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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
WHEELING REGISTER, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1898.

Musical Club will furnish the music,
and very enjoyable time Is ensured.
The Board of Public Works met
last evening and after long consider
alton of the situation at the corner of
Baker and McColloch streets, asked the
Wheeling G Elm Grove Company to
submit plat to the City Engineer to-
day.
The Belmont furnace men have is
sued unique invitations for their third
grand ball to be given at Pythian Cas-
tie Monday evening. April Is. The
music will be furnished by Hackett's
full orchestra. The committee on ar
rangements are Messrs. Holdings, Fin
negan, Sheets, Butler, Close and Kol-
wolski. Prizes will be awarded to the
handsomest lady and homeliest gem
tleman, and quite an amusing evening
is promised
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05


During the long and very scattered
discussion which led to this result
Chief Bennett was called in, and after
a conference with him, it was agreed
to add $500 for the salary Of one more
officer for the Third ward, for the re-
nlainder of the year. which increased
the total of the department that much.
Then came the fire department with
it's plea for more apparatus, etc, and
a prolonged and general discussion en-
sued. There were many ideas. all con-
flicting, and the talk ran on to an in
terminable length. Finally a gross
sum Of $35, 900 for the fire department
was agreed upon, the same as previ-
ously fixed. Then, to bridge the gap
between receipts and expenditures, it
was agreed to mark tax receipts up to
s126,5GO, which left balance of
s247.25, which was added to Real Es-
tate, giving that department $3,747.25,
as per table above.
The Committee, at it's next session,
will divide the $4,000 of ten-cent levy
money between the wards. and appor-
ton the same out Some OF the mem
bers of the Committee were ready to
do this last night, but not all OF them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
THE Finance COMMITTEE
Of Council "Made Both Ends Meet,
Last Night,
BY Marking Up Estimated Receipts
from Taxes to $126, 500, or &c.
500 More Than the City Clerk
Estimate-A New Policeman for
the Third Ward--The Detailed
Figures.

The Council Committee on Finance
met again at the Office of the City
Clerk, last evening, to resume consld-
sideration of the annual receipts and
expenditures of the city for the pres
ent year, and to fix upon a distribution
of the ten-cent levy fund between the
different wards. AS preliminary,
the Committee ordered an ordinance
drawn giving the Board OF Public
Works one-sixth of the sum spent IN
1897, for April, 1898, to meet the flood
emergency.
The estimate Of the probable re-
ceipts, as prepared and tabulated at the
last meeting, was first laid before the
Committee. 1t aggregated s429, 1904,
as against the original estimate or
$41O, S5094 prepared by the City Clerk.
At the end of the session the total had
been further increased to s426.65o'94'
ond loolyod like thic
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
Piano tuning by experts.
F. ~. BANNER CO.,
1910 Market street
STRIKE.

CHICAGO. April About five thousand
carpenters struck here to-day, and WITT
the exceptions of pubic buildings, which
were not interfered with, work on nearly
every building III course of constructor
in the city is at a standstill.i
The reason is controversy over a rule
Of the Carpenters and Builders Asso-
ciation forbidding Union carpenters
working for anybody not member OF the
Carpenters and Builders Association
The workmen claim this association en-
braces only about one-third of the com
tractors. An increase in wages Is also
asked for by the strikers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
OFFICERS ELECTED.

The Wheeling Turnverein last night
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, Joseph Weisgerber; vice presi-
dent, Nick Plume; first turnwart, l.
Bartens; second turnwart. Frank
Straub; secretary, ]. M. Schenk; sec
ond secretary, NJ Ruggabber; cashier
P. Schambra; treasurer E. H Vaas;
first property holder, F. Brandfass;
second property holder, Charles Seidel;
librarian, Albert Fisher; trustees, JOS
eph Weisgerber. Andrew Bishop, Mar
tin Ruggaber.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
EXCITING INCIDENT.

Some excitement was created on
South Jacob street, near the City Hos
pltal. yesterday morning. by woman
jumping from secondstory window.
Mrs. Lighthemeier, who resides ct No.
2ll2 Jacob street, while suffering from
temporary alteration of mind jumped
from the second story of her residence
to the brick pavement. Fortunately
she was not seriously hurt and escaped
" it'll a few bruises and cuts.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
COTTON MILL HANDS STRIKE.

NORWICH, Conn, April 4-The en-
ployes of the Ponomah cotton mills went
out on strike to-day. Two thousand
hands are employed. and the worknlen
in all departments. except the csrding and
spinning rooms. went out to the number
of LOO. The strike was in consequences
of a 10 per cent reduction in wages.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05

The Road and Bridge COMMITTEES was
authorized to advertise for bids for
work on the different roads.
When the w. & E. G. ordinance was
passed, it contained provision for a
superintendent to look after the in
terests Of the county in the construc-
tion Of the road, his salary to be $3.50
per day, to be paid by the W. & E. G.
company. The Board elected Mr.. Jas.
A. Birkett to the position
Before adjournment there was a dis
cussion about the two days labor on
roads. some complaints being made
from different parts of the county.
The matter was referred to the Prose
cutting Attorney.
Adjourned.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Appropriation Ordinance Passed by the
Board Yesterday.

Inc estimated Receipts and Expen-
dltures for the Year-Unimport-
ant Changes Made in the Wheel
ing q Elm Grove Railway Ordi
nance-Contract -Peti-
tons Read - Routine Business
Transacted.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05

Piano Tuning-Have your piano
tuned by w. A. Bammerlin, expert
piano tuner; fourteen years expert
enee Phone 7S7, residence 1874 Six
teenth street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
:
RETTER THAN COLD

robert A. Mosburg, 93s Chapline
s.Te't suffered from erysipelas and &C.
a. ma IN his ankle for years: could not
tSork' tried U-No Tonic; ankle is
Ueailng up; can now work.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05

THAT is WHAT 1T DID.
David Paxton Bemont county. tried
U-No Corn Cure, and after one appli-
cation picked corn out.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05

You are invited to the Millinery Opening
at Mrs. w. X. Dinsmore's. O46 Main streets,
Tuesday aud Wednesday. April and q.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
NO AGREEMENT.
NJ mo Conference Between Miners and
Operators Yesterday

~ mo conference Between Miners and
Operators Yesterday.
he conference between coal miners
anu operators Of this city, at Trades
Assembly hall yesterday afternoon,
ended very unsatisfactory.
me meeting of representatives of
me Two sides was called for o'clock
Al me morning, the operators held a
conference at the Mcclure House. Their
representatives. attended the meeting
al Trades Assembly hall. The chair
man OF the meeting announced that
we miners had decided to stand for
we Nhicaso scale, providing for eight
hours day and small screens.
representative of the operators
stated that it would be impossible for
'1ehl TO change their tipples in order
" substitute new screens for those
40" IN use, and he added that if the
"lners insisted upon this demand the
operators would withdraw.
ms brought the conference to an
abrupt termination. the operators leav-
'us me hall, and the men continuing
III session for some time. The men
VINO quit work, afterward decided to
'emaln until the operators accede to
UeIr demands, The situation is there
'oFe practically unchanged.
we offer this week a slightly used
Su'tz & Bauer piano, taken in ex-
{}'4nse for Ludwig, for $1S5.00 cash
- Is one of their largest styles, and is
Ill hrst class condition.
f. w PAUMER CO.,
1919 Market street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
CIz0EKaEI Z III G.
Boys Clothing Department.
NEW EASTER CLOTHING.


New Neckwear, lOc, }5c, ar
New Belts. 15c, 19c, Csc.
Tam O. Shanters, 12c, l5c, 100.
Corsets, all the new kinds and
styles, 19c, 25c, 35c, 43c, Csc, SEC.
Mems Shirts, Boys Waists.
New Shirt Waists and Hosiery.
Great Bargains IN every depart
ment and for all week.
Mems SOC White UnIaundered
Shirts, 33c.
Mems SOC and 75c Balbriggan
Shirts and Drawers, Csc.
Mems Hats and Caps, new Spring
styes.
Chamois Skins. 10c.
Pocketbooks. SC, &c, 10c, l5c, 1870.
Big sale on Dry Goods, Dress
Goods, Ginghams, CalIcoes, Mus'ins,
ToweIings. New line OF Corsets, l5c,
19c, 25c. 35c, 48C.
rs bars Racket Star Soap........25c
7 dozen Clothes Pins ,............ DC
7 lbs. best Starch. ..........Z5c
| dozen boxes Matches. &c
3 lbs. best Baking Powder......~25c
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05

SO Rolls Wilton Velvet Carpets, new de-
signs. Monday and Tuesday. at 53 cents
per yard. g. MENDEL & co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
The ParasoIs

That came to hand yesterday will
not tarry with us long. You'd hard
ly believe that none of these
beauties are above. .4.So
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05

The regular monthly meeting of the
Board OF County Commissioners was
held yesterday morning. Accounts
were reported with favorable recon-
mendation and ordered paid as fol-
lows.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
Opening Tuesday. Wednesday. Swabacker

VELVET CARPET SALE.
so Rolls Wilton Velvet Carpets. new de-
signs. Monday and Tuesday. at % cents
n.r y.rd G. MENDEL & co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
VELVET CARPET SALE

Opening Tuesday, Wednesday. Swabacker.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
Kid Gloves.

"Chaumont," Csc; "Berthold," $1.35;
"Fontaine,' $3.50: Arthur" $500.
The latter have jeweled hooks and
we are sole agents in Wheeling.
Very swell for Easter.
Not a color-tone missing in the
entire scale
Buy Kid Gloves from us once, and
you are our customer for all time.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05

Opening to-day Miss B. L. Carl.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05

YESTERDAYS DEPARTURES.
IT. NJ Bayne, Steubenville.
Leroy. Darlington.
Ruth. Sistersville.
Ben Hur, Parkersburg.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
Dress the Tots

In one of our jaunty Refers; add to
YOUR purchase stylish bonnet
Market street ROOM. both of which
are supplied at prices you are willing
10 pay. Refers, CSC up. Poke Bon
nets $50 up.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
Opening Tuesday. Wednesday. Swabackei

VELVET CARPET SALE.
so Rolls wilton Velvet Carpets, new de-
signs, Monday and Tuesday. at ~ cents
per yard. q. MENDEL q W.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
MARKS FROM ABOVE.

STEUBENvILLE-R IL feet in,
ches; falling Clear and cold. Passed
down: BEN Hur and Nellie Hudson
WARREN-River 3 feet. Fair and coof
OIL CITY-Rfver feet: falling. Clear
and cold
BROWNSVILLE-River 2 Feet i" lnches'
GREENSBORO-River feet 10 inches;
falling. Cloudy and cold James u.
Blaine and Florence Belle down TUESDAY.
Germanfa up
MORGANTOWN-Ri 9 feet station
ary Cloudy and warm.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05

Opening to-day. Miss B. L. Carl.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
GEO. NJ. SHOOK & co:
NJ.
SHOOK & co.
Easter Suggestions:
yo,Ir Easter Outfit

Can he supplied to your entire salts
action by our Ready Made Section
Sunday we telegraphed for more
peadv Made Suits to still further
strengthen our choice line. A great
stretch of choice.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.

BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
Pittsburg, Queen City. ) a. m
Cincinnati Hudson. s a. m
Parkersburg. Argand, II a. m.
New Matamoras, Lexington. II a. m.
Steubenville, T. M. Bayne. 2:S0 p. m.
Darlington, Leroy, $50 p. m.
SStersville, Ruth, $50 D. m.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
NEWS NOTES OF YESTERDAY.

Opening Tuesday Wednesday. Swabacker.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
PEARL LAUNDRY.
Your Easter Shirt
MENDEL Bros,

PEARL LAUNDRY AND STORAGE
ROOMS, Nos. 1913 and 1915 Eoff Street
Branch office 1918 Market street. Call us
up by phone.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
Jackets, Waists and Skirts,

Too. are in constant motion-coming
IN fast. going out fast.
Jackets between $500 ind $3.50.
Waists between Toe and $19S.
Skirts between $3.50 and $3.50.
Are The prices most called for, but
we have them much below and above
these prices.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05

TO-MORROW'S DEPARTURES.
Pittsburg. Urania. a. m
Charleston, Kanawlra $50 a. m.
Pittsburg. Ben Hur. 3 p. M
Steubenville. T. Nj. Bayne $50 p. m.
Darlington, Leroy, $50 D. m.
Sstersville, Ruth, $3.50 D. m.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
Fluffy Ncckwear--

Types of rarest beauty-mind images
grasped by deft fingers and shaped
into things of beauty, are here in
profusion.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
Dress Fabrics and Silks

IN Dick from if you prefer to have
vonr outfit made to order. Yol
need not worry about prices.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
Fringed Ties. Sashes

and Ribbons galore in most enter
tanning variety. Plain and Fancy
Narrow Ribbons, sc, Sc, 1Oc yard up.
Plain and Fancy Wide Ribbons, Csc,
29c and 33c yard up. 100 new pieces.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05
MARKS FROM BELOW.

! PARKERSBURG- q feet; falling
| Cloudy. mercury 80
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-27

shall show 1t provided we are unhamp- cred. But as it stands, this whole great city is like a monster machine that has received all sorts of additions and alleged improvements and has been turned over to an engineer with orders to run it and see how it would work
 We don't want any borough presi- dents. We don't want any double headed thing like the aldermen and council, or upper house. Give us good board of aldermen and we would run the city in a way that would give the people frst-class government, low taxes, and general administration for the public good. These so-called re- formers say that all these things are checks on us and that if we were not watched on every side we would steal everything there was in sight. Now I submit it to you if an honest man who is constantly treated like thief becomes the more honest because of it.
 sThere never was such an instrument created as the charter of Greater New | O4 "A. O1 COdIoC AiiG1G dII GOiliG SOOh things in it. There is good in every thing. But the mass of badness in this charter is so tremendous that it over shadows everything else. We would like to make Greater New York model for the world. We will if we can, but every time an improvement is contem- plated we run up against some charter provision.
 s'I tell you that the only salvation for New York is to be a separate state. Just so long as we have a lot of coun- trymen from up the state making laws for us, amending our charters, and hedging us in this way and that, good government is impossible. Any admin istration can do some one thing that is good and wave it in the faces of the people and say, look here, see how great we are. But when it comes down to practical, municipal business methods, the affairs of this Greater New York can never be conducted properly while we, the citizens, have to do as we are told by the granger element of the state legislature.
 "Is this business? Is this com mon sense? Is this fair treatment for the people of a great municipality? Look at the legislature at Albany. Only few days ago we went up there with number of bills for things that were absolute necessities for Greater New York, and what did they do to Us? Turned IS down everyone And, mind you. the request for those bills was backed by the signatures of every one
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-27

chiefly of steel. weighs $50 pounds and is about 12 feet in length. Itconsists of four principal sections, the head of which carries tI,s explosive; the flash. or air receiver, which is filled with con- pressed air at a pressure of 1,350 pounds to the square ineh-the escape of this air runs the engine and propels the tor pedo; the immersion chamber. which contains the mechanism for regulating the depth and position of the torpedo; the engine. fed by compressed air which passes through the valves of pipe so adjusted as to fix the speed and dura- ton of the ruD. The apparatus in the third section consists of a pendulum and hydrostatic piston that control q horizontal rudder through an air steer ing engine. This rudder is movable; if the torpedo goes too deep or inclines downward this rudder moves up, bring ing the torpedo to the set depth. If the reverse takes place the rudder moves down. The engine of the fourth section turns a shaft on which there are two propellers moving in opposite direc- tions at the tail of the torpedo. Finally on each side of the tail are vertical rud- ders which keep the torpedo in a straight path.
 The head of the torpedo is made of bronze and is charged with 12o pounds of wet gun cotton. The point of the head contains the pistol" consisting of propeller which, set in revolution, frees a plunger. which, in turn, on the impact of the torpedo, is forced down upon a illuminate cap surrounded by a tube of dry gun cotton. Wet gun cot ton explodes when ignited in contact with dry gun cotton. The freeing of the plunger by the propeller insures that the torpedo must run q certain distance from the vessel discharging it ere it can explode.
 The deviation from any set depth in the passage of the torpedo must not exceed 15 inches at a range of 500 yards. Thus, as the torpedo can be set to run at depth from five to twenty feet, it is evident that it may be depended upon to smite a vessel at almost any point below the armor line, where the explosion will do the most damage. It is said our American torpedoes are better adjust cd for actual service than those in any other navy in the world. However that may be, we have come to realize that the torpedo is about the astimportant feature of naval warfare. There are those, indeed, among the best authori- ties, who assert that in q decade hence all naval conflicts will be fought with the torpedo.
 ..r1 :. 1a1 r-e. 1zr r-,r c.1.-1, (. :. rn-1rs.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-27
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twisting and wearing of the cables and moorings, the depression due to cur rents, the danger of sympathetic ex- piosions, the leaking of the eases. So difficult, indeed, Is the problem that the best torpedo system of to-day is really a compromise between conflict ing requirements. Ks obstacles in shunting off hostile squadron the use of these mines is imperative in modern warfare. Beside the surface mine are the submarine mines. subdivided into CD observation mines, fired by an cleo tric current when the enemy appears within the destructive area of the mine; CD e1ectro-magnet mines, which, on coneussion, explode by automatic ally completing the electric circuit from the battery ashore, and (3) me- ehanical mines, which, on collision, eX- plode through the action of eontriv- ance within them and which are in no
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-27

What are the articles of partnership between Greater New York and Tam many? What are Tammany's hopes and what are it's expectations It is only natural that these questions should be asked by many people, in- spired as they are by the spectacle of the most powerful municipal organiza- ton of the century entrusted with the solution of a problem such as has not been presented in the United States during the 122 years of experience.
 While ostensibly Mayor Van WycR is a representative of Tammany in this matter, it is borne upon the minds of most people that the real counselor, the man who above all others will ac- tually dictate the policy to be pursued, is Richard Crol1er. So it was that when, the other day, I asked Mr. Gro ker the questions that begin this article, I realized that his voice was the voice of Tammany Hall.
 'We all have our ideals,' said Mr. Croler. But after all when they are formed we have the big problem to consider how to attain them. Peo- pie say that Tammany ought to ac- complish everything. If Tammany had it's way it would. If it has it's way it will. Tammany feels that in it's course, its methods, in the results it achieves, it will furnish an example for democratic organization all over the country.
 Understand me, do not mean to say that Tammany sets itself up as an eN- ample, but I say we realize that dem ocrats everywhere are watching us to see whether or no we can accomplish what they think we ought to. There never was q better chance to show the highest form of municipal government than in this Greater New York, and we
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-27

The most ingenious and, indeed, the most destructive engine of modern warfare, is the torpedo. People do not commonly realize that this instrument of annihilation was already in use in 15S5. In that year an Italian engineer, Zambelli. constructed vessels carrying heavily charged magazines, ignited by clock work, which foated down the Seheldt river at Antwerp and destroyed the bridge. X certain Van Drebbel ex- perimented in England, in 1924, with diving boat which, laden with explo= sives, was so directed as to strike ship below the water line. But the first genuine submarine torpedo was in vented in 1730 by a Frenchman, Desa- guilers. This rocket torpedo, as stWas called, destroyed several boats. The first craft actually sunk by q submarine mine was one attacked by device of Robert Fulton, of steamboat renown,