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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

every appeal to party prejudice hoping
By that means e maintjin themselves
For example, they boast they will
poll the vote of every tinworker in
the city next Thursday. Why? On the
city issues involved? Not a bit of it,
What, then? Why. on the TARIFF
ISSUE. Now. think of a sane man
voting to decide a city election on
the TARIFF ISSUE, The Register de-
clines to believe the tinworkers of
Wheeling are SO foolish and blind to
their best interests as citizens and tax
payers to be thus hoodwinked. We
shall say nothing of what is likely to
befall them when the new tinplate trust
gets down to the work of c~urtailing
production and shutting down factor
les. Such discussions have no place
in city politics, and should not be
brought in to influence any citizens
vote on purely municipal matters.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

While we fully appreciate the tre-
mendous power of the ring and the
vast amount of "hustling" it is doing
through it's mighty municipal machine,
we still have faith enough in the COM
mon n and intelligence of the peo-
pie to believe that when the ballots
are counted mex Thursday night the
ring will be found to have been very
badly crippled if not beaten.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

Those foolish editors who persist in
quoting the boom in Wall street stocks
as evidence of the country's great
prosperity will reckon without their
host when the bulls become bears in
that great game of buncoing the Amer
lean people. Conditions and prices in
Wall street are very rarely evidence
of anything but the schemes of the
great gamblers who annually stock
the cards against the people.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
FIRE IN STEUBENvILLE.

Special to the Register.
Steubenville, Ohio, January 23.-Fire
that started in the boiler room az
Sharp's foundry about Z O'Clock this
morning wrecked several of the build
ings.
The loss is $4,000, fully insured.
Michael McGraw a fireman, while
standing on a roof was struck by a
hose stream and knocked off, alight-
ing on the ground, Is feet below. on his
head. Paralysis has set in and his
condition is very serious.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

and scandals in legislatures throughout
the country are the best argument for
the election of Senators by the people.
The wider the field of operatiC1 the
less effective are corrupt methods.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
THE REGISTER AT CHARLESTON.

The friends of the Register throughout
the State will find the daily and Sunday edi-
tions of their favorite morning paper on sale
at the Hotel Ruffnern news stand. Members
Of the Legislature and visitors at Charles
ton need not miss a single copy of the Reg
lister. Orders may be left at theUews stand
or sent to the Office of publication, and
same will be sent by nail at the regular
rates.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
AN ..AD" FOB AUTHOR POST.

Librarian Brett of the City of Cleve-
land, has exposed himself as an eyre
gious ass and incidentally given a well
known literary genius of Wheeling a
valuable bit of advertising by barring
from the library in his charge Hon. M.
D. Posts exceedingly interesting and
odd batch Of stories under the title OF
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

The %unseating of Senator Kidd,
elected by 141 votes by the people of
the Fourth Senatorial District, is one
of the most infamous crimes against
popular government in the political
history of the United States.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

Noble directors of E. T. Hooley's
financial schemes in Londyn are wor-
rying because of his indictment. And
well may these scamps Of high degree
become alarmed. Even a title can
hardly cover the sins of these noble
leeches when used to obtain money I'M
der false p%retenses.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
PARTISAN APPEALS OF HI RING

AS we have repeatedly demonstrated
there is no party politics involved in
the city election. or should not be.
although it is notorious that in
every ward in the city the ring is
making a partisan fight and making
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
AN EYE FOR AN EYE 1T is.

AN EYE FOR AN EYE 1T is.
The revolutionists in the State Senate
yesterday inaugurated their damnable
conspiracy to nullify the popular YER
dict at the polls by ousting Senator
Kidd, Democrat, elected by 141 major
ity, by resolution, that is, without any
pretense whatever of legal justification.
The act was done, indeed, in the very
face of the fact that the regular con-
test proceedings previously entered
against Kidd did not show in the re-
count of ballots, and were not likely
to show, anything but a safe legal ma
jority for him. This being the case
lily ordered stopped by the cabal of fed
eral and State of%ficeholders, now gath
cred at Charleston, with Senator Elk
ms at their head, and Senator Kidd
was simply ousted, as stated, without
any pretense whatever of Justification,
or legality. The only justification Of
fered is that of retaliation on the Dem
ocrats of the House for ousting Repub-
licans, plainly not entitled to seats.
after regular contest proceedings, these
Republicans without certificates of cleo
ton having been illegally placed on
the roll of the House by the Republi-
can Secretary of State, one of the head
conspirators, for the very purpose of
having them ousted in order to furnish
a shadow of pretext for the revolution
airy Senate programme of IAN eye for
an eye" -
Let the people bear in mind that
these c~onspirators already had a ma
jority on joint ballot, illegal though it
was, through the seating of Pierson
and Getzendanner. That was conceded
to them by the Democrats.
But they were not satisfied with
that! They have internal quarrels in
their own party that would render so
slight a majority, even were it legal,
of no avail in the election of a Senator.
Hence, they must deliberately steal
other seats to give a majority large
enough to insure the election of the
conspirators' candidate for Senator.
The Register had hoped a sufficient
number of honorable Republicans
would be ,found in the Senate to stop
this stupenduous crime against the
government and the people, but we
sadly regret to record that we were
mistaken.
According to our dispatches the Re-
p%ublicans, three in number, who had
previously declared they would oppose
this infamous outrage, now plead in
justification of their humiliating stul-
LITIGATION of themselves that they could
not resist the party pressure brought to
bear on them! What a shameful con-
fession to come from sovereign Ameri-
can citizens, especially in the light of
their oaths to uphold the Constitution,
1t is not, however, the purpose of
the Democrats of the House, even in
this emergency, to retaliate in kind
upon the Republicans of the Senate
justified as they might be under the
circumstances in SO doing In order to
preserve the rights Of the people, to
Insure popular government and main
tain the legal majority in the Legisla-
turs elected by the people. The Dem
\
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

When the ring organ becomes vic
ious and personally abusive it is a
sure sign that all is not going smooth
ly with the ring.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

The Bradley Martins bought a $685.
900, 900 mansion in the most fashiona-
BILE part of London. a monument to the
snobocracy of Americai
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

The final decision between corrupt
and inefficient city ring rule and
popular rule on economic and business
principles rests with the voters.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
TERMS $500 PER MONTH.

their revolutionary work. This work
involves positive reason against the
State. How long will the people per-
nit this outlawry?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

Mbftlin9 Resister
CHARLES II. rANEy. GENERAL MANAGER

The REGISTER, embracing its several
editions. is entered at the Postoffice at
Wheeling, w. Va, as ~second-class matter.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

The high-handed gang of federal
offce-holders who are bossing the
State Senate at Charleston have begun
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY TO LOAN on real estate: s per
cent interest, l per cent premium; total
7 per cent. Required payments 25c per
week on each 500 loaned. THE BUCK
EYE SAVINGS AND LOAN CO, Thirty
second street, Bellaire. o. oc7e&dvb
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
AGENTS WANTED

WANTED-Three good, industrial insur-
ance agents. Special inducements. Apply
Fl. HOLLAND, Supt., n. e. cor. Twelfth
and Chapline streets. 1a2Be&dh
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

FOR SALE-Boarding house lease and
furniture, commodiouS, convenient and
centrally located. Desirable and profit
able patronage. For particulars address
BOARDING HOUSE." care Register
Office. jan4eu
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT.
Store room and dwelling, corner Thirty
third and Eoff streets.
Store room, 1913 Main street.
Dwelling. II rooms. No. q Fifteenth St.
Dwelling 1872 North Front St, ) rooms.
Lodge room. 1853 Main street.
FOR SALE,
Farm. 50 acres. 10 miles east Of the city.
Fine residence, IL rooms, in Pleasant
Valley.
Fine residence, . rooms, in Leatherwood.
Dwelling, Fifteenth street.
Dwelling. No. 3 South Penn street.
No s. Eighteenth STA BARGAIN.
No. 1876 Seventeenth St-VERY CHEAP.
Dwelling, No. 8 Vermont street.
No. - n. Broadway. brick dwelling.
SIMPSON & TATUM.
Room 4. City Bank Building. Phone es4.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

WANTED-Two young men to run as
news agents on railroad trains. Must
have $1,000 cash security. Apply or adj
dress UNION NEWS Co, Office b. & O.
depot, Wheeling. jaSe&dh
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
puritan GAS RANGES.

With closed tops for cold weather
use, or open tops for summer.
Most economical method of cooking.
Call and examine them.
NESBITT & BRO.
1872 Market Street.
tn, fri
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24

WANTED-Man with ability to take
charge of and manage an office in Wheel
ing; will be required to put at least $500
references; salary 1900, payable monthly,
and commission. Address p. O.. Box 26,
Buffalo, n. Y. ja23,A
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-24
MALE HELP

MEN-Our illustrated catalogue explain:
how to learn the barber trade in eigh'
weeks, mailed free. MOLER'S BARBEF
COLLEGE, Cincinnati, o. ja2leudC
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-09
PRETTYMAN'S CONDITION GRAVE.

Hts Brother Denies That He Was Subject to
Epilepsy-Boy Has Not Kegained Con-
seriousness.
The condition Of William N. Pretty
man, who has concnssion of the brain
as the result of an accident in q foot
ball game 10 days ago, and who is
under the attention of his father, DIR.
John S. Prettyman, and his brother,
DIR. John S. Prettyman, Jr., at No.
S07 West street, is very grave. His
brother, Col Henry Ii. Prettyman of
Ohio. who with his wife came here on
Sunday to be near the sick boy, talked
about the case to aGazette reporter
Tuesday.
He desired to correct the impression
growing out of rumor that the boy
was subject to epilepsy, saying that
there was nothing in it. True, young
Prettyman, while staying with him in
the west in Ohio, some years ago, was
kicked in the head while carrying a
football for touchdown, but he was
hurt only temporarily, and it had no
bad consequences.
KEPT ALIVE by POWERFUL MEDICINES.
The family attach no blame to the
player who tackled Prettyman; it was
the hard condition of the ground near
the east goal post, where the tackle
took place that was largely responsible
fer the injury. AS the colonel says,
the fall simply smashed the boys
brain to pieces. This is the 10th day
since the injury, ard the patient has
had four or five attacks of depression
of the heart. His pulse has been as
low as 3S. Only by the administration
of powerful medicines has he been kept
alive.
Col. Prettyman states that his brother
has never been conscious moment
since his illness. The only hope is
that his strong physical condition, due
to his athletic work, will make his
heart able to stand the effect Of his
brain injury on the nerve centres.
PATIENT SHOWS IMPROVEMENT.
Later information from Gel. Pretty.
man as to his brothers. condition is
that the patients heart action is
stronger and his brain clearer, showing
| welcome imDroyemept.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-09
An Au,her.s slrange Mlnrepresentatlon.

1t is surprising that writer of the
reputation of Julian Ralph should have
been guilty of such gross misrepresenta-
tion as appears in his story about the
whipping post at New Castle, printed
in recent issue Of the Saturday
Evening Post. 1t was not fiction
story that he was writing, but paper
on journalism, and the incident he
related vas supposed to be personal
experience. Here is the strange story
that Mr. Ralph told:
The first assignment / ever had as a
New York reporter was to go to Dela-
ware to see a woman whipped. Half u
dozen New York correspondents went
to the Jail in New Castle en- the day
set Tor the whipping, and whom we
asked the sheriff to allow us to go in
the Jail yard. we told him plainly that
if the woman was whipped We would
be the means of arousing snch indigDa-
tion throughout the land that he would
find no hole or corner in which to hide
from the volcanic outburst of scorp and
wrath that would pour down upon him.
The sheriff brought out travelling
journeyman printer who, after sleeping
in railway coach, took away with
him coat which he found upon one Of
the seats. The sheriff intended to
whip the printer with a dozen lashes,
lightly, and no fastened him tc the
post and smiled as he thought how he
would disappoint us and make US be-
lieve that a Delaware whipping was q
trifiing thing. But the printer did
not fall into his plan. Humiliated,
mr. nd ranlylncs ha fun fa1 fnr n
perfect chance and then spat mouth
full of tobacco juice straight into the
sheritf's eyes, momentarily binding
him. The sheriff, boiling with rage
and smarting with pain, laid hold of
the cat-o'-nine- tails and, forgetting
his earlier plan, wrapped the biting
tails of the fearful instrument so
fiercely around the printers back that
every stroke raised half dozen welts
and drew blood where the ends fell.
Thus, the woman-a poor creature who
was sentenced for life-was saved from
whipping, for our disgust at what
we had seen was SO manifest that the
sheriff did not dare to bring out the
woman.
This is a most surprising story. In
the first place, il is absolutely false.
No woman has been whipped in Dela-
ware for nearly fifty years, tho law ex-
emptIng them from this punishment
having been enacted in 1855. This was
many years before Mr.. Ralph's alleged
experience.
But, even had there been no law
against the whipping of women, Mr..
Ralph's story would still bear witness
to its own falsity. Had woman been
sentenced to the post, the threats Of
Mr.. Ralph and his journalistic fellows
would not have saved her. The sheriff
has no discretion in the matter, and
he would have been compelled to inn
pose the penalty.
AS it is not conceivable that Mr..
Ralpa would besmirch his good reputa-
tion by deliberate Justification, the
most charitable explanation of his sur
prising story is that the sheriff put ul
huge joke upon the visiting journal.
lists, and made them think that their
towering influence had saved woman
from the punishment of the post. Mr..
Ralph and his fellow reporters simply
"bit." That is all.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-09
MCKINLEY and George III.

During one Of the exciting discus
sions held in the British Parliament
at the breaking out of the American
Revolution, William Pitt, Earl of
Chatham, the famous English Premier
and friend of the American Colonies,
said:
America, my lords, cannot be recon
ciled; she ought not to be reconciled,
to this country till the troops of Great
Britain are withdrawn from the CON
tinent; they are bar to all con
tidence; they are source of perpetual
irritation; they threaten fatal catas.
irophe. How can America trust you
with the hayonet at her breast? How
can she suppose that you mean less
than bondage or death?
Substitute the Philippines for
America, and how aptly these brave
words apply to the situation in this
country today, Flow completely has
William Mckinley placed himself in
the position held by George III in
l776.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-09
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EEL ESTaTE aHANnE Es
Transfers of Many Properties Recorded a,
the city Repatriation Isureau.

Transfers of Many Properties Recorded at
the City Repatriation Bureau.
The following transfers of real estate
have been recorded during the East
few days at the city registration
bureau:
A property on the west side of CLAW
ton street south of Thirteenth, by
Charles G. Kurtz and wife and James
b. Oberly and wife to Grace H.
Sayers; northeast corner of Ninth and
Orange streets. by Theodore w.
Francis and wife to Edmund Mitchell,
Jr., tone-ffth interest); north side
of Second street west of Woodiawn
avenue. by Maggie A. Everett and
others to Albert e. Mild; north side Of
Seventh street between Wollaston and
jefferson, by Catherine Z. and
Cornelius B. Cieeden to Rosanna A.
Keough, Tone fourth interestl east
side of Madison street north of
Eleventh, by John L. Dickey, executor
of Lizzie Malone, to Bridget Varley,
and by Bridget Varley to James Fl.
Kane; west side Of Harrison street 50
feet north of Second, by Peter j. Ford
and wife to James M. Bryan; east side
of Heald street north of Eleventh. by
Louisa aud o. NJ. Magnell to Ettie
Levy; north side OF Shallcross avenue
west of Bayard avenue, by the Kent
mere Land Co. to Edward A. jenkins,
Michael jenkins and Nicholas E.
Herman, trustees under the will of
Austin Jenkins; northwest corner of
Woodlawn avenue and Second street,
by Willard s. Pyle and others to
Albert Z. Mid and by Mr.. Mild to
Joseph W. Coley; north of Tenth
street and west of Adams, by Joshua
E. Smith and wife to Ayres s. Web
ster; cast side OF Tatnal street south
of Eleventh, by J. j. Peirce, executor
of Sarah A. Gibson, TO Horace G..
Rettew; No. S29 West Second street,
by the Artisan Savings Bank to Daniel
Doherty; No 405 Concord avenue, by
William e. Hawkins and wife to
William L. Ford; No. 1905 West
Seventh street, by Anna L. Eklund to
Thomas .. Butler; southwest corner
of Seventh and Van Buren, streets, by
William j. Maxwell to William b.
Smith; No. 1120 West Sixth street, by
Albert Thatcher to Michael Mailoy
Nos. 40 and 81 East Twenty second
street, by j. j. Peirce, executor. tc
Henry Hoopes;. !. No. 1912 Lammot
street, by William J. Walsh to Mary
| a. WalSn. lois IWenty-slxth and Tat
nall and West streets, by the Crestor
Land and improvement Co. to the
Fidelity Real Estate Improvement Co.
southwest corner of Eleventh and IIom.
bard streets, by Lena I. Sucker anc
husband and Annie NJ. McHugh tc
Martha T.. KANE; south side of Six
teenth street east of Mt. Salem Lane
by J. r. Brinckle and wife and Others
to Elizabeth G. Bradford; north side
of Ttirteenth street west Of Head, by
William b. Harvey to Henry f.
Pickels; east side of Townsend stree
south of A, by Hugh Scanlin and wifi,
to John j. Biggins; northwest corner
of Twenty-fcurth and Washington
streets, by the Creston Land ant
Improvement Co. to the Robeler
Piano Co. southwest corner of Ninth
and Madison streets, by Mary K
Bickta TO Joshua X. Sharpless.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-09
The Drink Evil, In arp., britain.

The drink evil continues to be one of
the most pressing questions of the day
in the United Kingdom. From the
latest statistics it appears that the
consumption Of whisky last year was
the greatest yet reached, the population
having swallowed more than gallon
per head of liquor known by that name.
The London Lancet, in referring to
the British death rate from intemper-
ance, directs attention to one of its
most painful features the increase of
alcoholism among women. The deaths
from chronic alcoholism in the year
1897, as compared with the year 1878,
in men show an increase of S21s per
cent, those of females of 1451s per cent I;
and the deaths from cirrhosis in men an
increase of IL PER cent, and those from
cirrhosis in females of 26 per cent The
amount Of disease, caused by liquor,
which falls short of fatal termina-
tion is necessarily matter beyond all
power of calculation.
Statesmen, the Lancet says, may
create for themselves theories that ex-
tenuate a national vice which yields
the exchequer so mary millions sterling
% year; but, speaking from medical
point of view, we must point out that
it is disgraceful and disastrous.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-09
GiImnra-cazier Madainr.

The wedding of William Pollock
Gilmore of Philadelphia and Miss Edna
Cazier, daughter OF Mr. and Mrs. j.
b. Cazier, took place Tuesday at tho
residence of the BRIDES parents, Mount
Vernon Place. Kirkwood, the Rev.
James Mcllhenny of Germantown
officiating, and the Rev. T. G. Potter
of Kirkwood assisting. The bride was
given away by her father. Cook IS
Orchestra Of Philadelphia played the
wedding march. Matthew Gilmore was
hest man, Jean Boyd was flower girl,
Milo Boyd and Frances Stuckert were
ribbon bearers, and Clayton M. Riley
and Harry M. Cazier were ushers. Tho
biide was gowned in brown camel's
hair cheviot, and wore q circlet Of
diamonds, the gift of the groom. The
house was elaborately decorated with
flowers d. b. Jones served the we'd
ding breakfast. Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmore
went on a northern tour. They will
reside at Oyerbrook, Pa.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-09

The gigantic concern which was
chartered in Dover, Monday morning,
with its capital stock of S75, 600, :
600, is one of the biggest corporations
in the world. 1t will pay taxes to the
State to the amount of S7,400 per
annum. This gigantic organization,
the Anglo American Rapid Vehicle
Company, is chartered to manufacture,
purchase, sell, lease, rent and operate
vehicles. wagons, carriages and cars,
propelled otherwise than by the power
of animals, and to deal in vehicle sun
plies: to operate and maintain stage
lines CT automobiles and electric
vehicles in the United States and the
United Kingdom Of Great Britain and
Ireland. Its real purpose, however, is
said to be to unite all the electrical
carriage companies now engaged OF
preparing to engage in the manu-.
facture of these vehicles into ono
gigantic trust in America and Great
Britain.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-09
wANAMAKER,S. A
Philadelphia, Monday, November 6
Wonen's Coats

More SIS coats ready. We a
rather proud to have such good CO;
at this price, which usually mea
trash. The usual $3.50 coats "
hardly match them. The maker d
some sharp bargaining to get Il
cloth; then he took a narrow M
gin of proft-and so did we.
Soft beaver cloth, with new hal
sleeve, plated back and full vel,
collar. SIS.
Jackets of fine kersey, finish
with strap seams, full velvet col
and new back; lined throughe
with satin. So.
Double-breasted jackets, with {
fly-front, with plain or velvet c,
lars, pearl or covered buttons;
material is fine soft kersey; lin
throughout with good black satin
splendid coats at the price--$lO.
Plenty more.