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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-13
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
Charleston, w. Va, March 12.-It is
reported here this evening that several
men were killed to-day at the Central
coal works, on New river.
A large gondola, upon which thirteen
men were riding down an incline
plane, broke loose and went down at a
terrible speed, wrecking the car and
the tipple.
a number of the men were killed and
others wounded.
No further particulars can be learned.
Immediately upon the receipt of the
above, the Register sent kilograms in
all directions with the view of ascer-
tanning whether the report was cor
rect. 1t was found that all but a few
night Offices on the Chesapeake 6,
Ohio Railroad were closed. and at first,
the nearest the Western Union could
come to the scene of the alleged acci-
dent was Richmond, Va, and Cincin-
natl. Finally direct circuit by way
of Pittsburg. Washington and Richmond
was formed with the Chesapeake & Ohio
lines to Cincinnati. and after an hours
work, the local operator succeeded in
raising the Hinton railroad Office.
The report was explained TO the Hin
ton operator, and as he had heard moth
ing of it, he began an investigation.
For forty minutes he called offices along
the line but could get no response from
anyone nearer the Central coal works
than himself. Finally, Thurmond and
East Sewel operators caught on. and
after hearing the report of the acci-
dent from the Hinton operator, replied
that they had heard nothing of it.
AS a result of all this work, the fol-
lowing was received at the Register Of
fee at 80 this morning:
Hinton, w. Va, March 19.-Iave
heard nothing of mine disaster at Cen
tral coal works. The two nearest
night telegraph Offices, Thurmond and
East Sewen, know nothing of it.
think the report is incorrect.
HINTON OPERATOR"
While all this work and expense
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-13
Only ONE Representative.
Kentucky Seems Likely to Be Shy One
Senator After March 4, 1897.

Another Days Session Results In
No Solution Of the Deadlock.
The COnstabulary Were on Hand
Ready to Preserve Order, but
Fortunately No Disturbance Oc-
CURED, and Their Services Were
Not ReqUired-B Everybody Pleased
That Things; Passed of as They
Did.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-13

While all this work and expense
merely spoiled a good news item, 1t
made it possible for the Register to give
its readers the facts as nearly as it was
possible for human effort to do so; a
thing, by the way, which the Register
aims to do every day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-13
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Chicago. March 12.-The Superior
Wis. Leader. has abandoned the Unit
ed Press and commences tonight TAX
ing the leased wire report of the Asso-
ciated Press.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-13

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
THE SILVER TRUSTS DOLLAR.

Suppose the country should adopt the
free coinage of silver. how would those
who have no silver bullion get the silver
dollars coined from the bullion of the sill
yer mine owners and spectators? That is
should be no excitement.
Take the man who works for wages
how can he get any of the silver dollars
made out of the silver bullion of the min
ing syndicates and silver-bullion trusts?
There is but one wayne must earn them
as wages. VIII the owner of these silver
dollars give him employment? Can they
give employment to several million men
and women? No one believes that. The
men who work for wages must work for
employers in the towns and cities where
they now live. Now, these employers get
money from the banks with which to pay
those who work for them. If, under a
silver basis, employers hire labor or serv-
ice of any kind, they must borrow money.
The owners of the silver dollars will have
money to lend and banks of their own,
possibly, but they will not lend money at
lower rates than existing banks. or upon
less stable security. Furthermore, manu-
.facturers will not employ labor with
money hired of the silver mine owners I'M
less they find a market for their goods,
any more quickly than they do now. Even
If the dollar OF the silver mine owners
should purchase as much as the present
dollar. what are wage earners to gain by
the change, provided that months, or even
two years, are not needed to change from
the money basis of the great nations to
that of China, India and Mexico?
The man who seeks employment-how is
he to get the dollars of the silver trust?
They cannot create employment. In fact,
silver mine owners are fighting in Lead
vile now to enforce lower wages upon
union miners. If the unemployed set en-
ployment it must be in other States, of
railroad companies, manufacturers, and in
a thousand other channels which need la
Dor in good times. Will the free coinage
Of silver make better times and enable
employers to employ more men? Do not
ask Mr.. Bryan, or the political place
seeker, but go to the men who employ
labor when it is employed. and ask them
if they can assure you of employment if
the silver mine owners carry the election.
Ask them, and act upon their advice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

out So, 727, 900 ounces of silver last year. If
the output should be no greater. the profit
which these very few rich mine owners
would receive in a single year would be
s35, $50. This is practically the estimate
of the secretary of the trust. 1t will be
seen from the above that the profit of one
month would he nearly So. 900, 0O0-a very
large corruption fund.
As the result of this circular, a Bryan
campaign financial committee, to have
charge of the collection of these funds has
been appointed. The names which have
been announced are those of silver barons
worth from one to fifty millions of dollars.
And yet their candidate goes up and down
the country appealing to the poor to take
sides against the rich. when a few hundred
very rich men and a few thousand men
who are waiting to speculate in silver
stocks are the only ones of 10000 900 of peo-
pie who will be benefited by the free COIN
age of silver.
There never was such q conspiracy of
millionaires against the best interests of
the whole country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. Wetmore, a sister of Buffalo Bill"
is the editor and Publisher of a successful
newspaper in Duluth.
The oldest love letter in the world is in
the British Museum. It is a proposal of
marriage for the hand of an Egyptian
princess, and it was made $500 years ago.
1t is in the form of an inscribed brick. and
is, therefore,, not only the oldest but the
most substantial love letter in existence.
Nine. Christine Nilsson has a charming
house in Madrid. two rooms of which are
decorated in a unique style. The walls of
her bedroom are papered with leaves OF
music from the operas in which she has
sung and the dinginE room is papered with
the hotel bills she has collected during her
Journeys aroun the world.
A spanish diver has succeeded in bringing
$50. coo worth of silver bars from a depth
of los feet, off Cape Finisterre. The steam
er Skyro, which sank nine miles south of
the cape five years ago. had lightweight
bars of silver, worth $4,000. on board. The
diver. whose name is Angel Erostarbe, has
gone down twensy-seven times this summer
and brought up thirty-seven OF the bars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

passed extending it another five years.
Similar acts were passed in 1912. in 1918 and
in 1925, each continuing the mint five years
longer. In 1s2S an act was passed c~ontinu-
ing it until otherwise provided by law
During this period five aInereny acts were
passed regarding the legal-tender value of
foreign coins, which, under our crude eff
forts to establish and maintain a
double standard, continued to con-
stitute the bulk of the specie
circulation of the country. Foreign gold
coins continued to be legal tender till No
vember, 1919. and foreign silver coins until
April, 1926. Thus the record shows that
during the period when Mr.. Bryan pre-
tends that the sacred STANDARD silver dol
lar was being largely coined as a sign of
American Independence and emblem OF
American liberty. it was practically an I'M
known coin, that its coinage was entirely
suspended by order of President Jefferson
III 1906, and that for twenty-five years it
was a question whether the mint itself
would survive.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
THE SILVER TRUST CONSPIRACY.

The New York World has published the
appeal of Thomas S. Merrill, of the Bimet-
allie League of the silver States, which re-
veals the conspiracy of the silver mine
owners in reference to the coming election.
In his letter to the mine owners Secretary
Merrill says:
If Bryan is defeated we must expect to
see silver sold at a price that will be given
it simply by it's demand for use in the arts.
which will certainly be not more than 40
cents an ounce. In view of these facts, the
owners of silver-producing properties can
afford to contribute at least the additional
profits they receive from their own silver
product for one month to the Bryanite
campaign.
Assuming that the value of each ounce of
silver will be raised from GO cents to $1.29 an
ounce, Secretary Merrill makes the follow
ing direct appeal to well-known silver mine
owners who are worth tens of miIlions:
l appeal to Messrs. MCINTYRE and Cum
ningham, of the Keith and
Kearns, of the Silver King; Chisholm and
others. of the Centennial and Eureka;
Ryan and Knox, of the Ajax; Packard of
the Eureka Hill; Daily, of the Daily; West.
Beck and associates, of the Bullion-Beck
and the owners of the Sioux, Ontario W
r. Hearst, vice president). and other silver
mines of this State, who can well afford TO
assist in this cause. to figure up the aver
age monthly silver product from their
mines and multiply the product of one
month in ounces by Ga cents. which is the
product-all of which will be proft-and at
once have that amount contributed and
placed in the hands of the treasurer of the
bimetallic parties to assist Mr. Bryan in
the wonderful campaign he is making al
most unaided. If we can secure the add
tional profits of one months produce of the
Western silver-producing mines it will in
sure success at the election of Nov. 5.
To the men named and their associates
owning ten silver mining properties. the
secretary of the Silver Trust appeals to
contribute "a cents an ounce upon the prod
uct of one month to promote Bryan's cleo
ton, assuring them that the additional
profits of one months product of the silver
producing mines will insure success in the
election" Secretary Merrill assures these
few multi-millionaire mine owners that
such a fund as he asks for will make their
silver, now worth 65 cents an ounce. worth
81. 20 to them by free and unlimited coinage.
ounce. he assumes will be theirs. The Ga
cents which they would receive under free
coinage, "all of which will be clear profit
will be the profit of the handful OF mine
the United States treasury or into the
pockets of the people whose election is TO
be turned by this corruption fund.
The mines of the millionaires and their
lists. to whom this appeal is made. turned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

Philadelphia North American.

PhlldQelDnld NOIln lI0 I'll
Mr.. Bryan's suggestion that ex-President
Harrison is mistaken in his Interpretation
of the Chicago platform is certainly allow
able. exactly as it is allowable for a cat
to look at a king. We may go further,
and say that Mr.. Bryan's view of Mr.. Har-
rison's Interpretation will have just about
as much effect upon the public Judgment
as the contemplation of Il cat would have
on a king. Mr.. Harrison is one of the best
lawyers in the country, and 1t is entirely
safe to say that when questions involving
constitutional law are to be settled. it is
not less than 10 to l that the call will
be made on Mr.. Harrison rather
than on Mr.. Bryan. We do
not know of any great lawyer who
would engage in the discussion or constitu-
tional law with Mr.. Bryan outside of a
court of law. In any case the argument
would be all on one side. and that not the
Bryan side. Mr.. Bryan is several sizes too
small to engage the attention. of any great
LAWYER in the of matters of law.
Senator Tillman was seized with a similar
fit of desperation after he had fallen fiat
as a pancake as a public speaker in the
North and East. Having demonstrated his
utter incapacity to discuss any of the
questions at issue, he thought to regain his
shattered fortunes by challenging General
Harrison to discuss public questions with
him. Mr.. Bryan has reached the same
state of desperation. The public has taken
the measure of the B~ryan-Tillman combine.
1t is not up to the Harrison standard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

The election will take place a month
from to-day. These closing weeks of the
campaign may decide the result in favor
of the party that does the most efficient
work between now and the election. The
speaking should be kept UP, but it should
be supplemented with close personal work.
If "a score of active, earnest Republicans
in every county of the State would effect a
special organization and devote themselves
to seeing doubtful and undecided voters it
would have a material influence on the re-
suit. In such a contest as this nothing
should be taken for granted. From now till
the election Republicans should recognize
the necessity of ~work-hard. close, per-
Sonal work. ass %
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
IN THE UNITED A


The United States. under the operation of
the standard established, in 1873, doubled
their savings bank deposits during the sew
enteen years from 1873 to 1890. Their. record
during those years is quite as striking as
that of any other country in the long
strides of the working masses toward COM
fort and prosperity. The unfavorable con-
trast which the United States present in
comparison with other countries lies In the
tact that for five years. with a constantly
increasing population. her savings bank de-
posts have increased but a trifie and their
per capita average HIS declined.
The exclamation rendered by Mr.. BRYAN
and the Don QuixcteS who are setting
their lances against The gold standard is
OF business activity and the Stacking OF
savings banks deposits is due TO the leg
ls!ation OF 1913. Com parison of the his
tory of the past three years I'm the United
States with their history in other coun-
tries, affords room for doubt regarding
the correctness of this theory. Those
countries which have adhered to the gold
standard and in which no political asita-
tors have gained the public ear. urging
Its abandonment for a paper or a silver
standard, have shown the steady mount
their workingmen. Other economic
causes may have kept those countries in
some cases behind the United States.
gold standard, but the history Of the past
1--WE years is the history of steady prog
ress among our great European rivals
while we have comparatively stood still.
The following table, from the annual re-
port of the Controller of the Currency.
which gives the savings of the American
people in representative years before ana
after the adoption of the gold standard
will afford the proof that silver agitation
has not contributed to the increase OF
those able to make deposits or to the
amount which they have been enabled TO
intrust to the banks:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

A Democratic manufactured, not residing
in indianapolis, who issued an address to
his employees in 1892 advising them to vote
for Mr.. Cleveland, and who supported the
Democratic ticket in a1ss4fs visited the Re
publican State committee. rooms yesterday
to tell the officers that while he is yet a
will more than so per cent. of the large
number of men he employs. He told the
committee that he and his employees were
not with the Republicans because of any
admiration for them, but because he was
sure that Bryan's policy would ruin his
business, and the men to whom he had
been paying wages for years had come to
see the situation as he saw it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
ARE WE A NATION OF RAsCALs.

One of the questions to be decided in the
coming election is whether the American
people are retrograding in honesty and
prepared to write themselves down before
the world as a nation of r~ascals. 1t is
useless to mince words; the people are
asked to indorse reputation, and repudia-
ton is rascality. They have been invited
to do this before, and have spurned the
invitation. 1t remains to be seen if they
are less honest now than they were for
merly.
The first invitation to reputation came
from the old g~reenback party, of which
the present free-silver craze is a lineal sue
cessor. In 1876 that party nominated Peter
Cooper, of New York, for President, and
Samuel F. Cary, of Ohio, for Vice Presi-
dent. TIE ticket was unassailable on per-
sonal grounds. The platform arraigned the
financial policy of the Republican party,
under which the public debt was being rap
idly reduced, and declared in favor of 1.-The
immediate and unconditional repeal of
the specie resumption act of Jan. IA, 1875,
and the rescue of our industries from ruin
ard disaster by it's enforcement 1t also
declared for initiating the currency by an
unlimited Issue OF lnterCOnVertlDle DOnQS
and legal-tender notes. The Republican
platform declared in favor of the main
tenance of the public credit by "a continu-
Gus and steady progress to specie pay
ment." The Greenback candidate for Pres
ident received 81, $40 votes and the Repub-
lican candidate 4,033, $50. The invitation to
repudiate was spurned by the people. Spe-
Gle payments were resumed at the appoint
ed time, and instead of causing universal
disaster resumption was followed by uni
versal prosperity. In 1880 the invitation to
reputation was again extended in a plat
form demanding paper initiation and the
free and unlimited coinage of silver. The
Republican platform declared for the MAIN
debt so much reduced should be extin-
guished by the full payment of every DOL
lar thereof" On these platforms, respect
lively, the Reputation candidate for Pres
ident received $685. SIS votes and the. Repub-
lican candidate 4,454, 416. Thus again was
the invitation to repudiate rejected. The
repudiationists have never polled as large
a vote since as they did in 1880. This year
the invitation is again extended by the
free silver-Populist platform with William
mains to be seen if the people are still
honest enough to reject an invitation which
they nave repeatedly rejected before, or
we have become q nation of ras-
cal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03
THE STEADY ADVANCE IN WHEAT.

The price of wheat continues to advance
slowly, as it has been doing for several
weeks. On Thursday at Chicago it sold
above 70 cents, and December options sold
as high as 7O1a. This is an advance of 10
cents over the price of Sept. s, being an
. average of Is cents per bCshel a day adj
vance for twenty-five days. This is not a
rapid advance, but it is steady enough to
justify hope of a further rise. Almost
every day the market reports indicate a
natural cause for the upward tendency, but
they all point to the operation OF the law
of supply and demand. A New York dis
patch on Thursday said, English houses
again accepted a good deal of wheat. There
is a demand here for cargoes for shipment
as far ahead as February" The Chicago
grain market report of Thursday said:
The stock of wheat at Liverpool was re-
ported as being only l.496, 600 bushels, about
500, 900 bushels decrease since Sept. l, and
sufficient for only about ten days con-
about 1000. 900 bushels at the corresponding
date on the year before. Two cargoes were
reported engaged at Liverpool fer shipment
to India, something unheard of before, and
San Francisco wired confirming the re-
ported purchase by London of wheat in
California to go to Calcutta. This went a
long way towards confirming the reported
failure of crops in India. Rice. one of the
chief edibleS of that country, was reported
to be worth more in Calcutta than wheat.
This shows how sensitive the price of
wheat is to the law of supply and demand,
and how closely connected distant markets
are by steam and telegraph. While wheat
has advanced Is cents in twenty-five days
silver has remained stationary at the low
est point on record, without any prospect
of an advance. There is about as much
connection between the price of silver and
the price of wheat as there is between
the price of silver and the rise and fall
of the tides.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-03

TIL work is made dangerous by the ex,
posed position of the wreck and the strong
currents.
This is the way the Mystic Shriners star
off a death notice: THE black came
kneels before the door of every tent. Ir
the peaceful stiffness of the quiet night the
Angel Asrail. with mourning wings, sum
mons our illustrious Noble. He has de-
parted from us to that invisible temple
where his face has been whitened before
the unseen shrine"
Near Ardenlee. Scotland, there is a won
derful advertisement made of flower
beds. The beds are each a gigantic let
ter. forty feet in length. the whole form
ing the name of a Glasgow newspaper.
The total length of the line is 1913 feet
area covered by the letters, l4.S4a- The
advertisement is situated on the side of
ers, can be read from a distance of four
and one-half miles.
Mr.. Labouchere, of the London Truth, is
authority for the following: 'Of late quite
a mania for dabbiing in authorship has
sprung up among the nobility, and even
persons of royal blood. a young princess
has just published a novel. from which
we extract the following pathetic passage:
Walking past the door of the old beggar
woman. the young ladies heard a piercing
cry. The elder of the two at once rushed
into the cottage to the assistance of its
inmate. Her sister followed, exclaiming:
POOR creature L am sure she is fanliSh-
ing. Most certainly" the elder sister re-
piled, her chambermaid has just told me
So"
Paul Laurence Dunbar, the young negro
poet, who recently read selections from his
works at the Lyceum Theater, New York,
has been for several years the elevator boy
in a public building in Dayton, O., and
still retains that place. He was educated in
the public schools of Dayton. and
began work on his elevator i'm
mediately after he was grad
uated. His visit to New York was
marked by one important event in his life.
DUNBAR has never had any more money
than the salary paid him by his employers,
and despite the attention which his literary
work has attracted recently, his books
nave yielded him no profit. While ac-
claimed and commended in different quar-
tiers on the strength of his gifts as a poet,
1t was from his labors as an elevator boy
that his living came. But on last Wednes-
day the publishing firm which is 10 bring
out ms new book of poems paid Mr.. Dun
bar $500 and never in his life before had
ne seen so much money. -Four 500 bills
were given him in the morning. but that
night he went back to Dayton to see his
mother and return to the elevator.
There came a burst of thunder sound
The boy! Oh, where was he?
He grabbed his water cycIe-and
Went scorching DER the sea.
Chicago Record.