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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
NOVEM Der EXPORTS.
Statistics Show an Increase OF Five Million
Dollars over October

Washington, December 1.-THE
statement of the principal articles Of
domestic export (about SO per cent.
of the whole, for the month of No
vember, issued from the Bureau of
Statistics Of the Treasury Department
to-day, shows a total Of $50 1923, 500, an
increase over October of more than
S. ,000, coo, and over the same month
last year of $1,000 900. The increase
over November, 1895, is S22 1000, 900,
and over November, 1894, s24,000.000
The increases are mainly exports of
corn, oats, oatmeal. rye and wheat
There is a large increase Of shipments
of corn from Philadelphia and Balti-
more, and of wheat from Baltimore
and New Orleans There is a de-
crease from the month Of October in
the exports of mineral oils amounting
to sips. 600 gallons, but the loss is
more than made up by the increase in
values, il appearing that the exports
of mineral oils for November, not
withstanding the loss in quantity, ex-
ceeded in value those OF October.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
AFTER A SCALP
That Seems Hard to Neutrality-suspicious.
DORIS Charges Apparently Not sustain

That Seems Hard to Raise-Congressman
DORIS Charges Apparently Not sustain
ed.
Special to the Register.
Washington. December 11-Judge
Saunders, of the Circuit Court Of Blue
field. and Senator Matthews and City
Clerk Brady, of Moundsville, are in
Washington trying to get action in the
case of Democratic Postmaster john
son, of Bluefield, against whom charges
were filed months ago. At the request
of Congressman Dorr the P0sIoffice De-
part sent special inspector to Blue
field to investigate the charges against
Postmaster Johnson. This inspector
performed his duties and turned his re-
port in to the department long ago.
What the nature Of the report is has
not been disclosed, but presumably it
was not very damaging to Postmaster
Johnson or the Postmaster General
would have cut that officials head off
before this. Congressman Dorr has
tried several times to secure action on
the report, and the removal of the post
master but without success. Under the
spur Of the visit of Judge Saunders and
Senator Matthews, no doubt Mr.. Dorr
will make another effort 10 get Post
master Johnson's scalp. but whether he
will have any better success than be-
fore is questionable. Mr. Johnson's
term will not expire for about year
yet.
Or. L. V. Gutherie, superintendent Of
the hospital for the insane at Spencer,
Mrs. Gutherie, DR.. McElfresh. of Point
Pleasant, Miss Beab and other ladies
of the same town, are in Washington
on a little pleasure jaunt which will
take in Baltimore and other cities be-
fore they return home.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
HELPING UNCLE SAM
II the Natter of Handling the United States
Mail-Assorted Before Sent to the Post

IL the Natter of Handling the United States
MaiI-Assorted Before Sent to the Post
Once.
Washington, December 11.-For some
time the Postoffice Department has been
making an effort to have the large pub
fishing houses in the principal cities
send their mailing matter to the gen.
eral postoffices assorted and separated
for the particular localities for which
it is intended, instead of dispatching it
to the Office in mass, there TO be sepa-
rated by the clerks. The suggestion
has been put in practical operation by
many of the newspapers and publishing
houses, and has resulted in greatly ex-
pediting the handling of the mails.
Within the past year the newspapers
and publishing houses in Pittsburg
adopted the plan. In recent letter to
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Shallenberger, Assistant Railway Mail
Superintendent Jackson gives the re-
suits of his observations of the pro-
gress that has been made. In January
and February Of this year he says II
per cent of the mail sent to the general
office was mixed matter. In July this
had decreased to 65 per cent, while last
month the count of the matter sent by
about thirty-five Of the principal pub
fishing houses showed a reduction in
mixed matter to II per cent. Houses
that were sending in as much as 80
per cent of their matter in mixed shape
now send in only six per cent in that
manner.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
GARDINER c. HUBBARD,
Well Known Public Man and Scientist,
Dead at His Home Near Washington.

A w ell AuOWn fuDUC MAN ana Sclouttses
Dead at His Home Near Washington.
Washington, December 11.-Gardir-
er C. Hubbard, director in the Bell
Telephone Company, and we'll known
to public men, scientists and inan-
ciers, died at Twin Oaks" his subur-
ban residence, few miles from this
city, at an early hour this morning.
His death was due to complication or
diseases and to age, he being in his
seventy-sixth year. He had been In
poor health for some time, but it was
not until yesterday that his condition
became alarming. Mr.. Hubbard was
of New England ancestry, and his
progenitors had occupied prominent
place in the history of the Common
wealth of Massachusetts,.
He was born in Boston in 1922, and
was graduated from Dartmouth in
1871. He then entered the law school
at Cambridge, and on admission to the
bar practiced law in Boston until 1878,
when ne removed to Washington to
secure a milder> climate. He early be-
came interested in the Bell telephone,
and in 1878 retired from practice of
the law to devote himself to its inter-
est. He was the controlling spirit in
its financial affairs during the next
five years. After it was introduced
successfully in this country, he crossed
to the old world and organized the In
ternational, Oriental and other COM
panies. He secured important conces-
sions from the Russian government
and installed a splendid system in the
>emYjT>of the car. His next import
ant servica. for. the company was in
connection with she celebrated Ber-
liner patent, which he so managed as
to prolong greatly the Bell company's
control of the telephone field. ~
Prior to coming to Washington he
had been connected with several of
the important enterprises of Cam
bridge and also had taken an active
interest in deaf--mute education, his
daughter Losing her hearing as the re-
sult-of severe illness. He was APP
pointed by President Grant special
commissioner to report on railroad
mail transportation and instituted
many important reforms in the railway
mail service He. was an earnest and
persistent advocate of postal tele-
graph system under government con-
troll He was president Of the National
Geographic Society, first vice president
Of the American Association to Pro-
mote Oral Instruction of the Deaf, and
of the American Association of Inven-
tors and Manufacturers. He leaves a
valuable estate.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
AN UNUSUAL HONOR.

Berlin, December 1.-THE represcn.
tative here of the Associated Press Il
informed that Prince Henry, Of Prus
STA, who has been appointed to tde
command OF the second German squad.
ron on the coast Of China, will visit
Pekin, where the Chinese emperor WI
receive him as an equal. an unusuai
honor. Prince Henry, 1t Is announced
is ri1e bearer OF message from Enc.
peror William to the Chinese Emperor
in which is included a programme OF
Chinese reforms.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
CoNCEs sIONS BY CHINA.
The Difficulty With Germany is Practically
Closed.

Pekin, December 1.-THE German
Chinese difficulty Is practically settled.
The Germans refuse to discuss the oc-
cupation Of Kiao-Chou bay; the govern
or Of Slantang province has
been removed from Office, but
will not be any further de-
graded; no monopoly of mines and
railroads is conceded to Germany; but
that country is gwen preference. Final
ly the area Immediately surrounding
Kiao-Chou bay is set apart exclusively
for Germany. China yields on all other
points.
Berlin, December lit is semi-offi
cially announced to-day that the report
that Germany would evacuate Kiao-
Chou bay for coalilg station in the
Sam-Sah inlet was uafounded.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
A W RANGLE
Between the Ways and Means and
Banking and Currency Committees
May Block Legislation.

Washington, December 11.-Whether
the Ways and Means Committee or
the Banking and Currency Committee
will control legislation in the House OF
Representatives, continues to excite
much feeling among representatives.
Little doubt is felt that Secretary Gage
will so divide his bills covering various
currency questions that Mr. Dingley's
committee will get control of them.
Members of the banking committee
say that the matter will be carried to
the floor of the House, if necessary,
and that an issue of the committee
authority will be raised which will de-
feat any currency bills proposed by the
Ways and Means Committee.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
A GUN AND A MULE

Engrossed the Attention of the swappers
But the Gun Went on With Fatal Results.
Special to the Register.
Charleston, W. Va. December H.
While in the act Of trading a gun FOR a
mule this evening, Frank Cook acct
dentally shot an old German named
Louis Trapee with probably fatal re
suits
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
ZANOLIIs WILLING
That His Career shall be Fully Tnvestigs
ed by the Police.

New York, December 11.-CiHrl
Zanoli, the barber who has col
insurance upon the lives Of four
a mother-in-law, a daughter an
employe, and who has pleaded
of defrauding an insurance cor
was again arraigned in court
and remanded for further exam
Zanolis counsel stated that the
oner was anxious the police
have every opportunity to assay
selves that the curious seq
deaths were from natural ca
prisoner expressed himself
willing that the body Of Jennie
his fourth and last wife, should
humed and examined for traces
SON. -
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
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RECEIVER APPOINTED.

Baltimore. Md, December 11.--Judgs
Dennis to-day appointed Nicholas r
Bend, receiver Of the Columbia & Mary
land Railway Company, the Boulevard
line, pending the determination Of q
suit for the foreclosure OF the first
mortgage, securing 1000 bonds OF 81 ,00t
each
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
TO TEACH ARTICULATE SPEECH.

Washington, DECEMBER 1.-THE
House committee on education has re-
ported favorably the bill 10 aid in the
establishment Of homes in States and
Territories for teaching articulate
speech and vocal language to deaf chill
dren before they are Of school aGe.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
To RETTNTTE HIgERNIANS

Trenton. n. j., December 11.-Right
Rev Bishop McFaul this afternoon gave
his decision providing for plan for
the uniting OF the two factions OF the
United Order Of Hfbernians
The convention wifi be held next
June or July, probably in. Trenton.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12

CALLED ON THE KING.

Copenhagen, December 1.-THE re-
firing United States minister, James F.
Risley, to-day presented his letters of
recall to King Christian. and at the
same time Mr.. Swenson, the new Uni
ted States minister to Denmark, pre-
scented his credentials to his majesty. At
the conclusion of the ceremony Mr..
RisIey was entertained al luncheon by
the King.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12

Washington. d. c., Dsn61nr IL
For West Virginia: c. O.
followed by fair. slis
westerly winds.
For WESTERN
Cloudy, follow
southern port
westerly wi9
Mr.. C..
druggist
tons
M
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
HAS NOT HEARD OF IT.
President r. G. FELTON,. of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, Knows Nothing of a Steel

Harrisburg, Pa, December n.-Pres
ident E. c. FELTON,, of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, says he knows nothing
about the steel rail pool to be formed
by the six largest steel companies of
this country. He said, however, that
he would like to see an increase in the
price of rails and professed ignorance
Of the proposed plan whereby the COM
panies east OF the Alleghenies are to
be given the export trade.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
A FATAL DUEL,

Used swords.
Bucharest, December IA duel
with swords has been fought between
NJ. Lahovary, director Of the indie
pendence Roumanie, and NJ. Filipesco,
director of the Epoca. NJ. Lahovary
was killed.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12

WhirlipR About the Track With
Idiotic Expressions and Automa-
ton-Like Motions-One Thought
His Head was Coming OF and to
Crafty His Insane Desire, o.
Bandage was Placed About it to
Keep it on-Riders Unable to
Mount and Dismount-A Brutal
Exhibition of Pain and Misery.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12

Brook Haven, Miss, Dec. ll.--Addf'
tional details of the murder of Mrs
Brown Smith and her four children ir
Lawrence county on Wednesday alo
the subsequent lynching OF the sup.
posed murderer were received to-day
After capturing Charlie Lewis, the a.
legged murderer, the mob placed hin
alongside of several other negroes anC
asked the little girl vino was spared BY
the murderer to pick out the one whC
killed her mother. She at once pointed
to Charlie Lewis. This strong evidene,
to the mob made it difficult for Sheriff
Gassell to induce the people to turn
Lewis over to him for safe keeping
He assured them he would have thu
negro at Bankston Ferry yesterday
morning for trial. AS promised he ant
his deputies arrived there on time witt
Lewis. A mob of two hundred men
armed with shotguns and Winchesters
quickly surrounded the officers az
sisted that they give up their p
Brown Smith, the man w.
was ordered, pleaded wit
be patient, and not Iol
while he did not d.
yet she was SO 70
possibility that
mistaken.
After parleyins
mob under the ID
termined men. ma
gro and succeeds,
the deputies after
then placed a PHO
groe's neck, put
drove him under
was fastened
the horse driven y
wretch, leaving hin
to death in mid-air
guilt to the last.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
WAS CHOKEDBY APLON LINE.
How Charley Lewis, he Brutal Rap
Fiend and Murderer,

Paid the Penalty ef His Awful
Crime Was Posit vely Identified
by the Little Girs Ee Failed tc
Kill, Being Picked Out From q
Party of Men of His Own Color
Hanged by Mob Despite His
Declarations of Innocence and
the Pleading of His Victims Par.
ent.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12

PUIHto OUT, tHe yBUVeFH0eHl Has
hundreds of tn pusands of dollA
commissions and in maintaining
troll of ships in Boring Sea. He
it has been amply demonstrated
the seals are aAworthless asset,
that their determination will be in \
interest of peace among nations and
economy for the United States.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
TO ExTEHMIN,
Representative J&9
End a Long stan

ance.
Washington, De
sentative johnson, I
preparing a bill prov
plete determination
Boring BSea. 1t is c
bill proposed last y
tive DMgley. but I
and makes>xhe eY
tionaI. whereas
provided exterml
tive if pelagic
ped.
Mr.. Johnson 81
Sea negotiations
strated the impo
seal poaching. III
the government n
the exclusive privi
granted by the H6v|
ed only a thou
1880. In the iHean
.ninAn nnt thnA crr..
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24

Belinda Donnodoscoa and maid. and
Ivan Lemonoff. all OF Finland. The party
arrived in this city on Tuesday last from
New York. and the length OF their stay
IN at present undecided.
Signora Donnodoscola Is the Finnish
Princess whose sudden disappearance
from New York several days ago was
the subject OF much comment In the
press OF that city. She was believed TO
have left for South America. The object
OF the visit to Richmond Is said to be
10 give Signor Lemonoff. who Is an am
bilious musician, and protege OF the
Princess and her husband. an opportu-
nifty to display his talents before a south
ern audience.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24

I ,a.o zlst, and while passing through
s 'u,a was invited to stay In Bombay He
So, sneu, as ne had no serum. but he will
Thran. s0'he III NSah
QUEENS sExAGEsrMAL
ieparations are IN full blast for the
queens Sexagesimal. Hotel quarters are
oelng engaged, and spectators are buy
.ls up rights TO windows on the probable
49, Vl 'ne procession. Several big hotels
49,, alcany received intlmation that
49, ,sS' oes. quarters VIII be required for the
use Oh such OF the Queens guests AZ win
not be accommodated IN Buolxinghar, pal
soe ana the other Royal establishments
INJURIES We're never before 80 numerous
,he united States embassy in behalf
Vi american women who desire 10 be pre-
sen.eu at what is generally believed will
pe me last drawing-room the Queen Will
ever hold.
ROENTGEN-RAY NOVELTIES.
I"ere has been quite budget Of dis
coVeries In connection with the Roentgen
ray reported from the Continent within a
Few days. That reported by Professor
Friedrich 20 the Vienna Academy Of
sciences Is the most important The Pro-
lessor discovered certain black rays that
issue from the vacuum tube and pass
through the human body. Photographs
produced by means Of these rays. which
the Professor calls critical rays. are not
the same when taken Of living body as
OF a dead one. Photographs of living hands
show the skeleton as in the Roentgen
photos. while in photos Of the hand OF a
dead person the hand appears I'm full,
showing all the fieshy integument. the
bones remaining invisible. 1t is thought
that by means OF these rays it can be
ascertained whether a person is really
dead.
The use OF the Roentgen rays as hair
eNterminator is also revived. DR.. Freund,
also of Vienna, tried them on boy whose
spine was hidden by an abundant crop Of
hair, a malady known to the faculty as
hypertrichosis DR.. Freund turned the
rays upon the boys back, and tho SUI
perfiuous hair vanished. roots and all.
The boy, no longer an infant phenomenon,
has been shown 10 the Medical Society Of
Vienna, and photographs Of his condition
before and after the experiment are cir
culating in the city. The Prussian Gov
eminent has appropriated $1,000 for Ro-
entgen-ray experiments during the cur
rent year.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24
COLD WEATHER. IN NORTHWEST.
Ten TO Twenty Degrees Below Zero
Trains Irregular.

ST. PAUL. MINI. January 2S.-The
temperature in the Northwest has been
dropping all day. and tonight it is Excess
sively cold from Bismarck to st. Paul. 1t
is Y degrees below zero tonight in St.
Paul, with the prospect of a further drop
Of 10 or y degrees before daylight. No
rise in temperature is expected for at
least three days. Trains are moving r.
regularly.
The State Treasurer of South Dakota,
with nearly $4,000, under a guard Of mi
litia, is stuck in the snow thirty miles
east of Pierre. This cash is being taken
back to the banks from which it was
drawn.
Aberdeen, S. D.. reports the present
winter as breaking all records for heavy
suow-storms and railroad blockades.
Part of the Hastings and Dakota Di-
vision Of the Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-
road. and the Great Northern line from
breckenridge to Aberdeen, have been
snOw-bound since January 18th, except for
a very short distance.
The Sioux Falls train has not yet reach
cd here, and a snow-piow sent to help IL
Is stuck near Hanley Falls.
Gary. S. D., reports the thermometer II
degrees below.
BLIZZARD IN IOWA.
DIES MONIES, IA, January 3.-lowa is
experiencing the worst blizzard OF the
year Snow began falling about noon
Reports indicate heavy SHOWS all over the
State. northern and northwestern points
reporting the mercury at 10 to p degrees
below zero. a heavy northwest wind IS
blowing. and the fine sitting snow OF
real blizzard is drifting everywhere. The
railroads are expecting trouble tomorrow
and the street-car service here and IN
other towns has been almost STOPPED.
BLIZZARD IN KANSAS.
KANSAS CITY. MO, January ga
blizzard of unusual severity is raging
over Kansas tonight, and the snow which
IS falling in the western section or the
state is drifting badly. There is much SUI
fering among stock.
The cold wave struck Topeka this eve
ming. Wichita reports severe blizzard
raging there.
In Kansas City the mercury IS at zero.
BLIZZARD IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO. ILL, January pa severe
blizzard and heavy snow-storm prevails
here
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24

A very affecting incident occurred just
as the Henrico County Court adj
journed yesterday. after the trial Of
Foushee and Jordon for the muir
der OF Mr.. Tinsley, one OF the
reformatory guards. Deputy Sheriff
Voegler was leading Foushee and Jordon
from the courtroom, when Mrs. Noon,
the mother OF the former boy, sprang
from her seat, and with a sad moan
rushed over TO her unnatural son. she
threw her arms around his neck and
kissed him again and again, weeping Bit
terly meanwhile. This seemed not 10
awaken any feeling in the boy, though II
visibly affected all in the courtroom, and
he stood like a piece Of stone. not even
so much as changing his countenance. AS
soon as released from his mothers arms,
the boy, without a word. turned on his
heel and walked out of the courtroom.
his broken-hearted mother following sad
ly behind him until the prison doors shut
him from her sight.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24

the supper which had been left upon the
table The next morning l walked out
into the neighborhood for an errand on
which / had been sent and returned to
the station before the middle OF the day.
This was gala-day at the saw-mlll
The little hotel was alive with prepara-
TONS and everybody in state OF ex-
pectation.
AN EXCURSION.
An excursion was coming from Rich
mond. In due time It arrived. The train
was crowded with gentlemen and ladies
and everybody was gayly excited. The
engine was detached from the train and
run upon the turn-table 10 be housed In
temporary building made Of long boards
on the level OF the road The further end
from the road was on the top OF little
HILL and the roof was sustained at that
end by a single, tall. pine pole or tree,
which reached from the ground TO tho
apex OF tho roof. When the engineer
undertook 10 run his engine from tho
turn-table into this building be put on
too much steam The engine ran through
| the end of tho house, breaking In two
tho supporting pine pillar, and carrying
| with IL all the boards OF that end. IL
| stopped I'm it's career near the foot or tho
| hill, where II lay putting and grooming.
while the excurslonists had time to medi-
tate upon mans ignorance Of what a
| day may bring forth. The energy ana
skill with which a track was built under
| the engine, and the work OF hauling II 10
| the main track, done. under the d.
rection Of competent officer. whose
| name I cannot recall. would have done
credit to railroad men In our day or al
| improved appliances. BY sunset the task
was accomplished and the engine was
fred up. A trial trip was made down
the road. and when the iron-horse came
back triumphant everybody was sur
prlsed to find that no injury had been done
TO the complicated machinery. And II
was not long before all the party were
taken on board and conveyed back TO
their homes I'm safety.
, In another article I hope 10 give you
| come account OF the early days or tho
| Louisa railroad, now the great mesa
peake and Ohio. 4. d. Plus
| Buchanan, Va.