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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-16
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but several of the other saloons are
still open.
James Corcoran has returned to his
home in Cameron after visit to
friends here.
Constable John Burley is home from
Darlington, o., where he succeeded in
getting horse belonging to r. ]. Nc
Fadden. The animal was purchased
by man named Minor, who claimed
to have money, but never paid cent
on it. He worked the horse in the oil
fields, and even at that did not want
to give it up. Mr.. Burley made him
| come to time, however, and Mr.. Nc
Fadden is a little better OF in conse-
quence.
The Kings Daughters held very in
teresting meeting last evening at the
home Of Miss Mella Logan.
The funeral Of Daniel Mayors, who
died at his home in the Third ward
Saturday, took place yesterday after
| noon. The remains were taken to
Fairview and inferred in the cemetery
there.
Mrs. William Koontz, of New Mar
| tinsville, is visiting friends in the city.
The Symphony Circle held their re-
| hearsal at the home of S. A. Cockayne,
at Glendale, last evening.
Refreshments will be served at the
art exhibition to be held by the ladies'
sewing society, Of the NJ. E. Church
Thursday evening. The affair will be
held in the Smith building and all are
invited to attend.
Miss Martha Justice has gone to Bel
mont county, O., where she intends
giving series OF entertainments.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-16
MOUNDSVELLE.

Thomas Fleming, Of Wheeling, was IN
the city yesterday On business.
Joseph Carpenter, If McMecken was
here yesterday.
G. V. Hughes, who has position at
Parkersburg. returns 60 that place to-
morrow after visit 10 friends mere,
County Clerk Lewis has issued a mar
riage license to j. ". Oliver, aged p,
and Sarah e. Henderson, aged il, both
Of Thompson.
George Edwards leaves to-day Tor
Clarksburg to attend tie grand lodge
meeting Of the l. Q 0. f. there ms
week.
Hon. Sep Hall, of New Martinsvilie,
was in the city yeste- lay.
Invitations for the reXt select bail 10
be given by the Sterling club will be
mailed tomorrow.
Woodburn & Henderson are making
elaborate preparations for the opening
of their Racket store on next Saturday
]. B. Alexander will be present with his
phonograph. and as everything Is free
in this line no doubt a big crowd will be
present.
]. w. Gallaher is in Pittsburg on bust
ness this week.
Next Monday night our theatre-going
people will have the chance OF seeing
the celebrated Mahara Bros. MINISTRIES.
This organization is composed OF fry
performers, and they are said 10 be
strictly first class in every particular.
They appear at Wheeling the last half
of the week and viii arrive here Sunday
in their private car, which is as fine a
one as that carried by Hi Henry.
The chrysanthemum show has been
continued this week in the Smith build
ing. There are many fine plants left
which will be sold cheap, as the ladies
in charge of the affair want to dispose
Of everything.
Miss Mary Jones, of Wellsburg, re-
turned to her home yesterday after a
visit to friends here.
There is nothing new in the saloon
situation at this writing. The parties
who were before the court last week
have closed their places npf business.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-16

the dairy began to clean the empty
cans, as was customary each morn
ing. On taking off the strainers they
were horror stricken to find paris green
beneath. At once the awful truth
flashed through their minds-the milk
had been poisoned. All Of the custom
ers were in deadly peril and must be
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-16
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
Contracts Awarded at the Special Session
of Yesterday.

Contracts Awarded at the Special Session
of Yesterday.
The Board of County Commissioners
met in special session yesterday morn
ing and opened bids and awarded con-
tratcts as followst
Furnishing medicine - Washington
district and Madison east of the river,
A. E. Schele, $3.50; Clay and Union
districts, John Kari, s64 Center and
Webster districts, Charles Menkemel-
Ter, $3.50; Richie district, w. C. Arm
brecht, S49.49! Bids are to be asked
for the Island from Island druggists.
Furnishing coal-South of the creek,
P Dougherty, mixed $3.50, nut $500;
north of the creek, Joachim & Co.,
mixed $5.75, nut $500.
Undertaking = Country, Thornburg
Bros; city, Ohio Valley Funeral Di-
rectors' Association, of Wheeling.
The complaint from Mr.. Hubbard
about sewerl from his property to
~ National R4ad was considered. and
~ over F' sss
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-16
FRED STACK pARDONED.
Governor Atkinson Orders His Re
lease and RENTS His Fine.

A Numerously Signed Petition for
His Pardon Presented to the Gov
ernor-Signed by Members Of the
Jury Which Rendered the Yer
dict Against Him = Was Con-
victed and Sentenced a Couple OF
Week Ago to Four, Months in jail
and a $50 Fine--Other Benwood
Notes.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-16

give Johns real name some of you
boys and girls would be surprised, for
to-day he is one Of the best known
g-distance riders in America.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-16

WANTED-MEMBER OF SECRET So.
c!etleS TO call at West Va. Printing Co.,
NO. l22o and 1927 Market street, ana exam
Inc samples OF address cards.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27
TIE WEALTH o. KLONDIKE.
Gold Hunters Will Push Work Actively
During the Winter.

Stories From the Field-Passengers
on the Colman Say the Great
Wealth Of the Region VIII Hold
Out, But the Amount Of Gold ID
Come Down This Fall Will Not
Be Large Only About 20 Claims
Worked During the Summer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27
WHEELING REGISTER. FRIDAY AUGUST q, 1897.

in duty bound, the Sheriff telegraphed
the Governor the condition Of affairs,
and asked that troops be sent 10 as
sist him to maintain the peace and en-
force the law. But the Governor was
not at the seat Of government, nor
was there any responsible person TO
2ct in his stead. The Gazette does not
believe that it ought to be necessary
to call out the troops TO superintend
the legal execution of a person con-
victed of an appalling crime. The fact
is the troops are called out 100 cften
and on very little provocation, but
that does not alter the fact that il
the Sheriff Of the county and the judge
of the circuit, thought that an emer-
gency existed and called upon the Gov
ernor for troops, the Governor ought to
be in his ONCE to give G7oper consider
alton to the application.
Charleston is the seat Of government.
It is a beautiful city, snugly nesting
between two mighty streams and sur
rounded by verdant hills. There IS
a comfortable and commodlous man
sion set apart Dy the people Of the
State in which the Governor is expect
ed to reside. The Governor ought TO
occupy the mansion more in the future
than he has up 10 this time during
his term. He ought not 20 wander
of over the land, leaving tae affairs
Of State to the crude and irresponsi-
bic care of clerks. The Governor Of
West Virginia ought TO be at the
capital Of West Virginia when ne is
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27

Where the Governor should BE Found
When Needed and Wanted.

Where the Governor should BE Found
When Needed and Wanted.
Charleston Gazette.
The proper place for the Governor
Of a State is at the seat Of govern
ment. There the business inuusted
by the people to the Governor ought to
be transacted. 1t is there the people,
private and official, expect to find
the Governor, and there they address
their communications.
The Gazetts is net disposed TO be
queculous with Governor Atkinson. We
regard him as good-natured, we'll
nearing man, somewhat disposed to
take life easy and not become round
shou'dered by the cares of the State.
We have even excused his letter writ
ing. which is more than his own par
tisaus have done. and we have condon-
ed some Of his State papers which
have successfully chilled or shocked
the country.
We are aware that the Governor
likes 70 hear himself talk and never
Willingly misses an opportunity TO
thrill with his eloQuence the listening
multitude. From Montreal to Chicago,
from Louisville TO Mountain Lake
Park. he has wandered in search Of
audiences 10 hold with his glittering
eve and excite with his pussiant power
Of speech. We want it to be distinctly
understood that We are advocates OF
free speech, and would not deprive
even a foolish talker Of the right to
be tickled by the music Of his own
words. But Governor Atkinson is neg
lecting the public business in the inter
est Of speech making, and this was
not nominated in the bond.
On Monday the sheriff of Fayette
county telegraphed the Governor that
there was serious danger Of riot and
anarchy at the county seat of his coun-
". A negro convicted Of the crime
Of rape on a white woman was under
sentence of death, and a lawless crowd
Of negroes threatened TO prevent the
sheriff from executing the law. As
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27

among them. He took from his four
teen claims 1870 but reinvested
most of it.
Victoria, B. c., August 26.-More
gold news has come from the Klon-
dixie The steamer City of Topeka,
which. has just arrived here, left Ju-
neau just after the arrival there of
Joe Berch, James Mckay and Archie
Shelp, who made the trip from Dawson
City TO Dyea in twenty days. They
did not come any further than Juneau,
but intend to go back TO the mines.
They had rough trip, having TO pad
die and row their boat up the rivers.
Shelp, in conversation with one Of
the passengers who came down on
the Topeka, spoke very highly Of
Stewart and Indian rivers, and al
though there have been no remarka-
Bile finds, from $4,000 TO $4,000 being
taken out of these rivers.
The steamer Portland is due from
St. Michaels to-day, and for many days
speculation has been rife as 10 the
amount of gold she will bring down
from the Klondike fields. Every avail
able tugboat on Puget Sound has been
pressed into service by various news
papers and the race from the Straits
Of Fuca to the nearest telegraph sta
ton will be an exciting one. The
weather down the Straits is very thick
this morning and the Portland can
easily slip in without being sighted.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27
MURDER OF TINE BABY.

"Arter we got the children here VIII
pic told me about killing the baby up
an Tuscarawas county. That baby was
the child of my first vile and Of the
man she ran away with, and thus was
WilHe's h8,f-hr0th6r. The George
} Crago who helped Willie do the killing
was a cousin. not the brother Of my
son. Wuie's little deaf sister says
the story he tells about the killing is
true and have no reason 20 doubt
the children. for the little sirl is al
wsvs truthful. and. however bad vii
lie NAV be in other ways, he is not
given 10 lying.
"Since Willie has been at home he
has given me a great deal az trouble
about the chickens and turkeys and
the other living things about the farm.
He would torment the piss, beat the
cats and dcgs with sticks and would
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27

kill chickens and turkeys whenever he
could catch them. Why. l had a fine
flock of a dozen or so young turkeys,
and he killed them all but one. He
never seemed to be especially angry
about the things he killed, and just did
Ii, he said, for amusement. lie would
own up every time, and never seemed
to think he had done anything parti-
cularly wrong
SOUGHT REVENGE IN MURDER.
One day he got mad at me because
l asked him to go to the spring and
get me a drink Of water, and he told
his sister about IL and said 10 her: l
will get even with the old man, you
bet I'll just kill that baby The lit
tie girl told me about il once, and then
l tried 10 get Willie 20 say he was sor-
~ for saying it, and that he really did
not mean It, When he refused | whip
ned him. He was sJiil contrary, and
finally my wife told me to stop whip
ping him and We would try 70 teach
him better with kindness. 1t wasn't
any use, and at last / found he had
hidden a knife Under the porch, in
tending TO use it in killing the baby.
He owned up right away when I
asked him about it, but he wouldn't
promise to be good, and I was Just
forced to have him taken before the
squire and sent to the farm.
Say, do you think they will treat
him we'll there? And do YOU suppose
they'll let me see him? On, III go up
as often as I can, if they will let me
see him. / think a lot Of my boy, and
I'd like to keep him with me and give
him good education. l haven't got
as much TO give my boy as some fam
erS, but I'd do my best by him"
RESEMBLES HIS MOTHER.
Willie is said TO strikingly resemble
his mother, having The same large,
brown, wide open eyes. These eyes,
by the way, are one Of the boys strik-
ing features, especially when seen in
daylight. They are soft and lustrous,
twinking with merriment, or rair-y
livid with rage, as his shifting moods
may be. Set wide apart in his trian-
gular face, which spreads from the
pointed chih-p- the top OF his tralght
high forehead the eyes would attract
s'tention anywhere. They are not
shifty, as might be expected, but even
in the boys calmest moments they re-
gard one with a steady and penetrating
stare. The mother is said to have had
a high temper. with dangerous disre-
gard for the personal well being and
safety against those whom her wrath
might be aroused.
GRANDFATHER A VIOLENT MAN.
Her father, the boys maternal
grandfather already mentioned, is said
to have been VIOLENT in his rage. No
members Of the family on either side,
so far as can be learned. have been
epileptics. and none Of them within
the three generations Of which person
al recollectiOns exist have been men or
women Of what would not be called
the degenerate type. Disciples Of the
Nordau school perhaps will be pleas
ed to learn that in its reyersion the
type has reached backward so far The
country physician over in Newport
summed the whole situation up when
he expressed professionally his opin-
ion to the COmmerCial-Tribune CORE
spondent to-day: "The boy was born
that way" this doctor said, and he'll
never oct over il "
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27

Port Townsend, Wash, August 90
The schooner Fred E. Sanders arrived
this morning thirty days late from st.
Michaels, with six passengers from the
Klondike country. They are J. S.
Dinsmore, a well-known merchant of
Eureka, Cal; Charles Vest, Of Port
land, Ore; james McNamee, Of Jun
eau; ]. l.. Lowe, a well-known miner
Of Puget Sound, and Henry Ash and
wife, of Dawson City. Only three Of
the number have been engaged in min
ing, but all are much pleased with
their prospects and intend to return
in the spring. The total in nuggets
brought by the Sanders is about $50
600. James McNamee, Of Juneau, who
is on his way TO Bartlett Springs, Cal,
probably made the luckiest strike
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27
THE CHILD WAS A NEMESIS.
Willie CragO'S Mother ElOped, Taking
Him With Her.

It Was Her Lovers Child Who
Was Slain BY Him-The Boy
Murdered His Half Brother-The
Lads Father Talks-His Grand
father and Mother Were Violent.
he is Incapable of Reform-Ad-
mits Attempts of Murder, But
Shows No Remorss-COntradic-
tory Nature Of the Lad.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27

among them. He took from his four
teen claims $4,000, but reinvested
most of il.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27
WILLIE,s MOTHER ELOPED

willie was born on a farm near
-subenville. Jefferson county" said
"aDd his mother was my first wife.
~ left me and went away with an
Other man, taking Willie and his baby
sister along. That Vas nine years ago,
and MP TO that time we had noticed
wrong with the boy, except
that he had q very high temper and
that he sometimes had fits When he
was i'm q fit his little hands would close
tight. with the fingers hooked like
claws. and all of his muscles would be
set and rigid. The fits do not last long
and as they die no, come on him very
often we did not think much Of &c..
After my first wife left l cot a di-
vOrce. I wish I had the papers here
TO show them 10 You. but they are at
the house. Then 7 married nv second
wife. and I heard that my first wife
was living I'm TUsc3r3was county and
was married to the man she ran away
with. After that I Md -l lost track
Of Them until last 'viv err
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27
CONTRADICTIONS QUALITIES.

He is generous, and. in some Of his
childish ways, is really delicate. But
he is highly emotional, easily excited
20 rage, uncomfortable when in that
state, and is as variable in looks as a
human being well could be. When he
trOtted along by the side Of the big and
gOOd-natured Sheriff McCallister on
his way 70 the train to be taken 70
Lancaster this morning, the lad was
hanging tightly to q sack Of peanuts
and chatting in high glee. Fifteen
minutes before he may have been in a
parOXysm Of rage, so quickly does the
sunshine follow the storm in his tenn
permanent. Aud it has been that way
since Willie was a babe I'm arms.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27
Special to the Register.

SPECIAL 10 the Register.
Marietta, Ohio, August 26.-When
nature planned to reproduce in little
eleven-year-old Willie Crago some Of
the lack Of moral perception belonging
TO a vicious ancestry, it was with the
third, perhaps even the fourth or fifth
generation IN perspective. Certainly
in his immediate parentage there can
be found no sufficient perversi0n to ac-
count for the boys manifest desener-
Rcy.
Joseph Crago, so far as his personal
appearance goes, looks anything but
the father Of such q son. The faint
seems to be on the other side of the
house. The first stopping place in the
line of inquiry on the mothers side
would be the maternal grandfather.
In many res IT'S the case Of Willie
CragO will one an even more instruc-
tive field for scientific investigation
than did that of IL lamOus Jesse Pom
eroy. The utter lack Of moral vision
on the boys part is Joined With very
correct initiation at least Of some Of
the finest seOsihfftf.1
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-03-16
CURE CONSUMPTION.

4. A. SLoCUM, NJ. C., THE GREAT CHEMIST Az 4
SCIENTIST, OFFERS TO SEND FREE, 10 Tai
AFFLICTED, THREE RoTTLkS OF Hts NEWT :
DISCoy FRED REMEDIES TO CURE CoNSCMPTiC>
AND ALL LUNG TRoUBIIS.
Nothing could be fairer, more philanthropf'
or carry more JOY in its wake than the one
OF r. A. SlocuIn, Nj. c., OF IS Pine street, Ner
York City.
Confident that he has discovered Al
absolute cure for consumption and all put
m, nary complaints, ard to make Its gresi'
merits known, he will send, Tree, lnrt'
bottles 1.-THE SIOcuni new system 0l lneUlrlH' :
To any reader Of the River Falls IINf~
who is suffering from chest, throat al
lung troubles or consumption.
HeinIites those DESTROYS OF obtaining H.
remedies to simply send HIM their expires
ard postoffice aureSS and receive IN FeIutl
the three free bottles.
Already this "new scientific course g
medicine" has permantly cured thouSanG~
of apparently hopeless cases.
He considers it his rel gious duty-a duf!
which he owes to humanIty-tO oOnaIe hl:'
infal,ible cure.
Offered freely, apart from It's inherent
more SO is the perfect confidence OF tn
great chemist making the offer.
He has proved consumption to be curabl'
disease beyond any donbt.
There will he no mistake in sending-th'
mistake will be in overlooking the Doctor :
generous invitation. He has on file In Ms
american and European laboratories thout-
ands of testimonials of experience lroI
those cured, in all parts OF the Wor'0;
T. A. Slocum nj. c., 9S Pine street, New YORK.
and when writing the Doctor, please ne mel
ton reading this article IN the River raI'H
TIMES
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-03-16

DR. REA is president of the Southern
Medical Institu tie, Louisville, KY, with es-
tablished offices in some of the best cities in
the United States. Incorporated under the
state law in 1881
DR. REA has no superior in diagnosing
and treating diseases and defOrmitieS. He
will give $50 for any case that he cannot tell
the disease and where located in fl ve minutes
All durable medical and surgical diseases,
acute and chronic catarrh, diseases of the eye,
ear, nose, throat, lungs, liver and stomach
treated and cured by modern methods. Dys-
pepsa, constipation, rheumatism. chronic
female diseases, neuralgia, Sciatica, dizziness,
nel vousness, slow growth in children. and all
washing diseases in adults cured. Deformities
cub feet, curvature of the spine, diseases of
the brain, diabetes, paralysis, BIights di-
seases, heart diseases, eczema. yaricole and
hydrOceIe properly treated. Cancers, tumors,
Wens birthmalkS, red nose and snperfiuOus
hair on the face or neck removed. Epilepsy
or fits cured Young, middle aged and old.
single or married men, and all who suffer
from lost manhood, nervous debility,
spermattOrl hoea seminal losses sexual de-
cay failing memory, weak eyes, stunted Ge-
velopoment. lack of energy, impoverished
blood, pimples, impediments to marriage;
also blood and skin diseases, SYPHILIS, erup-
tions, hair failing, bone pains, swellings,
sore throat, ulcers, effects of mercury, kidney
and blad Ell troubles, weak back, burning
urine, passing urine too often, gonorrhoea.
gIeet, structure receive searching treatment,
prompt relief and cure for life Both sexes
treated confidentially and privately. Piles,
fistula f1ssure and rupture cured by our new
methods.
Consultation in German and English free.
DIR. REA Il co.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-03-16

"There is one way to beat the
trusts says the Madison Democrat,
'.if the people will only do it. That
is to form great trn t TO go without.
its commodities. Such q universal
boycott would bring Il trust TO its
knees" But why 90 without things?
The farmers co, stitute the great bulk
of the people and they have the power
to supply themselves with nearly
every article of absolute necessity
from their farms, and with a little
effort and little sacrifice they could
live comparatively independent OF the
trusts They would then be- cisine
that tue Independence With Whiol
they are ere d,ted.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-03-16
G. T. u.
His Own Business.

"If q man wants to drink whls-
key, that's his business. " says the
saloon apologist.
Let see. When Bob Poland
and coon Parker were drinking IN
Hehin, Ala, last Saturday night,
and in their spree ian car OF the
Southern Railroad off the Switch
and out on the main track down
the grade, till it stopped on a high
trestle, it became the Southern
Railroads business.
And when loaded freight train
came along and rushed into the
car, causing 100000 wreck, de-
stroying much valuable merchant
disc, it became the business of a
great many merchants and ship
pers. as well as the railroad.
And " hen three dead bodies
were dug out from under the
wreck, it became the business OF
some wives and orphans.
And when the taxpayers are
called upon to support the families
whose natural providers 1--we thus
been taken away, it will become
tie business of several other people.
One mans drinking often be-
comes the business of several hum
dreds or thousands OF people, and
the man who cannot preceive this
fact ought to be sent at once to an
institution for the feeble minded.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-03-16

Secretary Wilson is running the De
part ment of Ayr cult ure as ii he'had
been there q year, instead OF a week
One OF the things he has done which
Sem to he excellent was to contract
for 5000 tons OF beet sugar seed.
which he intends to distribute in four
teen States, which have suitable sol
ana climate to raise beets. Five farmers
in every county IN those States VIII at
asked to plant these seeds and report
results. Secretary Wilson sees no
good reason for our importing beet
sugar from Germany, when we can
Just as we'll grow the beats and make
the sugar ourselves.