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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

Wrbrr's olympia had another good
house NJ the Grand Opera House last
night. The company is as smooth" as
they have. them, and tn performance
given Is clean and full of genuine COM
ely. The last act is alone worth the
price Of admission and Is replcte with
good acting. lots OF singing, dancing
and fun. II Is mounted in Il superb
style fi;h excellent scenery, and tho
costumes are as fine AS has been seen
here IN long time. The Spccialties
are extraordinary and many new fea-
lures are introduced. notable among
them IL the John Good Dance" which
has made "A deserved hit all over this
country and In England. The OlymplaS
will b. repeated this afternoon and the
engagement Will close tonight.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

az to tho usual tax levied on the receipts
OF companies doing business under mt
nlclpal franchises.
In the light OF the agreement made by
the West Virginia and Wheeling natu-
raj gas companies, by which the former
gets gaa from the latter II IA difficult 10
see what Is 10 b. glincdyby proceeding
further on the line Of the WntcrhousO
resolution. Mr. Daily Eays his company
VIII not enter the domestic field md Il ~
not likely another company viii do 10,
AZ none hns mains within u reasonable
distance or Wheeling
Nhe committee alsO took up the pro-
posed new health ordinance aud cOnsId-
cred II section after section. Section 0
provides thnt during small poN cpldcn-
lc, patients who can boar the expense Of
caring Tor themselves. or having them
selves cared for, need not be taken to
the general hospital. but where the city
bcnrS this expense or part OF II, the
patient shall be housed IN the hospital.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05
DIED.,

pOWELL--At his late residence, No. iiOS
Wood street, OIL "Wednesday, December
2. lSUN, NJ $50 O'Clock Ii. M, ROBERT
p. pow ELL, In the 10th year of his
age.
Funeral from his late residence Sunday
afternoon at O'Clock. Friends OF the
family are respectfully invited TO at
tend. Intcrment Mt PcRInsuar ccmo-
terry.
pETEESoN-On Thursday. December ,.
1876. ut noon, OLE PETERSON, aged
2; years ana : months.
Funeral from his late residence, No. 20
Twcn;y.fourth street. Saturday after
noon Mt = o'clock. rrcads OF the
family are respectfully iavltod to at
tend, IntcrmCnt ut Mt. Zion Genie
iciy.
SilEEEFN- Thursday December .,
lS";. nj Ego O'Clock u. H., MICHAEL.
Slll;EkEH, In his SD year.
Funeral from hts lite residence. 40, e.
%CNcdtorlth street. on Saturday morn.
iEg at O'Clock. Mass at St Iosrph's
Cathedral ut $50. Friends of the family
invited to attend. lntrrmcnl at MI
Calvary cemetery.
CLINE-On Friday evening. December
lSh, nj ? y. m, ". W. CLINE, In the
,htll year Of hiE age.
Funeral notice hereafter.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

The city council committee on scales
met last might and took up the difficulty
regarding tn" matter Of wciGhcr at Six
tecnth and EoT streets, the particulars
OF which were detailed In the Intelligent
Ger OF Thursday, The committee dccld-
ed. on the recommendation OF the city
solicitor. TO recognize only AlbInGcr, the
mnn who wls appointed. but 10 recon-
mend to council that successor be
elected. as he had not attended to the du-
Ties o. the Office
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

Has found that her little ones arc I'M
proved NOR" by the pleasant Syrup ~
Figs. when In need of the laxative sf-
feet or n Tomtl" remedy than by amy
other. ard iNnt II ~ more acceptable to
them. Children enjoy II and II b"nrilis
lhnra, IN" true remedy Syrup of Figs,
IL manufactured by the California l'ig
Syrup Company only.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

ABSOLUTELY pure, perfectly harm
less, and invariably reliable are the
qualities Of One Minute Cough Cure. 1t
never fais in colds. Group and lung
troubles. Children like IL because It Is
pleasant to take and II helps them
Charles r. Goetz". corner Twelfth and
Market strccts: Bowie & Co. Brldge-
port; Peabody < Son. Benwool.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05
COMMITTEE OK ORDINANCES.
Natural GA, Situation rnd IIrnlih OrdI-
nrncr Si>cussri.

nrncr BI,rus.rh.
Last night ., Meeting OF the city rOun-
ell committee on ordinances wac held In
The Office If City Receiver Elndclhcrger,
public building. Chairman Stnihers 0c-
CuplcI the chair. The Application Of the
Wheeling Natural Gas Company FOR an
amended franchise, the fun tex; oi
which nus already been printed nnd tho
Terms OF which are known "a the public,
was brought M under rtcommtm"It
from council However. II was decided
Ia take no action on the application q;
present, but u proceed on the linr Of the
Watcrh0us" tCdoltlon by getting IN
formation from other city governments
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

The city council committee on poles
met last night and audited bills which
were recommended to council for pay
mcnt: City prison bills. $50 90: police
bills, S37 49, Chief OF Police Bennett
made his monthly report showing that
IL arrests were made In November; fines
amounted to $685. ~; fines collected,
SIl ~
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

"I CONTRACTED a severe cold from
cxposur" CouGhcd all winter Could
get ~ relief. DIR. Woods Norway Pine
Syrup broke up the cold. and drove
away the cough. Never took
anything that did me SO much good"
|. II. Brooks, North Hlverhlll, y, II, .
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

TUE old way OF delivering messages
hy pJ5t-boys compared with tho mod
c"H telephone, Illustrates the old tedious
methods of "hrcakiCg" colds compared
with their almost instantaneous cure
ny Ohr NirUtc Cough Cure Charles
H. GuCizc. corner Twelfth and Market
streets: Howtr 6: Co. bridgeport: Pea.
body & Son. Bcuw0nd. )
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

Thomas q. Seabrookc begins his new
starring season in THE SpCculator" IN
der the management Of Duncan y.
Harrison At tn" fremont theatre. los
tun, December II.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

DIEhy. Bell viii present AUGUSTUS
tor" for the first time at the Newark
Theatre. Newark, on Saturday Decent
hcr +. \ large party Of New Workers,
friends Of the actor and author. vii,
10 over to see the first performance.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

II will he a blank at the Grand the
fret half Of next week.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

Charles Dickson has been engaged for
IT." new production VI The Girl from
Paris" at S!e' Herald Square Theatre,
New York
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

HOyt's Australian company will sal
FOR AmerSa on December @6.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-05

Joseph Hart is In BOSTON this week
with "A Gay Old Boy"
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-23

The electoral votes of the follow
INC states will be cast for Mckinley
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-23
Farmers Want Cheap money.

The advocates of free coinage in the
west and south "don't take any stock''
in Bryan's occasional assertion that he
contends that the adoption of this
policy would put up the price of silver
to $1.29. Indeed they would lose all
interest in the agitation if they sup
posed that the silver dollar under free
coinage was to be worth as much as
the gold dollar is now. The real senti-
ments of these people are clearly ex-
pressed by James Kitchen, an extensive
farmer and stock1nan of Grayson, KY,
who, when asked the other day why he
was for free silver, made this reply:
am for free silver because am in debt
and If We get free coinage can pay my debts
with one-half of what it now costs under our
present money standard. And another reason,
employ laborers my farm. They are the
creditors. am the debtor. Under free coin
age can pay them with one-half it costs me
now, for it wifi raise the price of products,
and can then hire my farm help for co cents
a day and pay them in bacon at 10 cents
pound.
1t must become more and more plain,
as the campaign proceeds, that this is
the motive and must be the result of the
free coinage agitation. The question at
issue will thus finally resolve itself into
the larger question, whether the Ameri-
can people still believe that honesty is
the best policy.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-23
POLITICAL COERCION.

Our Popocratic friends all over
the land have been claiming that
laborers will be coerced. They have
no proof on which to base the asser-
tion. and the whole thing is abso-
lutely false and without foundation.
As matter Of fact, in most of the
northern states the election laws are
such that coercion of voters is
made crime. In many states,
attempts to influence voters by
threats or bribery is made crime,
and no employer would dare take
chances of breaking the law. It is
well known everywhere that EN-
ployers of corporations and manu-
facturers ale not united. and men of
both parties wear their party buttons
openly and without fear. In our
own city, in Portland and every
where else there are Bryan men
among the employees of railroads,
express companies and manufacturing
companies; they wear Bryan badges
and are members of Bryan clubs.
1t is no doubt true that the McKin-
ley men are in the majority among
these employees, but they are Repub
licars from choice.
In the case of the railroad mems
sound money club of Portland, it
was organized at the suggestion OF
Others than railroad managers, and
we venture to say the same thing is
everywhere true. No doubt the en-
ployers of men in both parties, who
take an interest in the result of the
campaign, seek to influence their
men to vote their way, but they
know that the influence must be per-
suasion, and not coercion.
United States Judge Caldwell of
Omaha has recently declared that he
will redress any laborer who is dis
charged because of his political
choice by any railroad company
under the jurisdiction of his court;
and so would any judge having au-
thority so to do.
The whole talk is simply and pure
ly a campaign fake. Possibly Bryan
is now preparing to have an excuse
for his defeat, and starts this story
in anticipation. He will need. lot
of excuses for the defeat will certain
ly be terrible one.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-23
7s Second Street.

composed largely of farmers. His
argument was plain, clear and con-
vincing. The absurdit1es of free
silver were. so presented as to make
those who supposed the proposition
was based upon some principle see
the fallacy. He abused no one, but
no one who listened to him could
fail to see through the tissues which
the Populists present as reasons for
the election of Bryan. If a man
will not be convinced by this kind
of reasoning, there is no hope for
him.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-23
Andrew jackson Versus w. j. Bryan.

Mr.. Bryan says a cheaper dollar
would be better for the working classes,
but Andrew Jackson; said in his last
message: Engaged from day to day in
their useful tolls, they do not perceive
that, although their wages are nominally
the same or even somewhat higher,
they are greatly reduced, in fact, by
the rapid increase of spurious cur
rency. which, as it appears to make
money abound, they are at first inclined
to consider blessing. = It is not
until the prices of the necessaries of life
become so dear that the laboring classes
cannot supply their wants out of their
wages that their wages rise -
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-23
This Is Your opportunitx.

On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps,
a generous sample will be mailed of the
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure
(Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon
strate the great merits of the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
Sc Warren St., New York City.
Rev John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont,
recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I
can emphasize his statement, ssIt is posi-
tive cure for catarrh If used as directed. -
Rev. Francis w. Poole, Pastor Central Pres.
Church, Helena, Mont.
Ely's Cream Balm is TIE acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price, so cents.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-23
The Declaration of Independenoe

Was written by the man who said,
"Just principles will lead us to disre-
gard legal proportions altogether, to
inquire into the market price of gold in
the several countries with which we
shall principally be connected in COM
merce and to take an average from
them" But ". J. Bryan says it is dis
graceful to talk about adjusting our
currency to the currencies of the world.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-23

Mr.. Geer, who is farmer and
earns his living from 800 acre
farm in Marion county, presented
the political questions from Re
publican standpoint at the Baldwin
opera house last night to an audience
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-23
Dalles Employment HQeDey
business of making known opportuni-
ties for labor and supplying help--.aaaA

Do you wont partner clerk employee skilled
kind? application
est The Agency
Portland Aoia Pendleton
Information solicited
situations Office
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-23
Gentlemen
of The Dalles-

We are showing SPLENDID line of Spring and Summer
Suitngs at lower prices than be obtained elsewhere
No need to patronize foreign firms employing Chinese
labor. Our garments made the premises by
skilled workmen.
H. E. BALCH.
secon Street
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-23

Total Sc
We believe Mckinley is sure of
248, or a majority of 40, with pos
sible 3l4, or possible ma jority of
1871.
The herald., 1896-03-01
EDGAR w. NYE, THE
MAN WITHOUT AN ENEMY

western world Bill Nye. It 10 true,
perhaps, that there are some who did
not approve Nye's literary style, his
healthy humor and philosophy, but
this lack of ability to appreciate was
their weakness not Nye's. There are
some people who do not and cannot
be made to understand a jest, and tho
truth enwrapped in an absurdity is
lost to them. They want q joke to be
a pun, else it is a failure. Nye was
free from any tendency to initiate
Punch, or cater to such readers as en-
Joy Punch. This was one phase Of his
Americsnism. It was an individual of
different mold who once remarked:
"I Joke with difficulty" Nye joked as
naturally as water finds the sea. It
was his way of reaching the hearts Of
the people.
But Nye was gentle always. He ex.
posed shams where he found them,
but he did it in such q way that even
the man most Disconnected had to join
in the laugh and refrained from taking
otfense. 1t was, impossible to bear
malice toward one who was go free
from it himself.
Nye had been 80 long before the pub
lie that the earlier years of his career
are perhaps growing hazy to the
The herald., 1896-03-01

Thers has spasssd from among men a
quaint and lovable personality, Edgar
Wilson Nye. ~ was blessed with a
great heart, ii which was no place for
bittsEnsss. Fame could not change
him. Fortune that had buffeted him
long yislded 1t last to his genius and
his faithful endeavor, and yet he was
to the end the same gentle, unassum-
ing Bill Nye. He took firm hold of the
Affections Of his fellows and his circle
Of friends was the nation.
In his field Of literary effort Nye
stood not only without peer, but
without q rival. There is none now
Who can I'LL the vacancy. Others have
tried, flashed across the sky-a rocket
and been seen no more. Where these
failed Nye kept on unflsgging. The
fountain Of his wit never ran dry.
Week after week and year after year,
his letters have appeared in the daily
papers, always bubbling with fun, but
yet with the grain of wisdom concealed
under every jest and keen perception
Of humanity apparent in every gro.
The herald., 1896-03-01
THE ABOLITION OF cHAPLAINS

The proposal to abolish the institu-
ton of congressional and Legislative
chaplain of course encounters the op-
position of conservatives who always
stand for the maintenance of old tradi-
tions, but it is really not SO radical
suggestion and not so unlikely to be
accepted as was the idea of abolishing
Fast day in Massachusetts when it was
first brought forward few years ago.
Indeed, it is entirely in keeping with
the whole tendency of the age toward
the disappear ance of the public prayer
Colonel T. W. Higginson in the Chris
tisn Register notes the revolution that
has come about within his recollec-
ton in the matter of saying grace
at the table, or 'asking the
blessing" as it is commonly called
in New England, and having family
prayers. In his boyhood there was
scarcely family in the First Parish of
Cambridge which did not observe each
of these customs; he thinks that twenty
would be large estimate of the num-
ber which still keep up the practice.
At public dinner over which Colonel
Higginson presided last winter he asked
lone of the most eminent OF Unitarian
clergymen," who sat near him, whether
he had better invite anybody to say
grace, and was promptly informed that
it was ceasing to be customary, and ad-
vised against it. Last summer "ap-
other eminent Unitarian minister
dined with him, and the host, as mat
ter of courtesy to him, requested him
to ask blessing. "He did go: but
it seemed as if he did Il expect
it, and I thought it would be better not
to take the thing for granted again."
Colonel Higginson adds that in a
somewhat frequent stay at private
houses on lecturing trips he has been
very much struck with the almost en-
tire disappearance of these external
signs of devoutness among Unitarians,
and their diminution among orthodox
! Christians. This represents the grow
/ ing recognition among adults Of the
great truth enunciated by the little
girl who was once asked by clergy
man of the old-fashioned type il she
said her prayers every night, and then
requested to "kneel right here by my
side and say your prayers to me"
| whereupon she rushed out of the room
in hot haste with the remark, II say
my prayers to God, sirv-New York
Post.
The herald., 1896-03-01

Nos. 3. 4 and afe being built at Balti.
more. z at Bristol, r. l., and 8 at Seat
tie, Wash.
All of these six numbered torpedo
boats will be bigger and stronger than
the Gushing and Ericsson. They will
be better seaboats. No. s will have a
raised deck forward to enable her to
knock down the seas. The Gushing and
Ericsson each carry three rapid-flre
one-pounders, and the numbered tor
pedo boats will have like equipment,
with the exception of No. 8, which will
be provided with four one-pounders.
The six vessels will cost from $97, 900 to
$160,0OO, No. s being the finest and
most expensive. They are expected to
have q speed of twenty-seven knots,
which is equal to about thirty-one
miles an hour.
England has forty-three seagoing
torpedo boats, to which are added
twenty-six first-class torpedo boats
and number of second-class ones.
Some of the second-clase are actually
carried on board of the big ships Of
war. We have few of them, but they
are small affairs, weighing only about
eighteen tons each. The battleship
Maine has two, and the Texas has two
is prepared to let loose q swarm of
One of these little torpedo boats costs
only ABOUT $4,000 to build. and 1t ia
able, if it can get near enough, to de-
stroy with single shot an ironclad
that represents an expenditure of
100000. Each small vessel of this
kind carries two or three small canvas
boats, for use in case of sinking.
The torpedo boat may be regarded as
reckless expedient in warfare. It,
business is to rush upon the enemy
and blow him up if possible, and to 60
down itself in the attempt if need be.
Exposed to gun fire for a moment, it
must be sunk Immediately. Thus it
comes about that only young officers
are assigned to duty on torpedo boats.
They are much more willing to take
chances, and good deal of devil-may-
care is frst-rate quality in the COM
msnder of q craft of this description.
In truth it may be said to be essential.
As for the chances of torpedo boat in
conflict with catcher, theyare practic
ally nil. Two or three explosive shells
from the rapid-fire guns of the former
are likely to set fire to the torpedo boat
and burn her up. The evolution of
modern warfare has developed nothing
more strange than the auxiliary fleet of
fragile boats of wood which have the
power to destroy at a blow the might
lest steel-clad battleship.
Germany. with her formidable feet
of 10 torpedo boats, has only ten
catchers. Though she is very much
stronger than the United States in re-
spect to sea power. she is feeble on the
ocean as compared with England.
Modern warfare involves conditions
wholly novel, and only glimpse of the
problem has been afforded by the re-
cent scrimmage between China and
Japan. The torpedo boat is an expert
ment; so likewise is the catcher, It
remains to be determined in actual
practice how far either is valuable as
an engine of destruction.-San Fran
cisco Examiner.
The herald., 1896-03-01
A Welcome Burglar

The proprietor of q large store on
High street went to his place of busi-
ness at an unusually early hour this
morning; in fact, the sun had not yet
risen when he turned the key in the
door. On entering, he was surprised
to find man trying to open the door
of his safe. He stood and watched him
for some time, apparently deeply in
terested in the proceedings. when
finally the burglar swung Oh en- the
door of the safe with delighted
chuckle, but happening to turn he
saw that he was discovered, snd be-
came very much alarmed. He jumped
up and was about to make his escape
through back window. when the
merchant called to him:
Don't be in a hurry, my friend;
come back and cit down awhile and
smoke cigar while I straighten things
up bit, and then come to breakfast
with me. You have done me great
favor"
"Why, how's that?" asked the burg
lar III great surprise.
"Well, you see, had the combina-
ton of the safe on bit of paper, and
last night accidentally locked it in
the safe and forgot how to work it. !
spent most Of the night trying to get
the thing open, and came in early this
morning to have another try ut it,
West Bedford Windmill.
The herald., 1896-03-01
tssaus figure. Nye was artistic. HI

tssqus figure. Nye was artistic. He
knew just how far to carry conceit to
make it effective. He did not always
aim to cause q smile. Sometimes it
was tear instead that responded, for
20 tsndar . nature could not but strike
hays and there a minor chord.
One year ago tho most popular Trio
Of writer's in the United States, was
made up Of Eugene Field, Edgar Will
son Nye and James Whitcomb Riley.
First there came summons to Field,
the maker Of song, and he went over
into silence. It was fitting, perhaps,
that Fields last newspaper article
should have been tribute to Nye, for
they had been companions in other
The herald., 1896-03-01
BILL NYE, ACE 40
From a photograph taken in 1870

From photograph taken in 1870
days, before either had approached the
borderland of fame. Now Nye has
been called, and Of the trio, q year ago
rich in the prospect of long and honor
able life, but one remains.
One trait of Nye's that particularly
endeared him to the people of the whole
country, was his strong Americanism.
he preferred travel in his own country
to going abroad, and hence the United
States became known to him as it is to
but few. From his native Maine to the
Golden Gate, from windy-swept Wyom-
ing to the cypress groves of Florida
and the balssmic pines of the Caro-
linas, Nye moved among the people who
learned to love him. Everywhere he
went he caught the local flavor. He
knew hew the southern negro talked;