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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-07

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Race-A Public Holiday
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such rejuvenated ac-
usiasm was never be-
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lu Downs presented a
win go down TO posterity,
..sl d new era in the history
n Kentucky, the home Of
ssaarel.
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rs OF eyes conferred upon lit
Perkins, when he guided
under the wire an easy winner,
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aL $4,000. Before noon the
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-07
ORDERED TO BE READY.

The Parkersburg Contingent of the Ma
tionaI Guard Ordered to Prepare for
Duty.
Special 10 the Register
Parkersburg. w. Va, May Capt
Charles Morrison, of company E, Ma
tional Guards, of this city, has received
orders from Col. Thomas E. Hodges to
hold his company in readiness to be
called out. as the situation among the
miners is becoming very serious.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-07
THE EASTERN WAR SITUATION.

China and Japan to Meet for Ratification.
Has Japan Bowed to European Dicta-
tion.
Yokohama, May 6.-The Japanese
government has unconditionally relin-
quished all claim to the Liao-Tung
peninsula, in accordance with the re-
quest made by Russia, France and
Germany.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-07

washington. May Cash balance,
s1-e 5Os.549: gold reserve, $91, ,664.1 1873.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-07

IF YOU are weak and worn out, or
have that tired feeling, Hoods Sar-
saparina is just the medicine to re-
store your strength and give you a
good appetite. Hoods makes pure
blood.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-07
IEIILCO MINERS 60 ON.

Niddlesboro. KY, May 6.-The Jel-
Iico miners have refused to accept the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-07

Pocahontas, Va, Nidnight--All the
approaches to the town are guarded, an
armed force being stationed at the
Browning mines, Cemetery Hill and
Coal Branch.
Pocahontas, Va, May 6.-Work is
suspended here and the soldiers are
allowed the liberty of the town. Good
order prevails and the city was never
more peaceful. The sheriffs. Of both
Tazewell county,, VA, and Mercer
county, w. Va, are here. About 1000
miners are on the street, but there is
no apprehension of any disorder.
Fully 500 of the miners who ar
rived to-day, returned this evening to
West Virginia. About twenty min
ers worked to-day in the mines, The
operations will not continue to-mOr-
row. The Southwest Virginia I'm
provement Company published a no
tice that no dock of wages would be
made among its men, and that all la
borers would be protected in their
work.
PROTECTION MAY BE NEEDED.
Pocahontas, Va, May 6.-The situa-
tion is critical and complicated. Nearly
all the employees of the Southwest Vir-
ginia Improvement Company and
Browning mines have gone out. Pres
ident Built, of the first named COM
pany, has issued an address to his en-
ployes, saying no reduction has been,
or will be made in their wages, and
that therefore they have no cause of
complaint. He says the soldiers have
been brought to Pocahontas to preserve
the peace and protect such miners as
desire to work. He calls on all of his
employees to go to work tomorrow, and
those who do not do so, may consider
themselves discharged. 1t is believed
in Pocahontas that if non-union men
want to go TO work tomorrow, protec-
ton will be needed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-07
SHERIFF HURST RESIGNS.

Special to the Register.
Charles Town, w. Va, May 6.-Col.
J. Garland Hurst, who was serving his
third term as sheriff of Jefferson coun-
tv. rendered his resignation to-day to
the county court. The resignation
was accepted and Deputy Sheriff Capt
Eugene Baker was appointed to fill
the vacancy. Captain Baker served a
term as sheriff from '76 to 80, and was
several times deputy. Mr.. Hurst re-
signed because the duties of the office
we're too onerOus.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-07

For a dinner pill and general family
cathartic we confidently recommend
HOODS PILLS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-07
HUSBAND HsLD FOR MURDER.

Charles Town W. Va, May 6.-The
Coroner's jury in the case of Lizzie
Scott. which was ajOurned over from
last Saturday, met again to-day and
after hearing some additional evidence,
rendered a verdict that Lizzie Scott
died from the effects of arsenic admin
istered in a cup of tea by her husband,
Andrew Scott. The prisoner was com
mitted to jail to await the grand jury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-28
THE POSTAL MONOPOLY.
circumstances Under Which Indiyid-
uaIs May Carry Letters.
New York Sun.

The law provides that no person shall
undertake to carry letters for pay unless
such letters be Enclosed ana sealed IN GOV
eminent stamped envelopes, and such let
ters must bear full postage for their weight.
There is nothing to prevent any one from
carrying letters and charging for their car
piled with. Wells. Fargo & Co. used to do
the larger part of the postal business OF
tablished sufficient postal routes and post
offices in that State for the needs OF the
community. The companys charge was %
cents a letter. and it kept government
stamped envelopes in which to inclose all
companies do little such business still,
but it is insignificant now. since the postal
system IS cheaper ana more ,, en'enaea 'hah
As matter of fact. it is a little diff
cult to comply with the requirement. con-
corning government stamped envelopes Tor
the government issues nothing higher than
the two-cens denomination OF stamped en-
velopes. and it would be a violation OF law
to carry in such an envelope a sealed COM
munication of above one ounce IN weight
nor would the law be any the less vio-
lated were the additional postage. affixed
There used to be popular notion that
the government monopoly OF the postal
by one friend for another without charge,
but If there was ever any SUCH decision
by the Postoffice Department 1t no longer
holds good, for the law now especially pro,
yides for the free carriage OF consgnees'
letters by ships. railways and the like. The
railway companies do a great deal of such
bus ness, and send without postage hun
dreds of letters daily upon their own af-
fairs These letters are inclosed in envel-
opes marked, railroad business.
The government makes a special provision
for what are called ships letters. These
are letters carried by vessels not having
mail contracts. The master of such vessel
on reaching port is required to deliver with
in three hours after his arrival by day,
or within two hours after sunrise II he ar
rived by night, all such letters to the local
postoffice He is entitled TO receive cents
for each letter of one ounce or less, and
the addressee must pay double postage.
Before postal routes were 50 numerous
many such ships letters came in to the
New York postoffice, and even now Hud-
son river steamers not carrying the mails
occasionally bring in d letter of the sors.
A ship comes into port now and then from
some far corner of the earth with a few
such letters, but the number grows fewer
year by year, for not only does the postal
system or the globe reach nearly every
port visited 10y commerce. but even the
postal union now embraces almost the wnoie
world.
Cape Colony has just come into the union
and only Morocco. Samoa, the Orange Free
state, Madagascar. China and few less
important countries are left out Even
Madagascar is practically in the union, for
all her important ports are In the hands
of the French, AMI through that nation
they enjoy the privileges of the union.
China, having no thorough system OF in
tcrnal mails, is not in the union: but twen-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-28
WANT-oTRICKEN Town.
Villagers of Rusk, Wis.,, Present Sad
State of Poverty.

GRANTSBURG, Wis, Jan. 27.-Reports
still continue to come in from the town of
Hrsk. and each adds to the tale of terrible
tiers there. The country is just opened up,
and many of the settlers are recent arrivals.
The greater number of them come from the
southern part of the State and Rice county,
and were nearly starved out when they
rived at Rusk. The few morsels they had
would not have filled a dry goods box. Those
who arrived last spring cut away the woods,
opened small clearing and tried to raise
few vegetables to live on, after having put
up rough log houses to live In. Had they
succeeded in raising anything matters
might have been different. and their suffer-
ings reduced to a certain degree as far as
hunger was concerned. But crops We're al
absolute failure. Then came the terrible
forest fires, sweeping everything in Their
path. Many farmers lost the little hay they
had gathered from the scattering marshes,
and in several instances houses, barns and
their all were swept away.
The towns of Sheel Lake and Cumberland
assisted them some last fall. The local
charity funds and town funds are exhausted,
and now the county relief committee is
asked for aid. The Governor has en- re-
quested to give immediate relief They have
almost nothing to eat and very little to
out proper food and many have not a
pound of flour In the house The relief COM
mittee held meeting here to-day, after
having given notice to those in need of aid.
Their tales of want and woe were taken I'M
der oath, and were pathetic in the extreme.
It is q pitiful sight to see how thinly these
people are clad, when the thermometer is
registering 20 to so degrees below zero.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-28
FOOTs UP S5O,OOO,OOO
AN ESTIMATE OF THE REVENUE
FROM THE INCOME TAX.
interesting. Discussion Of the Ha-
waiian Question VIII Continue This
Week in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, JAN 27.-Members of
Congress who believe in the income tax as
an equitable method of raising revenues
are gratifed at the unexpectedly good show
ing of the preliminary canvass made by
the collectors of the internal revenue at
the direction of Secretary Carlisle. They
beneve that the greater the amount realized
from TINS tax the more popular it will be-
come and the more firmly rooted as a part
or the policy of the government. Repre-
sentative McMillin of Texas, says that
II large per cent. of the revenue of the
government be derived from this plan any
attempt to repeal it before the expiration
OF the hve-year limit fixed in the Wilson
Dill will be exceedingly unpopular and that
the greater the revenue derived from it
enactment at the end of it's term. When
the proposition to tax incomes was before
congress the profit from the scheme was
at first estimated at from SIS, DOC, 900 to s1S,-
ooooW. Later the estimates of the commit
tee were raised to the vicinity of $50, 00O. 0G0
Mr.. Han, of Missouri, who has given more
study, perhaps, to the theory ana history of
lne income tax than any other m the
House, did not place the total below so, co.,
W. from the results of the canvass or the
INTERNAL Revenue Bureau It appears that
MT. Han was more near4y correct than the
other forecasters. He now says that the
ana II IS known that the Treasury Depart
Inent of1cials do not place its results below
that mark. The showing made by the thlr-
ty-slX OF the siXty-three districts gives
ground Tor the estimate that ABOUT $40 90
persons and corporations will contribute to
the treasury by this plan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-28
SPORTS AT WABASH COLLEGE.
Skating ON the River and SOphO-
mOres' Whislers Growing.

mOres' Whislxers Growing.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Jan 27.-Dur-
ing the past week the students of Wabash
have had a good time skating. Just north
OF the city there is stream, which the
local ice company keeps damned up at
this season of the year and when the
weather is cold enough and the snow does
not interfere the students have q splendid
Held for sport. They went out in large
numbers and the amusement, unlike the
college. was conspicuously co-educational
Athletics are the rage in college now.
None of the literary societies has need
or larger quarters to accommodate it's
audiences. Interest centers in the midwin-
ter gymnasium meet Of the freshman and
sophomore classes. In the neighborhood of
nifty men are practicing for this contest.
Heretofore when the 22d of February has
not been given UP to flag raisings and flag
coverings, with the inevitable accompan nj
ments, some sort of a literary test has
Deen resorted to for determining the ques-
ton of supremacy among the odds and
evens 1t was at first attempted to bring
ABOUT a literary contest this year, but the
cnaiienge of the freshmen looking to such
an arrangement was ignored. Then nego-
tiatlons for an athletic meet were begun,
proI. Thomas, chairman of the athletic
committees, squirting the movement along in
behalf of the faculty. A programme was
finally. agreed on and will be carried out
on Feb. %.
On Friday evening President and Mrs.
Burroughs entertained the sophomore class
This reception. like those that have gone
before It, was enjoyed by everybody pres
ent. Refreshments were a pleasing feat
ure. of the occasion. 1t is the purpose
of the college Y. NJ. c. A. to improve its
room All the classes have been asked to
contribute something to the cause and
there has been generally Il very liberal
response. Among the improvements will be
a new carpet and new chairs.
Hannibal Williams, the Shakspearian
reader, gave THE Tempest" at the local
\. M. G. A. auditorium this week. 1t was
one OF the regular entertainments of the
college lecture course and was enjoyed
by large audience.
One of the novelties which the immediate
future promises is a luxuriant crop of
sophomore whiskers. The president of '97
has issued a decree that no member of
his class shall shave until after Feb. %,
the penalty be ng accommodation. The
results of this order are likely to be varied
and fantastic. Under ordinary circum-
stances college whiskers are rather queer
phenomena; what they will be under the
new sophomore fiat only rich fancy can
conjecture.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-28
DRAGGING ALONG.
Testimony Against MOrrisOn's Mental
Capacity still Piling Up.

special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Jan. 27-The Morrison
VIII case was adjourned on Friday last until
tomorrow afternoon, when the proceedings
VIII be resumed. The testimony so far has
been confined almost entirely to the condi-
ton OF James l.. Morrison mentally. The
last witness introduced by the plaintiffs
was Charles G. Swain, ex-city clerk, who
testified to the Inaccuracies Mr.. Morrison
made In the keeping of his accounts. a
thing considered by the plaintiffs of more
than ordinary interest and Importance. Mr..
Swan testified that he had found a number
or errors IN the accounts, ranging from 10
cents up to $50. He will continue his testi-
mony Monday.
The end of the trial is not in sight vet: in
1act, there is no certainty as to when the
PLAINTIFFS will finish their side and the de-
fense be allowed to begin the introduction
OF testimony. When the trial had been In
progress two weeks it was stated that the
pla.ntiffs would likely rest their case in am
other week. That week has gone and the
fourth week has. almost been completed, and
still the plaintiff keeps right on Introducing
testimony. There are several witnesses to
be introduced before the plaintiffs finish
among them Miss Bertha Morrison one of
the plaintiffs, a great-granddaughter of
James Il. Morrison, and DIR. j. r.. Weist
both of whom will give testimony of in
tereSt.
Should the defense occupy as much time.
and there is every reason to believe 1t will
1t will be late in March before the case is
decided
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-28

ty-one ports enjoy the privileges OF the
union through the postal agencies of the
United States and Great Britain. Chinas
internal postal business Is managed by PR
vate persons, and all sorts OF men com
pete for the carving of letters. so that
the rate of postage, though uncertain, Is
Even those countries not in the union
eni,v the union rate. and YOU may send q
half-ounce letter for 5 cents to almost any
ever, MANY ports to which this country
does not regularly dispatch mails direct,
and here a hardship arises under the law
Any letter not referring directly and solely
to the cargo cannot be sent save under
cover of a government STAMPED envelope
ina ton required OF foreign postage 1t Is
impossible to dispatch such letters without
violation Of the law. incnrring nanl pm ~, ~
about the cargo to the consisnee and send
your communication without stamp, what
his wife a happy New Year or inquire after
the health of his children Won incur la
bility to fine of $50 As matter OF fact'
the law in this regard is constantly vio-
lated with impunity. since the vioiat on
does not seriously tonch upon the govern
nlent's monopoly From time to time. how
ever. the government interferes when the
thing is carried too far.
The government claims no monopoly for
the carriage of other than first-class mat
ter. and as to merchandise 1t limits me
weight of packages to four pounds. Oddiy
enough. however, there Is no hm't 70 me
weight of first-class matter, and II tnree-
ton safe were inclosed in a sealed package
and two-cent stamp were affixed the post
Office under a literal construction or the
law would be required to forward 1t. and
collect the extra postage. due. unless in
deed the addressee should decline to re-
ceive 1T and leave it to be taken to the
Dead Letter Office. The postofice would
probably choose in such case to violate
its own laws and reject the safe as I'M
n,ailable Put if anv man with a turn for
PRACTICAL Joking wishes to test the limit
of what the postoffice will forward under
=, civ lie 81
up a safe, pig of lead any other heavy
article not dangerous to the mails or their
handlers. and offer it at the general post
Office. He would at least raise an inter-
eSting case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-28
Per cent. Per cent.
The ten States in which the percentage OF
checks, in use WAS greatas1 Wora.

An clement which ought to be considered
concerning which there is way of getting
data but which would go to swell the credit
side of the account, is the large amount of
store orders and store checks used, espec-
tally in the mining and manufacturing dis
trictS and in the country districts through
out the South. These are issued in pawn mt
of wages, and reduce the amount of money
ments These store orders and book credit
accounts obtain very largely in places where
supplies furnished through general
stores" The tables given above show that
the extent of the use of the credit instru-
ments in retail transactions varies widely
sippi heads the list, and South Dakota
shows the smallest percentage. The
larger daily of credit through
out the cotton growing States was
out the supposition. The same is true in
general of the great wheat-growing States
of the Northwest. The highest percent
age of checks is in the south central divis-
ion and the lowest in the north central
division, and the investigations of Con-
of retail transactions done on credit is
larger in the south Atlantic and south CEN
trail divisions than In the north Atlantic
and north central divisions, while the
western group Of States is intermediates
1t Is not safe to draw any definite con-
investigation, which necessarily de-
fective, but the informs ton gathered
shows that the assumption that the use of
checks and other credit instruments in
creases with the population is not in strict
accordance with the facts. II appears from
increase in the of credit instruments
in retail transactions decreased relatively
with the growth OF population after GER
tain density OF population is reached
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-28
TWO WIVES AT WAR
VIOLA DROWN SUES GUssIE WALKER
FOR $4,000 DAMAGES.
State University Students Mixed Up
I'm IN Scrimmnge with Militia Boys
The Morrison VIII Case.
special to the Indianapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENFIELD, Ind, Jan. N.-Mrs. Viola
Brown brought suit against Mrs. Gussie
Walker for $500 damages for alternating
the affections of her husband, William
II. Brown. Mrs. Walker is the young wife
OF William c. Walker. old citizen of
this county. They were married about
year ago. As an inducement to marry
him Mrs. Walker was given deed for
10 acres OF fine Hancock county land. This
she sacrificed recently at $35 acre and
now has 5000 on deposit with the Green
field Banking Company and Judge c. G..
Offut issued temporary injunction
strain1ng the bank paying out this money
pending the decision of this damage suit.
Mrs. Walkers maiden name was Gussie
Wachstetter and her parents live at Lapel,
but when she and Mr.. Walker We're mar
ried she had been making her home at
indianapolis. Mr.. Walker was formerly one
OF Hancock county's wealthiest citizens,
put recently made an assignment and his
business Is in the courts.