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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-14
ROUND ABOUT ST. MARY'S.
What the Operators Are Doing in That
Field-The Gale Well In.
CDocio1 IN tho Paoictar

REID me Gale We'll IN.
Special to the Register.
ST. Mary's, w. Va, December 10
Operations in this county are brisk, and
everything looks as though the territory
would receive a thorough test.
The Ballard & Haskell No 1, on the
Isaac Pethtle lease, is due in the Big
Injun sand to-day, but has not yet re-
ported.
w. II. Reese's well on the Emaline
Robinson lease is down close to the
sand, but they have been delayed for
several days waiting for a cable.
The rig is up for Braden & Co.'S we'll
on the Samberson lot, and the contrac-
tor, Mr.. Fraser. is getting the tools and
machinery on the ground 1t will prob
ably be drilling by the first Of the com
ing week.
All the land above and below the
mouth of Broad run, on Middle Island
creek, is being taken up as rapidly as
possible. and good rentals are being
paid. 1t now looks as though a Keener
field would be developed from Broad
run to ST. Mary's.
Ballard No. 2, on Core, has a string Of
tools in il which were stuck when
cleaning it out. They have been wait
ing several days for fishing tools to get
them out. The fishing tools came on
Thursday, and they will probably be
gotten out without much trouble.
The tools are still fast in the Wiley
school house well, on French creek,
But they will probably have them out
in a short time.
Graham's Cow creek we'll is in the Big
Iniun. and is good for 20 barrels day
at least, and probably great deal
more.
The we'll being drilled at the mouth
of Henry Camp run, on French creek,
on the Cook farm, got nice show in
the first Cow run sand, but are going
on deeper.
Drilling will begin on the Ruckman
farm, in the Eureka field, the first of the
week.
Our advices are that the big jim" is
holding up her production and that all
reports to the contrary are fakes
started for a purpose.
j. II. Mccullough has brought suit
against the parties in possession Of the
big jim" well at Eureka, and has had
them enjoined from selling One-eighth
of the oil which it produces McCul-
Tough claims that he owns one-eighth
interest in the well. that he furnished
his share of the machinery and tools to
drill it. that he was always known and
recognized as a partner when the well
was expected TO come in dry. That he
was notified that he would be held re-
sponsible for his share of the expenses,
and that finally when they struck oil
that the others partners undertook to
freeze" him out on the plea that he
had not put up money as fast as they
asked for it,
The Caldwell well. below town. Is
drilling at about 500 feet. They have
had good luck so far.
The Nesbitt well on Whisky run was
to have been drilled in to-day.
The Gale well is good for 80 or 40
barrels in the keener.
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DRESS GOODS SALES.
.EGGER, WARRICK ( CO
LOOKl

LOOK
Sliced Peaches, in cans. for cream.
Evaporated Red Raspberrios.
Evaporated Black RasDl cries
New Cherry Prunes (Red.I
Extra larl,e California Prunes
X. * x. Plum Pudding. l aud lb.cans,
New Nuts. all kinds.
New Shelled Almonds.
New Dates. in l 10 packages.
New Cluster Table Raislns
New Glace Citron. Figs. &c.
New Fancy Evaporatcd Pears
Steamed HOminy in cans.
DR. ID Red Kidney Beans.
Amherst Baked Beans
Holland Herring. ready for table.
Old Original Butt"rmilk Soap, o cts
WHEELER & METINEK.
Pine GrOc ers.
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AJbrelin9 Register

LADIES, surprise your husband brother
or sweetheart by ordering for him me
silk vest. pair OF trousers or an oNercoat LOT
Christmas. VI e have their measure,
4. HISS X SONS,
Fashionable Tailors and Gents turnishers'
Market street.
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CHINA NOvsLTlEs-eEo. E. sTlFEL & co.
CT s. e. CO.

First Lot all sold within a
week. These areneW goods
Just imported.
You never had such a line
and had such low prices put
on them.
You will have to come in
at once if you want any OF
these elegant wares. They
are too fine for US to keep
long.
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Boston BELL" Rubber for everybody
They are the best.
c. c. SHOE CO.,
1143 Main street.
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VIII have some more of those % cent
drop leaf Calendars Saturday. Come
early; We cant get any more.
earle BROS.
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Good advice: Never leave home on a
journey with bottle of Chamberlain
Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-14
BIG OIL LAND DEAL.
The Stacey-Craig Farm on the Ohio
Side Sold to F. A. Sutton.

Comprises Over 100 Acres, Has
Eleven Producing Wells, One
Drilling and a Rig Up-The Farm
Developed by the Deep Run Oil
Company-Notes from the st.
Marys Field - About Parkers-
lburg.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-14

HOLIDAY GOODS at {. Hess & Sons
Pull line OF Dents and Adler's Kid Gloves
and Dress Shields.
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New York. December 13.-Petroleum
weak at S1.52 bid.
Oil CITY, Pa, December 13-Oil mar
ket, credit balances pennsylvania: Oil
$3.50; certificates, January delivery
opened at S150; highest $1.52; lowest
s1.50; closed at s151 Sales, certificates
5000 cash. 5000 barrels; shipments
1857 barrels; runs 134,08S barrels.
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water Rents

for the term ending March 81, 1895, are
now due If paid on or before Decem-
Der 81, 1895. a discount Of 10 per cent.
viii be allowed. The City Water Board.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-14

We have the largest stock Of Pocket
Books in the city at process that will
make them sell. earle BROS.
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NOTEs FROM PARKERsBURG.

NOTES FROM PARKEBSBURG.
Special to the Register.
Parkersburg, W. Va, December 10
The Lsbeck Oh Company's well Is now
down 500 feet and the fishing job is
ended. Work IS now progressing nicely
and the Cow run sand VIII be reached
next week.
A we'll which will % some distance
from any Of the fields hereabouts, and
which will be only three miles from
the city, will be put down soon by a
company Of Psrkers5urgers. who are
sanguine that oil viii be found. The
company will secure territory as close
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-14

Finch's Whiskys. established in 1919.
Golden Wedding. pure rye S1.00 per
quart. or six quarts for $500. Every
purchaser of $1.0O or upwards Of our
whiskys will receive free Of charge on
December 23d. oath and 25th, Bottle Of
Wine. Remember this.
c. NJ. FINCH,
II Smithfield street.
PittSburg, Pa.
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BIC sALE OF FUR WRAPs.

The cream Of the stock of TWO leading
New York furriers will be on sale at
our store on Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday.
Among this lot are many fine Mink,
Seal. Persian, Wool Seal and Asrachan
Wraps. and they Will be marked ex-
ceedingly low.
J. s. RHODES & co.
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GOODS.

Embracing everything in demand by house
keep r. OF an extent and variety never ye.
reached in th- city. CitrOn, Cleaned Cur
rants. Lemon Peel. Orange Peel. Dates. Figs
Cleaned Raisins. Prunes. Nuts Olives. She'll
ed Almonds, New Crop Grenoble Wanuts,
etc RI. HUEBEL & co..
O14S Market trpet.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-06-21

is SO POOR he would not blush to own
he had fled to that last refuge of the
destitute.
''And must bear my share of the
sacrifice. Oh, do let me, Nell" and
Alice ran to fetch the pretty trinl1ets
and best dress it had cost her SO much
pinching to earn.
In rapid succession all other super
flutes followed-then the necessities,
the spar sheets and blankets, Georges
best Clothes, and one sorrowful day
saw the young, sobbing wife draw her
wedding ring from her finger and pass
down the street to the house with the
three golden balls.
How vain had been George Harlands
boast of his superb strength, mechan-
ical skill, temperate habits, and profita-
BILE employment. He, who had defed
sickness and laughed at misfortune,
now lay physical wreck in gaunt
home blighted by the curse of walk
ing delegate.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-06-21

drank In the music on ner voice, us tnry
listened to the terrible tale OF their
sufferings; and when In glowing tones
she pictured her happy days before the
strike, and drew the contrast OF her
present blighted hearth, the women
sobbed with sympathy and even mems
ewes filed with tears
Nor did they grow FESTIVE When She
renroached them for sacrificing to their
nr;de the comfort of those they should
have loved dearer than their lives--the
folly. the madness of their actions,
which had led them TO the very verge
of murder.
"And for what" she cried, ''for what
have you stepped your souls in crime
and shadowed your homes in poverty?
For sentiment-for a weak. siclsly
sense of offended dignity which school
boy would blush to pout over"
Then, with infinite tenderness, she
drew picture of her sisters sorrows,
and the tragic story of Joe Henderson's
love and ruin. And at last, in one
grand burst of passionate cloquence,
with quivering lips and tear-stained
face, she appealed to the women, the
real sufferers in this unequal fight,
to lend their sympathy and lead the
bread winners back to sense'o of duty.
She inished-cast one look full of
mute pathos at the people--and with
head bowed low retreated from the
platform.
For moment there was silence; then
the pent-up feelings of those thrilling
forty minutes burst forth in one ire
mendous roar of applause.
Cheer upon cheer greeted the brave
girl, as she stepped through the crowd;
women clung round her and kissed her
mid mingled tears and laughter; men
shook her by the hand and poured
lavish praises in her ears.
Well might those self-electcd
tribunes of the people, Schlossinger and
Atkins, look glum, for the backbone of
the strike was broken and the next
day the busy hum of industry made
music in the erst deserted shipyards of
Chicago.
And one man went back to his lodg-
ing dismayed at the events-feeling
very much as if his temple of theories
were but house built of cards, which
a girl with her finger had toppled over
and left him more in doubt than ever
as to which was the best way to solve
the intricate problem of the rights of
labor.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-06-21
CHAPTER XII
PAINTING BY THE wAYsIDE.

Ti1 w,,,1s he w rapidly by.
The merchants of the city presented
Nellie Harland with a purse of five
hundred dollars. George was on fair
way to recovery. Alice had secured a
position in store, where her 1.-THE step
and laughing eyes bore testimony to a
contented spirit that rejoices in a fair
days wage for fair days work, and
even Joe Henderson was hoping to re-
deem tire future, and all but Frank
Grey were happy.
Times were not prosperous with him.
Spring succeeded winter, yet he had Sc
cured no permanent employment, while
the fees he had received for desultory
contributions to the journals and mag
azines had been so small that he was
obliged to draw on his little capital till
the end of his resources was unpleas-
antly close at hand.
Literature" sneered the eccentric
Bailey in his forcible style, when one
day Frank met him in his rambles, sis
tolerable cane, but an Internally un-
reliable crutch."
Now necessity has no laws.
The world did not want his services,
save in one way, and that the most OBJ
noxious to him. He must once more turn
schoolmaster, the only profession in the
states which seems always to offer a
chance of employment to the impecu-
NOUS, who stay in it, in nine cases out
of ten, just as short time as necessity
compels them TO do so.
His new field of labor-for he soon
found a position-was village hun
bred miles from the city amid the rich,
rolling prairies of Illinois.
He had been down to the place to in
terview successfully the school author
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-06-21

blush, though the color is very oeoorn.
ing to your cheeks. Now, Mr.. Grey, ]
wanted to ask favor of you.r
BE assured it viii be granted"
II want you to try hard to love me
inst one little Bit"
"No need to try, dear Mrs Wood
grove, no one could be in the same
house with you and not love you"
"That is very prettily spoken, Mr.
Grey, SO will reward your gallantrv
by dismissing you to your own chamhcr
till we meet at lunch"
The first thing Grey did when he
found himself in the solitude of his
room was to write long letter to Jack
Wilders a pleasure he had denied him
self during his long disappointments in
Chicago-for now with clear con-
science he could beg the honest pros
pector to tell him all the news of Ore
town.
Little did he think that while he was
baslxing in the sun of prosperity, the
cold clouds of trouble were hanging
over the head of the girl he loved
dcarer than life itself.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-06-21
4 YOUNG WOMAN spRANe TO HIS SIDE

a AooNo WoMAN pfhANd ~ LIS oiDns.
tiles, and was returning to Chicago to
spend the last few days of freedom be-
fore taking possession of his new In
cumbency.
The railroad car was crowded. He
found himself seated beside an oldish
man, dressed in shabby suit of black
"a man who looked as though he had
seen better days His features, strong
ly marked, were ashy pale, and his lips
occasionally twitched convulsively.
"Are you sick, sir?" Grey asked.
He was startled by the short, nerv-
Gus reply: "Get me out of the train,
or / shall die!"
Grey at once alarmed the conductor,
who vainly sought physician among
the passengers, while the growing pal
lor in the sufferers fare threatened
serious end to the adventure.
''We stop at Princeton next. If some
one would only see him to the hotel he
may have chance the conductor sug-
gested.
Grey at once volunteered his services.
"If you choose to stop and take care
of your sick friend, the proprietress of
the hotel declared, she may remain;
but our hotels no hospital, nor / amt
no nurse.
Common humanity demanded that
Grey should see the sufferer at any rate
through the night, though he thought
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-06-21
CHAPTER XII.
WORDS OF FLAME.

A mass meeting.
No hall could hold the vast concourse
of excited men and women gathered to
discuss the labor trouble, which threat
ened to spread like fire into the indus
tries, and even to give color to the
dread of an outburst of communism,
which has always been bugbear to
Chicago.
Loud of voice and strong of lung,
Dcmagogue Schlossinger roared his de-
nunciations from the platform with a
rude brute eloquence that even struck
chords of sympathy in Frank Grey's
heart, much as he despised the man.
1t was bitter arraignment of the
wealthy classes, showing under glar-
ing light of savage criticism the job
berries and corruptions of public offices,
the cruel tyranny of monopolies, the
hard, fettered fate of the man who had
to work for his daily bread. Vulgar
and Inbred as the fellow was he was
born orator, and when he rose to pas
sion in his speech men listened with
breathless interest.
But strange thing was to happen.
p. The speaker was in the midst OF the
most lurid fight of his Imagination,
and paused with folded arms to let the
weight of his words sink into the
lbeZ24ss of his hearers.
20 Every eve was fixed on him. Every
bosom was thrilled with emotion.
suddenly-no one could say exactly
how or whence she came-a young
woman sprang to his side, pale as mar
BILE and with flashing eyes, hatless and
with hair streaming in the wind.
She stood for q moment facing the
astonished multitude, then, in voice
laden with passion, but clear and mu-
steal as bell, she cried with uncon-
scious plagiarism:
eMen and women hear me, for will
sneak. l come TO you from home
made desolate by your folly, from the
I.edside of a half-murdered husband,
with the cries of my children for bread
ringing in my maddened ears. O, listen
to mel For the sake of your wives and
littYN6fses you must and shall hear ,he."
The silence was intense
..Order," yelled Atkins, recovering his
self-possession. Throw her out! OF
with the crazy fool.
"No. mol" roared the tickle crowd.
ssLet her speak"
Was this ill-clad ysung woman In.
spired?
Words leaped from her lips in clear,
veacnant tones that held the people
spellbound. Men forgot her haggard
look and mean attire, as their ears
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"George Harland" he shriels. 'My
God, what have donep"
He helps Grey bear the lifeless bur
den to the house, he hears little VIII
lies piteous cry, as they lay it on the
bed, he fingers for one moment at the
door and tries to utter few words of
sympathy, which his parched lips re-
fuse to form, he looks in mute appeal
to Alice, he sees her pointing to the
door, and hears her scornful "Go!" with
groa9, as he sinks into the deserted
street traight on his way to give him
self up at the nearest police station.
For days George Harland's spirit
lowered between life and death-and
all the time the wolf was at the door,
and the poor, stricken women knew
not where to turn for help, too proud
even to let their lodger know they
were lacking the bare necessities OF
life.
"Allie," said the sorrowful wife one
day, when George was convalescing,
twill you take care of Willie? / am go
ing down town"
Eyes; but where are you going,
Nell?"
N ''To the pawnbroker's," was the sad
reply.
''Oh, Nelll"
Those who live in less prosperous coun-
tries could hardly understand the tone of
anguish in the girls tones, where none
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-06-21
CHAPTER XIII
ELSIE SURPRISES EVERYBODY.

You may be sure there was a pretty
commotion outside the plymouth,
when Jack and Elsie were brought to
the surface. Mile was there, pale as
ashes, but fearless and full of resolu-
ton. Mrs. Whitford and score of
other women were ready at hand with
their services; for, alas, frequent acct
dent had familiarized the women folk
to sights of suffering, as the clang Of
the ambulance bell was often heard in
the land.
Elsie was carried home, where she
lay on a sofa propped with pillows, un-
dergoing cross-examination by her
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-06-21

foster parents, while Archibald Dodd
stood glowering in the background,
eying the unfortunate girl malevolent-
ly but with the air of one who is not
quite certain of the trend of events.
II was sitting behind a rock" Elsie
began slowly, ''when a man APP
preached, who stood close to newly,
could almost have touched him"
ibid you recognize him?" Dodd
leaned forward and asked eagerly.
Elsie paused. Trouble was teaching
her discretion. So, looking straight
into Dodd's eyes, she said with mean
ing that he could understand:
81 cannot say that recognized him.
"This man was joined by another-a
tall, slouching person, who talked with
him for several minutes"
Dodd asked gently:
"You heard what they said, dear
child?"
Every word"
"Ah"
eyes. Their conversation divulged a
plot to murder Wilders by sending him
on FOOLS errand down into the bottom
of the mine, where one of them, hired
to do it by the other, had half cut into
the rungs of the lowest ladder"
THE dastardly villains!'' cried the
corporal, now keenly interested. well,
what then, lass?"
"Oh, you've heard the rest. I went
down to him and l suppose saved his
life"
"And brave lass thou art" the cor
poral cried, exultingly. THE whole
country will be talking o thy pluck"
Then Dodd said very significantly:
"Brave-and what is better than brave
wise. The maiden has shown dis
erection beyond her years"
Though she resolved as matter of
policy to hide Dodd's share of the crime,
Elsie made up her mind that it would
be impossible to remain under the same
roof with him; so in the course of a
couple of days she announced to her
mother an intention of visiting the
Wilders' to take care of their little boy,
whilst Mile was nursing her sick hus-
band.
To her surprise but little objection
was made to the proposition, and even
what little there was was overruled by
Dodd, who evinced the greatest desire
to curry favor with her p
Before she left home, however, she
determined to come to an understand
ing with him, and the opportunity Of
fered itself that very day. ~
"Mr. Dodd, one word with you," she
said, abruptly, for trouble had made
Elsie more self-reliant.
with pleasure, my dear child"
This very unctuously.
II wanted to tell you that l did rec
ognize the man who came first to the
spot near the rocks on Thursday"
"Oh no, my dear child, you did not.
You denied that you had done so in the
presence of two witnesses"
'Ahr' ...|
Now for my part, Elsie, am con-
WINGED that the whole scene of the
rocks was an hallucination of slightly
disordered mind. You see you suffered
afterwards a great mental strain
and"
"Villain!'
flush, tush! Do not profane your
pretty lips by fashioning ugly words.
You probably did hear two passers-by
mention the fact that they had seen
Mr. Wilders go down the mine, and
knowing its deplorable condition, you
very heroically = as for those sawn
rungs-"
"Welll"
"There is ample proof that they were
cut more than month ago."
CONTINUED.
The morning times., 1895-12-02
GRIMES aim WAS TOO POOR
Shot Twice at Himself Without
Doing Any Damage.
Caused the Young Alexandrian's
Attempt at Suicide.

But for the fact of his being a very poor
pistol shot Hunter Grimes. an enploye OF
the Southern Railroad. who resides at the
corner of Q1een and Fairfax streets In
Alexandria. might now be corpse.
Yesterday morning after finishing bis
breakfast he twice turned the point of q
pistol On himself. but failed in his attempt
at self-destruction. One Of the balls from
the pistol passed through the toe of bis
shoe and a careful investigation failed to
reveal the lodging place Of the other.
The facts OF the case are said to be
these: Mr.. Grimes had misunderstanding
with his wife while at the breakfast table.
They had Just finished the morning meal
6fid were sitting chatting with an aunt
Miss Simpson, whn was also at the table
when a quarrel touk place between the
husband and wife over sume tr riflin9
matter.
Mr.. Grimes had gone to his room in q
huff. Suddenly. two reports were heard
in rapid succession. coming from the di-
rection Of the young husbands 8 room. Mrs.
sitting on the edge OF his bed with
pistol in his hand and razor by his side
Lieut., James Smith OF the police force re.
sides close By. He was living in bed
when the shots rang out upon the air: and
tne GRIMES. f He sf found Miss T Simpson Epson holding
the would be suicide by the arm to prevent
him from again turning the pistol upon
huIGelf.
The lieutenant Immediately sent mes
sage for DR.. o. Brien, who soon arrived upon
the scene. but after careful examination
failed to find that any injury had been IN
nicted. He said that Mr. Grimes is sub
iect to epileDtic fits which caused hlm at
times to become very morbid During these
he must end his life.
The Young man. who is but twent v one
years of age. is now being carefully watched
by his relatives to prevent repetition Of his
ATTEMPT at self destruction.