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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
EIGHT DEAD
As the Result of Blind Tiger Fight
on Sandy Fork, Kentucky.

Middlesboro, KY, January ia
special from Hyden says that the fight
on Sandy Fork, Leslie county, contin-
ued all day yesterday. Eight men were
reported killed as follows:
John Williams, Tom Wilson, Bob
Colewell, Tom Shelton, Peter Dor
rough, Mack Paine, Elias Howard and
Abel CCombs, all colored.
Sim Paine, Larry McComas, Sid Mar
tin and Lew GOSsom were seriously
wounded. Intense excitement prevails
and further fighting is expected. The
fight occurred over cards in a blind
tiger
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
AN EIGHT HOUR DAY
Nay Be Demanded for the Coal hiiher''
To Be Backed by the Federation

Columbus, January 15.-The unlted
Mine Workers of America DECIDED 70
day to ask for an advance OF lo cents
per ton on next years contract lor PIN
mining and three-fifths OF the PICK
mining price for machine mining IN
Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania, ana
four-ffths in Indiana and other low
coal districts.
The convention decided that screens
ought to be abolished, all coal TO De
weighed unscreened.
rae convention will go to Chicago
;Ininstructed on the differential, but in
5tructed to ask operators to establish
eight hours as a days work.
1t is foreshadowed here that the Ma
ional Federation OF Labor will prob
lbly select the miners as the organlza-
lion to inaugurate the movement Tor
the eight-hour system, on or before
May 1st. as per action OF the FEEDER
ation at it's last convention.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16

Temple, Tex, January 15.-At 7.3o
o'clock this morning, just outside
the city limits, j. c. Adams, a popular
farmer of this county, was shot and
instantly killed by ]. M. Keith. Tia
divorce suit of Mrs. Keith against 7
M. Keith was set for to-day in the Dis
trict Court. Adams was in a surrey
with Mrs. Keith and two other ladies'
driving toward town. Mrs. Keith
saw a horse hitched near the road
and warned Adams that there might be
trouble. He assured hec that he be-
lieved the threats Keith had been max
ing for year against him and other
members of the School Board all
friends of Mrs. Keith. who is teach
er, were mere vagaries Of a drunken
mind. He had hardly finished speak
ing when Keith stepped from behind
telephone pole and showed a shotgun
close to Adams breast. He poured
both barrels, loaded with buckshot, in
to his breast, and jumped back. Adj
ans fell from the surrey, and the
frightened team started to run away :.
His weight overturned the vehicle,
throwing the ladies out against barb
ed wire fence. They quickly ran to
the house near by, where Keith rode in
a few moments, demanding that his
wife see him. In Mysteries over the
tragedy she refused, and Keith rode
away, only to return in a short time,
almost riding over the body of his vic
tim each time he passed back and
forth.
Keith came to town and crawled I'M
der a house, still holding his shotgun,
and vowing he would kill the first man
who tried to catch him. Much persua-
sion and many promises finally got him
out. He expressed satisfaction at the
murder, and said he was sorry he had
not been able to kill others against
whom he had made threats. The
Keiths and Adamses came here soma
years ago from Geneva, Ala.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
TO RESTRICT MILITARY INSTRTTC-
TON.

Washington. January 15.-Acting
Secretary of War Meikleiohn has rec
commended to Congress that the law be
changed so as to have details of Off
GERS for military instructions made
only to institutions where there are at
least 100 students enrolled in the nlili-
tary department Of the institution.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
SHUTS OUT AMERICANS.
The Ontario Legislature Passes Retalia
tory Measures.

tory Measures.
Toronto, Ont. January 15.-The On
tario Legislature adjourned last night,
and in its closing hours passed bill
providing that no persons shall be en-
ployed in the construction of subsidized
railways in Ontario who are subjects
to any country who has an alien labor
law. which practically excludes Cana
dams from employment upon public
or other work therein. This means
that Americans need not expect work
on Ontario railroads. The Legislature
also passed the new timber regulations
which require all saw logs cut in On
tario hereafter to be made into lumber
in Canada.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
LOOTED GRAY GABLES.

Ex-President CIeveland's Summer Home
Visited by Burglars.
Buzzard's Bay, January 15.-Gray
Gables, the summer home of EXPIRES
ident Cleveland, has been visited by
burglars, who ransacked the house
from attic to cellar and made good
their escape without leaving the slight
est clue 10 their identity.
The amount of plumber which the
crooks took with them cannot be
known until Mr.. Cleveland has been
heard from.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
| ALL ABOUT WHEELS ANDDOGS.
The Famous Diplomatic Exemption
Claim of Secretary White

Has Stirred Up the London News
papers to Goodnatured Chatting.
Case Of the Queen Cited-Exemp-
ton for Her Unmuzzled Dog Was
Pleaded, But the Magistrate Inn
posed a Fine of Five Shillings.
The Same Plea Saved Two Ameri-
cans Who Had Ridden Bicycles
on a Sidewalk.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
PARDON FOR NATION.
President Mckinley Sets free Man once
Sentenced to Die.

Washington, D. c., January 1o.-The
President has extended complete par
don to CLYDE Mattox, who is now serv-
ing a life sentence in the Kansas State
penitentiary for murder committed IN
the Indian territory. MattoXs case was
highly sensational. He was tried al
together three times and in 1894 was
sentenced to death President Cleve-
land gave careful consideration to his
case and upon strong representations
made to him by friends of Mattox IN
June. 1894. committed this sentence to
Imprisonment for life.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
KENTUCKY TRUST co.
Located By Man Who Held the ContN
dence of the Community.
Louisville, Ky, January 10. II ne,
,ienment of the sKen-uJHN 1usC II

IlOUIsVIIIE, ny, JaIIVI4IJ u F
signment of the Ken-uFsN just Il Z.
pany to the Columbia Finance
Trust Company was filed this ason
noon. Liabilities $125, 000; assets arel3
$4,000 The concern has been loo !
by Reinecke, who was allowed to MI !
age all it's affairs. Reinecke resida,
here So years, and had the confderr,
Of all his fellow-countrymen He W.
a thirty-second degree Mason, spol,s
six languages and was splendid mus's
clan. He was the Italian consul hel
and is alleged to have appropriate.
much OF the money that was intrustt.
to him to remit to the old country. b.
has a brother who is a musical con.
poser of note in Germany. He is man
ried and has relatives in Cincinnati. Z
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
ATE BAD CANNED GOODS.

Special TO the Register.
Toronto. O.. January 15.-Samuel
&rohn, pastor of the Oakland Unlteo
Presbyterian church, opposite mere
IS in dying condition from the Ell
fects Of eating canned vegetables while
attending presbytery.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
WOULD HAVE NO DOCTOR.
Air OF Mystery Surrounds AIRS. OLeary's
Death

Chambersburg, Pa, January IL
The authorities are not little puzzled
over the circumstances surrounding
the death of Mrs. Martha O'Leary, at
the Hotel Montgomery, yesterday. The
woman. who was about sixty years OF
age came to this place on December l
from Harrisburg, accompanied by her
cousin. C. R. milford, of Philadelphia,
who has not been in Chambersburg for
some days.
Mrs. O'Leary was indisposed for sew
eral weeks but steadfastly refused to
see a doctor Her body will be for
warded to Frederick, Nd, tomorrow
for burial, pursuant to instructions
from her fathers business representa-
tive, who says he will bear the costs OF
the funeral. but no other expenses.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
FAILED TO MAKE A CASE.

Special to the Register.
Clarksburg, w. Va, January 15.-To-
Gay the cases of the State against Le-
man Maxwell and Col. 7. M. Jackson
upon the charge of not giving their
property in properly to the assessor,
We're tried, and both gentlemen were
honorably acquitted and exhonerated.
This ends a series OF this kind OF
cases.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
FRANCE lND GREAT BRITAIN
Seem to Have Conflicting Interests ii
Africa,

Which, in View of Present Condi-
tons in France, May Lean to De-
cidedly Unpleasant Complica-
tions-French Leaders May Re-
sort to Foreign Complication to
Relieve Pressure at Home The
Drey fus Affair Has Stirred France
Deeply and the Honor of the Army
is Impugned.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
SOCIETY AS A MURDERER.
Novel Plea of Defense for WHO
SLAYER.

Novel Plea of Defense 1or
Chicago. January 15.-Chris MeI +Es
who murdered his wife, will s9t W pm, e,Ip +,
defense of degeneracy. and an alsJ i. N n
will be made to prove that socle'y 20 -
blame for the crime ..,,rso II
This was indicated IN tle ,- I0u' y,are
the examination OF jurors, III ~ words
a stsagadi+ II ar Ile' and @environment," a.
s gope out t. into n OF, the by-ways OF lil .
= The general inference drawn ray, ~, p
attorneys e viii admit the .t,, 9,'5 (2,-
guilt but seek from the sluuy =
past past'i life and the environment ne 15d "
be grew up to throw the OlaH' y
crime upon society.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
AGAlNST ANNEAA I IO-N

San Francisco, January PEI
ton protesting against the anheSa tna
of Hawaii, signed by loo sugar Deee
raisers of Ventura county mas oeeh
forwarded to Washington
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16

MRS. FLOOD DEAD.

CAN FRANCISCO, January 15.-Mrs
80, Flood, wife of the millionaire
80. - owner died to-day as the result of
n ,,,'' oneration recently performed in the
california woman's Hospital
AGAINST ANNEXATION
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
MuaIERED IN a .okER GAME.
Players injury Attributed to Divine In
Fiction OF Punishment

Altoona, Pa, January 15.-Intelli-
gence has been received OF the arrest
OF William Lomax, at Portage, Cam
bria county, for the murder Of Charles
Slaughter, during a game of poker.
Slaughter was found in a dying condi-
ton. unable TO make a statement. The
other persons interested in the game
account for his wound by saying: "The
Lord hit him on the head for cheat
ing"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
DAMAGED THE CARGO.

BOSTON, January lo,-t4re' smoke tno
water did $4,000 damage to the cargo OF
the Dominion line steamer Canaoa "hle
she lay at her wharf to-day Inc steam
81. was uniniured.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
PROMINENT MAN DEAD.

Special to the Register * ,r
Steubonville, O.. January i7.--M' L.
BLACKBURN. a prominent business man
of Bloomfield, died very suddenly TO-
day at noon.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
NAY BE LYNCHED.
The Assaiiant of an Eleven Year-Old Girl
Captured-iIas Two Counties 10 Cross

Paducah KY, January 15.-Robert
Blanks, the negro assailant of Della
BARLEY, aged IL years old, at Mayfeld,
was captured at noon at Wickliffe. XIV.
twenty miles from the scene of the
crime, after a long chase through two
counties. The mob is almost certain
to lynch Blanks at Mayfield tonight.
If he is not lynched before he reaches
that place. There is intense excite
ment
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
DECISION AGAINST FITZGERALD

Special 70 the FtgISltT.
Parkersburg, w Va, January 10
Judge Jackson. at Federal Court, TO
dav. in the suit of Warren 5. Bandorah
AGAINST Nat Ward Fitzgerald. for
money on a contract to furnish sup
plies for hotel at Terra Alta, render
ed a verdict for s4.1147S, with interest
from December "a. 1886. for the plant
IL.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
The Weather

Washington, January tor Ia
Virginia-Fair; coiu. a =
winds. ho1hone| and
rain in the early n pg6'c dsH'''''%
fair; colder; lieSi4
winds. ,ooo.
For Ohio-Fair precea5LCO {
the lakes; colder ~ ''''
fresh northwesterly WI "a
c. schnepf, the oper
gist made the following VI
Of the temporarily IN
40; 9 a. M, 81; lsF a
Z p. m. g. weF. va n
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
WITNESS SHOT DYDEFENDlNI
Two Loads Of BuckshOt Fired Into ],
c. Adams by ]. NJ. Keith,

Victim Was Riding With Murder.
er's Wife, Who Had Applied FIR
a Divorce-Adams Had just Fin
ished Statement That He Had
No Fear of Keith, and That Keith
Was Not the Kind of Man Who
Would Shoot.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
DR.. NhNSEN Is 4 ROAANCER.
Some Of His Arctic Stories Criticised
as Mythical.

New View of His Experiences.
julius Frederick, a Member Of
the Greedy Experience, Dissects
Some of the Incidents Narrated
by the Swedish Explorer Which
He Regards as Impossible-Dlg-
ging in Arctic Soil With a Walrus
Tusk and Swimming in the Icy
Waters.
The herald., 1898-02-01
SERIOUSLY CUT
Three Men Hurt by Sheet of Plate
Glass

George Street was seriously injured
and Pat Culligan and c. w. Snodgrass
were painfully cut yesterday afternoon
on First street. near Broadway, by the
breaking Of large sheet of plate glass
which they were moving from the show
window of F. d. Jones book store Sew
eral days ago a bullet was fired through
the window by some unknown person
and the glass was badly broken. Street,
Culligan and Snodgrass were sent to
put in a new glass. AS they were lift
ing the broken pane out one of the men
slipped and lost his hold. This caused
the glass to break, and before the men
could get out of the way they We're
caught by the falling fragments. A
large piece struck Street on the leg above
the knee and tore the flesh off to the
bone for quite distance. He was also
severely cut about the head and should
ers. Culligan and Snodgrass were cut
about the wrists, but their injuries were
not so severe as those sustained by
Street. The injured men were taken to
the receiving hospital, where DR.. Hagan
dressed their wounds.
The herald., 1898-02-01

back quite little time, but they are moi
yet outlawed. Mrs. Mary A. Harmon
widow, and the guardian of her sin
minor children, is the plaintiff, and she
demands that Uncle Coils shell out OF
his strong box $4,000 for damages and
an additional $4,000 for rents and Profits
and costs.
Mrs. Harmon explains that in Feb
ruary, 1894, the corporation entered her
and her children's land, containing
about 90 acres and situated on the
Compton road Dust south of the south
charter boundary of Los Angeles city,
where it's employees cut down 81 deeidu-
Gus fruit trees and 161 orange trees IN
bearing, dug up the soil, built embank-
nents and fences, and just ran their ola
railroad through it as if they owned the
earth. 1t is still there and the Harmon $
line is carved into two portions whlch
can only be reached by climbing over
fences or rolling down excavations.
The plaintiffs say that at no time dld
they give the Southern Pacific the right
to trespass upon their premises or TO
build track upon it, but that when they
demanded back the slice thus taken
from their orange grove they were
elected from it by the great monopolists.
They pray that the court will make
Uncle Coils people return them the in
vaded strip and that he be made TO
cough up" S17 900.
The herald., 1898-02-01
Postal and Pensions

WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.-Represent
ative Barlow will on Monday introduc,
bill to create the Pine mountain fores-
try reserve in Santa Clara county
Prospecting for minerals will he per.
mitted within proposed reservation and
agricultural lands to be included will
not be withdrawn from entry. The bill
meets the approval of Commissioner of
land office and secretary of interior.
California pensions have been granted
as follows
Original-RObert W. Martin of Vallejo,
IS: Charles Smith of DoWney, IS: Geo.
w. Riley of Oroville, So.
Increase-Michae! O'Brien of Sol
diers home. Sc to IS.
Widow-Mnors of Albert McGrath of
Highland Park, $l2; Anne Chamberlain
of San Jose, IS; Electra Hunsinger of
Fort Jones. SS
a postoffice has been established at
Warnersville, Stanislaus county, Cali
fornia. with Michael Kinser as post
master.
Franklin Fem was today commits
stoned postmaster at Avenal; S. H.
Loomis at Kingsburg, Fresno county,
vice L. E. Morgan, removed: Jesse A.
King at Lakeview, Riverside county,
vice Charles w. Rice resigned.
The herald., 1898-02-01
Astronomical Section

The regular meeting of the astronom-
ical section Of the Southern California
Academy of Sciences will be held this
evening at the residence of Mr.. j. ID.
Hooker, 325 West Adams street. Two
important papers (recently read before
the American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers Of New York; will be presented
as follows: The Telescope Considered
Historically and Practically" by w. r.
Warner of Cleveland, Ohio: Optical
Glass by John A. Brashear of ALLIE
gheny, Pa. The authors of both these
spective fields. Two telescopes, one
papers are world-renowned in their re-
long and one short focus, will be used in
connection with the blackboard for il
.luStratiOn.
The herald., 1898-02-01
PURGED OF CONTEMPT
Are Two Bank Clerks Who Failed to
Come to the Bird Trial

The order to show cause why Mark Is
Lewis and Robert Wankovski. both of
the State Loan and Trust company, who
failed to appear as witnesses for the
defense in the Bird forgery case on Sat
urday. after having been duly served
with subpoena. should not be pun
ished for contempt was dismissed yes
terday by Judge Smith. Mr.. Lewis
proved that he had been sick in bed for
more than a week. unable to attend to
his duties at the bank. and Mr.. Wan
kowski explained that the attorneys for
the defense had promised to telephone
him when his testimony was needed. but
that they had failed to do so. The rep
reservations satisfied the court and the
two gentlemen were purged of the allie
cation of contempt.
They then testified as to the genuine
ness of the signature Of G. j. Griffith to
a number of checks. yet Mr.. Lewis eX-
pressed some doubt as to the signature
on exhibit A. which is the document up
on which the trial bears. This conclud-
ed the case for the defense and rebuttal
evidence was then introduced by the
prosecution. 1t led to ceaseless wran-
giles between the two sides but at 1880
there being no further testimony either
way. the arguments commenced. They
will conclude today and the case will
then go to the Jury.
The herald., 1898-02-01
A DIFFERENCE
Between the Petition and
the Facts
THE ENGLISH OF ABILDGAARD
UNCLE COILS SUED BY MRS.
a
THE ENGLISH OF ABILDGAAR1
UNCLE COILS SUED BY MRS.
MARY HANNON
Mark Lewis and Bob Wankowski Are
Purged of Contempt-Trainer
Maben Sued

The hearing of the petition for writ
of habeas corpus applied for by Mrs
Fannie Hickson was continued yester-
day afternoon by Judge Allen until next
Monday. Mrs. Hickson alleged that her
daughter, May Ethel, a little, innocent
looking country girl, not less than II
years of age, was restrained of her lib
erty by John McGarvin at his fishing
camp at Alamitos bay Long Beach. She
also claimed that the girl received i'm
proper clothing, was neglected and
greatly exposed to evil and temptation,
which threaten her downfall and ruin.
From the reading of this petition a
person might be inclined to think that
Alamitos bay is the most corrupt place
in the world, and poor. old John Nc
Garvin as desperate pirate as ever cut
a throat or scuttled a ship; but, as mat
ter of fact John is a good. peaceable and
ancient fisherman who is the grand
father of Ethel May Hickson. His
granddaughter is much attached to him
and will not leave him and her aunt, a
chunky little girl of her own age. This
is the reason that Etheis parents have
made use of the writ Of habeas corpus,
and also because Grandpa McGarVin has
made up his mind that so long as the lit
tie girl wanted to stay with him she
might do so, and her paw and nav
warnt a-gon' to git her onless the
jedge sed So.
When the court inquired with whom
the little girl would like to remain until
the time of the hearing, she unhesitat-
ingly said she would go back to her
grandfather, and she never cast a look
in the direction of her parents. AS it
was out of the question to remand her to
the custody of the sheriff. Judge Allen
placed her in charge of the old fisherman,
who promised to produce her a t the hear
ing, there being no objection nterposed
by Mrs Hicksons attorney.
The only reason why the blood -curd- |
ling allegations in the complaint We're |
made seems to be that John McGarvin |
is widower, and that the daughter is |
sued from his second marriage is not |
old enough to exert much maternal care |
over Ethel while the old man is away |
fishing for a living. Lastly there is oc- |
casionally a dance at Alamitos bay in
the evening to drive dull care away, and
Mrs Hickson's attorneys urge that the
sound of music might expose the little
girl in short dresses ito evil and tempta-
ton, and eventually to her downfall and
death"
The herald., 1898-02-01
Cuffed the Wrong Bow

Harris Woods was found guilty of
battery yesterday afternoon in Justice
Morrison's court, after a trial lasting
NEARLY an hour. During the Golden Ju-
bilee parade, week ago yesterday,
Woods was on one Of the wagons, throw
ing apples to the crowd. a small boy in
the crowd threw one back ia him, strik-
ing him on the point of the jaw. Woods
jumped off the wagon and assailed Wiley
Fowler, an unoffensive colored boy, mis-
taking him for the boy who had thrown
the apple. The victim Of the assault
proved that he was only watching the
parade and knew nothing Of the apple
throwing until Woods struck him.
Woods will be sentenced Wednesday at
/. p. IN.
The herald., 1898-02-01
THEY FAILED TO CLOSE
Three Saloon Men in Court for Ordi
nance Violations

At last the police seem to be in ear
nest in their efforts to enforce the Sun
day and midnight saloon closing ordi-
nance. There were three cases of alleged
violation of this ordinance before Judge
owens yesterday and, while none of the
cases was tried, the complaints were in
regular form and the policemen who
had made the arrests were present and
ready to prosecute the cases.
When the case against S. Sceiver. who
was arrested Sunday afternoon. was
called. the defendant failed to respond.
The case was passed until tomorrow at
1870 p. M, when he will be given an on
portunity to plead.
f. NJ. Hubbard and A. Guiol. who were
arrested at l o'clock Sunday morning at
First and Wilmington streets by Sergt
Jeffries and Patrolmen Hubbard and
Dyke, answered when their names were
called. They were not ready for trial
however, and at their request the cases
We're continued until February II at 8 &c
d. m.
The herald., 1898-02-01
Library Matters

The board of library directors met
yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, with
President Dockweiler and Directors Fos-
ter and Garland present.
The bill of the Broadway News COM
pany for $515.50 for periodicals was ap-
proved. The bill of w. G. Hutchinson
& Co. for $330,S5 for electrical fixtures
and supplies came up for consideration.
AS none of the members present were
willing to approve the bill, the matter
was postponed until there should be a
full meeting.
The board has purchased from Mrs.
a. ]. King complete files of the Semi
Weekly Southern News, the Tri-Weekly
News and the Los Angeles Daily News
from 1860 to 1872