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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21
RESULTS OF
GREAT GOLD FINDS.

Boston Globe.
There is no doubt whatever that sill
yer is offered at very low figures these
times. The rate in New York recently
was 543s cents.
Such a combination Of adverse fac
tors tending to lower the price of sill
yer has never before been seen. China
is not buying any. Japan is out OF the
market. Even in Mexico there is some
talk about adopting a gold standard,
while the output of gold steadily in
creases as the demand for silver de-
creases.
The supply Of gold this year is liable
to be as high as S240, 000,O 600. In view
of the enormous finds of late many
predictions are INDUCED in. Some aver
that if the alleged Klondike rate OF
production continues, gold will be
demonetized within a year Others
maintain the lesson Of the finds to be
that there will be a supply of the yell
low metal in the near future amply
sufficient for the whole worlds use as
money. Gold monOmetallists and BIZ
metallists both see encouragement for
their respective sides in the situation,
and predict accordingly.
Of course, tall this is only problemati-
cal: but it &akes the fact of the late
marvellous discoveries Of gold, with
much more in prospect, extremely in
teresting in its possible effect on the
future monetary history Of the world.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21
THE coal STRIKE.

This strike is another in which popular
sympathy is all on one side, ana the law
of the land and the laws OF trade are all
on the other. The miners nave been work
iug for wages which are inadequate 10
The comfortable support OF lie, from the
American standpoint, but II Is also true
trat the operators have for years beel
getting such low prices for their coal that
none of them has made any money
Louisville COurier-JourrNL
This is tolerably fair, and yet it is
not wholly fair. If the miner was paid
in cash for the labor he performed,
like other wage-earners, his lot would
by no means be so hard, even at the
old rates for mining. But the miner
gets no money. He is compelled to buy
from a company store, at prices SO to
% per cent. higher than other people
,,... -. ------- l--'- g. ---h, ho
is compelled to live in a miserable
house owned by the Coal Company,
the rent being about 20 per cent. per
annum of the original first cost of the
structure. and he is often cheated by
false weights and fraudulent scr"cNs.
What the coal miner really wants
is the abolition of the Company store,
fair weights and screens, and the
right to rent any house he pleases, at
a fair price. Put him on parity with
other workingmen. The coal miner is
worthy of his hire, said hire to be
paid in spot cash.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

Persons Leasing town for the Sum-
mer caa lave The Register delivered
by mail Or :i.ty cents per month,
daily ed ion: twenty GEMS per
month, SrHd1y edition; sixty'i:ye
cents per month daily and Sunday
ea.toa coulbi.od, payable ia sd
vance. Call or notify publication
office either by mail or telephone No.
COZ. Tie adir,ss will be changed
as frequently as desired. Sa5seri'
hers should nOJ fa.i TO give the old
address when furnishing new ad'
dress to which .lapsr is TO be ssnt.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

Last week the Gear was saying pref
~ words to- the Emperor of Germany,
and promising him all sorts of things.
Next week the Car viii pat President
Fauer. of France, on the back. and
viii give him renewed assurances OF
his distinguished consideration. If the
emperor of Austria happens along the
week after. it win be the same. Mean
while Russia goes on plotting in the
East and is steadily furthering the two
hundred year policy Of laying hands
on CousJautinople and getting closer
to India.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

How about the Dingley tariff bust
ness anyhow? one Republican paper
says the effects Of the bill will be to
limit importations and give us a large
balance of trade. and the next one
you pick up AYERS that the existing
discrepancy between extravagant Re
publican expenditures and customs re-
ceipts will be speedily wiped out, and
that the treasury will be overlooking.
These things don't seem 10 tally,
somehow.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

The detailed and itemized bill for
the recent junket of the Republican
Legislature Of Pennsylvania to New
York City, on the occasion of the
dedication of the Grant tomb, has
come in, and it has created something
of a sensation among the masses Of
voters in the keystone State. There
is one item of SS,o266O for wines and
liquors consumed on the trip, and an
other of 81 500 for meals and cigars.
A third item was for s1S7 for glass
ware smashed by an intoxicated rep
resentative of the people, and there
are other expenditures of a similar
nature. Meantime, Governor Hastings
has vetoed the appropriation, and the
caterers, railroad companies, cigar
dealers. etc, are threatening exposure
unless the cash is forthcoming. It's a
very interesting state of affairs.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21
GETS AN ASYLUM PLACE.

Special 10 the Register
Marietta. Ohio, August 20.-Dr
John Mcclure, prominent young
physician Of this city, has been ap-
pointed assistant superintendent Of
the Athens State Hospital for the in
sane. to succeed DR.. E. P. Cooke, re-
signed. The salary is $500 per year
and living expenses.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

Home rms. c. Moore, McConkey. Fer
reH: three base hit, w. Nau; two base hits
burrows Weiss. Blaney. McConkey,
ont bv Vance 4. by Smith 3; double play.
SnVdar to Nau to Terrell; bases on balls,
Lucas. C. Nau 2 Snyder; Stein p UNI
pires. w. Chambers and Jack Donovan.
The Wheeling Laundry base ball club
desires TO thank the Triadelphia club and
Joseph Green for the handsome style in
which they were treated after the game
as the Triadelphia club assembled to-
gether after the game and both clubs
were treated to an OK roast given by Mr..
JOS Green.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

Will the esteemed Intelligencer
kindly explain TO an anxious public
how it is. that with the Johnson Steel
Company exporting 10000 tons Of
steel rails to England. and an order
from Japan for rails for 1900 miles of
railroad in Formosa, not to speak Of
other large export orders, the Repub-
lican party esteems it necessary to
place a protective duty of nearly eight
dollars a ton on steel rails?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21
TRAMP LOST A LEG.

SDHcldl 10 t-- iNS-iNNN''
Parkersburg. w. Va. August 90
VIM. McCollister, tramp, while at
tempting TO board a freight train at
Belpre this evening, fell beneath the
cars. His right foot was so badly
crushed that it had to be amputated.
He was taken 10 Marietta, where the
operation was performed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21
PARDoNED BY THE GOVERNOR.

Special to the Register.
Charleston. W. Va, August 20
Gov. Atkinson has pardoned John
LLOYD. Doc Hall and Albert Harvey.
convicted in the criminal court Of
Favette in 1894 of rioting and shooting
and sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary. These men were among
the rioters at Eagle which occurred
during the miners strike three years
ago. Their time would be served out
in October. but the Governor gives
them credit for the sixty days in jail
which would complete their three
years of Imprisonment.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

Did his bIoody-minded Nibs, the
Sultan. throw those bombs at himself,
so as to get into the swim with his
French and Spanish contemporaries?
IL looks a little that way from dis
lance.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

It's a queer world The man who
doesn't believe a thing he sees in the
papers because it doesn't suit him, is
always the drmest believer in what ne
sees in the papers when it does suit
him.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21
LArNDRYS WON.

The following score shows the results
in clean and well played game of ball
between the Inter-City leaders and the
Amateurs at Triadelphis. Nau's eXcus-
able error prevented the Wheeling Laun-
drys from playing an errorless game.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

THIRD PAGE.

THIRD PAGE.
Push Push!-JacOb Good.
FOURTH PAGE.
OranCe Wood Toothpicks-H. F.
BehrenS Co.
List of Unclaimed Letters.
Newspapers and Magasines-C. H.
Quimby.
Wauted--Salesman
Bishop Fowler at Moundsville Camp
Ground.
Family BIbles-Stanton' Old City
Book Store.
FIFTH PAGE.
Saturday Bargains-The Leader.
EIGHTH PAGE.
Eight Special Items - Stone &
Thomas.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

The government buys its postal
cards for 23.95c Per 1Co0 and sells
them for SO per l0c9 Talk about
profits. Whew,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

VIII the nat;Ona, convention OF
American florists now in session
adopt a resolution that the national
four comes from Minneapolis?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

Mr.. Hanna is understood to still ad-
here to his idea that mo man in pub
lie Office owes the public anything"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21
41beelin9 Register
CHARLES 4. TAgEY, General Manager.

The REGISTER. embracing its several
Is entered at the PostoIlce az
W. va. as second-class matter
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

Cash wheat sold at S10oh in New
York. Wednesday. and there is a great
TODD about it in the Republican
papers. Cash wheat sold at S1.00 in
New York less than. a year ago, to wit,
in september. 1896.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21
AGENTS WANTED
statesmen WANTED.

!. GOOD SALESMAN wanted-to carry a
side line Of dry goods specialties on com
mission. Retail and country trade BRNN
MAWR MILLS. Philadelphia. au2O- qdq
WANTED-Salesman salary from start.
permanent place. BROWN BROS. CO.,
Nurserymen. Rochester y. y.
jul9sat&sunSb
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

nc Commissioners on me DIsJlct
# Columbia have refused to allow mo-
tor carriages permission to run on the
streets of Washington because they
NAV frighten horses. This is blocking
the wheels Of progress in a petty way.
Horses which scare at a motor car
risse. or an omnibus, or a hack, or a
street car. or funeral procession,
have no business on the streets Of a
modern city.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

II General Blood would swat the
rebeIious natives Of Swat lew all
might yet be we'll
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

nc more that one thinks Of the TACT
thar rrfeuus or Ir. mamma over '--
Ohio are Ioaning gOod money to Mid
6Ie-of-the-Road PoTU.isCs, without Sc
c1ritv. the more astonishing the thing
becomes. But there is said TO be
reason for everything, and method
i'm many madnesses.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

dard granulated at 4.74c. The first OF
July cut loaf sold at 5.62c and STAN
dard granulated at 4.99c. On the first
Of August cut loaf sold at 5.S7c and
standard granulated at 5.24c. What it
will be the first Of September only
Providence and the sugar trust knows.
Three several and distinct times the
sugar trust has advanced the price
Lice. which means an added profit OF
S2.5OO.O eco for each advance, per an
mum. or a total of S7,5OOOCO, and the
end is not in sight. The sugar trust
has a good thing in the Dingley bill,
and the sugar consumer has a very
poor thing. And as it is with sugar
so it is with several other things in
the new tariff law, which are only
good things for a very few interested
monopolists.
The Dingley bill is bill in the in
terests of the trusts and favored man
ufacturers. and is a bill against the in
terests of the masses of the people.
This is abundantly shown by the quo
tations on sugar and by the advance
in sugar stock, and if any other evil
dence is needed it can be supplied
from the schedule on iron and steel,
which secures more protection than
it had under the Wilson bill, and prices
have advanced while the wOrkmen
have been compelled to accept a re-
duced scale of wages.
The Intelligencer's attempted de-
tense Of the high tax fraud is rubbish.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

The new university to be started by
John Brisben Walker, Of the Com
mopoIitan Magazine. won't go in for
athletics and will have no foot ball
team. We don't see how this Univer-
sfrv can ever amount TO much, for its
students must necessarily contine
themselves to the acquiring Of knowl-
edge.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

Drink Pure Water. Special price on
best Filterer for ten days only. Ewing
Bros.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21

Get the best Filter at Ewing Bros.
Special price for ten days only.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21
WANTED.

---~>~~--~-------~~--------~>
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loan general agent in West Virginia. New
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contract will be given. Address D., Reg
lister. au-Oes
WANTED-Lady during Fair week TO do
sample cooking on gasoline stove. AG-
dress at once. ATLANTIC REFINING
co. aul9edt
WANTED-A reliable girl for general
homework, Must come recommended.
Apply AZ 81 Fifteenth street. aulSedh
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

HOW TO Become Lawful Physicians. Dem
lists or Lawyers. Address Lock Box ls6,
Chicago aui0egZ
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-21
SPECIAL NOTICE.

q. a, -es-1sl-e92--:2--22-
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1897-07-27

From the B. & o. Y NJ. @. A. Bulletin
we take the following: "Harper's Ferry?
Harper's Ferry? Yes. we are going
Thursday, July 29th. Leave Camden
Station 7.30 a. m. Round trip fare, 81 90.
Baltimore train goes via Washington
The Sixteenth Annual Reunion and Elk.
cursion will no doubt be one of the larg-
est ever held if the inquiries that are al
ready coming in are an index of what
may be expected. Groups of friends are
already speaking for 10 tickets. We
should have at least 500 from Baltimore
The committee at Cumberland expect
that many from that point. Sixtyfiv
stations will be represented and have
tickets on sale. They will be sold as far
west as Oakland, Md, also rs far as Win
chester. Va, on the Valley Road, Ha-
gerstown Branch, Frederick, Md, and
Berkeley Springs. This is one of the
best reunion occasions of the whole year.
You can see all your old friends and
make lots of new ones"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1897-07-27
TWO Armlet..The ReguIar and Irregular !

To which would you prefer to belong The
regular, undoubtedly. The irregulars are,
admittedly, the most numerous, but they are
in very undesirable state of no-discipline.
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will soon remedy
this want in q disordered liver or bowels
Biliousness manifests itself in yellowness of
the skin and eyeballs, sour breath, furred
tongue, morning nausea, discomfort in the
vicinity of the liver, vertigo and sick head
ache Hosts of people suffer thus. These
signs of insubordina ton to the goyernance of
health, together with an irregular condition
of the bowels, are soon regulated by the Bit
tiers, which also oyercomes malaria, dyspep-
| sia. rheumatism, neuralgia, nervousness and
kidney trouble. AS means of checking pre-
mature decay, Fastening conValescence, and
mitigating the infirmities of age, the great
/ tonic ia without parallel
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1897-07-27

1t was given out a few days ago that,
in view of probable trouble on account OF
looked for strikes of coal miners in West
Virginia, Governor Atkinson of this
State had notified the militia to be in
readiness to be called out and had secured
five hundred additional stands of arms
and half million rounds of ammunition.
Thereupon body of the Federation of
Labor in Washington City adopted
resolutions scoring the governor, denounc-
ing his action as cowardly and blood
thirsty, and suggesting its remembrance
by the working class at the ballot box.
Scarcely had these resolutions appeared
in print when, To- presto change, it is
wired from Chicago, where Governor
Atkinson appears to have been attending
the Logan Day ceremonies. that his ex-
cellency believes that the miners will
eventually win. that those in West Viz
ginia are in sympathy with the suffering
miners outside, and so is he, ETC., etc.
The votes of IS, 900 miners in West Vir-
ginia are of no little importance, and it
may be barely possible that Our clever
Republican governor had wired him in
Chicago a hasty hint to take the back
track instanter-just for the good of the
party, you know. 1t might look that
way to man up tree, at any rate.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1897-07-27
ciasI, Between Courts.
Isp,cI.l to the washington Post, ]

HARPER's FERRY. w. VA, July 22.-
There is conflict of authority between
the State and Federal courts of West
Virginia which promises interest
ing developments. Uncle Sans judi
ciary are one stroke ahead, but the situa-
ton may be changed any moment.
The controversy is over tract of land
which the government sold to Alexander
Kelley in 1854, but for which no deed was
ever given. Four years ago the land
passed into the possession of Miss Ella
NJ. Hendricks, the eighteen-year-old
granddaughter of Alexander Kelley, the
original purchaser
The government put in claim of own
ership. on the score that the purchase
money had never been paid, as the alb
sence of deed argued. Miss Hendricks
was dispossessed. and the property leased
to E. IS. Cummings for 81 month, though
worth considerably more. Last Septem
Der Miss Hendricks counsel. James D.
Butt, entered suit in the Federal Court
in her behalf, and the court ordered the
property to be restored to her. The Treas
ury Department at Washington, however
on an opinion by the then Solicitor-Gen
eral, held up the order. and Cumming:
retained possession.
| Last month, when Soiicitor-Genera
| Ric hards succeeded to the Office. his flrs
off cial act was to instruct the United
States marshal for West Virginia to oust
Cummings and put Miss Hendricks in
p ossession of her property. ThereuPor
Cummings applied to Judge Faulkner, OF
the Jefferson County Circuit Court, fol
an injunction against the United State:
marshal. This was refused, but Cum
mings persevered, and finally secured al
injunction from Judge NJ. H. Dent, of the
Supreme Court. When the United State:
marshall came to Harper's Ferry yester
day to carry out his instructions. he was
confronted with the injunction issued by
Judge Dent. Denying the authority o
the State courts to overrule the action o.
the Federal courts, the marshal wen
ahead and ousted Cummings. Miss Hen
bricks was reinstated in possession, anc
the marshall now calmly awaits arrest OF
a charge of contempt of court, when thu
issue between State and Federal authori
ty will be sharply drawn. The outcome i
watched with interest by the legal pro
fession and others conversant with thi
somewhat remarkable case.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1897-07-27

a warrant. sworn out by John Thomas,
colored. before Justice c. F. Gallaher, is
in the hands of Constable Mathena for
the arrest of Thomas Daniel (allias Tom
or "Dotson" Reed,) colored. on the grave
charge of outraging Amelia Thomas, a
fifteen-year-old daughter of the complain
ing witness, on the 27th of June last. The
crime, if reports are borne out by the
facts in the case, is most heinous one,
and the accused will be liable to the Sc
verest penalty of the law. The girl. as
we understand, was on her return home,
and when passing the woods of Mr.. F. J..
Manning, near town, was accosted by
Daniel, who walked along with her and
made an improper proposal. which she
indignantlyrejected. Hethereupon seized
and threw her to the ground, and after a
severe struggle, in which her clothes were
much torn. accomplished his vile purpose.
The accused had been in the employ OF
Mr.. Levi Porter, but he has disappeared
and up to this time has not been aPPre
hended. He is brown-skinned man
of medium height, weighs about 100 lbs
and has peculiar-looking eyes.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1897-07-27

The distinguished New York chemist T. A.
Slocum, demonstrating his discovery of re-
liable and absolute cure for Consumption
pulmonary Tuberculosis and all bronchial
throat, lung ard cEcst discusses, stubborn
coughs, catarrhal affections, general decline
and weakness. loss of flesh. and all conditions
of wasting away. will send THREE FREE
BOTTLES GALL differently of his New Discov-
cries to any afflicted reader of the SPIRIT OF
JEFFERSON writing for them.
His &c New Scientific Treatment " has cure
thousands permanently by its timely use and
considers it simple professional duty to
suffering humanity to donate trial of his in
fallible cure.
Science daily develops new wonders, and
THE great chemist, patiently experimenting
for years. has produced results as beneficial TO
humanity as can he claimed by any modern
genius. His assertion that lung troubles and
consumption are durable in any climate is
proven by heartfelt letters of gratitude :"
filed in his American and European labora-
tories in thousands from those cured in all
parts of the world.
Medical experts concede that bronchial
chest and lung troubles lead to Consumption,
which, uninterrupted, means speedy and Ger
tain death.
Simply write to T. A. slocum, NJ. c., 9s
Pine street, New York, giving postotice aud
express address, aud the free medicine will be
promptly sent. Sufferers should take instant
advantage OF his generous proposition.
Please tell the Doctor that YOU saw his offer
in the SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON. Jly 27-ly.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1897-07-27
NOTICE
TO WATER CUSTOMERS OF THE
Charles Town Water & Mig Co.

In consequence Of the unusual waste OF wafer.
call the attention Of our customers 10 tue
Rules and Regulations attached 10 and MADE
n part of each contract for use of water
Especial attention is called at this time to
Rule 6, as follows
1t shall be the duty of persons holding water
permit. to keep their hydrants, pipes, spigots
and all water connections in good repair, so
that water may not waste.
Under Rule 4. the company reserves the
right for its officers or agents At all re1sonabie
times to enter the premises, where water -
taken, for purposes of examining water hx-
tures and connection and other purposes IN
the interest of the Water Company.
The plumber Of the Company VIII therefore
at an early day visit every premises ana re
port the condition of all water outlets anu
connections.
Rule /, Water of the company shan D0t DC
used by any person who shall NOT hIss -
paid for and obtained permit signe9 ~ 'hs
Superintendent. Water shall DC nssu ~ :.
other purpose than IL allowed I'D the Pr nt. III
Permits for sprinkliug streets, yatds -
flower beds contemplate the MODERATE i47o -
water morning aud evening NIB.
Where waste is observed contracts wiz 10
cancelled and water turned OF
All the Rules and Regulations I9r snlI-S
and r,se of water are contained arc LIZ IL -
na-t Of each contract, and VIII hereafter ."
enforced .-.,er rent. call on
Treasurer and settle; y WASHINGTON,
On ON Superintendent.