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The Eddy current., 1899-03-18

Miss Potter has furnished the CuR-
RENr with the following list of pupils
who never missed day during the
school year just closed; Leah Hutchi.
son, Louise Breeding, Susie Moore and
Cyrus lIendren. Pupils who missed
only two days, and that on account OF
sickness, were Maze Cunningham and
Bernice lluichison. This is an ex-
ceptionally good record and the pupils
~ wells ~ the teacher deserve much
credit
Presiding Elder Mathews was
pleasant caller at this office Monday OF
this week. Rev. Mathews Informs the
CURRENT that the district conference
OF the NJ. 4 church will be held In
Pecos CITY, Mar. 22-2g, over which
Bishop S. Key will preside. Those
wishing 20 attend the conference can
secure a one fare rate by applying TO
Rev. Lilies Rev Mathews also says
that his church will shortly establish
a college Ia II Pdso.
The meeting OF the citizens called !
for last Monday night TO confer con-
cerning the raising Of beets, appointed |
Il committee 10 interview the nier
chants and learn what ali would do 90 |
assist the acreage this season. The
visited the merchants and
men and met with con.
siderable encouragement, The meet
ng WIS well attended and aroused
enthusiasm. There will
% another meeting next Monday
hight, when all are invited 10 turn out.
Chas. H. Wright, the Otis farmer
lad mechanic. returned last week from
arizona where he was employed tor
hree months putting IN a ten stamp
Mill for free milling ore for the Turn
ng Point Mining Co., OF Casa Grande,
/. +. The mill Is located twenty-five
niles southwest of Casa Grande and {
90 miles northeast u PheniX. Mr. {
Wright met johnny Beals while In ,
'hrnix aud says Johnny has more
usiness than he can attend 10, having /
} charge the gas works OF Phenix and
ottllng works at Tempe. Johnny /
'ants a reliable assistant.
Dr. Whicher informs the CURRENT /
iai IN company with DR. Wright he !
lsited the Anderwerth family Mon 4
ny; that Mr. Anderwerth was re a
ased from the small pox quarantine Y
nd that the quarantine on the rest Of d
le family will be raised In about two
eeks. Mr.. Anderwerth has been =,
owed from the family home aud will !,
lt be allowed TO visit the family, 4,
,ncc there will be- no danger IN him !.
lreading the disease DR.. Whlcher =.
Is had great success with these small 4
* patients, having pulled the entire !,
mlly through without single death d,
bile "a Texas and at points 10 this ter
Tory the death rate was about twenty
y cent. %
H
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
THE COST OF 1T.

The Hanna-McKinley-Wall street i'm
perial policy is costing the country a
pretty penny to say nothing of the he
role blood split on the altar of con-
quest.
Not only has the administration
made way with the surplus left by the
last Democratic administration, but
with the proceeds of it's own popular
bond issue of 5000, 600, 900 to say moth
ing of the millions upon millions dra-
gooned from the people through the
burdensome war taxes. And still the
governments expenditures for the fiscal
year just closed were $500, 00O, 900 more
than it's income.
Such is the cost of imperialism-and
we have only entered upon that road!
1t will soon be up ITO the taxpayers
again to say how they like imperialism
and militarism.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
Persistent Advertising
Brings Success.
AT HIS OLD WORK.

We observe that our old familiar con-
temporary, P~ecksniff, has resumed
sway over the editorial columns of the
Fourteenth street organ, as OF yore, the
same old Pecksniff, the champion hyp-
ocrite and prevaricatOr. That it is the
same there can be no doubt, for his ear
marks are unmistakable. When cor
nered in argument he comes up with
the time-honored Pecksniffian methods.
The other day the Register called at
tention to the repeated assertions OF
u Fourteenth street contemporary
that the success of the American tin
plate industry was due to the Republl-
can policy of monopoly protection, and
by citing the simple facts within the
memory of schoolchildren in the Ohio
Valley showed that despite the years
of high tariff on imported tin plate
there never was a pound of the CONNER
cial article made in this country prior
to the passage of the Wilson bill in
1894, which measure simply placed the
raw material of this industry on the
free list. Before that the tin used in
coating the plates had a heavy tariff
on it, the effect being, since it was i'm
ported from Wales, to give the foreign
tin plate industry just that much great
er advantage over the product in this
country, which could not be made in
competition with the imported article,
despite the high tariff on the finished
product. The Wilson bill, with it's
sensible policy of free raw material,
cut the gordian knot by placing raw
tin on the free list and levying a suffi-
cient duty ON tin plate to protect the
new and experimental American indus
try. The natural result was that from
the passage of the Wilson bill the
American tin plate industry began to
grow from mere experimental dipping"
establishments to regular full-fiedged
tin plate factories, which made the pro-
duct from beginning to end.
People in the Ohio Valley know there
was practically no tinplate industry
here prior to the passage of the Wilson
bill.
These facts. known to nearly every
man, woman and child in this section,
our friend Pecksniff of Fourteenth
street, was, of course, unable to honest
ly refute. But mark Pecksnif's char
acteristic effort to discredit the Regis
ter by ~garbling and disappearing its
statement of these facts. The Register
stated that while the Wilson tariff was
responsible for the American tinplate
industry, it would cheerfully admit that
the present administrations brand of
high tariff was responsible for the tin
plate TRUST. which had since doubled
the price of the article to the American
consumer until it would be cheeper to
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11

The New York Legislature passed a
law permitting bicyclists who violated
the ordinance regarding speed and
headlights, to pay their fine to the ar
resting officer. The ordinance was de-
signed to spare unintentional offenders
the humiliation of being marched
through the streets to the station
house. Chief Devery, however, has
outraged metropolitan wheelmen by
ruling that these offenders must be
taken to the station house. One does
not have to look far for the cause OF
the Chiefs ruling, which is doubtless
to be found in the falling off OF the
amount of fines turned in where the
trusty members of 1.-THE finest" were
allowed to collect them without check
upon the number collected.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11

that this IS not enough. AS our New
York contemporary says, it is q matter
calling for a public apology to the
thousands OF reputable American wo-
men who have been insulted where
this woman was treated with pro-
found Difference" by men wearing the
uniform of the United States. And
the apology should come from En-
peror Mckinley, who, it appears, has
already inaugurated imperial methods
at the custom houses, with special lati-
tude allowed the female fayorites of
the gentlemen of his court.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11

buy it abroad as We did prior to 1894.
Mark how smooth Old Hypocrisy garb-
les this plain and simple statement,
totally classifying its meaning. Says
Pecksniff:
Another statement by the Register is
untrue-that the price of tin plate has
been doubled, and that lit would be better
to buy it abroad as We did prior to 1894"
standing maintained among the tin plate
workers of the manufacturing communities
in which it circulates, in advocating the
abolition of the industry, sending the mill
ions of money to a foreign country and
throwing them out of employment?
How like dear old Pecksniff! Mark
how carefully he suppresses the Reg
listers reference to the TRUST, MAX
ing it appear that the reference vas
not to the TRUST but to the legitimate
industry! How does the Register ex-
pect to have its standing maintained
among the tin plate workers of the
manufacturing communities in which it
c~irculates in ADVOCATING THE
ABOLITION OF THE INDUSTRY"
etc! How is that for Pecksniffian
falsehood? For the Registers refer
ence to the TRUST was direct, in SO
many words and was unmistakable, yet
Pecksniff in his artless way calmly sup
pressed all mention of the trust, max
ing it appear that the Registers hos
tility was directed at the tin plate in
dustry, whose existence in this country
was made possible only by the passage
of the last Democratic tariff of 1894,
placing it's raw material on the free list
"a Measure advocated by the Register
for that purpose and opposed by the
Intelligencer!
This is a sample of Pecksnifian poll
tics. Unable to meet an argument he
cheerfully misrepresents his opponent
and garbles the argument; unable to
face the truth he resorts to ~falSehood,
meeting honesty by Misrepresentation
and frankness by deception.
We had missed Pecksniff from his
usual cockloft for a brief space, but we
observe that the old boy is back at his
post again and at his old familiar
tricks.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11

The Parkersburg liars first cousin
must have written up the Texas floods
First thousands of lives were lost, then
hundreds. Now, according to Gov,
Savers, the loss of life dwindled down
to fifty. There are, however, about AS
Most of these are negroes and are be-
ing well cared for. many carloads Of
food and clothing having been distrib-
uted, while $4,000 in subscriptions fol-
their relief has been collected. A ser
ious loss is that to the cotton crop
whose damage is estimated at $4,000
600.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11

Mr.. Mckinley has tried almost every
method, except the manly one, to get
Alger out of the Cabinet, the latest eff
fort being an attempt to snub the Sec
rotary of War by holding a cabinet
meeting without him. But Alger will
regard this as only in the nature of
tightening of his duties. If Mr.. Nc
Kinley wants to get Alger out of the
cabinet he will have to kick him out
But no one ever heard of the timid pol
itician in the White House ever doing
anything so vigorous.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11

to the Register.

Special to the Register
CLARKSBURG, ". Va, July 10
G. j. Long. Esq, a prominent and en-
terprising citizen of this city, who for
a number of years has been engaged in
the. queensware business and who took
sick ten days ago., died last night. At
time he was connected as agent
with the Adams Express Company and
has always been considered a man of
determined convictions and one whose
influence will be a loss to the COM
munity.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
HOSPITAL BOARD MEETS.

Special to the Register.
WESTON, w. VA, July 10.-The fol-
lowing members of the Hospital Board
arrived this morning: Messrs. Ster-
ling, Meighen, Gibson, Hardman,
Hearst, Toler and Crook. When they
met this afternoon, kilograms from
Messrs. Miller and Keller, the two alb
sem members, were read stating that
they would reach here tomorrow morn
ing. A recess was taken until one
o'clock tomorrow to await the arrival
of these members.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
Oil MARKET.

OIL CITY, PA. July 10.-Credit bal
ances, certificates opened S1.l9h.
Highest s1.20A; lowest s1.19h; closed
$1.20K bid for cash sales: 1000 cash oil
at s1.20. Shipments It'll, Sth, 9th, 231,-
$50 barrels; average shipments 1881
barrels; runs 7th, 9Th, 9Th, 207, 626 bar
rels; average runs s9.57T barrels.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11

Americans are crowding London, and
the rush of travel is so great that all
the Transatlantic companies have Or
dered from one to four new ships. Eu-
ropean travel is a good thing and
broadening to the intellect, but it is a
pity that those who make a habit OF it
cannot find it convenient to spend their
money where they made it.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
FINE UPRIGHT PIANO FOR SALE.

We have a fine Kranich and Bach
Upright Piano, good as new, beautiful
Italian Walnut case, three pedals, all
modern improvements. Will sell for
one-half its original price. Satisfactory
reasons will be given why the owner
must sell. Piano can be seen at our
store. Call or address
F. w. BANNER co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
TICKET AGENT DEAD.

Special to the Register.
HUNTINGTON, w. VA, July 10
C. C. blackstone, aged 20, died here to-
day of heart trouble. Mr.. blackstone
has been ticket agent for the c. & o.
at this place the past eight years, and
is widely known throughout the State.
He carried 81, 600 insurance and was a
member of several secret orders. A
wife and two children survive him.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
THE KISSING BUG.
acial to the Register.

Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va. July TO-
The kissing bug has made its appear
ance here, three victims of it's bites
being reported by the physicians. They
are Mrs. Anna Layman. little Mary
LAWN and Whiting Butcher. In every
case the victims lips swelled to ire
mendous proportions and intense suf-
fering followed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11

Prince Herbert Bismarck is mention
Washington. A real live prince would
probably overwhelm the imperialists at
the Capital.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
Steamship Tickets.

j. G. Tomlinson, agent Pennsylvania
lines, No. 5 Eleventh street, is agent
for the North German Lloyd, Cunard,
American, French, Anchor, Red Star,
and White Star lines. See him for
lowest rates.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
RETURNED AFTER FOUR YEARS.

Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG. ". Va, July 10
Lemuel Pierce. who four years g
mysteriously disappeared from his
home, has returned. His Whereabouts
were unknown until he was noticed go
ing towards his former home last night.
He refused to say where he had been.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
FINLEY RESIGNS.

Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG, W. Va. July 10
James B. Finley. former State Senator,
has resigned as deputy collector of in
ternal revenue, Collector White APP
pointing B. P. White, or Oakvale, Mer-
Ger county, to the position.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
Sc Excnrsion to Oakland.

Sc Excnrsion to Oakland.
Sunday, July Is. Special train will
leave B. & o. station at 100 a. m.
Round trip. 200. Tickets good for
Sunday only.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
NOTICE OF THE DRAWING

~ vi IIIL Una w IANNt
~ FOR REDEMPTION OF BONDS
OF THE BENWOOD AND MMECHEN
ELECTRIC LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER
COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given by the unde rsigncd
trustee. hiatt on the sixth day OF July 1899,
~pursuantto the requirements Of deed of
trust dated July Both, 1897, which deed Of
trust provides for the redemption and pay
ment of said bonds, the following describ-
ed bonds isued by the said Benwood and
McMechen Electric Light, Heat and Power
Company, and secured by said deed Of
trust, were duly determined by lot by said
trustee for redemption and payment on
the first day OF August. 1899:
For year ending August LIST, 1898, bonds
Nos. 4 and 5, for $500 each.
For year ending August LIST, 1899. bonds
Nos. 5 and15, for $500 each.
Said bonds will be redeemed and paid
at the Bank Of the Ohio Valley in the city
of Wheeling. West Virginia, on and after
said first day of August, 1899. and said
bonds, so determined, viii cease to bear
interest from the first day of August, 1899.
Given under my hand July 10th. 1879.
jy11eZ t.. 5. RILEY, Trustee.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
AGENTS WANTED


WANTED-Three installment agents to
sell goods from wagons references. Apply
c. j. ADAMS, $50 Market tsreet. jyl1et
$500 PER DAY to agents for selling our
Laundry and Toilet Soaps, besides giving
them absolutely free a ladies' elegant
writing desk or the choice of twenty ether
valuable premiums. Write for particu-
lars. Address WOLVERINE SOAP CO.,
Portland. Mich. ju6tu, thus at,qr
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11


FOURTH PAGE.
ST Georges Hall for Boys.
Public Sale-C. S. Greer, Auctioneer.
Notice of Drawing for Redemption OF
Bonds of Benwood and McMechen Electric
Light Co.
Wanted-Young Man or Woman to Do
Clerical Work.
Wanted-Girls at Pearl Laundry.
Wanted-Good Secondhand Safe-
Semi-Annual Statement OF the Mutual
Savings Bank. .u
"Hammockuity"-Stanton's Old City
Book Store. -
Glens Falls Fire Insurance Company
White & Bates, Agents.
Hygeia Dairy-Simpson, the Milkman.
California Olive Oil-H. F. Behrens co.
Wanted-Three Installment Agents.
FIFTH PAGE.
We Offer-Geo. NJ. Shook & Co.
Cash Prices-The Racket.
SIXTH PAGE.
Summer Hats for 25c-McFadden's.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
MALE HELP

WANTED-First-class barber; reference
required. Address A, care this office
iVgduer
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11

WANTED-Two or three tin men for terne
pots. Apply Manager AMERICAN TIN
PLATE CO. Canal Dover, O.. jy9dqer
WANTED-Two young men TO run as
news agents on railroad trains. Must
have 5000 cash security. Apply or adj
dress UNION NEWS CO, Office p. & Q.
depot, Wheeling. jyJe&dh
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-11
FEMALE HELP A Ed.


WANTED-Girls at Pearl Laundry, Nos.
1918 and 1915 Eoff street. jylleq
wANTED-Upstairs girl. Apply - Twelfth
street. lyon
WANTFD-Two girls. a cook and nurse;
best wages. Apply 1920 Market street.
jy8e&dh
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-17
BRIBERY IN CALIFORNIA
SENSATIONAL CHARGES ARE MADE
AGAINST SPEAKER WRIGHT.
He Is Accused of Selling His Vote to
Grant-The House Calls for
an Investigation.

Sacramento, Cal, Jan. 16.-Sixteen bal
lots have been taken by the joint session
for the selection of United States sena-
tor without result. The 10th ballot was
practically the same as the first and
there is no indication that the deadlock
will be broken within the next few days
The last ballot resulted as follows T.. S.
Grant. jr.. 26: d. M. Burns, "a w. II. l..
Barnes, 10; r. n. Bulla, 9, and scat
tering, II.
The sensational charges made against
lhe speaker, Wright, who mas been ae-
cused by San Francisco newspaper of
selling his vote No the Grant camp. re-
suited in a resolution being unanimously
adopted by the house to-day calling for
the fullest Investigation, of the chargea
A committee of seven was appointed to
investigate the matter. Mr.. Wright de-
MES any wrongdoing. He courts the
most stringent investigation To-day he
affixed his signature to papers bringing
suit against the San Francisco Call for
$3.50, 600 for libel
The Wright investigation committee met
this evening for preliminary work 1t
was decided to call as witnesses L. S.
Grant. Milton Green, Howard f. Wright.
w. S. Leake. l.. l.. Levings, Richard Gull
Yer. Henry James and f. F. Moran, most
OF these being newspaper men An ad-
iournment was then taken until to-mor-
row afternoon. when the taking of testi-
mony will begin.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-17
IT WAS A BILLION YEAR,
Exports and Imports of the United State
for 1893

Washington, Jan. 16.-During the calen-
dar year 1898 the United States exported
S621 .26O. .135 more Of merchandise of all sorts
than it imported, a gain in excess of
exports over 1897 of $264 146 49, These
enormous figures represent the balance
in our favor shown by the official figures
issued by the bureau of statistics to-day
for the year 1895 The bureaus statement
shows that our exports for 1898 were
81. 23i, ,925 1853 and our imports $633 664. .344 Of
which $267, ,915 came in free of duty
The statement makes comparisons with
our trade for the five years Immediately
preceding the past, the largest exports
for any of these years being 81. .009, 7O9 045
in 1897, and the smallest, $S24, STD, 1856 in 1886
The only other billion export year was in
1896 when we exported s1005, S37,2 241. The
imports for 1898 were the smallest in any
OF the six years compared. being $633, ,664
634, against $742, 595 229 in 1897 and sS01, $685.
3i1 in 1898, when the imports were the
largest for the past six years.
The gold imports for the year 1898 were
$l5SUj6,252. and the exports 6,194,954 or
an excess of gold imports in 1898 of $141,-
Sal ,29S, as compared with an excess of
gold exports of $255. .S09 in 1897. The silver
imports for the year 1898 were $29 02a 724
and the exports were s53, 797, ,1O4, an excess
of silver exports of $24, 767 3SO as COM
pared with an excess of silver exports in
1897 of S25, ,51S 800
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-17
SELECTING PATROLMEN.
Menocal Is Acting Fairly Towards tho
Spaniards,

Havana. Jan. 16-General Menocal and
Superintendent McCuloch are examining
to-day 800 applicants for positions on the
police force here. About 50 patrolmen
have been accepted SO far and of this
number 80 men are Spaniards. Menocal
is acting fairly toward the Spanish can
didates. If physically and morally up to
the standard they are accepted. Some for
mer Spanish officers are among the appli-
cants. Two lieutenants accepted appoint
ments at patrolmen on Saturday last The
height required, five feet six inches, shuts
out many applicants, including a lot of
MenocafS men. The force will be selected
in the main by the end of the week The
weakest part of the system is the pay
Fifty dollars a month for patrolmen is re-
garded as too little money for high-class
honest men. San Juan de Porto Rico pays
s75 per month. The question of revising
the pay of patl oltlen mere to that figure
is under discussion.
The first piles We're driven for the con-
structon of the United States pier AT iris
cOrnia. Colonel Heckler was present. The
construction of seven warehouses is be-
ginning at the railroad terminal to-day.
They will be finished in about a month.
About 1900 men are at, work.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-17
SILVER STILL THE ISSUE
A Reception to Bryan by the
Bimetallic League.
CAUSE VERY MUCH ALIVE
To Restore Binaetallism Is to Restore
the Parity Between Money and
Property-It Is the Belief
of the People.

Denver, Jan. 16.-Colonel William J.
which he made at the public reception
given to him by the Bimetallc league of
this city that the silver issue is still very
much alive. He said:
THE cause lives because it .embodies
the hopes. the aspirations and the be-
liefs OF our people. 1t is strong cause
because the people need silver. The
American people favor bimetalllsm, never
mind where the silver is produced. We
do not need it because it is produced here.
People eat because they need it, not be-
cause food has to be consumed And so
with gold and silver; they are important
in the worlds commerce because they are
needed, and you can never destroy silver
while it is needed.
The farmer, the creator of wealth.
knows that the gold standard lowers
prices without raising money. And if the
gold standard should once be established
you may set it down that bankruptcy is
not far ahead. To restore bimetallsm is
to restore the parity Between money and
property.
"Those who advocate the gold standard
as a rule, know that the gold dollar is not
stable nor honest. The strength of the
gold standard is to be found in the money
centers and it's strongest advocates are
those who. when their dollar is invested
want it to go up. Every goldbug denied
this. however. And it is this denial that
gives me an evidence of his insincerity
If our cause is Just, and I firmly believe
it is, its triumph is sure. Truth cannot
be crushed to earth. The hour of death
is not here"