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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-16

SdSn Quotal10nS were rs tOllOWS.
Flour dull and unchanged.
Wheat-No. 2 spring .66lhI69c: No. 3
spring 62G67hc; No. red 69isI70hc.
Corn-No. 33%@Sic; No. 2 yellow
3iH IS4kc.
oats-No. Q 26ls926Nc; No. 2 white
29kG30c: No. 3 white 2SlsG29Nc.
Rye-No. 2 54c.
Barley-No. . 3SI4Sc.
Fla1seed-No. 81 IS; n. w. 81 12k.
Timothy seed-Prime So IS.
Mess Pork-Per Dbl. SO 0O09 05.
Iard-Per 100 lbs IS 25G5 27lk.
Short Ribs-Sides (loose) 81 1904 IS;
dry sailed shoulders (boxed) 4k@4Sc;
short clear sides (boxed) 81 S5I4 80.
Whisky-Dlstillers finished goods per
gallon 81 &c.
Butter-Steady; creameries 14Q19hc;
diaries 1lis917c.
Eggs-Steady; fresh 13c.
Cheese-Steady: creams l0h@l1hkc.
NEW YORK-Flour dull and easy.
Wheat. spot easy: No. 2 red size
fob. anoat to arrive; options opened
weak and closed weak at SGlc net low
or. March closed at S0%c; April closed
ut 75&c; May closed at TIC: July
closed at 73Ac; September closed at
71Ac.
Corn, spot steady: No. . 4lAG4s%c
fob. atloat for new and old: options
opened barely steady and closed steady
at unchanged prices. May closed at
4Oc; July closed at 40isc. u.
Oats. spot dull No. . 32h@3Sc: track
white 35lssG39c: track mixed western 80
QS4c; options dull
Hops dull. Hides firm. Lard quiet;
western steamed &c 50: March IS So nom
inal: refined steady; continent IS so: S.
a. Sc 20: compound 4;sc. Butter steady.
Cheese firm. Eggs quiet; western
fresh lac; southern l2is914c. Taliow
steady. Cottonseed oil dull. Rice
steady. Molasses firm.
Coffee, options opened Nsteady and
closed quiet at 59iO points net lower:
sales lo,25o bags; sugar. raw steady
but inactive; refined steady and less
active. 81,
BALTIMORE-Flour dull and un-
changed; receipts $500 barrels: exports
50 barrels. Wheat duh and easy: spot
and month 74is0744c; April 74EG75c
exports 1890 bushels. corn steady:
spot and month 37hG37Ac: April 37S q
Si7sci May 3S&43s7sc: receipts 2S9.SOO
bushels; exports 1880 bushels. Oats
dull; No. . white 35435kc: No. 9 mixed
32Es @33c: receipts 1850, bushels, Rye
steady; No. western 6ec:: receipts 1900
bushels. Sugar strong. Butter steady.
Eggs firm.
CINCINNATI-Flour dull. Wheat
firm; No. . red 73csG!Corn quiet: No. 2
mixed 35i.c. Oats easier; No. 2 mixed
29k930hc. Rye dull: No. 60c. Lard
quiet at IS 12AU5 Is. Bulkmcats firm
at 81 IS. Bacon steady at S. Is. Wills
key active at 81 &c. Butter quiet. Sugar
steady. Eggs steady at lie. Cheese
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-16
Two Accidents.

What to Eat: do you think II prop
err" snid the man who was trying to
keep his temper. TO laugh ut n man
who slips on banana peel by acc-
dcnt?"
well. replied the spectator. apologet-
lcally. y laughed by accident. too I
didn't think of such thing until 1
saw you"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-16
Petroleum..

OIL CITY-C redit balances 81 l3: GER
.tificates 81 II bid for cash; shipments
ll3 barrels: daily average shipments
S4.730 barrels: runs 9S,66l barrels: daily
average runs TG6l0 barrels.
NEW YORK-Stardard oil closed at
81 S2GSt 81 ..'I ,uH.T0
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-16
West Virginia
Conference Seminary
Thorough. practical. economical.
Thirteen competent instructors.
Moral influences tho best..........

COURSES
Classical. Scientific. Literary. Normal.
Music. Art. Business. Elocution.
LADIES' HALL furnished throughout
with steam heat. electric lights. bath
rooms-an IDEAL CHRISTIAN HOME
FOR YOUNG LADIES. Room and board
In this Hall per week $50; per year. In
Guiding tuition $1,000. Special induce.
ments to TEACHERS.
Expenses OF Young Men per year slc5 90
Winter term begins November 10; Spring
term March s. sui. Z
For particulars write
S. /. B0ffRS, President.
occ, Buckhannon, W. Va.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-16

BURDoCK Blood Bitters gives man
a clear head, an active brain. n strong.
vigorous body-makcs him 1T for the
battle OF life l
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-16
Sasuranee.
.Snsurdnce.
Alfred Paul. v ws., $ E: sss.'

All.losses adjusted and paid
from this Office.
Orient 1ns. Co.--AssCtS,. ..........s2,S6,6 Sl
Merchants ms. Co.--Asscts,....-..sl.,o0 100. $50
NIrEln!n State ms. Co.-Asscts. US go. III
Willamsburgh City ms. Co.-As-
SntB .s.s.Sl,tfLaSi
Georgia Home ms. Co.--As5cts....Sl.?l ZIG, 600,
Phoenix Assurance Co..Assets. .!30a6. 5?S
Security lns. acknowledgements 90t. CO..
Virginia Fire Il Marine lns CO.
United States Casualty Co.-As-
Hots .,.,...,.....,...-,.... -...''S s.s'VoJ
Fidelity md Deposit Co.-Assots. .s?,6Gl, go
Preferred AceideHt-Assets.... SS;.e9s
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-16
Extras from Wheeling to Park and he.

TINE MoNoNGAH ROUTE is TIf;
harrisburg. Quick Tlmc-Fa.t Trains
Sure Connections. When travelling 10 or
from, Clarksburs or West Virginia and
pittsburgh railroad points. see that your
tickets read via the MonoEahcla River
Railroad. Close Connections at Falrmont
with .. & o. trains. and Mt Clnrksburr
with II. g. o. and w. V. & y. trains, Tick.
cts via this route on sale ut all B. & o.
and W., 4 p. r. II. stations. =
M. NOGn G. BOWLES, GEM SUIT
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-16
Stationery, 8oohs. sfc.

'iIilE PITTSBURGH DISPATCH.
Commercial. Gazette. Times, Gin.
clanAtl Enquirer and Eastern and
Western Dnlllcs delivered. Weekly
Papers, Literary and Fashion Mag
azInes. Cheap Books. Stationery
and Gospel Hymns. is@
c. II. QUlMBY,
lili Market Street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-16

NORTHWEST SYSTEM-CLEvELAN
& PITTSBURGH DIVISION.
Trains Run Daily, Except Sunday, as fol.
lows: f'
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21

Howard S. Nelson and DR.. Northway
Meyer, demonstrators. Beside these
legends sits a grinning hunnangskun. c
Crossing and recrossing the room
strings of bones interlace. Ribs alter
nate with the slender bones of fingers
and toes. Up and down the walls, like
CHASTITY white serpents, crawl soils of
vertebrate. Arm and leg bones with
highly polished surfaces are shlrng on
the cupboard doors.
Everywhere the eye turns in this
curious CLEARINGHOUSE symbolsSof NOR
tally start into relief. But it is on the
large table against the south wall that
death vertically sits enthroned.0 In the
middle, heaped into mound, bones
from all parts of the human frame are
surmeunted by a skull. Here a hand,
there a crippled foot, a cranium hol-
lowed into a drinking cup, oddities of
all grisly shapes surround the mound.
In n chair 10 the right sits skeleton
in leisurely attitude, leaning one arm
upon the table, as he watchesthe skele-
tons over which the sunlight dances.
This display has been recently ar
ranged from the human lonesome OF
them 25 years old-which have come
into possession of the hospital and coli
lege. The artist whose eccentric i'm
spiration is accountable fer their ars
rangement is William Flater.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21

Ashland avenue. He complained to the
police that his pet had been stolen,
and the two officers were detailed to
find it. After several days searching
they found the goat sleeping in a barn
and invited him to come home to his
owner.
The goat thought the barn in which
he was sleeping a good enough place,
and refused TO go. Slupikowsh went
inside and took him by the horns. A
moment later he was hanging on
harness peg on the farther side of the
barn. Holmes, who had followed and
was giving Slupikowski advice about
handling goats, had a faint idea that
something had hit him as he bounced
out of the door, over the garbage box
and landed in a dazed condition just
at the edge of pool. Slupikowsli in
the meantime had rumbled down and
was instantly tossed back on the top
of some sacks of grain. By strategic
move the officers succeeded in getting
a rope over the horns of the goat and
tried to lead him away. The goat
pulled back until the men were both
Juggling at the rope. Then he charged,
and Holmes again went into the air.
The latter hung to the rope and the
goat was brought to a sudden halt
and caused to turn a back somersau1t.
This was tally one for the police. They
followed up their advantage by both
sitting down on the goat and holding a
council of war and listening to the ad-
| vice of the spectators, who had been
attracted in great numbers. They de-
| cided the only thing to do was to call
the patrol wagon and give the goat Q
ride to the station.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21
KAFFIR AND OSTRICH.

to his help, but the pony had become
thoroughly frightened and was boiling
as hard as he could go.
There was more shouting now, and
hoped that others had come to the
rescue, but CHANGING back again l saw
it was too late-oStrich and man had
met. The Kaffir made a spring at the
neck of the bird, but he was too slow,
and an awful kick sent the poor wretch
into the air and dropped him with a
thud upon the earth.
Before he had time to recover-if,
indeed, he ever could-the bird was
dancing upon him, and L shut my eyes
to hide the sight. By this time several
Kaffirs and a Dutchman had come up,
and with long Iosso they caught the
birds neck and strangled it, dragging
it off the PROSTATE Kaffir at the same
time.
II never knew how L reached home
For days and nights that ghasfIy fight
haunted me, and was troubled by the
thought that the man had given his
life for mine, while had done nothing
even to attempt to save him. His mas
ter was more filed with ANNOYANCE
at the loss of the ostrich than with pity
for the man who had met with so cruel
a death.
81 heard afterward that the unfor-
tunate Kaffir had only lived until he
reached the farm, and then he sue
cumbed to his terrible injuries. Some
little time previously he had become a
Christian. and we brought away his
body and had it buried in our own gar
den"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21
ANGELO's TOMBSTONE.

smith of Pocomoke City, Md. Angelo
gust %, 1915, and began his apprentice
ship as blacksmith on June %, 1928
When he had served out his apprentice
ship and reached the age of 81 years his
employer presented him the anvil and
hammer on which he had done his first
work. He has used it continuously ever
since. A few weeks ago he conceived
the idea OF using it as his tombstone, so
he made an iron handle for the old
hammer and fastened it with a metal
peg to the top of the anvil. He also at
tached three links to the handle of the
hammer, which is supposed to indicate
that he is an odd fellow.
He then sent the anvil and its attach
ment to the Whiting firm to galvanize,
in order that it might not be rusted
away by exposure to the weather over
his grave. 1t was a difficult task, and
it had to be dipped in mass of 20 tons
Of molten zinc before it was success
fully accomplished. He wrote TO the
firm not to spare any expense to make
a good job of it, but they Will make no
charge for their work. Angelo is still
working every day for two shipyards at
Pocomoke City, and is as hale and
hearty as the youngest of the men about
the yards. Heis sl1illful workman, and,
although bent with age, he yields a
heavy sledge with power and dexer-
ity.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21
According to Etfauette.

Court etiquette is fearful and a
wonderful thing. It is told that on one
occasion when the lamp in Queen Vic
toria's sitting-room at Osborne was
smoking her majesty appealed to one
of her ladies in waiting to lower the
wick a trifie. The lady appealed to de-
c1ined to recognize turning down lamp
as one of her official duties. She passed
the information about the lamp to the
next lady in waiting. who told the third
lady, and so it travelled from attendant
to attendant while the moments fled
and the smoke continued to ascend.
Finally the queen rose herself and with
her own hand performed the act
which her naughty attendants had felt
was below their dignity. This, if q
fact. is interesting.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21

Hcewoman. She also carries a revolver,
and is not afraid to use it. She has
made several arrests unaided.
The honor of being a policewoman
was not forced upon Miss Wilder. To
be exact, she solicited it. The Ha-
waiian heiress loves children and an
imals, and it was to protect her small
and lowly friends that she asked an
appointment on the police force.
1t was reported last month that the
captain of steamship that had put
into port at Honolulu had mistreated
his children. Miss Wilder boarded the
ship and found that for slight Of
Tense the captain had locked the chill
dren in stateroom for several days,
keeping them on Observation-Disclosures
diet. To the establishment of the pro-
testing captain she promptly marched
him down the gangplank and to Jail.
Recently Miss Wilder has come into
the courts through her zeal as cop"
She detected one OLAF Hollefson, a
street car driver, in the act of driving
mule whose shoulders were bleeding
from a chatting collar. She compelled
him to leave his car and passengers and
go with her to the police station, where
she had him "boolzed' for cruelty to
animals.
Hollefson claimed that as Miss Wilder
had no warrant the arrest was illegal.
He claims $4,000 damages. The courts
decided in favor of Miss Wilder.
Miss Wilder is a belle. She can dance
like fairy. She is past mistress of the
feminine art of coquetry. Two men tes-
| tify to the fact that she is an adept at
| the game of hearts. One is Frank I'm
| ger, bon vivant and club man, of San
| Francisco. Another is a dashing young
| officer of the United States navy.
She rides a horse with the daring of
| a vaquero. She handles the reins with
| the dizziness and daring of stage
driver. She swims and rows with the
| grace and strength of a Kanaka. But
wherever. she is, or whatever she may
be doing, she carries a pair of hand
| cuffs to snap on the wrists of the enc.
| mics of children and animals.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21


aid of the clergyman's work of evan
gelization for each fight he won.
1t was probably the clerical cut Of
the pastors garments rather than any
thing in his appearance that made
these men so confident, for when they
came to strip they could not help no
iticing that he was decidedly in the
heavyweight class, and picked their
best fighter to meet him first. Crane
was their selection. The fight was
fought in a corral outside of town,
where there was no danger of Interrupt
ton. big crowd gathered to watch
the result.
Not much skill was displayed, but
what the contestants lacked in Science
they made up in strength, courage and
determination. To every ones aston
ishment, Rev. Mr.. Eseomb forced the
fighting from the start. Crane held his
own during the first and second rounds,
but came up groggy in the third, and
was.ignominiously knocked out in the
fourth.
Ransom made better showing. He
lasted seven rounds and mauled his an
tagonist severely. The latter won
more by sheer endurance and indiffer-
ence to punishment than by superior
skill. Ransom entered the ring at the
beginning of the seventh round badly
blown and much annoyed by the flow
of blood from a cut over the eye. Rev.
Escomb saw his advantage, and. avail
ing himself of his superior weight and
reach, rushed his man rapidly about
the ring, beat down his guards by pure
force of muscle, and finally landed a
blow on his jaw under which he went
down and was unable to regain his feet.
Perkins confessed himself beaten be-
fore he began fighting, and devoted
most of his time to lodging the rever-
end gentleman's sledge-hammer fists.
The latter was considerably battered,
but Perkins, who had at first consid-
cred himself sure of victory, complete
ly lost his nerve when he saw Crane
and Ransom fall, and would, as he after
ward admitted, have kept out of the
ring altogether had he been able to do
SO creditably. He went down after two
easy rounds.
Rev. Escomb held his men strictly to
their agreement, and all promptly paid
their money and professed Christian
ity. The preacher is an old Vermonter,
passed his boyhood on a farm, spent
several years in the Wisconsin lumber
camps, and bore the reputation in his
youth of being an almost invincibie
rough-and-tumble fighter
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21
Picking a Pig to Pieces.

Miss Hannah, of Bucyrus, o., rsri ties
from Honolulu to a friend of the stay
there of the battleship Oregon and of
its peculiar mascots. The Oregon's
principal pet is a coaI-black Spanish
pig, captured from the Cristobal Colon.
The pig is fat and lazy and wanders
about at will. A noticeable feature
about IL Is its badness. large patches
of the hide being visible. 1t is caused
by the ruthlessness of curiosity-seekers.
The pig was literally picked to pieces
by the women visitors who boarded
the Oregon and were DESTROYS of a few
bristles from the mascot porker. The
pig was in a fair way to being picked
alive when a stop was put to the cruel
ty. The Oregon also possesses three
perfectly black cats which were pre-
scented to the ship by lady from the
state of Oregon.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21

a great degree of affection. In order to
harass the physician the joker, who
works nights, had been in the habit
of stepping into the hallway of the
fiat where the doctor lives about two
o'clock in the morning and calling up
the man Of medicine through the speak
ing-tube. When the voice came down
inquiring what was wanted the an
swer would always be: why don't
you move?"
After he had crawled out of bed sew
eral times at unseemly hours the doc
tor compounded a dose for his tor
mentor in the shape of quart of water
proof ink. This was given to the young
man who had a haunting desire to
know why the physician did not va
cate the building. The dose was adj
ministered by means Of funnel and
the speaking The doctor de-
clares it is a capital remedy for at least
one form of the practical joke habit,
as he now sleeps undisturbed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21
DOG IN THE MAILS.
Yellow Canine Found in a Now York
Letter Box with StampssAt-
tached to Its Tail.

For 25 years I've collected mail in
this city, and never before have found
the likes of this in a letter-boX," said
Letter Carrier John Mangeld, of Sta
Jion j, the other morning, as he en-
tered the branch post office at 2l1 Vest
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street,
New York. &,
As he spoke he exhibited his strange
fnd-a small, yellow mongrel pup
dangling by string. To the dogs tail
was tied a card, on which was seme
childish scribbling and two postage
stamps.
Carrier Mangold said that when hs
stopped at One Hundred and Twenty
fourth street and Seventh avenue to coli
lect his mail and thrust his hand into
the mail-box for papers and packages
to draw out the contents, he drew back
in a fright. for he heard vicious snarl
and the swapping of teeth. Finally
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21
DRESSING UNDER WATER.

lar" added my informant, with a rem
iniscent twinkle in her eye.
"How long is it since you became pro-
ficiept in your art?" asked.
"Only about a year or so ago, al
though both myself and sisters have
been fond of swimming more years
than I should like to say"
The tank in which Miss Elise dis
ports herself every evening is just over
ten feet long and two feet four inches
wide. The sides and front are, of
course, of thick plate glass, the back
and bottom being of iron.
under water, Miss Wallenda takes one
very deep breath and subsidies grace
fully to the floor of the tank, where
she lies down on her left side with her
body perfectly straight and motionless,
remaining in this position until she
desires to return to the surface.
Remarkable to relate, she can hear
while under water, and her watchers
keep her informed of the lapse of time
by word of mouth.
In those of her feais REQ uirin g
prolonged immersion, Miss Wallenda is
invariably attended by one of her sis
tiers, for sudden collapse is a by no
means unusual happening where abso-
lutte suspension of the respiratory
functions is imperative.
Long practice and a marTelously con-
stituted pair of lungs have rendered
this amphibious young lady almost in
vulnerable to this form of danger.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21
KAFFIR WAS A HERO.
Saved q White Woman's Life and
Lost His Own.
Miss Rovvles Was Chased by nm Angry
Ostrich, But Saved by the Great
Courage of Recently Con-
verted BLACK Man.

Miss N. N. Rowles, an English girl,
riding on the veldt in South Africa,
came upon an ostrich pen of wire fenc-
ing, within which hen ostrich was sit
ting while her mate kept guard.
Miss Rowles turned her pony to fee,
but the male ostrich, infuriated at the
disturbance, dashed at the fence.
There was a crash behind us, fol-
lowed by a measured beating, which
almost made the ground vibrate and
set my heart humping" writes Miss
Rowles. IF you have never heard the
tramp of an Infatuated ostrich no
words win describe it; the nearest APP
proach to it is the regular thud, thud
of soldiers on the march.
''There was no mistake, we were be-
ing pursued by q furious cock ostrich
"a formidable foe indeedi The pony's
feet seemed scarcely to touch the
ground, and 1 bent forward, urging
him on as 1 had never done before.
Nearer and nearer came the beating,
the distance between US and our
strange pursuer growing less every
second.
There was shout, and I was con-
scious that a short, heavy kerrie
whizzed past me. Presently another
kerrie came whizzing past, and this
time it must have interfered with the
progress of the great bird, for L could
tell it had stopped short and ventured
to look back.
1.-THE Infatuated ostrich was charg-
ing at Kaffir who was coming mp from
the camp in pursuit. The man saw his
danger and threw kerrie after kerrie,
which passed wide of the mark. Vague
ideas flashed through my mind of going
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21

plucking up courage, he tried again,
and in the midst of torn and gnaIved pa
pers he pulled forth the small dog. The
dog had been carefully lowered into
the mail receptacle by meanssOf long
string
And what shall / do with the beast ?'S
asked Carrier Mangoid, still hanging on
to his queer mail matter.
Il guess We'll have to send him to the
dead letter oflcc.'' said Chief Clerk Cavs
erty.
The dog let out piteous whire. an
if in protest.
NO. no; We won't do thet," said SUI
perintendent Newson; I'VE, shall keep
the dog at Station j. He will make a
good watchdog in time"
If all goes well, for the rest of his
days the yellow pup, says the New
York World, viii watch mail instead OF
being part Of it.