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Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

John D. Rockefeller's 5000, 900 gift was
not the only announcement of interest
made by President Harper at the con-
vocation of Chicago University. OF the
the five deaths of students within as
many years at the university, said the
president. three. are traceable to starva-
ton. 1t appears that it is impossible
to obtain proper food in the neighbor-
hood and one of the most pressing needs
of the university is commons where
all students may board at reasonable
rates. 1t is sometimes said that Chi
cago is not very nice place in which
to get good things to eat, but few had
supposed it so bad that persons of sound
and disposing minds and bodies need
starve to death.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

At last there Is high engineering au-
thority for the statement that electro
lysis is seriously threatening the East
river bridge, and the entire structure
will have to be insulated from the
ground up, if the process of disintegra-
ton is to be stopped. The constant
leakage of electricity, which results in
dissolying metals and other substances
with which the current comes in con-
tact on the return trip, Will only be
aggravated when the new overhead
trolley goes into operation, and hence
the stir in engineering circles.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

There is a flutter among the iron and
steel men, because 1000 900 tons of Mes
aba ore have been ordered in this coun-
try from Cardiff, Wales. No such order
from abroad has ever been known be-
fore, it is said Exactly what sort of an
experiment the bloody Britishers are up
to now, nobody pretends to say; but
all are sure it is something mean-all,
at least, except those who have sold the
iron, and they don't care. They are sat
isfied to pocket their little pile of $780,
900, 900 and say nothing.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

It cost Gov. Wolcott five dollars to
buy the chair that Isaac B. Allen had
occupied in the council chamber and
present it to the only colored man who
has had the honor to occupy a seat
within the charmed circle of the chief
executives official advisers. New chairs
replace the old ones in the new council
chamber, and Mr., Allen himself offered
the order allowing the councillors to buy
their old chairs and the price was fixed
by an appraiser. The governors COM
pliment was doubtless appreciated by
the member from the fourth district.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

A significant feature of the most re-
cent crop report is the large increase of
the wheat acreage in the SOUTH owing
to the low price of cotton. In the whole
country the increase of winter wheat
acreage over. that of a year ago, is ia
per cent in a total of &c, 100000 acres.
The increase in the southern states,
however, ranges from 10 to % per cent,
while in most of the western states the
increase is within the bounds Of from
to 10 per cent. Kansas, however,
shows an increase Of 10 per cent, and
in Illinois the increase is given as 40 per
cent. The amount of wheat held on the
farms is estimated now at 240,000000
bushels as compared with 190,000,000 a
year ago. There is prospect ahead for
a slump in prices.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

The proceeds of the collateral inheri-
tance tax in this state, last year, were
a trifie over a half million dollars. This
is a hint Of the revenue that might be
derived from a general tax upon all in
heritances above the amount of $4,000 of
real and personal property. as proposed
by the state commission. 1t is safe to
say that it is only question of time
when some such law will be in force
here as elsewhere.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

Yale receives about $500 as her share
of the proceeds of the foot ball game
with Princeton. Her share of the profits
of the Harvard game was about $12, 900,
50 that she Is more than $4,000 to the
good by virtue Of the popularity of the
great autumn sport, Last season was
by all odds the most profitable ever
known for the gridiron athletics. The
money doth the general Golfers fill for
the benefit of the other athletic teams
of the university, especially the crew,
which is very expensive luxury and
not money-making institution at any
stage of its career, unless it wins the
race. so that the fellows from other col
leges have to pay the bets.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

Rhode Island is trying to revise her
constitution, but the Providence Journal
finds that the people take little interest
in the process The abolition of the
capital at Newport is one of the inter-
esting reforms proposed, and there are
enough radical changes in the law to ex-
cite a people whose interest in politics
is not confined to a division of Offices
When the draft is presented, the public
spirit may possibly be aroused.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

and well-worn features of former years.
Boston and Maine Railroad renews it's
petition for permission to buy the stock
of its leased roads. Then there is the
report sof the commission appointed to
investigate the relations existing be-
tween street railways and municipal
corporations, and there is a broad field
here for discussion and agitation, to say
nothing Of the tax revision report that
is already public property.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

That st. Louis commercial traveller
who looks like Bryan and who went
through Texas making sound money
speeches for him and protesting that he
had been converted from free silver err
rors by what he had seen in Mexico,
sustained the traditions of his class,
but he took some heavy chances. Hap
PLY, the imposition was not discovered
till after he was out of the way, so that
the popular rage was futile. It is a
very pretty story as it is.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

Ignatius Chryptogram Populist Don
nelly is going to marry his typewriter.
The maid is barely out of teens and
he is six and sixty. There is a rumoF
that he did not know anything about
the attachment until the day when he
a cipher in Miss Marian Han
sens copy" and learned the truth. No
further proof could be required, and the
was announced forthwith.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

OF course the gold standard is at the
bottom of the troubles of the northern
cotton mills. Senator Chandler and
the Concord Monitor are very slow in
telling us about it. Some of the SOUTH
ern brethren did this weeks ago. The
gold standard would spoil good bread
in the Chandler household.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

With seven Cape Cod canal petitions
already on file at the state house. 1t is
clear that the session of the legislature,
which began Wednesday, is not going to
be without some Of the most familiar
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

The restaurant business is popularity
supposed to be paying one, but there
are restaurants and restaurants, and
the restaurant which Mr.. Robert S.
Bryson and Mrs. Bryson have been run
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06
WORCESTER.
THURSDAY. JANUARY 9, lsss.

"Aheml See our new dress?" coyly
coughs the Boston Herald On, yes, in
deed! It's very pretty one, too con-
sidering that it is only print, The pat
tern is as fine as silk.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06
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Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

At the classical high school many
changes, which strike the eye of the
visitor Immediately upon entering, have
been recently made in the decoration of
the lower corridor The enclosing of
sections of the large hall to form reci-
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06
o. r AND ABOUT,
TO INCREASE THE DUTY ON SOUPS
AND SANDWICHES

High School Pupils May Have to Pay
More in Future-Present Prices at
Lunch Couniers-Beatrice of Batten-
berg's Book-Normal School Supper
First Unitarian Reception-other
Items of Interest.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

Mrs. Mary H. Lee will repeat, next
Tuesday afternoon, at the house of Mrs.
T. G. Bates, the third lecture in the Sc
ries on THE madonna and art" the
closing one of which was given last
Tuesday afternoon. The third lecture
was originally presented upon an I'M
usually stormy afternoon, so that the
attendance was small, and many of the
ladies, on account of the disagueeable
weather, We're unable to attend. 1t is
repeated at their request.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

POSTAGE ON SINGLE COPIES.
To any point in the United States. lie
Foreign postage.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

The series has been most thoroughly
enjoyed by those who attended, and
Mrs. Lee has received several requests
to repeat the lectures in other places.
Just at present she is considering an Of
fer to give the course in Columbus,
Ohio, during the month of February.
The ladies there have promised her a
class of fifty, if she is willing to come.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

Subscribers who fail to receive their pa
pers regularly win confer a favor by
promptly making complaint at this office.
Make all remittances by check, regis
tered letter, draft or money order to the
Spy Publishing Company, 4i4 Main Street,
Worcester, Mass.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

A pretty social function was held in
the vestry of the First Unitarian Church
Wednesday evening, the occasion be-
ing the usual monthly reception. The
rooms were decorated with the Christ
mas greens together with a large bou-
quet of daybreak pinks placed upon
table in the middle of the large vestry.
The guests, numbering nearly one hun
bred, were received by Mrs. F. H.
Dewey, Mrs. Wyman, Mrs. Buck, Mrs.
/. Bradford Sargent, Mrs. Scott and
Mrs. Edgar Davis.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06
Special from
White Goods
Department..

$500 yards of Open Work Stripe
Muslin, suitable for window curtains;
the manufacturers price on these goods
today Is az cents; sold in the regular
way at 121s cents, We shall offer them
to close at Observation-Disclosures.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-06

CONTINUED on Tenth Page.l
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-16

e G PRtftZMAN. 1ne .,ns'fvgfapher, all kind u
Il pieturea frances brack cts, eases, & pleaSantSt
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-16
RAILROAD EXTENSION.
A fittsburg Railroad Reaching out
And May Be Built to Charleston.

The extension of the Pittsburg,
Virginia and Charleston railroad to-
ward the South is about to begin.
Twelve miles of road have been let
to contract south of Brownsville, Pa,
which will bring the road to within
twenty-five miles of Morgantown.
FROM there it is the Intention of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Co., who are
behind the new road, to parallel the
B. & 0. system to Fairmont, purchase
or parallel the Camden system and
come down the valley of the Elk to
Charleston, the terminus originally
fixed by the owners of the road.
The road is already in operation
from Pittsburg to Brownsville and
has been for some time. Its extern
sion into West Virginia was to have
been made some years ago. The ex-
tension had already been agreed to
by the company and two and a half
millions of dollars had been voted to
construct it with, when times became
panicky, the company was afraid to
invest and the whole matter was in
definitely deferred.
| Now the first step toward the south
ern extension Of the road will soon
be made. The first twelve miles are
to be constructed during the coming
summer, and it is predicted by those
who seem to know the company's
plans that it will be but few years
until the line is extended all the way
to Charleston, making one north and
south line through the State to con-
meet Charleston directly with Pitts
burg. Gazette.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-16
Through the State.

MoNoNGAH has grown tired OF
speak easies and will try licensed sa'
looms.
ABE SAMUELs, of Mercer county,
II years old, is raising company t.
be in readiness if war is declared with
Spain, and heads the list as captain.
THE Middlebourne and Salem cleo
trio railway is sure go. The right
Of way has been secued and prelimi
nary survey has begun. Judge Romeo
H. Freer will be the president.
THE town of Ceredo recently passed
an ordinance restricting the speed
of trains to Is miles an hour through
the corporate limits. Several fine:
of $25 each have been imposed for VIC
lations. The G. & o. will now re
taliate by stopping only two trains
day at Ceredo.
GEORGE ENTsMINGER, who, whil'
attempting to rob Jacob Shank nea
Philippi, some time ago, shot ant
severely wounded Writ Kittle, con
fessed, and was sentenced by Judg,
Holt, in the Barbour county circui
court, to eight years in the peniten
tiary.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-16
THE SCHMUCH CASE.
Plaintiff gete $5OO-An Unwarranted
Verdict--Will be Appealed.

The most important case to occu-
by the attention of the present term
of court in Marion county has been
decided. 1t was Schmuch VS. b. d
O. r r Mr. Barnes of this place
was witness. The plaintiff gets
$500. The company will appeal as
they do not think that the verdict
is at all warranted by the facts and
the law.
The circumstances are alleged as
follows: Schmuch was on Gu train
between Fairmont and Grafton on
his way to West Union. He was
drunk and became so noisy that the
crew were compellei TO eject him
from the train after doing all they
could to calm him. He brought suit
for $4,000.
The law makes the officers of the
train police officers and gives them
the right to act as they did under
the circumstances and how the YER
dict was rendered as it was seems
very strange.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-16
THE BASEBALL SCHEDULE.
A Fine Lot of Attractions are on
the List.

Most Of the Games here WafnesJnrg,
w. U. r., Grove City, Otterbein and
o. w. U. will be here to Play Union.
town and Grove City Foreign games
Others among them Westminster and
Geneya will Probably be met-.W. 4
J. does the Baby act as Usual heir
Course for several Years Won't pla,
when Defeat Is Expected,
The recent fine weather has caused
the base ball schedule to ripen rap
idly and It il now almost completed
The number of games arranged t6I
| inclndc me excellent contests and
the most Of these are at home a feat
ure which vii! be very agreeable to
the patrons Of sha game here. Mana
ger Bruner has been hard at work
and has arranged the very best
schedule that man could get up
at the time be was elected when the
other teams It'd had their schedules
fixed up for several months.
The only matter of regret about
the whole matter is the fact that we
won't get to trounce W. d J. this
season again. Ever since they were
whipped on the local grounds sever
al years ago they have feligiously
avoided chance for second occur
renee like it. They are very much
ashamed of the fact that they met
defeat AZ our hands. SO much is this
spirit rampant over there that they
have left the game off their official
register not being gentlemen enough
to acknowledge honorable defeat.
This year they won't meet us al
though they promised two games
early in the correspondence. They
have no excuse Bruner offered them
any date and offered to come there
on any date He so agreed to pay
them whatever sum they would give
him. They have utterly refused to
play For utter babyishness this
takes the bakery.
The season win open here with
Waynesburg on April 80 This will
be followed by w. Z. p. on May T.
On the ii Grove City will he played
on their grounds the 81 is blank so
far, Ohio Wesleyan University will
be here on the % We will 90 to
Uniontown on the 30, June 4 Grove
City will meet defeat On the local
grounds and some time during Com
mencement, Otterbein will be here
to play. Besides these games Bruner
is trying to arrange games with
Westminster and Geneva when the
team goes to Grove City and may be
successful
The teams to be met this year are
the best that have ever faced the old
gold and blue. 1t is a great compli-
ment to get such teams as o. w. u.
and Otterbein on the schedule and
the manager is to be congratulated
that he not only did this but fixed
it for them to come here This is to
be the most important season the
University has ever had on the dia-
mond and from present indications
she will make a glorious record. One
thing is certain she is not afraid to
meet anybody at any time, There
are some things worse than honora-
BILE and manly defeat and the dis
honorable crawtish of " d } is one
them.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-16
The Coast Defenses.


One-half of the number Of improved
cannon, mortars and emplacements
will be located and placed in suitable
position ere the expiration of 1898.
The artillery board is constantly max
ing practical surveys, SO far as these
relate to the army, and the establish.
ment Of adequate military protection
of our sea board, frequently urged
upon the government by the cham.
bers of commerce of our maritime
cities is receiving strong reinforce
ment from this source Meanwhile
there is a means of defence from
greater physical calamity which no one
afflicted with nervousness or dyspepsia
should neglect, and that Is the use Of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which b,
restoring the tone of the nerves and
stomach invigorates the entire system
1t also remedies and prevents malar
ial, kidney and rheumatic ailments
and cures billiousness and constipa
ton. 1t Is a capital appetizer, and
promotes sound rep0se. Those whs
have been cured hy It speak Ia 10 an
certain TOMS as to the effectiveness D
| thie celebrated medicine In diseas,
and - d medical atlmulant.
r t.f3 ~ " 4. N y X f44 ~. y
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-16
VIII We Have a Horse Faminei

n large breeder of stock, who gives
it as his opinion that horse famine
is liable to be encountered, is in pc
sition to talk. The figures he offers,
when he says that not more than 20
per cent, OF the normal increase has
taken place in the herds, when only
about one-flfth of the demand for
horses has been supplanted by bicy-
cles and trolley cars, are sufficient
for thought. The horse market in
the United States went to pieces when
the panic came. Various theories
were advanced, and farmers quit rails
ing colts. When business began tC
revive the price of farm livestock join
ed in the advancing values.
Now horses are beginning to be
good property. 1t takes about five
years to rear colt until it is market
able. The next five years must be
years of famine IL the normal demand
for horses is to prevail, as no doubt
it will. When the natural growth
of business attendant on an increas-
ing population for more horses should
be wanted under ordinary circum'
stances than before the panic. AL
lowances for the inroads of the troll
| ley and the bicycles would not reduce
the number beiow what. it was when
the country carried on less business
No provision has been made for ar
| increased demand. None has eve
been made to supply the demand that
should exist if business only regaine(
the volume Of five years ago. Moth
irg can be found on the farms nov
to grow into supply that must b.
called for in the coming four or tiv'
years. 1t is never safe to sacrifice {
lot of farm stock. No matter wha
evil legislation depresses prices for 8
time the natural needs of the countr,
cannot be kert back. Sound sense i
bound to triumph again, and repa,
the delay. Live stock is good in
vestment again, and will be.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-16
LIEUT.. WILSON PROMOTED.
he Is now Captain of Artillery His
Friends here all Congratulate Tim
Long and Faithful service Rewarded.

The passage of the artillery bill
by congress creating two new regi-
ments of Artillery will make Lieut..
Jas. l.. Wilson captain. This will
no doubt be welcome news to him
and we can assure him it will also
be to his many friends in Morgan
town. Lieut. Wilson received his
early education here going from this
place to West Point. Later he was
stationed at the University for four
years as instructor in mathematics
and Commandment of the cadet
corps. He has splendid record as
an officer and well merited the pro-
motion he has received. A few years
ago knowing his worth some friends
made an effort to have him promoted
by special order The matter was
hung up by the War Department
and no action taken. The present
promotion comes to him over IL 9th
er officers. We would like to see the
Captain and tel him how much
pleased we are over the matter.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-16

THE effort of attorney general
Rucker to collect a second time the
taxes on corporations, which were at
first paid to Mr.. Chiffon by the cor
porators, but which Mr.. Rucker says
was illegal, calls forth this statement
from the Kanawha Gazette:
The most remarkable thing In con-
nection with the whole affair is that
the present administration, after de-
claring the system Of paying the tax
to the secretary Of state to be illegal,
is permitting the present secretary OF
state TIC continue exactly the same
system. There has been no change.
With the exception Of few persons
who insist upon paying the tax di-
rect to the auditor, all who take out
charters are paying as formerly to the
secretary Of state. And yet the at
;torney general of the state has held
that such payment is not legal, and
Is requiring corporations who have
cnce In good faith paid their tax 70
the secretary Of state to pay IL over
again To the auditor. "a
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-16
Wonders Never Cease.

No one need suffer the tortures OF
rheumatism, because that modern lini-
ment, Salvation Oil, positively cures 1t.
II was great sufferer from sciatic
rheumatism, and the best of doctors
attended me without relief. / COM
menced using Salvation Oil, and two
bottles helped me wonderfully. 1t
certainly has worked wonders with me.
Mrs. E. J. Phelps, Box %, Enfield,
Conn" Salvation Oil is for sale by all
dealers for rs cts. Take no substitute.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-16
.suIes Of the Road For BICYCLES.

To ride bicycle we'll means, in
addition to ability to manage the
wheel, a knowledge of both the writ
ten and unwritten laws of the road
and respect for the rights of Others
using the public highways, A city
street crowded with vehicles and ped
estrians, or a narrow county road full
of trouble to the beginner, become
very clear to the rider who observes
the following three fundamental
rules:
1. Always keep to the right of the
center of the road.
2. Always pass to the right of We.
hicle, rider or pedestrian approaching
you.
8. Always pass to the left of We.
hicle. rider or pedestrian going in the
same direction as yourself.
In addition to the above funda-
mental laws of the highways, the fol,
lowing suggestions may be of service
Pass behind pedestrian crossing tn,
street. Two or more riders in com
pany should all follow the same rule
il passing either vehicles, other riders
or pedestrians. Do not ''scorch" on
crowded streets Always have you
wheel under full control at road in
tersections. Keep good lookout
ahead and watch all crossings care
fully Pass a timid horse on thu
lower side.