Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-01

by the boat betrayed her movements
at 1900 yards in broad daylight. The
principal of the invention is that the
boat is no longer blind, two lieutenants
having invented an eye which facili-
tates submarine progress. Another
French submarine boat, the Gymnote,
is now armed with torpedoes, third,
to be named the Morse, will be ready
in March.
The government enquiry into the
causes Of the terrible mortality among
railroad men, which, during the past
ten years reached 4,749 persons killed,
while 1921 were injured, shows the
accidents to have occurred chiefly
among the switchmen. In consequence
OF this showing, the Board of Trade
sent an expert to study the systems in
use in America. This expert has just
returned here and brought with him
specimens of the American automatic
couplins, which, he reports, have re-
duced the number of accidents in
America by so per cent. 1t is under
stood that the President of the Board
of Trade, Mr.. Charles Thomson Richie,
will introduce a bill to make automatic
couplings compulsory in Great Britain.
Considerable opposition is developing
against the bill, as the change viii cost
e7,0O0,0O0 (35,0O0,0O0).
A SINGULAR OCCURRENCE
is reported from the Semmering noun
tains, near Vienna. Two youths and
a young woman assembled the Rax on
Monday, and when they reached a
height of 1000 feet the woman was
al-,1 "a ,r,l 70 hal hon So
where she gave birth to a son. Her
two companions made fire and wrap
ped her in all their spare clothing,
the cold being intense. Then one OF
the young men descended the noun
tain and fetched doctor, who az first
declined to go, thinking the Whole at
fair was hoax The woman, how
ever, cannot be removed for some time,
While a serious snow fall will compel
her to remain in the shelter house
with her new born babe for long
time
The news of uprisingc in the Congo
Free State and OF massacres of Congo
forces has again brought into promln-
ence the Ubiquitous system of the rub
Der trade, to which three-fourths Of
the native uprisings can be traced. All
the best rubber producing districts be-
long to the State, which farms them,
nominally, to the Societe Anversoise,
OF which the State holds practically the
entire shares. The officials are COM
PEELED to gather all the rubber avail
able or they are quickly dismissed, and
their salaries are made proporuonate
to the amount of rubber collected.
Thus premium is placed ON brutality
towards the natives
1t is said on excellent authority that
King Leopold of Belgium has made
c GOO 900 $4,000, 000) annually during
the past five years out of the rubber
and ivory sales.
The bright, cold weather of Christ
mastide has given
THE POPE'S HEALTH
a decided change for the better. He
now walks unalded during his daily
constitutional in the Vatican grounds.
The newspapers Of Rome announce that
rich American lady has had good
snuff-box, Interested with superb dia-
monds, made by one OF the best jewel
ers of Rome as a New Years offering
to the Pope, who, it is added, will find
ft tACCh 4Ol GJO,OOU llIolQG llAc ollull-
box.
The Pope recently refused to allow
the electric light to be introduced into
his apartments, remarking: There is
something supert1uous about that
light"
The Gar has returned to ST. Peters
burg, after a long holiday in the
Crimea. Incidentally, His Majesty has
taken up the fad of painting and dec
Grating his rooms with black and
white sketches. He has had his study
papered entirely with caricatures of
himself which he has collected from
foreign papers.
The Cher Lunuch Of the Sultan of Tur-
key has just died with a suddenness char
acteristic Of the Golden Horn. He left
jewels and plate worth $160,OOO besides
$4,000 in money, all of which passes, I'M
der an old law, into the Sultan's treas
ure-box! Poison and the bowstrng are
limited at.
A NOTORIOUS FIGURE
disappears from French public life with
the resignation of Nj Deibler, who has
been public executioner for the past forty
years. His son, who has assisted him for
him. Nj. Diebler's wife is the daughter of
the Public Executioner of Brittany. Dur
ing his career NJ. Diebler has guillotined
80 criminals. His salary has been 81 200
a year, and he has had an allowance of
$2,000 a year for storing and keeping the
guillotine in order. All his travelling ex-
penses were paid, amounting alone to s12-
500 yearly, each execution costing the
state nearly $500.
The Earl Of STAFFORD who recently mar
ried Mrs. Colgate, of New York, is going
to resign his post of Equerry to the
Queen, which he has held since 1874.
The destinations of the thirty odd pam
tommes at the various London theatres
are responsible for the light attendance at
most of the other plays this week.
A new light opera, by Clifford Page, of
New York, the composer Of the Incidental
music of The Cat and the Cherub," and
Chester Fernaldo, of San Francisco, au-
thor of the same, will soon be produced
in London. Fernaldo is wintering in this
city and Page is on his way here from
America to assist in the production OF
the opera.
The partnership between Forbes Robert
son and Mrs. Patrick Campbell is termi-