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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19
HIS WAS A SAD CASE.
He Was Forever Failing Over HimseIf-In-
cidentally Tripping Up or Dropping on
Some One Eise-How an Anticipated De-
lghtful Trip was Not a Success

cidentally Tripping Up or Dropping on
Some One Eise-How an Anticipated De-
Hghtful Trip was Not Success.
Bob Pitts and | were chums in col
lege. All the boys knew him as Pitt
sey, and | was Shorty( because / was
abnormally tall, in addition to being
loose-j Ointed and awkward.
One hot day in vacation Pittsey wir-
ed me TO come right on and join some
of his folks in trip around the lakes.
| met them in Chicago. where he
found he must remain a day or two on
business. but he would 90 by rail TO
Ogdensburg and join US there. This
came within an ace of sending me back
home, for / was not only the most
diffident fellow in the world, but was
made ten times worse by painful CON
seriousness of the fact.
But Pittsey rushed me to my fate.
introducing me at the dock to his moth
er, Miss jolly from st. Louis. and his
sister Gyp. to whom he said in his off
hand way: "Gyp this is Shorty. and
that's the way | want you to address
each other. 1t would be just as sensi-
BILE to mister me as it would cid
Shorty"
l stemmered my delight at such an
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19

Pacific which the British claim. and
which they are welcome to, is Star
buck Island, lying south of our Chris
mas Island group, to the southwark of
Hawaii.
1t is little more than knoll rising a
barren head above the waters of the
ocean. Last week news reached the
United States Of this island and Of its
neighbor, also American property, So
phia Island. The Norwegian bark
Saledon went down near Starbuck ISL
and, and her crew took to the boats
and sought refuge on the inhospitable
shores. They found little to support
life there and scanty supply of wa
ter.
After much suffering they abandoned
Starbuck and rowed to it's northern
neighbor, Sophia Island. Several Of
the crew died, but the rest managed to
live for year On the lonely bit of
land. They found water in plenty and
tropical fruits and roots in abundance
Finally they were taken off by pass
ing vessel and last week landed at
Auckland. New Zealand.
One of the prettiest of the island pos
sessions of the United States in the Pa
cific is Christmas Island, which lies
about LOCO miles south Cs Hawaii. It
is an "atoll,' or ring of coral formation,
about thirtyfive miles long. In the
centre is a lagoon of water, which, if
we may believe the affidavits of sea-
faring men, is so salt from constant
evaporation that fish thrown into it be-
come picked and will keep for weeks
even in that tropical climate. Near
Christmas Island are the American ISL
ands of Palmyra and America, both
stable pieces of land. All these ISL
ands are rich in tropical vegetation
and capable Of supporting consider
able population.
IRVING KING.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19
A MATTER OF PRACTICE

THAT new girl of ours is wonderfully
quick in her movements. She runs IN
md Gown the cellar stairs as light
footed as a fairy"
Where does she come from?"
Kansas"
That accounts for it. The people
out there spend half the time scoo5ine
into their cyclone cellars. '-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19

Persons born on this date (any year)
act from natural instincts as expressed
through the heart. Their love passions
control all their actions and they are
easily turned from one to another, cas-
lily misled and Influenced. The COM
ing year will bring many annoyances
and troubles, avoid all speculations and
risks with money. The love affairs
will be more prosperous.
Weather to-day-Cloudy and light
rains.
Thursday, September ed.
Persons born on this date are generally
good hearted, well meaning, but reckless
or thoughtless in all they do. They con-
stantly long for and desire some unat-
tainable condition. They are uneasy,
restless and sensitive. The coming year
will be an exciting and troublesome year,
changes, reverses. sickness or bereave-
ment will appear, business will go wrong,
and those in love will grieve. Be very
watchful and cautious and many of these
misfortunes my be ove-come.
Weather to-day-Cloudy and rain.
Friday, September 24th.
All persons born on this day (any yeanl
are intensely critical and accurate, love
music and generally follow their inclina-
tons in all matters of love and passion.
Domestic life would prove irksome, as
sensation and speculation would prove
more congenial. The coming year will be
a quiet one, nothing of Importance will
occur out Of the usual.
Weather to-day-Rainy.
Saturday, September 25th.
Persons born on this date are great
spectators. they often have marked sue
cess in these matters where buying and
selling can be done promptly as first i'm
pressions are always sure. They are Pc
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19
CARE OF OFFICE.

weary Watkins-They kin all run
for office that wants it, but none of it
fer me. I've been there. The respon-
sibllity broke down me nerves.
hungry Higgins-What office did YOU
ever hold?"
Il Wuz dog-catcher. "-Indianapolis
Journal.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19
Tuesday, September DIST,

Wednesday. September 22d.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19
A DIFFERENCE.

Jones-Brown-Lend me So old man.
will you?
Brown-.Iones (handing him half a
Gollar)-Why, yes-certainlv.
Jones-Brown-O. I mean $50. not so
cents.
Brown-Jones-Well, l mean so cents.
New York Evening Journal
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19
COULDN'T COME DOWN

seven dollars for a room and
Great Scott. man. that is
1ui steep, and awfully high" said
victim.
yes, admitted the summer land
1T is so high and steep that I
see how can come down
Rnapolis Journal
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19

culiar in their nature and will not explain
matters connected with themselves The
coming year shows rather a favorable
year for business fortunes will increase
and love affairs prove successful.
Weather to-day-Showery
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-19

single fact, argument or reason why
it is an absurd science is astrology
absurd only to those who know moth
ing about it? Possibly that is the rea-
son why people ignorant of astrology
write as they do on the subject.
Three-fourtbs of the people of the
world are believers in astrology. In
every country of the world this art is
still practiced.
Queen Catherine de Medici was such
firm believer that she would do moth
ing, however trifing, without consult
ing an astrologer. AstrolOger Norm
directed all the movements of Cardi-
nal RicheHeu. The highly educated
Queen of Poland, Louisa Maria de
Gouzaga, contributed thousands Of
crowns to astrological studies. In the
reign of Henry the Third and of Henry
the Fourth of France, astrOlogers were
frequently consulted by the nobility.
In the present day, not only in the great
metropolis of the British Empire, but
in America it's professors are resOrted
to for information, not only by the
masses. but by those in higher spheres
of life and its advocates are increasing
every year.
III JUlS NOIiu Oh pei tCIudI IldA9O
and uncertainty it is folly for anyone
to commit their destiny to the ocean
of chance. Men of mind. alive to their
welfare and the fact that there is
connection between cause and effect
and that there is an influence which
shapes their destiny, will not sheer
at a system of science that has been
studied, practiced and relied upon from
time immemorial.
That astrology is an exact science is
proven by the fact that all astrolOgers
agree in the essential particulars of
their deductions, such as personal APP
pearance, temper and disposition. phys
ical and mental qualities marriage,
sickness, accidents, length of life. vo-
cations, proper locations, etc, if the
data of birth is correct and the astrol-
oyer is proficient; as a thousand per-
sons proficient IN arithmetic would
agree in a calculation of any special
sum. The following are the birthday
and other predictions according to as
trology:
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH.
All persons born on this day (any
q
! or discord. They are economical and
industrious and rather overanxious re-
garding those dependent upon them.
The coming year will be very har-
RAISING one in many ways. Those in
employ must beware Those in love
will rejoice, especially widows.
Weather to-day-Warm and show
cry.
Monday. September 30tE.
Persons born on this date (any year,
are very kind to their own and exclu-
! sive in this direction. They picture to
/ themselves ideal conditions. but seldom
attain them through lack of confidence.
/ The coming year shows many annoy
ances and disappOintments, keep mon
/ ey matters and business we'll in hand
! and take no new risks
Weather to-day-Pleasant.
/ Tuesday, September DIST.
| Persons born on this date (any year,
are careful, industrious and economical.
| but always worrying lest they die in
| poverty. They have high ideas Of
| beauty and grandeur and love their
| home and family. The coming year
! will prove prosperous and successful.
money and business will increase, but
beware of law and quarreling.
Weather to-day-Warmer, showery.
| Wednesday, September 22d.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
THE LAST RITES.

The funeral of the late John B. Car
denas took place yesterday afternoon
at D o'clock from the residence of his
father Capt. ]. G. Cardenas, and from
San Fernando cathedral at o:3O
O'Clock, interment being in the San
Fernando cemetery.
The funeral cortege was very
lengthy and many representative citi-
zens and families attended. The San
Fernando Catholic society sent Messrs.
Antonio P. Rivas, Estevan Sandoyal,
C. X. Crawford and +. ]. Diaz as rep
resentatives. The pail bearers were:
Messrs. Tony Garcia, Alex Coy Al
bert Beze, John Cara, A. L. Flores,
Jas. yilanueva, and Misses Charlotte
Garcia, Adele Nue. ndOrf. Josia Chapa,
Maria Ximinez, Sara Leal and b.
Cassiano.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
THE GREGORY HEIRS.

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 13.-John 5.
Gregory, of Fifth and Harrison streets,
and his son, Frank S. Gregory, are re-
latives of the late Allen Gregory, the
millionaire, founder of the Chicago
stock yards" and possible heir to part
of his fortune.
John s. Gregory and Allen Gregory
were cousins. The family records
standing back to the last century are
in possession if the Kansas City men,
and it is expected, will be used by the
administrators in tracing the heirs to
the estate, which is valued at $1,000
600. John S. and Frank s. Gregory
expect to go to Chicago in few days
to place the family records in the
hands of the administrators of the es-
tate and to investigate their claims to
a share of it. There are about twen-
ty-five heirs, one of whom is the wild
ow of John f. Gregory, formerly a
commission man at the Kansas City
stock yards, who died about nine years
ago.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
Price $500 a Year.

1000 people ON this and the Dyea
trails, and camped where the ships
landed them on the beach. Many are
giving up in despair. Many are going
back and will try the Dyea route;
others are going into winter quarters.
We have had one continuous storm for
about three weeks, mostly rain and
hail. Very few have been through
to Lake Bennett. The mountains are
very steep and rocky; the fiat places
are all DOGGY. We have now stopped
to blast out rocks and corduroy the
boys. Many horses have been killed.
1t is impossible to hire packing dogs
over this trail. Those who are hr-
ing them are paying from fifty to six
ty cents per pound.
This trail has been greatly misrep-
resented by the sharks and real estate
boomers who are building and BOOM
ing a town at Skaguay Bay. They re-
ported passable trail open for horses
before l left Seattle, which caused
most everybody coming to ship their
outfits this way. do not know of
but two parties that have been up on
this trail to the lakes yet, and we that
are on the trail are contributing to
have the trail made. My advice to
all who anticipate going to the Klon-
dixie is not to come out this route.
They say there will be famine in
Dawson City unless the parties going
take plenty of provisions. So have
made up my mind to take plenty with
me and will be o. IL. for the next
year, even if am compelled to go in
to winter quarters before reaching my
destination.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE.

Montreal, Sept. 13.s-f well dressed
young man who arrived here on the
Delaware and Hudson train from
New York, asked the porter of the
Hotel Cadillac TO take young lady,
whom he pointed out to a respectable
and quiet hotel. At the Cadillac, the
young woman registered as Miss War
ner, New York. Afterward she was
found dead in bed with vial of car
bolic acid on her dresser, half empty
and the name of the place where it
was purchased erased. There are no
mans of identification. Her toilet ar
ticles and clothing were of the best
make.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
= KAHN IDENTIFIED.
He Was Really George A. Prescott of
San Francisco.


He Was Really George A. Prescott of
San Francisco.
New York, Sept. 13.-The Journal
and Advertiser today says:
Lieutenant Frank Wilcox, OF the
First Uniter States infantry, tempo
rarily attached to the torpedo school
at Willets Point, l.. L., has identified
George X. Kahn, able-bodied sea-
man." who was drowned from the
American line steamship Ohio, as she
was nearing Sandy Hook lightship
recently, as George A. Prescott, the
only son of a well-known retired mer-
chant of San Francisco, Cal. The
young mans identity was disclosed by
a letter addressed to Lieut. Wilcox and
Written onlya few hours before he
fell to his death. 1t was found among
his effects and turned over to Shipping
Commissioner Power.
Young Prescott was until recently
a member of the National guard OF
California and held rank of major.
He was here with the governor dur
ing the Grant tomb dedicatory exer-
cises. During his stay in this city he
called frequently at Willets Point and
was entertained by Lieut.. Wilcox and
his few officials. He was jolly and
good natured and made Lieut. Will
cox believe he was a member Of the
governors staff.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
NeVSQ The Railroads.

Assistant General Manager Jesse s.
Fry, of the Gulf Shore, has succumbed
to the prevalent dengue.
Mr.. L. ]. Parks, general passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific, arriv-
ed in the city from Houston this morn
ing.
Superintendent Hank Small, of the
Southern Pacific building and bridge
department, left for the west this
morning.
A rate of $3.50 for the round trip
from San Antonio to Monterey,
Mexico, has been announced for Sep
TENDER 10.
The Arkansas Pass will run an ex.
cursion to Galveston on the 9th for
$3.50 round trip, tickets good for re-
turn ON Doth and Both.
Travelling Freight and Passenger
Agent j. B. Brooks, of the Arkansas
Pass, returned this morning from an
extensive business trip east.
General Freight and Passenger
Agent Z. ]. Martin, of the Arkansas
Pass, left on the west bound South
ern Pacific passenger train yesterday
afternoon.
Vice-President and General Manager
NJ. d. Monserrate and Transportation
Superintendent r. II. Innes, of the
Arkansas Pass, left for Dallas on the
st. Louis limited last night to attend
a meeting of the Texas Car Service
association.
The Arkansas Pass weather bulletin
this morning reports heavy rains last
night at Yoakum, Altar, Fulshear,
sinner, West Point to Chiffon, and
light rains at Cuero, Edgar, Sweet
Home to Sublime, Eagle Lake to Wal
lace, Moulton to Muldoon and Waco.
Mr.. G. J. Bass, city passenger and
freight agent of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad, returned this
morning from Dallas, where he has
been to consult General Passenger
Agent w. G. Crush regarding cheap
rate to st. Louis, which the Katy now
announces.
Mr.. w. B. Thatcher's condition was
unimproved last night and his physi-
clans are in grave doubt as to his re-
covery.-Two Republics. Mr.. Thatcher
is general freight and passenger agent
of the Mexican National railroad, with
headquarters in the City of Mexico,
which road is represented in San Anto-
Mo by Mr.. Ernest Muenzenberger Mr..
Thacher is well known in San Antonio
railroad circles.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
lterer After considerahle aiscns-

whatever After considerable discus
sion, resolutions were adopted review
ing the strike and condemning as MUIR
der the wholesale shooting of miners
at Lattimer by deputies sheriff. In
closing the resolutions read:
RESOLVED, that we recommend to
the Chicago convention, of labor and
reform organizations, 10 be held Sep
TENDER q, 1897, to take such action
in this matter as to them may seem
wise; further, be it
Resolved, that We pledge our sup
port to any movement tending to do
away with a syestem that makes such
slaughter of human beings possible"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
THAT TERRIBLE wEYLER.
More Samples of His Inhumanities
and Brutalities.

More Samples of His Inhumanities
and Brutalities.
New York, Sept. 13.-The Press
says:
Two passengers who reached this
port ON the steamship Scandia tell
tales of Spanish cruelty TO prisoners.
Their names are Juan Vivo and AL
bert Lopez.
Vivo says that he and 125 others
were deported in December, 1896,
from Havana as political prisoners
by orders of Gen. Weyler. They were
TO be confined on the Charinas islands
and We're shipped on o steamer for
Cadiz. On the voyage Vivo declares
the treatment they received was brut-
al in the extreme. They were hud-
died together like animals in the low
er hold of the steamer and were heay-
lily manacled. Scarcely any food, and
that not fit for human beings to eat
was given them and only two pals
of water day were allowed for the
125 prisoners. Their thirst in the hot
and reeking hold was torture. One
of them objected to such treatment
and was beaten so severely by the
guards that he died the next day and
his body was Immediately thrown
overheard.
Vivo was pardoned on the last birth
day of the King of Spain and was re-
leased on August 2. He was sent to
Managua and from there made his
way TO Gibraltar, where generous
merchants bought him passage &c
this city. Lopez was suspect in Gu
ba and in order. to save himself from
being thrown into prison, he evaded
the vigilance of the Spanish officers
went to Europe and reached Gibraltar
from which port he took passage fol
New York. He corroborates tales OF
Spanish cruelty to Cuban prisoners.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
PROGRESSIVE ORDER.
The jain Lodge of The Herman Sons
Organized Last Night.

The jain Lodge of The Herman Sons
Organized Last Night.
Frederick Lubing jain lodge, No.
1T2, Sons of Herman, was instituted
last night at Turner hall, with a men,
bership of thirty-eight members OF the
Turner association. Officers were
chosen as follows:
President A. Pape.
ce-president-F. Heilig.
Corresponding secretary-A. Raba.
Financial secretary-Thomas Tengg.
Treasurer-Albert Froebel.
The officers were installed by the fol-
lowing grand officers: Grand ex-
President William Heuschkel, Grand
President Charles Deitfich, Grand
Vice-President William LANCE, Grand
Secretary John Bauer, Grand Treas
urer Frank Arnold, Grand Guide
Frank GIoeckner, Grand Warden Otto
Riebe and Grand Sentry John Hoff.
After the installation keg of beer
was tapped which was furnished by
Mr.. Frank Arnold, of the Lone Star
brewery, and the Turn Verein furnish
ed the lunch to go with the beer,
which was relished by all present.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
CUBAN RECRUITS.
A Company of Crack Shots From New
Jersey Enlist.

Jersey Enlist.
New York, Sept. 13.-A special to
the World from Atlantic City, n. j.,
says:
Twenty-one members of Atlantic
City's famous life guard force have
agreed to stand by their captain,
Charles Lake, and accept handsome
offer for their services made by a
general of the Cuban iunta.
The agent secured more than seven
ty recruits in the country and a con-
siderable sum of money before COM
ing to this city. He offered Capt.
Lake $500 bounty and $75 per month
for every man in his force who would
assume the risk. The captain was
promised an officers command over
any company he might enlist.
1t was explained by the Cuban agent
that an expedition was scheduled to
start from this vicinity this week and
the men were ordered TO rendezvous
with the other recruits at a nearby
point and await a signal.
The volunteers have left the city as
has also the county recruits. The
Guards are all crack shots.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
DENOUNCING THE MINE MUIR
DER.

st. Louis, Sept. bat the regular
monthly meeting of the st. Louis
Trades and Labor unions, held at
Walhalla Hall, the situation in the
coal region was discussed pro and
con. While most of the speakers held
the men shot down at Lattimer had
been nothing else but murdered, they
called upon organized labor to show
the world by its dispassionate action
that ii does not favor anarchy, and in
tends to respect the laws as long as
the laws give them any protection
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
GRUBsTAKER's REPORT.
Hardships Until You Cannot Rest And
False Representations.

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. &c. w.
Gath, of the wealthy firm of Vail &
Gath, Los Angeles, Cal, and Arizona,
who is in this city, has just received
an interesting letter from G. W. Ander-
son, whom he grubstaked to go to the
Klondike country. The letter is dated
Skag quay Pass, Aug. 81, and says in
part:
81 have now been about two weeks
on this trail. cannot describe the
hardships of those who are strug-
Cling and are enduring all that either
man or beast ever endured in our en-
deavor to get over the mountain be-
fore the lakes and Yukon freeze up.
1t is estimated that there are abnout
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
NOT SANCTIONED YET.

The Excelsior Guards have gone into
barracks preparatory to attending the
state encampment at Breham. Gen.
Mabry has not yet sanctioned the en-
campment and wrote Major Lyons
Saturday that he would not do so un-
til the citizens furnished proof that
they would feed the troops.
The guards will give a concert and
ball in Convention hall Friday night.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Mr.. L. L. Hofheinz and Miss Ida
Grosenbacher were quietly married
this morning at the residence of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Boelhauwe, 321 Avenue d, Father
Smith, of st. Mary's church, officiat-
over the Arkansas Pass for the coast,
where they will stay for a week.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13

The cases of Alonzo Lee, Walter
Hawkins, Elmer Owens and Joe Cot
fee, were continued by Recorder Lewis
today. They are the boys suspected Of
stealing grain sacks from South Flo
res street warehouses.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13

TRY
The LONG DISTANCE TELE-
PHONE to Texas, cities and towns.
New stations opened continually and
additional facilities added. Ask GEN.
trail for party wanted.
SUBSCRIBERS
can talk from their own telephone.
OTHERS
from telephone toll stations.
NJ. +. Thomas, Local Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-13
F. CrOoS ( Co. Bankers.

AND DEALERS IN EXCHANGE
Sight drafts on the principal cities
of the United States and on all Euro
pean countries. Also drafts on Mon
terey, Mexico, payable in Mexian dol
lars. Foreign coin and currency
bought and sold.