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The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW.
Meeting of the Interstate Com
merce Commission to Con.
slider Charges.
Various Railroads Accused of Discrimi.
nation in Making Freight
Rates.

CHICAGO, ILL, Feb. 1.-THE Interstate
Commerce Commission met to-day in the
United States Marshal's Office and will be
in session several days. Chairman Nor
rison, Commissioners Yeomans and Glenn
ents were present. There are five cases of
alleged violation of the law for investiga-
ton at this hearing, three of them being
against the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul road. The compiainants allege dis
elimination in the company's system of
making rates on grain and flour, milling
in transit, from Wisconsin, Southern Min
nesota and Northern Iowa points in favor
OF the big millers of Minneapolis and Mil
waukee.
There is complaint against the Santa
Fe road, the charge being the making of a
rate to Colorado points less than the rate
to intermediate points. This charge does
not now hold good, as it was involved in a
rate-war among Colorado roads, which has
recently been settled, and it is doubtful if
the commission will hear the case even if
it is pressed.
The case on hearing to-day was that of
the Listman Mills Company of La Crosse,
Wis, against the st. Paul road. The COM
plant is based on an arbitrary rate of %
cents per 100 pounds on wheat from Mime
apolis to Chicago for milling in transit at
La Crosse. The railroad was represented
by George r. Peck, general counsel, and
Burton Hanson, general solicitor. The
complainants' counsel was ex-Congress-
man Lind of Minnesota. The witnesses
during the day were f. P. Nixon, presi-
dent of the milling company, and A. C.
Bird, general traffic manager OF the de-
fendant's road. The railroads defense is
that the ~ cent charge is imposed to pre-
serve euality in rates between all points
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
GREAT PLUCK EXHIBITED.
But the McCague Bank Is Forced
Suspend

OMAHA. NEBR., Feb. 1.-THE McCague
Savings Bank has gone into the hands of a
receiver, on application OF the State Bank
ing Board, and S. S. Curtis has been a2-
pointed receiver.
The bank has been endeavoring for some
time to reorganize into mutual savings
bank and has succeeded in getting nearly
half of the deposits subscribed to the mu-
tual. However, in the limit of time al
lowed for reorganization, it has been found
impossible to reach the required 100000 by
some $4,000 to $4,000. The bank, which
was closed during the panic for some
weeks and was reopened with it's impaired
capital made good, has made manly fight
for continued life and exhibited remark
able resources and pluck.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
IN THE HANDS OF FRIENDS.
General Henderson WOutd Not Refuse
the Nom ninHfiOu.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 17.-Ex-
Senator Manderson of Nebraska in an in
terview to-day admitted that he was in
the hands of his friends as candidate for
the Presidency before the Republican con-
vention at st. Louis.
For months Mr.. Manderson has been the
reciyient of letters from all parts of the
country, urging him to enter the contest.
The insistence. he said, seemed to become
more persistent with his expressions of
disinclination, and before leaving Ne
braska he stated he would make no fur
ther opposition, but would remain passive
General Manderson said tonight that
the various marks of confidence and man
ifestations of Endorsement which would
be apparent by the presentation of his
name at ST. Louis are most grateful and
acceptable.
He has been greatly influenced by the
kindly expressions of the Eastern press,
particularly Pennsylvania, where he was
born, and Ohio, where his early manhood
was spent. Under the circum stances, he
can only stand and wait.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
HUSTED,S BILL SIGNED.
Netc Fork's La,c to RetaJiate on Foreign
Insurance Companies.

Insurance Companies.
ALBANY, n. Y, Feb. 17.-Governor
Morton to-day signed Assemblyman Kus-
ted's bill requiring the State Superintend-
ent OF Insurance to refuse to issue
licenses to insurance companies of foreign
co untries to transact business in this State
whose countries have shut out New York
State companies from doing business
therein, and also to revoke the licenses of
companies of such countries already doing
business in this State.
State Superintendent of Insurance
Pierce, under the provisions of the law
signed to-day, is compelled to revoke the
licenses to do business in this State of the
Prussian National and Aachep (Munich)
Fire companies of Prussia. and TO refuse
the application of the Magdeburg Fire
Insurance Company for permission to do
business in this State, which application
has been pending for some weeks.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
fatal within an hour. The explorer brings

fatal within an hour. The explorer brings
home more than 1000 pounds of ivory.
The whole party had narrow escape,
1t will be rememb bered, from being cut to
pieces by the Abyssinlan army under
King Menelik. The explorer fought two
pitched battles with this enemy DIR.
Smith says that not only did he succeed in
penetrating q country hitherto unexplored
by white men, but he has made accurate
maps of the regions. DR.. Smith is going
directly to his home in Philadelphia,
where he will write a book, which will be
published simultaneously in the United
States and England.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
Missionary Knapn,s Case.

CONSTANTINOPLE,T TURKEY, Feb. IT,
The Porte has agreed to.comply with the
request made by United States Minister
Terrell to suspend action in the case of Mr..
Knapp, the American missionary, whose
arrest on charges of sedition was recently
attempted at Bitiis, until Knapp arrives
in Constantinope. Knapp's wife and three
other ladies will leave Bitlis for this city
as soon as the SHOWS permit.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
Johnson aud Dams.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 17.-Con-
gresham Johnson OF California authorizes
the statement that he was not opposed to
the appropriation for restraining dams.
On the contrary, he favored and will sup
port heartily the bill introduced by him
approprating $3.50 900, to be used with like
amounts appropriated by California in
erecting restraining dams.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
For San Pedro Harbor.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. IA dele
CATION from Los Angeles, CAL, was gwen
a hearing this morning by the River and
Harbor Committee of the House for the
approximation of 1892, 600 for the improve
ment of San Pedro harbor. The delega-
ton, which was introduced by Mr.. Nc
Lachlin, consisted of Colonel III. G. Otis,
w. G. Patterson, w G. kerichoff and w.
D. Woolwine, all of Los Angeles. Ali of
them addressed the committee on the sub
ject in hand, as did also Senator'S Perkins
and White.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
Not From. a Dtrtded Pnrty

CHICAGO, ILL, Feb. 17.-William r.
Morrison, who reached this city yester-
day, says that be would not accept Presi-
Dental nomination from divided party.
He does not object to convention fight,
but it must be fight in which vanquished
and victor must afterward shake hands and
agree to support the candidate. He thinks
that the silver Democrats are beginning to
see that they must make concessions to
save the partY
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
COAL-BL1cK PIGMIEs.
Among the NciC African Tribes Discov-
cred by DR.. Smith.

cTSU W Ut. DW1IN
NEW YORK, N. Y, Feb. 17.-Dr. Dom
aldson Smith, the young Philadelphia
physician who has been on an expedition
to Lake Rudolph, Africa, returned yester-
day on the st. Louis. Professor Smith
says that he discovered many new tribes,
among them race of coal-black pigmies.
They are of well-formed limbs and great
physical beauty. These people are about
feet in height and live in comic al huts
They raise grain and rear sheep and goats.
They are born hunters and in warfare use
poisoned arrows, wounds from which prove
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
Third y4sSisfo,,f

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Feb. 1.-THE
President to-day sent to the Senate the
nomination of William Woodward Bald
win of New York to be Third Assistant
Secretary of State.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
Fomndered in the Ir,sh Sea.

LONDON, ENG, Feb. 1.-THE Brazilian
steamer Lauro Sodro, from Glasgow for
Para, has foundered in the Irish Sea.
Four of her crew were saved.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
General Harrison Positive.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Feb. 17.-Gene-
raj Harrison has positively declined to let
his name go before the State convention as
a delegate-at-large to st. Louis, and has
notified his friends that it it useless to urge
the matter upon him.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
SHANNON rs ONFIDENT.

Governor Hughes Enemy Says the En-
ecmtire ViH Be Removed.
PHOENIX, ARIz., Feb. 17.-Hon. Charles
M. Shannon, Internal Revenue Collector
for New Mexico and Arizona, Democratic
National committeeman for Arizona and
the man who knocked down the Governor
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18
Special Sale Of Furniture

At less than MANUFACTURES
COST. Dainty Parlor Suits, Latest
Designs In Bedroom Sets, Elegant
DIning-room, Hall and Library Fur
nlture.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-24
POLITICAL NOTES

z. p. Rucker and c. b. Hart will
speak 20 the Republicans at Benwood
this evening.
Hon. ?. Watt Harf'n addressed a
large Democratic meeting at W5llsburg,
las; evening.
This evening T. J. Parsons, Of Marshall
county, and Hon. A. r. Campbell viii
address the Republicans Of Fulton.
Cailigan, the Market street tailor, is
furnishing eight hundred suits for the
big Sstersvi.Ie Bryan and Sewal Silver
Club.
Mr.. Walker. Of Trenton y. o. potter.
will address a Republican meeting in
the upper end Of the Eightl ward to-
night.
Hon. A. O. Barnes, Of Cadiz, O.. will
speak at the Benwood pole, on Ms
Mechen street, in Benwood, Saturday
night.
This Sixth Ward Democratic Club have
ordered 200 umbrellas. which they will
carry in The demonstrations of the cam
pagn.
Hon. P. Watt Hardin. Of Kentucky,
was accompanied TO We.lsburg, yester-
day afternoon, by Attorney General T.
S. Riley and Judg l.. S. Jordan.
The Faulkner Silver Club, of the Fifth
ward. are called to meet at the Y. n. D.
c. club rooms. on South Main sire /, at
seven o'clock Friday evening. for drill
and transaction Of impor,an, business.
The members Of the Eighth Ward
BRYAN and Sewall Club are requested to
be AZ their ball as carly IS possible this
evening 10 get their uniforms and attend
m, Hardin and insolvency meeting at
Forty-e.gh,h street.
Ponies is at a white heat on the
South Side. Ii was necessary the other
nigh. 10 call an officer TO quiet two par
ties who were discussing the issues Of
the campaign in suc1 a way as to al
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AMUSEMEN rs.
KFENE TONIGHT.

The advance sale Of seats indicates
that a large audience VII greet Thomaa
W. Keene and his excellent company
az the Opera House tonight. Ke ne has
always been a strong flvorite with low
ers of the legitimate, and his popularity
is merited. Tha selection Of Mr.. Keene
for presentation here is a happy one, as
it is one of the plays MOI often enacted
before a Wheeling audience.
GREAT PONY AND DOG SHOW.
Prof. Gentry's great pony and dog
show appears in this city three nights,
beginning Thursday, at the Grand
Opera House. His knowledge OF ami
mas and his power oysr them is little
short of marvellous, and the interesting
feature of il all is that he accomplishes
everything by kindness alone. A novel
parade viii be given at noon Thursday
in which all the dogs, ponies and horses
will be seen.
MIACO'S CITY CLUB COMPANY.
The attraction at the Grand Opera
House September 2Sjh. 29th and 30th,
with matinee Wednesday, VIII b M.acO's
City Club Spectacular Farce Comedy
Company, composed of thirty ladies and
gentlemen. They viii presen. a bill o.
genuine novelties. The performance
with a gorgeous first part, entitled. The
Citv Club at the French Bal, present.
ing a grand scenic picture Of the Golden
palace of Cup.ds," made bewiidering.y
beautiful by special i.gh -ng and me-
chanical effects. and arranged in four
Intensely interesting scenes, dazzling in
the.r prod;gious magnitude. The first
mart serves to introduce the entire COM
many in numerous gavottes. maches and
songs. and was CONSTRUCTED for laugh
in. purpos only.
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TIME TO CHANGE
KLG%KN DER.
SHOE SELLER, IO49 MAIN ST.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Daily Chronicle of the Movements of In Ii
vidualS.

DAILY Chronicle OF the Movements of In Ii
viduals.
Wilbur Heinlein, Of Twenty-sixth
street, IS visiting friends in Claring,on.
Mr. Arnold Lawton, Of West Alexan-
der,was in the city on business yes;er-
day.
Mr.. Edward Shorts. of the South Side
left for down the river poiA n on a yaca-
ton.
VIII Smith, a conductor on the
street railway, has small child very
III of pneumonia.
Mr. Joseph Gehring. of the East End,
who has been suffering with typhoid
fever, is recovering.
Mrs. George Miller, of the North End,
leaves in few days for several weeks
visit to friends in Pit,sburg.
Miss Lena Conner, of South Jacob
street, has accepted position as
teacher IN the McMechen schools.
Miss Jessie Conner, OF Moundsville,
was the gu st yesterday Of her cousin,
Miss Lena Conner, of South Jacob
street.
Mrs. VIM. S,raub, of The East End, is
visiting her husband at Findiay, Ohio.
Her husband is a partner in Miller d
Straub's travelling shows.
VIII Tracy, of the Wheeling Tide and
Trust Company, leaves today on trip
of two weeks TO Fostoria, Toledo and
other cities in Northern Ohio.
Fritz Fisher. of South Jacob street.
has returned from Indiana, where he
has been at work for some time. He
will leave in a few days for Washington,
Ia, to accept employment in a glass
factory.
D. w. Baird, president Of the River
side glass works, Welisburg, arrived in
Belfast. Ireland. on tie 2Gth Of August.
After a visit to tha Giants Causeway and
a day or Two in Dublin. he expected 10
arrive at Queenstown and sail for home
per the steamer Campania, on the 3OtA
of the same month. ...
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tract the attention of the entire neigh
borhood.
The meeting announced for Jas. P.
Tallman and C. H. MilligaD. al Flush
ing, o., Friday evening, has been de-
clared off for the reason that a meeting
has been arranged by Harrison county
Democrats within a mile and half OF
Flushing on the same evening. The
Tallman meeting there will be arrangs
later.
Some of the Democrats of Bridgeport
met last night in the city building and
effected the temporary organization of
a Bryan and Sewall free silver club. 1t
received a splendid start, over fifty
names being signed to the roll The
temporary officers were: w. B. Camp
bell, chairman; Loyal Springer, secre-
itary. Another meeting is called for
next Monday night TO make permanent
organization.
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snecinl to the Register.

Special to the Register.
Parkorsburg. w Va, September %
The steamer Liberty. which has been on
tho docks here, and has been thoroughly
overhauled. was sold to-day by Capt J.
K. Booth. of Wheeling. to Capt. Prince,
Of the same place, for $4,000.
The stage here last night was 4 feet
4 inches. Rising.
The Argand will clear for Parkersburg
this morning at II o'clock. The Lex
ing,on for New Matamoras, and Hop
kins for Parkersburg, were yesterday s
boats.
Pi.tsburg. Pa, September 23.-River
4 feet and stationary at the dam. Clear
and cool.
CT CITY. Pc, September 23.-River 1
foot 4 inches and falling. Clear and cool.
Morgantown, W. Va, September %
River Z feel inch. Fair and cool.
Heavy frost as, night
Greensboro. Pa, September 23.-River
7 fee. 6 inches and stationary. Clear
w warren. P. September 23.-Rivar so
OF a foo.. Clear and coli.
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SMALL TALK
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and Pithy
lily Told.

iAinor Matters OF interest Brie1ly ana Iituy
lily Told.
There were three cases in Police
Court, yesterday morning.
The full City Charter Commission
is called to meet this evening.
New rails are being laid on the B..
& o. tracks on Sixteenth street.
The Louis Hunts will dance at the
Contra! Garden Club this evening.
To-day the Benwood mill goes on in
full, aftsr a shut down of eight or nine
weeks.
Justice Phillips yesterday sent a
colored girl to Jail, on complaint Of hei
father.
-Pocahontac Council No. 1 celebrates
It's ninth anniversary on October 9TH, at
Mozart Hall.
The tube works at the Riverside
are making fair time, and the plate
works half time.
A prisoner escaped from the work.
house yesterday. The guards were I'M
able to capture him.
Monuments on the family lots of j.
Ehrle and David Sihier are TO b erected
at Mt. Zion cemetery.
A new shingle rooi will be put on
ST. Pauls church, in the Eighth ward,
by Contractor A. c. Fisher.
Before Judge Campbell, in the Cir
cult Court. yesterday, the case of d. c.
Kurner V. Ross NJ. Chew was put on trial.
Mr.. Frank Bowers, of the South
Side, will erect a two-story residence in
a few weeks. Architects have prepared
the plans.
Herman Custer, of No. 3640 Eoff
street, has bought the Menkemeyer prop
erty, on South Eoff street, and has re-
moved into ii.
Will Falloure created q ripple of ex-
element on Sixteenth street, yesterday,
by jumping through the window of a
Doctors office.
About twenty-five or thirty en-
ployes of the brilliant mill were seeking
employment at the opening of the Ben
wood mill. but none succeeded in get
ting work and all returned home.
This evening the North End Liter
airy and Athletic Association will give
their regular monthly dance at their
club rooms at the head of Seventh
street. Music by Bashman's orchestra.
The Commissioners Committee on
Poor House and Farm met yesterday
and looked over the plans for the heat
ing apparatus for the new hospital
building. Bids will be asked Tor in
about week.
There was not only frost yesterday
morning, but ice as well. The govern
ment minimum thermometer at
Schnepfs only recorded 40, however.
which is four four degrees cooler than the
Lowest temperature in September of last
year
"A marriage license was issued yes
terday to Jacob r. Dungeon, a native
of Virginia. aged As, ana Eliza Page. a
native of Virginia, aged IS; Jlso, to Louis
c. Foimer. a native of Fulton, aged %,
and Lulu Montgomery, native Of
Wheeling, aged %.
Several employees Of the mills in the
lower part C. the city have gwen up
their jobs and returned TO their native
homes across the water. Among the
latest is George Gratz, a WI e.wright at
the Riverside, who has given up his po-
sttion and will leave in a few days for
Germany. 4 half dozen PGies left a
few days ago for Po!and.
There will be a dance at Bishofs
Hall every Wednesday and Saturday
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on the evening of the 2Sth. General
Alfred Caldwell will preside, and list Of
forty vice presidents, including a half
dozen from as far away as st. Marys
and Clarksburg, was compiled. Ar
rangements were also made for the local
campaign, and the matter is in the
hands OF a committee consisting Of
Messrs. J. B. Sommervilie, Allen Brock
and John S. Naylor, and this committee
will arrange for several speeches Hon.
Bourke Cochran and Hon. John Byrne
will be escorted to the Opera House by
a business mans club.
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IsLAND REPrBMCAN MEETING.

ISLAND REF ODI>lOtA4N VI IL i-NN'
The Republicans Of the Seventh ward
held their third ward meeting of thc
campaign. last night, in front OF the
Logan Clug headquarters, on South
Broadway. The speakers were escorted
over the river by the uniformed clubs,
making the usual display.
AR Hart was to have been the princi-
pal speaker Of the evening, and it had
been arranged thai Prof McHenry'
Jones. principal OF the Lincoln school,
should be given time to make a few re-
marks, but Prof. Jones was given the
first hearing, with the expectation that
after q brief speech he would give way
to Mr.. Hart
In tlis the managers reckoned without
their host, for instead Of quitting in a
reasonable length of time and giving
the candidate fer the Senatorship a
chance, the Professor consumed exactly
one hour and twenty minutes. At the
beginning there was good-sized crowd,
but by the time Mr.. Jones had concluded
his audience did not number one-third
OF those who heard the first of his ora
ton. This was not very encouraging
prospect for Hart and as his remarks
failed to arouse The least enthusiasm be-
fore he had finished his speech Of fifteen
minutes, there were only a handful or
TWO Of people within hearing Mr.. Hart
cid not endsavor TO deal with the issues
of TIE campaign, but devoted his few
remarks to impressing upon his hearers
minds the great gratitude Which was due
him from the people Of Wheeling for his
alleged efforts to re-estabish the Cen
trail glass works and his services aa
chairman of The relief committee two
J Grs ago.
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EIGHTH WARD DEMOCRATS

Of the various district Democratic
clubs n the county, none have shown IS
much interest IN the success of Bryan
and Sewall as has the Eighth ward
cub. The Club is four weeks Old, and
now have ct Their hall uniforms for 100
Of its members. Abou, fifty uniforms
We're distributed last night and the rest
will be taken by the members this even
ing. The club has turned out on parade
three times, and will go to the Forty
eighth street meeting this evening.
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A ROUSING BIG MEETING

To Be Held in Upper Benwood This Even
inc-Addrpsses icy p. Watt Hardin aud
Hon. Fdwar aIcsweeney.
This evening there will be rousing
big mass meeting in the interests OF
Bryan and free silver at the open ground
in the vicinity of the street car barns,
in upper Benwood. The addresses Will
be delivered by Hon. P Watt Hardin, OF
Kentucky, who spoke in Wellsburg last
night, and Hon. Edward McSweeney. OF
Pittsburg. Ths Democrats of the Eighth
ward will turn cut en- masse, and all
the city clubs have been invited to assist
in escordng the speakers TO the place OF
meeting.
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A GREAT GERMAN SPEAKER.

Hon. Hugo Crossner, of Illinois, one
of the finest German orators in the
country. VIII deliver a Democratic adj
dress, in the German language. = no
Eighth ward on the evening of October
I'd, and in Futon on the evening OF lne
Sd. Nj Gross1er vii be given a great
recept.on by cur German citizens.
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JOHN A. HOWARD'S APPOINT
MENTS.

Hon. John 4. Howard has been as
signed 10 speak a. the following points
in the eastern portion Of the State:
Kingsyil'a, September Goth, Afternoon;
E,kins. September 26,h, night; Morton
September 2S.h, afternoon; Horton,
Septomber 2S.h. N.gh..