistible Outdoor
cats seek warm as we'll as a tidy
bed
The writer was once much surprised,
when passing through a large ship
building yard, to see a cat fast asleep,
lying, it seemed, on a muddy path.
But the spot which the cat had select
ed for it's couch was one at which a
hot steam pipe passed under the road,
and the mud was there baked into a
warm, dry cake, which made not only
clean but an artificially heated sleep
ing place.
But the oldest taste in beds deveI-
oped by cat was that entertained by
a very highly bred gray Angora, which
was justly petted and admired by the
family in which it lived. For some
months it would only sleep in or upon
hat, If such could be found, ladies'
hats being preferred. If it could dis
cover one with the inside uppermost,
it would lie inside it. If not, such was
it's love for this form of couch, it would
curl itself around the brim, and with
its long, furry tail and plant body
| made a fine winter trimming to a
summer hat.
By some accident, drawer in which
all the summer" hats had been dis
posed for the winter was left open for
some days, after which it was dis
covered that all the hats had been tried
in turn, the cat having finally selected
one adorned with white laburnum
flowers which never recovered from
the ironing" to which it had been sub
jected.-The Spectator.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

Caney, Montgomery county. is out Of
debt and has $3.50 in the treasury.
Lenora, the North Solomon's western
terminus of the Central Branch, wants
to be a county seat. Some of her people
propose TO take slice of several coun-
ties and make new one, and make Len
ora the seat of government
At Washington. c. F. Little, prom
inent merchant. was out driving with
his wife, when their horse became fright
ened and ran away, throwing them both
out, and breaking Mrs. Little's neck
and killing her instantly.
Pomona letter: The large barn and
residence of Clint BURNER who lives a
mile east of this place are totally de-
stroyed by fire. The barn contained a
number of horses two of which persisted
large quantity of grain, hay, ETC.. was
also consumed. The residence, which
was closely contiguous and it, too, was
destroyed; most of the contents were re-
moved. The fire was caused by little
child playing with matches. The barn
was the largest in the county, 80 by
125 feet, and we'll constructed. The
loss will be about $1,000, with no insur-
ance.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
HELPED BOOTH TO ESCAPE.

Friend of Linco1n's Murderer Dies in
Maryland.
Thomas Jones, the old man who died
the other day in Charles County, Mary
land, was probably responsible for the
fact that J. Wilkes Booth met death at
the carbine's mouth rather than at the
ropes end When Booth fed from
Washington the first man he met who
showed the least disposition to help
him was Jones. Booth could travel no
farther on account of his broken leg
and shelter and rest were absolutely
necessary. Jones, perfectly acquainted
with the country, led him to the big
farm belonging to a man named Gar
rett, a long distance from any of the
much travelled roads. Whether Gar
rett knew the fact or not Jones took
MIN to one of the barns on the prem
Uses and there secreted him. To obtain
food was the greatest difficulty, as
Jones did not dare to go to the Garrett
house for q supply. Corn bread and
bacon, however, he managed to obtain
from the negroes nearby on the ground
that he was on a hunting expedition
and had run out of provisions. His
visits to the barn in which the wounded
murderer lay were always made at
night and with great stealth. Food was
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
DON'T snub the Boys.

Don't snub a boy because he wears
shabby clothes. When Edison, the in
Tentor, first entered Boston he wore a
pair of yellow linen brooches in the
depth of winter.
Don't snub a boy because of the ig-
norance of his parents. Shakespeare,
the worlds poet, was the son of man
who was unable to write his own name.
Don't snub boy because his home is
plain and unpretending. Abraham
Lincoln's early home was plain and
nnpretentious log cabin.
Don't snub a boy because he chooses
an humble trade. The author of the
@'Pilgrim's Progress" was a tinker.
Don't snub a boy because of his phys
ical disability. Milton was blind.
Don't snub boy because of dizziness
In his lesson, Hogarth, the celebrated
painter and enGraver, was a stupid boy
at his books.
Don't snub a boy because he shutters.
Demosthenes, the great orator of
Greece, overcame harsh and stammer-
ing voice.
Don't snub boy for any reason. Not
only because he may some day outstriI
you in the race of life. but because it is
neither kind, nor right, nor Christian.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
The City of Pale Faces.

The viceregal liveries of scarlet and
gold make a focus of brilliant color
amid the sea of white which surges up
and down the broad Strand" at the
sunset hour, when the Europeans, who
parody the proud title of Calcutta into.
''The City of Pale Faces" crowd along
the banks of the river to meet the even
ing breeze, which rustles the towering
palms, and brings fresh life into the.
sun-scorched city.
Bare-headed Babus in flowing mus
Inns lean over the rails of the sidewalk,
and criticise the fashionable throng.
Ayahs in gaudy saris and iIlnumer-
able bangles take their languid charges
for the evening airing. Richly clad ma
tives in gilded palanquins pass swiftly
through the crowd, preceded by syces,
who clear the way with the long slaves.
which serve as weapons aud official
wands. Hindu and Moslem, coolie and
Khitmutgar, soldier and civilian, swell
the throng; and, as darkness falls, the
palm trees of the Eden gardens stand
out clear and sharp in the blue flood Of
electric light, which bathes the scene.
bringing the romantic East within the
focus of Western science.-All the Year
Round.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
TAKING CHANCES.
Risks Run by Chicago Citizens on the
Cable Trains.

Cable Trains.
The Illinois Legislature has fixed the
value of a human life at not more than
s., 1000. The average Chicago man ap-
parently regards his life as worth just
cents.
This latter sum is the fare charged by
the street car companies for carrying
man from the business center to the
end of the line. 1t is presumed that the
man who gives his nickel to the conduc
tor is entitled to a safe passage, but
this presumption is cast aside, and
thousands every day bet their lives
against the nickels they hand over to
the street car companies that they will
reach home with whole limbs and as
live men.
During the rush hour in the evening
| most of the passengers on the street
cars ride outside. The street car COM
panies have arranged the seats and ex-
tended the platforms so as to obtain
the minimum seating capacity and the
maximum standing, crowding, plat
| form, steps and running board capacity.
This is particularly so on the West and
| North Side cable cars. The passen-
| gers who have paid for safe accommo-
| dations can take their choice. They
can place their lives entirely at the
mercy of good luck or they can walk,
and the great majority trust to luck and
ride.
They fill the inside of the cars to the
| suffocating degree of congestion; they
| pack the platforms until the railing
| groans; they take to the grip cars, the
steps and the running boards of the
grip cars. They cling to one another,
| and when they pass through the tun-
nels the walls leave whitewash on their
sleeves and on the backs Of their coats.
They cling between the trailers and
crawl around for an insecure, danger
Gus footing in front of the grip cars.
| A sudden lurch, a broken wheel, a piece
| of iron on the track, a needless move
ment, may any day send a dozen men
under the wheels in the tunnels.
| Luck has been with the street car
| companies thus far, and their patrons
have grown so careless that for nickel
they will place their lives in jeopardy
and be thankful for those excellent
accommodations and unparalleled
| transportation facilities which always
| figure in the annual reports that inform
the stockholders Of the street car COM
panies that the usual dividends will be
is in the surplus.-Chicag go Record.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

become obsolete. and other means of
announcement have superseded that of
the bellman. Up to the present
however, to the bellman's house in
Greek street are taken lost and strayed
children who may be found wandering
about uncared for in the streets of Liv-
erpool. During his long tenure of
office, Mr. George has received from
police officers at the bellman's house
no fewer than 10000 stray children,
whom he restored to their parents.
Latterly this was the old mans chief
emolument, each parent paying Cd. for
the recovery of the lost children, and
f25 year was granted to Mr.. George
from the corporation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
KANSAS RAILROADING.

Ell Dorado Republican: A reporter
visited the Missouri Pacific shops and
found the men busily engaged. VIM.
Dunn, foreman of thelocomotive depart
ment, showed us through the round
house, and we found part of the men
busy cleaning house and putting on
spring airs generally, while others were
repairing and preparing engines for
their runs. The round house was full
of Engines and there were several in the
yards.
The general manager of the B. & M,
after causing a survey to be made for a
sidetrack to the Soldiers Orphans Home
at Atchison announced that he would not
put in a track for the institution, as the
cost would amount to $4,000. This is
regarded as very unfortunate, as side
track to the home would be of great
value, especially during the erection OF
the buildings for which $4,000 was
appropriated by the legislature.
The citizens of Wichita, by George
W. Adams, city attorney, and George l..
Douglass, special attorney, have opened
a determined fight against the Rock
Island, Missouri Pacific, the Santa Fe
receivers and the Santa Fe company
in the matter of securing an equitable
adjustment of freight rates for Wichita
business men. The case has been pre-
sented to the state board of commission
ers and hearing has been arranged for
April %.
A committee of the business mon of
Atchison held a meeting and decided to
make an effort to induce the Burlington
and Rock Island to resume their train
service out of Atchison. Receiver Todd
of the bridge company has offered the
Burlington, Rock Island and other
roads crossing the bridge an annual
rental of $1,000 each, and every COM
pany will no doubt accept, provided ac>
ceptable terminal facilities can be So
cured.
The Itock Island railroad has not lost
faith IN the rain making theory OF Q. b.
Jewell, of Topeka, even though his ex-
periments of last season were not SO
highly successful This is evidenced by
the fact that three more rain making
outfits in box cars are being built at the
company's shops at Horton and will be
added to the three used last year, max
ing force of six cars in the rain max
ing force of the road under Mr. Jewell.
The company has interested the de-
partment of agriculture at Washington
in the enterprise to the extent that agents
of the department viii be sent out with
the Kansas rain makers this season tc
give the rain-making method thorough
scientific investigation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

quietly placed within Booths reach
and then his savior crept silently away
to return the next night.
Jones mysterious movements, how
ever, created suspicion and he was
hauled before Colonel Conger comman-
der of one of the searching parties, one
day. He was directly accused of aiding
Booth to escape and threatened with
the SeYerest kind of punishment if he
did not tell where he was. This method
was of no avail and finally he was of
fered a reward of 100000 if he would
disclose the wanted mans whereabouts.
Jones merely answered that he did not
know who they were talking about.
Had he given the information or had
he failed to help Booth doubtless plans
would have been made to capture the
assassin and Boston Corbett's carbine
would not have been called into play.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
ConstantinopIe.

There is the sea all around, and in
various shapes-a magnificent port in
the Golden Horn-a broad, winding
river in the Bosphorus-and, again,
with its islands and capeS, and open
horizon, the Sea of Marmora, covered
with ships of all sizes, and showing
the greatest variety of flags I have
ever seen. In its beauty l think I
was disappointed; but not in it's grand
eur. Then, when you get into it, there
is still plenty of Oriental life to be
seen; there are crowds, partly in a
state of the most perfect quiescence
and meditative repose, partly in a
state of violent action-pushing, jos
Ting, and especially screaming and
yelling, with confounding energy
there are yelled women, shoveIing and
sliding along in their yellow boots;
there are turbans, and kalpacs, and
fezzes; there is also the great estate
of the dogs, the free and Independent
dogs, who never get out of the way for
man or horse.
The Turks have been EuropeaniZed
of late, and there is a stupid mongrel
air about these crowds, and, with the
exception of some old-faShioned, grave,
proud-looking, green and white tur-
bans, who disdain to show their re-
markedly ugly legs in tight white pam
falcons and straps, the Turks look like
people who hardly know whether they
are standing on their heads or heels,
and this believe. is pretty much the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
10000 Lost Children.

Francis George, the Liverpool bell
man, is to retire from the service of the
city, after a public career extending
over period of sixty years. He was
originally a member of the old dock
police force. 1t is said that at one time
the office Of bellman was worth to the
person who held it about $500 per an
mum. In addition to making public
proclamations, it was a part of the
bellman'S duty on all civic occasions to
walk before the Mayor of Liverpool
with portion of the regalia. 1t was
Mr. Georges distinction in that capaci-
ty during his long period of office to
walk before fifty-three Mayors. In
these latter days the office of bellman
has become practically sinecure. The
duties which he had to discharge have
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
STOCK AND FARM.

North Topeka item: ]. s. Ensminger
of Silver Lake is one of the largest fruit
growers in the county. He says that
the prospects of heavy fruit crop In
his vicinity were never better AMI that
none of it has been killed.
y The Kansas City. Kan, cattle market
was topped Wednesday with six head OF
1910 pounds Herford steers, shipped in
by 81. d. Woodbury. OF Cawker City.
They sold at $3.50. The highest prics
paid q. Chicago the same day was $6.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
How the Eskimo count.

The Eskimo count their fingers-one.
two, three, four, five Above five and
up to ten they use the second hand:
thus, six is 1.-THE first finger of the.
other hand" Above ten they en-
ploy the toes. Thirteen, for instance.
is three toes upon the one foot" and
eighteen, three toes on the second
foot Twenty they describe as q
whole man." They seldom go farther
than this, but they can do so if neces-
sary. For example, they express
twenty-five by saying, "two on the
second man." thirty-seven by 1.-TWO
toes on the second mans second foot:v
forty is 1.-THE whole of a second man ;"
According to DR.. hansen they cannot.
or at least do not. count beyond one
hundred, which is ''the whole of the
fifth man.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27


His mother said they surely had been
taken by a rat.
Now this small boy to employ,
When he tired of book and toy,
Had a garden small, been laid out in the
sun.
Where he dug and planted seeds,
And pulled up lots of weeds,
And generally had quantities of fun.
Now, of course it was no rat,
Nor again the pussy cat,
Who had stolen pills from off the side
t board tall;
f. But the little boy himself
Had climbed up to the shelf
And thinking that the pills were seeds,
had planted one and all.
S Next morning he went out,
And there, without doubt,
Those seeds had grown up all within
d, night;
II And on every greenish sprig,
And on every sprouting twig,
Was a pilI-box full of pills. Oh such
sight!
l} Then he picked up some pills and ate,
And quite fearful to relate,
He gave some to his cat and dog as well.
And there before his eyes,
They began to grow in size,
And his little sailor-jacket seemed to
swell.
And his feelings grew quite queer,
And he cried aloud with fear,
And his waistband burst asunder with
sound.
Down sat the dog and cat,
f They had grown so very fat;
Then the cook came running out and the
les three found.
s Is For the doctor then they sped,
When he came he shook his head,
fLittle boy" said he, your only living
chance
Is month without meal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

Then you, perhaps, may feel
That you again can wear your little
pants"
But the cat and little pup,
Were outside still swelling up,
And from the house a dreadful noise they
heard;
For the fat it had not stopped,
And the animals both popped,
Then they dug the pill-plants up and them
inferred.
New York Recorder.