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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-12
PERSONAL NOTES,
Going and Coming OF wheeling
People aud Visitors.

GOING anu NolhA"R W
People aud Visitors.
Mr.. Rhys t. williams left for Coluni-
bus on business trip. last night.
Lee f. Dobbs, who attended the
Chadwick Day festivities at Morgan-
town, has returned home.
Adjutant General j. W. A, Appleton,
OF Charleston, was among the Vlsltots
in town last night. He is a guest az
the Mcclure.
Postmaster George Wise left at mid
night for Morgantown to be with Unit
"a States Senator N. B. Scott1 whose
illness there is chronioled elsewhere.
Dr. q. A. AschmRn win leave for
Rofnney this evening to attend the
meetinE OF the board Of directors OF the
deaf, dumb and blind asylum. BE VIII
be gone ten days.
Cards are out announcing the coming
marriage OF Mr.. B. Kennard McMechen
to Mics Ruth. daughter OF MT. James
Madison Bailey, Of Allegheny. The GER
emony viii occur on Wednesday even
ing. October 25, at 8 o'clock, az tne
North Presbyterian church. Aiesneny.
BLACK INDEPENDENTLY Is cents
t)eis R0rment-slle price 81 leg cents.
AZ Will GUTNtAE's, 1871 Market
street.
TURNER'S opening dance. Turner
hall, this evening. Mayors orchestra.
Pythian knights cordially Invited.
Pittsburgh Exposition Excursion
Next Thursday.
via PENNSYLVANIA lines from wheeling,
good returning until Saturday. October
ID Damrosch New York Symphony Or
chestra will be at the exposition.
PYTHIAN Knights invited to Turn
ers' opening dance this evening at
Turner hall. Mayors orchestra.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-12

party. and proposed three cheers for the
inteiiigencer, which were given with
hearty good will.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-12

ONE.HALF on on nll shirts. Mons
Will ! ILL GTTadSs, isii NiSriiSt street I.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-12

TURNER'S opening dance. Turner
hall, this evening. Mayors orchestra
Pythian knights cordially Invited
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-12

BLACK Underwear-worth 70 conts
t1eTs rE9rnent--sNle price 81 leg oent9.
AZ Will GUTMAN's, 1911 Market
street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-12

e6 cents or on every Dollar on aIl our
Fine Percnle shirts mt WILL GUT.
MANS, 1911 Market street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-12

PYTHIAN Knights invited to Turn
ers' opening dance this evening at
Turner hall. Mayors orchestra
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-12

via Pennsylvania lines from wheeling,
GOOD returning until Saturday, October
IA Damrosch New York Symphony Or
chestra will be at the exposition.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-12

Pittsburgh Exposition Excursion
Next Thursday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
TREATY MAKERS DlNED.
Peace Commissioners Entertained at
PhiIadeIphia-Letter from Mckinley.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 4.-The members
of the American peace commission were the
guests here tonight of the Union League at
a dinner and reception rendered them by
that organization. Senators Gray, Frye and
Davis came together from Washington this
evening and Whiteaw Reid came from New
York. Judge Day is in Florida and could
not attend. The dinner, though a very
elaborate affair, was of rather a private
nature, covers being laid for sixty-eight
The reception which followed the dinner was
however, attended by over five thousand
members of the club and invited guests. The
dinner party, in addition to the commission
ers, included the president and directors of
the Union League and distinguished guests
who had been specially invited to meet the
commissioners. There was no speech MAX
Darlington, president of the Union League,
who presided, read a letter from President
Mckinley regrett.ng his inability to be pres
ent. The President said in part:
possible for me to be present at the dinner
in honor of the peace commissioners to be
held on the evening of Feb at the Union
League, Philadelphia.
Too much honor cannot be paid to- the
eminent gentlemen who will be your guests
next Saturday evening for the able, states
manlike negotiations conducted by them at
Paris, which resulted in the signing of a
treaty Of peace honorable to both countries.
As have long enjoyed the personal friend
ship of all the commissioners and been
closely associated with them in public life,
l have uncommon regret that l cannot join
in the dinner given in their honor. To the
guests assembled please convey my good
wishes and belief that the great work that
the commissioners have achieved will re-
dound to the good of the Nation and of hui
mainly"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
CANADIAN INVADERS.
Toronto Cadets to Visit Chicago En-
Route to Florida.

TORONTO, Ont, Feb. 4.-Cheering crowds
lined the streets when the Toronto Cadets,
ffty-six strong, preceded by their fife and
ing flags, marched to the Union Station to-
day, where they took a train for Florida.
The Pullman car in which the cadets travel
was draped with flags, the union jack on
the one side and the stars and stripes on the
other. AS the train pulled out the boys were
given a rousing send off. The party will ar
rive in Chicago Sunday morning, where ar
rangements have been made for big recep-
ton They expect to reach Tampa on Tues
day morning. The boys are commanded by
Major Thompson.
PORT HURON, Mich, Feb. 4.-The first
company of armed foreign soldiers which
has entered the United States in many
years landed here tonight. The company
to. who are en- route to Tampa, Fla, via
Chicago, on trip combining pleasure and
instruction. The youths present a striking
appearance in their British red-coat uni
Martini Henri rifles. The cadets were Sc
lected from one thousand cadets drilled in
Toronto public schools. and their trip is
paid for by popular subscription. The young
with the party are Inspectors Hughes
Burns, Godfrey and Hayes, Toronto public
school officials. Mayor Stevens, the Com
mon Council and citizens met the cadets
and escorted them to United States soil. In
Chicago, where the cadets Will arrive to-
morrow, an imposing ceremony will be the
presentation OF American flags to every
member of the company. They are under
strict military discipline during the trip.
The cheers of the Canadian soldier boys
upon landing on American soil was demon
strative of the friendly feeling existing be-
tween Canada and the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05

OF banks. undivided profits are TO be In
cluded Assistant Attorney General Boyd
has rendered an opinion. which is approved
by the attorney general, to the effect that
when the law says in estimating capital
the surplus shall be included 1t does not
mean 10 include undivided profits, nor IS Il
confined to the surplus amounting TO 20
per centum of the capital stock required 20
be maintained by national banks. but that ia
making assessments upon which TO estimate
the amount of tax the actual capital OF a
bank IS TO be included. together with the
legal surplus, and, IN addition thereto,
such further amounts as have been set apart
by vote OF the directors or other authoriz a
action of the bank, to be used in carrying
on the general business Of the bank.
At o'clock this afternoon President Nc
Kinley presented to Mr.. Charles A. Schott,
chief of the computing division of the United
States coast and geodetic survey, the prize
recently conferred upon him by the Acad-
envy of France. The presentation took place
in the library of the executive mansion, in
the presence of Superintendent Pritchett the
superintendent OF the survey, and about
twenty-five of his associate officers. Inls
prize of 1900 francs was founded by an
Englishman about two years ago, and was
to be conferred by the academy on any
person in any country whose discoveries IN
science or whose original Investigations naQ
been most valuable and had contrib ted
most to human knowledge in the dlrect2 4 OF
mathematics. mechanics, physics, chemistry
Grafton, conferred the prize ON Mr.. SchotT
for mis- Investigations into the laws OF ter
restrial magnetism
Senator Pettus to-day introduced bill
authorizing the secretary of war to provide
for the reimbursement of States for the ex-
perses incurred in transporting troops to the
places of muster in the late war with Spain
and appropriating the funds necessary Tor
this purpose.
According to Consul Brush, at Clifton,
Canada, the output of gold from the Klon-
dixie and British Columbia has raised Can
ada to the fifth place in the list of gold
producing b countries. While the United
States shows an increased output for 1898,
it is still second to the TransVaal. Accord
ing to the latest figures, the five leading
gold-producing countries for 1898 are as fol-
lows: Transvaal, $73,4 800; United. States,
$64, 300 000 Australia. SCI ,4S0 763; Russia, $25,
.S94; Canada, $14,19O0OO.
The chief signal officer of the army has
just completed new War Department
cipher, which will affect considerable saw
ing in cable tolls in communicating with
distant stations, where cable rates are
high. 1t is an arbitrary word cipher, in
which q single word stands for long
phrase or even for full sentence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
THE BLACK DEMON" WON.
Australian Jimmy Ryan Whipped
by Joe WOIcOtt.

CINCINNATI. Feb. 4.--The largest crowd
since John L. Sullivan and Dominick Nc
Gallery fought here in 1885 witnessed the
boxing contests at the Stag Athletic Club
arena here tonight. The main attraction
was fifteen-round go between Australian
Jimmy Ryan and Joe Wolcott, 'the black
Demon" at catch weights for a purse of
$500. Several hundred people were unable
to gain admittance. Tom O'Rourke was
Wolcotts chief adviser and second. John
Murphy, of Cincinnati, was referee. VOL
colt was the aggressor during the entire
contest, Ryan continually clinching. The
contest was tame, as Ryan laid back for
knockout with his right. In the fourteenth
round both men rushed at each other and
landed hard body blows with the right. In
the breakaway Wolcott landed hard left
swing on Ryan's chin, flooring him. Ryan
took nine seconds of the count, and upon
rising rushed to a clineh. Woicott pushed
him from him. and, swinging a hard left,
landed on the jaw and again sent Ryan to
the floor. The latter got to sitting posi-
ton, but the referee seeing he was helpless,
stopped the contest and awarded the de-
ciSion to Wolcott.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
THE PANAMA CANAL.
English Engineer Says 1t Will Take
Ten More Years to Finish 1t.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-The Herald says
Reports Of extensive work on the Panama
canal are brought by Charles NJ. Dobson
an English civil engineer, who has just ar
rived here from Colon. Mr.. Dobson says
L have visited the canal on several occa-
sions since 1891, but have never seen any
thing like the activity visible at present
The French are evidently in earnest and
are progressing at a wonderfully rapid rate
They are concentrating their energies on
the great Culebra cut, the most serious OBJ
stacle along the whole route. The company
has from 100 to 1900 laborers at work
with about fifty locomotives, each of which
hauls train of from ten to fifteen cars
At the rate at which they are now excavat-
ing the great cut will be completed within
nine months. My impression is that the
managers, having finished this cut, will de-
problem of the canal, and that additional
funds are all that is needed to carry the
whole work to completion. Water is ac-
tually in nineteen miles of the canal on the
Atlantic side and seven on the Pacific side
Up to the present about S137, 900, 900 in Amer
lean gold has been spent, and / believe the
canal can be finished for SIPS, 600 900. The
company appears to suffer from no lack of
money, for the men are promptly paid. The
concession given by Colombia expired last
October, but l informed that arrange
a period of six years. My impression is
that it will require about ten years more
work before the canal is ready to receive
Ships "
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITlES.

The senatorial deadlocks in Pennsylvania,
Nebraska, California and Utah continue.
Warren Sage, a New York insurance
broker, has filed a petition in bankruptcy,
with liabilities S102, 79S and no assets.
San Francisco is to have worlds fair
in 1901. 1t is to be known as the Pacific
Ocean and International Exposition.
The Union Tobacco Company of America,
of New York city, has filed with the secre-
tary of state of New York a certificate of
increase of capital from $19, 900 to $4,-a
100000.
Adolph Smith, an ex-convict, was found
fatally wounded in a lodging house on the
outskirts OF Chinatown, San Francisco, yes
terday He is supposed to be victim of
Highbinders.
George W. Grubbs. Mrs. Mary Sullivan
and Miss Alice Sullivan were arrested at
Decatur IL. yesterday. for alleged com
tyre at Pana week ago.
At Williamstown, KY, yesterday, j. Brent
Dejarnette deputy United States marshal,
and son of a leading lawyer, shot and ia
tally wounded Jesse Kinman The shooting
is said TO have been justifiable.
Richard c. Bartholdt member of Congress
from the Tenth Missouri district, who has
been i'll at ST. Louis for several weeks past
as the result of a severe attack of grip, has
sufficiently recovered to resume his duties
at Washington
Articles of incorporation have been filed
with the New Jersey secretary of state
for an artificial rubber company, with
an authorized capital of $1000,000. The COM
paDX Is authorized TO manufacture ana zeal
in artificial rubber and rubber substitutes.
The American Missionary Association has
made public its ffty-second annual report
A summary of receipts shows grand total
of S396 III. Of this amount the State of
Massachusetts gave the largest sum, SOC, $50,
with the State of Connecticut second with
$65. 112.
Ned Hanlon, manager of the Baltomore
club, announced last night that the deal
whereby the cream OF the BaltomOre base
ball talent was to be transferred to Brook
lyn had been as good as consummated. As
things are now the understanding is that
Ebbetts is to remain president OF the Brook
lyn club. Hanlon IS to be manager.
The California state bank commissioners
have made careful investigation of the
affairs of the Union Savings Bank of San
jose. and find its assets $491 Al less than a
statement taken from the books showed two
days before, and have directed Attorney
General Ford to bring suit IN the proper
court to have the bank declared lugolYent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
FORECAST FOR SUNDAY.
Fair Weather in Northern Indiana
Snow i'm Southern Portion.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, p. m.-Forecast
for twenty-four hours:
Fer Ohio-Snow in northern, rain or snow
ir. southern portions; winds becoming brisk
north
For Indiana-Fair in northern, snow in
southern portion; north winds
For Illinois-Fair, except snow in extreme
southern portion; north winds.
Weather Conditions and General Forecast
The storm which was central Friday
night in the Ohio valley has continued
Rortheastward by way of New England and
is tonight off the extreme northeast Cana
dian coast. The secondary depression which
was in southern Texas shows an unexpected
development to the northeastward and is
central tonight in southern Louisiana Rain
has continued generally in the gulf and At
l&ntic States and snow in New England,
followed by clearing from Virginia north
eastward. There were also light SHOWS in
the lake regions and scattered snow fiurries
in the Southwest and extreme West. Cold
weather continues in the Northwest, but
with a rise in temperature of two to
eighteen degrees in the Dakotas and Mon
tana. In the. central valleys and the lake re-
g.ons the temperatures have fallen; decided
ly so in the west gulf States and the Ohio
valley and the zero line reaches to the west
shore of Lake Michigan. In the east gulf
region and Atlantic States the temperature
changes have been unimportant, except in
extreme southeast Virginia where there was
a fall of sixteen degrees. On the Pacific
coast the weather has been generally clear
except for slight snow fiurf4es in the extreme
northern portion, and the temperature
changes were slight. The low area in
Louisiana will probably move Hortheastward
and cause rains through the west and CEN
trail gulf States and Tennessee and rain and
snow in the Ohio valley and lower lake
regions. over the remainder of the country
generally fair weather will prevail. 1t Will
be much colder from Louisiana northeast
ward through eastern Tennessee and west
ern North Carolina. In the Northwest the
temperature Will rise. Brisk northeast
winds are indicated on the New england
and middle Atlantic coast and fresh to brisk
cast winds on the south Atlantic coast ex-
cent in Florida where they will continue
scutherIy. Cold wave signals are displayed
at San Antonio, Vicksburg, Meridian and
Elkins.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
UNC0NFIRMED RUMORS.
No VerificatiOn of RepOred Fight Be-
tween Americans and FiIipinOs.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-No confirmation
patches from Manila reporting that con-
flict had occurred there between the Ameri-
can forces and the Filipinos. At an early
hour this morning it was given out in Off
cial quarters that no advices had been re-
ceived from General Otis or any of the
American officials at Manila. The offices
at the White House and those at the War
Department, through which any communi-
cations from General Otis would be re-
ceived, were closed at the usual hour.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
COL. ]. A. SEXTON DEAD
COsIMANDER-IN-CHI OF THE
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
Former Postmaster Of Chicago and ~
Brave Soldier During the Late War
of the Rebellion.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-Colonel James A.
Sexton, commander-in-chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, died at 3:15 O'Clock
this morning at Garfield Hospital in this
city.
Colonel James A. Sexton was born on Jan.
s. 1874. He enlisted as a private in the
Nineteenth Illinois Volunteers April 49, 1861,
and after three months service enlisted in
the Sixty-seventh Illinois, being commits
stoned as first lieutenant of Company L.
He was subsequently transferred to the
Seventy-second Illinois and was made cap
tain of Company d. He served in Ran
SONS brigade. McArthur's division of the
Seventeenth Army Corps, Army of the Ten
nessee, and participated in nearly all its
campaigns, seiges and battles. He was COM
mander Of the regiment in the battles of
Columbia, Duck River, Spring Hill, Franklin
and Nashville, and throughout the Nash
vile campaign. In 1865 he was assigned to
duty on the staff of Major General A j..
Smith, commander of the Eighteenth Army
Corps, and remained with Smith until the
close of the war, being honorably discharged
in August, 1865. He remained two years in
Alabama after the war, working a planta-
ton which he had purchased near Mont
gomery. In 1867 he returned to Chicago and
entered into business. He was appointed
postmaster of Chicago by President Harri-
son in 1889 and retained by President
Cleveland until he resigned Jan. l, 1885,
Colonel Sexton was an active worker in
the Grand Army of the Republic, the mill
tary order of the Loyal Legion and other
soldier and army societies. He was past
commander of the Department of Illinois, G.
A. r., and had been a presidential elector,
park commissioner and was interested in
the National Guard. AT the last meeting of
the G.. A. r. he was elected commandments
chief; and held this position at the time of
his death, as well as that of a member OF
the board of commissioners appointed by the
President to investigate the conduct of the
Spanish war. .Anl sd. n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
MOST SEVERE IN YEARS
THIS WINTER LIKELY TO BREAK ALL
RECORDS IN COLORADO.
seventy-One Consecutive Days of
snow and stOrm-The "BeautifuI''
Seven Feet Deep on the Level.

DENVER, Col, Feb. 4-Trains are again
running on regular schedule from Denver
to Como. on the South Park road, but be-
yond Como the rotary is still bucking the
snow drifts in efforts TO open the roads to
Kokomo and Leadville. Between Dickey and
Leadville are twenty-five snowslides, each
two hundred to five hundred feet in length
and eight to ten feet deep, and at the pres
ent rate of progress Kokomo will not be
reached until tomorrow. At Wheeler, a
freight train, loaded with merchandise, and
two locomotives, stalled since last Thurs
day, was discovered on a siding, with the
train crew still its occupants. Slides before
and behind had penned it in. The train had
been snowbeund for ten days
Division Superintendent Zennnger, of the
South Park branch of the Colorado &
Southern road said: I'VE have had seventy
one consecutive days of snow and storm be-
tween Como and Leadville. In all that time
there has not been a single day free from
snowstorms and high winds. The old set
tiers state emphatically that this winter has
been by all odds the most severe in twenty
five years. The snow is seven feet deep on
the level from Boreas to Climax, and in
many places drifted to more than twenty
feet The snow is slight and granular and
drifts easily The altitude being so great
there has not been sufficient moisture to
form a crust and there will be continued
danger and annoyance from drifts until we
have a week of sunshine and mild weather
to thaw the surface. There has been no
suffering from lack of provisions or fuel
Unless it be at Kokomo. They are supplied
at Breckenridge now since we brought in
our train of supplies, so that there can pos
sibly be no danger of suffering for some
time to come. To-day is the first really good
day we have had, there being no wind and
a clear sky. We have the road open be
tween Denver and within twenty-five miles
OF Leadville."
1t is reported that most of the live stock
from Breckenridge and mines thereabouts
has. been driven to near keystone, where
ample water and some bare places may be
found for feeding. Ranchers there have
shed room for 2,0O0 head of stock.
OF the three SnoW-bound theatrical COM
panies, Gay Coney Island succeeded in
reaching Grand Junction and went to Salt
Lake via the Rio Grande Western. West S
Ministries and SHAFT No. q are still at
Glenwood Springs, missing dates but enjoy
ing every comfort at the hotels. The Den
yer 81 Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland
railways are taking the best possible care
of their Snow-bound passengers. There Is
little danger of further snow slides along
these lines, a crust having formed over the
snow
Slightly warmer weather is predicted for
tomorrow. The coolest point in the State
to-day was Greeley, sixty miles from Den
yer, the thermometer there registering So
degrees below Zero
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
ST. LOUIS WOMAN'S STORY.
Says She Has Received Threatening
Letters and Poisoned Candy.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Feb. 4.-This afternoon
the Post-Dispatch prints a story to the eff
feet that Mrs. F. M. McVean, of this city,
has received numerous threatening letters,
and later a box of poisoned candy. Mrs
McVean denies that she sent the letters and
candy to herself. She says it is her opinion
that a young woman who is in love with a
prominent Western man with whom Mrs
McVean is said to be in love mailed the
letters and candy. An analysis of the candy
by City Chemist Tichman revealed large
quantities of arsenic