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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05
SM ALLPOX
Causing Alarm in Pittsburg---S State
Board of Health Making an In
vestigation.

PITTSBURG, Pa, August 4.-The
seriousness of the situation about
Pittsburg regarding the outbreak of
smallpox has now reached a point
when the most decisive measures will
be resorted to in order to stamp out the
disease. DR.. Benz. c. Lee, of Phila-
delphia, secretary of the State Board of
Health, and Dr. VIM. W. WEIGH, super
intendent of the Municipal hospital at
Philadelphia, have arrived in Pittsburg
to confer with the health authorities
here regarding the best methods to
fight the plague, declare that there is
danger of an epidemic unless the peo-
pie in the stricken districts show a
greater disposition to assist the author
tiles to check the smallpox.
Drs. Lee and Welch spent several
hours to-day in conference at the
Hotel Duquesne with Supt. Crosby
Gray, of the Bureau of Health; DR..
Stanley S. Rinehart and DR.. R. L. Tay-
Tor, city physician, of Pittsburg.
The situation was thoroughly dis
cussed and suggestions were offered by
the State physicians on various ways
of meeting the crisis. In the afternoon
a tour was made through East Pitts
burg, Wilmerding and other points
where cases of the disease exist. To-
morrow the committee will go to
Bower Hill, where there are several
cases.
At Pittsburg Is well developed cases
were discovered and at Homestead ten
cases. The experts say all the eases
are of a mild type, but if the disease
is not stamped out before cold weather
sets in, there is no telling how malig-
nant it may develop.
Wholesale vaccination is advised as
a precaution and further recommended
tons will be made when the investi-
CATION of tbs county has been COM
pleted.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05

PLATTSBURG, N. Y. August A.
Abner Mckinley, the Presidents broth
er, arrived at Hotel Champlain this
morning for a short stay.
Quite an influx of magazine editors
arrived this morning, among them Hen
ry Loomis Nelson, of Harper's, and
Frank A. Munsey, of Munsey's.
Attorney General Griggs has rented
%cottage here for the remainder of
August and Secretaries Gage and Root
are expected here during the Presi-
dents stay.
Postmaster General and Mrs. Smith
will prolong their stay beyond the time
originally set for their departure.
Among those who called upon Mr..
Mckinley to-day were Captain Dodd,
of Troop D, Third United States cav
airy, who has just been ordered to the
Philippines. Unless the present plans
be changed, Secretary of War Root will
not come here to confer with President
Mckinley until the week after next.
The President keeps fully postd as to
Secretary Roots plans and is anxious
to end the war in the Philippines at the
earliest possible moment President
Mckinley is very gratified with the
rapidity with which the ten new regi-
ments are being recruited for service
in the Philippines.
Private dispatches received by the
President to-day as to the yellow fever
situation at Hampton, Va, are very en-
courag ng, indicating as they do that the
spread of the epidemic has been stop
ped.
DR.. w. Stewart Webb, of Shelburne
Farms, has rendered his yacht, the Ell
fridato, to the President for his use
during the remainder of his stay here.
The President has gladly accepted the
offer and the yacht will arrive here on
Monday, when the President and Mrs.
Mckinley Vice President and Mrs.
Hobart, Postmaster General and Mrs.
Smith, and several invited guests will
witness the yacht races of the Lake
Champlain Yacht Club, to be held here
Monday.
The private car Coronet, which for
merly belonged to Nine. Adelini Patti,
and in which she toured the country,
has been returned to Washington, and
the Pullman car Cleopatra with a
larger capacity and more up to date
has been sent here and now stands on
awaiting the pleasure of the President.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05
THE American GENERALS
Who Are Managing Affairs for the
Cubans in Havana,
DENY STATEMENTS THAT THEY
HAVE BEEN LIVING EXTRAvA-
GANTLY AT THE EXPENSE OF
THE INSULAR REVENUES
THEIR REGIME MUCH LESS
PRODIGAL THAN THAT OF
THEIR SPANISH PREDECES-
SORS.

HAVANA, August 4.-Considerable
comment was caused here this after
noon by the publication of despatch
from the United States embodying tie
charge made by leading New York
newspaper that Governor General
Brooke, Brig. Gen. Ludlow, military
governor of Havana; Collector Tasker
Bliss and Major Davis, sanitary OF
ficer at Havana, have been receiving
extra allowances out OF the Cuban
revenues to maintain themselves in
luxury.
Havana is that this charge is based
upon serious Misrepresentation of the
facts of the case. The suggestion OF
luxurious living perplexes the Cuba1s,
who are in a position to contrast the
democratic way in which men holding
the high rank held by Generals Brooke
and Ludlow conduct their establish
ments with the prodigal habits of the
old Spanish regime.
AS to the charge that Gen. Brooke
has expended money in repairing the
palace, the Americans reply that this
old and historic structure had either to
be repaired and renovated or to be
pulled down, and consequently about
one hundred thousand dollars have
been expended on it. But, it is point
ed out, instead of being, as hereto
fore, the private residence of the gov
ernor general, the palace is a veritable
network of public Offices, including
one large wing devoted to the mayor
and the municipal officers. Gen.
Brooke's private quarters are unequal
to what would be allowed aim at any
station in the United States. Aside
from the official reception room, his
apartments are only modestly fur
nished.
AS to the governor generals carriage
and horses, the fact is that the neces-
sary expenditures in this direction
does not come out of the insular funds,
but is met by the United States. Gen.
Brooke's coachman is paid in the same
way. AS the members of his staff say,
it is hardly to be expected that an Of
fetal of Gen. Brocke's military and adj
ministrative status would pay his own
transportation expenses.
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DREYFUS TRIAL.
Sessions will be He d in the Lycee-First
Session will be Brief.

Sessions viii be He d in the Lycee-First
Session will be Brief.
RENNES, August 4.-Owing to the
active newspaper campaign against
holding the Dreyfus court martial in
the insanitary Sale de la Manuten-
ton, the authorities have decided to
hold the trial in the Lycee, where a
magnificent hall is available.
Officers here who do not belong to
the garrison have been ordered to de-
part by tomorrow, and the officers of
the garrison have been ordered to re-
turn tomorrow.
The first session of the court is ex-
pected to be short After reading the
report of Major Carriere. who repre-
sents the army. the court will adjourn
TO allow the defense time to study the
secret dossier. The trial is expected to
be resumed Wednesday or Thursday.
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LYNCHING IN PROSPECT.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, August A.
John Thomas, negro, was surrounded
by lynching party and wounded in
a number of places during running
fight with the posse. He finally man.
aged to make his escape with the posse
after him, after slightly wounding sew
eral of his pursuers. He is charged
with the attempted assault of the wife
of saw mill operator 1t is probable
that Thomas will be captured and
lynched before night.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05
THE YAQUl INDIANS,
Are Again Showing Their Superiority Over
the Soldiers of Mexico

Are Again Showing Their Superiority Over
the Soldiers of Mexico
AUSTIN, TEXAS, August 4.-There
passed through Austin on a north
bound express train for Indianapolis a
gold hunter named Arnold, who said
that he was but recently from the scene
of the Indian uprising in Mexico. He
reports that just before leaving that
section it was reported that the Yaqui
Indians had entrapped force of sever
al hundred of the Mexican soldiers in
a defile in the mountains and inaugu-
rated an old time warfare in throwing
rock down upon them with the result
that many of them were killed. He
says that the war is being conducted
on a guerilla plan and that the Indians
have sufficient force to maintain the
war for months to come, as they are
perfectly at home in the mountain fast
ness and the Mexican soldiers are no
match for them. The reports coming
to the mining camps to date are that
the Mexicans have lost number of
soldiers while the Indians have lost
comparatively few of their number.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 4.-Ac-
cording to information received by RAJ
fasl Ysabel, Congressman from the
State of Sonora Mexico, who is in this
city, General Lorenzo Torres, COM
mander in chief Of the Mexican army
in the field now fighting the Indians,
has not been killed as had been re-
ported.
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AN INJUNCTION ASKED.

Special 10 the Register
MARIETTA, OHIO, August 4.-Dr.
George Hildreth has secured a tempo
rary injunction against the issue OF
$4,000 bonds, voted last fall, for a
new court house and jail. He claims
that the proposition did not carry and
the issue would be illegal on the furth-
er ground that he two questions of
court house and Jail were not submit
ted separately. Judge Wood will hear
the case August 10th.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05
TIE BONDS FOUND.
Masked Robbers Left Behind the Plumber
That Might Have Led to Their Capture.

Special to the Register.
WELLSBURG, w. VA, August A.
The extent of the loss to Mrs. Parkson,
who was robbed by masked men yes
terday morning, was greatly lessened
to-day by the discovery that the slo,-
500 of government bonds which had
been part of the plumber secured, had
been LETT in the house by the robbers.
The bonds were of the registered sort.
and the thieves evidently knowing the
difficulty and danger that would at
tend an effort to change them into
cash, threw them under bed and left
them
To-day Mrs. Parkinson said one of
the quartette was tall, slender man
and another short and stout.
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PENSIONS GRANTED.

Special to the Register.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. ADJUST i -
Pensions have been issued to appli-
cants from West Virginia as follows:
Original-Georg H. Smith, Thomas,
Sc; David Watt, Wheeling, Sc.
Increase-Christoph C. Aills, Hun
tington, s12 to SIT; John f. Martin,
Goose Creek, SIS to $40.
Reissue-Daniel Hill, Waterloo, ST.;
George A. Jones, Moundsville, s12.
Original Widows, etc.-Rachel Wat
son, Halleck, s.; Virginia H. Curry,
Troy, s12.
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DELEGATES NAMED.

Special to the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. VA, August A.
Coy. Atkinson has appointed the fol-
lowing delegates to the National Irri-
CATION Congress, which meets at Mis-
salon, Montana, September %: Turner
Koen, of Warrington; ]. Marshall Ha-
gans, of Morgantown; John t. McGraw,
of Grafton; B. ]. Redmond, H. S. Will
son, of ParkersburS; H. c. Hervey, of
Huntington; Geo. w. Tippett, of Pt.
Pleasant. and DR.. H. McClung, of Lew
is/urg.
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A FINE FIRST CARGO.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 4.-The
Norwegian steamer Thyra, arrived to-
day from Hong Kong via. Honolulu
with a cargo valued at $500 900. This
is her first trip to San Francisco and
marks the inauguration OF new line
to the Orient TO be run In connection
with the Sante F'e Ra--oad.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05

SEATTLE, Wash, August 4-William
Thomas of Columbia City, who 1t was
stated in yesterdays dispatches, was
thought by marine hospital officials at
Hampton to have introduced yellow fever
in the soldiers home there. said to-day
there was no foundation for the statement.
He was an inmate of the home for while,
as reported, but was not sick while there,
neither had he any symptoms of yellow
fever or other kind of fever since return
ing from Santiago. He further stated that
the transport on which he returned had no
fever cases on board.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05
GREAT IMPROVEMENTS
To be Made on the Pittsbnrg Western
Under Baltimore 4 Ohio Supervision.

To be Made on the Pittsburg g. Western
Under Baltimore Ohio Supervision.
PITTSBURG, Pa, August 4.-Three
surveying corps have been started out
by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company, under the direction of Chief
Engineer w. I. Manning, Of the Pitts
burg & Western Railroad Company,
between Pittsburg and Akron. The
survey viii probably require six
months to complete, and then extern
sive improvements, costing several
million dollars, are contemplated. 1t
is the intention 10 bring the standard
OF the Pittsburg & Western up to that
of the recently improved Baltimore &
Ohio, and place it in position 70
more successfully compete with other
lines to the lakes.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05
JACKSON CIRCUIT COURT.
Special to the Register.

Special 20 the Register.
RIPLEY, ". Va, August 4--Judge
Reese Blizzard is holding court here. He
announced his decision IN the case OF the
State against DR.. 5. L. Barber, which was
tried at the March term of court. Judge
Blizzard said that as the paper alleged 10
contain the libeIoIs matter had not been
submitted in evidence he had 10 decide the
defendant not guilty. In the case OF the
State against Geo Douglass. indicted for
enbezzlement. the jury returned a verdict
OF not guilty. Douglass was indicted for
embezz.ing funds belonging to the railroad
company while agent here. two or three
years ago.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05

WASHINGTON, D. c., August A.
Mr. f. W. Fitzpatrick, of the treasury
department, has just returned to Wash
ington from Ottawa, where he went al
the instance of the committee of cit
izents of Chicago in charge OF the cere-
monies of laying the cornerstone OF
that city's great postoffice building,
next October, by President Mckinley,
to arrange for the formal invitation and
expected acceptance of an invitation
from Chicago's citizens to the Gov
ernor General and cabinet if Canada
to participate in those festivities.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick is the assistant Uni
ted States architect under Architect
Henry Ives Cobb, for the Chicago build
ing. To an Associated Press represen-
tative he admitted that his official re-
ception was slightly chilly, Sir Wilfrid
Laurier very candidly telling him that
under the present conditions it would
be impossible for him to accept or even
to consider any social invitations to
this side of the border.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick said that Sir Wilfrid
intimated that in the present state of
public feeling in the United States as
indicated in the press it would not be
entirely safe for the Governor General
and himself to visit Chicago, as he
feared that they might in great gath
ering of such characters the Chicago
ceremony be subjected to some unpleas-
antness or indignity by thoughtless per-
sons. Sir Wilfrid expressed himself as
strongly in favor of arbitrating the
Alaskan boundary dispute and conclud-
ed the interview as follows:
mo, much as l regret it, 1 could not
go to Chicago under present condi-
tons and shall certainly, however
painful duty it may be, also advise
his excellency to decline the invita-
ton that know and feel kindly extend
ed to us by the city of Chicago"
Mr.. Fitzpatrick secured Sir Wilfrid 5
promise, however. to reconsider the
matter.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05
THE LOUISIANA LYNCHING.
Italian Representative Calls at the State
Department TO Compare Notes.

WASHINGTON, August 4.-Count Vinci,
the Italian charge called at the State De-
partment to-day to compare notes with
Acting Secretary Adee RESPECTING the in
quiry into the killing of the five Italians at
Tallulah. La. The governor has stated
that the grand jury of the parish in which
Tallulah is situated will meet next week
and it is expected that the killing will be
taken up by that body Immediately if the
district attorney finds the report prepared
by the sheriff sufficient to make out a
prima faeie case against the PERPETRATORS
of the killing.
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ARMED MEN

Moving About in a Menacing Manner in the
seud Zone OF kentucky.
LONDON. KY, August "A force of
about 10 mounted men, armed with Win
chesters and Colt revolvers and good
supply of ammunition, passed between
here and Pittsburg last night, going in the
direction of Clay county. They were men,
bers of the Griffin faction. and it is sup
posed that they joined those who have gone
into Manchester to attend the examining
trial of Green Griffin, which was set for
to-day. Green is to be tried for the killing
of Edward Fisher in the feud battle two
weeks ago in Clay equity.
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RECEIVER APPOINTED.

Special 10 the Register.
MARIETTA, OHIO. August 4.-Wil-
liam Job of Moxahala. Ohio. has been
appointed receiver of the Morris Hill
Stone Company, of Cutler, this county,
extensive manufacturers of grind
stones. The recefvership was asked Cor
by I. ". Copelh, who alleges misman-
agement OF the company business.
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CUT OFF HIS HAND.
Special to the Register.

Special TO the Register.
RIPLEY, w. Va, August 4-While
awaiting the arrival of passenger train
near Wildwood, Engineer Thomas Leech. Of
the, Ohio River Railroad, who was sitting
by This engine, placed hts hand upon the
rail- and the fireman started the engine and
cud or his hand
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05
HAD SHOT HIMSELF.

PHILADELPHIA, August 4.-Chas.
A. F. Autenrieth. wealthy retired
banker. was found dead in a bath tub
in his home. 6s7 North 18th street. to-
day. He had shot himself
No motive is known for the suicide.
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INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.

special 70 the Register
PARKERSBURG, ". Va, August 4.
The following collections of internal
revenue for the district Of West Vir-
ginia is reported by Collector A. B.
White: Lists, s11,1946s; beer. $751;
037.45; spirits, s10,065.SS: liquors, $780,
S01.29 snuff stamps. S12T29; tobacco,
s3S, 30; special tax. s15.S4S17; doe
umentary stamps, s12,2s6.s7: proprie-
tary stamps, s27490. total, s145,1S5.43;
collections July, 1898. s144,7sS1S; gain,
sSe7.25.
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CONDITION OF THE TREASURY

WASHINGTON, August 4--To-day's
statement of the condition Of the treas
ury shows:
Available cash balance $275. .60f;
gold reserve $245. l62. 266.
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removed at once to hospital, and the
case isolated.
The dispatch was received two days
ago, but was not made public until to-
day. Since then no word has come
from the admiral or from the naval
surgeon in charge and this is taken to
indicate that nothing serious is appre-
hended.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-05
HOBART IN GOOD HEALTH.

NEW YORK, August 4.-Vice Pres
ident Hobart left Long Branch to-day
at $3.50 for Lake Champlain on ten
day visit to President Mckinley. The
Vice President appeared to be in good
health when he left
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PRESIDENT 70 Go YACHTING
Will Use DR.. W. Seward Webb's Boat,
the s'ElfrldatO."

WITH A PARTY OF FRIENDS, THE
PRESIDENT AND MRS. MKIN-
LEY WILL WITNESS THE RACES
OF THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN
YACHT CLUB-BROTHER ABB
NER AGAIN APPEARS UPON
THE SCENE-VICE PRESIDENT
HOBART STARTS FOR PLATTS-
BURG.
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WASHINGTON, August 4.-Ofiiclai
reports to the marine hospital service
from the Soldiers Home at Hampton
Va, show that the yellow fever condl-
lions there continue favorable. sur
geon White reports to DR.. Wyman
that there is nothing suspicious IN the
town of Hampton. There were no new
cases and only one death at the home
to-day, according to a report DR.. Vic
kerry, the surgeon at the institution,
sent to the surgeon general tonight.
DR.. Vickery expressed the opinion that
the immune help on the way there
should be sufficient as the epidemic
seems TO be checked. The Gordon
around the home and the Immediately
adjoining village of Phoebus, Surgeon
White says, is as tight as he ever saw
it at any place.
Surgeon General Wyman, in speak
ing of TIE situation tonight, infaren-
too sanguine views on the checking of
the epidemic at this time, which might
result in relaxation of the precad-
lions which should be maintained
against the spread of tie fever. He
said:
There are certain factors in the
situation which make it encouraging,
and they are, first, that the disease was
discovered very promptly, compared
with usual outbreaks, and in an insu-
tuition where all the inmates were TN
der good control. 1t was recognized
much quicker than it would ahev been
in a commercial community, because
all the cases and all the deaths were
brought together to the notice CT one
man. Another favorable factor is that
the latitude is not extremely south.
Nevertheless, it should be remembered
that in Brunswick, Ga, in 1888, a lit
tie more than two weeks after the last
reported death, other cases appeared
In response to an inquiry to the sit
uation and needs at the Indian school
at Hampton, Va, the following dis
patch was receied to-day by the COM
missioner of Indian affairs from Agent
Briggs:
Rigid quarantine fer and against
US. All Indians except II boys are in
the north. They are efficient and faith
full in the general guard duties. Am
authorized to say that the possibility of
infection is remote"
The following was to-day wired the
Associated Press:
"NATIONAL SOLDIERS HOMO,
Virginia, August 4.
81 wish to state on behalf of those
who may have relations or friends
among the Catholic element here in the
National Soldiers Home, that since
my coming here, last Monday, to labor
among the 1,500 Catholic veterans and
offer the consultations. of our holy re-
ligion to such as might be stricken
down with the yellow fever have had
within the past five days only seven
cases to attend. Out of this small num-
Der of cases, only one has died, the
form.
(Signed)
"REV. JAMES r. COLLINS
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YELLOW FEVER SITUATION.
One Death and No New Cases Reported
Yesterday.

WHILE EVERYTHING is PRO-
CROSSING FAVORABLY, THE
AUTHORITIES GIVE WARNING
AGAINST OVER CONFIDENCE
IN STAMPING OUT THE DIS
EASE AT ONCE-ALL MAILS
THOROUGHLY FUMlG A T 4 d..
YELLOW FEVER AT VERA
CRUZ, MEX.-ALL WELL AT
HAMPTON INDIAN SCHOOL.
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SIR W|LFRED MILL NOT CONE
Governor General of Canada Says Hes
Afraid to Visit Chicago.

SAYS THAT HE FEARS WITH PUB
Lie FEELING NITS PRESENT
STATE, He MIGHT BE INSULT
ED OR SUBJECTED TO INDIG-
NITY-WILL NOT CROSS THE
BORDER, AND WILL RECON-
MEND THAT OTHER CANADIANS
STAY AT HOME
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(Signed)
REV. JAMES E. COLLINS.
"Catholic Chaplain. ~. S. H.

IdlAOllc NIldpldln, N. >. ii.
The Postoffice Department reports
that the mails are now being despatch
ed into the quarantined points on he
mail sent out from them is being thor
oughly fumigated.
The marine hospital received word
to-day that several hundred tents and
a quantity of cots had been turned over
to the Hampton Home from Fort Mon
roe to allow camping out about 1,500 OF
the inmates in the Home grounds while
the barracks are being disinfected
There is no report Of cases. This Is
taken to indicate that the epidemic is
at a standstill.