The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-12-21

est competitor for the lake trade.
AS little dissatisfaction exists
among the miners in this state,
they will profit by strike in which
they are not included. as was exem-
plifed in the great 1897 strike.
The activity in country coal banks
will come from the strike of the
miners nearer the mills and rail
roads Many of the mills around
Pittsburg and in the Ohio Valley
are behind in their orders for coal,
and for this reason strike such as
is feared will fell more heavily upon
mine owners. It is not generally
known that West Virginia has a
coke making plant, but the River
side Iron Works, at Wheeling is
one of the most improved in ex-
istence.
a movement has been started in
Topeka, Kansas, for the colonial
ton of two million negroes in Cuba.
Congress is to be asked to approp-
rate Sl0o,OOO,0OO to carry out the
scheme Rev. w. l. Grant, a negro,
is active in advocating this project
He claims that the factory the shop
and the mercantile houses are
closed against his race, and that the
Government should help them.
The Republicans have majority
in both branches of the Fifty-sixtb
Congress and will continue the war
until 1900. This will be necessary
to cover the deficit of the Dingley
Bill, and the Republicans want TO
hold on to both the Dingley bill
and the gold standard. The people
will be tired enough of the whole
outfit long before that time Let
no Democrat forget that the Re-
publican party is responsible for
the war tax as well as the Dingley
bill and the gold standard.
Chicago can always be counted
on TO furnish the spice of life. A
man was sent to prison for striking
his wife and about the same hour
lady was released from Jail on
bond guaranteeing that she would
do no further physical violence to
her husband. That question about
the CHERISH and "obey" in the
marriage ceremony out there
doesn't cut much figure.
The London Times in a recent
forecast of American politics says,
"For the moment, annexation is
popular. 1t may not be as much
in favor when the country is called
upon two years hence to choose a
new President and elect new Con-
gress" There is world of wis
dom in this representation. Paste
it in your hat and watch the event.
1t is surprising how elastic a
mans conscience will become, and
how much he is willing to swear too,
when he wants to occupy seat in
the Legislature in the interests of
the Republican party, to which the
people have elected Democrat.
Colonel w. j. Bryan having re-
NAMED in the army until the peace
treaty and terms have been agreed
upon and signed, which terminates
the war, has resigned his commits
sion and will go into more active
service for his country than doing
garrison duty. in time of peace.
The Philadelphia Ledger: "The
Attorney General of West Virginia
recommends the use of the State
militia to prevent the seating of a
legislator whom the courts have de-
clared entitled to his seat. This is
startling advice to come from the
law officer of commonwealth
1t is said that the West Virginia
Press Association will take some
action in the hope of preventing
the States fair name from being so
frequently besmirched by sensa-
tional correspondents of metropoli-
tan dailies.
The proposition made by a New
York company to bring back the
Maine to this country tor certain
sum of money if they succeeded,
should be accepted.
The gold bugs said that the sill
yer question was dead before the
campaign of 1896. They knew,
didn't they?
The two little girls of Thomas
Jones, of Grieve's Run, near Eliza
beth, aged six and ten, years, were