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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
ADEADLY WHIRLPOOL.
The Phenomenon Presented by a Mexican
lake.

The Phenomenon Presented by a Mexican
Lake.
San Diego, Gala, January 15.-Prof.
Edwin Fl. Coffey has received letter
from his former home, near Lake
Chapa!a, State Of JaliscO, Mexico, CIV
Ing an account Of the sinking of the bot
tom of that lake. That volcanic part OF
Mexico is south OF Guadalajara, be-
tween Mexico and the Pacific ocean,
and is one OF the richest portions Of che
republic.
In the forenoon of January the resi-
dents OF a small settlement near the
western end of the lake were terrified
to see q gigantic, mysterious whirlpool
far out on the water The water swirl
ed and rose in great serpenJine move
ment and from all directions rushed
toward a common center, where a stu
pendous cavern seemed to exist.
The whirlpool, resulting apparently
from the sinking of the lakes bottom,
was of wide extent, and many pleasure
boats and fishing craft were sucked in
TO the abyss. Natives on shore could
plainly see boats. none of which were
near the center of the whirlpool at first,
but as the rush of water continued its
force could not be overcome.
The herculean efforts of those in the
boats to escape death were awful TO
witness by those on shore. Now and
then some boat would appear to waver
and stand still, but the waters, slowly
at first, drew it toward the center and
hurled it quickly into the chasm. Not
q boat within reach Of the current es-
capped. \ score of persons in boats lost
their lives.
The whirlpool continued nearly 20
minutes. and the lake receded several
feet from its former shore line.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
GRAFTON NEWS NOTES.
snecial to he Register.

Special to the Register.
Grafton, w. Va, January 15.-Judge
sam Woods, Of Phil,ppi, was here at
tending court this week.
Hon. b. L. Bu,che, Of Fairmont, is
attending court here this week.
Senator Worley. Of KingwOod, was
here the first Of the week.
Eugene Summervllle has gone TO
Lswisburg on legal business.
J. Hopp Woods and wife, Of Philippi,
were here Thursday.
Barry Wall, night clerk at the Graf
ton House. has gone to Cumberland to
assist as clerk at the Queen City for a
few weeks.
Mrs. W. 3. Parkhurst, o. Kingwood
is visiting friends here this week.
c. II. Wheeler, of Wheeling, was here
Wednesday.
C. II. Drlcho-st, Of Wheeling, was IN
our city Monday.
ID. r. Tappan, Of Wheeling, was here
the first Of the week.
p. j. CrOghan. Of Hingwood, attend
ed court here during this week.
W. A. Vance, Of Wheeling, was here
Tuesday.
Edward T. Kelley, who was indicted
for embezz.ing the funds Of me Equita-
BILE Building and Loan Association, Of
Charles Town was tried at this term Of
the cour, and acquitted. The trial was
one Of the most holly contested that
has taken place In our courts for years.
commencing on Saturday and ending
Wednesday. Col John T. MoGraw.
John II. Holt. Thomas B. Staggers and
L. VI. LaFalle,-, prosecuting attorney,
represented the State.
One Of the most interesting. long con-
t,nued and holly contested cases which
has come upon the docket Of the Circuit
Court OF this county for some time past
is the case Of the First National Bank
against VIM l.. L0sr & Co. A great
deal Of interest IS manifested by our
citizens in the case as the immediate
construction Of the new First National
Bank depends upon its decision. Col.
John T. Nc[iraw represents the bank.
AID Hon. r. L. Butcher and J. G. S..
Clair represents the defendant.
The long standing case Of Margaret
2 Good against the United States Ac-
cident Company was tried at this term
CT court and resulted IN q verdict fer the
Plaintiff for sf1O0. A L. Taylor and
Eugune ScmmerviIle appeared FOR the
plsinuf and John II. Holt for defend
ant.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16

There is something so shocking about
sudden death that the mere mention OF Z
Wrenches the nerves Of sensitive people.
Millions Of people pray for deivcrance from
k. Every Sunday In every Episcopal church
III IN. world. these words are said
rrom battle and murder and sudden death,
Coed Lord. deliver as
Just Why sudden aSa1h ShotlE oS sli '.i..
tnE. ana Dean el,cL -''.s. - t,ri 7,
70 oe,'' "Ou.. f.-- -, -. t.--;,,is
WouI4 seem so. - -, 80. ls;iv
90 slc s.'. ,i-,r,. s';,,->re- t5vsr5 \
s1-ll--s t,..,.,s a. us SLOW IL,
v,o ~ '-.-,.,,,.,.;, -s,,..s ,,o-e deaths
Cp.-''-.H- -, 49,, ~L,ie-s -
t'''- - - -. 60 ,.,0-o fbsr any
i,e-e ,etu -. ..--fi 80 .v.- low,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
BELLAIRE.

The Gravel Hill Literary and Social
Club will meet this evening at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Kelly.
Abe S,ahl is in Columbus attending
the meeting Of the Saloon League.
The firemen have placed Chas. W.
Rodew.g, VIM. A. Schramm and Geo.
Pracht's names in nomination for the
place Of Trustee of the Flremen's Pen
sion Fund. only one to be elected.
Henry Blum, of the Fourth ward, is
confined to his home by sickness.
There was a private hop in the Ath-
let.c Club room last night.
VIM. Fralinger Is visiting his parents
in the First ward. VIII has been work
ing n Anderson, Ind, in a window glass
house.
R. Porterfeld came home from the
meeting Of the State officers of the L.
A. VI. at Dayton last night.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
FOR SALE-REAL EsLAr.
FARMS FOR SALE

20 acres of bottom land WI
same into tracts OF 3D. 81 ares
Little Grave creek, lO miles south g.
city.
Farm 65 acres, % acres bottom i-
miles east Of city. with splendid as
ments.
Farm IS acres. IA acres bottom 1-.
Little Grave creek, So m!lcs olt.
cheap. on easy terms. Nl.l.
Farm 10 acres, ~ miles cl-t n
easy terms. $500
Farm so acres, 30 acres creek l-"
niles east of city. easy terms
Farm 1G4 acres. mics east ot '
Farm 10 acres. fronting 900 N
Roads miles east Of city. Easy t
$500.
Farm 900 acres, . houses and Orch
fronting on river, II miles south q
city: very cheap. $500.
Farm 10 ores. . miles cast 0f Oh.
Splendid farm $50 acres. ou
tom. 100 acres Of same river bottom
per acre.
Farm 90 acres. IL miles east ~
cheap.
Farm Q acres. ~ miles east of c.t.
new elght-roomed housee.
Farm % acres I mile from Elm or
$1,000. $3.50. 2010. $500 and ;ir .
on city real estate.
NESBITT 81 DEVlN-
Telephone 6f3. 1879 Market 81
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
CASE or WITCHCRAFT.

Work OF a Large Black Cat Near Dunbar.
Dunbar. Pa, January 15.-A case that
IS accredited to witchcraft has come to
the front in Sitka, a mining town about
q mile north Of here. A girl named
Woman has been confined to her room
for some time by malady that she and
her parents claim is caused by witch
cry. They say that she is visited by a
large black cat two or three times a
night, and that any attempt to capture
or kill the beast is always unsuccessful,
as it disappears in mysterious man.
ner.
Her family. with many of the neigh
bOrs, are believers in witchcraft.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
Special Sale Of Real ES.3

NO. 2212 CHAPLINE STREET
brick dwelling. modern.
no. So EIGHTEENTH SIHE.
rooms. brick and frame.
NO. 1876 SEVENTEENTH STR.
rooms.
% ACRES or COAL north OF T.,
NO. O. VIRGINIA STREET ..
rooms. modern: terms Sl.0O cash.
easy payments.
NO. 90 TWELFTH STlEET. II -
fine brick and stone dWeli.'
30. 1870 SIXTEENTH STREET
dwelling. rooms.
No. 1873 FOURTEENTH SILtLl.
dwelling of six rooms and b1-n
by steam. All modern conycnlcnc-.
stable. etc. Lot 32Xl10.
LOT 30Xl0S feet on Thirteenth F-
NO. ll2l CHARLES ST. & lo's
room house. 4 bargain.
STOREROOM AND DWELL
rooms. corner Fourteenth ana A..
streets.
THREE LOTS. each 30xl21 feat
northeast corner OF Wabash aal .
streets, Island. VIII sell cheap
RlNEHART q TAI
CITY BANK BCmDiSa.
Telephone 2l9.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
$40 REWARD

The above Reward "
paid to any one who ".'
the arrest and conviction
person or persons who ar II
regularly stealing the
and SUNDAY REGlSI -'o
Island and North Man 5''
West Virginia Printing "
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
TRUSTEES SALE.

BY virtue Of a deed Of t~l-'
Harry j. Fink 90 ne. dated
1894. and recorded IN tae oi'i",
of the County COur, o. ohio
Virginia. IN deed Of trust boob
"a. / Will SELL al pubic al.
north front door Of tL' Co-.. -
said county, on -...-... --..
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY
commencing al 10 o'clock %. u
LOVING described property,
Numbered twcnty-three l-5) .r
ond addition 90 the city or
ohio county. West Virginia.
me west side Of Elm street
second lot below FlOr.da s..
Seventh ward OF said city;
Terms of Sale-One-thirl.
more as the purchaser 81.
cash on he day Of sale. ana
two equal iuatallmenis 81 --.
months. Noes. bearing iI...
dav of sale, 10 Doe given 10. .-
payments. .r...r.,,r>- trrr-.
ia6edi
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
NOT ENGLISH ENOUGH.
Gen. Ranngton Booth Recalled From
America.


America.
New York, January 15.-Salvation
Army followers received a shock last
night when 1t was rumOred that an or
der had come from Gen. Booth, in Lon
don, to the effect that his son and
daughter-in-law, Commander and Mrs.
Darlington Booth, must relinQuish their
American leadership at the end CT
March. It is supposed that the London
authorities object to the strenuous ef-
forts made by the leaders to Ameri-
canize the movement. The commander
and his wife recently became American
citizens, and have now a large proper
ton Of Americans in the ranks of their
paid officers. The removal of their pop
ular leaders will, it is feared, cause a
large withdrawal of financial help.
Commander Booth refuses to say
whether such an order has been receiv-
ed His friends say that, II the decree
comes, he may resist ii.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
TO MOVE THE COUNTY SEAT.
Pennsboro Moving to Secure the Location
OF the County Seat of Richie County.

Pennsboro Moving to Secure the Location
OF the County Seat of Richie County.
Special to the Register.
Ellenb0r0, W Va, January 15.-An
enthusiastic mass meeting was held at
Pennsboro last Friday night, to dis
Cuss the movement on foo, to remove
the county seat of Richie county from
Huntsville to PennsbOrO. 1t was
unanimously decided to at once prepare
ana circulate petitions to be presented
to the County Court, signed by quail
fed voters. which VIII authorize the
C0urc to submit the question TO the
voters of the county, at he next general
election. The citizens and corporation
Of Pennsb0rO propose to furnish a site,
build a court house and jail, to cost
about $4,000. free of expense TO the
county. and as q new jail must be
erected before many years, the generous
offer Of the hustling little manufactur-
ing town will be a strong argument in
favor Of the new location. Another ar
gument IN favor OF Pennboro is the fact
that the town is located on the line of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. and is
easy of access from all sections Of the
county, while Harrisville s located on
a short line of narrow gauge railroad
that it is rumored. IS soon TO be aban-
doned by the owners, as the road no
longer pays expense of operation, and
the people Of the country districts voted
down a proposition to issue bonds To
extend the road to the i1c-r.or It
looks rs if Pennsb0ro will be the future
county seat Of Little Richie"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
NINETEEN DROWNED.

4 Spanish Steamer Sunk by a Collision OF
NamscRte
Dover, Eng, January 15.-The steam
ship Cisgar. Of Barcelona, has been
sunk in collision with the German ship
Nereus. and nineteen Of her crew were
drowned. The Nereus, which left
IQuique on October ,, for Hamburg,
has been towed into a place Of safety.
The collision occurred yesterday even
ing in a fog off Ramsgate.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
LEVIED ON BY THE SHERIFF.

Chicago, January 15.-TAe property
Of the August Hausske Company, fur
niture dealers, was levied on by the
Sheriff to-day to satisfy a claim for
S26,50O made by the Milwaukee State
Bank The assets are abou, S190,000
and liabilities $4,000, the principal
creditor being the Milwaukee State
Bank
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-16
WE HAVE MARKED DOWN OUR
JACKETS And CAPES

So low that miss sale account OF price, Everybody
waning to buy should and if have what they want
We have very choice garments lett.
Our aim is TO get stock down low as possible by the
first Of February and with that aim cutting prices TO
make quick sales
We have Sweeping Reductions in UPHOLSTERY DE-
PARTMEhT taking effect this morning. Elder Down handpaned
and gold embroidered 24nCh Pillows Marked Down from $500
81 So Twelve Chenille Table Covers marked down from $00
to rs cents Six Velour Tapestry ditto marked down from $500
to $00. Four 3d. Tapestry ditto marked down from $3.50 to
$275 Five So Turkish Table Covers marked down IRON $500
to $3.50. Six pairs Tapestry POers marked down from $500
$3.50 and single pairs from $3.50 to 81 co. Also 500 pairs
Opaque Window Shades mounted HaTthOrns spring rollers
all full size to be sold at % cents eaCh price so cents in
different and all in good order Also so pairs Lace Cur
tains reduced from $3.50 to SO cents.
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EARM FOR SALE.

Farm OF $50 acres in Round n
Marshall county. W. Va. About -r.
river bottom. Improved by good
dwelling house, also frame house.
fruit, and we'll watored. VII ssI 3.
10 suit purchaser. or entire farm.
W. Y t0Gl
Attorney at Law and Land Ae.,
Bank building. Market st.
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FOR RENT

SORE ROOMS-No. : Tens
70. lyy3 Main street. No. Il. 81. Ssh
NO. 1856 Market street. ~. I. rs,
OFFICE ROOMs-1306 ana ,-r ,.
street second floor; 1889 AID
street s,-' second floor; corner Ca q
IWelfth streets, second floor
street, second floor: Eca-'.--- -. -,
janitor, light and fuel. Rents -s..
DIV ELLlNGS-623 Main s,re,.
1883 and llu Nam street.
street; 81 South Huron street. Z.
teenth street; 139 Twelfth sl-e,,
10 8 roomed house corner Of s.
ana Erie streets: s rO0mcl IT,.
ern, miles east Of city. l1-8 ST..
plenty of water.
special attention given o. tta .,.
Oh rents. GEO. j. MATHIS
Real Estate An.
Telephone 107. lGl5 N.-- -
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11

average novel of the day, and its chief Incl
dents would make a drama that would appeal
very strongly to the popular heart. The
miller of the parish, crossed in love, becomes
furious in his rage on the day when his sue
cessful rival, the gamekeeper, weds the vii lage
smithy's daughter. He is attacked by brain
fever and the kind nurse who attends him
with all the care of mother for her babe
learns to love him for virtues that outweighs
his faults. On his recovery he one day shoots
fox that has ravaged his henroosts, and upon
being berated by the gamekeeper for the Of
fense against the Squire, speaks in severe and
even threatening terms to the fellow. One
night the gamekeeper is stabbed in the back
by an unknown and prejudice condemns the
miller as the criminal. His name is cleared,
however, by the confession of dying poacher,
who admits having knitted the gamekeeper to
satisfy an old grudge. The village then
hastens to make amends for wrongful treat
ment of the miller. The nurse was instru-
mental in getting the confession, and the
miller weds her, and in the sunshine of the
happiness that follows their union the
shadows of the past are forgotten.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11
nd loves fond service and reward thereof,

And loves fond service and reward thereof,
Restore her tn US, o blessed memory
Throned in her rockiug-chsir, and on her knee
Her sewilg-her work basket on the floor
Beside her; springtime through the open door
Balmily stealing In all about
The room; the bees dim hum and the far shout
And laughter of the children at their play,
And neighbor children from across the way
Calling in gleeful chRllen ge-Save alone
One boy whose voice sends back no answering
tone
The boy, prone on the floor, above book
OF pictures, with rapt, ecstatic look
Even as the mot hers, by the selfsame SPELL
Is lifted, with light ineffable-
AS though her senses caught no mortal cry,
But heard, instead, some poem going bv
What could be more realistic and natural
than his lines on the sounds in the home on a
summer day:
Blent with all outer sounds, the sounds within
In mild remoteness falls the household din
OF porch and kitchen; the dull jar and tbump
OF churning; and the "glung-glung'' of the pump,
With sudden pad and scurry of bare feet
OF little outlaws, in from field OF street:
The clang of ket le-r SD of damper-ring
And bang of cooks;ove door-and everything
That ilngles in q busy kitchen lifts
Its individual wrangling voice and drifts
IN sweetest tinny, coppery, pewtery tone
Of music hungry ear has ever known
In widest famished yearning and conceit
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11
NGPOLEON'S
FEMgLE SPY
John Jrowbridge on
Electricity
The Rambles and the Playmates
of Child, as Told in Verse
in "Her Book"

A CONSPIRACY OF THE CARBONARI. By
Louise Muhlbach. New York: F. Tennyson
Neely, publisher. For sale by Emporium Book
Department. cloth, price rs cents
After the first dimming OF Napoleon's star at
Aspern, May o. 1909, the leading members of
the Society OF the Carbonari, generals and SOL
diers who stood close to the Emperor and some
of whom attended his councils, resolved to
free France from a cRsarism that had been
forced upon her and to effect the removal from
the world of the man whom they denounced in
secret as the .scourge Of their native land"
After the lost battle of Aspern, Napoleon slept
for twenty-five hours in the very midst of the
conspirators, who during that time were en-
gagged in discussing the question of the EN-
peror's successor. Their opportunity to carry
out their designs thus passed, and Napoleon's S
star was soon in the ascendant again at Wa
gram. Again the Carbonari planned the En-
peror's destruction. 1t seemed that their plot
could not fail. Just as the blow is about to be
struck, the conspirators are unmasked and dis
armed, and some of them sent 10 the execu-
toner. Napoleon knew everything. The mis-
tress of one OF the conspirators turns out to
have been a spy in the pay of the Emperor
She receives half million francs for the in
formation concerning the intended killing of
Bonaparte, but offers back the fortune to save
the man among the Carbonari whom she love d
For her sake the lovers lite is spared. Leo
more, the spy, becomes his wife and goes to
abide with him in prison within the walls of
which she dies, while the husband is not re-
leased until long after Waterloo. The story
has some historical foundation. 1t contains
some strong scenes and some highly dramatic
passages. The translator is Mary J. Stafford.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11
AN AUTHORS LITTLE PLAYMATE

w. V. HER BOOK and Various Verses. BY Will
liam Canton. New York: Stone d Kmball,
publishers.
There is much pleasure for old as well as
young in the perusal OF ''W. V. Her Book"
The reader cannot help falling in love with
the commonplace little body in whose society
the author revels: "for. after all, she is merely
the average healthy, merry, teasing, delightful
mite who tries to take the whole of life al once
into her two diminutive hands," She wants
to know all about everything that her happy,
eager eyes light upon, and expresses her glee
and wonderment, as new objects meet her
view, in quaint and pretty terms of phrase
After following this child through her ram
bles and play, and listening to her innocent
speculations to the words she freely coins and
TO the quotations she has equipped herself
with, one may appreciate the authors SYM
pathy for less favored mortals: "Oh, you who
are SAD at heart, or weary of thought, or irri-
table with physical pain, coax, beg, borrow or
steal four or five year old, and betake you to
blowing bubbles in the sunshine of your re-
cluse garden" The verse of "her Book, en-
braces some sweet fancies. In addition to the
songs of childhood's fairyland, there are
verses (some of them very clever covering a
variety of themes.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11
AN EXCELLENT BOOK.

SWEETHEART TRAVELLERS By s. r.
Crockett New York and London: e. A. stokes
Company, publishers For sale by William
Doxey; cloth, price 81 75
This is a child's book for children, for women
and Tor men, as Mr.. Crockett tells us in his
own happy way The modesty of the author
of ssThe Stickit Minister" leads him to under
value his own merits, when, for instance, he de-
clares that he cannot give these vagrom
chronicles their right daintiness." We do not
have to go very far into the book before we are
MADE positive that he has done that very
thing. The chronicles are "full of the CLINT of
spring flowers when they are wet and the sun
shines slantways upon them; full of freshen-
ing winds and withdrawing clouds, and above
all. the unbound gladness of childrep,s
laughter" The book should be well patron
lied coming on the cnristmastide Some OF
the papers first appeared in fugitive form
several years ago, and the author was induced
to put them together in one volume by those
elders who had ''neyer quite been able TO put
away childish things" Sweetheart Travellers
are father and little daughter, and they go
hand in hand through a world of golden de-
lights, and their story is told inimisably we III
child viii be better in every way for havin
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11
in II CLOUD
OF SORROWS
John Oliver Hobbies
New Book
Woes of an Early Marriage and
the Sunshine That Game
at the End

THE HERB-MOON. BY "John Oliver Hobbies"
New York: F. A. Stokes & Co.. publishers. For
sale by Emporium Book Department; cloth,
price 81 25.
This talented author has given US charm
ing book in her fantasia, "The Herb-Moon."
Rose Arden's life, with its cloud of sorrow
that the sun of happiness is destined to dis
pei; that life and its woes that came to her
with an early marriage, which was soon to be
cheated of It's illusion by husbands cruelty
and to be followed by dreadful occurrence
that would remove him from the path of her
years; then the life of quiet days, sewing and
helping others; the new love that crept into
her heart, nestled and staid there in silence;
the new love that she sought in vain to bury
forever; the longtime love, too, that the
country folk were won't to jest about, ap-
peals strongly to the readers sympathy and
admiration while in Robsart's. career the
warmest interest is aroused-Robsart, the
hero, who redeems his family name,
wins distinction on the battlefield
and in Parliament, and, despite OPP
portunities to marry youth, beauty and
riches at the height of his fame, turns to Rose,
the true woman. and lifts her up beside him to
be his wife, envied of those who dreamed that
he would choose for a bride none other than
"a brilliant-looking woman with a presence"
The story is full of good, healthful morals.
One even wishes it were longer. And, as to
the meaning of the herb-moon, it is explained
by Susan, the housekeeper, early in the book,
when, referring to Mr. Robsart she remarks:
"When he marries L hope it will be straight off,
without shilly-shally. For there's nothing so
wearing as the herb-moon."
"The herb -moon?" repeated Rose. stupefied.
"AyeI that's my name for one of those long
courtships. Adam and did all our courting In a
fortnight. That's why happy. This walk
ing out with each other year In and year out till
your nerve is gone and you sick with talking
was never to my taste, nor to my mothers before
me. 'Tisnt natural, and Pm all for nature, am.''
But the herb-moon only served to make
stronger and deeper and higher the love that
finally crowned the lives of Robsart and Rose
Arden. The story is told in simple and beau.
tiful style.