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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18
RETURNED
Have the Commissioners From Their
Tour of Inspection.

The County Commissioners and Au-
ditor Patterson returned last evening
from their trip to Illinois and Indiana
to inspect court uou5es in the hope of
being able to gain ideas of benefit to
,..em and the advisory board in the
very important task of selecting plans
and building the new Washington
county structures which we hope to
have under way before a great many
more months.
They left here Tuesday morning and
went to Chicago but not to inspect
buildings or plans there. They were
in Chicago only an hour and that time
was taken up waiting for a change of
cars to take them down to Eureka, IL
linois, where there is a court house
that cost considerably less than the
amount prescribed for the buildings in
this county. The people of Eureka are
very proud of the building they have,
and especially so considering the price
paid for it. The party of inspectors
seemed to have been pleased with it
also. The building was designed by
mr.. Bell, the architect from Montana,
who was here last week looking over
the ground and getting information as
to the requirements of this county.
From Eureka they went TO Indian
apolis and on Thursday to Greenfield,
Hancock county, Ind, where they
found an elegant building located in
the center of square paved on four
sides to the center of the street on
each side and all the walks of cement
or asphalt. Three stories high, the
cupola is 112 feet from the ground and
commands fine view of the surround
ing city and country. The building is
of stone and metal throughout, with
marble wainscotlng from four to six
feet in height, marble stairways, and
where there is a partition wall not of
stone it has iron studding, woven wire
''''h t'hN lldhluS
practically fire-proof building, the cost
of which was $25OO0O There is much
more room around this building than
it has been intended to give to Wash
ington countys building, and the paw
ing all around it is expensive, of
course.
The Commissioners expressed them
selves as being of the opinion that we
can get a fine building admirably
adapted to the needs of the county's
business for years to come for the
amount which is to be used for the
purpose.
They will within a few days make
tour of several Ohio cities having mod
ern structures and see what is in use
nearer home.
The trip already taken has been of
much benefit and no doubt will lead to
a wise and economical expenditure of
the fund, giving Washington county a
of which all her citizens will
be proud.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Editor Leader-Please announce me
as a candidate for Water Works Trus-
tee. CHARLES R. RICHARDSON.
Editor Leader-Please announce
that the undersigned will be a candi-
date for the Office of City Commission
er at the April election.
JOHN A. STEADMAN.
Editor Leader-Please announce me
as candidate for the Office of City
Commissioner at the April election.
CHARLES j, BEST.
Editor Leader-Announce, please
that | will be before the people at the
April election for the office of Couu-
Gilman from the Second ward.
RALPH Il. RACE.
Editor Leader-PIease announce to
the voters of Marietta City that l will
be an applicant for the job of Marshal,
for their consideration on April 3, '99,
and oblige. JAKE DYE.
Editor Leader-Please announce my
name to the public as candidate for
the Office of Justice of the Peace for
Marietta township.
]. r. AHLBORN.
L.r. Editor-Please announce to the
voters Of Marietta Township that
will be candidate for the Office of
Justice of the Peace, N. E. KIDD.
Editor Leader-Please announce the
name Of Martin X. Andrews as a can
didate for meber of Board OF Educa-
tion subject TO the will of the voters.
CITIZEN.
Editor Leader-Please announce my
name as a candidate for reelection to
the Office of Justice of the Peace at the
spring election aud oblige.
NJ H. HART.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18
SATURDAY, MARCH ls, 1899.
Republican City Ticket.

For City Marshal,
Benjamin Bragg, Third Ward.
For City Commissioner,
Seldom s. Stowe, Fourth Ward.
For Water Works Trustee,
John Mills, lnird Ward.
For Cemetery Trustee,
s. q. Garrison, First Ward,
Long Term)
Robert Shires, Sixth Ward,
(Short Term.)
For Council,
First Ward-B. Eveleigh.
Second Ward-R c. Mugrage
Third Ward-Harry Curtis.
Fourth Ward-Henry w. Craig.
Fifth Ward-John w. Trautman
Sixth Ward-B. F. Gossett.
Assessors,
First Ward-William M. Crum.
Second Ward-John L. Smith.
Third Ward-William II. Buck.
Fourth Ward--Julius A. Payne.
Fifth Ward-Jesse Sharp.
Sixth Ward-George c. Hawkins
~ Board of Education, (Endorsed)'
Charles Penrose, Third Ward.
E. e Phillips, Second Ward
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case OF Catarrh that ca u
not be cured by lIal's C4tarrh Cure
+. j. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, O
We, the undersigned, have known +.
!. Cheney for the last Is years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in ali
business transactions and financially
able TO carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, o.
Walding, Kinnan & MarYin, Whole
sale Druggists. Toledo, o.
Halls Catsrrh Cure is taken intarnal-
lv, acting directly upon the blood aud
mucous surfaces OF the system. Price
75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Testimonials free.
Halls Family pills are the best.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

Greenfield, Indiana, has only about
5000 or 1000 people and Hancock
county, OF which it is the capital, is
only about half the population of
Washington county, yet their court
house is a $25O,O0O structure, or at the
rate of about four times as much per
capita as is intended to use for court
house and Jail here.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

II your friends or neikhDDrs are snff,Iing
lrun OuBhS, colds. sore JnrUaJ, ur any throat
n lung disease (includIng con umpLiunl, ask
Tn. m If they have ever used Ottu's Cure THIS
famous German remedy is Lavidg large sale
mere and Is performing some wonderful eur y
Of UnI O.tL ana lung uIseaoUs No mtJtGr what
o her medicines have failed TO do try OttOs
ur" T. rye sl2rs &C aud 5Oc SOLD fy all
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18
ohIo ronrlh.cIn.. roslmn.lors.

WAsHINoTON, March IS. The follow
ing Iostmasters were appointed in
Ohio Friday: Jerome, Union county,
Oliver II. Ashbury; Seth, CllrI; county,
Willis Deaton; Shawtown, Hancock
county, Wm. +. Coakley; Van Buren,
Hancock county, Calvin f. Hanna.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18
New OH Territory.

NEwARE, o., March ls.--At a depth
of 1000 feet oil was struck on the j. f.
Blines farm, near Chatham. 1t will
produce from 20 to 25 barrels daily.
People are excited, as this is new oil
territory.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

Gomez keeps faith with the United
States government in Cuba and will
assist in paying the Cuban army and
getting business started, along leglti-
mate lines.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

The girl who achieved notoriety by
kissing Lieutenant Hobson on his
first appearance in the United States
after his Cuban exploit, has become the
bride of a wealthy Texarkana mer-
chant
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

F"r mat drOl0SH dredmB iGzU ldnqolu
Uidt SdpS he snap 0 life dwdB.
IUkc Richardson's Cranberry Tone.
Prepared bB Richardson, the Gutter,
DH Greene.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

Woddsfeld is agftating the question
Of erecting a soldiers monument to be
paid for by popular subscription
throughout the county.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

Dr rUirs Cough syrup is II speedy
and emo trinus cure for Group who Mug
c ugh ayd bronchitis No child shnnld I've
le't 70 snTnr IN" tClIureS uf these lilnr u, =
when parents eau get lLis wonderful remedy
for only I5 ctn -
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

The tour OF inspection by the Com
miSsioners promises to be productive
Of much good.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

There nre' 4s different materials used
in constructing Piano, from no fewer
than 16 different countries, employing
IS different hands.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

The death of Pope Leo XIII is mo-
mentarily expected.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

General Otis is pushing the subjec-
tion OF the Aguinaldoites.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

DR.. RulPs Cough Syrup prevents
pneumonia or Inflammation Of the lungs
cold promptly. IT is the best medicine for all
kinds OF lung trouble and costs but 20 cents a
bottle. ~
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

WANTED To rent a complete furnished
house on or about April first Must have mod
ern conveniences. Address r. S. Henry, care
of Henry & Macdonald Oil Co, )" Sistersville,
w Va.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

A wheelman's tool bag isn't complete
without bottle of DR.. Thomas Eelec-
trle oil Heals cuts, bruises. Stings,
spnalns. Monarch over pain.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

EB- FOR RENT-A good ten room Honse on
the West Side, in an excellent neighboorhood
Possession any time Apply to j. A. Pumer
& Son, or at 227 Putnam street Fri.3ts
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18

BE1Sn Miss Sibyl Graham crayon artist, of
Barlow, has opened a studio, 800 Third street
six doors above City Hail. Orders taken for
crayon pastel and sepia. Unfinished prints
develops and framed. Prices reasonable and
satisfaction guaranteed
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18
BUSINESS LOCALS.

esg' IL you have an Old Line Life Insur-
nnce Policy to sell ut IA good price, call on
or address S. ii. PIumer, Marietta, Ohio.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-18
.LD IN ONE DAY

10 CURE A COD IN ONE DAY
FAKE Laxative Gromo Quinine Tablets All
iruggists refund the money II IT. fails 10 cure
lac The genuine has l.. Is q. on eiIcn tablet.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-01-05

y a greas many grand and good srsso.
lutions have been made In the pen
lew days. but how many will each one
keep throuahout the year.
Hon. David Bartlett IL = Bismarck
visitor this week, looking on IN The
legislative halls and seeing that our
solons are getting the right kind Of =
start.
The Courier il IN receipt OF 3 book
written by ). w alter Davis, formerly
editor OF the Finley Golden. Slope.
The book IL entitled 1.-THE Gawktown.
Revival Club: A satire on hypo-
crits, and IL written up in the
authors own peculiar manner. It IL.
an interesting hook to say the least,
and we hope it's author will reap .
rich reward for his work. Anyone
desiring a copy Of this book can get
it by mailing fifty cents either in
stamps or the coin of the realm to the
Cleaner Publishing Co., Minneapolis,
MINI.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-01-05

was spent playing various games and
the time few by very swiftly. A lunch
was served and the young people had
rousing good time. The night was
an elegant one and the sleigh ride
back and forth was q treat to the
young people.
Yes, it's true;
Fol-y's Honey and Tar
Is the best Cough Medicine.
HI. H BATEMAN u Co.
The masquerade ball at the court
house on New Years Eve was not a
glowing success from financial
standpoint, but everybody VIII. at
tended claims to have the time of their
lives. There were only about fourteen
masked couples present, but those
who did mask wore elegant costumes,
representing all nations. Landlord
johnson, of the Newell House, set up
a very fine supper for the dancers at
the usual hour. After supper the
crowd was swelled considerably by a
number who did not mask anu the
merry dance continued until morning.
A hot time is reported by those who
remained until the finish.
Retiring County Treasures 1vel
Udgard, who, by the way, has made
a very Efficient official, gives US the
following information in regard to
the money lost in the Fargo bank.
There was s5,663.2S tied up in the
bank when it suspended belonging tc
Griggs county. Nov. q. 1897, a
dividend of 20 per cent. was declared
and S1,l32.6O was refunded to the
county. On Dec. q, 1898, anothe,
dividend of 10 per cent was declared
and $586.32 was refunded. On Feb. l.
1899, another dividend of 10 per cent
will be declared. At the present time
there is now due the county a balance
of @. 964. SO.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-15
1888, 1i4Od1t42 MIRKET ST.

hero racket and get transferred to
better jobs, but how is a man who
stands with n hand on the switch
and the other on the brake, and rallied
in like a horse in a pasture to boot,
to cut a dash in the heroics? He isn't
hired for the heroic business. If re
Jumped over the railing he'd likely
break his neck, and if he escaped that
he'd be laid off a week for deserving
his car. Once l thought my hopes
were to be realized. l came to a ross
ing just as our superintendent was
trying to dodge a moving van on one
hand and an ice wagon on the other,
and | intended to save his life by
throwing him upon the fender. /
thought l had him there, and his
words of gratitude and promises OF
promotion were sounding in my ears,
when he had the smallness Of soul to
let an italian peanut rooster pull him
out of danger and cheat me of my
reward. Not only that, but he gave me
three days lay off because my car
bumped into the ice wagon!
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-15

he is kept on the front of the car. If
he is taken off it is to become a
transfer agen% or a timekeeper. What
l live in hopes of is to come under the
eye of the superintendent. Now and
then he goes over the road in my car.
1t must happen some day that l can
check up in time to avoid a collision
which would kill or MAIN half the pas
sengers, or that l can put on extra
speed and get out of the path Of a run
away truck and prevent a smash-up.
Then he may open the door and pat
me on the shoulder and say:
John, you have got a head on you,
you have, and tomorrow you may
start in as timekeeper. At the same
time l fine the conductor a weeks a
for neglecting TO ring up two fares
IF that time ever comes, sir sighed
the motorman. I'll get a step on the
ladder which may carry me to the top,
but I'm hoping against hope. I've had
half a dozen conductors in the last
year\who had opportunities to play the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-15
THE LEGISLATURE.
Routine Proceedings of Yesterdays Session
Told in Detail |

OIu II Ota
Special to the Register.
Charleston, w. Va, February IA
The House was opened with prayer by
Delegate Spencer.
The judiciary committee reported
fayOrably upon House bill No. 81, to
create a State board of undertakers.
The labor committee reported back
House bill No. JOB, with an amendment
making it unlawful to employ children
under Is years of age, and asked IA
Vorable action thereon.
The finance committee reported ia
vorably on House bill No. 9G, for the
taxation of telephone, telegraph and
express companies, House bill No. 227,
to amend Sec. 81 of Chap. 50, and House
bill No. PA, to amend Sec. 81 Of Chap.
80 of the Code relating to taxation.
Bills were introduced as follows:
House bill No. pa, by Fisher, for
Constitution to the voters of the State.
Read a first time under suspension of
the rules.
House bill No. 245, by Bennett, to
amend Sec. 26 of Chap. 81 of the Code
of 1891. Read d first time under Sus-
pension of the rules.
Mr.. Bowman called up House bill
No. 217. providing for the assessment
of express companies. Mr.. Zinn Of
fered the original House bill, No. A,
as a substitute. 1t was defeated, and.
with several slight amendments, House
bill No. 217 was ordered to its third
reading.
House bill No. 6, providing for a
State board to be known as The West
Virginia Humane Society," came TO its
third reading with several amend
ments.
Senate bill No. 26, concerning
the independent school district of St.
Adams, and House bill No. IS, amend
ing the charter Of Charles Town, was
advanced to second reading.
House bill No. pol, amending section
Is of chapter 81 of the code, was taken
up out Of order and advanced to its
third reading.
Senate bill No. IS. amending the act
creating the criminal court of Ohio
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-15

"One reason why a mOtOrman hangs
on is TO get even with certain folks.
On my list is the driver of a grocer's
wagon, two bikists, a moving a and
a fat pedestrian. We've been sworn
enemies for the last two years. I'm
not saying that I'm laying to main or
kill, but a mOtOrman has dignity and
self-respect to maintain. The begin
ming Of the enmity was all their fault.
The mOtOTman starts out without bias
or prejudice. He is willing to be
friends with all. All pedestrians and
all vehicles are the same to him. Take
the case of the grocer's wagon. 1t is
driven by a red-headed boy about IA
years of age. l never understood why
he got down on me, but one day he
backed that old white horse up to the
curb in a way to stop me dead still.
From that he took to coming around
the corner in a way to bring about a
collision if l didn't grind down the
brake and pile the passengers in the
front end of the car. Fifty different
times in the last year he has got me
into trouble, and he is still at it. There
is such a thing as a limit, sir, and
that boy will get a surprise party
within a couple of weeks. I've got to
take both hind wheels off that wagon
or suffer a loss of dignity. He may
go with the wheels or hang on to the
wreck, but l shan't aim to hurt him.
I'll just give him a check in his mon
key-business which will darken his
hair by three shades. I'll get laid off
for two weeks for smashing the wagon
but I'll owe that to my ~self-respect
and make no complaint.
And those bikists sir-they must
not be permitted 20 lay on the last
straw and break the cameIs back.
Every day at a certain hour they
come booming around the corner to
cross the tracks just in front of me.
It's nothing to them that l am two
minutes behind my time and have a
car full Of people. Nineteen times out
of twenty l must check up for them.
and I've u EN- so close now and
then that I had my heart in my mouth
for a minute. Yelling at them has done
no good, and they have simply laugh
ed at the words Of caution Of the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-15
"THE FENDER IS THERE TO
CATCH HIM"

won't be Eel scratched in the coils
ion, but that grand wagon with the
grand steamboat painted on the sides
will need a months ov~erhauling before
it leaves the shop.
AS for the pedestrian, he must go.
He has been my nightmare for almost
two years. l have hoped he would be
laid up with the govt, moved out of
town or become conscienc stricken,
but all in vain. He crosses me at a
certain street five or six times a day.
l am there to the minute, and so is he.
It's on a dOWn-grade, and few people
get off at that corne but ! can't let
her out on account Of that fat man.
We have both figured it out to a hairs
breadth hat if | didn't check just op-
posite a certain hitching post the car
would pick him up For Two long years
I've yelled and cussed and called
names, but he hasn't even looked up
at me. He is one of those men who
argue that they have got rights over
public vehicles, and nothing IN earth
will make him dodge a car. l miss
him by about seven inches only, and
some of the women passengers always
scream out at his close call, but if the
miss was only an inch the fat man
wouldn't let it rufle his dignity. Well,
I've got dignity, too, and l must sac
riice something to maintain it. | can
pick that fat man up without breaking
a limb, The idea viii be to pick him up
going at full speed, and he'll come
down spread-eagle fashion and escape
with only a nervous shock. l don't
know whether he will crawl off the
fender and pick up his hat and car
or open the switch and give me a rak-
ing down, but I've got to try it. 1t is
absurd that a fat man should set him
self up to be bigger than a street car,
or that he should assume all the dig
nifty in town and leave none for the
motorman. Yes, I'll pick him up ONE
day soon, even if it brings about my
last trip. l a always so to driving
an ice wagon if l lose my ear, and ice
wagon men are privileged to run over
everything and everybody when it's a
case of maintaining their dignity"
Copyright, 1893. by John Brisben Walker)
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-15
THE MOTORMAN.
His Hopes and Grievances, and Why He
Hangs to Ills Job.

con my last trip up tonight" said
the motorman as he sat down by the
stove to take a few whiffs at his pipe
before going home, my car licked the
wheel of a big truck, grazed the tall
board of a grocer's wagon and came
within an ace of making mincemeat
of an eminent citizen who had a jag
on and saw double, and yet the con-
ductor was flirting all the way up with
a pretty girl, and the thirty passengers
hadn't even a look for me. It's a
thankless job, that of running an cleo
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-15

SO located with reference to boundary
lines Of the ten-acre plot that it's plant
car be increased to "a mills capacity
without hamperjng or obstructing op-
erations. The establishment now build
ing is to be operated upon the complete
installation Of two mills and their nee
essary apparatus, but the p1Sns now
completed look to a s9oc@- expansion
10 six mills, with a corresponding in
crease in productive capacity. The gen.
eral project contemplated further ex-
tensions as oon as they are justified by
trade conditions.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-15
policeman. I've got to get even with

policeman. I've got to get even with
EN- bGore / quit my job. The idea
won't be to do EN- any injury. but to
make EN- realize that a big electric
car with sixty passengers aboard is not
> baby carriage nor a roller skate.
When the fender strikes 'em they will
go ten feet high and come down to be
caught and carried along, and the cor
ner policeman will pick EN- off and
present each one with a handful of
broken spokes and advise EN- to go
home and go to bed early. 1t will be
all my fault, of course. They'll veal
to that, and likely find a dozen pedes-
trians to corroborate them, but I'll
wriggle out of it with the loss Of
weeks pay. Any mans dignity ought
to be worth So. It's a case Of jeal-
ously with the driver of that moving
van. He saw a good-looking girl smile
at me one day, while she gave him the
marble heart, and he plotted my down.
fall. He's been trying his best for
the last year to coax me into knocking
a wheel off his vehicle. and l shan't
give him much nor rope. I'll be
two or three minutes behind some day,
and booming along to make it up, when
he'll drive right across the tracks with
his tongue in his cheek to bring me up
with a sudden jerk. l truly hope he
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-15

President Shaffer and Vice Presi-
dent Collier, of the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION, have for the past few days
been in conference with the officers of
the American Tin Plate Company, in
Chicago. Their visit was to request
an advance in wages, based upon the
present relations between the tin plate
market and the sliding wage scale of
the Association. w. T. Graham, sell
ing vice president of the trust, has
agreed to furnish President Shaffer
with sworn statements of purchases
and sales, and to leave the calculations
to the Amalgamated Association Of
ficers. This will make it possible for
the workers to get the advance within
a couple of weeks if the statistics show
they are entitled to it.