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The Princeton union., 1898-07-07
MANILA MAY
HAVE FALLEN.
DEWEY WAS PLANNING AN ATTACK
FOR THE FOURTH.

American Troops Arrive mt Manila
After Grabbing the Ladrone
Islands ON the Way Over - The
Governor General and His Officers
Taken Prisoners and the Stars
and Stripes Hoisted Over the
Islands - Spanish GunbOat Sur
renders and Her Crew Are Made
Prisoners.
The Princeton union., 1898-07-07
Thursday. June 80.


Washington officials are confident
that the reinforcements have reached
Dewey. .t.-.
Commander McCalla may siege
Guantanamo without waiting for the
arrival of troops. : ~q..#
Gen. Pando, with 9,70o Spanish
troops, is moving to the assistance Of
Gen. Linares at Santiago.
The flying squadron has lost its iden-
tiay by an order Of SIMPSONS merging
it with the fleet under his command.
Advices frfom Dewey say the situa-
ton at Manila is unchanged. The ad-
miral speaks in warm terms of Aguin-
aldo. ,"., s@ -' -'-
A story is sent out from Santiago
that the Brooklyn has been struck by
shell and Commodore Schley and
twenty-four seamen killed.
Gen. Shafter, in a message, to the
war department, says he can take
Santiago in forty-eight hours, but that
it will involve considerable loss.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

1t is the general impression, accord
ing to the most reliable information
from Washington, that the visit of
President Dole OF the great republic
of Hawaii" has retarded rather than
helNed the schemes of the annexation
lists Certainly the treaty will be
beaten whenever vote is reached.
Why should it not be? What do we
want OF Hawaii? 1t is claimed to be of
great Importance to the United States
that the Hawaiian islands should be-
long to it, to the end that they must
fall into the grasp of any other nation
to be used as a base of supplies in the
event of an attack upon the Pacific
coast. Now Pearl river harbor in the
island of Oahu is the only harbor in
Hawaii fitted for a base of supplies,
and is consequently all the meat there
is in the Hawaiian nut so far as the
claim that the United States needs the
islands for defensive purposes is con-
cerned. This harbor has value from a
strategic standpoint. There is no doubt
of that 1t has been called the key of
the north Pacific. But for all practi-
cal purposes Pearl river harbor be-
longs to the United States now, and
the United States could enjoy no more
advantages in the harbor in the event
of annexation than it does at the pres
ent time. His Majesty, the King Of
the Hawaiian islands, granted to the
United States exclusive right to en-
ter the harbor and to establish and
maintain there a coaling and repair
station for the use of vessels" and the
right to Improve the entrance to said
harbor and to do all other things need
full to the purposes aforesaid The
harbor has been conveyed to the Uni
ted States without any limitation, and
what more does the United States
need? If it cannot hold the harbor
against the world without the islands,
how could it hold the harbor with
them? Their possession would not add
in the least to the security of the har-
Dor. The claim that this nation needs
the islands for protection is therefore
without foundation in fact, and fully as
weak as the other claims which are
put forth in behalf of annexation.
Strategically speaking Pearl River
harbor is Hawaii, and to Pearl river
harbor Uncle Sam holds a title which
is absolute.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

business of contesting seats an easy
and often a lucrative one. There is
evidentely disposition among de-
feated candidates in some sections of
the country, the Chicago News thinks,
to bring these contesting suits for the
money there is in them. without much
regard to the real merits in the con-
troversy. There is no sense of Just
ness in the government putting up the
money to both bring and defend these
suits, while it might be proper to pay
the $4,000 to the one who succeeded
in establishing his right to hold a
seat in Congress. For the last twenty
years the average expense to the gov
eminent has been $4,000 annually,
paid to parties in these contesting
suits, and the whole business has be-
come so much of an abuse that even
members of Congress themselves feel
disposed to take some steps to check
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02
BRIDGEPORT.

The suit of David Boston against
James Alexander to recover the money
value Of a mule will coma up in COM
mon pleas court to-day 1t will be re
mennbered that the mule owned by
Boston was killed from th> effects OF
being stabbed with wagon shift. The
accident was caused by AleSanaer's
horse becoming unmanageable ana
running into the mule.
Mrs. Joseph Phillips, of Washington,
pa, is visiting friends and relatives
here.
Fred Cowan, who was il.sd $40 ani
costs for aiding III the ROBBERY Of Bow
les drug store, paid his hae Monday
evening and WAS released
The new pots for the. Crystal glass
works have been received and are be-
ing set in the furnace that has been
idle since Christmas. The furnace has
been thoroughly repaired and will b.
fired as soon as the work of setting the
pots is completed,
Yesterday evening William Britton a
young fellow residing is West Bridge
port, met with a painful but not SER
ious accident He was running for a
street car, when he slipped and fell
backward. striking his head on the
ground. The effect of the fall render
ed him unconscious. He was carried
into a nearby house and DR. Wagner
called.
Council met in regular monthly ses-
sion last evening.
Geo. Guiteau, who has been running
the Imperial Hotel, is moving to West
Bridgeport.
Geo. Pasco is recovering from short
Illness. His sister Laura, who has
been very i'll, is no better.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

dayton Tuesday. February |, 1898, at
Gas o'clock a. m, Mary Deborah Kinsey,
wife of William Mex. Day. IN the ia
year of her age.
Funeral from the family residence. No.
S35 Market street, Thursday afternoon at
$50 o'clock. Friends of the family are
respectfulIy invited to be present at the
services. Interment private.
CRITERION Monday, January S1st, 1898.
at O Jock a. m, at the residence OF her
brother. Rev. Laverty Grier at Elm
Grove. Miss Mary Grier, in the SD year
of her age.
Funeral services will be held in the
Stone Church, Elm Grove, on Wednesday,
February I'd, at 10 o'clock a. m. Friends
of the family respectfully invited to at
tend. Interment Stone Church cemetery
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02


The charges of bribery and corrup-
ton growing out of the Ohio Sena-
torial election have increased the SEN
timent in Congress in favor of the bill
to provide for the election of Senators
by the popular vote. The bill, it is be-
lieved, would easily pass in the House.
But why should not Congress begin at
the beginning and give it's attention
first to those who have profited by cor
ruption and who sit in Congress in
seats defiled by corruption, rather than
attempt merely to change the method
by which they may corrupt? Popular
election of Senator's would probably be
a better method than the present ar
rangement, but it would be better to
bar the corruptionists.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

There is much excitement at Cum
berland Gap, Tenn, and in the sur
rounding districts of Tennessee, Ken
lucky and Virginia, over the prevail
ing epidemic Of smallpox. Represent
atives of the boards of health of the
three States are on the ground lookin g
over the situation. There is no need
for alarm outside of the afflicted dis
trict, especially at this season, but it is
always well to stamp out an epidemic
disease as quickly and thoroughly as
possible.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

Editor Pecksniff, of Fourteenth
street, in his we'll known godly man
ner says, in effect, that the Register is
a liar when it says that the guests,
ETC., at the banquet at which President
Mckinley stultifed himself and bowed
before the shrine of the British gold
standard-that of the National Manu-
facturers' association - represented
"over nine thousand millions of Amer
lean wealth" Then Pecksniff goes on
in his e~tful, but really artless way, to
produce figures" which show, not
what Old Hypocrisy claims, but that
what the Res -ster said was the truth,
ers' present represented nine thousand,
three hundred and seventy-fve mill
ions of annual products Evidently
Pecksniff has got it into his sanity
Uranium that American wealth" is
not represented by products" of our
soil, mills and factories, but by
MONEY! Money and Dollar Mark
Hanna are Pecksniff's guiding stars
and he can see MOTH g else in the
heavens.
There were 965 National Manufac-
turers at that feast. And while Peck
sniff is talking of their dollars-their
personal wealth-how does he know
what was the amount of it? 1t might
very easily be very much more than
the nine thousand millions of dollars
of American wealth represented by the
products they controlled, for, speaking
Of the concentration Of wealth into the
hands Of the few under the British
gold standard, which the Intelligencer
SO frantically and so very truthfully
supports, Pecksniff knows that in but
one or two cities Of the East and in
the hands Ct a mere handful of men
is owned and controlled nine-tenths of
the wealth of the American people.
Pecksniff knows the infamy of the
gold standard, he knows its unlawful
ness and unconstitutionaiity, yet he
devotes all tie fervor of his pure and
religious nature to defending it.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02
CEN rnsgING SEATS IN CONGRESS.

CEN STING SEATS IN CONGRESS.
\ bill has been introduced into Con-
gress which provides that in future no
man contesting for seat in Congress
shall be paid anything out of the treas
ury for making the contest.
The Chicago News thinks it strange
that such a bill should be necessary,
but under the present laws each party
in such contest is paid $4,000, so that
in any case of a contested seat in Con-
gress the cost Of the government is
$4,000, paid to the two contestants
alone besides the othe expenses that
are incurred by the Committee on
Elections in hearing the evidence Of
the contest. When the present Con-
ess net, in December. there were
twenty seats in contest, which would
cost, in sums paid to the contestants
alone $4,000 One of these cases has
already been decided, that in the
Fourth district of Alabama, in which
Mr. Plowman, Democrat. has been IN
seated, and Mr.. Alcrich, Populist, put
in his place.
The fact that each party to the con-
test, receives his $4,000 whether he
wins or not, or without regard to
what the cost may have been to him
in carrying on the contest, makes the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

A Wisconsin Senator voted on Friday
for the Teller resolution declaring the
bonds payable in silver, but the Legisla
ture Of that State is on record by an
overwhelming majority as thorough be-
levers in the gold standard.-New York
Evening Pest.
We, also, have President. who has
suddenly come to the support of the
gold standard, who is Overwhelmingly
on record as thorough believer in the
honest bimetallic money of the Con-
stitution-the free and unlimited coin
age of gold and silver at the ratio Of
16 to l.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

The report Of the proceedings of the
First National Congress of Mothers,
which makes very interesting book,
containing the addresses delivered at
the Congress held in Washington last
winter, has reached its second edition.
1t teens with good suggestions regard
ing those three united foundation
stones of our free institutions-Pa
hood, Childhood and the Home.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02
MRS w. NIX. DAY DEAD.
Well know n and Estimable Lady Passes
AWAY ia the North End.

a Well known and Estimable Lady Passes
AWAY ia the North End.
Mrs. Vim. Mex Day, one of the old
est residents Of the North End, died
Yesterday morning at 6:45 O'Clock, at
her residence, No. 835 Market street.
Mrs. Day was seventy-two years old.
Pneumonia, with which she was at
tackled on Thursday Of last week, was
the cause of her death. She will be
deeply regretted by host of friends
in this vicinity, as dutiful mother
and a Christian in every respect.
She was born in Pleasant Valley, Ohio,
and was the daughter OF John Kinsey,
one Of the most estimable Quaker citi-
zens of that section of the State. In 1852
she married William Mex. Day, and
shortly afterwards came to Wheeling,
from which time her life was spent in
this city. She was a devoted mem
Der of North Street NJ. E. church. Her
husband. William Mex, three sons,
John e.. William B. and James L., and
daughter, Mrs. Frank Stanton, sur
vive to mourn her loss, and they have
the sympathy Of the whole commun-
ity in their sad bereavement. Two sis
tiers also survive the deceased, Mrs.
Lizzie Truman, of KirkWood, Ohio, and
Mrs. Lydia Capehart, formerly OF
Bridgeport The funeral will take
place tomorrow afternoon from the
late residence at 2: 80 o'clock, with :l-
torment at Mt. Wood cemetery.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

has declared invalid and insufficient
the bonds of all fire and marine insur-
anee companies doing business in the
State and not incorporated under the
avs of California. If this sort Of
thing should become general there
would be more or less fun in the insur-
ance world.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02
Car Reed did everything he coult

Car Reed did everything he could
to limit debate on the Stanley
Mathews resolution in the House. The
Car is autocratic and despotic, but
he has enough respect for the minions
under his rule to know that there
would have been wild stampede
against the British gold standard on
the Republican side of the House if
ever he had allowed full debate on the
Stanley Mathews resolution, which the
President himself ardently supported
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

Oil City, Pa, February 1.-Credit
balances csc; certificates opened, no
quotations. Cash sales 5000 barrels at
e5hc; 5000 barrels at Csc. Closed, no
quotations. Shipments 1oS,724 bar
rels; runs 120,7S7 barrels.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO, AND RE-
TITPN

The Ohio River railroad will sell
tourist tickets from Wheeling to Mex
Tickets on sale daily, good to return
nine months from date of sale. Double
berth in sleeper from Cincinnati to
Mexico City and return, $500.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02
Daily and Sunday. ny Mail, Postage re

Tributes of Respect and Obituary No
tees five cents per line.
Stamps of TIE demon nation of two cents
and less accepted for amounts less than
enc dollar.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

What's this? Edith Cushing, stu
dent at the University of Iowa, Grip
pied for life while being hazed by
Sophomore girls! Oh, girls.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02
NlCOLL'5 ART STORE.
WANTED.


WANTED-A good business man to as
sumo control OF financial affairs of lucra-
tive manufacturing conceTn: must be pre-
pared to take a reasonable amount of
address REX Register office. fe1es
WANTED-Two young men to run as
have 5000 cash security Apply or adj
dress UNION NEWS CO, Offio B. & o.
depot. Wheeling jan30e&dh
WANTED-AI persons who have been
benefited by the use of Warmers Safe
Cure to send testimonials of same to this
office. stating the benefits derived from
the use of this celebrated remedy, and by
so doing confer a favor on other sufferers
who are not familiar with its virtues.
THE NATIONAL ADVERTISING CO,
care The Wheeling Register. ja2Sevdq
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02
FLORISTS.
GENERAL NOTICES.
Co-PARTNhRSHIP NOTICE.

WHEELING. W. va. Feb. !, 1898.
We have this day admitted as partners
H Day Hervey Thos. Carnahan, Jr..
Remck Truxell and Louis Rentsch.
Thanking the public for its liberal pat
ronage in the past the new firm hopes by
improved business methods to largely in
crease it's business in the future.
Very respectfully.
GEO. M. SHOOK & co.
je1er
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

1t was 124 in the shade in Australia
the other day. Oh, for small slice Of
.h.t weather.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

The Corning Oil Company's we'll in
the Warrington district, near Folsom
on the Hood farm, is making 200 bar
rels a day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02
snecial to the Register.

Special to the Register.
Harrisville, w. Va, February l.
Word comes here that Big Injun
sand we'll had been drilled in at Devil
Hole, Richie county, by the Granite
Oil Company.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

The REGISTER, embracing its several
editions is entered at the Postofica at
Wheeling, w. Va. as second-class matter.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

Correspondence containing important
news solicited from every part CT the sur
round ny country.
Rejected con munications viii not be re-
turned unless accompanied by sufficient
possage.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02

dentists or lawyers. Loci. ior e.; seems ans
cago 'A 5i,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02
NEW ADVERTISED ~

FOR RENTER X DWELLING ' n
SS 81 street, containing seven 81 r,o, .l
Dath room. hot and cold water CONS
gas. Inquire MRS NJ. ID r--all4E-
NO. 140l Chapline street. -'l'z PHI.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-02
A]Jeelin9 8esisten
CHARLES 4. TAAEY, Galetl Manager.
Delivered by Carriers.

Daily. per week TO he paid weekly. loc
Dailv' per month ............ 44c
Daily and Sunday per week....... i5c
paily and sunday per naonth,....... Csc
Single copies Of Daily, &c; Sunday. 5c
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-16

pool their issues" They have one common
source OF supply While nine out of ten trains
are drawing from this reservoir only enough
power to keep them in motion. the tenth. when
about TO start. has all the surplus Of the whole
oahN at Its o'Nrosai. There is practically no
demand which ii can make on the powcr-house
which VIII not be instantly honored.
incidentally Colonel left points out that
open cars. which the people greatly prefer in
summer to closed cars. are much pleasanter
when hauled by electricity than when steam
engine. just ahead is beching out smoke foul
gases and cnders in the passengers faces. He
also remarks that his trains run regularly every
halfhour. OH both the Nantaskct and the Ber-
lin-Hartford lines eighteen hours a dav: so that
people need no printed timetable. The third
rah has demonstrated no. only its efficiency
but also its freedom from serious danger to
woikmen. At all grade crossings the exposed
section OF the third rail is rendered absolutely
harmless by being severed from that on the
companys right Of way. and the current is ear
RED underground by wire across the gap. All
Of tAe cars have shoes TO collect current. so
that the rear ones remain in active service at
crossings until the forward ones have passed
over and re-establshcd electrical connections
This plan has also the advantage of providing
for the electrical lighting and heating OF each
car independently Of the others
While there is room for further improvement
in minor details. in essential respects the third
rail system has proven highly satisfactory and
electric traction on steam roads is not only
scientific out decided pecuniary success
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-16
COLONEL CUSHING'S NEW RANK
THE FUTURE COMMIsSARY- GENERAL OF
SUBSISTENCE AND HIS RECORD

Washington. Jan. Is (SpeciaD. -Colonel Samuei
7. Cushing, who will become Commissary-Ge
eral OF Subsistence OF the Army on the 18th OF
the present month, was appointed to the Military
Academy in 1850 from Rhode Island. and being
graduated in 1860 went Immediately into the
field during the Navajo War in New-Mexico
He the first regular officer detailed for duty
with the Signal Corps Of the Army at the out
break Of the Rebellion and by transfer from the
ID infantry was placed in charge Of the camp oil
signal instruction at Red Hill, District of Column
bia where he taught the volunteer officers de-
tailed from the Army Of the Potomac sending
proficient men rapidly to the commands OF
Grant. Hallock, Buell.. Thomas. Butler, Sherman
Banks Pope and the others. where they acted
as instructors. thus fully equ!ppng the entire
Army with capable signal organization
Captain Gushing in March, 1S62, while Major
Myer was with Mcclellan In the field. assumed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-16

the office Of signal officer in Washington ard
directed the operations of the corps throughout
the United States Later he was chlet sishA'
officer successfully to Generals McClellAh h"fh-
side and Hooker and at the battle OF fredeilckS-
burg Va he established the first line OF mag
nctic telegraph ever used in actual war ana cN
posed TO the enemy's fire. After Commemorative
he was ordered to West Point To initiate course
Of signal instruction there. and about TINS time
he was recommended for appointment. AT the
age Of twenty four as Lieutenant colonel 81 the
Signal Corps which had just been authorized
nv Congress He declined the appointment as
major in the Signal Corps TO accept that OF
cantain in the Subsistence Department, Feb
rllary g. 1863, the former being limited TO the
term of war and the latter in the permanent
establishment. Early in 1861 he joined General
Thomas in Tennessee. and from that time he
occupied the most important subsistence posts III
Kentucky and Mississippi
After the War Colonel Gushing was Stationed
in turn at omaha. Neb. organizing the Depart
ment there: at Austin and San Antonio Tex as
chief con1nissary. AZ Santa Pc y. NJ; Louis
Vile XIV: Atlanta Ga san Francisco and Van
couver Barracks Washington. Afterserving in the
field AGAINST the Bannocks he WAS stationed at
pi,tshur, in 1851 30 relieve the Ohio River Hood
sufferers. and then he was sent To Texas where
he received his promotion 10 major after Ser
vice of twenty-six and a half years as captain
the last four Of which he was senior captain oil
the Army. Since 1889 he served four years al Fort
I.eavenworth then in Kansas City for month
TO establish a depot there. and after year al
omaha he was brought to Washington in May
1894 where he has since been the principal as
sjstant to the Commssary- General He became
ueutenant-colonel in November, 1879. and jan
nary % last year reached the grade of colonel
Among Colonel CLshngs fellow-cadets al
West Point were Fitzhugh Lee. now Consul
General at Havana; Congressman Joseph Wheel
or Of Alabama General Flagler, Chief Of ord
nance. and General Wilson, Chief Of Engineers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-16

From The Paris Kentuckian-Ciiizen.

FROM The Paris ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Bev.rl.y Bronze Turkey Dorsey. or hutchinson
Precinct sauntcrod into The Paris hentu'NiaH-
Cftiz n office 1 few days ago. and Whle IN L
reminiscent mood told this startling story Not
long ago J had a wire fence erected on ny Pi3.',
and along in the night some eniFrprIsinE thioi
mr. thieves came along and stole 1t. posts and all.
had also cut down large tree. and cut t"o
big gate-posts from 1t. Fearing these would De-
stolen also. | set boy with a rifle To- guard
and fau asleep The thieves returned, drove !
bin in the log hitched team Of horses To- 1t ana
drew it out. leaving the boy asleep on the park
which had formerly inclosed the log. Mneh 'hr
roh ,unte II was to find himself perched high in
The air on the outside covering OF bark. ana p'th
nv gate posts were gone. How's that for pro-
gressive burglary"