The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-03-10

henma.
Postmaster General-James a.
Gary
Secretary of Navy John d.
Long.
Secretary of interior Cornelius
N. Bliss
Secretary of a griculture James
Wilson.
They were all confirmed.
Died from His Injuries.
Special to the Register.
PARKERsEURe, March 6. 1897.
Joe Dowdings, aged %, who acct
dentally fell from a work train last
Thursday night, at Letert, and had
one of his arms cut off and was
otherwise seriously, injured, died
at Letart, today he lived in
Wheeling
FareweII, Gov. 1IacCorIsIe.
Gov. Mace orkle went out of office
a Democrat. He is a Democrat
who faltered not in the late CAM
paign. He has been criticised and
abused, but his administration has
been manly and able. 1t will
stand comparison with any in the
past, and we are safe in saying any
other in the future. We wish him
health, prosperity and happiness.
-Wetzel Democrat.
Within four days five of theold-
est inhabitants of West Virginia,
all of them residents of Preston
county, have died, Mrs. Hannah
Runner, aged SO, at Marques,
leaving three sons all over 70, Mrs.
James Stewart, at Terra Alta, aged
SO, Mrs. Elijah Garner, of Hazel
town, aged 81, John o. Robinson,
aged SO, at Red Rock and j. III.
Barnes. aged 1o3. at Bruceton
Mills.
Forty out of forty-one Chairman
of Democratic State Committees
have declared over their own sig
natures in the New York World
their mistaken adherence to the
Democratic platform of 1896 and
their endorsement of William j.
Bryan for denomination in 1900.
From Maine alone comes the least
sign of wavering.
In his inaugural address at
Charleston, Governor Ct. w. At
kinson said much which can be
commended, and less which will
not be universally agreed to. Asa
whole, it was an able effort, and to
keep within the lines there laid
down, means for the State admin
istration the support of all good
citizens.
A gable endof Marshall College,
Huntington, was blown down by
the storm yesterday, the wall fall
ing outward no one was injured.
One hundred and twenty-five stu
dents were in the recitation room
at the time, and had the wall fallen
in, many of them would have been
killed.
An illustration of what the pro-
fess1on leads to is afforded in the
exhibition of an unfortunate in
Carthage, Mo-, who, when he be-
came newspaper man, weighed
149 pounds, but who now has
shrunk to thirty-seven and is grad
ually ossifying.
There is a law in this State,
passed by the last Legislature pro-
hibiting the wearing of high or
large hats at theatres or other
places of amusement. A fine is
attached to the offense.
John Sherman and Lyman Gage
are as wide apart as the poles in
some of their financial ideas and
in consequence there may be some
very lively meetings OF the NC
Kinley Cabinet.
IF Senator Wolcott is correctly
quoted as saying that he accom-
plished all he expected on that
European trip, his expectations
must have been almighty small.
Pennsylvania is going West vir-
ginia one better. We havea wom-
an deputy sheriff, but in Allegheny
City there is bewitching, beauti-
full girl of 18 acting as constable.
The Legislature has extended
the time from three to ten years
in which executions may be is
sued fo anforca tha Indictment of q