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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-28
JUST AS EXPECTED.

Calhoun Signal.
The investigation at the Weston asy-
lum is over, and terminated just as
everybody expected indication. The
board may possibly believe DR.. Stathers
not guilty, but 'twould be hard indeed
to convince the public that he was not.
The evidence seemed very clear and
conclusive, and showed Stathers' guilt
beyond doubt. The board may have
acted conscientiously, but we doubt it.
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A HINT FOR THE FUTURE.

Hardy County News
The little war at Weston over the
alleged immoral acts of Superintendent
Stathers, is waging hot. The Demo-
Gratis are merely onlookers. Now that
the Board hes found the accused mot
guilty" an indignation meeting is on
the tapis. All by Repubs. Some sup
Elemental charges go over for future
meeting No question has been raised
as to the efficiency of Mr.. Stathers.
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PROPOSALS.
Sealed Proposals.

Sealed proposals will be received at the
office Of the Attorney General in the city
O clock noon on the 18th day of September,
1899, for the reprinting of four hundred
copies of each of volumes 2 3, 4, 5, 6, Z, s,
9, 10, II, r. 49, a. Is, IS. H. IS 10, 20, 2, p,
g, a. %, &c, n, IS, 20, 80, 81, 81, 80, CT the
Reports of the Supreme Court of Appeals
cf West Virginia. Said reprints to be
made under the authority of Joint Resolu-
ton No. IS of the Legislature of West Vir-
ginia. session of 1899.
Copies of Joint Resolution No. is, specif-
cations, blanks for bids, bonds etc, may
be procured upon application at the office
of the Attorney General in the city Of
Charleston, West Va. where copies of the
Reports TO be reprinted may be seen any
week day from 2 a. m. TO p. m
~ B.-WORk DONE UNDER THIS
CONTRACT will not be paid for until the
Legislature meets in. January. 1901 and
makes an appropriation for its payment.
The right to reject any or all bids is re-
served.
EDGAR p. FUCKER,
Attorney General,
au15eta Charleston, w. Va.
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BELIEVE HIM GUILTY.

Peasants County Leader.
The investigation committee has fin
ished probing the Weston hospital scan
in case against DR.. Stathers, who was
charged with immoral conduct. Pub
lie opinion is divided, and many believe
Stathers guilty of the charges against
him, Notwithstanding the verdict to the
contrary.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-28
MYSTERIOUS MAUD.

Moundsville Echo.
Somebody will make a great literary
hit in writing tale about the phantom
as Maud Stathers. But whittier went
she, none knoweth; no, not even the
righteous.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-28
WHERE Is MAUDE?

Parkersburg Sentinel.
Neither the Governor of the State nor
the Taylor county authorities, nor re-
latives have made any public endeavor
to find Miss Maude Stathers, the young
lady who mysteriously disappeared
from Grafton in May, 1898, and his
never since been heard of.
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APPOINTED PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, August 27.--Rev. Father
Edward j. Fink, S. j., has been appointed
president of GonZaga College. this city, by
Father Martin, provincial of the Jesuit or
der, who resides in Rome. Father Fink
will fill the position made vacant by the
death of Father Calligan last July His
incumbency will continue for three years.
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1889 to 1899:


Monday, August 2Sth. Special train
will leave Wheeling at $40 a. m. Re-
turning, leave Pittsburg HOO p. m.
Grand reception of the 10th Pennsyl-
vania Regiment. President Mckinley
and other distinguished people will be
present. Fare for the round trip, $500.
Tickets good returning until August
goth. inclusive.
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PHILIPPINE FINANCES.

WASHINGTON, August PA statement
of the receipts of the Philippine Islands
from the date of occupation by the United
States government to July 31st last, shows
that the total receipts from all sources for
the period named was $5.249, AL. The re-
ceipts from all sources by ports for the
above named period are: Manila, So, ,2iS;
Iloilo 1866 $50; Cebu $156 1856
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The following table shows the total
exports from the United States to
Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Phil
ippines, combined, in each year from
1889 to 1899:
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Il. e. u. So. Excursion to Pittsburg. So.

Monday, August 2Sth. Special train
will leave Wheeling at $40 a. m. Re-
turning, leave Pittsburg HOO p. m.
Grand reception of the 10th Pennsyl-
vania Regiment. President Mckinley
and other distinguished people will be
present. Fare for the round trip, $500.
Tickets good returning until August
18th, inclusive.
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Of Mrs Powell's mother. who = not e.
pected to live.
Capt. Hooton, Of Moundsville Is visiting
his uncle here.
J. E. Wallace is making arrangements to
erect pretty new cottage.
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A CALL TO HALL.

Calhoun Signal.
Now let Bro Hall extend his inves-
tigation to other parts of the State ad-
ministration and air up the rotterness
practiced and he will forever have the
thanks of the good people of the State.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-28
WHY, OH WHY?

Parkersburg Sentinel
Why is Mrs. Somerville retained at
the Weston asylum, if she be unworthy
of belief?
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MAKE ANOTHER, GOVERNOR.

Moundsville Echo
The storm centre has shifted from
Weston. Can't Governor Wesley make
another funny plunge just for the
amusement of the people, you know.
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APPOINTED POSTMASTER

Special to the Register.
WASHINGTON, d. c., August a.
Lloyd NJ. Kuhn has been appointed post
master at Monongah, Marion county, in
place Of John F. Stanhagen. removed.
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MACHlNlSTS
GENERAL NOTICES.
TOTICE TO BOND-HOLDERS

M OllkL ~ DUN D-l1OlSDIJ
~ OF THE WHEELING STEEL AND
IRON COMPANY.
The Wheeling Steel e Iron Company, in
accordance with the provisions of its mort
gage deed of trust made on the 1st day of
November, 1892, hereby gives notice Of its
intention to redeem all of its outstanding
bonds secured by said martgage, being the
bonds numbered from 1856 to 900, inclusive.
by the payment Of such bonds on the list
day of November. 1899. at The National
Exchange Bank Of Wheeling, which bank
has been selected by the Wheeling Title 81
Trust Company, the trustee under said
mortgage deed Of trust, as the place of de-
post for the payment of said bonds. In the
stead Of The Exchange Bank Of Wheeling,
which has ceased TO do business; and fur
Their gives notice that upon such payment
the coupons then unmatured for interest
on said bonds will become void.
WHEELING STEEL & IRON COMPANY
II. w. BOWERS Secretary.
WHEELING TITLE & TRUST COM
PANY, L. f. STIFEL,, Secretary.
Bond-hoders who may desire to ex-
change the bonds held by them for new
first mortgage so bonds of the company at
par, should make early application at the
Office of the company.
F. w. BOWERS, Secretary.
au23eh
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SAVINGS BANKS.

| Loans on real es-
| tate at 6 per ct,
| reducible every
| 6 months. Why
| not get a little
ahead, then bor-
row enough TO
| buy a home?
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DO YOU Want AN INSURAI


which
will without hucuacn
loss misfortune negligence?
The evening times., 1899-06-21
The EVENING 1IMES WAsElsGTCY WEDNESDAY JUNE 2 s99

novsky guns. There will be COS rounds
of ammunition for the 12-inch guns,
1,51S rounds for the Baranovsky. 2,3SS
rounds for the 6-inch. $500 rounds for the
20 millimetres, 1920 rounds for the Al
millimetres, 1916 for the 37-millimetres,
besides $500 charges for revolvers and
5,94O rounds for rifles. The torpedo ar
mament will consist of seventeen White
head torpedoes, four small torpedoes, for
the steam launches, and forty-five float
ing torpedoes. Accommodations will be
provided for the admiral and his staff, for
the captain, twenty-five officers, nine
petty officers. and a crew of 100. The ves-
sci will be furnished with two 56-foot tor
pedo steam launches, two 40-foot steam
launches. two 20-oar barges, two 16-oar
working cutters, two 14-oar light cutters,
two soar whale boats, and two 6-oar
yawls.''
Captain Tchernigovsky smiled when 1t
was hinted that all this building of. war
ships did not look very much like peace,
but he reiterated his remark to the effect
that they were not for war, but for the
protection of Russia's mercantile marine.
He would not venture any opinion on the
outcome of the conferences at The Hague.
but he said he hoped to see the time when
Russia would take very prominent place
in the sea-carrying business Of the world.
and he had no doubt that such was also the
ambition of the Russian government in
offering SO many inducements for the in
vestment Of Russian capital in ships and
shipbuildng, and in giving such strong
protection as the limiting of Russian inter-
port trading to vessels flying the Russian
flag.
The evening times., 1899-06-21

Mystefies of an Old Inn.
From the Cardiff oEng.) Evening Expr,

NrToH tiie NaTuiu tE.N2.) I-NenlnE ENpress.D
During the work Of enlargng the ROYAL Bull
Hotel, hartford, hostelry dating back to the
days of Wat Tyler, some interesting discoveries
have been made. In II.3 murder was COM
mtted at the house, and the body disappeared
mysteriously. a skeleton dug up three feet
below the flooring Of an old cellar leads TO the
belief that it is the remains OF the victim Of the
tragedy. This week secret staircase has been
brought to light. and this communicates, by
invisible doors in the walls of the cellar, with
the in which the tragedy occurred, it
strengthens the belief that the body was taken
down the staircase and buried The remains are
much decayed, excepting the teeth, and these are
in fairly good state of preservation.
day two ago number of death warrants
bearing the signature Of Portland. minister of
George Ill., found in the panels of the walls
within which the murder committed. How
documents of this character got into strange Il
hiding place is matter for conjecture. One.
dated June. 179s. is good sample OF how war
rants were prepared in those days 1t reads
Whereas James O'Coiyiey having been attaint-
ed OF high treason, and had sentence passed
upon him TO be drawn upon 4 hurdle to the
place Of execution. and to be there hanged by
the neck. but not until he is dead. but that, be-
ing alive. he shall be taken down and his bowels
taken out and burnt before his face; that his
head be severed from his body and his body di-
vided into four parts and that his head and body
shall be disposed Of think fiji; and whereas
think fit to remit that part Of the sentence
directing the burning Of his bowels and dividing
the body into four paris. will and pleasure is
that lie shall be drawn and hanged and have his
head. severed from his body"
The evening times., 1899-06-21
CAUGHT A SEA MONSTER.
Corrnlled by Fishermen and Comes
to WnshingtOn

Patchogue. L. l.. June 2l.-Some peculiar
sea monster, weighing half a ton. was
| caught in a fish net by John \. Smith and
his crew while fishing for sturgeon in the
Atlantic OF Patchogue yesterday. Smith
and his crew had a royal battle in landing
the creature.
The attention of Captain Smith was
drawn to the monster when he went off TO
draw his sturgeon nets for the day. The
nets were laid about four miles off shore.
in ninety fee, of water. Usually the crew
can gather UP their nets with their load
of fish but this time il was found impos-
sible TO lift the nets higher than the
surface of the water. when the large black
object was noticed in the net. 1t was
struggling to get free of its cage-like en-
closure and snapped at the men. By q
dexterous throw Captain Smith finally
managed to get rope around the neck OF
the monster, and. dragging it ashore,
choked it to death.
Charles Palmer, one of Captain Smith, s
crew, who has Travelled all over the world.
says he never saw such sea monster. 1t
is shaped like huge turtle. IL is nearly
eight feet long, tapering gradually fro.l
the junction of the head and spine to he
two tails which spread out on each side.
The head is shaped exactly like a tortoise.
and the jaws of the large mouth have an
upper and lower set of sawlike teeth.
pointing inward. The head is two and
one-half feet around and the mouth meas
ures ten inches. The monster has no feet.
The monster will be embalmed by Cap
tain Smith and sent to the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington.
The evening times., 1899-06-21

that country to found an institution for
hygiene in MOntevideo. He went with tho
determination of making a close study o:
yellow fever and of finding. if possible, G
means of cure.
He Shut himself up in the Island of
Flores, where there was a lazaretto. and
carefully followed the course OF the dis
ease in all its stages. After many dis
couragements he found in the blood OF the
living characteristic micro organisms IN
great quantities. He learned that yellow
fever was akin to typhus, and. from the
fact that persons who had had the disease
once or who had become acclimatized
were immune. he concluded that it might
be prevented or cured by inocuaticn.
He succeeded in producing a toxine that
gave animals all the symptoms Of yellow
fever. and then was ready to try II en- IA
man beings, when he was asked by Brazil
to experiment in San Carlo de Pinhal. 4
hotbed of the disease.
This place had contained 81 coo inhaLi-
taDts. but the population had fallen to
1000 when Prof. Sanareili went there
The mortality was as high as so Or 90 per
cent in yellow fever cases.
He was supplied with his anti-amariliic
serum. as he called it, obtained from ami
mails that had been vaccinated against the
icteroid bacillus, and supporting dose OF
yellow fever virus several times stronger
than that required to produce death. His
experiments were carefully noted and sue
cessful, reducing the rate of mortality
among patients to 27 per cent and abso
lutely preventing the spread OF the dis
ease.
Prof. Sanarelli found that the serum
acted efficaciOusly only when the amount
OF poison in the system was as yet insult
fcent to cause death. He found that il
killed the yellow fever microbes, but did
not neutralize the poison that they caus=d.
1t was bactericidal and not antitoxic.
He discovered, therefore. that it must
be administered early in the course Of the
disease before the poison had accumulated,
and he found that the best results were
obtained in giving 1t in large doses in the
veins of the arm.
The result was a rise. followed by per-
manent fall in temperature and complete
recovery. The fever broke out in the jail.
and he prevented its spread absolutely by
vaccination with a weak form OF the Sc
rum. AS Prof. Sanarelli himself said:
THE great Importance Of applying this
preventive system on board ships. in
quarantine stations. in houses Of detention
and so on, will be easily understood
An institution was at once founded in
Brazil TO perfect the serum and continue
its use.
The evening times., 1899-06-21
SENTENCE OF A cANNIBAL.
Forty Years for Packer. Who Feast
ed on COmpnn ions.

Colorado Springs. Col, June 2l.-The re-
markable case of Alfred Packer has finally
been settled by the Colorado supreme
court The case dates back to April. 1874,
when Packer reached the Los Pines Indian
agency in Hinsdale county. Col, with sad
tale of hunger and suffering in the noun
tains General Charles Adams, who re-
Gently lost his life by the blowing up of a
Denver hotel, was in charge of the agency.
with Otto Mears, OF railroad fame, as post
trader.
Packer was too fat to have suffered from
hunger. He said his companions had per
ished. They were Israel Swan, James
Humphreys. George Noon. Frank Miller
and Shannon Wilson Bell. Together they
had attempted to cross in mid-winter the
Sagauche Mountain range. Severe storms
had overtaken them and starvation seemed
imminent One night while the others
slept Packer killed them. Then for two
months, according to his confession and
accumulated evidence of a circumstantial
nature he lived on their flesh. He was
questioned closely as TO his companions at
the agency. He undertook to guide par
ry of officials to where their bodies could
be found. but he seemed to have lost the
route. Finally Theodore p. Davis. an ar
cred the bodies of the five men with un-
mistakable evidence of cannibalism. On
this testimony Packer was tried for mur
der in the first degree. convicted and sem
fenced TO be hanged.
Meanwhile after the crime had been
committed, but before conviction. Colo
RADIO bad abolished capital punishment.
The case was remanded for a new trial.
this time in Gunnison county. He was
charged with mansIaughter on five counts
and convicted of each. On August 2. 1890,
he was sentenced 10 forty years in the
penitentiary at Canon City, eight years
for each count The legal tangle was sucn
that the case has been before the supreme
court on five separate occasions since. 1t
is believed TO have been finally settled the
conviction having been affirmed. The
board of pardons. TO whom alone he can
now look, will hardly release him. Parker
is now over fifty wears old
The evening times., 1899-06-21
FLIES AND DISEASE GERMS.
How the Former Carry the Latter
From Place to Place.
(From tie Hospital. }


Lady Priestly has done good service in
giving literary form and shape to certain
well known facts as TO the role played by
winged creatures in the dissemination OF
disease. This she has done in TIE Nino-
teenth Century" where she has summariz-
ed the observations which have been re-
Gently accumulated in regard to "wingel
carriers OF disease"
She starts with the demonstration made
by Mr.. Burgess At :he Royal Society two
or three years ago, when he showed how
common house iiies whicn had placed their
feet on a culture of the bacillus prodg,os-
us set up fresh growth of these bacilli
when made to walk over sliced po.a.o,s.
even though in the interval they had b en-
allowed to roam at liberty in large roorl
for several hours. In the natural course
of time he had the satisfaction OF seeing a
perfect garden of the bacillus prodigiosus
spring up wherever their fest had touch
ed"
Then comes the analogous experiment,
with the diphtheria bacillus. and the OBJ
servations showing the several ways in
which the infection of cholera may be
spread by flies. Lastly. Lady Fr:estly tells
the wonderful story of the malaria para
site and Of the filaria nocturra. and points
to cattle and the tsetse fly as illustrations
OF the roundabout manner in which infec-
tion is sometimes spread.
1t is an interesting article. and one well
calculated to show to the lay mind some
of the intrcacies Of the problems OF dis
ease. Still. we are afraid that cholera.
malaria. sleeping sickness and the whole
host of tropical diseases which have
stirred Lady Priestly to enthusiasm are a
long way off and quite impersonal TO the
average Englishman. 1t is well. then. to
insist that, although details differ. the
principles of medicine and the principles OF
biology are the same all the world over.
and that winged carriers of disease" are
potent factors-far more potent factors
than some think-in the dissemination OF
various infections.
The aerial diffusion OF infection has
always been a most unsatisfactory express
sion. But if we recognize that the air con-
tains many living things and that the
germs of smallpox are certainly as easy to
carry as the bacillus prodigiosus. not only
does an explanation of much that is unex-
planned by current phraseOlogy seem near
at hand. but also a means Of prophyalaxis.
Lady Priestley's description OF the fly
proof house in which dwelt her host "the
most agreeable and witty man of his day.
the distinguished physician, novelist. and
poet. Oliver Wendell Holmes is full of
suggestiveness in regard to hospital con-
struction.
The evening times., 1899-06-21
THE czAR's TRADING SHIPS.
Aid for Vessels Employed Along the
Coasts.

The Russian Government, from informa-
tion received by the Bureau of Navigation.
is preparing measures for the early de-
velopment Of its merchant marine. AL
though there are only twenty -four Russian
steamships Of over 1000 tons, and OF these
only four are over fourteen knots, the gov
ernment in 1898 expended over $1,000, 900
on its seagoing steamships. To increase
its navigation on the Pacific the Russian
Government for the next ten years will
pay Suez Canal dues. as the Austrian Gov
ernment has done for some time on na-
tional merchant steamships The destruc-
tion of the coasting trade of the empire.
whether the ports are on the Baltic or
Black Sea or the Pacific, to Russian yes
sells, will not appreciably affect American
navigation. as for the last two years no
American vessels have entered this coun-
try from or cleared for European Russia,
and last year only four American sailing
vessels entered from and cleared for Rus
sian ports on the Pacific
The evening times., 1899-06-21
ROOSEVELT TO COLLEGE MEN
Tells Cornell Graduates Brains Ar
Far Superior to Wealth.

| IeIIS SOTuetf uTauudteS bFatnS Are
Far Superior to Wealth.
Ithaca, n. Y. June Ex-Governor Roose-
welt attended the class day exercises in
Cornell Armory yesterday and made a
speech. After telling several anecdotes
of the late war, referring to Cornell IL en-.
he addressed himself particularly to the
graduating class. He referred to state
ments recently made by several men who
had amassed' fortunes to the effect that
collegiate education is useless in the world
of today, and attacked this position, say
ing:
Our country could better afford to lose
all the men who have amassed millions
than lose one-half of it's college bred men,
We can get along without men of enor-
nous wealth, but not without men of
brains"
The governor urged that simply because
politics are corrupt good men should not
shun them. holding that the fact that cor
ruption exists should be an incentive to
good men to participate actively and re-
move evils. A man should be as ready to
fight for the best interests of his country in
time OF peace as In time of war. The
duties of peace are none the less arduous
than those of war, and he is no thoroughly
good American citizen who shuns either
Speaking directly to the graduating ass
the governor exhorted them to DO their
share of the work of state. Collegiate
training offered innumerable advantages,
but merely Of itself would avail nothing
above ALL said the governor, do not
become of the class of so-called Highly
educated and cultured who sneer at Ameri-
can institutions and American custom. II
you recognize fault, come forward and ex-
pose it and strive to remedy it. Do not
become one Of the class who lose faith in
the ability of Americans to govern either
themselves or their islands,
Governor Roosevelt remarked that he
had not intended to preach sermon to the
graduating class. but when he had for an
audience those who have in their hands 80
great a part in the destiny of our country
he could not refrain from preaching the
doctrines Of good citizenship.
After the senior class had adjourned 10
the library steps for their group picture
Governor Roosevelt was invited to join
them. which he did. Later the governor
addressed a meeting in one of the pai ks Of
the city.
The evening times., 1899-06-21
LANSBURGH & BRO.
SPECIALS
IN
JEWELRY

19c Sterling Silver Belt
Pins, strongly made, Special
price, Sc.
19c Sterling Silver Friend
ship Hearts, plain and en-
graved, Special, 10e.
39c Sterling Silver Waist
Sets, consisting of a pair of
links, three studs and collar
button. All new designs.
Special price, 23e a set.
4Sc Silver Fan Chains.
strongly made. Special price,
25c.
Black Silk Watch Guards,
with Sterling Silver slides and
swivels. Special price, 25e.
4Sc Sterling SilverBrooehes,
handsomely designed. Special
price, 25c.