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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
sIcuATIoN SERIOUS.
Pennsylvania Mountains Afiame With
Forest Fires-BInding Blue smoke

pennsylvania mountains Afiame With
Forest ires-Blinding Blue smoke.
CONNELLSVILLE, Pa, October 23.-
Connellsville is blinded to-day with the
terrific forest fires which are raging
without any interruption all along the
crest and sides OF Chestnut ridge The
situation is really serious, so extensive
and wide is the area of flames. The
air is laden with the binding blue
smoke that the citizens of Connells-
vile cannot see across the Youghiogh-
eny river into New Haven, and every
house is filled with the haze. The fires
have crept down and are drifting their
burning embers over South Connells-
vile. Ahead of the flames may be seen
flocks of hot and weary birds, squirrel
and other game.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
AGUlN ALDO
As President Could Not BE Recognized by
Gen. Otis.

As President Could Not BE Recognized by
Gen. Otis.
WASHINGTON. October 2S.-Gen. Otis
account of the last Filipino peace overture
is as follows:
Manila, October q:
October 20-Message received at Angeles 8,
under flag of truce, expressed desire of
Honorable President Aguinaldo' TO send
commission to Manila to arrange differ
ences connected with delivery of Spanish
prisoners and to discuss matter of particu-
lar character. Reply returned that COM
mission accredited by any one other than
Gen. Aguinaldo. General in Chief of in
surgent forces, could not be recognized or
received.
NO later correspondence.
(signed) OTIS
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

The Milwaukee Germania, the lead
ing German Republican paper of Wis
consin and the organ of the German
Lutheran population, serves notice
upon President Mckinley and the Re-
publican leaders generally, ehat the
Germans are opposed to Imperialism
and militarism. The same feeling
among the Germans has cropped out de-
cidedly in Ohio and other States, and
the sentiment is growing.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
M'LEAN IS SATISFIED.

WASHINGTON, October 23-Hon.
John R. Mclean, Democratic candidate
ton to-day on personal business and
started back to Columbus tonight. He
declined to discuss the campaign, but
expressed himself as entirely satisfied
with the situation. One of Mr.. Nc
Leans callers during the afternoon was
Admiral Dewey.
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WORTH A TRIAL AT LEAST.

Des Mones Leader.
1t is denied that the war in the Philip
pines would be stopped at once if the.
President, through General Otis, shouts
announce to the Filipino people that he
would use his best endeavors to induce
Congress to pass measure which would
insure the same policy toward the Philip
pines that is being extended toward Cuba.
1t is. of course, possible that the Filipinos,
their passions and resentment aroused by
the events of the last nine months, would
decline peace on such terms. But the
plan is worth trying.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
HE WAS JEALOUS.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, October 23.-
John Franklin, a miner, residing at
Pinckney, near here, choked his sleep
ing wife to death and then blew cut his
brains with a pistol Jealousy was the
cause. The couple left several children.
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THROWN FROM 4 BUGGY.

Special to the Register.
TERRA ALTA. w. Va. October 23-sus
Spindler. while driving this afternoon from
GAINESVILLE to Terra Alta. was seriously
injured by being thrown from buggy.
She was brought to the Washington house,
at this place where she is lying in a very
precarious condition
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
THE IOWA SOLDIERS.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 23.-The
transport Senator, which arrived here
yesterday with the Fifty-first Iowa reg
iment, was locked at the government
wharf to-day. The returned soldiers
marched through the streets to the
Preside amid scenes Of great enthusi-
asm They will probably be mustered
out within the next three weeks.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

The government has almost COM
pleted the fitting out of a sumptuous
transport to take large number of the
wives and sweethearts of American
officers to Manila Is the Philippine af-
fair war, or simply sort of long
distance picnic?
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STILL BLAMING ALGER.

Houston Post.
Poor old Algerl He was the scapegoat
of the administration when he was in and
now that he is out he reappears in his
accustomed role to serve the same old
purposes. 1t now is charged that the
Otisian censorship was demanded by the
Alger regime and that as soon as Secre-
tary Root made this discovery he set about
to abolish or at least to relax the order
of his predecessor. This is hard on Alger.
but then the administration must have
somebody on whose shoulders to lay its
blunders.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
GLANCE AT THE F-TuRE-

Buffalo Courier
With all the amiable talk Of kindred
ties, how is Britain to afford to stand idle
while her people are pauperized by Amer
lean competition? She is conducting war
in South Africa in the interests of trade
expansion. We are doing just the same
thing in the Philippines. When the small
fish are all swallowed, which may be at
no very distant day, will the biz ones
not undertake to devour one another? 1t
is something to think about.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

Will Council, at this evenings ses-
sion, appoint committee to examine
into the tunneling of Wheeling Hill?
The people are in the frame of mind to
endorse something of this sort.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

1t is now proposed in certain Repub-
lican quarters to advocate before Cen
gress, at the coming session of that
body. the confiscation of all church
property in the Philippines and the
driving away Of TIE Catholic friars. az
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
MKINLEY SAID 70 BE UNTEuTHFuL

Grand Rapids Democrat
Rebellion has been raised, .said the
President in one of his eleciioneering
stump speeches yesterday, ''in territory
which is as much our own as is the Dis
tr.ct of Columbia or Alaska This is an
absolutely false statement-both as mat
ter of fact and as matter Of right II
is false, in fact, because we have not
and never had posse ssion of the Philip
pines: and it is false. as a matter of right
because we bought it of nation which,
having already lost possession to the
Filiplnos, had no title TO convey.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
rae QUESTION OF PoLYHAMY.

THE QUESTION OF POLfiAhA.
There will be no dispute over the
assertion that polygamy is an evil
which the civilization of the present
day cannot tolerate or recognize, and
its gradual extinction as result of
progressive Christianity and the
spread of enlightened thought
is an end too obvious to be
ignored. Once the practice was
all but universal. To-day it is
the exceptional condition, and year by
year it's bounds are narrowed and its
lessening presence becomes more con-
spicuous. The question is one of
morals, and like many another is diff
ficult to handle once it gains estab-
lishment. A custom extending
through generations or ages cannot
be overturned, abrogated or obliterat-
ed in a year or decade, but there can
be a gradual reversion to a better
condition if patience be Joined to a
steady and unceasing missionary eff
fort
An example of this is to be found
in the Mormon Church and among
the Mormon people of Utah and sur
rounding territory. That Church
once preached polygamy. 1t no long
er does so. Polygamy is still practiced
but that is the result of past things.
Fifteen or twenty years ago a Nor
mon may have married two or more
wives. Since he has not added to the
number, because of changed condi-
tons, both in law and religion; but
he is in honor bound to provide and
care for members of his household,
rather than cause for either criti-
cism or blame. Such case is that of
Brigham H. Roberts, Democratic rep
resentative in Congress from Utah,
against whom such hue and cry has
been raised, chiefly eminating from
the Republican press. And this same
press has lately added to the attack
upon Mr. Roberts the charge that of
the Democratic nominations for AID
ermen in Salt Lake City, twelve are
Mormons and only two gentiles. The
point has little weight in a city where
the Mormons have large majority,
but if the conditions were otherwise
it would pale into insignificance before
the fact that, while denouncing Nor
monism with a yehemence second on
" to the old Abolition cry against
slavery, the Republican administra-
ton has not only recognized poly
gapy and slavery in the Sulu group,
but has coyenanted with Sultan Mo-
manned Wolomol Hiram. who has
seventeen wives. to pay him $3.50 per
month under a permanent contract,
while various other native officials,
whose lists of wives have not been re-
corded. are paid out of the treasury
of the United States, sums ranging
from SIS per month down, the total
subsidy being s755r month, or $4,000
per year. And this money will go d.
rectly to the support OF polygamous
institutions.
In the face of this official recogni-
ton by the administration at Wash
ington, it no longer lies in the mouths
of Renuhlirans tn Criticize Mr. poh
erts or those who elected him to Of
flee. The Republican party, by the
acts of its leaders and its next candi-
date for President, stands guilty of
officially recognizing not only poly
gamy but slavery, within territory
owned and controlled by the United
States. The less they say about Mr..
Roberts hereafter. the better.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

Charles Meier, arrested last Satpr-
day in st. Louis for the fiftieth time,
has served thirteen penitentiary terms,
and probably holds the record for in
generation in such institutions. By
this time he ought to feel at nome be-
hind the bars.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

It is quietly whispered that Candi-
date for Auditor Charley Henning and
Councilman C. F. Bachmann, have
been down on little fence-fxing ex-
petition into Peasants county and con-
tigious territory, and that they net
with considerable success and encour-
agement.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
GERMANS IN THE BoER ARMY.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
1t will be noticed in the dispatches that
the Boer army appears to be literally
supplied with German gunners and Ger
man officers. Tais viii be calculated not
only to harass the British advance, but it
may have the effect of putting saw edge
on the entente cordiale between the Brit
ish empress and her grandson, the Ger
man emperor.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

Now that he is back in Washington
and has had time to think i; over
calmly, the President is probably of the
opinion that his late campaign trip
was scarcely worth the effort.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
DIED.

HOFFMAN-On Monday October I'D,
1853. at 1906 o'clock p. m, Frederick Hoff-
mann. in the SD year Of his age.
Funeral services at his late residence.
No. 3 Alley A. on Wednesday. October
25th at O'Clock ,. n. Friends OF the
family respectfully invited to attend. In
terment at Mt Wood cemetery.
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DAMAGE BY FOREST FIRES.

DUNBAR, Pa, october 2S-This section
is enveloped in a heavy cloud of smoke
caused by the mountain fires since Satur-
day afternoon It Is reported several saw
mills were destroyed last night
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

way Of Illustrating the beauty Of bene
violent assimilatian, the admin stga.ion has
offered brutal and wicked insult to the
very best elements of our adopted popu
iation. No more fantastic and ridiculous
argument was ever suggested. Not even
the emergencies of a political campaign
can be used to justify so coarse and so
offensive a proposition.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
BOYCOTT OFF.

PITTSBURG, Pa, October 23.-The
fight with the United Brewery Work
mems Association which resulted in
the boycott in 1894 of the Pittsburg
Brewery Workers has been settled.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

All efforts to get General Curtin
upon the Republican gubernatorial
track have failed utterly. The Cen
eral has probably taken look at the
course and don't fancy the hurdles.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
WILL NoT BE cRUsHEp.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The American people will never consent
to be crushed, under the plea that mon
opo!y and its accompanying tyranny are
a natural growth and inevitable condition.
They have been accustomed TO Top off
noxious growths and change uncomfortable
conditions They VII do so with the trasts
when they awake to the necessity OF
action.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
WEATHER Wand IN THE WHITE
HOUSE,
kansas City star.

Kansas City Star.
Mr.. Mckinley always has weather
vane up to see which way the wind is
blowing. He does not possess the courage
and foresight to decide great problems on
their merits. He is not leader of men
in the sense of formulating ideas for the
people to follow or of mo.ding public senti-
ment. He is constantly on the lookout
to see what is the popular thing to do.
He has pursued this course all through
his life, not so much from his desire TO
serve the people as to promote his own
political fortunes.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
ON A SAW
You ng Man Named Lewis Fright
July injured Near Buckhannoa.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
BUCKHANNON. w. Va, October o.
A young man named Lewis. working in a
saw mill on Sand Run, this county. caught
his foot in a belt and was thrown upward
five feet. His body broke three rafters
and fell back on the belt. running toward
a circular saw. The saw caught him. cut
ting his throat and breast bone, and saw
ing open his abdomen.
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SOME INprsrRIEs Nor NERpEn.

Sioux City Tribune.
Tho country needs all the industries it
can get except the purely private enter
prise that cannot be carried on at a profit
without contributions from tie people.
That sort of enterprise is drag, it is
false economy and costs more than it Is
worth to anyone but the recipients of pub
lie charity.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24


The Wheeling Railway Company S
ordinance, providing for a new loop
on the South Side, between Forty-third
and Forty-eighth streets, comes up in
Council this evening. This measure
appears to be in the light Of a public
improvement when viewed at large.
South of Forty-third street, at present,
all cars have to run over single track.
Jacob street is narrow one, and travel
is naturally very much congested. 1t
would appear that relief in the shape
Of taking one-half the street cars off
that street would be benefit, particu-
larly as the new line east towards, the
hill will discommode no one and may
result in added public convenience.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

Sir Charles Upton says he's going to
'lift that cup" yet. Well, America ad-
mires grit.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24
CHANGE IN THE EXECUTIVE MIND.

Springfield (Mass) Republican
1T is no longer question of expansion
with us" said the President at Iowa Fails.
we have expanded Then it is no longer
a question for the vision of Congress
to decide. as the President declared in
February. 1t is evident that the President
has expanded too.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

To-day Mr.. Bryan commences the
campaign in Nebraska in earnest He
will find the people with him.
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LOYALTY TO THE FLAG NO NEW
THING.
Omaha World Herald


Mr. Mckinley, in every speech delivered
in his stumping tour this fall, takes occa-
sion to express his qualification that the
people of the United States are still patri-
otto and true to the flag The American
people were patriots and lovers of the star
spangled banner when M. Mckinley was
one of the eventualities of future time.
They will so remain when he is memory
of the past.
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wANTEIh Tz1BERs or SECRET 60
cfet1eA 20 call AT Vest Va Printing L.
no. rs and lat Market street. sn4 eas
nEnine samplsN of address sAr4n
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PERSONAL.

LADIES needing confidential treatment. q
Eafe and sure relief u all diseases ard eam-
u5siufs peculiar - their sex constipation.
irrexuiars.y &c PRIVATE Lylng-ta SAN
tarigni, with all hUL comforts Infarfs
adopted e required. MRS BiRcHLEkf9
SANfTAKfUM. - West Sixth street, cln-
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STEEL ENGRAVED

Address Cards 100 cards and pate. TIA
Wedding Invitations. any price you wish
10 pay. sampsss scs asking.
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AND BARNUM WAS A GREAT HUM
BUG.
kansas Citv Times

Kansas city Times.
Mckinley is returning to Washington
under the firm conviction that he has con-
WINGED the west that his Philippine war is
the greatest blessing America ever en-
joyed. That is the way Barnum used to
think about his circus.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

al auxiliary means Of ending the war.
1t is pretty safe to say that Congress
will not even listen to any such supreme
foolishness. Church property ON The is
land of Luzon should be as sacred from
governmental interference as in any
State of the Union, and the friars have
perfect right to continue the practice
and teaching of the religion they believe
ina right guaranteed by the Consti-
tuition of the United States. in the first
amendment thereto.
To be sure, Republicans generally
haven't much veneration or respect for
the Constitution, of late, but they will
scarcely go to the extreme proposed.
One of the best things which could
happen to the American army would
be the enforced removal Of such bar
nacles as Otis, Shafter and few others
who might be named. There is plenty
of good material in the army, but it
never gets a chance. and, in the Ian
guage of Kipling, Lieutenants de
generate into fat captains and ;ubby
majors" before they see any but rou-
tine service, and when promotion comes
to the rank of Colonel or Brigader
General the snap and vim is gone and
the result is a congcsted fighting ma
chine. A brief study of Napoleon's
campaigns in Italy ard Egypt will
demonstrate what young men can do
when they have the opportunity.
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WANTED.
Aglp wAnTRp

WANTED-one coat and one pants press
er. Apply +. r. care Register. oelser
WANTED~Agents 20 hafdla special liz.
Of gCodsi can be sold on payments or ~.
cash, Now IS The time. Apply az once. "a.
80 Market street. oe9a-,'
WANTED-A good bread ard cake 49,
JAMES RAY, Buekhannon. W va.
ocz46&da
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EEMALE &c wAN1 en


wANTED-A girl at No. % Twelfth
street. Ocz2e&dh
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PATENTS. etc. procured. or money re-
funded. K :. HARRISON Expert At
torney and II. r. ~ Fifth Ave. Pitts
burg. Pa oeEe&dra
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ZOE sALE-M sceLLANeous


FOR SALESMAN melting pot: win hold
ten gallons or 200 pounds. Apply at WEST
VA PRINTING CO jul6h
The times., 1899-08-25
MAY RETAIN THE PENSION.
Decision in the Case of a Deceased
PoIiccman's Family.

Decision in the Case of Deceased
PoIiccman's Family.
The death some time ago of a child of
the late Sergeant Kerby, of the Metropoli-
tan Police Force, deprived the family %
an income of Sc, which had been allowed
the little one by the District munieipal and
police authorities. The family consisting
of widow and four children which survive
the father and the deceased child, stood in
need of the money, and the widow, Mrs
Kate A. Kerby, wrote to Major Sylvester,
the Chief of Police, asking that the in
come CT Sc which had been allowed the
child that died be paid TO her.
Major Sylvester signified a willingness to
assist the widow, but felt that compliance
with the request might not be consistent
with the law. He brought the matter to
the attention Of the District Auditor. The
latter ruled that while not more than 500
might be set aside as pension for any
policeman or family, the manner in which
such amounts are allotted is immaterial
Accordingly, the allowance of $780, which
served as a pension for five children, will
now, since one Of the children is dead be
distributed in equal allotments among the
four surviving children, the District Com
missioners having approved a recommended
tion of Major Sylvester to that effect
This action on the part of the municipal
authorities does not imply that the allot-
ment granted to the deceased child neces-
sarily reverted to the family. The Com
missioners may distribute police pensions
as they deem proper, and in the case in
question they think circumstances warrant
the readiustment of the pension in the
manner mentioned
The times., 1899-08-25
Changes at the Emergency.

DR.. Jesse l. Adams. resident physician
ct the Emergency Hospital. and Or. Wal
ter II. Merrill. in charge OF the X-ray de-
partment OF the institution and professor
OF physics al Georgetown Medical School.
left the city yesterday morning for a two
weeks bicycle trip through the SHENANDOAH
Valley. Their objective point is Luray.
where they expect to remain for few days
before starting on their return journey
During the absence OF DR.. Adams DR..
Nhitson, OF the Emergency staff. viii act
ar resident physician. while DIR. Williams.
who has Just returned from his vacation.
viii assume the duties of DIR. Whitson as
senior assistant. The position OF junior
assistant will be filled by Or. w. X Ward.
Q graduate of Columbian University DIR.
Ward ofiiciated as Junior assistant during
the absence Of Dr. Williams