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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14

lect insurance on his life the way
would be opened for countless frauds.
A man in desperate circumstances de-
string to leave something for his fam
lily, might procure the endowment by
life insurance and make the policy
payable by taking his own life.
This is the class of cases covered
by Justice Harlan's decision. But
there are very few such cases. The
commission of suicide by a sane man
is one of the rarest tragedies in human
experience. 1t is almost impossible to
conceive of an instance in which
man of sound mind will deliberately,
commit the high crime of self-mur-
der.
In all the early cases of suits to re-
cover on life insurance policies in case
of suicide it was generally held that
suicidal intent-a mania for self-de
struction-was such an indication of
insanity as to relieve the insured from
responsibility. The insurance COM
pany must pay as in other cases of
death from disease.
To avoid liability in cases of sui
eide while the insured was insane
many companies inserted a clause in
their policies providing that no pay
ment should be made in case of self
destruction by the insured whether
sane or insane" Other companies
have provisions in their policies that
payment shall not be made in case of
suicide occurring within stated num-
Der of years. After this term all poll
cies are payable without regard to the
manner of death.
This late Interpretation Of life in
surance law is nothing new. So large
a proportion of the people carry life
insurance that it is interesting to
know the law. or, at least. the princi-
pies of law under which the amount
of a policy may be collected in case
of dispute.
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ALI HAFED.

In the far-off land OF Persia by the Cas-
rian.s rugged shore,
Where Mount Demavend for ages has
been towering white and boar
With the hills of EGbuZ painted back
against the mountains cold,
There's a story told-it may be true-sur-
passing tales of old.
Westward, far beyond the Ganges. Ali
HafeG sat one night
We'd content, his wife beside him, in the
mellow Orient light.
Where tbs mighty Indus River, rolling
southwark. proud and free.
Swept in triumph down the valley toward
the great Arabian Sea.
Soon their children on the scene appeared;
they held strangers hand,
Who displayed diamond rare that
ike gem from fairy land:
He told of wealth so fabulous that ere
they sought their bed
That night wild dreams and discomfort
filled Ali Hafed's head.
When morning dawned. IN restless haste
their peaceful home he sold.
And Az Hated diamonds sought dissatis-
fed with god:
He iourneyed far. with tireless feet. till.
broken down and gray.
He stood in rags one night beside the
home he'd east away.
He learned that in distress and want his
loved onss all had died;
He found the Peasant like a Prince with
wealth on every side.
Who'd bought his cozy little farm: for
u..ce upon a day,
While digging in the shining sand that in
the garden lay,
He sp;ed a something. dazzling bright
that made his heart stand still:
He found the sand was sown with gems a
treasure home to Till.
He wept for JOY. where Tndia's sun its
richest splen6or yields.
For he possessed beyond dispute Col
conda's diamond fields.
-Inter-Ocear.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14
THE ANTIIMMIGRATI BILL.

The Lodge immigration bill is still
on the Congressional calendar and the
chances are it will become law. 1t
passed the Senate by large majority,
and Speaker Reed is said to favor it,
which presumably settles the matter
so far as the House is concerned.
This measure should receive more
careful and impartial consideration
than it has had. The matter is a seri-
Gus one from whatever point of view
it is looked at. and party politics
should not be allowed to cut any fig
ure as regards it.
No American citizen of ordinary
common sense, unless his motive is
wholly selfish, wishes to shut out from
sinew of Europe, which in former days
made the United States what it is.
These are welcome and doubly well
come to America; but there is an ig-
norant, animal-like and lawless and
vicious horde that come to these
shores every year, who are not to be
classed with brain, Drawn and sinew
They do not, as do honest and well
meaning immigrants, go out West and
establish themselves upon a farm and
till it, but they stick right where they
land-in the Eastern cities-or, if they
are moved from there they do not go
TO the country or the farm, but to
other cities to augment the sum of
ignorance, lawlessness and anarchy.
The Register alread.- has dealt with
his subject in detail and there is no
need now to go over that ground and
again show that the class of immigra
ton which it is now proposed to shut
out is only the vile. vicious and I'M
desirable class-not the honest immi-
grant who comes to these shores with
the intention of lettering his condi
ton by making an honest living in
country where every man is every 9TH
er mans equal before the law
Existing laws. of course, are sup
posed to exclude paupers, criminals
and persons of generally undesirable
character, and also laborers coming
under contract. and the Lodge bill
merely adds to this such persons over
sixteen years of age who can neither
read nor write twenty TO twenty
words Of the United States constitu-
ton in any language. The immigrant
can choose for himself the language
in which the reading is to be done and
can at his election either read or write
the sentence not being required to do
both. The number that will be eX-
cluded by this test as we have shown,
heretofore. by statistics of the govern
ment, will be exceedingly small, for
the average immigrant from Europe,
excepting that undesirable class from
Southern Europe and Asia, are pos
sessed of intelligence if not money and
can read or write at least their own
language.
OF course, there is probably no test
that will be fair to every individual.
but it strikes us that this measure
comes as near being fair to all as any
that has been devised.
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THE DESPOT OF THE HOUSE.

1t takes a pretty good verbal sparrer
to get the best of Speaker Reed, who
has an intellect of his own and very
good idea of how to use it. But Rep
resentative Hartman, Silver Repub-
lican from Montana, gave the big car
a clever swipe the other day that told.
He said after particularly fragrant
abuse of the powers OF the Speaker by
Mr.. Reed:
I'm this House we should change
the oath. Instead of taking an oath
to support, protect and defend the con-
stitution of the United States and per-
form our duties to the best of our abil-
tiles, we should, at the opening of each
session, swear to support, protect and
defend the constitution, provided we
can obtain the consent of the leading
nations of the earth and to perform
our duties if the Speaker will permit
us so to do
Under the rules, temporarily adopt
ed. Speaker Reed practically has abso-
lutte power The majority bows to his
dictation and the minority has no
rights which the Speaker respects.
The House is no longer a body in
which measures are considered. 1t is,
as Mr.. Hartman said. "a House to
register the will of those who control
it," and the controlling power is the
party whip in the hands of the boss
in the Speakers chair.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14
AN ASYLUM FIRE.

Milwaukee. Wis, February 13.-Firf
this evening broke out in rhe st
Aemilianus Orphan Asylum at st
Francis. a suburb OF this city, where
3C0 children are CHARTERED. Most OF
the children were playing outside at
the time, while the remainder were
scattered in the different corridors
Of the building Many Of the children
tcck fright and ran away and late TO-
night several are rounded up in police
stations in different sections OF the
CITY. Those in the building were mar
shaled cut in safety. The damage tc
the structure was small.
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SOMEWHAT SARCASTIC.
What Lew Wallace says Lincoln Said o
Mcclellan.

What Lew Wallace Says Lincoln Said of
Mcclellan.
Lebanon. Ind, February 13.-Presi-
dent Lincoln's birthday was celebrated
here asst night, and among the prom
inent guests at the banquet was Gen.
Lew Wallace. During his address he
referred to the dark days of the war
when Gen. Mcclellan had been driven
back to Harrison's Landing by Gen.
Lee. At this time, Wallace said, Il
was near Washington and went there
with a party to see the President. |
noticed that Mr.. Lincoln's face was
unusually sad | thought he was sick
and was solicitous. | kindly asked
him If he was unwell but he said, no,
he was we'll enough, but that he was
3rxiously waiting for the time to ar
rive when a boat would start for Har-
rison's Landing, that he wanted to go
and persuade Gen. Mcclellan not to
surrender the army to Gen. Lee. Wal
lace said he had never told this story
before except privately to friends.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14
THE TEXTILE STRIKE.

BOSTON. Mass. February 1s-At a
meeting to-day in this city Of IS represen-
tatives Of the textile unions in New Eng
land. it was unanimously voted to recon-
mend that all unions call out the opera
tives in every cotton mill in New England
The meeting was practically the out
come of the recommendation which Pres
ident Gompers made to the Federation OF
Labor last Sunday in which he urged the
different unions to unite on some definite
policy rebarding the mill situation in
New England At that meeting com
mfttee of three was appointed to take
charge Of the matter and after confer
ence this committee recommended that a
general meeting be held to take definite
action.
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FAST TIME.

BUFFALO. y. II, February New
York to Buffalo, 425 miles in 426 minutes,
vas the record made over the Erie rail
road to-day By a special newspaper train,
The train left Jersey City at BIS o'clock
and reached Buffalo at 10:4S this morning.
In stops q minutes was lost The train
was made up of engine and three bag
gage cars Ninety-thre miles between
I-ornellsville and Buffalo were covered in
s. minutes. Next Sunday an effort is to
be made to improve on this fast run.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14

It is said that the administration
does not care so much for the per-
soral insults to the President in De
Lome's letter as for the lack of sOc.l
faith shown on the part of Spain with
the United States. SPANS lack Of
good faith and treachery were known
quantities long ago-to everybody, az
parently. but the administration. In
fact. that part OF the story is Old. 1t
is the Spanish representatives in
famous insult to the Chief Magistrate
of the American people that the poo
pie of The United States are most coll
cerne1 about-whether the President
himself is or not. 1t is the general
feeling of Americans that Spain should
be required to tender a full otficia.
apology before another Spanish 'liplo
mat is received at Washington.
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MADE ANOTHER CHANGE.

Cincinnati. O.. February 13,-Th7
Commercial Tribune will print the fol-
lowing announcement tomorrow: II
meeting Of the Board of Directors OF
the Commercial Tribune Company,
held February 18th, the designations
of Messrs. A. Howard Hinkle, Julius
Fleischmann. Casper H. Rowe and
Norman G. Kenan were received and
accepted. and Messrs James NJ. Glenn,
Herman P. Goebel and Albert Bettln-
ger were thereupon elected directors.
and the new board organized at once
by the election Of James NJ. Glenn
president of the company.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14
A BAD FAILURE.

Milwaukee. Wis, February IA
statement of the liabilities Of Henry
Sherry, the lumberman who failed
some time ago, and the six companies
in which he was interested, gives ire
amount as S1,250,000, with nom
inal assets of 100000 Mr.. Sherrv's
personal liabilities are S62S,000, and in
addition to this he has endorsed the
paper of his corporations for S5Se,0oc
more. The assets to meet TINS are
now estimated to be worth S350,OOO.
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DIED.

AMTCK-Mrs. Laura H.. wife Of MARCUS
N. Amick. at the family residence. PA
Cnaplire street. Saturday. February l2th;
Al 1889 p. m, aged g. years, months ana
runeral from the First Baptist church.
corner Twelfth and Byron streets. Mon
day. February 1Ath, at o'clock P n.
Friends Of family invited. Interment az
Peninsula cemetery.
HILDEBRAND-s Saturday. February T.,
1893 AT 1880 o'clock D. m. Helene Johanna,
daughter Of G. e. and Louisa. Hildebrand,
aged ii years, months and 10 days.
Funeral services at residence Of parents.
2ao3 Charles street Monday afternoon at
$50 o'clock. Friends of the family are in
vited. Interment private at Mount Zion
cemetery.
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GOOD IOVD0BT STnGE.
Heavy COnsignments Of Coal Being
Started for Southern Points.

The Head Streams Falling Last
Night-The Max mum Sage at
the Wharf Will Probably Be Be
tween Twenty-Six and Twenty
Seven Feet Packet Business in a.
Flourishing Condition 9th e r
River News.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14

It is said the Ohio legislative COM
mittee will report that money was used
in Mark Hannas interest and ask the
federal Senate to unseat him. The
federal Senate. however, is body of
bad old men. and such an inquiry
would rake up memories and evidence
that would be too generally uncom-
Portable for many influential members
of that very comfortable body.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14
PACKET BUSINESS BOOMING.

Packet business during the past sew
eral days was very brisk each boat
being taxed to its utmost capacity both
with freight and passengers. The Nir-
ginia arrived at Pittsburg Saturday
morning, having aboard 206 barrels
Of whisky, 800 barrels of molasses and
a big consignment of lumber among
numerous items of freight. The NiT-
ginia arrived from Pittsburg yester-
day afternoon about eight hours be-
hind time, owing to an unusually large
freight for a down trip. The large
consignment of freight awaiting her at
the wharfboat added to her freight
from Pittsburg, was about as much Is
the steamer could hold. She also had
a good number of passengers, and de-
parted for Cincinnati at 5 p. m.
Other steamers in and out at the
wharf yesterday were the Ben Hur.
Kanawha and keystone State, all cieal =
ing for Pittsburg a little behind time
on account OF big trips. The Ben Hur
departed at a. m, an hour late; the
keystone State at 8 a. M. two hours
late; and the kanawha at 10 a. m
five hours late. The elegant Queen
City will arrive at the wharf at a late
hour tonight from Cincinnati, and
will clear for Pittsburg tomorrow
morning at 4 a. m. She has 1000 bar
rels Of molasses on board, which is
one OF the largest consignments Of that
product to come up the river for some
time. and indicates that the liquid Is
on a big boom at southern points.
The Keystone State viii clear for
Cincinnati tomorrow morning at $
o'clock, the Argand will depart for
Parkersburg at IL a. M. the Leroy fer
Darlington at $3.50 p. M, and the Ruth
for Sistersville at the same hour. All
these packets will carry heavy trips.
The Lexington is also expected to re
sumo her regular trips tomorrow.
Her hour for clearing for New Mata-
moras is II a. IN.
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sr,c,Dr AND LIFE INSURANCE.

There has been considerable discus
sion over the decision of Justice Har-
Ian. of the United States Supreme
Court that life insurance company is
not liable on its policy if the insured,
while sane, commits suicide.
No doubt this is good law. If the
heirs of a suicide were allowed TO col
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14
DIsCONT ENT IN FRANCE.

Paris. February 13.-Numerous
meetings were held in the provinces
to-day in connection with the Dreyfus
agitation. In some cases resolutions
against the government were adopted,
but there were no serious disorders
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14

A million workingmen to go on
strike on May first. Verify, Mckinle.'
prosperity is spreading.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14

Baseballist Won Der Abe is behind
the bars for debt. He would probably
prefer to be behind the bat for blood
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14

If the German people were given a
say in the matter probably they would
be glad TO get our fruit.
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Correspondence containing important
news solicited from every part OF the sur
rounding country
rejected communications will not be re-
turned unless accompanied by sufficient
postage.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14

The REGISTER. embracing its several
editons IS entered at the Postoffice at
Wheeling w. Va. as second-class matter
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FOURTH PAGE,

Wanted-Manager for Branch ONCE in
Wheeling.
Rhodes & Co
-Expressmen and Drivers Local
Union No. $3.50.
Recommendations Seaman.
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EIGHTH PAGE.

EIGHTH PAGE.
A Question for Mothers to Decide-Geo.
E. Stifel & Co.
Counter Clearing-Stone & Thomas.
The Wind-Up of Our Semi-Annual Re
auction Sale-kraus Bros.
Familiar Sayings-D. Gundling & Co.
Twenty-Five Per Cent Off-Geo. r. Tay-
Tor CO.
Swa hacker
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A ENCOURAGEMENT - S-rRL,t,.,,
MISSIONER OF BENWGGD COZ.
hereby announce myself "a c.af.,...
the office Of Street Commission ,. -. 0
"ood. subject to the decision Of ill., ~.
ocfatc primary. and Respectfully .-
the suffrage of all Democrats '."s
le l5'l+'Zo. PATRICK SEAMAN
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MARKS FROM BELOW.
PARKERSBURG+R River II feet 8 inches
Clear: mercury II.

At 5 p. m. yesterday the river was
rising slowly at the wharf at a stage
OF 10 feet and inches, indicating a
rise of four feet since / o'clock in
the morning, or on an average of three
inches an hour.
Yesterday afternoon the water at
Pittsburg was rising slowly at a stage
OF IS feet. The Allegheny river was
still rising at Parkers, where 10 feet
was registered, but had become sta
tionary at 10 feet and inches at Oil
City. Capt. Crockard stated last even
ing that Is feet at Pittsburg would
give Wheeling about 26 feet.
Extensive preparations have been
made by the coal shippers at Pitts
burg, and nearly all the towboats on
the river will go down on the present
rise. A number OF boats with heavily
loaded tows we're sent out yester-
day. and more viii be started out to-
day and tomorrow. Very little Of the
ice that broke loose from the head
streams passed the landing yesterday,
as a great deal of it is sinking, owing
to it's softened condition from the long
spell Of moderate weather. All the
freight lying along the wharf was re-
moved to high points. and everything
is in readiness to receive the swell.
At midnight the river had reached a
stage of 90 feet and inches, and was
still rising slowly. Later reports from
above show the Monongahela to be
falling at Brownsville and Greensboro
and stationary at Morgantown. The
Allegheny river is falling slowly at
Oil City, and at Pittsburg the river
was 14.3 feet at the dam and station
airy. The full extent Of the rise will
probably reach the wharf some time
tonight or at an early hour to-mor-
row morning, and will amount to
about % feet. This is an excellent
coalboat stage, and under the present
conditions of the soil and weather will
last some time to come.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.
SECOND PAGE.


For Rent-Hall for Wednesday Nights.
For Sale. c. Devine & Co.
For Sale and To Let-G. O. Smith
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MARKS FROM ABOVE

WARREN River feet. Cloudy and
cooler.
BROWNsVILLD-R River feet inches
and falling.
GREENSBORO River 10, feet ) inches
and falling. Cloudy and cool
OIL CITY-River 10 feet inches and
falling slowly Cloudy and cool
MORGANTOWN-RN feet S inches
and stationary Clear ana cold
PITTSBURG-Ri 14.3 feet and sta
tionary at the dam. Clea. and cool.
STEUBENVILLE-Ri 10 feet 10
inches and rising. Passed up, Cruiser.
Ben Hur, \anaWha ana Keystone State.
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Tributes or Respect and Obituary No
tees five cents per line
stamps of the denomination of two cents
enc dollar.
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WANTED.

WANTED Mara ger for branch office IN
Wheeling: salary $3.50 and commissloI
$3.50 cash capital required. also good rel
Y. fe14,1
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NEW ADVERTIoFMEM-.
NJ MORRIS.

NJ MORRIS, '7~>~->>o>->..,..
VI 1888 market Street
Sells and buys second hans 49,.
pfces are paid. Write to ~ '.Hag; high
call. No agents are raptsse, III sAe I Mil
no20esb Ae77A14as me.
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BREWERY FOR SALE.

The Brick and Stone Brewery at Har-
por's Ferry, w Va, recently owned by
Mr. j. c. McGraw: capacity 10000 bbls
Lure mountain spring water supply: con-
trolls trade of Valley Of Virginia and other
large territory; in full operation; trade
intact, re- iy for purchaser Sold on easy
terms For particulars apply to
JAMES NJ. MASON, JR., Trustee.
de15eh Charles Town w. Va.
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WANTED-Tw young men to run as
news agents on railroad trains. Must
dress UNION NEWS CO, once B. & O.
depot Wheeling. jan30e&dh
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Wbrelin9 Reeister
CHARLES H. TANEY, Gslerll Mana GER
Delivered by Carriers.

Daily. per week. TO be paid weekly. loo
Daily per month. Observation-Disclosures. 44c
Daily and Sunday, per week. ........ inc
Daily and Sunday per month,......... Csc
Single copies of Daily. &c; Sunday. Sc
Weakly 80
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YESTERDAYS DEPARTURES.
Ben Hur, Pittsburg.
Virginia. Cincinnati.
kanawha, Pittsburg.
Keystone State, PittSburg
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14

FOR SALE-Cheap, fifteen shares Pea
body Insurance stock. Address A. B..
this office. feje&dh
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FOR SALE-Twc trunks. size, 26xl6x13:
suitable for travelling salesman. Cheap.
Apply office WEST VA. PIG. CO, 1926
Market street. ia22e&dh
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WANTED-An experienced seamstress.
Steady work. Call 100 Main street
fe12erdd
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TO-MORROW.S DEPARTIREs

IO-MOINhOW , DII AIt Y ItI.so,
Sistersville, Ruth. $50 D. m
Darlington, Leroy, $3.50 p. m.
Parkersburg. Argand, IL a. m
Pittsburg. Queen City, a. nj
Cincinnati. keystone State. s a. m.
New Matamoras Lexington. III a. n.
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FOR SALEM SC-JLANEOJS.
FOR SALF-Good family horse Apply
at OTTERSON' S LIVERY, North Market
street fe1e&dh
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BOATS LEAVING TODAY.
Darlington. Leroy, $50 p. m.
Parkersburg, Ben Hur. 8 p. N.