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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18

William Sibley, an aged and respect
ed citizen of Benwood, died suddenly
about eleven o'clock Saturday night
while sitting in an arm chair He has
been making his home with his SON
in-law. ex-Mayor Joseph Manhood, and
for some time he has been in delicate
health, although death came unexpect-
eddy. The deceased was II years OF
age and leaves several children. The
funeral will take place this afternoon
from the residence on Water street,
and will be conducted by Rev. j. S.
Robinson, pastor of the M. E. Church.
The interment will be at the McMechen
cemetery.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18
AUCTION SALE

Ewing Bros. 1918 Market Street, Begin
ming on Thursday Afternoon, January
18TH, at Two O'Clock.
Haviland and Vienna Chinas, Cut
and Engraved Glassware, Fine Cut
lery and other Table Articles, Combs,
Brushes and other Toilet Articles, Gus
pidors, Lamps, Globes, etc, etc.
Auction sale each afternoon and
evening. Private sales each morning
at the lowest reduced prices You can
afford to buy now for your future
wants. JAMES w. EWING
Assignee for Ewing Bros.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18

s John w. Isham's Octoroons, COM
posed of recognized talent, will appear
at the Grand the last half of this week,
with Friday and Saturday matinees,
presenting a programme of rare excel
lence, entirely surprising all previous
efforts in this line. Grand opera Sc
lections, properly presented and blend
ed with high-class speciality acts, will
be the leading feature, combining the
best features of opera, farce comedy
and vaudeville. 1t has been Mr. Ish-
ans ambition to make this the largest
and best attraction of it's kind organic
ed, and that he has succeeded has been
the opinion wherever his entertain
ment has been given. In selecting his
able and talented company, and giving
it proper accessories. Mr.. Isham has
not allowed the question of expense to
deter him from having the best.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18
Do YOU WEAR UNDERWEAR?

Time is now to buy SHEETING.
They never were SO low as at this time.
Best 1914 sheeting made at 15c yd.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18
:Wbeelin9 Re9ister
Run ON PANTS,

$50 styles of elegant AllWool Trouser-
iues reduced from SIS 90 to 5000; 100
styles of elegant ll-Noot Trouserings re-
duced from . 90 to SIS 90, which we are
prepared to make to order on snort notice
Many Of these goods are less than cost and
great bargains c. HESS & SONS,
Fashionable Tailors aud Furnishers, 1924
and 1923 Market Stceet. TTH&SAr
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

DeedsLeft for Record at Clerk Robertson
Office Yesterday.
Deed made January IA, 1898, by
Henry Banker and wife, of Mounds
vile, to Joseph Gilbert, for lot No. g.
in square No 5, in South Wheeling.
Consideration, $3.50
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18
ADJUSTMENTS.

Attractions Booked in Both the Local
Play Houses.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-To- might,
Pittsburg Orchestra Concert; last half OF
week Isham's OctorConS.
OPERA HOUSE-Monday, Isle OF
han "a ON =
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18

"The Young Klondikers" will inter
est and instruct you. Begins in the
Daily Register January "a.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18

Chas. Brown is afflicted with typhoid
fever.
Mrs. James Edwards and Mrs. Car
roll visited Martins Ferry friends
Sunday.
There will probably be a large crowd
attend the mock trial to be held IN
the upper Benwood school house to-
night.
The revival at the M. E. Church
will be continued this week for the
third successive week with much inter-
est manifested
Patrick Scanlon announces himself
candidate for Street Commissioner,
subject to the decision of the Demo-
cratic primaries.
The widow Of Joseph Taylor, for
merly of Belwood, has purchased the
Evans property on Main street, opp
site the post ,tIice, and Will occupy u
soon.
Misses Lottie Price and Halle Mar
tin, teachers IN the upper Benwooc
school, who have been i'll and unable
to attend to their duties, resumed work
yesterday.
The coal bank which has supplied
the lower Benwood works is shut down
and the Wheeling Steel and Iron Com
pany are buying all coal for their plant
from Moundsville. The bank has been
closed since the puddlers quit work
and it is not known whether it will be
opened again or not.
The so-called Indian" doctor and
his company showed at the City Hall
for the last time last night and to-day
left for McMechen to open up an en-
gagement there. The doctor" is al
legged to have done a land office bus
mess in Benwood, which indicates that
P. T. Barnum's famous maxim has not
lost any of it's force.
George Keltz, who died at his home
near Sherrard last Friday was broth
er OF ex-Sheriff Henry KeitZ. of Boggs'
run. The deceased was so years of asc.
Arrangements for the funeral have
been delayed on account of the diff
Guilty of sending word to three sons
of the deceased, who are engaged in
the lumber business In Oregon.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18

A movement is on foot by capitalists
from out of the State to buy up sew
eral thousand acres of coal land IN
Marshall county, located in the vicin-
ity of Jim's run, just below McMechen.
A Pittsburg company wants the land
and a representative met half dozen
property owners from McMechen at
Benwood Saturday and secured options
on 1000 acres of land situated on the
farms of G. C. McMechen, Fred Lor-
entz, the Baker heirs, Felix Clark,
Edward Dorsey, Russell Dorsey, Chas.
Rebe and others. The options expire
the first of April. The Pittsburg COM
pany agrees to pay the minimum price
of s13 per acre for all coal mined, and
expect to open up the coal land, which
is said to be richly laden, in the very
near future The parties who gave
options to the coal company on their
land will have another meeting this
week.
The times., 1898-08-01
WALEs's DANCING DAYS OVER.
The Prince Has n Narrow Escape
From Lockiaw,

London. July 31.-The Prince of Wales's
removal from London to the royal yacht
Osborne, at Cowes yesterday, was sane
toned with much reluctance by his ply
sicians as being the lesser of TWO evils.
The prince has grown extremely restive
under his enforced confinement, and his
doctors decided to take the risk of the
journey. During the first four days after
the accident acute apprehension was felt
by the physicians that tetanus might
supervene. Premonitory symptoms mad
appeared and four consultations of his
doctors were held. though only two an
nounced that the fear of tetanus, coupled
with the gouty condition of the princes
knee joint was the real reason why no
operation was performed to bring the
fractured parts of the patella together.
He knows that he is fated 10 have a
weak knee for life, but doctors assured
him yesterday that if the progress already
made continued and that he does not in
sist on using his leg too soon, there is
every prospect that no lameness will be
observable. He will always have difficulty
in going up and down stairs and can
scarcely hope TO take horseback exercise
any more. Dancing will be impossible for
him. This latter deprivation he feels
acutely, as he is an enthusiastic dancer.
The times., 1898-08-01
The Paris Exposition.

New York, July 31.-Fedinand W. Peck,
American Commissioner to the Paris Ex-
position, arrived in this city yesterday,
and has establised his headquarters at
the Waldorf-Astoria. Mr.. Peck will re-
main in New York until the first week in
September, when he will go to Paris and
take personal charge of the work apper-
tanning 10 the American exhibits in the
French exposition of 1900. Mr.. Peck said
last night:
'It is too early yet to speak even COM
prehensively of what America is Likely
TO accomplish. In a week possibly l shall
be better able to speak of the work that
has already been done, and of the dis
play which America is likely TO make in
1900. My plans necessarily depend upon
circumstances, and as yet have only APP
pointed one assistant-he is Paul Black
burn, who will be my chief aid. / am
sorry / am unable to say more now. but
you may depend upon it that, notwitln-
standing the limited amount of money
and the limited space which have been
placed at our disposal, the manufactures
and industries of America will be better
represented in Paris than at any other ex-
hibition in which American products have
been previously shown in Europe
The times., 1898-08-01
Captured at Atlantic City

Detective Lacey made an important
capture at Atlantic City yesterday aft
ernoon, when he unearthed and arrested
Nat Arnold, alias William johnson,
who has been wanted by the Washington
police since the night of Fenbruary l3.
1897. Arnold had woman friend liv-
ing in a house on Thirteenth Street
northwest, below Pennsylvania Avenue,
and on the night above mentioned he
had violent quarrel with her, when he
stabbed the woman with penknife and
fled. Policeman Kilmartin was attracted
by the woman's screams, and sent her
10 the hospital. The surgeons had a
great deal of trouble in extracting the
knife from the wound. where 1T had been
left by the would-be murderer, but
finally succeeded, and she recovered.
Detective Lacey happened to see the
man at Atlantic City yesterday, and
promptly placed him Sunder arrest. Ar
mold was a waiter at one of the hotels
at Atlantic City, and was known as
William Johnson. He will be taken 20
Camden, N J., tomorrow and given a
preliminary hearing. after which he viii
be brought to this city.
The times., 1898-08-01
Arrested on Suspicion

Frank Harris. colOred. eighteen years
old. was arrested by Detective Proctor
Saturday night, and is locked up at No. 1
station charged with being a suspicious
character. Proctor's attention was first
attracted to the man by his peculiar ac-
tions at Davis's hat store, corner Of
Twelfth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.
where he tried the locks on all the doors
and spent considerable time in looking in
to the show windows. Harris then moved
west on Pennsylvania Avenue. to the cor
ner of Fourteenth Street, where he
stopped in front of a gentlemen's fur
nishing store on the corner.
He seemed TO be particularly interested
in the case of umbrellas and canes that
was near the door and was gradually
working himself into the store when one
of the clerks asked him what he wanted.
Nothing" was the reply. and the man
again moved on up the street The de-
tective followed and saw his suspect re-
peat his performance several times at
other stores but without successful re-
suits and finally placed him under arrest
Harris denies that he intended 10 do any
wrong and said that he had Just left his
work TO come uptown and buy a cane
He will be given a chance TO prove his
innocence in the Police Court this morn
ing
The times., 1898-08-01
GRIEF TURNS TO JOY.
Family of n Soldier Reported Killed
Is Now Rejoicing .f.lh 1rHu

New York. July 31.-The family of
George E. Blackmer, a sergeant of Com
pany /, Second Massachusetts Volunteers,
was a joyful one Saturday night. Black
mer lives at Riverside, Mass, and was
wounded three times in the famous
charge at San Juan When he received
his third wound he fell, and one of his
comrades reported to the commanding
officer that Blackmer had been killed.
In consequence his name appeared in the
and his family in Riverside held a funeral
service for him. The service was at
tended by Blackmer's father, Eidridge J.
Blackmer: his mother, nine brothers
and sisters, and many friends. Many
floral tributes were sent by friends and
relatives. Then, weeks afterward. the
family's mourning was turned into re-
joicing when ii was learned that, instead
of being killed, Blackmer had only been
wounded, and was in fair way to re-
coyery. II was only the last of the three
wounds that he received that was at ell
severe. He was shot in the head, and
after lying on the ground for some time
was taken TO the rear. He was one OF
those who came TO this city on the hos
pital ship Olivette, and it was not until
the vessel reached this port that Black
mer's relatives heard that he was alive.
The news came from Senator Hoar, who
knows the family. BIackmer left Gov
ernor's Island yesterday for his home.
having recovered sufficiently to allow
him 10 make the journey.
The times., 1898-08-01
THORN TO DIE TODAY.
He IL Glad of Gov. Blacks Refusal
to Commute His Sentence

Sing Sing, N, Y, July Sl.-Martin Thorn
will be shocked TO death in the electric
chair at Sing Sing prison tomorrow MORN
ing at II o'clock for the murder of Will
lam Galdensuppe. The condemned man
has told Warden Sage that he would
much rather die than be compelled to
serve life sentence for his crime His
counsel has been working TO save Thorn's
life, and on Thursday made a plea TO
Governor Black for communication of the
sentence of death to life Imprisonment
on at o'clock yesterday afternoon. He
declines to interfere.
The news was conveyed to Thorn by
Warden Sage and the condemned man
said: -af
Yes, Warden. am glad. It is what
expected. ! am satisfied. / would no;
have it otherwise"
Thorn" said Warden Sage last night,
sis without doubt the most remarkable
man / have ever come in contact with in
this prison. He positively has no fear of
death. ! think he would have made
protest had his counsel been successful
in his plea with Governor Black"
Thorn spends mis- time in reading and
praying He has regular system, which
was suggested 10 him by his spiritual ad-
wiser the Rev. Father Hauselman, OF
Brooklyn. He alternates his praying with
religious reading and meditation. Thorn
has not been visited by anyone during
the eight-months- he has been confined In
the condemned cells excepting the Cath
oIic priest He seems TO want friend
now, and has asked the warden to write
to several people whom he would like to
have take charge of the interment of his
body He does not want to be buried in
the prison cemetery.
Everything is in readiness for the exc
cution Thorn was shaved by the prison
barber Yesterday The barber is prison.
er. serving a sentence for burglary He
used safety razor and the two talked
pleasantly
The times., 1898-08-01
DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.
Mrs. MaIlack. Who Was Born in
I79S. PASSES Away

Philadelphia, July S1.-To have lived
through the changes of one hun
dred years is the lot of but few.
Mrs. Elizabeth Conover Mallack, who
died near midnight last Friday. had on
that day completed a century and
month. She has never fully rallied since
her birthday. which occurred on June ~.
These festivities, though gratifying,
greatly exhausted her. The oppressive
heat, added to the burden of years. over
came her strength. She was born at
Albany, New York, and moved here, with
her husband, I'm 1919. She was the mother
of nine children; seven of them are liv-
ing. For eight years she has been the
tender charge of the eldest child, Mrs.
A c. McCurdy. She has made her home
with her Oldest son, John Mallack, at
Thirty-third and Chestnut Streets. She
sent four sons TO the Civil War-AleXan-
der, of the Ninety-fourth Volunteers,
now living at Glenolden; Silas, another
volunteer, whose home is in California;
James, of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cav
airy, who was killed at Harrison's Land
ing while waiting 10 re-enlist, after three
years service, ana AHuTeWs WHO dlSO NS-
Tended his country, and resides in this
city. Another son, Samuel, lives at Cliff
ton, and Mrs. George Watson, her young
est child, lives at Washington
She had twenty grandchildren, twenty
three great-grandchildren. and one great
great-grandchiid. Mrs. Mallack was a
member of the Presbyterian Church, at
Seventeenth and Filbert Streets, but
outlived her pastor. and even the edifice
itself. She will be buried at Woodlands
on Tuesday.
The times., 1898-08-01
ORIGIN of NaturnI ems

Referring TO the many ingenious and interest
ing theories which have been advanced regarding
the generation and origin of natural gas-aeoount-
ing too for the great prsssures under which il
is stoTed-a writer in Casters Magazine argues
that the distribution and intimate relation of the
carbon compounds all favor the theory Of their
generation by the decomposition Of vegetable and
mineral organic matter under widely different
riations and surroundings of temperature. press
ure, and other forces and chemical Influences.
from the earliest development of organic life to
the present time; the gas is. according 10 such
conditions, the product probably OF slow primary
decomposition, at low temperatures. OF animal
and vegetable substances contained in natural sed
iments, as may be seen, for example, in the shall
low, undsturbed portions of fresh-water lakes;
further, the deposits OF oil and gas in the peeu-
liar geological form ions from which they
being drawn for commercial uses due to the
accidental disposition Of the antielinals and syn
elinals which act reservoirs, and do not neees-
sariy indicate the restriction of their generation
to any particular geological periods. The richly
productive gas pool is dome or inverted trough
of porous or coarse grained sand or limestone ge
olOgically called antieline covered by impsr-
yious shale similar formation
The times., 1898-08-01
cUBAN-AMER1cAN LEAGUE.
1t Favors Holding All Newly Gained
Territory

New York, July 31.-Members Of the
Cuthn-Americam League. representing
every State in the Union. met at No.
l15 Broadway Saturday afternoon
These resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That the men of 1888 are
not degenerate sons of noble sires, but
are and will prove themselves equal to
any and every responsibility that God
in His wisdom places upon them.
Resolved, That the Cuban-American
League believes that it is expressing the
views of the American people when 1t
says nos an inch of territory gained by
war for liberty will ever again be per-
mitted to return under the control of
autocratic Institutions"
Many of the members of the league
are only connected with Cuba through
their sympathies. The president of the
league is William C. Mcdowell; the
treasurer is Charles w. Lutler and the
secretary is Antonio A. Aquirre. Among
the other members are Henry Baldwin
of Connecticut; Leonard w, Colby, of
Tennessee; Hannis Taylor, of Alabama;
John Jacob Astor, of New York; Mrs
Lizzie T. Dorr, of New Jersey; Miss
Louise Kingston. of Kansas; James H.
Paine of Ohio, and w. ii. MorganJnof of
Washington. d. C. On an effort TO
make more effective the influence of the
league a vice president is TO be APP
pointed from each one of the States. and
Territories, from each province in Cuba
and Porto Rico. and from each one of
the islands now passing TO us from
Spain. A circular letter is TO be scat
tered broadcast. Here are a few ex-
tracts from it:
'All of the colonial possessions of
Spain has passed, or is passing into the
possession of the United States. All
our members agree that whether We de-
sire it or not the responsibility for the
future of all the different lands now
coming under our control has placed
higher power upon the people whose
founda;ional cornerstone is the Declara-
ton of Independence.
ITO most of us the Philippines. Cuba,
Porto Rico, the Ladrones, Carolines and
the Canary Islands are almost unknown
lands Out of this comes the suggestion
that the work of the Cuban-American
League IS to organize at the earliest
possible moment an emigration or
Americans, under American auspices, TO
all of these different places"
The times., 1898-08-01
THE REBEL YELL, JUNIOR.
1t Is Adopted by the Army in the
t-'i Field

The American army has adopted the
rebel yell.
The famous war cry OF the Confed-
eracy is alive today, but it is the bows
in blue who unlimber their vocal chords
and screech like lot of old 'rebs'' as
they dash 10 the charge.
The men Of Massachusetts yell Just as
Justify as the men south of the Mason
and Dixon line. In fact the Northern
troops, and particularly those from New
York. seem to place great confidence in
the horrible screech. The roar and rous-
ing cheer which encouraged the boys of
81 who were battling for the preserva-
tion of the Union seems 10 live in memory
only.
1t has been succeeded by the blood
curdling ven which the wearers of the
ragged jacket made heard far above
the howl of the shell, the roar of The
cannon or the bark of the musket In rs
the old rebel yell is heard again
1t is not generally known that yelling
when the charge is on is prescribed in
the army regulations.
When from thirty TO fifty yards from
the enemy emit a YELL" said the drill
book, and the yell that fills the air is the
plain, oldfashioned rebel "Y-Yo-Yo-Wo-
Wo! The New Workers turn loose
fearful yell when they charge, and the
Fifth Regiment of Maryland lets go an
even more dangerous howl. The sound is
nothing of the natare of a cheer. 1t is a
wild, unearthly cross between screech
and yell that is calculated not only to
strike terror to the enemy but 10 en-
courage cur own boys. The yell is sup
posed to put the finishing touches to the
enemy. The Americans in their charge.
having covered all but about thirty yards
OF the distance until the Spaniards are
reached. dash forward from a double
quick TO mad rush, yelling wildly, for
the triple purpose of encouraging each
other and confusing and terrorizing the
enemy
There is not a question of doubt that
the battle cry of the American army is
the rebel yelP' of old. and its adoption
by the boys in blue is a great compliment
to the men who set ii TO music of bullets
thirty-seven years ago.
The Fifth took to the yell most natur-
ally. There are men in the command
who sang in the choir of 81. and who
are delighted to hear the revival of the
old but never-to- -he-forgotten melody"
capt. Lee GoIdsborough, of Company /,
says the yell, junior. is the real thing,
and is of the opinion that it is the sweet
est music he ever heard
When the order to the charge, is
given the men start forward at dou-
ble-Quiek.e Then. as the enemy's line is
neared the squirt begins, the yell is given
and all is over-perhaps. During every
skirmish drill scores of men may be seen
rushing over the hot sands against an
imaginary foe yelling like wild. The
yell. it is hoped, will prove very effective
against the Spaniards, who, by this time
have heard it, and understand that it
is backed up by line of cold steel ma
nipulated by muscular American arms.