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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23
SHERIFF MAY HAVE TO PAY.

A very interesting suit for damages
is on trial before the United States Dis
trict Court at Indianapolis, before
Judge John H. Baker, and it's proceed
ing and determination will be watched
the country over with great interest.
Marion Tyler was lynched at Scots
burg, Scott county, Ind, number OF
months ago, and the administrator OF
his estate brought suit against the
sheriff of the county and his five
bondsmen for damages, alleging fail
ure and neglect to protect the prisoner
from the mob. Counsel for defense de-
INJURED to the bill, on the ground that
there was no cause for action in that
the sheriff was not responsible for the
safety of the prisoner, and this demur-
rer was promptly overruled and
the cause ordered to trial, the
Court holding in strong terms that not
only was the sheriff responsible for the
prisoners safety, but was liable for
damages if injury came to him. Judge
Baker, in holding these views, pointed
out that the sheriff was responsible fer
goods delivered into his charge and
care, and added: "Is a helpless prisoner
in the custody of the sheriff less enti-
tied to his care than bale of goods or
a dumb beast?" A little further he
said: "As the lawful custodian Of the
deceased he owed him the duty of ex-
ercising ordinary and reasonable care
for his life and health. This duty Was
due to the deceased personally, and is
additional to the duty of safe keeping
which he owed to the public
Defense attempted to set up the plea
that the sheriff was not liable for dam
ages, as permitting prisoner 10 es-
cape-handing him over to ? mob-is
a felony, for which the official was pun
ishable as an individual, but the Court
rejected this, with the ruling that even
liability to punishment under 5he law
did not release the sheriff from liabil-
ity to a civil action for damages for
failure to perform duty.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23
AN IRREDE CENT DREAM,

The project, advocated by some Off
onize the Southern blacks in the Phil
ippines, may work out very satiSfactor-
tally on paper, but practically can
never amount to much. If We retain
the islands few hundred, few thou
sands, even few tens of thousands of
colored people may go there, in the
course of time, and, as predicted, may
do we'll; but wholesale emigration of
the characted advocated is evidently
but an idle dream. The heart Of the
South is eight or nine thousand miles
from the Philippines; and the govern
ment has realized something of the cost
of transporting thirty or thirty-five
thousand troops there. The average
Southern negro has not the means to
emigrate, even if he were convinced
of the desirability of the movement,
and government aid would have to be
invoked upon scale which would in
volve untold millions, with the result
in the end that the comparatively few
transported would not be missed. Some
of our colored population will, I'M
doubtedly, ultimately drift to the vari-
Gus islands of the sea lately brought
under our rule. but the great bulk of
our dark-hued citizens are here to stay.
They are portion of the population,
as fixed and immovable as are the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23
Persistent Advertising
Brings Success.
SUBURBAN WHEELING GROWING

Those of our citizens whose local
travels are confined to daily journeys
from home to business Office and back
again-and there are many such, who
know relatively more about the condi
ton of New York, Pittsburg, Chicago,
Cincinnati or Washington, than of
their home community-possibly Meth
er understand or appreciate the rapid
advancement in population and gener-
al urban building up which is going
on right here at home. In the city pro-
per, one does not see so much of this,
for with the exception of the Island
building sites are limited, and in the
heart of the city the changes, while
very marked when series of years are
considered and contrasted, are still so
slow that no very great impression is
made upon those native and to the
manner born. 1t is in the suburbs,
however, on both sides of the river,
that the greatest changes are to be
noted, and even casual survey of our
surrounding cities and towns demon
strates that Wheeling is becoming the
nucleus of a crowded circle of rap
idly, growing communities, each tribu-
tary in one sense or another to the
common welfare and advancement of
the city. Bellaire, Bridgeport, Kirk
wood, Aetnaville, Martins Ferry, Ben
wood, McMechen, and particularly that
fair and inviting district between Full
ton and Elm Grove, east of the city, are
making rapid strides, not merely in
population alone, but in public i'm
provements of notable and lasting
character, with still more important
ones projected for the immediate flu
ture. 1t has not been so long ago that
these surrounding towns were chiefly
noted for their bottomless mud streets.
their struggling and commonplace re-
sidences and business buildings, and
their general air of uninviting discom-
fort. By stages, at first easy and
scarcely noticeable, but yearly accel-
Grated, a change has been wrought, and
a few years more will suffice to bring
about a general realization of the fact
that within five miles of Wheeling's
public building will be community of
eighty to one hundred thousand people,
divided, it is true, by river and a
State line, but having common inter-
est and common destiny. Unfortun-
ately, the conditions are such that this
population and these interests can
never be united under one municipal
fective in another way bind us to-
gcther and even though we must con-
tinue under many local names, the
whole is really Greater Wheeling, for
all roads, all means of communication
and all interests lead to the city proper.
And these thoughts lead to one other.
and that concerns that district along
the national road, as far as Elm Grove.
1t requires no great amount of fore
sight to bring with it the conviction
that there, in the years to come, will
be the favorite residence portion of this
city. It is to Wheeling what the old
East End was once to Pittsburg. In
that city there were croakers, years
ago, who thought the district in the
vicinity OF Schenley Park was too far
from Penn and sDithaelA streets and
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

Mississippi is to try a new idea, this
coming autumn, in electing two United
States Senator's 1t is agreed that the
candidates shall be nominated by the
Democratic voters of the State, at pri-
mary elections to be held for that pur-
pose, and already forty counties, hav-
ing 120 members of the Legislature out
ton. The result will be awaited with
much interest by politicians.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

| win offer for sale at the front door OF
the Court Hpuse OF ohio county, West
Va. on Saturday, June Sd, commencing at
10 O'Clock a. m, that desirable piece OF
property, No. Il Sixteenth street. north
side, above Eoff St. cornering on the alley.
Lot 80 feet on Sixteenth street and run
mig back an even width with the alley
120 feet TO an alley in he rear. Has good
and an the modern conyenfences Good
brick stable In the rear. all ia good re-
pair Terms TO suit purchaser
MRS. MARTHA H. whitaker
j. c. HERVEY, Auctioneer.
ma2ltu thu sat, DR.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23


Communications on timely topics are
freely admitted to the columns OF the
Register, but should not exceed i've
hundred words in length. The names
Of the writers must in all cases be APP
pended to the communications for pub
LEGATION. 1t is the policy of the Regis
ter to give all sides hearing, so far as
the limitations of space will permit.
Views expressed in a communication
are to be accepted merely as those OF
the writer. The publication OF the
same does not signify editorial APP
prevail. Manuscripts that are found
will not be returned unless
stamps are attached for that purpose.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23
TRUSTEES SALE
Of Valuable Island Property.

By virtue of a deed of trust made by
Walter H. Rlnehart and Martha c. Rine-
hatr, his wife, to me as trustee, dated on
the 3lst day of July, 1896, / will sell ar
the court house of Ohio County, State
Of West Virginia, TO the highest and best
bidder,
SATURDAY, THE nth OF JUNE. 1899,
commencing at ten O'Clock a. M. the fol-
lowing described property situate in the
Seventh ward of the City Of Wheeling,
Ohio County State of West Virginia, that
is to say: All of the lot numbered one
hundred and seventy-two Q72). the lot
numbered one hundred and seventy-three
and seventy-four Q7D of the addition of
the said City of Wheeling laid out by
Orloff A. Zane's Island. now the Seventh
ward of said City of Wheeling, situate on
South Huron street and south Wabash
street in said city, excepting therefrom
the west twenty-five t25) feet in width
of the said lot numbered one hundred and
seventy-two Q72) heretofore conveyed to
Ed r. Falloure by Francis FaHoure and
wife, by deed dated the firss day of jan
uary, 1895, and recorded in deed book No
70, page 563 Being the same property
conveyed to the said Walter H. Rinehart
by Sarah f. Falloure and Francis Fal-
fifth day of February, 1891, and recorded
in deed book No. &C. page 257.
TERMS OF SALE-One-third of the
purchase money and so much more as
the purchaser may elect to pay. cash on
day of sale and the balance in two equal
iastalments. payable in six and twelve
months with interest from day of sale.
The title to be conveyed to the purchaser,
he giving a deed of trust to secure said
deferred payments
T. S. RILEY, Attorney.
ma22 80 je6 IL 16
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23
DUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE

" u - II "A IL
BUTCHERING ESTABLISHMENT.
BY virtue of a decree of the Circuit Court
of Ohio county, rendered on the 10Th day
of May, 1883, IN cause in chancery IN
mans executor is the plaintiff and Charles
Hoffman and others are defendants, the
undersigned WILL on
JUNE, A. d. 1899,
sell at public auction. to the highest bid
der before the front door of the court
ing, that VERY VALUABLE. sLAUGHT-
Err HOUSE AND BUTCHERING FS-
TABLISHMENT. and the lots on which
it is situated, together with all the inn
provements on said lots or herewith con-
nected, in the town of Fulton, In said
county; the said lots being numbered Is
and - IN Steenrods addition TO wheeling,
and the same conveyed TO Charles Hon-
man by Charles Zoeckler and wife by deed
bearing date the It'll Of September 1866,
and recorded in the Office Of the clerk Of
in deed book No so page 81.
Very Yalua BILE improvements have re-
Gently been made 70 the said property.
The terms of said sale win be one-third
of the purchase money or as much more
as the purchaser may elect TO pay, in
cash and the residue in two equal yearly
of sale, the purchaser to give notes for
the deferred payments, and the legal title
payments. The bidding will start, by dr.
rection of the court, at the bid formerly
made by Hess, Lemon q Co., of ST. 500 90
and the property viii be sold. including
the very valuable improvements made
since SAID bid was mace by Hess. Lemon
&, Co. to the highest bidder. The sale VIII
commence on the day named at ten
o clock a. nj.
ROBERT WHITE
Special Commissioner.
Bond and security given by the commits
sioner as required In the decree men
toned in the foregoing advertisement
Teste: G. H. HENNING
Clerk Circuit Court of Ohio County
jan21e&M
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23
INTERESTING FIGURES,

In view of the disturbances in China
the treasury bureau of statistics has
published an interesting table showing
the area and population of certain pro-
vinces in the empire in comparison
with the same data regarding territor-
ial areas in the United States. The
table is an object lesson as to the dem
sity of population in China that is
worthy of study.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23
STATUE OF PIERPONT.

Keyser Mountain Echo
4 The G. A. r., of West Virginia, at
its late meeting at Terra Alta, passed
resolution TO the effect that it will
petition the Legislature of this State
to place in the hall of statuary OF the
national capitol the statue of ex-Gov.
Pierpont. We hope the idea will be
carried out. and that the Legislature
will. at its next session. act favorably
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

INA avsnus u ~ saisosnt v
much, " Just Is Harlem. III New York.
was TOO far from the BoWery " Nov,
the people Of Pittsburg reside, very
largely. in what, q few years ago. was
the country, and the city has spread
along the valleys and over the hills,
until man may go to Pittsburg TWEEN
ty times, stop at the leading hotels,
transact business, meet his friends,
and never see or know the city as it
really is.
1t will be SO in Wheeling before many
years. Year by year the eastern terri
tory expands in population, value, con-
veniences and attractiveness. The
pace is constantly being accelerated.
This year more Will be done out there
than ever before. Next year, more
still. Already all the conveniences of
the city, with the exception of police
and adequate fire protection, are at the
command of the residents. They have
some paved roadway, and will have
more. They have water service, cleo
tricity, natural gas, an electric
railway, and postal delivery.
Five cent fare for the resid-
ent of Pleasant Valley puts him as
close to business as many Islanders or
South Side citizens. 1t is the coming
residence district, beyond the shadow
of a doubt, and sooner or later must
come into the city and be an integral
portion of it. Those who shake their
heads now, will nod them approvingly
before many years.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

AS an indication of the volume of
klondike business it may be stated that
the postoffice at Skaguay is now a
Presidential office, with 5000 to 10000
patrons, and that the money order re-
ceipts for the year ending April A. 1899,
were 100000. About 125 letters are
registered daily, and twenty to TWEEN
ty-five money orders for $500 each are
issued every day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

Of course Council will once more di-
vide the ten cent levy equally between
the various wards, instead of taking
pieces of work which would benefit the
people as a whole. Under the existing
policy a good deal of the ten cent levy
is virtually wasted in patchwork paw
ing and small crock sewers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

American commissary officers are
still issuing rations to 5000 helpless
people in the military department of
Havana, alone. Many of the recipients
of government food are helpless wo-
men and children, whose husbands
and fathers are dead as result of the
long war. The work of supplying
these people must be continued for a
long time to come
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23
DIED..

YOUNG-At the residence of his SON
Alex q. Young. on Monday at 4 D. M
John Young, aged II.
Funeral notice hereafter.
BARON-On Sunday. May q, 1899 at 915
p. M, at his residence, No. 1905 Jacob
street Abram Baron, in the 18th year of
his age
Funeral from his late residence this
tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
Friends of the family invited to attend
Interment at Greenwood cemetery.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

The Philadelphia Press estimates
that $4,000 fraudulent votes are gem
orally cast in that city. Here is an
opportunity for little Republican re-
form in the chief Republican city of
the country.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

The first rivet in the new battleship
Ohio was driven at the Union Iron
Works, San Francisco, on Saturday.
Work on the West Virginia has not yet
been started.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23
WHAT IT NEEDS.

Pittsburg Times.
The court of cessation in France has
been summoned to take another toss
at Dreyfus. What that French court
needs is about three days of Judge
Reese Blizzard, of West Virginia.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

There is cry among manufacturers
of the scarcity of pig iron, prices bet
ter than SIT are predicted before the
week is out, and some mills, it is claim
ed, may be compelled to close down for
lack of raw material at time when
they have plenty of rush orders on
hand,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

Colorado railroads are still buried
in snow drifts. The weather meted
out to the Ohio valley, the past week,
makes this statement one easy to be-
lieve.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

The great peace jubilee at Washing
ton City will be inaugurated to-day
and the Fourth Immunes will be in it
very conspicuously.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

mon kde peEition WI nfe sorS tl1HT :
great many people ~ connected with
the G. A. r.. would sign that petition.
and West Virginia has had no son
more representative in character or
more deserving of the honor.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

The ice men are getting together.
Three corporations are in process of
formation to control the business in
a dozen States.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

The capital stock of the new Car
negie Company has dwindled down to
Sz5O,O00,000. This is commonplace.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

Stocks for Salc.

SBocAS LNDL fSEAASs
Wheeling Steel & Iron Company.
IaBelle Iron Works
Crystal Glass.
Central Glass.
Wheeling Bridge Company.
Wheeling & Be.mont Bridge Company.
Wheeling Pottery.
Bloch Bros.
Wheeling & Elm Grove r. r. (com).
NORTON & co. Is Exchange Bank Bldg
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23

Some trust must have cornered the
summer weather.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23
Classified Advertisements.
ONE CENT AWORD-Cash with order.
TEN CENTS A LINE-lf charged
No Advertisement inserted for less than15cents.
FOB sALE-MIsCELLANEOuS.


AUCTION SALE of safe, book cases,
desks. file case, stove, etc, at Room 5
second floor of Crangle's Block, 1918 Mar
ket St, Wednesday, May 24th, at 2 p. m.
ERSKINE & ALLISON. ma2ldqes
FOR SALE-An engine and boiler Address
w. SCHAEFER, No. 20 Thirty-third St,
Wheeling, w. Va. myl7e&da
FOR SALE-~Second-hand Franklin Type
Writer, in good condition, at low price.
Inquire of or address WEST VA. PRINT
ING co. 1925 Market street. ja2Ie&dh
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-07-21
A CONTEMPT CASE
Chinaman Disobeys Court
Injunction.
Judge Perry Sentences Him to Fif.
teen Days emit as a
Lesson In the Future.

Sow Hee, a Chinese, was sentenced
to fifteen days Imprisonment by Judge
Perry yesterday for contempt OF court.
He is one Of the defendants in the case
of ing Lin ct al. vs. Leong Hoo ct al.
in which Judge Perry on July 18th
granted an injunction restraining the
defendants from diverting certain
water used by plaintiffs on Mondays Of
each week from 3 to 6 p. m, and from
interfering and meddling with the use
of the plaintiffs Of said water until
the further order of the Court.
The affidavit on which the proceed
iIgs for contempt were based states
that on Monday last after being served
with a copy of the injunction the de-
PENDANT Sow Hee violated the same by
breaking the dam of the plaintiffs,
thereby diverting the water and appro-
priating the same to the use OF the
defendants.
At the hearing yesterday afternoon
the Court found the defendant guilty
of contempt and sentenced him to fif-
teen days imprisonment.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-07-21
SICK FROM CANNED COFFEE
Thought They Had Got the Plague
From the Nippon Maru.

On the morning of July -, says the
san Francisco Bulletin, the steamer
Caroline. In charge Of Captain w s.
Leale, proceeded to Angel Island and
nook of the steerage passengers of the
rans-Pacific liner, Nippon Maru. The
passengers were landed at Jackson
street dock early in the forenoon, and
the Caroline remained at the wharf
until noon.
Shortly after lunch five of the Caro-
lines men were taken quite sick. 1t
was considered quite strange that the
'deckhands should be i'll after having
transferred passengers from the al
legged plague ship" Their illness Is
believed to have been caused by eat
ing canned stun. and cannot be attrib-
uted to contact with the quarantined
persons.
The men who were taken sick drank
coffee from tins, and this Is supposed
to have made them Ill. They will all
recover.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-07-21
PETITION FOR LETTERS.
George Il. Carter to Administer
Edward DOwsetrs Estate.

In the probate department of the
Circuit Court a petition has been ad.
dressed to Judge Perry by David A.
Dowsett that letters of administration
ON the estate Of his brother Edward
who died intestate on July last, may
be granted to George r. Carter. The
petitioner states that due and diligent
search has been made to ascertain II
the deceased left any will, but none
can be found.
The value OF the estate Is estimated
at about 100000, as follows: One un.
divided twelfth of the estate of James
l. Dowsett, deceased intestate, and one
share Of the James !. Dowsett Estate
Limited.
The heirs of the deceased, as far as
known to petitioner, are Phoebe X
Raymond, Mary X. Parish, Alexander
c. Dowsett, Annie X. Brennan, Eliza.
beth j. Parker, David A. Dowsett, Ro.
wena N. Dowsett, Samuel II. X. Dow.
sett, Marion Dowsett, Guinevieve Dow
set, all brothers and sisters of de-
ceased, and Annie Dowsett, Madeline
DOwsett, nieces of deceased.
Judge Perry has set Friday, August
IS, as day for hearing the petition.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-07-21

1896 questioned the justice ~ the ver-
dict of the Dreyfus court-martlal; that
in september, 1896. Il was reported
that an American vessel was about to
rescue the prisoner and there was
some talk among the wardens as TO
the possibility OF his escape. Hence
NJ. Lebon became solicitors for the
safety of the prisoner and ordered
Dreyfus To be confined In his hut with
double locked doors. but with a SEN
tinel inside until the hut was sur
rounded by palisade, when the hut
might be opened The building of the
palisade occupied longer than was ex-
pected, but no harm to the health OF
the prisoner was reported.