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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

The people living in Arbuokle
District, are very much incensed
at the action of the County Court,
in reducing their road appropria-
.tions. The amount now appro-
priated they claim, viii not begin
to keep the roads In. anything
like repair. Some of the larger
Taxpayers are threatening to go to
Court and ask for mandamus to
compel the County Court to make
the proper appropriations for the
roads of Arbuckle District.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

A lot of new box cars for the
Hooking Valley Railroad passed
over the X. & M. yesterday. They
we're built at the Ensign Works,
Huntington.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

If you want to see everybody
else, you will find them at the
Great Adam Forepaugh and Sells
Brothers consolidated shows, at
Gallipolis, April 29th.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Interest in oil development in.
this county, seems to have died
out.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Some fruit growers tell us that
the prospect for peaches is fairly
good, Notwithstanding the late
hard freezes. Apples will be plen-
tiful.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

The semi-annual meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Second
Hospital for the Insane, will be
held at the Hospital in Spencer.
Wednesday. April 10th, 1898.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

on now our overcohfs we lay,
For loud the robin calls;
But shall the clothes be put away
With gilt or eamphor balIsf
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Go to Mrs. L. j. Williamson's
for your corsets. and get a fit.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Candidates are beginning to
show up in different parts of the
county. One who is pretty certain
to be nominated for the Legislature
is Mr.. Chas. Harris, of Leon.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

The public schools close for the
term on the 18th
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Representative Warren Miller
has introduced a bill in Congress
topay $S, COO to the Baptist church
at Guyandotte, for damages to the
building during the war.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

a planning mill is one Of the
great needs of our town. We have
to import nearly every foot of lum-
Der we need. 1t should not be so.
No better opening is offered for
a planning mill than in Point
Pleasant.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

The Great Adam Forepaugh and
Sells Brothers Americas Greatest
Shows consolidated include the
leading hippodrome of the world.
representing an extraordinary and
electrifying programme of the races
of ancient and modern times. At
Gallipolis, April 18th.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Grass and garden seeds at Bry-
an & Young,s. Special attention
paid to mail orders mch. 2-tf.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20
oRGANDIEs,

European and American, more artistic
than ever in design.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Go to Mrs. L. j. Williemson's
for ready made wrappers and skirts.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Men will not be 80 much in
clined to go on liquor bonds when
they know the Supreme Court
has decided that they are RESPONSE
BILE for fines, &C., assessed on the
owner of the saloon.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

The war toosin may now sound
any day
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

At Parkersburg J. b. and w. R.
Jenkins, of the Hotel Ormand, have
been sued for $4,000 damages for
false arrest. by Jack Bradley, who
was recently acquitted on charge
preferred by them, of attempting
to pass a worthless check and jump
a board bill.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

An exchange says there is vii
lage in West Virginia where the
people are SO religious that they
will not make cider on Saturday
''for fear it will work on Sunday"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

ST feel it my duty to give you a
truthful statement Of what Chamb-
erIain's Colo, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy did, " writes }. S..
Collins, of Moore, S. @. Il had a
child about two years old, that had
the diarrhoea for two months I
tried all the best known remedies,
but none gave the least relief.
When this remedy came to hand, /
gave It as directed, and IN two days
the child was completely cured. :,
Sold by g. 81 M Hoof.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

IF there is no ordinance to pre-
vent dog fighting on the streets,
one should be adopted at once. It
don't look well for crowd of men
and boys to set dogs to fighting ON
the streets. 1t should not be per-
United for moment.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

About every time bulletin IS
put out by the Register, some
smart fellow will climb the stairs.
and ask. .lis that bulletin true2"
The bulletins are put up as We
get them, and we have no reason
to doubt their truthfulness. 1t is
not likely that we would put up
a bulletin simply for hoax.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Major w. FL. Bixby, corps of en-
gineers, u. S. A., stationed at Gin
oinnati, has furnished the follow
ing figures. which may prove valu-
able to rivermen generally: There
are as yet no absolutely correct and
reliable measurements of the Ohio
river distances and slopes. Those
SO far made differ amongst them
selves by from 1 to 2 per cent.
Their average is as follows: Pitts.
burg, Pa, to Wheeling, w. Va. go
miles, 10 feet fall; Wheeling to
Parkersburg, w. Va, 935 miles. So
feet fall; Parkersburg to Point
Pleasant, 80 miles, 46 feet fall;
Point Pleasant to Cincinnati, 2o8
miles, ~ feet fall; Cincinnati to
Louisville, 125 miles, 40 feet fall;
falls at Louisville, 25 feet; Louis
vile to Carlo, 1864 miles, "a feet
fall. The total fall of the Ohio
river, 965 miles, 40 feet. The fall
from Pittsburg to Cincinnati, 466
miles, 26o feet. 80
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

That the street reporter must
have more ears than the average
man and better eyes for even the
girls in the parlors with the win
dows closed tight cannot shut out
his prviner pen.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

If the people will keep on sweep
ing the streets in front of their
property, Main street will soon
present "solid front"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

There are too many drunken
people on our streets on Sunday.
How do they get their whiskey7
Saloons are not supposed to sell on
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20
Waterloo.


Correspondence, 18th.
The Misses Ollie and Fannie
Knapp are visiting relatives at
Grimm's Landing, and will also
visit their cousin, Miss Edith
Nichols, of Buffalo, before they re-
turn.
VIM. Devices is quite sick at this
writing.
Mr.. Geo. Hill, of Huntington, lis
visiting his mother, Mrs. Sarah
Hill
RepA. s. Rifle will preachnext
Sunday Immediately after Sunday
School.
MIR. q. A. Greenlee is very much
improved since our last writing.
MrP. B. Buxton, of Buffalo,
paid Waterloo a flying visit one
day last week.
Mrs. r. P. Miller, of Capehart
was visiting her mother, Mrs. S. S.
Buxton, last week.
Mrs. Chas. Rifle and her nephew
Mr.. Sam Krebs, were visiting rela-
tives at Grimm's Landing, last Sat
urday and Sunday. CLEOPATRA.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

@. b. Hanson & Co., announce
that '.house cleaning time is at
hand, and in this announcement
they call special attention to their
stock of lace curtains and window
shades. Call and see them when
you visit Gallipolis.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Fine sateen skirts at Mrs. l.. J,
Williamson's.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Forepaugh ana Sells Bros Shows Ct
Charleston, " Va. April 90.
Very low rates via Ohio Central
Lines to Charleston a pirl 30, tick
cts good returning same date.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20
DIMITIEs,

in all the attractive printing of the
season.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

The young men learning to ride
bicycles on our streets remind us
of the farmers breaking colt to
carry men on its back. The colt
will sometimes toss them over its
head or to one side or the other of
the road. When the bicycle losses
them they can only exclain, in the
slang interrogation. Where am I
at?'
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

The cadets of the State Univer-
sity. at Morgantown, are the first
to offer their services to the gov
ernment in case of war with Spain.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

The Ohio Valley Bank, Gallipo-
lis, has informed its employees, If
they enlist in case of war with
Spain, their salaries viii be con-
tinued, and besides the bank will
insure the lives of each one by a
paid up policy for $1,000.
Fine sateen skirts at Mrs. Z. J.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20
DRESS GOODS

We never miss an opportunity to add
to our. already splendid stock of
Dress Materials.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

well stamped out along the Nor
folk and Western Railroad, through
the energetic and effective
measures of quarantine, put in
force by DIR. Barbee, of this place,
and Secretary of the State Board of
Health.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20
zEPHYRS

French, Scotch and American Plaids,
Checks and Stripes
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-09
DIsCoURAGEMENr IN SPAIN.
Press Takes Gloomy View of the Finan-
cial Situation.

New York. March "a dispatch to
the World from Madrid says:
THE whole Madrid press comments
gloomily on the Spanish financiers'
scare.
MANY, including the friends OF the
cabinet, attribute less to unfayora BILE
rumors as to the relations of Spain
with the United States than to the eff
forts OF the native and foreign specu-
lators, who are ever on the alert to
take advantage OF any circumstance to
depress Spanish securities.
The tone OF most OF the papers IL
however, pessimistic, as even so min
istertal an organ as FL Liberal con-
cludes n long article on the situation
as follows:
Undoubtedly our relations with the
United States have been adjusted for
the time being to the strict dictates OF
prudence. but does the government
really believe that this nation will be
able, without suffering irreparable
damage. to bear for even few months
more this anxious indecision, this ener-
waiting uncertainty"
Chambers of commerce and other
corporations are rapidly sending reports
embodying their opinions as to n pro-
posed treaty of commerce with the
United States, Mt the request of the
government The majority is favora-
bile on condition that colonial tariffs
n protection OF from 20 to 80
per cent Of Spanish peninsular pro-
duets,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-09
SPANISH WOULD FIGHT HARD.
What British Member Of Parliament Thinks
Of Spanlsh-American War.
Spain Trying Hard to Get Ships,
but Has Not the Money.

London. March 9.-The New York
of commons lobby the head of one of
the largest and best known shipbuild-
ing firms on the Clyde who said:
81 know positively that Spain is hunt
ing not only for cruisers, but for eight
fast steamships which are to be con-
verted into unarmored cruisers and fit
ted with quick firing guns.
"She has been on the lookout for sew
eral weeks, but the difficulty, of course,
is lack of money. No British ship
builder would permit her to remove any
craft without prepayment in full.
81 have also just heard that her con-
templated purchases which have been
hanging fire for financial reasons are
about being completed, as the Spanish
government has made arrangements
for u loan through Fould's bank of
Paris, with a French syndicate. Sem
timent as well as self interest prompts
France to assist Spain against the
United States, and France is the only
European country where Spain stands
the slightest chance of obtaining fl
nancial help"
Inc meinDeT OF pdIlihintHN WHO Hidue
this statement asked that his name
should not be given. his firm having
dealings with the Spanish government
He added:
81 consider that the United States
will find Spain hard nut to crack. I
have had large experience with Span
ish sailors and regard them as first rate
seamen. They are hardy, courageous
and extremely clever nnvigators, but
they are badly differed. Their coun-
try is destitute of resources, while the
resources OF the United states are prac-
tically limitless. Your country Is bound
to win In the long run, but II Will be no
rosewater affair for your navy"
Another report current In the lobby
was that the United States government
had offered 100000 for Captain Mccall
mont's famous steam yacht Giralda.
She stenms 90 knots. has a displace-
ment of $50 tons. and is fitted for the
requirements of naval use, in time OF
war, as an unarmored cruiser. She has
ten machine guns. She Is Mt present at
Algiers and II is stated that the offer is
conditional on her being handed over at
Gibraltar within fifteen days. She Is
probably wanted Us n dispatch boat II
at ALL
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-09
CONSPIRACY TO MAKE MONEY,
WORKING TO GET BIG COMMISSIONS.
"'i''er"'e Attempt to Brighten the United
States Into buying Vessels 1t
Does Not Need,

Philadelphia, Pa. March s.-Charles
H. cramp, head of the great ship build
ing hrm, says there il deliberate at
tempt under way to brighten the Unit
ed states into buying ships 1t does not
need and could not use. He said:
This clamor about buying warships
abroad is all instigated by a syndicate
OF Adventures. who are trying to get
big commissions by helping English
and German ship builders to unload on
the United States number of unsafe.
able vessels which they have built,
either on speculation or under contracts
with various second rate powers that
are not able to pay for them. Such
syndicates are always formed at the
beginning of all threatened wars.
Briefly" this scheme is n conspiracy
on the part of certain daring operators
in this country and England to take
advantage of the existing situation to
force the hand of Congress and the ad-
ministration."
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-09

who was in the chair ruled: "a motion
To refer takes precedence OF one to
adopt. All who are in favor of re-
ferring the resolution say. Aye.
There were half a dozen Ayes, and
as many Noes the majority of those
present refraining from voting, and
Chairman Collins declared the resolu-
ton referred to the committee to be
appointed by the mayor.
The resolution is as follows:
"Resolved. That while we agree with
the mayor of the city, who has called
this meeting, and with other leading
citizens of our country that fitting
memorial to commemorate the names
and heroic death of our countrymcn
who gave their lives as n sacrifice to
liberty on the Inflated Maine ought to
be erected at the national capital, II
Is the unanimous sentiment of this
representative body of American citi-
zens, resident in Chicago, that the only
adequate and enduring memorial in
the largest sense which can be erected
in honor of these brave men, not
alone, but also in just commemoration
of the heroic and unparalleled strug
gle through torture and to death. Of
many thousands of other llbertyloving
men who have sought to do for Cuba,
their native land, what Washington
and the heroes Of the revolution did
for theirs, and will forever be a free
Cuba for a government which shall he
established upon the eternal truths of
the Declaration of Independence: That
all men are created equal. that they
are endowed by their creator with GER
tain and inalienable rights; that among
these are those of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness: that to secure
these rights governments are in
stltuted among men deriving their
Just powers from the consent of the
governed
Such a memorial the American peo-
pie are. in our judgment, called upon
by every consideration of national
honor to assist in establishing"
The mayor expects to appoint the
executive committee tomorrow. The
plan of giving n series of monster
benefit performances at the auditorium
seem to be generally favored by those
in charge of the project.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-09
RIOTS IN BOMBAY.
Serious Condition In British India Several
Persons Killed or Wounded.

Bombay, March e.-Serious plague
riots have occurred in the native quar-
ter. Several persons have been killed
or wounded.
Troops and blue jackets have been
despatched to the scene of the disturb
ance.
London. March Especial dispatches
noon, among the low caste Hindoes and
Mohammedans against the Europeans.
1t had its origin in an attack upon a
plague-search party. Two soldiers, as
these dispatches were sent. had already
been killed, and the police had fired on
the mob, killing six persons and wound
ing many others.
Other special dispatches from Bonn
bay say that the plague inspector and
thirty-seven men of the Shropshire
regiment were stoned to death.
A still later dispatch from Bombay
says the mob attacked the hospital,
burned the offices and stores, and
savagely assaulted the doctors, killing
one OF them. Detachments of the police
of the Shropshire regiment and artil-
lefy were hurried to the scene, q vol
ley was fired into the mob and seven
persons were killed. Before this. the
dispatch adds, two soldiers of the
shropshire regiment and one artillery
man were stoned to death.
The riot is described as causing n
tremendous sensation. All the available
troops and artillery have been called
out and business suspended.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-09

Wilkesbarre, Pa, March 9.-The jury
in the case of Sheriff Martin and his
deputies, charged with the killing of
strikers at Lattimer on September 10
last returned verdict of not guilty.
Long before the time for court to con-
Vene there was big crowd waiting to
gain admittanoe to the court room.
only Il limited number were admitted.
Judge woodward took his seat on the
bench at 10 o'clock. The Jury came in
few minutes later. The clerk asked
Gentlemen Of the jury, have you
agreed upon Il verdict?"
The foreman replied: 1--WE have" at
the same time handing the clerk the
written verdict, which was promptly
passed to Judge Woodward.
After reading the verdict the Judge
returned the paper to the clerk. The lat
ter addressing the jury, said;
Gentlemen, YOUR verdict in the case
of the Commonwealth versus James
Martin, ct al. is not guilty, so say you
all?"
1--WE do was the reply.
The jury was then polled and each
juror answered not guilty as his name
was called.
An attempt at applause was quickly
suppressed by the Judge.
The jury took only one ballot. It was
unanimous for acquittal. 1t is said the
jury was prepared for verdict before
leaving the box.
After the turv had been thanked and
discharged by Judge Woodward, Dis
trict Attorney Martin asked that the
defendants he required to continue their
bond as there are still seventeen in
dictments for murder hanging over
them, and IS for feloniously wound
ing. The bond was continued as re-
quested.
District Attorney Martin says he has
not decided what to do with these
other cases. The prosecuting commit
tee. 1t is said, will insist upon further
prosecution.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-09
CHINESE TERROR STRICKEN.
They Flee from the Lao Tong Province,
Leaving Their Homes.
RUSSIANS SEEING A VAST TERRITORY.


Vancouver, b. c., March 9-Oriental
is in great alarm and many rumors are
afloat of Russian invasion and capture
by Russian troops of a vast territory
in China. The stories arose over the
fact that Chinese are fleeing from this
province, leaving their homes unpro-
tected, owing to the advance of $4,000
Russian troops through the territory,
while the 5000 Chinese troops left TO
guard that section of the country can
scarcely be kept from throwing down
their arms.
The Russians who has crossed the
border are divided into three corps, one
corps containing 5000 Siberian outlaws.
who are given a chance to leave the
mines and serve in the army without
pay.
The latest dispatch states that the
Russians are at Nuho, China, near the
Amur river, where 1t Is said fabulously
rich gold mines are being worked and
gold Is stored. 1t Is feared that some
of the troops are to seize the mines and
gold In case Of war breaking out, and
work the mines with Siberian convicts,
and that the rest are proceeding to 9TH
er parts of Importance.
UNEASNESS AT HONGKoNG.
Hongkong, March 9.-The Russian
warships Sissol, Veliky and Navarin,
belonging to the Black Sea fleet have
arrived here
The political situation in the far east
Is causing uneasiness among the popu-
lation of this port.