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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-15
WHEELING W. VA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER Is 1897

mob with the men, When I give or
ders I expect them to be obeyed."
''Is this policy you were carrying
out the instructions of the company"
he was asked.
''That was what was employed for.
Then l dismissed about eighty men,
but I never put anybody in their
places.
"On the night that the strikers came
to my house and stole 5000 worth of
silverware and broke the furniture, we
were armed and could have killed
hundred of them if we had wanted to-
1t was a drunken mob; that was all,
and l thought we had had enough
bloodshed"
Are you not afraid of violence at
the hands of the strikers if they get
hold of you?"
mo; I have been here every day
since the strike commenced 1 walk
the streets dav or night without run
ming any risk"
DO you anticipate trouble when the
Llen go back to work tomorrow?
No; l believe that the other opera
tors will grant the concessions that
1AC LiCH dSh III. IL UluSI COIIe SOIuS
time; wages had gotten to a point
where the men could hardly exist if
cut down any further"
Philadelphia, Pa, September IA
Austrian Consul Osthermeier says
from what his investigation shows
thus far, Austria will demand repara-
ton for the killing Of her subjects at
Latimer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-15
PEACEFUL ABOUT HAZLETON.
Pennsylvania Militiamen Have the
Foreigners Under Cow.

Strikers Amazed by the Rapid and
Orderly Movements of the Ma
tional Observation-Disclosures
City Troop Had Its March Over
the Mountains for NOthing-Au
the Trouble Over Before They
Arrived-NO More Deaths from
Fridays Shooting.
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CLAIMS A CENTURY OLD.
Pennsylvania Farmers Called to Pay
$1,000, 900 to the State.

Pennsylvania Farmers Called to Pay
$1,000, 900 to the State.
In accordance with the provisions Of a
new law many Pennsylvania land owners
are now being called upon by the State to
pay over about 81 ,OOO,O0 in cash owing to
the Commonwealth for over 100 years, and
they are much perturbed. The debt Is upon
lands bought from the State, part pay
ments on which only had been made.
Every county In the State is concerned.
Schuylkill County owes S23, 900; Lehigh,
$20, 900; Chester, $50, 1000; Lancaster, S70,-
900; Lebanon, $4,000; Montgomery, S10,-
600, and so on. The forefathers Of famous
old Daniel Boone's father and grandfather,
who bought lands from Pennsylvania, ly-
ing along the Tulpehocken Creek, Berks
County, failed to pay cent Of the purchase
money, and all this must be paid by the
present innocent owners Of the lands,
amounting to quite sum. 1t must either
be paid in fifteen days, or 1t will be lien
upon the property. The father Of Daniel
Boone bought 160 acres in Cumree town
ship, near Reading, but paid nothing on 1t.
Abraham Lincoln's ancestors also bought
many acres in 1870, but they paid every
penny, spot cash, for all the land they bar
gaiAed for. Hundreds Of farmers feel like
contesting these century old claims, but the
lawyers say that they had better pay them,
as with the accumulating interest after
awhile the claims will be so high that they
can't pay at all.
In some cases nearly every dollar Of the
farmers profits for the season will be re.
quired to pay this Indebtedness.
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Foreign.

The Spanish Cabinet has resigned. The
Queen accepted the Ministers designations,
but asked General Azcarraga, the Premier,
to continue In Office until q solution OF the
crisis could be found.
Horatio avid Davies Conservative mem
Der of Parliament for Chatham, has been
chosen Lord Mayor OF London, to succeed
Sir George Faudel Phillips in November.
A fire at Manila, chief city OF the Philip
pine Islands, destroyed many public build
ings, involving great pecuniary loss, and
resulted in panic in which large num-
ber Of persons were burned to death,
trampled upon or otherwise seriously in.
jured.
A plague search party has beal mobbed
at Igatpuria, India. Four members Of the
party, including a surgeon, were severely
wounded.
Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria has
forbidden the prosecution Of Count Ba-
denyi, the Austrian Premier, for his recent
duel
1t has just been made public that an
elaborate plot to kill the Gear and Czarina
OF Russia was concocted during their re-.
cent visit to Warsaw. The conspirators
dug tunnel, which. led to the royal castle,
but were discovered. More than 120 ar.
rests were made.
The British forces razed the villages and
towers OF rebel tribesmen on the African
frontier.
Anarchists were arrested In Madrid and
a number OF bombs seized.
President Barrios, OF Guatemala, has put
O price Of 800 900 on the heads of the in
surGent leaders, Prospero Morales and
Manuel Fuentes.
A Yukon expedition, with the Canadian
Minister Of the Interior at Its head, left Of
tawa for the Klondike country. A line OF
airships through Western Canada to Klon-
dixie is talked Of at Ottawa, where al air
ship is to be built.
public meeting in Athens called upon
the Greek Cabinet to renew the war with
Turkey rather than accept the peace treaty.
Barrios, the Dictator in Guatemala, had
Juan Aparacio, the wealthiest exporter and
importer in Nicaragua, put to death.
Arrangements have been completed for
the cession by Italy of Kassala, Abyssinia
to Great Britain
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the world for manipulating human bodies.
All Of Atkinsons work is done by the SIM
pie use Of his hands, He has no instru.
ments and uses no appliances or remedies.
When a patient comes to him he examines
him carefully, and then rubs and pushes
his muscles and bones into place.
Atkinson's career began when he was
boy and had an opportunity to watch the
famous bonesetter, Hutton. For a long
time he devoted himself to healing animals,
work which had to be done without putting
patients to bed and without their taking
care Of themselves. Then he applied the
knowledge he had gained to the treatment
Of human beings. Professor Atkinson has
two homes in London, at one Of which he
receives the poor gratuitously, and at the
other of which he receives his rich and
sristocratic patients. Among those he has
cured have been the Duchess Of Sutherland,
George Lambton, Prince Henry OF Pless,
Duke Ernst Gunther OF Schleswig-
and Lord Hyde.
At the request Of New York newspaper
Professor Atkinson Is treating free OF
charge all the mained and the halt who are
brought to him at public hall In the
METROPOLIS.
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The meeting grew out Of insults ad.
dressed by DR.. Wolff to the Premier during
a session Of the Unterhaus, involving q
charge of "rascelity."
DR.. Wolff fought duel with swords on
May s with Herr Horica, Czech member
Of the Unterhaus, as result OF violent
scenes in the House between the Germans
and Czechs, In which personalities were ex-
changed.
Count Badeni was formerly Governor OF
ialicia. He Is young and able Pole, but
very little known, even in Austria, until he
was unexpectedly called upon to form a
Cabinet in September, 1896, when he as
sumed the duties of President Of the Coun-
,il OF Ministers and Minister of the Interior.
His robility dates back only to his father.
Bis mothers brother, Count Mier, mar
red the famous German actress, Anna
Wierer, who eventually left her large for
tune to her two nephews, Count Casimtr
Badeni, the present Premier, and his younger
brother
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FIVE MINERS SUFFocATEp
Overcome by "Black Damp" in Penn
sylvania Mine.

Overcome by "Black Damp" in Penn
sylvania Mine.
Five men met horrible death from
BLACK damp" the after accumulation Of a
fire, in the Jermyn No. mine near Rend-
ham, Penn. The dead are Isaac Watkins,
fire boss; William Thompkins, Joseph
Smith. John Gallagher und William Frank
lin. company men.
The bodies Of all but Watkins were dis
covered by man who went down into the
mine with supplies to combat the fire.
The men who lost their lives represented
one "shift." They went on duty at o'clock,
and nobody knew Of their death until the
discovery OF the lifeless bodies. Not man
In the party survived to tell the story.
In the case OF each body the head pointed
toward the shaft, indicating that they had
groped and struggled toward the shaft and
fresh air, while suffocation was overcoming
them
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BATTLES AMONG MINERS.
Sanguinary Conflicts Between Two
Factions in Pennsylvania
AN OUTCOME OF THE STRIKE.

Two Furious Fights in Which Guns,
Axes, Knives and Other Weapons
Were Used-At Least Nine Men Fatally
Wounded, and Forty More Injured
Many Ringleaders Put Under Arrest.
GIRARDv1ILE, Penn. (SpeciaD.-At least
nine men received fatal injuries and posi-.
bly, two score others were more or less Sc
riously wounded in bloody riot here late
at night and early in the morning. The
battle was the outcome OF q quarrel over
the Hazelton troubles.
Thirty-six men are known to have bee
wounded and about fifty more are being Sc
creted by their friends, who fear that they
will be sent to Jail. Twelve Of the ring
leaders were brought before Justice Elias
Kissinger, and ten before Justice Il. B.
Johnson.
All were charged with assault with in
tent to kill, housebreaking, and rioting,
and were held in heavy bail for court.
Many more warrants have been issued, but
have not been served as yet.
DR.. Charles Schlesman attended to
twenty-five Of the wounded, nine OF whom,
he says, will die. Drs. William Monogram
and Joseph Donaghue attended to four
teen others, and how many the other
physicians cared for is not known.
Several hundred Polanders board at Will
lam Culacabbage's hotel on Second street.
Joseph CaYendish is proprietor Of hotel
at the east end Of town, where several hun
dred iSore Polanders make their headquar-
ters. Bad blood has always existed be-
tween them for long time and the recent
strike troubles at Hazleton embittered them
still more.
Culacabbage, it is charged, and his fol-
lowers to the number Of several hundred,
arming themselves with guns, revolvers,
knives, axes, and clubs, marched to Cayen.
dish's Hotel, where several hundred OF
their enemies were celebrating pay day.
The Cavendish men ascertained that their
foes were marching on them and arming
themselves hurriedly awaited their arrival.
After demonstrative march the Culacab-
bage contingent arrived and Immediately
stormed the saloon.
" Then bloody battle ensued. The men
fought like demons; the shooting was fast
and furious; axes, knives, clubs, and other
weapons were used with deadly effect. The
battle lasted almost an hour, when the
Culacab6ageg gang was routed, leaving their
Everything in the house was smashed,
and the floors were strewn with wounded
men. The walls were bespattered with
blood and shreds of human flesh.
After the routed rioters had returned to
their headquarters the Cavendish men
armed themselves to the teeth and marched
to their enemies rendezvous, where bat
tie still bloodier than the first ensued. The
police force and the constables Of the sur
rounding region were called to the scene,
but were unable to cope with the rioting
horde, who continued hostil.ties until
morning.
The townspeople did not sleep wink all
night, and while they watched the progress
of the fight during the night they made no
attempt to interfere. The residences Of
many citizens were damaged, and several
outsiders were wounded.
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An Eccentric Rothschild.

Baron William Rothschild, the
present representative of the great
family of bankers in Frankfort, Ger
many, is q very eccentric man. He
is recluse. He lives within himself,
and does not seem to enjoy the society
Of his fellow-men. His habits are
those of an anchorite. No monk OF
the middle ages was more scrupulous
about his religious duties or more sb-
stemious in his diet. Baron William
observes all the Mosaic injunctions.
He takes his own cook and cooking
utensils wherever he goes, and has his
food prepared according to the strict
est Jewish regimen. He will never
sit at the same table with Christian,
nor partake of food from which q
Christian has eaten. He is always
very courteous, and even deferential
in his manners, but if he is in the
same room with Christian who is
standing Baron Rothschild will sit
down. If the Christian sits down he
rises. In the plain little Office where
he receives those who have business
with him there is only one chair. The
entire furnishings Of the room would
not bring S5 at auction. He hos the
same desk and other furniture that
was used by his father and grand
father, and I was informed that he
has written with the same quill pen
for more than forty years, but. that
may be ON exaggeration. he has,
however, worn the same hat for nearly
o quarter Of century, and it is said
that he buys a new suit Of clothes
every fifth year.
This is not due to parsimony, be-
cause Baron Roshschild's residences
are numerous and palatial, he has
host Of servants, fine horses and car
riages, and his family fare sumptuous-
ly every day. He is very generous,
and gives to several men OF his race
more money every year as a charity
than he spends for his own comfort.
His wants ore few. It is his pleasure
to live simply, and he enjoys his own
society more than that of other men.
-Chicaoo Record.
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Changes in tho Typo Of Races.

Some astonishing changes in the
physical type Of races as result OF
Intercourse with foreigners have been
pointed out by NJ. Alber t Gauttard
to the French Ethnographic Society.
The Japanese, who since the revolt
ton Of 1868 have been rapidly adopt
ing European modes Of life, are losing
the eccentricity Of their eyes and the
prominence of their cheek bones, while
recently born children have less fiat
tened noses than their ancestors, with
a skin not so yellow. Europeans set
tling in Japan, on the other hand,
gradually lose the rosy color OF their
skin, and tend to acquire nh eccentric
ity in the eye. Another instance IS
reported by Adhemar Leclere, who
has observed in Cambodia striking
change in his countrymen, the French
residents soon beginning to acquire
the type and the gait of the natives.
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OCEAN RECORD SMASHED.
New SteamBhip Kaiser Wilhelm Der
Crosse q Marine Marvel.

New Steamghip Kaiser Wilhelm Der
Crosse Marine Marvel.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, the larg-
sst ocean steamship afloat, arrived of
Sandy Hook Lightship Sunday evening at
3.05 o'clock, having broken all records for
the Western passage from Southampton.
It was the maiden trip of the Kaiser, and
she not only justified the great hopes that
were entertained for her by her builders
and owners, but exceeded them In the
bargain. She crossed the Atlantic in five
days twenty-five hours and forty-hve
minutes, lowering the time between ports
one hour and forty-six minutes.
The previous record held by the American
Line steamship st. Paul was six days thir.
ty-one minutes.
Not only has the big ship beaten the
Southampton record, but she has also to
the credit of her maiden trip the fastest
single days run. On the nautical day end
Ing at noon Sunday she reeled of 564 knots,
exceeding by two knots the fastest days
run by the steamship Lucania.
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THE FIRST UMBRELLA.
Just LAT Years Ago Jonas Hanway Car
ried One in London Streets.

The umbrella is a comparatively
modern feature of European civiliza-
ton.
In 1850 Jonas Hanway, q Quaker,
first went through the streets of Lon
don carrying an umbrella. Three
years from now, in 1900, it will be
meet to celebrate the sesquicenten.
NAL Of this most useful implement.
As this is ar age of celebration it is
not likely that so good an opportunity
will be missed. Already in London
they are discussing the proper manner
Of doing homage to the umbrella.
MIR. Hanway was man of strong
character, but it required all his cour-
age to brave the London crowd with
his strange rain shield. The inhabi-
tants of that great metropolis received
him with jeers and even more sub
stantial marks of disapproval. But
he was imperturbable, and in conse-
quence of his example the umbrella
came very rapidly into general use.
Hanway had travelled much in the
East, and there he had noted the
great benefits derived by the natives
from the umbrella, both as o protec-
ton against the sun and rain. The
East, with its infinitely older civiliza-
tion, had been familiar with this as
with 80 many other useful articles at 9
time when Europe was in the widest
savagery.
Umbrellas were known to the Egyp-
tions, and we're certainly used oy the
ancient Hindoos. The umbrella is
mentioned in a poem of Sskuntala,
written in the sixth century, and it
figures in various bas-reliefs among
the Ninevah sculptures discovered by
Sir Henry Lsyard. The Chinese
"Book of the Rites of Tcheon," print
ed about the year 800, containing
description Of veritable CAMP. And
it is on record that when the son Of
the then Emperor of China was cap
tured in the second Tartar invasion,
he was made to carry the umbrella of
the Tartar chief when he went out
hunting.
The parasol was invariably carried
by the high-bred danes in ancient
Greece, and white parapluie was
borne by the priestesses of the god
dess Athene in the annual Scirophoria.
Tho fashion migrated also to Rome,
where the umbraculum carried by the
women, and even by some of the men,
was made of leather, and could be
opened and shut. This fact is mem
toned by Martial, Juvenal and Ovid;
while the latter also speaks of Ga
golden umbrella which warded off the
keen sum-" v
In Siam the umbrella has always
been regardedas mark Of distinction,
and NJ, de Loubere, in his work on
that country, tells us how the use Of
the umbrella was only granted to cer-
tain of the Kings subjects. The
King was invariably protected in his
progresses by an umbrella, appearing
as if three separate projections had
been mounted on ono stick, one over
the other. Tavernier speaks, in his
''Voyage to the East" of the throne
of the Great Mogul being supported
on either side by an umbrella. The
princes OF the Mahratta provinces in
India bore the title Of Chatrapati
(Lord of the Umbrella): while in Ava,
to this present day, the title of the
ruler is ''King of the White Elephant
and Lord of the Twenty-four Um-
brellas. New York Journal.
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OHIO VILLAGE FIRE SWEPT.
iwo Men Lose Their Lives and Seven

iwo Men Lose Their Lives and Seven
Others Are Hurt.
The village Of cambridge, Ohio, has been
he scene OF disastrous fire. An entire
square, containing most Of the prominent
business houses, several handsome resi-.
iences and the Methodist Episcopal Church,
vas entirely destroyed, and two prominent
nen lost their lives In an explosion which
occurred in the drug store Of W. P. Boards
ey.
The fire was started in a barn In the. rear
IT PERIL Browns general store by two lit
lie boys who were playing with matches:
The flames spread rapidly. 1nthe midst OF
The excitement a terrible explosion oc-
,urred In the drug store, and Mr. Boards
ey, who was trying to save some OF his
property, lost his life. His brother-in-law,
Thomas Higgins, who went to his rescue,
vas unable to get out, and was burned to
death, while seven other men were more or
less injured, but none fatally.
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A FARMERS AWFUL CRIME.
Murders His Wife and Six Children and
Gives Himself Fatal Wound.

John Boecker, German farmer living
eight miles from Carroll, Iowa, murdered
his wife and five children and fatally
wounded his eight-year-old son, Henry.
Afterward the fenIish or demented can
sent bullet into his own head, inflicting a
fatal wound. The family were prosperous
Germans and, as far as is known, lived
happily. No motive for the tragedy has
baen disclosed. Boecker's victims are his
wife and these children: Caroline, aged
fourteen; Christine, aged nine; Henry, aged
eight; Lizzie, aged six; John, aged three,
and an infant
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Prominent People.

The Countess Of Ancastcr has started. in
London, crusade against the modern
dance, which she thinks is degenerating
into mere romp.
D.L. Moody, the evangelist, will lead a
revival in Philadelphia during the coming
winter.
Miss Stella Strait, of Fort Scott, Kan. has
been nominated for County Register of
Convention. The office is one of the best
paid in the county.
Mabande DUDE, student OF Wilberforce
College, Ohio, Is a Zulu. Two Of his broth
ers are also in this country, and the three
are preparing themselves for the work OF
enlightening their countrymen.
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THE NEWS EPIToMIZED.
Washington Items.

President Mckinley and his party have
returned to Washington from their trip to
Massachusetts,.
Fire entirely destroyed the central power
station Of the Capital Traction Company in
Washington. Adjoining buildings were
Quilted. The total loss Is estimated ut
s5OO,0OO.
Senator Wilson, OF Washington, says that
a scheme Of government for Hawaii had
already been considered by several Sena-
tors.
Secretary Wilson will ask Congress for
a large appropriation for the Bureau Of
Annual Industry, the Farmers Bulletins
and the Weather Bureau.
1t is said In Washington that the pur-
chase Of Cuba from Spain by the islanders
will figure largely in the negotiations to be
carried on at Madrid by Minister Wood
ford, looking to termination of the war
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TWELVE MEN KILLED.
Miners Buried Alive by the Gazing In ot
Nina In MeyicO.

Miners Buried Alive by the Gazing In OF
Mine in Mexico.
The San Pedro Mine In tho Corralitos
group, twelve miles from Ell Paso in
Mexico, caved in, killing twelve men. The
unfortunates were buried alive under
thirty feet of rock and dirt.
: The San Pedro Is one Of the oldest mines
of the group and rich with silver. 1t is the
property Of the wealthy Corralitos Com
pany, the principal stockholders Of which
reside in New York. President Gerry, OF
the Rio Grande, Sierra Modre, and Pacific
Roads, and J. Higgins, both OF New York,
are stockholders.
II the mine was not timbered the Mexi-
can Government would impose heavy
fine on the company on account OF the
wholesale killing
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The bodies Of two victims of the recent
wreck on the Colorado Midland, Denver
and Rio Grande Railroad at Newcastle, Col.r
have been identified as those Of Elmer E.
Black, for many years an engineer on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and his wife, for.
merly Miss Wilson, Of Derry, Penn. to
whom he was married on August 25. The
two were on their wedding tour
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A NATURAL soNESETTER.
Professor John Atkinson. n Noted English.
man, at Work In New York.

man, at WorK III NeW IUrK'
Professor John Atkinson, bonesetter, has
come to this country from England to set
the bones and cure the deiormities Of the
afflicted. Asa bonesetter he claims to have
no equal He says he is not doctor nor q
surgeon, but just man who has studied
bones and joints and the best ways Of treat
ing them, until he is able to move them
back into their normal form when they have
been displaced or injured. Atkinson has
the most powerful pair OF hands in the
world. They may not have the greatest
amount OF crude strength, although the
feats he can do by his mere grasp are no
mean ones, but he claims they are at least
the best trained and most capable hands IN