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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
THE BEEF INQUIRY FARCE

A sample of the methods used by
the Court of Inquiry investigating
Gen. Miles embalmed beef charges to
tangle up witnesses on technical points
and to get them to alter their test
mony, or in order to discredit it alto
gether, is furnished in the case of
Quartermaster Sergeant Sullivan, of
the Ninth Massachusetts.
Sullivan testified that he had been
through the Santiago campaign and
had lively recollection of the charac-
ter of the rations served the troops,
especially the refrigerated beef. He
said that this beef was of such quail
ty that the men, hungry as they were,
would barely taste it. He described
the stuff as having a ''deathly smell. F."
Here was the opportunity for his
questioner to tangle him up and dis
credit his testimony. He was asked to
describe what a ''deathly smell was
like, and when he described it as the
odor of dead and decompOsing ami
NAL the inquisitors further insisted
on a strict definition and statement
of the process of decomposition and a
list of the gases evolved in said pro-
cess-information which probably
not one member of the highly educated
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HOME VS.. FOREIGN TEACHERS.

The action of the school authorities
in going not only out of the city but
out of the State for a principal for Clay
school has created much unfavorable
good ground.
Surely there was no necessity for the
commissioners going to Ohio or even
out of Wheeling in selecting a head for
this institution, while the advantage
gained is not at all apparent.
While not acquainted with the rea-
sons of the commissioners for doing so,
it will strike most people as an en-
tirely uncalledfor and unnecessary, not
to say unjust and unwise, proceeding.
Apart from the fact that no outsider
would be likely to take the same home
pride and interest in the children of
this community that resident teacher
would, the selection of an outsider
may be regarded as a grossly unjust
reflection on the ability of our home
teachers. While doubtless the COM
missioners did not intend or contem-
plate such reflection their action is
none the less inexplicable and open to
criticism.
1t is Wheeling children that are con-
cerned; Wheeling people pay the taxes
for their tuition and Wheeling teach
ers, their capability being demonstrate
ed, should be permitted to do the
teaching, and there is no apparent
reason why the commissioners should
not have pursued this policy in ap-
pointing a principal for Clay school.
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eourt could sive Win IA nical ~.
rectness Yet they demanded this IA
formation Of this common soldier
demand it would have stuimp&d many
college professor to meet off-hand.
Because he could not answer these
scientific posers he was browbeaten I'M
til he went to pieces" altering his
testimony into mere statement that
the beef was very bad" from which
position all the arts and tricks of his
grossly unfair questioners could not
move him.
1t is safe to say that every member
of the court knew exactly what Ser
geant Sullivan meant and intended to
testify regarding the condition of the
army beef and simply utilized his ig-
norance of technical terms and lack
of scientific knowledge to discredit
his testimony against the Beef Trust.
There certainly can be no complaint
at Washington if the public decline to
put any faith in the honesty of the
courts findings or in the sincerity of
the administration which created it.
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based On ! sIlyrocket rise 81 prices.
neither Is It II danger Of ! sudden col
lapse or total shut down leaving It
without any employment whatever
Fer these reasons the Register would
counsel the employees of independent
concerns to go slow in demanding adj
vances simply because the trusts are
enjoying an artificial boom of their
own creation.
In the long run the workingman will
find the independent manufacturer his
best friend, just as the trust in the
long run is bound to prove his worst
enemy, and in the meantime the en-
ployes of the Independent concern
should view the matter in the light of
fairness and justice to all.
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SUNDAY REGISTER CITY AGENTS.


The Sunday Register is on sale at the
following named Drug Stores and News
Stands in Wheeling and vicinity
EBERLING'S DRUG STORE, No. 2l35
Market street.
MENKEMELLER' DRUG STORE, cor.
Twenty-second and Market streets
IRWIN'S DRUG STORE, cor. Twenty
fourth and Chapline streets.
COLEMAN'S DRUG STORE, cor. Twenty
fifth and Chapline streets.
YAHN'S CIGAR STORE. cor. Twenty
sixth and ChApline streets.
HANDLANS DRUG STORE, cor. Twenty
seventh and Chapline streets.
STUARTS DRUG STORE, cor. Thirty
sixth and Jacob streets.
ARKLES CONFECTIONERY, No. 3613
Jacob street.
COATES NEWS DEPOT. No. S54s Jacob
street.
ARMBRECHTS DRUG STORE, No. 3Si1
Jacob street.
McELROY'S DRUG STORE, No. 3746
Jacob street.
EHRLE'S DRUG STORE. No. 4915 Jacob
street.
ST. GLARS DRUG STORE, cor. Forty
seventh and Jacob streets.
LANTRY BROS OLD STAND. No. 4421
Jacob street.
HAGUE'S DRUG STORE, No. III Six
teenth street
EXLEY BROS DRUG STORE, cor. Zane
and Penn streets.
BURT'S DRUG STORE, cor. Virginia and
South Penn Ntreets.
FREESE'S NEWS STAND, No. 1869
Market street.
QUIMBY'S NEWS STAISD, No. 1414 Mar
ket street.
GAUSS DRUG STORE, cor. Zane ant
North York streets
OSWALD SCHICK, Bridgeport Ohio.
HOTEL WINDSOR NEWS STAND.
McLURE HOUSE NEWS STAND.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06

Nothing more effectively demon
strates Spanish national incompetence
and the smallness of the latter-day
Spanish character than the imprison-
ment of Toral and Montejo and the
prosecution of Gen. Linares for failure
in their various campaigns to whip
the Americans. The imprisonment of
Admiral Montejo is particularly unjust.
That gallant officer fought his ship I'M
til it was sinking and burning be-
meath his feet and his magnificent
bravery received fitting praise from his
gallant American opponent, Dewey. 1t
is a wonder so degenerate nation as
Spain was able to muster as gallant
military leaders as she did.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
HERE'S A MARES NEST!

On Saturday the Mckinley Alger Or
gan of Fourteenth street exploded a
bomb III defense of the Algerian ad-
ministratiOn, which was, indeed, a
most remarkable bomb, although it Is
true it had been used some time before
by the less scrupulous leaders of the
administration press and was somewhat
in the nature OF burned ammunition.
1t referred to an alleged newspaper
conspiracy discovered by Gen. Boyn-
ton, a Washington correspondent, to
deprive the Mckinley administration
of all credit in connection with the
Spanish war!
According Correspondent Boynton,
all the tumult of excitement and scan
dial stirred up throughout the country
from ocean to ocean over the gross
mismanagement of the war and the Of
fetal murder of ten times as many of
our troops in peace camps as died in
actual battle or from wounds, was all
concocted IN ADVANCE by two New
York, one St. Louis and two Chicago
editors, who, Correspondent Boynton
alleges, held a secret conclave for the
purpose in Washington on May first
Think of it! These five wicked
Democratic editors laid their wicked
plans at the very start to minimize
+ clio Of cd icfr
they were to do by attacking the War
Department.
Now, forsooth, here is conspiracy
as is conspiracy. 1t is more than a
mares nest. 1t is a nightmares nest
Think of the astounding brain power
of these five editors. 1t was remarka-
BILE even for editors. Divination, Sec
ond sight, clarvoyancy. are nothing
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
A WORD TO LABOR.

While some of the trust concerns that
have been arbitrarily boosting prices of
late have wisely given their wcrkmon
small slice, which is most excellent
policy on the part of these illegal con-
Germs, workingmen in other branches
should not mistake this partly artificial
boom in prices as a signal for general
rise in wages all along the line in in
dependent concerns as we'll as in those
which are enabled to arbitrarily add to
their profits by the trust method. OF
course, it goes without saying that
when a trust puts up prices on the peo-
pie simply because it has a monopoly
and can do so, the men are entitled to
their share and ought to demand di-
in those of independent establishments
which must depend on the regular
course of the markets to fix the prices
of their products and which must de-
pend for their prosperity ON factors
not within their control, it is the part
not only of justice, but of wisdom for
the men to go slow and to discriminate
in their demands for advances of wages.
While their brethren working for the
trusts may seem to have 1.-The best of it,
just now in the carnival of trust-boost-
ed prices, things will not always be So.
A collapse is usually the legitimate Sc
quence of an artificial boom. More
over at any time the trust is liable TO
suddenly stop a mill, dismantle it and
throw all of its employees out of work.
This has frequently been done; is even
now being done in the midst of the
present boom; it has been done right
in Wheeling; it is often necessary in
| order to maintain trust prices; it is an
important contingency of the trust
| scheme.
In short, the trust is not a good
thing for the workingman to tie to.
While it may shoot up prices which
| may carry wages part of the way with
them they are certain to be dropped
again at the slightest necessity of the
trust, which in its insatiate greed usu-
ally succeeds in soon OVERRIDING the
thing. And when the time for curtail-
ment comes the trust employee will
| feel it the very first. He will be cut
| ruthlessly or deprived of employment
altogether nv the closing I'D of his
plant.
On the other hand, with the legiti-
| mate, Independent concern that does
not depend on combination and arti-
fetal means for its profits and prosper
| ity, while its labor may not receive =
sudden flush Of fortune in wage boom
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
DIED..

sTEvENsON-On Sunday. March 3, 1899.
at 4 D. M Rachel Albert Stevenson, at
the home of her husband, J. Frank Steven
son, Cameron. w. Va.
Funeral at Cameron on Tuesday. Inter
ment at Greenwood, Wheeling.
BLATCHLEY-On Saturday, March 4.
1899 at o'clock p. m, Lizzie Luella.
daughter of the late ]. w. Blatchley and
Barbara A. Blatchley, in the 18th year
of her age.
Funeral services at the residence, 2313
Eoff street, Tuesday afternoon at
O clock. Friends of the family are invited
to attend. Interment at Peninsula GEM
etery.
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Simply ~ their all-pervading hypnotIc
power they drew to their Machiavel-
Ian purpose not only all the Demo-
cratic papers Of the country, but all
the independent and even a very large
contingent of the straight Republican
press, not hopelessly organic. And
they knew as far back as May just
exactly what Alger was going to do!
The wonderful prescience of these five
editors told them all the mighty and
fatal blunders that Alger was going to
make and they saw them all from the
very beginning. They knew that the
troops were to be quartered in camps,
whose sites were to be selected not be-
cause adapted to the purpose but to
accommodate certain railroad inter-
ests; they knew the soldiers would be
bivouacked in these unhealthful places
and without proper sanitation, medi-
cines or proper food; that they would
sicken and die by the score after en-
during untold hardships and brutal
treatment from careless and incompe-
tent officers; they OWNED from the
beginning that Shafter would order
his army to attack fortified city with
out proper preparation, without medl-
cine, ambulances, or even food; they
knew that Alger would have the sick
soldiers brought home from Santiago
in unsanitary transports on whose
decks they would walloW in unspeakable
filth without attention or proper nour-
ishment; they foresaw that Col. Roose-
welt would call the Generals in Cuba
together to sign a famous round rob-
in" protesting against these infamies;
finally these omniscient editors knew
from the beginning that the embalmed
beef scandal was certain to come to
the front together with all the other
notorious abuses that have made the
administration part in the war a
stencil in the nostrils of the people.
If there is any logic at all in Corre-
spondent Boynton's astounding MARIA
tive, these things would never have
been heard of by the American people
if these five wicked Democratic editors
had not got together in secret conclave
in Washington on May 1 last!
Was ever more ridiculous yarn con-
cocted for the consumption of an intel
ligent public! 1t is SO ludicrous hoax
as to suggest that the venerable Gen.
Boynton is in his dotage and has been
made the victim of a cruel practical
Joke. That the Fourteenth street organ
should give circulation and editorial
endorsement to the crazy yarn, to
which reputable and intelligent Repub-
lican papers have paid no attention,
would seem to show that the organ is
hard up for a defense of the Algerian
administration and rates the mental
capacity of it's readers very low.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06

Germany goes so far in her efforts
to conciliate Uncle Sam as to exhibit
a tendency to be less severe toward
the admission of American meats.
Coming on top of the embalmed beef
revelations this is indeed strong
proof of Germany's good will and
friendship.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
A NEW FIRM.

Mr. w R. White, who has been in act
i've business for the past three months,
and Mr. William c. Bates, son of DR..
Bates, and lately with the Terminal Rail-
way Company, have formed partner
ship in the real estate, insurance and gen
eral investment line, and have opened an
office in the Exchange Bank building,
with every promise of achieving the sue
cess they deserve.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06

Let us hope the President will ap-
point a more capable director for the
Twelfth Census than managed the job
of taking the Eleventh and let us trust
he will finish it in time to be of use to
the people some time before we are
ready for the Thirteenth Census.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

The annual meeting Of the stockholders
of the Wheeling Bridge Il Terminal Rail-
way Company win be held at the COM
pany's office, room 1904. No. 81 Liberty
street Borough of Manhattan, New York
city, on Tuesday, the fourteenth day OF
March. 1899 at O'Clock In the afternoon.
HENRY w. HAYDEN,
mh@ei Secretary.
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We can account ourselves lucky in
our neighbors in the valley below.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
70 the creditors of the late nrm OF Roth

& Butler:
You are hereby notified that at the re-
quest OF James W Ewing, assignee Of
Monday, March 9th. 1899, at o'clock a.
m, and my office, No 1917 Chaplne
street, Wheeling, w. Va, as the time and
place for receiving proof Of debts or de-
mands against said firm, at which time
and place YOU are required TO attend
Given under my hand as Commissioner
Of Accounts Of Ohio county, West Virginia.
this 1lth day of February. 1893
GEO H. BOYD,
fel3oawv COMMISSIONER.
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SECOND PAGE.
THIRD PAGE.

LADY Carriages--G. Mendel 3 CO.
For Rent--Five Rooms
For Rent-House on Virginia Street.
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wbeelin9 Me9ister
CHARLES II. TANEy. GENERAL MANAGER

The REGISTER, embracing its several
editions, is entered at the Postoflce at
Wheeling, w, Va, as second-class matter.
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FOURTH PAGE.

Choose Your Bicycle-House & Herr
Piano Tuning -Milligan, wilkin & Co.
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WANTED.

WANTED-Fifteen girls for homework.
factory work, etc: three laborers. Also
solicitors tailors, statesmen, boys for
work of all kinds. WHEELING EMPLOY
MENT OFFICE, 160S Market street. de1ec
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Stocks and Bonds for Sale-Simpson q
Tatum. N
Extra Quality Salmon and Shad-H. F.
Behrens Co.
Annual Lace Curtain Sale-J. s. Rhodes
& Co.
stocks and Bonds for Sale-Howard Haz-
lett.
Statement of the Condition of the Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company OF New
York-W. w. Simpson, General Agent
Handsome Country Residence for hent-
T. B. Sweeney
For Sale-Saloon Fixtures.
Boston Cookery-Miss Janet M. Hill.
Wanted-Reliable Man to Travel
For Sale-Four Roomed Frame House.
AS Plain as the Nose on Your race
Mendel Bros. Pearl Laundry.
Wanted-Good Second and Third HAND
Baker.
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DRUEMMER & HILDEBARND
IL Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
Market and I'D SITS. Open day and night
Telephone 205. ny23dc
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EIGHTH PAGE.
Annual Carpet Remnant Sale Begins To-
lay-Stone q Thomas.
Welts and Cords-Geo. E. Stifel & Co.
New Spring Top Coats-Kraus Bros.
Wall Paper-John Fr.edel d co.
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T. SCHMEICHEL d son.
i Funeral Directors and Embalmers
2265 and POST Market street. residence 2137
Chapline street. Calls answered day or
night Telephone a. mr6dc
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EIGHTH PAGE.

SIXTH PAGE.
Special Hat Sale NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

~ One week, commencing Monday
night. march 9Th, Matinees Wednesday
and Saturday, the romantic actor, DAN
lei, r. RYAN and his excellent company
presenting repertoire of New York sue
cesses Change of play each performance
Night prices 10, - and 80 cents.
Matinee prices, 10 and % cents
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FOR SALE-Store boxes. all sizes. Cheap
Apply this office fe22h
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FIFTH PAGE.
Easter Outfits-Geo. NJ. Shook & Co.
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FOR SALEM SCELlANEOUS.

SALOON FIXTURES for sale at bal
gain Address M, this office. mh6e&d
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have carefully examined the foregoing State
ment and find the same to be correct liabilities
calculated by the Insurance Department
CHARLES A. PRELLER Auditor
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ROBERT A. aRANNlss voE-paesIOeur

From the Divisible Surplus dividend will be
apportioued usual.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-07-21
A CUBAN RAILWAY.
The Island Roads Differ In Many Re
spects from Those In the
United states.

When one wishes to leave Havana by
rail to see something of the real Cuba
say, TO take trip To Pinar del Rio or
to Cienfuegos-- must get up very
early. The through trains leave AT six
o'clock in the morning. asked the
chief engineer of the railroad TO Pinar
del Rio why SO early start was made
for town only 100 miles away. and he
said il was so as to get back the same
day.
The American traveller is not only
likely to grumbe when he is compelled
to hurry to the station in the thick
gloom of the early morning. but when
he reaches the station and 6uds that he
must pay about five cents mile in gold.
and from seven TO eight cents a mile in
Spanish silver, to ride in the back-break-
ing cars known as first-class carriages
and that for an ordinary trunk he must
pay about half fare, he is inclined TO
scof at the primitive mode of travel
and TO long for the luxury of even
stage-coach iourneying on western
mountain road. The amazing amount
of computation by the ticket agent be-
fore he sells II ticket. the smoky lamps,
the three preliminary tootings by the
engine before the train starts, the final
ringing of n bell by the baggage master
as a signal that the train really is GO
ing, the crowded condition of the aisles,
choked with luggage for which the pas
sengers do not care to pay toll, and
every man in the train, from the con-
ductor down TO the barefooted brake
man, smoking tobacco of varying de-
grees of excellence-all this is likely TO
weary the American traveller used to
tho luxury of Pullman cars. few
hard jolts soon after the train leaves
the station bring up to the Imagination
the prospect of n miserable trip, and
one is inclined at the very outset TO rail
at the crudities of travel by cars in the
island of Cuba.-FraRlSlin Matthews, in
Harper's Weekly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-07-21
MEDICINE DOES NOT PAY.
Few PrncticinR Physicians Acquire
Great wealth from Their
Everyday Lnbors.

The large fortune left by Sir William
Ienner has led to much writing in the
lay press. but, owing TO imperfect in-
formation as to the source OF some OF
Sir William Jenner's wealth, much eN-
cellent moralizing has been made upon
unsound deductions. Sir William Jen-
ner was for many years AT the top OF
the medical profession, having risen
there by his genius and having been
maintained there by scientific acclama-
ton every whit as much as by popular
favor. During these years he undoubt-
eddy made very large income, but
not an income that would have enabled
him 10 save such n sum as 5000, and,
as "a matter of fact, IA certain portion of
his fortune was derived from trade and
bequeathed to him by brother But
undoubtedly Sir William Jenner earned
a great sum of money by the practice
of his profession, and the fact may le-
ultimately act as Il stimulus to young
medical men to observe keenly and
work hard.
That few medical men have made
large fortunes is well known. For in
stance, Sir Andrew Clark left G203,07O,
Sir Oscar Clayton left Gl46,740, DR..
Rhodes Armitage left e2lT,420, DR.. l..
4. Cumberbatch left & lO7 600, Sir Rich
ard Quain left Gl16,s20, DR.. Henry
Horsfall left 105,7sO, DIR. G. d. Long
staff left e 107, 900, DR.. Henry Danson
left G119,200 and DR.. j. II, Paul left
C l00,052. But all these fortunes, sew
eral of which were certainly inherited,
and not made by professional practice,
are thrown into the shade by the es-
tate OF Sir William Gull, whose person
atty was valued at C 344.023. Sir VIII
liam Gull, like Sir William Jenner,
made an enormous professional In
come, though fortunate investments,
perhaps, played the part in swelling
the total of his fortune that family be-
quests played in the case of Sir vii.
liam Jenner The above names have
been taken from lists compiled by the
Daily Telegraph and the Westminster
Gazette and cover period extending
over the last ten years.
On the strength of them the medical
profession cannot be said to abound in
whether shining in the front rank of
the medical profession or engaged in
oneof its VIGOROUSLY lucrative branches
or blessed by accident with pecuniary
advantages, have died during ten years
in possession of more than 100000,
while first-class brewers fortune
would be expected to amount to more
than the aggregate total of the ] l med
ical fortunes or the brewer would be
accounted a comparative failure. We
are not settling up a wall that medical
men do not make more money, but the
| fortune of Sir William Jenner or Sir
William Gull ought not to lead the pub
| lie TO mistake the facts as to the average
earnings Of the medical profession.
The profession in Great Britain num-
beers some $4,000 persons, and, although
now and again one man dies rich, the
vast majority die otherwise.-London
! Lancet.