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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-05
MOUNDSVILLE.

Miss Emma Parkinson Is visiting
relatives at New Martinsville.
Miss Maude Curtis, OF West Liberty,
/ l.; the guest Of friends In this city.
Miss Kate Wiedobusch, Of Whs-.-
i ing, is in the city, visiting friends.
Council met in regular session last
evening, and transacted considerable
business.
Arch McElroy has resigned his Pc.
sition as mail. carrier for the Fostoria
Glass Company.
Mrs. Rev. D.. L. Ash and daughter
have gone to Mountain Lake Park fer
q couple of weeks.
The Epworth Leage held a very in
teresting meeting last evening, with
a large attendance Of the members
present.
The probationers of tho M. E.
church will be admitted at Sunday
morning service. There are about
twenty-five on the list.
The Baltimore & Ohio telegraph
camp is located at the depot here.
The men are putting up number CT
new wires in the vicinity Of Glendale.
Charles Soroggins, an employe at
the York Manufacturing Company, is
off duty, nursing a sick hand, which
he hurt at the factory several days
ago.
The Phoebe Rowe Missionary So
ciety will meet this evening at the
home Of the Misses Cats, of tie
First ward. A full attendance OF
members is desired.
The casing in the Gil we'll at Hog
run, which has been abandoned will
be pulled this week. A force OF men
Will leave this morning for that pace
to perform the work.
The public school this year wilh
open September H. The board will
meet this evening, when two teachers
viii be selected as Walter Evars has
resigned his position.
County Clerk E. NJ Lewis has is
sued marriage license to Hiram c.
Galloway, aged twenty-six, Of Bel
laire, and Maggie hickman, aged
twenty-six, of Benwood.
A marriage license was issued yes
terday by the county Clerk to Will
lam H. Mccain, aged twenty-four,
and Josephine Yoho, aged eighteen,
both Of Howard, this county.
Arrangements have been made
with the Martins Ferry base ball
club, and they will play here toner.
low afternoon. Sunday our boys will
play the Detweiler nine, of Wheeling,
and it is hoped that large crowds will
witness both games.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-05
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.

Atlantic City and Seasshore Excursion
Thursday. August 18th at Greatly Re-
duced Rates.
The next popular seashore excur-
sion, via the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road, will be run Thursday, August IL,
to Atlantic City. Cape May, Sea Isle
City N. j., and Ocean City, Nd
Tickets will be good twelve (12) days,
including day of sale.
Stop overs will be allowed on return
>.~i-> at Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington on tickets sold to New
Jersey resorts, and at Baltimore and
Washington On tickets sold to Ocean
City, Md.
Tickets will be sold on above date
from Wheeling for $1,000 round trip.
and trains will leave 1915, 5:25 and
1885 a. m. and $40 p. m.
I Call on or address nearest ticket
agent Baltimore & Ohio railroad for
tickets and full Information, or apply
to r. c. Burke, passenger and ticket
agent, Wheeling.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-05
METAL.

New York. August "A steady to
firm feeling prevailed all day in the
metal market but business was slack.
At the close the metal exchange called
pig iron warrants dull with $685. bid
and SIS. 20 asked; lake copper unchanged
at $11.50; tin firm but quiet at 1855
bid and $3.50 asked: lead steady at
1892 bid and $39771a asked; spelter
steady at $3.50 bid and $3.50 asked.
The firm naming the settling price for
leading western miners and shelters
quotes lead at $3.50.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-05
DRY GOODS.

New York, August 4.--Dry goods
buyers are in the market to-day in
much larger numbers than has been
the case heretofore. They are some
what free in their purchases. Print
cloths are dull and weak at &c for ex-
tras and quotations at about the same
level or below it for odd goods.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-05
BIG REVENUE COLLECTIONS.

Special to the Register.
PARKERsBURG. w. Va, August A.
The increase in the internal revenue col
lections for July was enormous, caused
by the additional war tax. The collec-
tons for all purposes Amounted to si4i.-
1888 II. The collections for the same month
last year were $685. 70, a gain this year
of S45 22G 50
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-05
A BAD ACCIDENT.
Boom. Pole Became Loosened, Throwing
Boy Forty Feet-May Die.

Special to the Register.
CUMBERLAND. Md, August 4.-Ly7
curgus Gurley and his two little sohs
were hauling cats from a steep mountain
to-day. Ore of the boys was astride
boom pole, which became loosened at
one end, hurting him distance of forty
feet. His head struck the ground with
such force that il plowed a furrow in the
soft earth The e3rirg of the pole caus ID
the wagon and horses to upset, rolling
them over and over down the hill side.
The Gurleys were all seriously if not IA.
tally hurt
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-05
MYSTERICUSG.Y MISSING.

Special TO the Register
Parkersburg, w. Va, August A.
Thomas Melvin, a constable of Pleas
ants county, mysteriously missing. He
was last heard from at Waverly when
he stabbed his horse at this place and
started to his hotel.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-05

Government bonds strong.
State bonds dull
Railroad bonds strong.
Stccks-It was obvious from the
developments in the stock market
to-day that wealthy and powerful
SPECTATORS were placing very large
amounts of money in the grangers'
stocks, in anticipation of a rise in
prices. There were many indications
also that some of the funds which
were being placed in the grangerS
were derived frCm sales of some of
the more prominent industrials spe-
cialties, which have shown such re-
cent large advances in prices as to
yield handsome profit on the sales
This shifting Of speculation is an e.
isolde which invariably occurs In the
course Of long continued advance in
prices. The preliminary movemlt in
the highly speculative industrials is
generally quite apart from any gem
eral condition of business and indus
try.y The later awakening Of the
more, substantial railroad stocks is
lookedA upon as indicating more vi
tai stag OF speculation and invest
ment here was broad and ccnti-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-05

New York, August 4.-Money on
call 1@112 per cent; last lean IL per
cent. Prime mercantile paper 3120
4 Per cent. Sterling exchange firm,
with actual business in bankers bills
at 81 $500 S51s for demand and at
81 S3a4@4 81 fer sixty days; posted
rates 81 S41a@4 IS and 81 S64 S612
Commercial bills "a S23s. Silver Ger
tiflcates 5S1a@591ac. Csr silver 59c
Mexican dollars 451sc
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-05

Tya,na Nos. /. O. 8 anf daily between
r-Je.rsiard and rhrfchsvisie. All other
trains dalIy except SgEs47y
F.feetric cars between Bridgeport ard
wheeling and Bridgeport and Martin
Ferry ard Beilatre.
Consist Agents for general Information
az to the best routes end passenger rates
TO all points.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-05
FINANCE and TRADE.

New York, August A. - Evening
Pests London financial cablegram:
The markets here were quiet to-
day, but still good, with further
rise in Spanish securities a feature.
There is good demand foe Americans.
especially from New York. Indeed,
New York buying Of bend shares is
SO large that it is believed it ray
check gold experts to the states.
Prices closed practically at the best.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14
All VIII BE Cooks.

The preliminary fashionable fad of
the season is cooking. To be in the
very height of the moment you must
join a cooking class or form cook
ing class, according to your success
as popular favorite. The rooms de-
voted to cooking at the Armour insti-
tute are filled with the debutantes who
are to bow their prettiest to society
during the coming month, and the de-
butantes who went through the ordeal
last year. You begin at the beginning
with washing dishes and you end the
term a domestic jewel. Nothing is too
complicated for your capacity, from
bread making to the indigestible edi-
bles that simmer under the cover of
a chatting dish. When Owen Meredith
wrote his verses in praise of cooks and
dining, his prophetic vision must have
rested upon the picture of the fash
ionable modern queen of the kitchen.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14

Charles and Patrick O'Brien, flourish
ed in the eighteenth century.
Charles, whose surname was really
Bryrne, measured 8 feet inches, and
died in Cockspur street, Charling
Cross, in 1888, aged twenty-five. His
death was precipitated by excessive
drinking, to which he was always adj
dicted, but more particularly after the
loss OF all his property, saved from
the profits of exhibiting himself,
which he had simply vested in
bank note For 5e700. On going to bed
one night O'Brien hid the precious note
in the fireplace. A servant girl, I'M
note was destroyed.
O'Brien had a morbid dread lest af-
ter his death his body should be seized
on by the chirurgical fraternity and
dissectsa, SO in his will he directs
that his remafi2s shall be thrown into
the sea. A paper of the period gives a
detailed account Of his burial at sea,
off the coast of Margate, but it was af-
forwards asserted in The Public
Ledger that Dr. William Hunter had
purchased the body of the celebrated
giant, whose skeleton was subsequent
ly added to the other wonders of the
Hunterian Collection to be seen in
Lincoln's Inn Fields.
The other Irish giant, Patrick
O'Brien, was born about 1850, at Kin
sale. His real name was Cotter, and
he measured feet. inches, though
the advertisement of the time give his
height as feet, and claim for him {.
descent from King Brian Boru. Though
much taller than Charles O'Brien Ito
whom he was in no way related),
Patrick lacked the latter's strength and
physique, though he lived to be more
than twice as old as the smaller giant,
dying at the age of forty seven.
1t is said that from Yorkshire and
Lancashire come the tallest men and
women as far as England is concerned.
William Bradley was a native Of the
former county, and was born in the
East Riding in the year 1892, accord
ing to description of him published.
with an old print, which we reproduce.
Bradley was teetotaler having never
tasted wine, beer, or spirits. At the
age of nineteen he measured Z feet s
inches, and was remarkable for the
great size of his hands and feet. At
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14

Cloyne, who was, suspected or dab
bling in the black art, and ridiculous
story obtained credence that the great
height of Magrath was the result of a
course Of experimental feeding, and
the imbibing of magic potions. This
strange tale had, doubtless, no better
foundation in fact than that the good
bishop opined that good living and
tonics are the best means of building
up the constitutions Of overgrown
youths. Be that as it may, Magrath
steadily increased in length and
strength, and at the age Of nineteen
measured feet s inches.
Our illustration, from print of the
period, represents him side by side
with German drum-major. The
skeleton Of "the great Irish giant" is
preserved in the museum Of Trinity
college, Dublin.
Two other celebrated Irish giants,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14
Greed for Omca

A Bucks county man spent nineteen
years OF his life trying to get the APP
pointment of postmaster. Finally he
worked his strings properly and was
appointed. When he learned that he
was counted only as fourth-class
postmaster he Immediately resigned.
He said he had worked long enough
to be a first-class postmaster, and
derned if he hedn't sense enough to
know it. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14

at e stones. His shoe was Is inches
long and 51a inches wide, and his
stockings feet inches in length.
Like SO many other giants, Bradley
died young, and was buried in his ma
tive town, Market Weighton.
James Toller, the Huntingdon giant
whose portrait, together with that of
Simon Pap, the dwarf, we present to
our readers, was born in 1895, at st.
Meats, Huntingdonshire. At the age
of seventeen he measured feet; and
at his death, which took place in 1919,
he had reached the great height of s
feet inches. His father and mother
were of the ordinary altitude, but he
had a sister who at the age of sixteen
stood fully six feet. Simon Pap, the
dwarf, measured only % inches, and
at the age of twentysix weighed only
~ lbs. His head was out of all pro-
portion to his diminutive body, but he
was very intelligent, speaking several
languages fluently. Both he and Toll
Ter drew all London when thay
were exhibited early in the present
century.
Two foreign giants, Louis Franz, a
Frenchman, and Joachim Eleicegui, a
Spaniard, became for period the
lions of the day. Louis Franz, better
known as Monsieur Louis was ex-
hibited in New Bond street, and stood
Z feet 6 inches in his stockings; while
the Spaniard, who called himself "the
Spanish Goliath" measured feet 10
inches. He was appointed drum
major to one of the French regiments,
and made grand show with his baton
of office, a heavily headed long cane,
profusely ornamented and gilded,
which he twirled and twisted in time
to the martial music as the regiment
marched through the streets of the say
city.
He came to London in 1916 and was
exhibited in the Cosmorama Rooms
Regent street, with great eclat and
prestige, Having been honored with
munificent tokens of appreciation from
His Majesty Louis Philippe, King OF
the French, Her Majesty the Queen Ct
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14

Portugal, and Her Majesty the Queen
of Spain. The great Spaniard was,
however, eclipsed by the celebrated
Norfolk giant, Robert Hales, a native
of the little village of West Somerton,
near Great Yarmouth. He was one
of a family of giants, his father meas
uring feet 6 inches and his mother
6 feet. He had five sisters consider
ably over feet and four brothers
nearly as tall as their father, but
Robert overtopped them all, measur-
ing nearly 8 feet, and possessing a
strongly knit frame in perfect proper
ton. He measured 81 inches round The
chest, and 81 inches round the calf OF
the leg. It took yards of broad cloth
to make him a suit of clothes. At the
age of thirteen he entered the Royal
Navy, and served on board H. M. S.
Ranger, under Captain Wells, during
a period of three years.
The enterprising Barnum took Hales
to America in 184S, whence he re-
turned and set up as mine host of the
Craven Head tavern, Drury Lane.
Here he dispensed stout and bitter to
an admiring crowd, who gaped in won
der at his gigantic proportions, and
examined with awe the massive gold
watch and chain which the royal hands
Of Queen Victoria had bestowed upon
him.
Hales failed, however. to make the
Craven Head tavern pay. and returned
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14
Saved by an Indian.

When Albert Misek was being shot
at by three robbers at his Chicago place
Of business he lodged behind an Indian
standing on the sidewalk. The bandits
filled the Indian full of bullets and ran
away. The Indian was wooden. Elk.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14
CATHERINE BOEBNER.
"a Swiss Giantess.

: VA GoW1oo 6AeNACCSS.J
two Kings, James I. and Charles II.
Parsons stood /? feet 6 inches in his
stockings, possessed remarkable mus
cular power, and was of a merry dis
position. He loved practical jokes as
a medium for the display Of his great
strength, a fayorite pastime being the
sudden snatching ZIP of two of the
most stalwart soldiers on guard at the
palace. Carrying one under each arm
he wouli run around the courtyard
with his indignant burthens, who were
perfectly poWerless in that iron grip.
Macmillan christopher Muller was 8
native of Leipsic, and was exhibited.
at the Blue Posts. Charing Cross, in.
the year 1872. He was eight feet in
height, well proportioned, and, unlike
most modern giants, possessed OF re-
markable strength. Before his arrival
in England he had made tour of Eu-
rope, and had been presented to most
3of the leading potentates. He was a.
great favorite at the Court of Louis
XIV. Of France, who presented him
with a silver mace and richly jew,
teled scinitar. Muller's Characteristic
figure, with It's abnormally large head,
was immortalized by the pencil of Hoo
garth. Muller lived to a comparative
~ old age, dying in 1874. at the age Of
so. By
Cornelius AIagrath, the celebrated
Irish giant. was born In 1927, and at
the age OF sixteen measared six feet.
He was an orphan brought up by the:
sGailosophe Berkeley bishop Of
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14
Crushed by Falling BRIDGE.

O1u us1 py FHK1Ins Br1dge.
Two men were crushed to death
while working on a trestle near win.
chester, Ky. A freight train broke the
trcstle down.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14
SOME GREAT GIANTS
MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE'RE
OF GIGANTIC STATURE.
Ths Greatest Was Eight Feet Six
Inches High-Iost of Them Not
Strong and Died Young Reliable
Figures.

HE finding of gil
6 a n t ic skeletons,
supposed to be ha-
man re m a i n $ ,
buried deep in the
earth, gives rise to
the belief that
there were at some
pc cd Of t h g
W orl d. s history
giants and gian-
1 - ann L
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14

nigh; but Sir Hans Sloane and Georges
Culver effectualy dispelled the notion,
and demonstrated beyond all doubt that
these bones were the mortal remains
of mammoths and mastodons, and that
the so-called giants teeth" had origi-
nally ornamented the mouths of colos-
sal whales. The earnest seeker after
truth must, therefore, considerably
modify his notions as to the true
height of the men who were giants in
those days, and regretfully accept the
latest opinion that there is no we'll au-
tEenticated case of any human being
attaining to greater height than 10
feet. The celebrated giants of the last
three hundred years have i.a}no case
reached the 10-feet limit, the majority
being only something over feet.
Daniel, Oliver Cromwells porter, is
described as man "of gigantic pro-
portions" though his exact measure
ments are not given. The same au
thority informs lis that he was "emi-
nent for his sanctity, and for prophecy
ing many memorable events, partic-
ularly the fire of London" Another
giant who flourished in the early part
of the seventeenth century, was Wall
ter Parsons, who was gate porter to
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-01-14
IN THE TENEllfNTs,
HOLIDAY SPIRIT LIGHTENS
SOUALlD QUARTERS.
Two Scenes from Real Life Pictured bv
Newspaper Mana Sad Case of
Desertion-Actual Scenes Pictured in
Grand Street.

ACOB A. RIIS, au-
thor of "How the
Other Half Live
and of OF h er
studies of life in
the tenements, con-
tributes an article
to the Century on
Merry Christmas
in the Tenements.
The paper is illus
trated by Jay
The herald., 1898-03-31
Senator Perkins Caller

Washington.-The owners of probably
half the cards that are sent in to the SEN
ators are unknown to their recipients,Sen
ator Perkins one day recently, in respond
ing to one of those unknowns who. hap
pened to be of the feminine gender, told
the page who brought the card to show the
lady to the marble room. He went out
there a few minutes later, expecting, of
course, to be recognized by the lady who
had called on him. None of the three ladies
in the room came forward so he politely
asked each Of them in turn if she wished
ito see Senator Perkins" Receiving a
negative to each inquiry, he started back
to his seat in the chamber, when he met in
the corridor of the marble room, the wealth
err bureau man, who is stationed there, and
who is often called upon by visitors to point
out senators whose faces are unfamilN r to
the former. Seeing the senator with a card
in his hand and a perplexed look on his
face, he asked him IL he were looking for
some one.
"Yes," the senator replied, II received
this card and told the page would see her
in the marble room, but she isn't there"
The weather man glanced at the card and
grinned. But she is there, senator" he
said, at the same time pointing to an in
dividual clad in broadcloth trousers and
Prince Albert coat, seated on a sofa in a
corner of the marble room.
The card bore the name of DIR. Mary
Walker.-New York Sun.
The herald., 1898-03-31
Bound to Have His Nickel Back

Isadore Hershorn, 80 years old, of
Brooklyn, was prisoner in the police
court Monday. He is an Austrian who
came to America three months ago. He is
a graduate of the University of Pesth, and
has diplomas from other European univer-
stiles testifying to his ability to teach ad-
vanced mathematics. Hershorn went to
the West Shore ferry and bought ticket
for cents. He deposited his ticket in the
box, but when he got in the waiting room
found he was at the wrong ferry. He went
to the ticket office and demanded his nickel
back. The ticket seller refused to give it
to him. Hershorn then planted himself in
the gate and said he would let nobody pass
until he got his nickel. The first passenger
who came along put down nickel at the
window for ticket The Austrian seized
1t and said he would pay himself If the COM
pany wouldn't pay him. The attendants
had to take the money away from him. He
took his former station in the gate to wait
for another nickel. All remonstrance fail
ing to move him. Policeman MCGOWAN was
called and he was removed by force. He
was no sooner set free in the street than he
went back to the gate and the policeman
arrested him. To Magistrate Pool the man
said 1t was not the nickel he cared for but
he felt that he was being imposed upon.
The magistrate discharged him-New
York Herald.
The herald., 1898-03-31
Mrs. Celia Wallace's New Diamond

Mrs. Celia w. Wallace has just pur-
chased the second largest diamond in the
country from State street jeweler for
S21, $780, Mrs. Wallace is one of Chicago's
wealthy and somewhat eccentric women
She lives at the Auditorium hotel and has
very few visitors. She is given to do sur
prising things. For instance, not long ago.
she appeared in one of the theaters dressed
in $4,000 gown. She made gift of $75,-
600 to the Central church, with as little
concern as If the sum were cents instead
of dollars, and now she has bought dia-
mond that will hurt the eyes of the be-
holder. Mrs. Wallace is the daughter of
DR.. Thomas Whipple of Wentworth, N. H.
Her father was congressman for eighteen
years away back in the '20s. In 1865 she
married John S. Wallace, a business man
in Chicago, who, on his death, left his vast
estate to his widow and son. On the lat
ters death in 1881 Mrs. Wallace became
the sole possessor. For many years she
attended the Central church and was a
warm friend of Prof Swing. The wealthy
widow is perhaps more interested in that
church than in any other one affair, and
although of retiring disposition, finds
time to do considerable work for her ia
vorite church organization.-Chica
paper.