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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
NO ACTION TAKEN.

Washington. February Regard
ing reiterated newspaper reports that
severe action was meditated by the
War Department in the case of Gen.
Miles, it may be said that no official
action has been taken
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
THE PACIFIC CABLE.
President Scrymser Hopes the United
States will Control 1t

San Francisco, February 1.-THE
steamer Coptic arrived to-day, bringing
army and navy officers from the Phil
ippines. Among the passengers was
John A. Scrymser, president of the Pa
cific Cable Company. He is encouraged
to hope that the cable would be main
tanned and operated by the United
States government. Such cable is a
military necessity and the United
States should have absolute control and
be independent of foreign companies.
Lieut. c.. G. Calkins, who stood on
the bridge with Admiral Dewey during
the bombardment of Manila, was a
passenger on the Coptic.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
K. OF P. SUPREME TRIBUNAL

INDIANAPOLIS. February 2-The Su
preme Tribunal K. of P, met to-day The
only case Of Importance was that Of Hen
~ Weltenvoss. VINO appeared 10 show
why his name should not be stricken from
the lodge records
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
WELLINGTON's PREDICTION.

Baltimore, February 2.-Senator Wei
lington to-day said that he believed
the peace treaty would be ratified. Tha
Senator has been counted in the opposi.
tiOD
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
TO THE WORKHOUsE.

Pittsburg. Pa, February Mary
Anderson, the young woman convicted
Of selling counterfeit mileage books,
was sentenced to two months in the
wcrkLouse.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
DENTRRERs ARGTED.

Columbus o., February 2.-Demurs
rers were argued in the cases OF the At.
torney General against the Ohio Oil.
Buckeye Pipe Line and Solar Refining
companies in the Supreme Court to-
daY
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
TOD sLoAN's WINNINGS
Reported to Have Cleaned Up $3.50, 900 ~
Wall Street SpecuIstions

Wall Street Specuistlons.
San Francisco, February 1.-The Elk
aminer says that Tod Sloan has re-
ceived a telegram from New York stat
ing that he has cleaned up $250,000 az
the result of speculation in Wall street.
1t is said that before coming West Tod
left several thousand dollars with Il
b. Bell, Wall street operator, with gen.
eral instructions to invest 1t as ha
thought best
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03

New York, February Light has
at last been thrown on the mysterious
Adams poisoning case. District Attor-
ney Gardiner said to-day that he was
of the opinion that he would be able
to adduce evidence at the inquest that
would lead to the arrest of two and
perhaps three persons. He said he
had the necessary evidence for this.
The poison sent to Cornish caused
the death of Mrs. Kate Adams on De-
cember 2Sth last.
For the past three days Col Gar
diner has been making personal in
vestigation into the death of Mrs.
Adams and H. Barnet, the latter
member of the Knickerbocker Athletic
Club, who died in November under
suspicious circumstances. He is now
convinced that the deaths of the two
were intimately connected, although
the motive in the murder of Mrs.
Adams was undoubtedly against the
life of Cornish, the physical director
of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club.
An investigation relative to the hand
writing in the case has convinced Mr..
Gardiner of these conclusions.
Col. Gardiner to-day addressed a let
ter to Coroner Hart, saying that he
thinks the body OF Barnet should be
exhumed at once, unless it should be
found that the body was embalmed
previous to burial with fluid contain
ing mercury.
Il agree that at the inquest the
names of some prominent people may
be mentioned and that some scandal
may follow. | cannot say that there
will be political scandal. for | do not
know the politics of the persons l have
in mind. | can say. however, that no
politics has been brought into this case.
The person guilty of this crime is a
moral pervert, and, in my opinion, Bar
net and Cornish were the intended vic
tins. At this time / would not like
to give my ideas of the motive. but [
think at the inquest proof sufficient
to warrant an arrest will be adduced. [
am satisfied with what is the motive
in this case, but my opinion is not evil
dence. ! think that the evidence at
the inquest will run into each other
in the Barnet and Mrs. Adams cases.
1t would not take a long time to ex-
hume and make an analysis of Barnet's
body and it could be done before the
Adams inquest is through. In other
words, l think they both can be held
together.
Il think that more than two persons
were concerned in this murder. and
maybe a third one knows all about it.
The minute | get enough evideEce !
shall cause an arrest. This evidence
will come, am sure, at the inquest
This murder was done with deep
deliberation by a person moderately
familiar with chemistry" continued
Col. Gardiner THE investigation
shows startling things in connection
with the poisons used and the methods
of using them. The poison acts diff
ferently in different symptoms. The
prisoners did not know, evidently, that
poison would be slow in one case and
quick in another; that different ingre-
dents would make a change. In all
probability the pOisoner intended that
each victim should die slowly.
This case is similar to that of the
Cleveland street scandal in London
some years ago.
The police are said to be closely
watching two suspects in the case.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
DIR. DAILY INDORSER.

Pittsburg, Pa, February 2.-The Al
legheny County Medical Society to-
night unanimously adopted a resolu-
ton endorcing the position taken by
DR.. W. H. Daily in the Miles-Sagan con-
troYersy.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
FACTORY BURNED.

Detroit, Mich, February 2.-The
Clough & Warren Company's piano and
organ factory, at Congress street. west
OF Sixth street, was partly destroyed
by fire to-day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
The PROPOSITION ACCEPTED.
General Gomez Will Assist in DiSband-
ing the Cuban Army.

THE 100000 APPROPRIATED TO
PAY IN PART THE DUES OF
CUBAN SOLDIERS, WILL BE
ACCEPTED BY GOMEZ, AND
WILL BE MADE TO GO AS FAR
AS 1T WILL-GENERAL GOMEZ
ACCEPTS THE INVITATION TO
VISIT HAVANA AND ASSIST
GENERAL BROOKE IN HIS
WORK.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
STILL ANOTHER Trust

CLEVELAND, O., February 1.-The
Iron Trade Review says:
The report that efforts are making for
a consolidation of cast iron pipe compan-
les Is confirmed"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03

BOISE, Idaho, February 2.-One of the
most severe billiards. in the history of
Idaho is raging in Leihmi county. A mes
sage from Red Rock, Mont. the junction
states that all traffic over the stage line
to Salmon City has been suspended. Great
loss of stock is reported and several peo-
pie caught by the storm in the mountains.
it is feared, have persisted
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
ITALIANS SHATTEREn

Scranton. Pa, February As a re-
suit Of an explosion of dynamite to-
day two Italians are dead, enc fatally
and several seriously injured.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
WILL SOON MAKE ARRESTS.
District Attorney Gardner Has Some
Important Evidence,

WHICH HE SAYS WILL PROBABLY
LEAD TO THE ARREST OF TWO
SUSPECTS AND POSS IBLY
THREE - THE EFFORH TO
POISON CORNISH AND THE
MURDER OF BARNET BELIEV-
ED TO BE THE WORK OF THE
SAME PERSONS - A MOTIVE
FOR THE ATTEMPTS SAID TO
EXIST-A MORAL PERVERT
BLAMED WITH THE DEED.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
SEVERE WEATHER.

Victoria, B. c., February 2.-The
steamer Dirigo arrived here from Ska
quay to-day with passengers from
Dawson City. They report the temper
allure at SO degrees below zero when
they left the Klondike capital.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
RIVER AND Dor BILL
Passed by the House Yesterday by Vote
of One Hundred aud Sixty to Seven

Washington, D. c., February 2-The
River and Harbor bill, carrying slight
ly more than 100000, 900 passed the
House to-day by vote of 100 to Z.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03

DENVER, Feb. 2.-AH transcontitental
railroad lines leading through Colorado
are tied up by the snow. Train No. 1 on
the Denver & Rio Grande ran into a
snowslide near Shoshone, about nine miles
from here. The mail car telescoped, the
tender and baggage car were damned into
the mail car. The engineer and baggage
master were seriously injured The slide
that caused the disaster Is about 100 feet
long and Is feet deep.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
The Weather.

WASHINGTON. February 2-For West
Virglnia-Increasing cioudiness, followed
by rain: northeast winds
For Western Pennsylvania and Ohio
Snow in northern. rain In southern por-
tons; fresh to brisk northeast winds
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03

SPOKANE, Wash, February 1.-The
temperature has lowered around zero for
the past "a hours. A clipping wind has
blown steadily out of the northeast, which
makes the weather bitter cold. Passen-
gers coming in from the northern coun-
try report 10 to 20 degrees below in the
Kootenai country of British Columbia and
on the Colville reservation At Tekoa-
Wash, Earl Drummer, aged Z, was frozen
to death while going to school, mile and
a half in the country.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03

Mr. c. Schnepf the Opera House drug.
gist, made the felleY = observations At
a. m. "a: Il M, %; VI ?. r.
Weather fair. -
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03

Mr.. Bowman, of the Committee on
Education, has introduced a bill which
aims to prevent any further damage
through the school book job of 1895 and
1897, which established repositories in
each county. Purchasers of books have
been put to great expense and incon-
venience in going to the repositories.
Under the old system they were enabled
to trade farm products, ETC., but the
present law requires payment in cash.
Mr.. Bowman's measure Oh. B. $50 en-
ables dealers generally to sell school
books in all the counties.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03

House Bill No. 1853, introduced by Mr..
Spencer, exempts from taxation all ag-
ricultural and live stock products, and
all products of mines, and oil and salt
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03

Mr.. Wyatt introduced a bill in the
House yesterday which provides for the
establishment of free beds for use of
INDECENT poor throughout the State. in
hospitals in Wheeling, Charleston.
Huntington and Clarksburg. The sum
of $4,000 for each, $4,000 in the aggre-
gate, is appropriated for the purpose.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03

Frank Harrison, of Morgan county,
offered a bill yesterday which aims to
safeguard elevators against accidents.
1t creates the office of inspector of
elevators. 1t is a measure in which
fthe public. rather than owners of
buildings, will feel especially inter
eSted.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-05
AMERICAN GIRL LEASES HOUSE
Miss Burdlett Takes the Celebrated
Pompetian Mansion in Paris.

Miss Burdlett Takes the Celebrated
Pompetian Mansion In Paris.
An energetic American woman, by
name Miss Ellen Burdlett, has just
leased the large Pompeiian house in
Paris, which was built about forty
years ago by Prince Jerome Napoleon,
more familiarly known as "Plon-Plon."
Miss Burdlett intends to use the ex-
pansive dwelling as an American tea
and refreshment room during the eX-
position of 1900 and expects to realize
sufficient money during the six months
of the fair to buy the house at its con-
clusion and live in it lever afterward,"
as the fairy books record happy end
ing. The Pompeiian house is in itself
a great curiosity and stands just as it
did when "Plon-Plon' gave his attrac-
tive Italian fetes in the large atrium
| furnished with tribune supported by
eight columns at the foot of which
stand the wonderful Pompeiian vases,
which gave the house it's name, filled
with luxurious tropical foliage. Miss
Burdlett will dress her maids in the
costume of the Pompeiian period and
doubtless her tea room will furnish
rest and entertainment for many
weary, travel-tired Americans glad to
be reminded of home in foreign land,
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-05
rs A GIRL OF JAPAN.
HAS BECOME MINENT IN
AMERICAN LETTERS.
Our Japanese Woman Writer, Onoto
Watanna, Whose Novel miss Nume of
Japan" Is just Out-In Personal Make
up She Is Very Much Japanesque.
(Chicago Letter.)

The great west is constantly produc-
ing clever writer's, SO fresh and vigor-
Gus as to be a never-ending source OF
surprise to the older part of the con-
tinent. Among those who have re-
Gently appeared none has sprung more
rapidly into notice as a successful
short story writer than Onoto Watan-
ma, the young half-Japanese, half-Eng-
lish girl, who makes her home in Chi
cago. Although not strictly a western
production, Miss Watanna may justly
be claimed by this portion Of the coun-
try, as it is here that she has done
most of the work that has brought her
fame, and she says that this busy city,
with it's ceaseless energy and ambition,
is her greatest inspiration.
In the scrap book in which she keeps
a copy of her published stories, and in
which she makes delightful and ORR
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-05
BRYCE OF ENGLAND.
SiPELlGHTS ON THE GREAT
BRITISH ECONCM
His Writings Have Attracted Wider
Attention Than Those of Any Other
Englishman, Living Dead - His
"American Commonwealth."

James Bryce, the great British au-
thor scarcely needs any introduction
to American readers. His American
Commonwealth" is the best and most
popular book On American institutions
issued since the famous work of De
TCcqueville He is one of the foremost
men in the British empire today, and
has had a long and brilliant public
career He is a native of Glasgow,
Scotland, and a graduate of University
College, Oxford, where he won many
prizes and other class hOnOrs. He
served for a number of years as regius
professor of civil law at Oxford uni
versity, resigning this post in 1898.
Mr.. Bryce was first elected to parlia-
ment in 1880, as Liberal member for
Tower Hamlets, and has since been
continuously prominent in various
high government Offices. He was ap~
pointed under secretary Of state in Mr..
Gladstone's government of 1886, and
later was a member of the ROsebery
cabinet, serving as president of the
board of trade. In politics Mr.. Bryce
is a Liberal, and has been the cham
pion of many important measures, such
as home rule, international copyright,
the abolition of university tests, and
the protection of the Christian subjects
of the sultan. He has also distinguish
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-05

ed himself for his advocacy of teach
ing university in London, and the set
tler1ent of trade disputes by public ar
bitration. In his public service, as
in his literary work, Mr.. Bryce has
adopted the wise and moderate course
which has earned for him the profound
respect even of his opponents. In the
field of literature Mr.. Bryce has made
for himself an immortal name. His
first great work, the "Holy Roman En-
pire," has become a classic, and has
been translated into nearly every Eu-
ropean language. Other notable pro-
ductions are his 1.-TWO Centuries of lr-
ish History" "The American Common
wealth." and Impressions of South At
rica," the latter issued a year ago. Mr..
Bryce is also frequent contributor to
the leading English and American re-
views. He is specially gifted as a
writer on great international questions
and his views on such subjects are al
ways received with profound attention
everywhere He has a clear, incisive
and vigorous style, and is original, in
dependent and progressive in his ideas
and opinions. He has always been
friendly and sympathetic toward this
country, though keen, just and dis
eliminating critic. 1t is not too much
to say that no living writer outside OF
America is more competent than Mr.
Bryce to discuss the living issues OF
the day in a broad and masterful way
and from point of view that will COM
mand the attention of the Americas
public Bryce is an ardent supporter
of the principle of bimetallism.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-05
DWARFS IN THE FOREST.

They Never Emerge from the Solitude
in Which Lloyd Found Them.
The English traveller, Alfred B.
Lloyd, who has made the journey
from Victoria Nyanza to the mouth Of
the Congo in three months, the quick
est time on record, using the CongN
steamboat service and railroad for
two-thirds of the way, Travelled
through the great equatorial forest OF
which Stanley gave so vivid a de-
scription. His route was little to
the south of Stanley's road. and he
saw much of the dwarfs who inhabit
the forest region. 81 was three weeks
crossing the great forest" he said.
often the darkness even at midday
was remarkable. Sometimes I
was unable to read at noon, when,
as you know, the sun near the equa-
tor is almost directly overhead. One
day I tried to photograph my tent, but
failed on account Of the dimness OF
the light. We sometimes narrowly
escaped being killed by the fall OF
enormous trees, some OF whose trunks
measured over twenty feet in circum-
ference. The silence of deaths reigns
in this forest unless broken by ami
mails or the fall of trees" Mr.. Lloyd
found game in abundance. There were
numerous elephants, leopards. buifa-
loes and antelopes in the forest. He
saw many more dwarfs than Stanley
met in the same region, and thus de-
scribed them to the London Daily
News: 81 saw a great many of the
pygmies, but, generally speaking.
they kept out of the way as much as
possible. At one place in the mid
die of the forest, called Holenga,
stayed at village of few huts ov-
cupied by the so-called Arabs. There
came upon a great number OF pyg-
mics who came to see me. They told
me that unknown to myself they had
been watching me for five days, peer
ing through the growth Of the prime
val forest at our caravan. They ap-
peared to be very much frightened.
and even when speaking covered
their faces. I slept at this village,
and in the morning I asked the chief
| to allow me to photograph the
dwarfs. He brought ten or fifteen Of
them together, and I was enabled to
secure a snapshot I couldn't give
time exposure, as the pygmies would
not stand STILL Then with great diff
Guilty l tried to measure chem, and
found not one of them over four feet
in height. All were fully developed.
The women were somewhat slighter
than the men, but were equally we'll
formed. I was amazed at their sturdi-
ness. Their arms and chests were
splendidly developed, as much so as
in a good specimen of an Englishman.
These men have long boards half way
down the chest, which imparts to
them very strange appearance. They
are very timid and cannot look a
stranger in the face. Their eyes are
constantly shifting, as is the case with
monkeys. They are fairly intelligent.
Except for tiny strip of bark cloth
men and women are quite nude. They
are armed with bows and arrows-the
latter tipped with deadly poison-and
carry small spears. They never go
outside the forest. During the whole
time was with them they were per-
fectly friendly"
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-05
Brother and Sister.

One of the strangest occurrences
which seems more impossible than
stories told in fiction, is recorded in
the current news of the day. Minnie
Brown, pretty young woman from
Pennsylvania, who visited Union City.
KY, recently, while there became in
fatuated with young man. An en-
gagement followed a short courtship,
and she soon returned to her home in
the Keystone state to prepare for the
wedding. She carried with her a pho
tograph of her intended husband which
she showed her parents, who recognize
ed in it the likeness of a long-lost son.
The young man had left home when a
mere child, and his parents afterward
moved into Pennsylvania, and he en-
tirely lost sight Of or remembrance Of
them.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-05
Largest of Land Animals.

The bones of an extinct dinosaur
Cterrible lizard'), recently unearthed
near Laramie, Wyo., by Prof. w. H.
Reed, are believed to represent the
largest land animal known ever to
have dwelt upon the earth. The length
of the skeleton is 130 feet, of which
40 belonged to the body proper, 60 to
the tail and 30 to the neck and head.
Prof. Reed estimates that the weight
of this monster, when clothed with
flesh. must have been about 60 tons.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-05
Printing by X-Ray.

DR.. Frederick S. Kolle describes, in
the Electrical Engineer, a process of
printing by the aid of the x ray,
which, he thinks, may supersede some
of the present methods. He calls 1t
typo-radiography. One way to pre-
pare the original copy is to print the
text with adhesive ink, and then dust
metallic powder over it, which will
remain only on the printed charac-
tiers. The copy is next bound up with
about fifty thicknesses of sensitized
paper and subjected to the action of
the Roentgen tube. Twenty blocks OF
fifty sheets each, DR.. Kolle says, can
be arranged simultaneously around a
single tube, thus producing thousand
comics of the original with about ten
seconds exposure.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-05
GERMS IN PHONES.
Dangers That Lurle In Transmitters and
Receivers.

The telephone receivers, transmit
ters and tubes in the Offices Of the
health department are being cleaned
daily, by order of Dr.. Jones, as a
means of killing disease germs that
often collect on the instruments by
reason of persons breathing upon
them. DR.. Jones advises the frequent
scrubbing Of telephone receivers, es-
pecially speaking tubes and public tel
eDhones, as he has no doubt that they
may act as disseminators of disease
germs. DR.. Schede, an expert chemist
of New York, has scientifically dem
onstrated that telephones do harbor
disease germs. His investigation was
confined to telephone transmitters,
which he washed with an atomizer
containing two parts of alcohol, one
part of ether and one-half pint of glyc-
crime. The germs and foreign SUBJ
stances were found in the glycerine
after the alcohol had been evaporated.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-05

4O1 miles; in 1896 the 1850 separate
routes aggregated 174,777 miles. Com
pared with this the railway postal
service of all other nations dwindles
into insignifcance. Germany, the near
est approach to a rival, has only 27,243
miles: France follows close with 25,-
665 miles. Our postal cars, during the
year 1898, ran a distance of 2S1, $685.
miles. This means that every hour one
of our mail trains travelled distance
equal to one and one-fifth times around
the globe. The amount paid to rail-
ways is based on the average weight of
daily mail per mile on a weighing for
thirty successive days.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-05
FRENCH WRITER IN AM ERICA.

Edouard Rod, who has just arrived
in America for the purpose of giving
series of lectures in French in several
large American universities. is a mas
ter of the French language, and has
widespread reputation for the excellent
literary work that has come from his
pen. He founded and is the editor OF
the Revue Contemporaries, and through
that organ of criticism he exercises a
deep and wide influence on modern
French literature. He first attracted
attention as a writer with his defense
of Zola's work in "L'Assommoir." This
appeared in 1879 and other efforts that
followed it were we'll received by the
reading French public, and his place in
letters was thus made secure. 1t was
not, however, until 1885, when La