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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-15

Vote Against tire Proposition to Establish a
National Defense Fund,

Columbus. Ohio. March 1.-THE
proposition for the establishment OF
a defense fund for the United Nine
Workers Of America has been lost by
a vote Of the members Of the organ
ization. Some time ago a special Com
mittee submitted plan for a defense
fund. and it was then sent out in cir
cular form for vote of the mem
bers
The ballots have now been received
and tabulated by National Secretary
Peagce, with the following result:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-15
SATURDAY, MARCH 18th, 1892,

Commencing Ut 10 O'Clock in irons o- 500
Court House door: -,.-, (
A new two-story frame dTe.
rooms. cellar. good sione 70 l4+s-li. ND
- feet front and running 20
creek. .~- /
An old one and one-haii-stoIy --,- ,
rooms. lot lot 10 feet front anu F1'----7
tEheeling creek. s--- 3D..
A very desirable tWo-sloFy lF4h-
ing. ; rooms and cellar, let '9 's
and running to Wheeling cTfth- nd
Two building lots, 40 feet from ea
running 70 Wheeling creek. ...--.+ r
All the above property s
McColloch street. between n+ I've ,--a..
motor line ana Wheeling creek. -3
Of Baker street, In the ciiy ga
St7S p5s. --o-. b
Terms Of sale,-one-ihira III i.
cash on Day W sale balauge ~ -
money III two equal insiai!msH.s q. )
and twelve months from 1aE I 49,, -
interest or deferred pas n F-- rt-
secured by deed Of trust on Pi"t-"
qBired -e r.
family IL VIII he to your iate1rr4
at this property Il niusi Vt So''-
c. A. SCHAEFER, ExeCuIo''
For particulars. enquire q
c. A. ScHAEFER & CO., Agents
4, 500, II 81
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-15
OIL MARKET.

Oil City, Pa, March 14.-Credit l.,
ances 7Sc. Certificates opened wi,
sales at 77ac; regular, highest s.i 0'
OF cash 77a4c at the close. There up
one sale of 1000 barrels of cash 40
TING. Total sales $1,000 barrels sb;a'
ments 157,20S barrels; runs, 1926 6.,
rels.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-15
AMMUNITION
For the Forts and Batteries at Pensacola,
Fla. Delivered

Fla. Delivered
Pensacola. Fla, March 1.-THE
schooner Josephine Mestier has arrived
here with a large quantity Of shot and
shell for the forts and batteries here.
A large lot CT powder for the govern
ment arrived over the Louisville q
Nashville railroad this morning, AMI
two carloads OF torpedoes arrived to-
night The movement of troops from
Fort Barrancas to the heavy batteries
on Santa Rosa Island began to-day.
This is preparatory to practice with
the big disappearing guns which are
expected to begin this week.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-15
NEARLY READY TO SAIL.
The Oregon Taking on Coal. Ammunition
and supplies at San Francisco.

Inc oregon Iaking on CO8l. ammunition
and supplies at San Francisco.
San Francisco, Cal, March 1.-THE
battleship Oregon is lying in the
stream with scows all about her. From
two of the scows coal is bling discharg-
ed. from another powder is being hoist
ed on board the warship, and from a
fourth shells for the big guns. The
ultimate destination of the Oregon is
presumably the Atlantic coast. She is
taking in one hundred tons of coal,
which it is figured will carry her to
Callao, as already stated. She will
await orders at Valparaiso
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-15
WAS UNINTEREsTING.

Washington. March 1.-THE pro-
ceedings in the House to-day were
utterly devoid OF public interest. The
time was devoted to District Of Column
bia business.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-15
Cheap Homes and Building LOIS
....FOR SALE"
TO CLOSE AN ESTATE

BY virtue Of the last viii and tss.aa- .
Of joseph Kirchgessner. deceased, t.-
lowing property Will be offered az p-''
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-15

CONDITION OF THE TREASURY.
washington. March 14.-To-day 5
statement Of the condition Of the treas
ury shows:
Available cash balance, s225, 1884;
gold reserve. $3.50. 133, 1870.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-15
FOR SALE.
Real Estate For Sale.

No. 106 s Broadway. rooms
No 1870 S. Broadway. rooms
No 80 Fourteenth street. rooms
No. 10 Indiana street. Z rooms.
No. 9 Maryland street, { rooms
No. Z Maryland street. rooms.
No. 40 n Front street, fine dwelling
No 6S Virginia street 3 rooms.
Nos. &C. and IS Twelfth street, stores.
No 923 Main street, rooms
No lis Fourteenth street rooms.
Building lots out he pike. on the Island;
on Thirteenth street: in the Fifth ward:
and in the Eighth ward.
Loans negotiated on Life Insurance
Policies; On Stocks and Bonds, and on
Real Estate.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-15

I'D IEi'L.
S-room modern dwelling. p s Pen,
groom modern dwelling, q s. Penn
groom modern dwelling. s. S From,
1-room modern dwelling. q S. From
groom modern dwelling, 1913 l5rh
1-room modern dwelling. 15S 15tf
l-rcom modern dwelling. 13l IAN
5 -roon1 Inodern dweiIi;ing 4 s. Huron
-rooLli Ilo9eIn qWelilhg, Us 5. Huron.
rooms first floor, Is s. FrOp;-
rooms first floor. II S. Penn.
4 rooms first floor, IS S. Wabash
4-room dwelling, Alley a.
9 rooms second floor. 1884 Market.
Store room q Twelfth.
Ofiices In Exchange Bank Building.
Or O. @NIE TT.
Real Estate. Fire Insurance
Surety Bonds
Exchange Bank Building.
The herald., 1898-02-06
Wheelmen in Training.

An experienced trainer. asked to con-
dense the best information he could
give a new racing man. answered as
follows: Eat almost everything except
green stuff potatoes and turnips.
Make beef, dry toast and weak tea the
principal articles of food. Do not be
afraid of ice cream and ripe fruit at
your meals. Be in bed at o'clock each
night and up at in the morning. Take
a cool spray bath on rising. Do not
use tobacco or drink any kind of liquor.
For rubbing mixtures 50 dear to all
racing men use witch hazel mixed with
a very little peppermint oil. Mix in the
proportion Of one pint of witch hazel
to cents worth of the oil. Do not
depend so much on the mixture as on
the rubbing. Have the body well
rubbed over. Knead each muscle. End
by briskly rubbing in order to bring
blood to the surface nicely"
The herald., 1898-02-06
A REAL
RACE=TRACK
NOVELTY.

One of the greatest problems with
which the racing world has been forced
| to wrestle is how to be able to con-
tinue racing to a convenient hour when
the darkness gathers fast in the early
afternoon. An Omaha man, f.. G Soio-
mon, claims to have solved the proplem
and has just patented a plan the trial
of which will be among the interesting
features of the coming trans-Missis-
sippi exposition at Omaha.
THE object of the invention is the
lighting of race-tracks and other tracks
in a manner that will plainly show any
object that may be on any part of the
track at night. The search-lig'hts are
on pole in the center of each turn
of the track, high enough up. prefer
ably so feet, so as to be out of the way
and observation of the spectators.
throwing a steady light all around the
track to within about one hundred feet
of the grand stand.
The focus is so arranged that the
light covers the track and the whitened
walls erected on the outer edge of the
track. Lights are also hung directly
over the stretch and up so high that
with the shade reflector adjusted. the
rays of the light will not come within
range of the spectators in the grand
stand.
The principal object is to make the
track as light as day and at the same
time have the lights so arranged that
they will not be seen by the spectators;
that is, so that the spectators will not
be bothered by the light shining in
their eyes. Throwing the light against
white surface doubles the amount
thereof, and then no strain on the eyes
of the spectators. Again in the case of
horses trotting. pacing and running,
there are no shadows to bother the
horses, because it is a steady light SIM
liar to sunlight.
Copyright, 1898. by Bachelor Syndicate.
The herald., 1898-02-06

that the readers of this article might
see for themselves just exactly what
this mammouth lake of wine really
looks like.
The tun of Heidelberg, which the last
genera tion and even some of the pres
ent learned to think of with wonder, is
but a child beside full grown man
when compared with this California
creation. One could go boating on this
lake very comfortably, although it
would be but a short rid. A steam
launch would find room enough to
steam back and forth and possibly
turn around. The passengers might re-
fresh themselves with a quality of wine
that comes high after it leaves Cali
fornia, and as for a wine bath, it is a
big swimming tank indeed that can
boast of the size of this contrivance or
give equal opportunity a plunge.
The owners of this lake guard it with
exceeding care. In the first place, they
built it in the most careful manner.
Nature gave no aid, for the lake is an
excavation, cement lined. So perfect
! ly has its interior been glazed that the
| properties of glass are all there. This
might not seem so important to one
ter of fact, the wine blends and reaches
higher standard far more easily if
such conditions exist.
This is how the tank was really built
First an excavation was made in the
rocky hill side. Next wall Of concrete
two feet in thickness was put in the
floor and sides. Then came the laying
and glazing of the cement. This was
not all. Had the lake been left open
at the top, impurities must have found
their way into it, not to mention the
deluge that comes in what California
knows cs the rainy season.
All around the sides big steel girders
We're put in place and on these rests
the sectional cover of the lake. This
is so constructed that not ray OF
light can penetrate into this vast guam
tity of wine, and it mellows and ripens
just as if 1T were in the most deep down
vault that can be found anywhere.
Copyright, 1898, by Pacheller Syndicate.
The herald., 1898-02-06
WEARS $4,000
in DIAMONDS
"HABITUALLN

The investigation of the curious
of Mrs. Isaac E. Emerson-and
damonds-nominally continues, tho
nothing will ever be done about 1t.
facts are sufficiently remarkable
stand review.
Mr.. Emerson is the bromo sci
millionaire and he inhabits a mani
in Baltimore. Not a great while ae
burglar broke into this abode of WEI
and luxury and stole about $1t
worth of diamonds. This was
theatrical diamond case. either;
jewels were real sparklers and We
the money. Moreover. the bura
might have had a far richer haul II
had exercised ordinary prudence in
practice of his profession. He mis-
$50, 900 of diamonds that were ri
under his nose.
In telling the story to a newspa
man, Mr.. Emerson mentioned this (;
alluding to the $780, 900 worth of jew
as "a small bunch of diamond
Naturally this Indifferent reference
a fortune made some stir in Baltimo
an; 1t resulted in the appeal tax jud
looking up the records and discov
that - F,mersons were taxed
house fleets to the value OF
450.
Mrs. Emerson was at once reques
| to explain. Why, asked the authoriti
did she declare only $6,450 worth
goods when she had S5O,OOO in d
monds? And this resulted in one
| the most remarkable statements e.
made to a court. Mr.. Emerson, appe
ing in his wife's behalf, pleaded Il
the jewelry was exempt because 1t "
in regular and ordinary daily use
wearing apparel, or to employ
phrase of the law. Mrs. Emerson VIZ
$50, 900 worth OF diamonds 'habitualt
Though the judges nearly fell Off
bench, they were inclined to belle
when they recovered from the sho
that the plea could be made good.
] Among the little trifles which NJ
Emerson habitually wears are a s,
burst composed OF forty good
diamonds; watch, from Paris.
completely covered with diamonds. II
almost nothing OF the gold can be see
a pair of earrings of rubies. surround
by pearls, and another pair Of en'
nous solitaire diamonds; a diamo
dagger containing seventy stones a
worth $1,000, and lorgnette containi
a brown diamond-a most unique Jew
the like of which is probably not to
found in this country. Besides the
she has more solitaire rings than
fingers will conveniently carry.
| IF she really wears all these thin
habitually, the members OF her hou
! hold must carry pieces of smoked gle
! for the benefit of their eyes.
Copyright, 1898, by Bachelor Syndica
The herald., 1898-02-06
HOW THEY
HUNT RATS
IN OHIO.

There is work for a Pied Piper OF
Hamlin out near Washington Court
House, Ohio, or perhaps it would be
more truthful to say there was work OF
that sort. So great pest did the rats
make of themselves that three hundred
men banded themselves together and
devoted ten entire days to the slaught-
er of the rodents.
And slaughter it was with ven-
geance, for when the hunt was over
and the results were all tailed up, 1t
was found that 11.672 rats had come to
n sudden end. They We're hunted in
the highways and byways. driven out
of barns and from hiding places in the
fields. Many was the hand-fought bat
tie and many hunter learned to his
sorrow exactly how it feels to be bit
ten by rat
Tremendous rats many of them, soma
as large as an ordinary cat. If the hunt
ers are 20 be believed, while the sizes
The herald., 1898-02-06

aggerated woodchuck. with half the
walnuts there are stuffed in his cheeks.
Time was when this remarkable beard
| measured seven and a half feet, but
this was past the limit and from time
TO time Mr.. Larow broke off an inch or
so until the present proportions were
reached.
Up to the time he was twenty-five
years old, Mr.. Larow shaved every day,
| Dut even the most Steadfast shaving
tailed to keep his face clear of all sign
or beard, and so in despair he made up
MS mind to let it grow and see what it
would do. The green bay tree was as
nothing beside it and it has grown and
grown as his years increased until it
is more than foot taller than he is.
He is far from proud of his beard but
says 1T would be such a nuisance to
shave that he he not the courage to
cut 1T off, although he does not think
it of any benefit to him whatever so
far as his existence is concerned.
In the accompanying illustration the
beard appears in full but this is not
the way its owner wears it, Under or
dinary circumstances he braids it care
fully each day and then winds it about
his body beneath his waistcoat. Mr..
LarowS one amusement iss to COM
municate with any person he hears of
with an unusually long beard in the
hope, he says, that he can find some
one who can boast of even greater
growth than himself. Thus far his in
quiry has been fruitless.
This remarka BILE beard is an eXempli-
fication of one of the strange freaks of
nature which no one has ever been able
to explain. 1t used to be So ii that such
a growth was abnormal and indicated
an unhealthful development of those
properties of the body which force the
growth of hair. Physicians have care
fully investigated this matter in the
case of Mr.. Larow and there is nothing
about his skin to show that it IL differ
ent from that of any other man whose
growth of beard is purely normal.
Mr. Larow himself says that aside
from the discomfort of his luxuriant
whiskers he has never been able to OBJ
serve that the growth affected him one
way or the other. Why nature has thus
been generous in this strange fashion
no one can 'All. 1t is a puzzle to med
ical science.
The herald., 1898-02-06
A QUEER
OLD MILL
IN KANSAS,

The hand of man is about to remove
the last memorial of the old days when
the grain of Kansas was ground
through the influence Of sails. The an
cient windmill at Lawrence will soon
be only memory.
The building itself is octagon shape
and five stories high, the basement
story being of stone 40 feet across with
four foot walls The revolving dome is
20 feet in diameter. All the super
structure is of hard native wood,
even the shingles having been steamed
and split in Lawrence.
A large driveway through the base
ment rendered the handling of the
grain, the -four and meal, wonderfully
convenient for the time in which the
mill began to operate, in the early eos.
A cord attached to a bell announced
to the miller at work in the third or
fourth story above that a customer was
waiting below A speaking tube
think of a speaking tube in a wind
mill-helped the latter to make known
i his wants, table of current market
prices and charges for grinding enabled
him to tell at glance how much cash
or grain he must pay and how much
grist he would get in exchange. A
large elevator was lowered to the farm
er's wagon upon which he unloaded his
grain and from which he received his
-four, meal or bran.
/ While the old mill It; elf has led a
comparatively calm existence it wit
messed the occupation of Lawrence by
Quantrell's guerillas and it's huge
arms have looked down upon cyclones
that swept away adjacent buildings
but left it unharmed. It was originally
The herald., 1898-02-06

The musical bicycle has become an
accomplished fact. 1t is to German
genius that we owe it and 1T is as Curl
GUS as many other of those strange in
ventions which have come out of the
land of the Kaiser 1t is something on
the principle of the music box and yet
unlike 1t. 1t plays by the grace of the
front wheel of the bike.
The first of these inventions to cross
the ocean has just arrived in the United
States and an inspection of it causes
one to marvel at the ingenuity dis
played. The works" are attached to
the handle bar. From them downward
to the edge of the front wheel extends
a series of rubber shod and tiny bars
of steel. 1t is the action of the wheel
upon these bars that communicates the
vibrations to the works above, and the
time in which the tune is played is
regulated by the speed of the wheel.
The herald., 1898-02-06

decreased until the wee baby rat. nc
larger then a mouse. was killed, large
ly because it could not run fast
enough. 1t may be thought that the
, best aids to the rat hunter would be
the cats, but the famous cat of Bubas-
ties himself would have hardly been
match for some of the grey-whiskered
yellow-toothed rodents that snarled de-
,, fiance as the yelping dogs bore down
upon them.
So far is records show, this is the only
rat hunt ever inaugurated anywhere
in such a fashion. There are IN the
cities professional rat catchers. and the
huge grey shapes that whisk in and
about the piers along the coast line ana
are called wharf rats are, as a rule
considered beyond the power of the rat
ca tcher to drive away or annihilate. In
this Ohio hunt. however, the big broth
er of the wharf rat or rat that was
big enough to be that, was very large
ly in evidence.
AS to the actual size of the rats the
story is told that the biggest OF them
all measured IA inches from tip to tip
The total weight of the entire catch
was between 55 900 and 10000 pounds
Think of $4,000 pounds of rats being
killed in ten days and an idea of what
the granaries and grain of the farmers
around about Washington Court
House suffered will be aptly conceived
A curious fact in connection with
this conflict is that never until within
TIL last two seasons have the rats
become so great pest as to require
action of the nature just described tc
successfully cope with them. Why
they should so suddenly increase in
numbers seems a mystery. Rats breed
very rapidly to be sure, but when they
almost triple in number in a single
year it would indicate an extradordi-
nary birth rate or a wholesale rat i'm
migration from some less favored 10.
calTty.
AS a matter of fact rat of Ohio and
a lack rabbit of Missouri may we'll bt
| placed in the same class so far as theil
relative position toward the farmer
are concerned. Both have become suct
nuisances that it seems very likely
hereafter that the annual rat hunt viii
be quite as much the vogue in Ohio as
the jack rabbit hunt is in the state
whose eastern shores are washed by
the placid Mississippi.
Copyright, 1898. by Bacheller Syndicate
The herald., 1898-02-06
SHORT STORIES OF INTERESTING FACTS
THE NEWEST BICYCLE GIVES CONCERT
FOR THE RIDER WHILE HE 6C0RCHE6.

For instance, the particular musical
bike which has come to the uniueu
States plays only German tunes ana
of course includes among tn number
Die Wacht am Rhein." The muslc@i
machinery is set to the required tune
something after the fashion OF hano
organ. This done all that is necessary
to do is to mount and ride. One has no
idea what a difference time makes IN
the national tune of the fatherlano
until he hears the musical bike reel
it off.
Perhaps the most striking of the
bikes accomplishments is Its rendering
of I'm tiefen Keller" 1t almost seems
as if the wheel itself entered into the
spirit of this famous German melody
and the way the music rolls out under
the influence of en-mile-an-hour gait
is as exhilarating in its influence as the
riding itself The genius who arranged
the compositions for the wheel in ques-
The herald., 1898-02-06

as a practical means of meeting the en-
croachments of the electric roads upon
what the railroad men call the local
and short trip business, meaning that
where people used to ride in on the
steam cars from suburban places they
now, when possible, take the trolley.
Really it is a steam motor car. Water
is carried in long tanks under the car s
body. The fuel used is coke or an
thracite and the car will run go miles
without replenishing it's stock of fuel.
The car seats sixty persons and two
men can easily operate it.
Before very long this car is to be
given a thorough trial and if success
full may prove a formidable enemy to
the electric locomotive.
The herald., 1898-02-06

How many people know that one
quarter of all the locomotives built in
the United States are shipped to other
countries? When you stop to think and
investigate You also find out that for
forty years we have been constructing
engines for use in other lands. Aus
tralia uses the American locomotive
and so do Spain, Japan, China, New
Zealand, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, near
ly all South America through which
the railroad has ever penetrated, and a
lot of other places beside.
Whether you are in the Orient or the
Occident you are quite as likely to ride
behind an American made locomotive
as any other. In the land of the Car
or in the dominions Of the Queen, un-
der the flag of freedom or where slav-
The herald., 1898-02-06

tion evidently thought. too, that :
ETY. was the spice of life, for the I
OF the compositions which 1t rende
that highly interesting little Mu
ballad the finale # which "Ys
Yater, Yater-Yater: Yater."
caused many student cheer.
The musical bike will give a cor
OF am hours duration without r
5ustment. playing its programme
and over and over until the limit
been reached. when it is necessar
infuse new life by means OF a new
rangement. Thus far only one of b
strange contrivances has come to
but it Is quite likely that before
other quarter of a year has ella
there will be more. In fact the des
say that this bike is likely to come
public notice with the flowers of \
though it may not prove as welcom
acquisition to the public plea sure.
Copyright, 1898, by Bachelor Syndit
The herald., 1898-02-06

der is to be seen, down at Asti by the
Russian river valley. The wine is
part of the product of what is called
the Swiss-Italian Company, and the
lake itself is the blending of the juices
of grapes from a thousand vines. AS
a system of blending wine it is in this
respect as much a wonder as in point
of quantity and place of keeping.
1t is another proof also that necessity
is the mother of invention, for if it had
not been that the colonists could find
no way to dispose of their wine in a