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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

ladies' sterling silver
92--1000 fine. made heavy ar.
800 and upwards.
DILLON, WHEAT & HAN 10
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

Read our ad. and don't fail to attend
the receivers sale.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

Building lots on Whcci.a-
for sale.
FINK & BRAJNLIoH
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

tttontion 10 family saus
See New Advertisement.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

Solitaire diamond loclets firm"
ND. also solitaire diamond I
$500 M. at Shelf Bros.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

David Hunter and wife celebrated
the eighth anniversary of their we'd
ding Thursday evening. al their home
on Twenty-fourth street. Among those
present were: Mrs. Seth Kemp, Mrs.
Chas. Stevens and daughter, Mrs. Com
fort. James WATSON and wife. Mrs
Radcliffe and daughter John Wilson
and daughter Miss Lottio Mrs. Chas
Watson. Miss Nellie Comfort, Mrs
Dan O'Brieu and Miss Nettie Stevens
The evening passed very enjoyably in
social diversions and q splendid supper
was served.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

Tappan & Conners new pea.
Water Color and Sepia portraits
the finest ever made in Wheeline
and leave your order for the hol
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

attc,dtho .Giohr" Receiver Sale.
Tfairr. Choice Goods at 80 cent?
Naiur.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

I III LIZ UIlItf
1920 and 1924 Main street.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

Winning STYLES aui reduced prices
4 st.fei g. Cos. Wrap DHTarimsn i.'-
/ Solitaire diamond lockots from
ND. also solitaire diamond i
$500 M, at Shelf Bros.
Building lots on Wheciu- Is
for sale. ..........
FINK & BRAJNLI..
Tappan & C0nncls new F.
Water Color and Sepia portra
the finest ever made in Wheeling
and leave vOur order for the hcl
.,to,dt,c ..Gioio" Receiver Salr.. t
T,aier Choice Goods at 80 cent? ".
Naiur.
ladies' sterling silver
92--10o0 fine. made heavy am.
800 and upwards.
DILLON. WHEAT & HAN I'D
kttonton 10 family saus
/ See New Advertisement
ChHdren's rolled gold 'o..
from S10O up at Shelf Bros
eIfol & Co. for all kind. o.. Good ,-.
brcllas cheap.
attend tine "Globe" Receiver. -.Ir '' i'
Leader. Choice good at 5o cent. '
value.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

Society affairs were numerous dur
ing the past week in Sistersyille. The
first event was a genuine Martha
Washington tea party, which took
place ut the home OF Mrs. J. c. Norri-
Son. corner Main and Elizabeth streets,
Tuesday evening. George N. Mccoy,
dressed as Uncle Sam. received the
guests M the door. and was assisted in
bandlinc the money paid for admis-
sion by Miss Sally Russell representing
Columbia The dress she wore on this
occasion was So years old. George
Durham. dressed as George Washing
ton, and Miss Anna Elder, tmpersonat-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29

Mr.. Robert Jones and Miss Maud
Hathaway. estimable young people of
Bridgeport. We're united in marriage
Tuesday at the II. =. parsonage in West
Bridgeport. by the Rev. r. S. Strahl.
At high noon Thursday, John A.
George and Miss Kate Hickman were
united in the bonds of matrimony at
the Hotel Wells. Sistersville, by Rev.
IT. A. Anderson. The haDpy couple left
on the 1:41 train for the East.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09
Personal AND PoLITIcAL.

AT Montpelier, VT, the republican
state convention adopted a resolution
expressing preference for Maj. Nc
Kinley as presidential candidate. The
platform opposes silver agitation and
favors protection and reciprocity.
Georgia republicans met at Atlanta
and adopted platform reaffirming the
principles of the republican party and
elected delegates to the national con-
yention who favor Mckinley.
Michigan democrats in convention at
Detroit elected delegates to the nation
al convention and adopted u platform
favoring the gold standard.
The Mississippi democrats in conven-
tion at Jackson adopted platform de-
claring for tariff for revenue only and
for free coinage of silver and selected
delegates To the national convention
who indorse such views.
The democratic state convention at
Allentown, Pa, indorsed eX-Gov. Rob-
ert E. Pattinson's candidacy for the
presidential nomination and declared
against the free coinage of silver. John
M. Broden and Benjamin +. Potts were
nominated for congressman at large.
The Third district prohibitionists of
Maine nominated DIR. w. S. Thompson,
of Augusta, for congress.
The republicans of the Fifth district
OF Michigan renominated William A.
Smith for congress.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09
LATER.

THE fire loss of the United States and
Canada during April amounted to Sl2,.
600, 900, or about $1,000, 900 more than
the total for the same month in 1895.
AT Pittsburg on the 5th Judge White
issued restraining order directed to
the national executive committee of
the knights of Labor, prohibiting
them from proceeding with the trial
of 81 defendants, members of the Glass
Workers assembly, against whom
charges were preferred by Simon
Burns, president of the assembly.
The post Office department has issued
orders denying the privilege of the
mails to the American Coupon Invest
ment Co., having offices in several
western and southern cities.
The Franklin sugar refinery at Phil
adelphia, which has been idle for four
or five months has started again in
full operation. Over 1000 hands are
employed at the refinery, and a major
ity of the old men returned to work.
CHAIRMAN HINKLEY has called the
New York democratic state committee
to meet at New York City on May Is,
to fix the time and place for holding
the state convention to elect four dele
gates-at-large to the democratic ma
ticual convention. 1t is said the con-
vention will be called to meet in Sara
toga in the last week in June.
Town MARSHAL MILLER, of Hundred,
w. Va, captured two post office rob-
bers near Littleton, w. Va, on the
night of the 4th after an exciting bat
tie in which dozen shots were ex-
changed and one of the criminals,
George Patterson, was badly wounded.
THE official report of the traffic
through st. Mary's Falls canal during
April shows that the total registered
tonnage passing was 45s, ,047. Four hun
dred and twenty-six craft were locked
through all American.
F. & G. FRIEND 81 Co., wholesale
dealers in leaf tobacco at New York
City, failed on the 5th. They have
been in business for over 80 years and
this is their second failure.
THE session of the senate on the 5th was di-
gided up In this way: The first hour was given
lp to routine business and TO u resolution of
cred by Mr. Call, which went over, requesting
jhe president TO require from the Spanish gov
7rnment fair treatment for American citizens
captured on the schooner Competitor; the next
lour TO consideration OF the river and harbor
oill; the next three hours to speeches by Mr..
Hill against the Pefer bond resolution and by
Mr. Pettigrew. OF South Dakota, In favor OF it.
and the last hour TO pension and other BILLS
rwenty-seyen pension bills were passed ~. The
oattle over the naval appropriation bill was
ought In the house again. The effort to concur
the senate amendment reducing the number
)f battle ships from four TO two was defeated.
The request OF the senate for conference on
he naval appropriation bill was agreed 20.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09
DOMESTIC,

The Farmers Advocate of Malone
y. Y, the official organ of the Patrons
| of Industry of the United States, was
placed in the hands of receiver.
A fire among business buildings in
Quincy, ILL.,, caused loss of $3O0,00O.
At the annual congress in Richmond,
Va, of the national society of the Sons
of the American Revolution Gen. Horace
Porter, of New York, was reelected
president.
Four persons lost their lives in the
great fire at Cripple Creek, Col, 10 were
injured and o. were missing. Great
distress prevailed among the people.
The village of Naylor, Mo-, was sold
at public auction to satisfy eastern cred
itors.
The 1000 miners in the bituminous
field in Indiana struck for an increase
in wages.
The City savings bank at Hot Springs,
Ark, closed its doors.
The twenty-second quadrennial con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church convened in Cleveland, o., with
537 delegates.
The great eight-hour demonstration
by the trades unions of the country
scheduled for May did moi take place,
only very few strikes being reported.
The Bank of Fairland, ILL.,, closed its
doors with $4,000 due depositors.
The body of eX-Secretary of State
Gresham was taken from Chicago to
Washington, where it will find resting
place in Arlington, the national ceme-
terry.
Z. Il. WILDER, for ten years the efficient
western passenger agent of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railway,
has recently been promoted to the posi-
ton of assistant general passenger
agent of the sane road, with headquar-
ters in Chicago.
Official treasury figures make the gov
ernment deficit for the ten months of
the fiscal year $23, 1856, 100.
The national bank note circulation
outstanding is $22, ,1O1 ,345, an increase
during April of $2,S73, $40.
Coinage executed at United States
mints during April aggregated $3,471,-
go, of which gold amounted to 81 ,5oo,-
COO and silver TO $1.S31. 900.
The j. l.. Hudson company, clothiers
in Detroit, made an assignment with
liabilities of S50O,o0O.
The business portion of the town of
Indianola. Miss. was destroyed by fire.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST showed that the debt incI eased
$5,545,417 during the month of April
The cash balance in the treasury was
$SGS, S,709,556. The total debt, less the
cash balance III the treasury, amounts
to $O4S, S,2s7 $40.
The exchanges "a the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 1st aggregated $0s2,
SS5,511, against $1,012 ,35a,s00 the pre-
Nious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1895,
was 10.2.
Bob Ward shot and fatally wounded
bis wife, Ella Ward, and killed himself
in sawmill camp near Henshaw, Ky.
"The Pines, the summer residence
near Ellsworth, Me-, of United States
Senator Hale, with all its contents, was
destroyed by fire, the loss being $50, 900.
Spontaneous combustion in the pnnts
factory of w. A. Fuller d. Co. in San
Francisco started fire which caused
q loss of $500.000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Proceedings of the First Session.

The Proceedings of the First Session.
In the senate on the 29th ult resolu-
tions were adopted accepting from the
state of Wisconsin the statue of James
Marquette. The naval appropriation Dill
was then taken up and the remainder of
the session was given up to political
speeches.. The house spent the day n
further discussion of the bankruptcy bill.
The naval appropriation bill was further
discussed in the senate on the 30th ult. A
bill was favorably reported to protect free
labor from convict competition by confin-
ing the sale of goods manufactured by con-
Wet labor to the state where produced.
Senator Hill introduced a bill in relation to
contempts of United States courts, the
Dill defining direct contempts to be those
committed during the sitting of a court
or judge in chambers in its or his pres
ence; all other contempts are Indirect. In
the house the general debate on the bank
ruptcy bill was concluded. A bill was in
troduced to provide for the purchase of
the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln in
Kentucky and to erect on the site a ma
tional soldiers home, to be known as the
Lincoln Soldiers Home"
In the United States senate on the 1st
during the discussion of the naval appro-
priation bill Senator Tillman Is. c. made
n bitter attack on the president and Sec
retary of the treasury and was replied to by
Senator Hill IN. ". Senator Butler IN.
c. introduced bill to make the Mexican
trade dollar equal in value to the standard
dollar of the United States. The house
devoted the major portion of the day to
debate on the bankruptcy bill A bill to
provide for delegate in congress from the
territory of Alaska was defeated. A to 60.
After a weeks debate, which has taken a
wide range, the senate on the I'd passed
the naval appropriation bill. 1t provides,
among other things, for two battle ships
and 13 torpedo boats. In the house, after
five days of debate, the Henderson bill to
establish a uniform system of bankruptcy
was passed by vote of 157 to 81. 1t pro-
vides for both voluntary and involuntary
bankruptcy.
In the senate on the 4th the time was
occupied in discuss ng the resolution to
investigate the issue of bonds, Senator Hill
speaking against it.. In the house Mr.
Woodman ,Ill) introduced a resolution re-
questing the president to Immediately issue
proclamation recognizing the Cuban rev.
olutionists as belligsrents. The naval ap-
preparation bill was considered and a bill
was passed. for the protection of Ameri-
can yacht owners and shipbuilders.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09
FOREIGN,

In collision at Woo Sung, China,
between the steamers New Cwang and
On Wo the latter sank and over 600 per-
sons, mostly Chinese, were drowned.
An explosion by which 100 persons
were believed to have perished occurred
in a colliery at Micklefield, Yorkshire.
The Canadian government has adopt
ed an order eNempting American ves-
sells from entry and clearance charges
at Canadian ports.
Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter
of Queen Victoria and widow of Prince
Henry of Battenburg, has been appoint
ed governor of the Isle of Wight, the
office previously held by her husband.
While Nazir-Ed-Din, the shah of Per-
sia, was entering the inner court of the
shrine of Shah Abdul Aim, six miles
south of Teheran, he was shot and al
most instantly killed by an assassin,
who was arrested.
The distress owing to the drouth in
the northwest province of East India
vas uneXampled. 1t was estimated that
100000 persons were employed on re-
lief work.
Fifteen hundred houses were de-
Muzafer-ed-Din, second son OF the
late shah of Persia, was enthroned at
Tabriz with the title of shah-in-shah
(lling of kings).
The steamer Bermuda, which sailed
from Philadelphia April % for Cuba
with 80 men, two Calling guns, 1000
rifles, 100000 rounds of ammunition
and 1000 pounds of dynamite for the
insurgents, made successful landing.
The rebel forces in Nicaragua sur
rendered and the rebellion in that re-
public has ended.
A dispatch from Madrid says the
Spanish government has declined the
pope's mediation in Cuban affairs.
n telegram from Santo Domingo says
that President IIeureauX had the min
lister of war, Castillo, and Gov. Estay, of
Macoris, shot for conspiracy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09
FASHION LETTER.
Materials and Charming Styles In Great
Variety for the Summer Season.

NhEteVy lOE inc summer season.
Especial New York corrcspondence.l
Summer fashions heve already de-
veloped into such variety of form and
combinations of colors so unique and
original that the question of what is
going to be worn is practically settled
for the season, and the results will soon
be fascinatingly displayed at the fash
ionable seaside and mountain resorts
in all the diversity of charm which filmy
draperies, classic folds, dainty tints
and exquisite color effects can pro-
duce.
White toilets of various summer tex
tiles will be conspicuous feature of
the seasons fashions. These begin with
the soft sheer woods, then come those
of serge, mohair and crepon, with plain
full skirts and pert little jacket
bodices, or the single-breasted open
blazer, which, to be new and stunning,
must be lined with colored silk-pale
canary yellow, mauve and old rose be-
ing favored shades. And this material
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

ONE of the articles of food most
priced by the Chinese on the Pacific
coast is dried duck. An American in
Contra Costa county, California, has
started a duck-drying business and has
monopoly of the Chinese trade. He
buys hundreds of ducks from hunters,
fills them with salt, and hangs them in
the sun for six weeks. They become
as hard as sole leather or dried Goldfish
and will keep indefinitely. The Chi
nese used to import their dried duck
from China, but now patronize the
home industry almost exclusively.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

THERE are more than 1000 Swiss peo-
pie in the Hohenwald colony, recently
settled in Lewis county, Tenn. 1t is
one of the most prosperous foreign col
onies in Tennessee, and agents of the
colony are now in Switzerland securing
another colony of more than 1000 peo-
pie, for which lands have already been
provided. The Hohenwald colony is a
cooperative union, though it is not
patterned exactly like the altruistic
town of Ruskin, in Dickson, county,
Tenn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

PROF. SARGENT, editor of Garden and
Forest, the authority on arboriculture
and Horticulture in this country, urges
the abolition of private ownership of
trees in streets and the placing of the
whole business of planting and caring
for trees under competent municipal
commission. He insists that only city
forester, thoroughly conversant with
the habits of trees and their wants, is
capable of taking care of them through
the ordeals to which they are subjected
on city streets.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

DR.. II. c. Nicholson, who invented the
quadruplex telegraph instruments, died
at his home in Nicholson, KY, aged ~
years.
The Maine prohbitionists in state
convention Mt Waterville nominated
Rev. A. S. Ladd. of Calias, for governor.
The Illinois republicans in conven-
ton at Springfield nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: For governor, John II.
Tanner; lieutenant governor, w. A.
Northcott; secretary of state, James
A. Rose; state auditor, j. S. McCul-
Tough; state treasurer, Henry L. Hertz;
attorney general, T.. c. Aiken. The del
egates at large to st. Louis are Richard
j. Oglesby, II. w. Patterson, Joseph w.
Fifer and William Penn Nixon, and
they were instructed to vote for Nc
Kinley for president. The platform
declares for the gold standard, protec-
ton of home industries, reciprocity,
and condemns the administration Of
Gov. Altgeld.
Catherine Judd, known as "Aunty"
Judd, died in Bridgeport, Conn, aged
102 years.
Presidential preferences of the dele
gates so far elected to the republican
national convention are given as fol-
lows: Mckinley, 439; Reed, 1O3; Nor
ton, SO; Quay, 40; Allison, 35; Bradley,
16; unpledged, 81; total, 752.
Rev. Il. Edwin Hall died at his home
in New Haven, Conn.,, at the age of SO
years. He was the founder Of the
Protestant church at Florence. italy.
Alice Harrison, one of the best known
actresses in the country, died in New
York.
Mrs. Lurinda P. Pratt celebrated her
Tooth birthday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. C. C. Bonney, in Chicago.
The republicans of the Seventh dis
trict of California nominated w. w.
Bowers, of San Diego, for congress.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

AN arrangement has been concluded
with the trustees of the Rinehart fund
for the Peabody institute for the estab-
lishment of a school of sculpture with
in the Maryland institute in Baltimore.
The plan contemplates the employment
of an instructor and the furnishing of
models by the Rinehart trustees, the
Maryland institute to supply rooms
and necessary equipment, and the de-
partment to be known as the Rinehart
School of Sculpture.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

PADEREwsKI's gift of $4,000 to be
used in prizes for original music COM
position will encourage American COM
posers without in any way impoverish-
ing the donor. According to his own
statement the receipts for his present
tour through this country amounted to
the princely sum of S24s,OOO. A coun-
try SO appreciative and liberal is de-
serving of encouragement in musical
culture, and the great artist who has
been the beneficiary of such liberality
can well afford to reciprocate gener-
ously
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

A number Of "bulls" by members of
parliament and others have been
printed lately, but bishops seem to
perpetrate them sometimes. His lord
ship of Ripon, in sermon the other
day at Calverley, near Leeds, betrayed
mis- Hibernian origin, not for the first
time, in the same way. He said: "Myl
brethren, beg of you to take hold Of
your own heart and look it straight in
the face. Westminster Gazette.
HE past and future are veiled; but the
past wears the widows veil, the future the
virgin's.-Richter
!, a MAN may feel happy in rags, but he
doesn t look it.-Hartford Religious Herald,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

THE emperor of Russia has ordered
400, 900 decorated goblets to be distrib-
uted among his subjects who attend the
festivities in connection with his coro-
nation in May at Moscow. A mag
nificent table service of gold and silver
is also being made for use at the i'm
perial table. The programme for the
coronation festival is to be printed in
two languages, Russian and French.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

BUCKsPoRT (Me.) dogs are growing
clever. One of them was left in charge
of the house the other day while the
other members of the family were out.
A lady caller came, and, when her at
tack upon the outer portal was unuo-
ticed, slipped her card under the door.
The dog took charge of the bit of pa
per and, after his mistress came home
and was quietly sitting in her parlor,
the dog entered and placed the card in
her Ian
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

OBSERVATIONS made on the pendulum
of the Paris observatory, which is kept
30 feet under ground, with tempera-
ture that varies Tooth part of degree
at most during the year. show that it
is not quite proof to the variations of
atmospheric pressure. 1t makes an err
ror of one-third of an oscillation in 12,-
100000, and it is proposed to remedy
this error
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

Two MORMON missionaries, who are
musicians and play as we'll as preach,
returned to San Francisco recently
from Samoa where they have been la
boring during the last IS months and,
they say, with remarkable success.
They have established church at
Apia and allege that the Samoans are
easy converts. One of the missionaries
plays guitar and harmonica at the
same time, and the other alternate,
with a flute and fiddle. Their man
ner of work was % attract and inter-
est the natives by their playing and
then endeavor to convert them by their
preaching.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

THERE is no end to the making Of
cycles or to the ingenuity of the in
ventors. A quadricycle, composed of
two tandem bicycles arranged side by
side, has just been invented in Paris
to serve as fire engine in cases of
emergency. 1t is worked by four men,
and is fitted up with the necessary
hose pipes and fittings, which occupy
the Snace hetMeen the riders
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

OSCAR BoULLY, who lives on an island
in the Missouri river in Minnesota, had
4 perilous time the other day. The
island was covered with water, and he
and his family had to seek refuge in
trees, against which the floating ice
bumped alarmingly. His house floated
from its foundation, The family spent
the night in trees and was rescued in
the morning