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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25
HORSELESS CARRIAGES.
Tests Show the Superiority of Gasoline
Over Electricity and Steam


Washington. July 24.-C. w. Chan
cellor, United States Consul at HaVre..
has made a report to the Secretary OF
State on the subject Of horseless car
liages in which he tells of the recent
competition in France between car
riages of various kinds of motors other
than horses. The course prescribed
was from Paris to Bordeaux, 1858 miles,
and back. any vehicle which consumer
more than 100 hours on the read TO De
disqualified. Prizes were offered, Ine
principle one amounting to 4O,OOO
francs for four seated carriages.
The best time was made by four
seated and a two seated vehicle, botn
propelled by gasoline. They covered
the distance in "a hours and 5S min
utes. making about Is miles per hour.
This record. Mr.. Chancellor says, is
considered very creditable in view OF
the necessity of climbing long lines OF
hills. These hills appear to have proved
too much for the electricity-propelled
| carriages, only one of which got
through. The electric carriages lost
time by being compelled to stop fire.
QuruLlg W lFutN lA4NAA ~ A-N'AA--N
charges, as did the steam propellors by
stopping for fuel and water, while the
petroleum machines carried sufficient
/ fuel for a twenty-four- hour run.
Mr.. Chancellor says the ordinary
feeder used for short distances in the
petroleum carriages contains less than
four quarts of oil, and this is sufficient
for a journey of twenty miles. He also
mentions a petroleum cycle which en-
tered this race and held its own with
the larger vehicles, and says that the
time will soon arrive when gasoline
will come into general use for propell-
ing bicycles, tricycles, and even four
wheelers. which will he thinks, re
lieve lady cyclists from the necessity
Of wearing short skirts like those of
the wild Albanion, killed to the knee. "
Altogether, he concludes that petro-
leum is destined to become the populaF
agent of traffic and conveyance without
horses in the streets Of great cities and
on smooth country roads.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25
OIL NEWS.

The receipts Of the pipe lines in the
Sistersville field yesterday were l5,14l
barrels. The receipts of the Eureka
were 1876 barrels, and those Of the
Mellon lines 5.265 barrels.
There is very little oil news reported
from the Sistersville field this morn
ing There is a large amount OF work
going on. i'm fact, more than for long
time, on both the West Virginia and
Ohio sides. and all interest is now CEN
tered on the wells due in the vicinity
Of the Dye Brooks we'll on the West
Virginia side. and the wells near the
Frieden well over in Ohio. In the
vicinity of the Dye-Brooks we'll Capt,
Jones has TWO wells about due and
it is probable they will be in to-day or
tomorrow. Over on the other side
there are about three wells due, all of
which should be in this week. These
wells are an very important and are
being watched very closely by opera
tors everywhere. Their coming in good
producers means q great deal toward
the extension Of the great Sistersville
field
There is considerable work being
done ont on Long Run in WetZel cOun-
~. and several new locations are being
made and rigs being erected. The con-
tractors have managed to get one string
OF tools out of the D0ran well, and ex-
pect to get the other string in few
days
AT the Palmer well it has been found
impossible to get the tools out and
work viii be commenced to-day drilling
by them.
Carr Bros. well on the Rocker farm
is still producing oil spasmodically.
Some days il will make a squirt and
produce probably % or 80 barrels a
day end then & will drop off and only
pump 3 or barrels. 1t will probably
average about II or II barrels a day.
The Nipert we'll is being cased this
week with 6A-inch casing, and work
is progressing rapidly.
A location has been made on the
Rothenberger farm, and the rig finished
by w. 5. Wiley. of New Martinsyille,
and others, and drilling will COM
mence as soon rs the machinery can
De put on the ground.
Gillespie Bros, Pittsburg people,
have given mp the fishing job at their
Wei about three miles from the Rocker
and have moved the rig to new lo-
cation and will put down new hole.
The Brockeiunier well out on Indian
creek. on the Amkrom farm, is still
making considerable oil and it is
thought will be a good producer.
A location has been made and a rig
built on the Suter farm, near FranKiA..
in Wetzel county, and well will be
drilled at once.
The Moses & Wilson well, on the
Bere farm, in the Indian creek district,
was reported almost through the lime
stone and will probably reach the sand
about Saturday or Sunday.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
31bfelin9 8e9ister

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN $500 TROUS-
ERINGS
Just received another elegant line' when
we are prepared TO make to order on short
notice. {. HESS a SONS.
Fashionable Taiiors and Gents Furnish
crs. 1921 and 1928 Market street.
Close at 3 p. m. except Saturday.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25

Toledo, o., July 24.-Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern train No. 81, going
, west in charge of Conductor Darling
and Engineer Herman, was held up and
robbed at Reece, q small station thirty
eight miles west of here, at 12:4O this
morning. The train had pulled into a
blind siding to allow special to pass
when it was boarded by six masked
men, who, at the point of reyolvers
compelled the express messenger to IN
lock the safe.
The officials are of the opinion that
the robbery was committed by persons
in close touch with employees of the
road. as they must have had positive
information as to the trains meeting
on the siding, and also Of the unusually
heavy express run. The train was COM
posed of a day coach, baggage and
express car and three sleepers. As
usual thing the money carried on this
train does not amount to much, but it
was heavy last night. The passengers
in the coach were not molested, and
Immediately after completing their
work the robbers took TO the woods
and disappeared. The detective force
from this city started for the scene on
a special train, and the country is be-
ing closely watched for suspicious per
sons.
When some distance from the switch
the engineer CT the express saw It was
turned, displaying the red lght, and
as he turned on the air brakes, several
shots were fred at the cab. One OF
the shots put out the headlight When
the train stopped, four robbers went TO
the express car, in charge OF Messenger
c. B. Nettleman, of Buffalo, and order
ed him to open the door and come cut.
Nettleman refused and the robbers
threatened to blow up the car.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25

Jchn f. Hutchinson, ESD, of Park
ergburg. a prominent young attorney
At the Wood county bar, was IN the
city to-day. August NJ. Campbell
ESD. a well known attorney OF 81.
AIary's. was IN the city to-day on Dus--
ness. Paul 0. Reymann, of the Rey-
mann Brewing Company, Of Wheeling
was N the city to-day calling on Gus
toners. VIM. Showalter, the well
known and popular stenographer at
Blackmarr & Young's law office, went
to Friendly to-day on business. ii.
w. wilson. Of Wheeling, president OF
the Keely OIL Company, arrived in the
city this afternoon and will remain sew
eral days. looking after the large inter-
ests of the company IN this field.
Mrs. Ella Robinson and daughter, OF
Cumberland. Md. arrived in the city
to-day and will be the guests of her
brother. G. B. Slemaker and mother
on Wells street. IF. P. Cook and
bride Of st. Mary's, O., are the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry E. Myers, on
Wells street. and will remain in the
city until next week, when they will
leave for Chautauqua Lake for a stay
OF several weeks. Frank Chapman,
City Sergeant, is visiting in Pittsburg.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25
SISTERSVILLE NEWS.
Local and Social Happenings Of the
HuStling Town
Down the River - Personal and
Other Interesting Items Pertain
ing to the OilMetropolis Of West
Virginia

special Correspondence ofzthe Register.
Sistersville, W. Va, jury PA few
DAVIS ago mention was made exclusive
ly in these columns of a petition, signed
bv the majority of the influential cit
liens of the town, which was to be pre-
sented to the Postal Telegraph Com
pany. asking them to run line in here,
to give the town some redress against
the actions of the present company do
ing business here. Yesterday well
known oil man took the petition to
Wheeling and submitted 1t TO the
manager of the company there. The
matter has been taken into consluera7
ton by the officials OF the company ana
il is very likely wire will be run IN
here as soon as possible.
In this respect there is runor III
circulation here TO the effect that the
wire will be run on the poles OF the
Mellon Pipe Line Company from
Doint on the Baltimore and ONO rail-
road between Littleton and Manning
ton. Although this is given out on
what seems to be pretty good authority
the officials of the Mellon line mere
when spoken to in regard to the matteN
denied all knowledge Of such an ar
rangement and said if such an agree
ment was being considered they knew
nothing about it. The business men Oh
the city are thoroughly aroused over
the matter Of securing better tele-
gra,b.c facilities and the matter Will
not be allowed to rest until their am
has been accomplished
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25
From the GrotonrConnecticut, Review.

From the Groton,- Connecticut, Review.
David Lewis, who has been afflicted
all winter by rheumatism, is out again
and all due to one of the medicines adj
vertised in our columns. After trying
everything possible he used Chamber
lains Pain Balm, which has relieved
him of all pain, from which he was a
constant sufferer and promises to
make him fit for duty soon. We know
David has been a great sufferer and
are glad to see him around again. For
sale by Charles r. Goethe, W. w. r.
win. ]. Klari, William E. Williams, c.
Menkemeller, William H. Hague. H.
c. Stewart, A. E. Scheele, ]. Coleman,
c. Schnepf. William Menkemeller,
Wheeling; Bowie & Co., Bridgeport;
F. F. Peobody & Sou, Benwood.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25

George Ernst, of the Ernst OIL and
Gas Company. left last night for Wheel
ing and Pittsburg on business. DR..
w F. Stewart lef, to-day for New
lIrr-:nsville. where he VIII attend a
reception n honor Of his father-in-law'
Percy Duff Leap, a prominent young
man of that place, which takes place
ton :rht.. George B. Slemaker re-
trrged this morning from a business
tr.p to Wheeling.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25
HE MEN CAME on

HE HEN NLAAE W 1.
When the door was opened the four
men entered. They secured the con-
tents of the local safe, amounting TO
about $50. and then went TO the big
safe. Since the Kendaly.lle robbery
the express company has supplied its
cars with dynamite proof safes, and
this safe stood the test of four dyna-
mite cartrid egs fred by the robbers.
United States Express officials de-
clare that but $3.50 was secured by the
train robbers.
The express car is in badly shat
tered condition. Every window in the
car was broken, the big safe, though
unapened. showed the marks of dyna-
mite, and the small or way safe lay
open ia 1.-The centre of the car, while the
train crew and passengers showed
plainly the effect of their midnight
scare. The train men were ordered to
avoid newspaper notoriety. The mes
senger was taken to the United States
Express CompanX's headquarters and
closeted with the officials.
Passengers say the robbers ordered
Messenger Nettleman to open the eX-
press car door. at the same time threat
ening to blow the whole train over into
Indiana. Nettleman fired one shot. and
then slowly opened the door. Two OF
the men sprang into the car and pitch
ed Nettleman in a heap out the door,
and began operations on the big safe,
but the big steel doors stood fast, and
with an oath the dynamiters gave it UP.
They then turned their attention to
the small way safe, meanwhile the ROB-
bers outside keeping mp an irregular
fire to prevent On attack from the
passengers. Finding the small safe
securely locked. two Of the men picked
up Messenger Nettleman and proceed
ed to dump him back into MS car, with
an order 10 unlock the scfe doors. WITH
the mugzle OF . revolver at the back CT
his neck. the messenger complied, and
the robbers quickly cleaned out the
compartments After a few uucompi-
mentary remarks concerning the con-
struc.ion o. the large safe, The men
backed into the weeds lining the road,
and. with q parting yolley, d.sapp eared
in the woods. The trainmen believe
that the dcspcradces we're old railroad
men. but as all were masked with hand
kerchiefs, none we're recognized.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25
Special to the Register

NT-"TTIT
Parkersburg. w. Va. July 24.-Drill-
ing the Samuel Stewart well on the
Uhl farm, about eight miles above Par
ersburg, on the Ohio river, has COM
menced. the rig having been completed.
Several good wells are located near this
well.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25

The ladies. individually. and collective
IT, with out exception. pronounce j. Mon
roe TaVlOr's Cream Yeast Baking Powder
The best and most wholesome article in the
market
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25

You can always rely on the Rose"
brand Of sugar cured meats, made by
The Cleveland Provision Co This IS
the only packing house in Ohio that has
government inspection. These meats
are branded and guaranteed.
Sun. tn. TIL Sat,X
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25

This evening a party of young pe2-
pIe compcsod Of 2. B. Beeser, Dr. Z. /.
Marsh walter B:shcp and jos. ?.
Svcenev. accompanied by several
ladies'. went 20 New Martinsv!lle 10 at
tend the reception in honor OF MI +:
Duff Leap. a popular young man oil
that place. They will return to-mor-
row.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25
A TRAIN HELD UP.
Boarded by Masked Men While Stand
ing on a Siding.

The Through Safe Resisted Explo-
sives and But a Small Amount
Of Money was Secured-Robbers
Threaten to Blow a Lake Shore
Train Out Of Ohio Into Indiana.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-08

Brook Farm is a place of mysteries,
with all it's sunny meadows, bowery
hills and happy birds, writes Hezekiah
Butterworth in Ladies' Home Journal,
in a sketch Of the place made famous
by Hawthorne, Alcott, Curtis, Dana and
Ripley. There is no mystery perhaps in
the psychic life of America greater than
how so many young enthusiasts of like
heart, mind and faith should have found
themselves here so or more years ago.
They were all, apparently, disciples Of
Emmanuel Kant, all Fourierites, all
social reformers. They were all destined
to become famous. They were the elect
of life, but at that time they knew it
not. They were for the most part poor.
Professor George Ripley, who was
content to be poor if he could do good in
the world, was the leader of these gen
tie philosophers. He did good and be-
came rich George William Curtis was
there; Charles A. Dana, now editor of
the New York Sun; Brownson, who be-
came editor Of The Catholic Review !;
Dwight, who did much for music in
America in Dwight's Journal of Music.
Bronson Alcott made his social expert
ment at Fruitlands, but, like Emerson,
was in touch with Brook Farm. Many of
the afterward philanthropists of Boston
were there, OF whom but few now re-
main
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-08
Still There Is Nothing New.

The modern Solomon can probably eX-
claim with as much truth as did the
builder of the temple" that there is
nothing new under the sun. - We are led
to make this remark after finishing a
chapter in Arthur Young's Travels In
France" which contains ap extract,
published first on Oct 16, 1871, and
which is given below in full:
I'M. Lemond is a most ingenious me-
chanic who recently made a most re-
markable discovery in electricity. You
write two or three words OH paper. He
takes it with him into room and turns
a machine inclosed in a cylinder case.
At the top of this machine there is an
electrometer and small pith ball.
There is wire connecting this machine
with one in distant apartment, at
which his wife is seated. By noting the
motions of the ball on the machine be-
fore her the lady is able to write down
the words on paper which she has never
seen. From this it appears to me that he
has formed an alphabet of motions As
the form of the wire makes no difference
in the effect as long as it is charged with
electricity, correspondence may be car
ried on at any distance, within or with
out fortified town, for instance, Or for
purposes much more worthy"
Who says the telegraph is new?-St.
Louis Republic
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-08
Answering Invitations.

When a gentleman and his wife are
invited and do not go to reception, all
that is necessary to represent them is
their visiting cards. A man and his
wife have separate visiting cards, those
uniting the names being seen very sell
dom nowadays. A wedding invitation
should receive some recognition. A
courteous little note containing either
an acceptance or a regret would seem to
be the proper way in which to acknowl-
edge this civility. When lady and
her daughter send out cards for an aft
ernoon tea, one would send, if one did
not go, a card for each-Ladies' Home
journal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-08
THE WEIGHT OF THE EARTH.

One of the problems that men of
science occasionally undertake to
solve over again for the sake of get
ting nearer to the exact truth is that
of the density and mass of the earth
The density of body is the guam
tity of matter that given volume of
it contains, while its mass is the total
quantity of matter that the whole
body contains. In a popular sense
the mass of body is measured by its
weight.
Water is taken as the standard of
comparison in estimating the density
of the earth. 1t has been known, in
a general way, for hundred years,
that the earth's mean or average den
sity is between five and six times
that of water; in other words
that the earth weighs five or six
times as much as a globe of water of
the same size would weigh, provided
that the water in such globe had the
same average density that water has
at the surface of the earth.
The matter composing the earth is
denser in the interior than at the sur
face. If that were not SO it would
only be necessary to take a cubic foot
from the surface of the globe, and
weigh it against cubic foot of water
in order to ascertain the density of
the earth. AS it is. the earth's dem
sity can only be learned by round
about methods by noting, for in
stance, the difference in the attraction
of gravitation, at the surface and at
the bottom of mine.
Recently a method of measuring
the mass and density of the earth has
been put into practice in France.
This consists in changing the level of
a small lake which can be raised or
lowered by artificial means, and no
ting the effect upon the height of
column of mercury.
The results of these experiments
have given for the earth's mean den
sity, 5.41 times the density of water.
The latest previous estimate, made
by Messrs. Corun and Baille, gave
$50. 1t has been customary to speak
of the earth as weighing six sextril-
lions of tons. It's weight according to
the recent determination is 1857 ,000,-
600, 900, OOO, OOO,O 900, or five sextillions,
seven hundred and fifty quin-
tillions of tons. A very weighty and
substantial globe according to our
ideas notuith CT udipO tho far that
the sun could swallow it in one of it's
"spots'' with hardly wink!-Youth's
Companion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-08
WHY IRVING WAS KNIGHTED.
According to an English Writer, He Die
tated to the Government Its Duty

According to an English Writer, He Die
tated to the Government Its DUTY.
Scarcely had M. Daudet, with true
Partisan provinciais1n, complained that
we had presumed to lay the bones of
great actors in Westminster abbey along
side those of members OF his profession
than our reply comes III the announce
ment that henceforth the leading actor
in England shall have title like the
presidents of the academies of music
and painting This act of justice has
not been 'graciously conferred - It has
been rcsolutely demanded and enforced
by an artist to whose profession it means
a social charter of some value Every
actor in the kingdom will profit by this
knighthood more than Henry Irving,
and that is why it was a really fine
thing of him to insist on having it.
It should be especially noted that it is
solely as actor and manager that he has
won the position from which he has
been able to dictate to the government
it's duty to his art He has rendered no
services to literature. His whole career
is in that respect an almost schOolboyish
confession that he does not know litera-
ry chalk from literary cheese. Stevenson
Or Oxenford, Goethe or Wills, Shake
speare or Frank Marshall-it would be
fattering him to say that they are all
one to him, for there is the strongest
evidence to suggest that he decidedly
prefers Oxenford, Wills and Marshall
He has never written a play, though
he has spoiled several. Nor has he, like
Mrs. Kendall, followed the prevailing
fashion of parading the virtue Of his
domestic life in order to gain fireside
appreciation. He does not NEEDLE in i'm
perial politics nor discuss municipal af-
fairs except on the point strictly ger
name to his own business of a munich
pal theater. He is only the acknowledg
ed chief Of his profession. Take that
away from him, and the name Of Henry
Irving has no longer a meaning. That
is why his victory over an unjust preju
dice and a snobbish tradition is so COM
plete. No one can separate his distinc-
ton from his specific art, except by 60
ing behind his skill as an actor to those
personal qualities by which men gain
pre-eminence in all professions Lon
don Saturday Review
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-07-08
In an English Criminal Court.

Battered females who weep, who have
come to it through drink, who courtesy
with moldy gentility when they get
four months; pianist at a free and
easy in red shawl, who, merely to
oblige friend, sold a stolen watch a
shy servant girl in broad straw hat,
for breaking and entering her late mas
ter's house and carrying off clocks and
clothes; decent postmistress in black,
with a comfortable, cooklike air, who,
trade being bad at her little shop, had
been abstracting coin from the letters
intrusted to her. Counsel delivers a
fowery debating society harangue on
her behalf, by which he makes it clear
that the real criminals are the public
for putting temptation in the way of re-
spectacle officials by sending registered
letters. IL there We're no registered let-
tiers, there would be no thieves.
Counsel gives me the impression Of
thinking good deal more of the selec-
ton of his phrases and the rounding of
his periods than of his client, who, when
at last he sits down, gets II months for
his pains. Succeeded by q sturdy rogue,
who, being benighted, broke into
church and drank the sacramental wine
(any port in a Storm, and, not content
with that, made himself up bed in
the vestry on the crisp and immaculate
surplices. Impudent fellow! Eighteen
months. And yet sacrilege seems O.
heavy gun to bring to bear upon a man
just for procuring himself a nights
lodging. -Cornhill Magazine.