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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17

He who criticizes lie a pitiful
criticaster. When one considers
the rapid manipulations of the COM
positor and the vast task of hasty
proof reading required to make up
a daily paper, the wonder grows
that SO nearly perfect work is done.
1t is mark of small mind out
side of the school room to note
publicly a mispelled name or mis-
placed letters in word.
The Charleston Mail declares
that unless congress repeals the
civil service law the republican
party will 90 down to defeat in
1900. This is sad, in view of the
fact that congress won't repeal the
law.-Sentinel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17

Real love comes to woman but
once in her life. All other emo
tions are only imitations.-Ex.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17

Squirrels are assisting the farm
ers in gathering their corn and in
some instances we fear that the
squirrels are getting the best of it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17
[0nSlIllfQl

AID IT'S CURH
TO TEE EDITOR ~ have an absolute
remedy for Consumption. By its timely use
thousands of hopeleSs cases have been already
permanently cured. So proof-positive ami
of its power that consider It my duty to
send fro bottles FREE to those of your readers
who have Consumption, Throat, Bronchial or
Lung Trouble, If they VIII write me their
exuress and postoffice address. Sincerely,
I. a. sLoCUiG, II. c., Is3 Pear1 St, lew Yerlr.
ur The EdisorisI and Business Nanagenlent u
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17

Mr.. John Ct. Stortz, one of our
busiest of business men, is now go
ing to add much to the beauty of
the popular Phoenix Hotel, by put
ting in an entire plate glass front
and iron steel ceilings.
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The BOYS are AN Right.

By a letter from Mr.. y. y. LeWls'
To his father Mr.. P. S. Lewis, dat
ed Edinburg, Eng, we learn that
he and Mr.. Tol. Stribling, arrived
safely at Liverpool, and well. The
trip across the ocean was highly
enjoyed by them, neither of them
becoming "sea sick" on the voyage,
except Mr.. Lewis a little bit during
a severe storm. The boys say they
are enjoying themselves splendidly.
The courts of New York and
Pennsylvania have both decided
recently that the 80 day-6 months
divorces obtained in Oklahoma
and Dakota have no force in other
States. This is good news for the
lawyers.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17

It seems TO be pretty hot place
for negro miners up in the Mo
nongah coal regions With shoot
ing scrapes among themselves and
similar mix-ups with the white
folks, there seems to be certainty
of their, early humiliation. Two
weresshot last week. one by an
other of his race and the other by
unknown parties.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17

Farmers had better make the
most of their present wheat crops.
The news from India, is, that the
famine is ended and the crops
promising. Don't rely upon the
Republican party keeping up the
prices of wheat. They can't do it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17
wEsT vIRGINIAN N RRIED
To a Reigning Belle of BrookIyn
Groom Son of Ex-senator

BRooKLYN, N. Y. Nov. 10.-At
the superbly appointed home of
the brides parents. Elizabeth Irwin
Armstead, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. 81. Armstead, and John
Thomas Davis, son of ex-United
States Senator Henry g. Davis. of
West Virginia. were this afternoon
made man and wife. The bride
has been one of Brooklyn's leading
bellies and a reigning favorite since
her debut a few seasons ago. Miss
Grace T. Davis, of Washington,
was maid of honor, and the brides
maids were the Misses Leverick, of
New Haven, Conn; Braden, of
West Point; Dyer and Drakely. of
Brooklyn. Davis Elkins. son of
Senator Stephen B. Elkins Of West
Virginia, served as best man, and.
as ushers there were his brothers.
Stephen B. Jr., and w. Elkins, of
Washington, end the two brothers
of the bride, III. 81. and ID. NJ.
Armstead
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NEURALGIA cured by DR.. Miles PAN
Pills. "one cent dose" At all druggists
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HighIy Appreciated.

1Messrs. g. w md n. q. Iyppett.
at the last meeting of the Four
O'clock Club held November 4th,
you were given vote of thanks
for the excellent work done on the
programs furnished the Club.
They are very handsome and We
thank you for the care and good
taste used in the selection, as well
as the promptness with which you
filed our order. We feel you
should be justly proud of your
work. BY order of the -Four
O'clock Club.
CHARLOTTE MCCULLocH,
President,
JOSEPHINE Howard.
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There is now great demand in
this town for four, FIVE and six
room cottages. A hundred of these
cottages could be rented within
thirty days at good prices and to
good renters. Suppose company
be formed to purchase land and to
build and rent and sell houses.
This is the way it is done in other
towns.
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oAsToREA

Let everybody talk up the town.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17

Election frauds have been un-
earthed in Philadelphia the like
unto which was never heard of be-
fore. For some reason the judges
charged with the duty of inquiring
into the returns of the late election
concluded to open one of the bal
lot boxes and compare the ballots
in the box with result as certified
to by the election officers. To their
surprise they discovered that no
attention had been paid to the bal
lots by the officers, who put down
such figures as they chose as rep
resenting the vote cast. As the in
vestigation progressed the most
gigantic frauds were unearthed
and Warrants have been issued for
the inculpated officers Parkers-
burg Sentinel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17

JOSEPHINE HowARp,
Secretary.
Point Pleasant, w. Va, Nov. 10, '97.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17

pain I'm my left aide
Medicine and physi-
clans gave me no rei
lief I procured DE
Niles Res toretfve
NeRvine, New Heart
Cure and Nerve and
Liver Pills, and I am
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-17

Marietta for several years, but from
what we learn from a gentleman
who appears to be in a position to
know whereof he speaks, the projec-
tors are about ready to proceed with
the enterprise and will be ready to
let the contract inside of go days.
Jutte, the Pittsburg coal operator,
is one of the leading spirits of the
enterprise. -Parkersburg Sentinel.
Samuel A. Kepler, of Wheeling.
has been mysteriously missing for
over two months. He represented
the Wheeling district in the legis-
lature several years ago, and was
largely identified with local and
business interests in that commu-
nifty.
A mad cat attacked Mrs. Ann
Blatner, of Wheeling, and with its
teeth badly tore the flesh on one of
her arms, lacerating it terribly.
The badly bleeding wounds were
cauterized by the physician to pre-
vent blood poisoning.
Our local merchants are antici-
pating a much larger holiday trade
this year, than they have had for
many years. We hope their an
-ticipations may pro1e. true; but
where is the money to come from
in these ridden and gold stand
ard times?
IF the wife could only cook as
well as her husbands mother, and
the husband could buy the wife as
fine frocks as her father did, mat
rimony would be a bowling success.
What the town needs as much as
anything else, is one or two good
wholesale houses. Point Pleasant
might as well have the thousands
of dollars that go out of this town
and valley as not.
The K. & M. Railway is doing a
big business in hauling coal just
at this time Every day number
of coal trains leave the yards at
this place for the lakes.
Hoboes hereafter arriving at
Martinsburg will have ball and
chain attached to their feet and
will be permitted to spend most of
their time on the streets.
Evidence of foul play has been
discovered in the case of Joseph
Sherwocd's mysterious death at
West Union. He carried heavy
insurance.
Messrs. Wesley and Otta Bar
rows will occupy the Selbe prop
.erty at the corner of Market and
Wand streets.
Hon. JAS. Capehart is having his
handsome residence, just outside
of the city, painted and otherwise
fixed up.
There is big demand for school
books this year, and it has been
difficult to keep the scholars sup
piled.
And now they have scarlet fe-
yer scare at Huntington.
The Street Commissioners might
find plenty to do upon our streets.
if he would take the trouble to
look at the crossings and the
mouths of thesewers.
j. Friedman & Co. IS store is now
one Sof the best arranged in the
State; and has the politest and
most accommodating clerks.
The weather man is at his old
tricks again; you never know how
to take him, or just when he will
slip the blizzard wheel in on you.
How the poor quail win suffer
to-day in Ohio; the law permits
the killing OF this bird from to-day
until the 18th of December.
Born. to Mr. and Mrs. j. A. Viii
son, of Hensrson, a daughter
Monday, November 9Th. Con-
gratulaticns.
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was lost at Point Bonita last Sunday, are
going out there to-day 10 search for the
BODY. Tney are OF the opinion that by
this time it has been washed ashore, and
they will make a thorough search along
the shore line Dusty" Hart Is also 60
ing out in his whitehall and will join The
searching party.
Tne gunboat Marietta, in tow of the tug
Sea Witch, and the gun boat Wheelin-, in
tow OF the tug Rescue. were taken to Mare
Island yesterday. There they will be
turned over to Uncle Sam anu their tit
t;ngs and armament will be put aboard.
Leo Cochran, a young lad, fell from
Beale-street wharf into the bay Yesterday.
He would most assuredly have been
drowned had not joe Lewis, head steve
dore of the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
ton Company, jumped lii after HIM and
held him up until assistance arrived.
News comes from Honolulu that Cap
tain Cary, the popular master of the
Oceanic Steamship Company, was very
sick man when the vessel reached that
port. he had acute rheumatism and
could not leave his room, so Chief Officer
Graham had to navigate the ship.
The American bark Topgallant arrived
from Newcastle, \. S. W., last night after
a long passage of 101 days. John Hudson,
known as John Edwards, was killed by
falling from the foretopgaIlant yard. He
was native of Ireland, aged u years.
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accident Deceased was nearly 1s years OF age.
he was spending a few DAYS vacation al Lark
spur with several friends.
OHIO NATIVES ORGANIZE.
They Form a Club to Promote Social
and Erafernal Uniun.

They Form a Club to Promote Social
and FraternaI Union.
An enthusiastic meeting of natives of
Ohio was held yesterday afternoon at 400
California street and organized the "Ohio
Society of California" A constitution
and bylaws were adopted in which the
objects of the organization are declared to
be "to promote social and iraternal union
among its members, and to collect, pre-
serve and diffuse information respecting
the State o. Ohio and its people,"
The following named officers were elect
ed: President, B. i. Haskell; vice presi-
dents, Alexander Badiam, ID. D. Stubbs,
J. A. Healy, NJ. D.: secretary, L. p. Nc
Carly; financial secretary Norman Arter
treasurer, w. G. Richardson; executive
committer-G. A. Scheer, H. A. lddings,
Milton E. Baker, J. w. Richards and B.
f. Richardson.
The society will hold monthly meetings
month. 1t is proposed TO held a
joilitication meeting in the near fu-
lure. 1t was stated ii at President Mo
kinley will visit this City during the en-
suing year, and elaborate preparation W i'll
be made for his reception.
The names of those who signed the
mem bershlp roll include the following:
John z. Jackson, Louis z. McCarty, ].
IL. Belser, c. B. Williams, &. Harlan, W.
ID. Fennimore, J. H. Healy, NJ. D., Milton
h. Baker, II. A. Iddings, Alexander Bad
lam, Norman Arter, Ben B. Haskell, B. F.
Richardson, G. A. Scheer, w. G. Richard
son, ID. D. Stubs, j. w. Richards, f. II.
Huddart,
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ASA FISK'S MONEY.
Over Million Dollars Demanded by
Son of the Deceased
Financier.

Son of the Deceased
Financier.
Asa W. Fisk has sued the trustees and
heirs of the estate OF the late Asa FISK for
the neat little sum of ST. 099 064.
The plaintiff is a son of the decedent
by his first wife, and now seeks TO recover
from Mrs. Lydia B. Fisk and her children
the full value OF the property left by the
noted money-lender at the time of his
death. The items are as follows: Money
held in trust by said oecedent for the
benefit of this plaintiff since 1856, 1854, 1858;
losses from land speculation in Tacoma,
made at the request of the deceased, he
agreeing to stand the loss If any occurred,
$144 696.
Through his attorneys, Joseph McKin-
lev and A. Everett Ball, an explicit state
ment of the transactions leading TO this
claim is presented by Mr. Fisk Jr. He
says that when his father left Boston
bout twenty years ago he agreed to man.
age certain moneys belonging TO the pain
tiff in this action, and that it was agreed
that these moneys should be made to
produce as much income as possible; that
his father was very successful in the man
agement of the funds thus entrusted to
him and that he often was able to lend
this money at the rate of % per cent a
month, ranging from that figure down to
the nominal interest of only 5 per cent a
month. According to the opinion of the
younger Fisk all the fortune amassed by
his father grew out OF the trust funds thus
invested. He therefore demands mmedi-
ate delivery of the avails OF the estate.
At the time the will of Asa Fisk was
presented for probate the plaintiff in this
case appeared as a contestant, but subse-
quently withdrew his opposition to the
right to renew his contest at any time
within year.
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secretary, Mr.. Willcutt, be com PEELED to
submit com plete statement of the affairs
of the corporation. The board desires to
know the annual cost of operating the
system; also tho cost per mile of main
tanning the roads, the gross receipts, the
receipts after the payment of operating
expenses, and a hundred other items re-
lating to the business of conducting a
street railroad.
When all the facts called for are sub
mitted the board Will take into conside era-
tion the proposition to reduce fares. The
Com missloners fin6 widespread demand
for a reduction of fares on the City lines.
The monthly sum paid out for carfare
is considerable item to many a family.
1t is contended that the increased travel
and the diminished expense of operating
roads should warrant the com panIes in
granting a lower rate of fare.
The point is raised by the board that the
constitution gives the Commissioners
power to fix fares on all transportation
lines, but the LEGISLATURE in passing laws
to put the provisions of the constitution
into effect omitted from the statute street
railroads. This omission, it is thought,
does not deprive the board of power in
the premises. The Legislature, it is said.
may extend but cannot abridge grants OF
the constitution.
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of the Bui der Association Who Have Feer
Delegated to Superintcnd Picnic June II.

by which there will be no crowding or
standing up. All will be provided with
seating accomm odation.
The following committees have been
appointed TO take charge of the va rious
phases of the days pleasure:
Games mmit;ee-Thomas Elam. G. Y.
Daniels Captain John Tuttle, J. J. More
house and Henry Larsen.
Reception committee - s. H. Kent,
Thomas Butcher. Z. B. Kinds, James A.
Wilson, c. c. Morehouse, Captain John
Tuttle, G. V. Daniels, Thomas Elan, Rich
ard Herring, J. r. Tobin and Thomas Nc
L1ughlin.
Floor committee - James 4. Wilson,
Richard Herring, Sumner Loop. J. r.
Tobin, T. w. Butcher, Sanford Plummer
and Charles A. Day.
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Ill FARED The
WHALING FLEE
Not One of Them Has Made
Anything of a
Catch.
Chances That There Will B.
an Opposition Line in the
China Trade.
Ths Canadian Pac.fc Has One Of
rs Tramp Steamers in
This Port.

The first news OF the whaling feet in
the sea of Okhotsk arrived from Hakodate
in private letter yesterday. Several OF
the vessels were at Hakodate on May IA
and the captains report that the Charles
W. Morgan had taken one right whale.
The California took four, but one of them
sunk She had also $50 barrels OF sperm
oil. The Alice Knowles took one right
whale, while tn HoratiO had only thirty
barrels of sperm oil. The Cape Horn
Pigeon captured one right while. So lar
the season has not been great success
A string of twenty-nine horses and al
most as many mules, in charge OF twenty
five men, drew a crowd at the ferries yes
terday. The en;ire outfit is on its way to
Mendocno where they will be used IN
the logging camps in carrying bark TO the
chutes along the coast.
The British ship Scottish Dales got in
from Junin, Chile, yesterday after long
passage of seventy-one days. She is very
foul, and that coupled with the fact that
she had light winds all the way accounts
for the long run.
The Hongkong Steamship Company 8
steamer Hupeh arrived from Hongkong
via Yokohama and Victoria, B. c., yester-
day. She Is under Cnarter 10 the Oahaulan
Pacific Steamship Company, and has con-
siderable cargo for this port. Since the
Pacific Mail began putting on tramp
steamers the Canadian Pacific has fol-
lowed suit, and the chances are that it
will again make an attempt to secure
some of the business OF this port. Should
they continue running their tramps TO
this port the chances are that frelg t
rate war will be started again and there
will be more slashing of rates. The
Hupeh was formerly in the English sugar
trade, and is a fine com modious carrier.
All the relatives OF Otto D. Erlach, who
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-13
CAUGHT IN SAN JOSE.
Moses MendeIssohn Meyers, a Piano
Player, Arrested for Stealing
Diamond JeweIry

10y CTS C6bCu III
Diamond JeweIry.
Moses Mendelssohn Movers was arrested
in San Jose yesterday morning and
brought to the City Prison by Detective
Crockett, where he was booked on a charge
OF grand larceny.
Meyers was employed as piano player
in the saloon at 23S O'Farrell street, and a
few days ago NJ rs. Sadie Rodgers, a resi-
dent of San Jose, en- aged a room In the
lod ging- house overhead. She became ac-
quainted with Meyers and Thursday after
noon she sent him to q drugstore to get
some medicine for her. As ne was leaving
the room she placed about $500 worth of
diamond jewelry in her slipper.
About o'clock she went out for q walk
and when she returned in two hours she
missed the diamond jewelry, which had
been distracted from the slipper. She
notified the police and Detectives Bee and
Harper found a diamond ring which
Meyers had pawned.
1t was ascerta aimed that Meyers had pur-
chased ticket for Fresno and the police
in the different towns were notified to be
on the lookout for him. Yesterday morn
ing he was arrested in San Jose and some
of the jewelry was found in his possession
and some was recovered from a woman TO
whom he had given 1t.
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STREET RAIL WAY FARES,
Case Testing the Power of the
Beard of Railroad Com.
missioners.
Reductions May Be Ordered if the
Courts Sustain the
Beard.

The application filed in the Superior
Court for writ of mandate to compel the
secretary of the Market-street Railway
Company to appear before the Railroad
Commissioners will be heard on June 25.
The writ is applied for by the Attorney
General, and the purpose in view is 10 de-
termine the power of the Commissioners
20 fix the rates on street railroads.
Speaking of the proceeding yesterday
Attorney-General Fitzgerald said that be
would surely take the case to the Supreme
Court should the writ be denied in the
lower court. 1t is regarded as almost Ger
tain that the railroad corporation will ap-
peal to the higher court should the writ
be granted.
The petition for the writ asks that the
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-13
Bull DERS ANN UbLOU TING
Bunker Hill Day to Be Here.
after Observed as a
Holiday.
The Improv.rs OF Property viii Hold
This Years Pic ic in Niles
Canyon.

Bunker Hill day, June II, will here
after be observed as Builders holiday"
by the erectors of realty in San Francisco
This conclusion was arrived at by the
directors of the association and the COM
mittees having charge of this years pic.
nic at the last meeting OF these bodies !;
and, as result, all work in this line will
stop on next Thursday, when the men,
bers OF the association, with their friends,
will enjoy days outing in Niles Canyon.
To make the days pleasure a decided
success, 4rrangem have been made
with the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany for sufficient tran sportation facilities
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-13
PERSONAL NOTES.

W. NJ Ward of stockton is staying at the
Cosmopolitan.
J. II. Green, business man of Healdsburg,
is at the Russ.
H. ]. Wright and J. Fl. Welden OF Tacoma
are at the Cosmopolitan.
F. B. Howard District Attorney at Visalia,
is registered at the Cosmopolitan.
Mrs. A. G. Walker of Whitlocks, Mariposa
County, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan.
George K. Fitch, the retired newspaper man,
has returned 10 the City from a prolonged trip
to cities east of the Mississippi Valley.
George l. Arnold of Los Ang les, one of the
State Board OF Equalization. and long promi-
nent in politics in Southern California, is at
the Lick.
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DONE FOR CONVENIENCE.
Transfers Issued Between the Presidi ic
and Market-Street Lines, but No
Consolidation Made.

and market-Street Lines, but No
Consolidation Made.
About all there appears to be in the
story OF a com bination of the Presidio and
Ferries streetcar line and the Market
street Sstem Is an arrangement by which
the transfers from the bobtaIl- car on San
some and Washington streets of the Mar
ket-street system are accepted by the for
mer line and passengers taken 10 the
ferry, and the transfer of passengers at
Jackson and Sansome from the Presidio
and Ferries Company to the Market street
bobtail.
I'VE use Washington and Jackson
streets by our line" was stated at the
office of the Presidio and Ferries Com
many yesterday; I'VE go down by one
stree: and return by the other. The bot
tail cars of the Market-street system have
heen taken off at our suggestion 10 Mr..
Vining, and we now carry all their pas
sengers.
Business is so light down there that l
don't believe 1t has made difference Of
twenty day. Both companies thought
it would be better arrangement That s
all there is il the story of consolidation
of the two roads. Our relation with the
California street ca Die railroad company
are exactly the same as they were before,
and Transfers are issued precisely as for
merly,
I'VE agreed TO carry all the passengers
on the horsecars down there because We
were in each others way trailing one
horsecar after the other, when neither
had much to do"
James B. SletSon, pr sident of the Cali
fornia-street cabie road, said be had re-
ceived no notification that the PTesidio
and Ferries line had decided to bresk
with his company at Hyde and Union
streets. "The situation is what 1t has been,
and transfers are issued as usual. There
is nothing in any contrary reports"
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Died of His Injuries.

William Eggert, whose parents live at 407
Fell street, and who was injured last Sunday
by diving in shallow weter,wbile swimming
at Larkspur, died on Friday in the German
Hospital. Some of the bones of his neck were
broken. The case was reported TO the Coroner.
but no inquest will be held, as there is no ne
cessity OF making further inquiry as Ito the