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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
ANOTHER BOSTON FAILURE.
The Firm of e. C. Hodges & Co.
Went to the Wall Yesterday.


Boston, December PIE. C. Hodges
& Co., bankers and brokers of SO
State street, suspended business to-day.
The firm is one of the largest in the
city. Its dealings have been princi-
pally in municipal bonds.
The firm is member of the Boston
and New York stock exchanges and
the Chicago Board of Trade.
Mr.. Hodges said to-day that the
trouble was caused by the refusal of
the Boston banks to give the firm
credit on United States mining shares.
I'VE have 5000 shares of that stock
on hand" said Mr.. Hodges, "and when
the banks refused to accept it as col
lateral, there was no course for US but
to protect our creditors
G. c. Dickson, OF the law firm of
Dickson & Knowles, has been named
as assignee
Those interested say no statement of
assets or liabilities can be made to-
day. The firm was composed of Ed
ward c. Hodges, E. F. Lowry and
Frederick Swift.
The announcement on the Boston
Stock Exchange a few minutes after the
opening to-day of the embarrassment
of the E. C. Hodges e Company, bank
ers and brokers, was not altogether
unexpected by some of the larger f.
nancial interests.
The suspicion of this we'll known
house, it is estimated, will carry the
total liabilities of concerns here which
have failed within the past two weeks
close to $1,000, 900.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
ANOTHER ENCOUNTER
In Which the FiIipinos Met With
the Usual Defeat.

In which the FiIipinos Met With
the Usual Defeat.
MANILA, December 27.-10:15 p. m.
Col. Lockett with force of $500
men, including artillery, attacked this
morning a strong force of insurgents
entrenched in the mountains near Mon
fabian, about five miles northeast of
San Mateo. The enemy were complete
ly routed, the Americans purusing
them through the hills, amid which
they filed in every direction.
Four Americans were wounded. The
Filipino loss was large, resulting from
a heavy infantry fire for three hours
into the trenches. 1t is supposed that
the insurgents were those who were
driven out of San Mateo on the day
Gen. Lawton was killed. They number
ed about a thousand. Those lines of
insurgent trenches covered the steep
trail through the hills and likewise
the valley below, along which the
Americans passed. The main attack
ing party consisted of the Forty-sixth
volunteer infantry, a troop of Caves
artillery, Col. Lockett commanding in
person. The rest of the command OPP
Grated from remote points in an en-
deavor to carry out Col. Lockett's plan
of throwing his lines around the enemy
and thus cutting off retreat.
The nature of the mountainous cOun-
try made it impracticable to execute
this movement successfully. After the
insurgents began to run there was a
vain attempt to use artillery.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
FRENCH ARE EAGER
To See Some Sort of Trouble Be-
tween the United States and
sEsan

10 see some sort OF Trouble BE-
tween the United States and
England.
NEW YORK, December PA dis
patch TO the Herald from Paris says:
The demands that are being made in
certain quarters in England for immedi-
ate action on the part of the British
government to prevent the transport of
supplies to the Beers by way of Della
goa Bay have quickened French inter
est in the rumored possibility of trou-
bic between the United States and
Great Britain in consequence of seizure
of British cruisers of American flour
off LourenZo Marques. Nothing so tick
les the French palate as the merest sus-
picion of a possibility of seeing an
Anglo-American quarrel grow out of
the Transvaal war.
M. Flourens, a former minister for
foreign affairs, in the following re-
marks on the subject reflects the mod
crate French opinion:
In my judgment" he said to-day,
the British naval commander acted
over-haStily If he made the seizure re-
ported. Such action will be particu-
larly unfortunate in the case of Amer
lean ships, but on the other hand the
fact that American caIgoes are the ones
involved is sufficient ground for assur-
ance that no new international COM
plications will arise. No breach of the
present friendly relations between the
two countries can be regarded as pos
sible, and in very few days the cpl
sode probably will sink into insignifi-
canoe.
Some such incident as the one now
occupying the Washington State de-
partment was to be foreseen, owing to
the British governments natural irrita-
ton over the trend OF affairs at Della
goa Bay. If the rumors that succor is
ltaching the Beers by way of Lourenzo
Marques are true. then Portuguese
East Africa is likely to become an in
teresting centre of war operations, for
such violation of neutrality Great Brit
ain cannot tolerate. Downing street
probably will put an end to the abuse,
if it exists, but / do not think the re-
suit will be PortugaPs loss of the COL
ony. All the news from Lourenzo
Marques, however, Is too vague to serve
as ground for an opinion and those
here are rash who attempt to phoph-
esy just what will be the course Of
events there"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
THOUSANDS OF MEN
Anxious to Enlist on Either Side in
the TrsnsvaaI War.

NEW YORK, December 27.-The
work of enlisting men in this city to
take the Boer side in the war is in
charge of the agents who operate in a
saloon near police headquarters.
The leader in the movement Is Gus
tav Simon. Boer, recently arrived
from the Transvaal, and associated with
him is a German, Henry Scharff, who
has lived many years among the Beers
and who reached New York a week
ago from Pretoria. Simon owned in
johannesburg several hotels and sa-
looms; these were closed up when the
war began, and being incapable Of ac-
tive service in the field, he came here
in the interest Of his country. Scharff,
his companion in this work, was among
the first TO come out from the Yukon
country with news of the KloRdike gold
fields and he has mining interests there
and in the Transvaal.
Since his return to the Transvaal
from Alaska he has been in the conf
dence of Boer leaders and he has been
sent here on this special mission.
A number of people, chiefly young
men, have gone to the Transyaal Some
two hundred left week ago and sixty
went just before Christmas.
Ever since the outbreak OF the Trans
vaal war the British consulate in this
city has received letters from persons
eager to enlist in the British army.
81 don't think it is any exaggeration
to say that we have received five thou
sand letters from persons who want TO
enlist" said the British vice consul
to-day, "and besides these, a great
many apply to US in person for help or
advice in the matter. We are prevent
ed BY United States statutes from en-
listing them and we have TO send them
away. The only way they can get into
the army is to go to England and enlist
on their own responsibility. How many
of them do this we have no way OF
knowing. think, however. that a
great many OF them do enlist"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
TWO REGIMENTS ARRIVE.

WASHINGTON, December 27.-Gen-
eral Otis has notified the war depart
ment of the arrival at Manila of the
transports Duke of Fife and st. Paul,
carrying the Thirty-eighth volunteer
infantry, Col. George S. Anderson,
which left San Francisco November Il,
and the transports Ohio and Indiana,
carrying the F'ortieth volunteer in
fantry, Col. E. T. c.. Richmond COM
handing, which left San Francisco No
vember "a. The Thirty-eighth infantry
was organized at Jefferson Barracks
and the Fortieth infantry at Fort
Riley, Kansas. General Otis reports
that there were no casualties in either
regiment on the voyage.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
W. THURSDAY. DECEMBER

State schools prison in Pretoria by
climbing the wall and then when the
sentries' backs were turned momentar-
lily. l walked through the streets of
the town without disguise, meeting
many burghers but was not challenged
in the crowd. l got through the pick
cts of the town guards and struck the
Delagoa bay railroad. | walked along
it, eyading the watchers at the bridges
and culverts and waited for train
beyond the first station. The 1910
goods train from Pretoria had arrived
before | reached the place and was
moving at full speed. boarded it with
great difficulty and hid under coal
sacks. jumped from the train before
dawn and was sheltered during the day
in a small wood in company with a
huge vulture, who displayed a lively
interest in me.
Il walked on at dusk. There were
no more trains that night The danger
of meeting the guards of the line con-
tinued,s but l was obliged to follow it
as l had compass no map. had to
make wide detours to avoid bridges,
stations and huts, and so my progress
was very slow. Chocolate is not sat-
isfying food. The outlook was gloomy
but | perSevered, with Gods help. For
five days my food supply was very
precarious. was lying up by daylight
and walking by night.
Meanwhile my escape had been dis
covered and my description telegraph
ed everywhere. All trains were search
ed and everyone was on the watch for
me. Four times the wrong people were
arrested. The sixth day l managed to
board train beyond Middleburg from
whence there was direct service to Del
agoa."
LOURENZO MARQUES, December
22.-Mr. Winston Churchill arrived
here late last night and left for Dur
ban by the steamer Induna.
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the troops arrived except blind boy
and one woman. Most of the survivors
of the insurgent force are supposed to
have escaped toward Magaldon or Dag
upan. 1t was impossible to pursue
them further as the troops were ex-
hausted, the ammunition was low and
the troops only had two days rations
with them and no possibility of get
ting further supplies from San Fabian
owing to the condition of the road.
The column camped for the night at
San Jacinto.
Five more rebels were killed during
the night by the outposts. Among the
bodies found was that of Lieutenant
Colonel, supposed to be in command
of the rebels at that point.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
PROTEST AGAINST BEING SHAD-
OWED BY DETECTIVES
WHILE OUTSIDE THE
COURT ROOM
RECORDERS ATTENTION IS
CALLED TO A SURVEILLANCE
WHICH is BECOMING INTOL-
ERABLE
Day of the Case, Breaking All
Records for a Murder Trial in
New lOrk-Handwriting Experts
Again ON the Stand During the
Day.

NEW YORK, December 27-Two things
of interest if not of Importance, were de-
veloped at the trial of Roland B. Molineux
to-day. The first incident was the protest
made to Recorder Golf against the policy
of 'shadowing" adopted by the district
attorney. The jurors claimed that a de-
tective has been assigned to each member
and that the shadows had allowed their
zeal to outrun their discretion. One Of
the jurors told the Recorder that he had
attended a Christmas tree festival on
Christmas night and that his every move
ment about the tree, even the actions of
his children. had been closely watched
To have his every word and his every
act scrutinized, the juror said, was vexa-
alton that was rapidly becoming intoler-
able.
Forenoon Martin, who was one of the
complaining jurors, seemed to think that
the entire range of the domestic and bust
ness economy of the jurymen had been
made the subject of a close scrutiny by the
ambitious detectives. 1t is said that Re
corder Golf told the jurors that he could
do nothing for them, and that they went
away anything but well pleased with the
situation. Assistant District Attorney Nc
Intyre, in explaining the action of the dis
trict attorneys office, said that fifteen
detectives had been selected to watch the
members of the jury. He said that it was
the custom to employ men to shadow
jurors during an important murder case,
and that the precautionary action thus
taken was in the iterest of justice and the
public good.
1t is understood, however, that orders
will be issued to the Shadows to give
the jurors as little trouble as possible in
the future.
The other incident of interest occurred
during the cross examination of hand
writing expert Ames, of San Francisco,
who is the author of a book on Biblical
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
The Lawton Fund.

WASHINGTON, December 27.-The
subscriptions to the Lawton home fund
received by Gen. Corbin at the war
department up to date amount to ST.
323.45. The total subscription list now
amounts to s31, 404. 40, including out
side contributions.
Among the contributions to the fund
received by Adjutant General Corbin
to-day was one of $500 from Mr. Lewis
Case Ledyard, of New York, which con-
tribution he said was made Gin mem
DRY of my nephew. Lieut.. A. C. Led
yard. killed in action in Negros, De-
cember S, 1899"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
Civil Marriages Authorized.

WASHINGTON, December 27.-Gen.
Otis has issued decree authorizing
the celebration of civil marriages in the
Philippines. He cabled Secretary Root
to that effect to-day and the Secretary
promptly approved the action. Here
tofore all marriages were celebrated by
the Catholic church, so that Protestants
and non-ChriStians were prohibited
from marrying. The decree does not
interfere with the Catholics who may
be married according to their own
rites, but extends the privilege of civil
marriage to those who desire 1t. just
as it is practiced in the United States.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
"A Peculiar Find.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
TORONTO, Ohio, December 27.-The
dead body of a we'll dressed, unknown
man was found this afternoon solidly
frozen in the ice in Croxton run be-
meath the railroad bridge. Only the
back of the head was visible above the
ice. The bridge is fifty feet high. and
the man must evidently have fallen
from or been thrown from it. He was
after several hours identified by a book
in his pocket as Frank Crawford. of
this place, aged "a. who had not been
seen since Sunday night.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
A NEW WAR POEM
By Alfred Austin. Poet Laureate of
England.

England.
NEW YORK. December Pin this
weeks edition of the Independent win
appear a poem by Alfred Austin, poet
laureate Of England, on the war in the
Transvaal entitled Spartan Mothers. =
The last two stanzas follow:
The sisters sigh, the maiden's tear
The wife's, the widows stihed vail
These nerve the hand these brace the spear
And speed them over veldt and vale
What is to him,
Or life or limb.
Who rends the chain and breaks the rod.
Who falls for freedom, falls for God
And should 1t be his happy fate
Hale to return to home and rest
She win be standing at the gate
To fold him to her trembling breast
Or shtAlld he fall
BY rid or wall
And lie meath some green southern sod
Who disy for country. sleeps with God
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
THE INDIA FAMINE.

Two Million Natives Receiving Re-
lief.
LONDON, December 27.-The Vice
roy Of India. Lord Curzon, Of Kedles-
ton. telegraphs from Calcutta that there
has been no increase Of rain and that
2.451 900 natives suffering from fam
inc are now receiving relief.
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A Big verdict.

Special TO the Register.
HUNTINGTON. w. Va, December
&c. J.. Lyons, whose little child
was killed by an electric car here last
fall, was to-day awarded a verdict
against the street railway company for
$4,000.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28

OIL CTTYAPa.. December 2-Ctedit bal
ances S.66; NerIificates,. no bid lor offer.
Shipments 1eE&63 barrels: average 73.sso
2,S49 barrels.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28

LONDON. December 27.-The Rhode
sian Mafeking relief force. according
to q dispatch from Mochudi. Bechuana-
Continued On sixth Page.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28
WAR PREDICTED.
France and Russia Have Designs
on China.

VICTORIA, B. c., December 27.-
Mail advices received from the Orient
to-day state that Russia and France
are conniving together in eneroaching
land and that Japan is buying i'm
mense quantities of rice. 1t is believed
that war will break out in the spring.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-28

WASHINGTON. December Z.-For Ohio
fair IN western, snow IN eastern portion
Thursday; Friday fair; fresh westerly
wines.
For West virginia snow Thursday Fri
day fair. nor1hwrsterly winds.
For Western Pennsylvania STOW Thurs
day. Friday fair. except probably snow
Mr.. G. Schnepf. the Opera House drug
gist made the following obseryations OF
the weather yesterday. a. m. 2: a.
m. Is: Ia m. 81 D. M, - p. M. a.
Wezther-Cnzn&fables
, 1899-03-25

1t seems that Perry Belmont had a
postscript to his Bryan letter which the
latter did not give In this Mr.. Bel
mont said: 81 attended the Indian
apolis convention and supported Pal
mer and Buckner. 1 have no warrant
in asking YOU opinions of what the
democracy should do in the national
convention more than a year from now,
yet you will, perhaps, in view of your
peremptory demands for my opinion,
permit me to assume that you deem
the money question as presented in the
Chicago platform in 1896, as now par
amount to all others; that you insist
on the Instability of the coinage ratio
OF 16 to l as a test of democracy, and
that all democratic voters just line up
in 1900 on a federal statute making
every contract illegal which %stipulates
for the payment in gold. Alaw to pre-
vent wage earners and salary earners
from demanding and securing payment
in gold dollars, II they prefer gold dol
lars, would not be a winning ISSUE
, 1899-03-25

Adjutant General Corbin has proved
himself a wonderful character in the
history Of America. He is the first man
in history to refuse the offer Of a ma
ior generals commission. When asked
for his he said: THE number
OF major generals was limited We
need every n of them in the field. ]
could not stand in the way of any man
who was in the fighting line. l want
them to have their promotions first.
My place was here. The Law did not
specifically provide that the adjutant
general Of the army, large as it had
grown to be, should have increased
rank. 1t did permit an increase OF
major generals in the line, and 4
thought the officers Of the lines should
have all the vacancies as long as WI
need them"
, 1899-03-25

Water hemlock is deadly plant com
NOR in most country neighborhoods.
Its roots are eaten often in spring by
mistake for some edible root, and death
frequently results. Cattle are often poi
soned by drinking water in marshes
where il grows.
The poison hemlock from which the
Greeks made poisons is a neal relative
to the water hemlock. 1t stands from
two to seven feet high and has clusters
of small white flowers and large, pars-
leylike leaves. The stalk, being hollow,
is often made into whistles by country
boys, and many children are poisoned in
this fashion.
, 1899-03-25
T

Centennial, Wyo., March 81, 1890
Especial Correspondence.)-Again we
are welcomed by a small winter-seven
inches of snowfall for the past twenty
four hours. But such small matters
have become so common the past win
ter that now that spring is abroad in
the land. We look back to the long-con-
tinued billiards as to a bad dream,
which has taken its flight. We are
pleased to renew the acquaintance of
the blackbird and crow, which have ar
rived in small numbers, as well as a
few advance agents of the duck family.
Scarcely any of the streams are releas-
ed from letters of ice and snow to al
low a poor duck to reach a resting
place. Where the ground is bare there
is grass starting to some extent, but
with everything that can be utilized as
feed, stock is sure to come out of the
winter poorly.
M. Wolbol returned one Friday last
from a "trip to Denver with a car of
aSNlS low DouIlbS, " WIltI
he is reported as having received s4.5S
la price which has seldom been real
lied in years gone by.
The weather report for the week end
ing March 20, 1899. at 5 p. m. is as fol-
lows:
March 14-Maximum. 80: minimum,
-; precipitation, trace: wind, northwest
and southeast; cloudy.
March 15-Maximum, "a: minimum,
Ia; wind. northwest and southwest:
partly cloudy.
March 16-Maximum, AZ; minimum.
25; precipitation, trace; wind, south
west; partly cloudy.
March 17-Maximum, Al; minimum,
-; precipitation, 3 inches: wind. north
east; cloudy.
March 1S-Maximum, 81: minimum
-3: wind, southeast n northwest:
clear.
March 19-Maximum, 80; minimum,
II; wind, northeast and southwest;
clear.
March 2O-Maximum, 80; minimum.
%; precipitation, 3 inches: wind, south
west: cloudy.
Thunder and lightning on evening
of 18th.
A. L. FOSTER,
Voluntary Observer,
, 1899-03-25

Ex-Governor VIM. J. Stone of Mis-
souri, is looming up as a formidable
rival of the Lincoln boy orator. He
has the advantage OF standing in with
Croker and Jones and at the same time
he Is said to be Simon pure or the Chi
cago platform Bryan's fight against
the Tammany wing of the democratic
party practically cooks his presiden-
tial goose" for the simple reason that
Tammany controls the money OF the
party and without money democrats
seldom win an election.
, 1899-03-25
WOMAN'S CLUB OFFICERS,

All department meetings are held
at Mrs. ]. w. T. Grsy's, corner Sixth
and Grand Avenue. Executive meet
ings occur on the first Tuesday even
ing of each month at the court house.
The General club meetings are held
on the last Saturday OF each month at
the club headquarters. At this meeting
the members are entertained by a pro-
gram given by one of the departments.
President-Mrs. Wilhelmina Bro wn,
First Vice President-Mrs. Mary
Preston.
Second Vice President-Mrs. Emma
Knight.
Third Vice President-Mrs. Nellie
Corthell.
Fourth Vice President-Mrs. Emma
Symons.
Recording Secretary-Mrs. Anna
Spafford.
Corresponding Secretary-Miss June
e. Downey.
Treasurer-Mrs. Harriet Balch.
Assistant Treasurer-Miss Nellie
johnson.
Board of Directors-Mrs. Nettie
Harris, Mrs. Mary Bellamy, Mrs. Ham
nah Durlacher, Mrs. Fannie Manasse,
Mrs. Elizabeth Ingham.
DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICERS.
SOCIAL SCIENCE. Meets second
and fourth Wednesdays, from $3.50 to s.
Mrs. Nettie Harris, Chairman.
Miss Adelaide Brown, Secretary.
MOTHERS. Meets second and fourth
Mondays from 2:3O to 4.
Mrs. Maud S. Buffum, Chairman.
Mrs. Anna B. Reed, Secretary.
HISTORY AND LITERATURE.
Meets first and third Saturdays from
8 to 4:30.
Mrs. Anna DeLario. Chairman
Mrs. Kate Holmes, Secretary.
ART. Meets first and third Thurs
days, from 1880 to 9 p. m.
Mrs. Emma knight, Chairman.
Mrs. Eleanor Fox, Secretary.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE. Meets first
and third Saturdays, from 2:30 to 4.
Mrs. Fannie Manasse, Chairman.
Mrs. Lucy H~odgeman, Secretary.
HEALTH. Meets second and fourth
Tuesdays, from 2:30 to 4 p. m
Mrs. AIDA Ulen, Chairman.
Mrs. Cora Brees, Secretary.
MUSIC. Meets first and third Tues
days, from 1880 to 8 p. m.
Miss Wtnant, Chairman
Mrs. May Baird Campbell. Secretary
CURRENT EVENTS. Mests second
md fourth Wednesdays At : p m
Mr.. Jennie Land, ChairmanL
Mrs.. Hattis Dsni& 0sWstnEy.
, 1899-03-25

General Miles is doing a little pri-
vate campaigning in Massachusetts.
Numerous receptions are being given
him and it is whispered hat this is the
f%orerunner of a presidential boom of no
small proportions. 1t will be recalled
that the ~disgruntled George b. McClel-
land ended what might have been a
useful military career by accepting a
presidential nomination and ignomin-
ious defeat. Is history to repeat it.
SELF
, 1899-03-25

For frost bites, burns, incident sores,
eczema, skin disease, and especially
Piles, DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
stands first and best. Look out for dis
honest people who try to initiate and
counterfeit it. It's their endorsement
of a good article. Worthless goods are
not initiated. Get DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. Frank H. Eggleston.