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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-17
RIVER NEWS.
Daily Chronicle of the Movements OF tns
Boats and Boatmen.

Daily Chronicle of the Movements OF the
Boats and Boatmen.
YESTERDAYS DEPARTURES.
Ben Hur, Parkersburg-
I. NJ. Bayne Steubenville.
Leroy, Darlington.
Ruth, Sistersville.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
Pittsburg, Queen City, a. m.
Cincinnati, Keystone State, a. m.
Parkersburg, Argand, IL a. M
TO-MORROWTS DEPARTURES
Urania, Pittsburg, 5 a. M.
Kanawha, Charleston, $50 a. m.
Ben Hur, Pittsburg, p. m.
MARKS FROM ABOVE.
Pittsburg-River feet and rising at the
Observation-Disclosures s feet and rising.
OIL Cfty-River 2 feet 10 inches and fall
ing; clear and cool -.
Warren-River 1 foot 1ncheS, hSht
rain and mild
Steubenville-River feet s inches and
rising, clear and warm.
Morgantown-River II feet and rising;
cloudy and warmer.
Parkersburg-R River IA feet and falling;
cloudy; mercury 60.
Marks on the wharf at midnight
showed feet inches and falling.
The Mount Glare passed UP yester-
day evening with tow CT empties.
Major Bixby sends the following from
Cincinnati, dated May IA: Masters and
pilots are notified that the light at Do
yer has been moved across and up the
river to Taylor landing. The light at
Fosters has been moved down to
Schultz landing"
The coal business is reported very
dull at New Orleans. The war thus far
has hurt the business there instead of
helping it as some people expected.
There is nothing like She demand for
coal from steamships that there usually
is. and the stock of Pittsburg coal al
that place is large and still being in
creased.
TowIboats in port at Pittsburg are:
Iron Age, Ironsides, Hornet No. 2, En-
terprise, Mariner, Cruiser, Charley
Clark, Sam Clarke, Joe Walton, Vail
ant, l. N. Bunton, Nellie Walton, Mag
gle, j. c. Fisher, Rescue, Twilight, B.
D. Woods and Cyclone
The Sam Clarke will probably have
her new shaft in position and wheel
rebuilt in time to get out on the next
rise if it don't come too soon. Captain
Lee Mccain, her commander, regards
the Clarke as one of the best boats OF
her power connected with the Pittsburg
coal towing fleet. She belongs to the
Walton Coal Company.
A coal rise is expected soon by the
riyermen on account of the recent
rains.
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Dressing SaCQueS.

Matinees, made of colored lawns, box
pleated fronts and backs: nicely
trimmed with lace and tucks, s147
10 $3.50.
o ours. Everybody says so. 1t
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-08-13
NOTICE

All local announcements such as
of church services, entertainments,
and meetings are published as
news in the local columns of The
Tribune, but such notices and all
local news, to insure publication
must be in The Tribune office be-
fore 9 a. m. on the day that publ
cation is desired-preferably by
the previous afternoon. The
Tribune, in order to print one
half of the foreign matter it re-
ceives, cannot give any time to
local composition after 10 a. M,
unless the matter is extraordinary
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-08-13
All News

New type, new borders, new
rule, high quality inks and power
on presses. These make an up to-
date job office. The Tribune has
them. No other printing Office in
Florence has.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-08-13

Fitzgerreli's Rent List.
4 room frame Railroad street.
3 unfurnished rooms f. Main.
2 room frame West Main street
2 room frame furnished.
Groom frame on Garfield ave.
Elegant 8 room brick.
Elegant 6 room brick
An elegant 5 room frame
Elegant 7 room frame
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-08-13

Brief work done accurately and
promptly at the Tribune Office
opposite D. g. R. G. depot. Tele-
phone No. 10.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-08-13
LOCAL NEWS

A. r. Gumaer returned last
night from Denver.
Mrs. F. E. johnson and children
returned from Pueblo yesterday,
where they have been visiting Mrs.
Tharp.
Mrs. John Jacobs and children
returned last night from a months
stay in Colorado Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ruby are
home again after three weeks
sojourn in the mountains.
Howard Walker, one of the boys
arrested last Monday but who was
released upon promises of better
behavior, broke into private
house yesterday and stole several
dollars. The authorities state
that he will be sent to the Reform
school.
Ice cream and cake by two
classes of the M. E. Sunday school
Saturday evening, End floor Nc
Candless building. All invited
]. J. Fitzgerrell has plenty Of
straight money to loan.
Fresh bread and cakes at the
City Bakery.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-08-13
Classified

WANTED Girl. aged II to %, to learn
printing trade--must have common
school education and be willing to stay
until trrde is learned Apply at this
Office.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-08-13

Fresh bread and cakes at the
City Bakery.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-08-13

]. J. Fitzgerrell has plenty of
straight money to loan.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-08-13

also n es n all ofD Goods
wha tha
L.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-05-25

ever. Several of them were missing
and l looked around. Lying all in a
heap on the after deck in the star
board quarter near the after.conning
tower saw five of our ten where they
wilted down after the shell had struck
them. In other places were men lying
groaning or dragging themselves about
wounded and covered with blood.
The deck had blood on it, and it was
strewn with fragments and splinters.
l went over where the five men were
lying in a heap and saw that they
were not all dead. John Meek could
speak and move one of his hands
slightly. l went up to him and I put
my face down close to his.
"'Can 1 do anything for you, John p
l asked, and he replied: No, Jack
I'm dying. Goodbye and he asked
me to grasp his hand. go help there,
he whispered, gazing with fixed eyes
where Captain Bernadou was still firing
the forward gun. The next minute he
was dead. He was my friend"-and
there was q pause in O'Hearn's story.
"Ensign Bagley," he continued, after
a little, "was lying at the bottom badly
torn to pieces, and the bodies of the
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to the perils that may come from for

to the perils that may come from for
eign jealousies and aggression.
"Need 1 remind you that when dan
gers from abroad threaten, party ban
ners are furled, party names forgotten ?
Recent events have but emphasized
the words of Webster: Our politics
90 no further than the waters edge.
We study the things that make for
peace, but must never forget that worse
even than war, with all its horrors,
is national dishonor.' If an object
lesson has been needed that we are
indeed one people, it is had in the glad
response of each state in the Union to
the declaration of war against the
traditional enemy of liberty and OF
humanity. Were it needed to repel
invasion from our own shores, to re-
lease Cuba from the iron hand of the
oppressor, or to carry in triumph the
flag to the heart of the enemy's coun.
try, who does not know that from all
sections of the republic an army OF
American freemen would gather great
er than in the ages past ever followed
the banners of Xerxes or of Alex
ander."
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, fol-
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communicated itself to Central Amer
ica. The insurrection began there the
year after Hidalgo raised the standard
of revolt in Mexico, and in 1923 the
five states became free.
But it was in South America that
the most protracted and sanguinary
struggle for freedom took place. The
leading spirit was Simon Bolivar, right
ly called the "liberator," for whom
the republic of Bolivia was afterward
named. Personal observation of the
workings Of free institutions i'll the
United States led him to desire similar
blessings for his own countrymen. He
was Il leader in the revolution which
broke out in Venezuela in 1910, and
for the next IA years, with the excep-
tion of two periods of enforced exile,
he was at the head of insurgent arm
les in Venezuela, New Granada, Ecua-
dor and Peru. The battle at Ayacu-
cho, in December, 1924, inflicted a
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mated with great heat, is to give the
unaccllmated man a chill. In the cane
fields shelters are erected, to which the
Negroes run when the sudden rain
comes down.
"Yellow fever would not do us so
much harm. 1t belongs in the cities,
and we could probably beat it by clean
ing up the same as Ben Butler did at
New Orleans. But yellow jack is only
one of the Cuban fevers. Rain and
heat create decomposition and miasma.
The soil of Cuba is a rich black loan,
produced by the decay of vegetable
matter. No one can sleep on it in
safety. Spaniards and Cubans in their
campaigning carry hammocks. No
unacclimated troops could possibly
campaign in Cuba during the rainy
season without suffering enormous
losses through dysentery, country fe-
yer, broken bone fever and the other
forms of malaria. They have had
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SPANS WASTED WESTERN EMPIRE.

Ninety years ago nearly third OF
the western Hemisphere belonged to
Spain. The English owned the strip
of seacoast in Central America now
known as British Honduras; the
Guianas, on the northern coast of the
South American continent, were divi-
ded between England, France and
Holland and Brazil was dependency
of Portugal. With these exceptions,
everything south Of Louisiana-Mexi-
co, Central America, and South Amer
ica to the extreme southern tip of the
continent-was subject TO Spain.
For 800 years Spain had derived al
most incalculabe wealth from her
American possessions but the history
of her rule over them was II story OF
almost continuous cruelty toward the
natives, and Of greed and oppression
in her relations with her colonists.
This was the reason why, when Spain
was invaded by Napoleon's armies
early in the present century, the Span
ish-American colonies, i'll quick success
sion, took up arms against the mother
country. There were II years OF
bloody war, now here, now there, from
1910 to 1924, and by the year 1926 not
il foot of territory was left to Spain on
the American continent.
In Mexico the revolt was led in 1910
by Il priest, Hidalgo; but although ii
was temporarily suppressed and the
leaders shot, the insurgents in The
mountainous districts kept up a guer-
lila warfare, and in 1921, under the
leadership of the "Liberator" lturbide,
independence was secured.
The revolutionary movement soon
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arms factory at Cabul, are both in
England at this moment, whittier they
have been called to confer on the sub
iect of q possible war with Russia, and
the part the Ameer of Afghanistar
might be expected to take in it. More
over, mention may be made of the
mission of Djevad Pasha to St. Peters
burg, sent by the sultan of Turkey tc
the czar, as it is said, to study the
situation; but, according to the belief
at Constantinople, to treat for friend
ly understanding with Russia in cer'
tain eventualities.
That war is expected in England ap.
pears evident. The latest information
shows that what may be called almost
the latest preparations have been or
dered and are being made both to car.
ry on a vigorous aggressive war by
sea, and to resist possible invasion
The naval preparations on the French
side indicate the belief there that wal
is at hand, while the political condi'
tions of the country shows the govern
ment to be strongly supported by the
people. The desire of the British gov
ernment to find an ally in this country
is the logical and inevitable outcome
of the isolation of England in Europe
and the decision of peace or war in the
Old World may be said now to rest
with the statesmen of America.
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SPANISH ARTILLERY CORPS IN CUBA,

other three were on top of his. The
colored cook was lying little apart
from the others, badly mangled and in
cramped position. We supposed he
was dead, and covered him up the
same as the others. Nearly half an
hour after that we heard him calling
and making a slight movement under
the cloth. We went to him and he
said, 'Oh, boys, for Gods sake move
me. I'm lying over the boiler and
burning up 1t was time, the deck
was very hot and his flesh had been
almost roasted. He also complained
that his neck was cramped, but did
not seem to feel his terrible wounds.
We moved him into an easier position
and gave him some water. "Thank
you, sir" he said, and in five seconds
was dead.
Then O'Hearn told of the brave con-
duct of the gunboat Hudson's crew in
getting the Winslow out of her peril
Gus position. That story was fully
told on the day of the battle.
O'Hearn is 35 years of age and has
served 1S years in the United States
navy. He went to the Winslow last
January, and had previously served on
the Puritan, Katahdin, Texas and 9TH
er vessels Of the navy. While on the
Puritan in the Brooklyn navy yard,
last July, he prevented catastrophe
by saving the ship from being blown
up when the boiler room was on fire.
For this act of bravery he was given a
medal which he now wears. He will
return to some place in the navy after
few weeks rest in Brooklyn.
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some cases of beri-beri Qike elephant
iasis) in Cuban cities lately, but I don'l
know that they would cut any figure
"There are no roads in Cuba over
which we could send supplies, or which
would be practicable for artillery
When the Cubans bought dynamite
guns from us they insisted that the
guns be made four and-a-half-inch in
place of six-inch, as the guns have tc
be carried on muleback. The socalled
roads are not graded, and are very
much up hill and down dale. In the
rainy season they are quagmires. The
violente is the carriage of the country
1t is like a doctors gig, two-wheeled
and can traverse road where an
ordinary carriage would be upset.
"Close connection with our base ol
supplies would be necessary in Cuba
Weyler has destroyed The d.produ'
cling plants and trees, and has killed
the cattle. l know lady now living
in this city whose sons were with the
insurgents. She recently received
word that they had separated from
their column, and one starved to death
while the other, when found by his
comrades, was SO near starvation that
his recovery is doubtful. A friend
asked how this could be when food
grew everywhere in Cuba. 'When
you were there it did, answered the
lady, but not now. Weyler has cut
down all the banana trees, and de-
stroyed all food-producing plants and
the cattle. The only thing my boys
could find to keep them alive was the
the pith of the sago palm
"The animals, insects and reptiles
of Cuba would not form very serious
drawback. They have no poisonous
snakes there, ard the scorpions and
tarantulas, though capable Of inilict'
ing painful bites, are not dangerous
The mosquitoes are not any worse
than on Long Island, and the cent?
pcdes and red and white ants, though
they occasion Il great deal of discom'
fort, would not kill anyone.
There is no reason for our hurry
ing to descend on Cuba. Every days
delay makes us stronger and tho
Spanards in Cuba weaker. They are
already almost in Il starving condition
We have established an effective block
ade on the sea, and the insurgents have
established a blockade on the land"
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lowed with a brief, but patriotic
speech.
The Charlotte Observers $50 prize
poem was read by Colonel H. c.
Jones, of Charlotte. The poem was
entitled "The Vanguard of the Revo-
lution," and is the composition of the
Rev. w. w. Moore, D. D., professor of
Hebrew at Union Theological semi
nary, Hampden-Sidn Va, and a
native of Charlotte.
Mrs. General Stonewall Jackson and
Mrs. General D. H. Hill were among
those on the stand.
The monument, of Barre, Vermont,
granite, an obelisk 40 feet high, was
then unveiled by a number of young
ladies, descended from the signers,
amidst the greatest enthusiasm.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-05-25
THE MECKLENBURG MONUMENT.
Big Celebration at Charlotte, N. c., Last
Friday.

The whole state, says a dispatch,
Joined with Charlotte last Friday in
unveiling a handsome granite monu'
ment to the memory of the signers oi
the Mecklenburg Declaration of 1nde'
pendence, which was drawn up here
on May 20, 1775. There was Il nota'
BILE pageant in the early morning Of
floats decorated in the national colors
and filled with young ladies, repre-
senting the various states and illus
traling many patriotic themes. There
was long cavalcade of horsemen in
the uniform of the Continental soldier,
and numerous carriages filled with dis,
tinguished guests, but the chief feature
was the great line of veterans, there
being four brigades Of them, under
command of Major J. G. Hall. Hall
Il dozen tattered battle flags were car
ried during the parade.
+. B. Mcdowell was master of GER
emonies. Prayer was offered by the
Rev. J. H. Howerton, of the First
presbyterian CnurCn.
Ex-Vice President Adlai +. Steven
son was introduced by J. H. Caldwell
editor of The Observer, ard made the
principal speech Of the occasion. An
extract relating to current events IS as
follows:
standing upon this historic spot,
consecrated by the dead heroes, we
lift up our hearts in gratitude to God
that he has been pleased to vouchsafe
our fathers and to us such Il country.
The descendants of the heroes OF
Mecklenburg, Of Guilford and of Kings
Mountain can never forget that this
flag is the symbol Of constitutional
liberty-the eternal symbol of an in
divisible union of indestructible states,
You should never forget that all our
hopes and aspirations are bound up in
the constitution of our fathers. Guard
this constitution as the very ARK OF
the Covenant At whatever cost, the
Federal union, this grand union oi
people and of states, bequeathed us by
our fathers, must be the heritage OF
the future generations of our country
men. Let him be accounted the COM
mon enemy who, whatever the pretext,
would weaken the cord that binds all
states and sections of our common
country in fraternal union. Remem-
bering that 'our greatest interest is
peace yet we cannot close our eyes
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GUARDING THE PRESIDENT.
Every Precaution Against Assassination by
Spaniards.

Every Precaution Against Assassination b.
Spaniards.
The president is being closely guard
ed these days, says Washington dis
patch. Those who are around him are
determined to take no chances on hi:
meeting the fate of Lincoln. Wher
war was declared it was suggested tc
the president that it would be the par
of prudence for him to abandon the
public receptions. This the president
refused to do, Notwithstanding it was
pointed out to him that President
Cleveland had done so after his Vene
zuelan message. As his resolution tc
receive the people was not to be shak
en-, the attaches of the White House
determined to take propers precautions
to protect him from violence at the
hands of any crank or Spanish agent
The method they have adopted is 8
decidedly clever one, answering fully
the purpose of giving him absolute
protection and at the same time con
veying but faint suggestions that extra
precautions are being taken.
Formerly when the president came
into the east room to receive the peo
pie he stood we'll out in the room and
often had but one attendant, whose
duty it was to call the names of the
people as they came up. Now when
the doors which lead from the private
rooms of the White House into the
great public reception room are thrown
open an attendant enters and hastily
draws a large sofa, the usual position
of which is to the right of the door,
out 10 a point in the room where il
leaves passage way between it and
the back of the door Of about 5 feet
This man then takes his place with his
back to the sofa. The president enters
with two attendants, one on his left
and one on his right, and takes his po
silion so close to the door that no one
could pass behind him. The line is
then told to move forward.
Only one person can pass at time
i'm the narrow space between the man
at the sofa and the president. The
attendant on the right side of the
president calls for the visitors name
and when it is given announces it tC
the president. The president extends
his hand. AS the president clasps the
hand Of the visitor the attendant or
the sofa side puts his hand on the
shoulder of the visitor and whispers 8
gentle injunction to move on, when il
is necessary. 1t is so done that while
the right hand of the visitor is ex
tended to the president it would be
impossible for the visitor to use the
left hand to manipulate any weapon.
When the president goes riding
which he does very frequently in the
afternoons before dinner, he is follow.
ed at short distance by secret off.
GERS of the govern nent.
The president himself has no feal
whatsoever of any attempt being
made upon his life.
In respect to being seen frequently
in public, he is one of the most Dem
ocratic presidents the nation has had
Previous to and since the declaration
of war he has gone out for walks un-
accompanied except by some member
of the cabinet. The efforts made to
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MONUMENT TO EX.SLAVES.
What T. E. Miller Says of Captain Whites
Tribute.

Columbia Record.
President Thos. E. Miller, of the
Orangeburg Colored college, who ar
rived in the city last night from Rock
Hill, where he went to deliver the an
nual address before the Clinton Color
ed Industrial school, talked interest
ingly to reporter this morning con-
cerning the monument to slaves erect
ed at Fort Mill, by Captain Samuel
White. He said:
~ visited Fort Mill for the sole pur-
pose of seeing Captain Whites monu-
ment to the fidelity of the Negro slave
during the war.
son one side is plantation house
scene. In the foreground a Negro wo-
man is seated with a white child in
her arms. At her feet in the grass is
a shattered toy cart and flying over
head is the dove of peace.
"On another side is harvest scene,
with stalwart Negro seated at noon
in the shade with sycle in his hand
and the harvest wheat in the distance.
1.-THE third side bears an inscription
expressive of the faithful service to
and care for the helpless men and wo-
men and the children among the white
race who were left at home while the
soldier was of fighting for the princi-
pies dear TO the heart of every true
southerner. On this side il is announ-
ced also that the monument is erected
by permission of the Jefferson Davis
Monument association among the white
monuments in the park.
"The fourth side bears the names of
the four men slaves who accompanied
as body servants the four members of
the White family who went to war.
One of these ex-slaves is still alive.
He is 80 years old and now lives on
piece of land given him by Captain
White.
"This is the only monument erected
by the white people-save the one at
Bunker Hill-which gives the true
character of the Negro in the land of
his adoption, and appreciate it be-
cause of the emphatic truths it tells
and will continue to tell for all times"
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crushing blow upon the Spanish forces,
and in 1926 the last stronghold of the
Spanish, the castle at Callao, was
taken.
The grievances which led to this
general throwing off of the Spanish
yoke on the American continent close
lv resembled those of which the Cubans
now complain.-Youth's Companion.