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Domestic.

There is much excitement at Jerome,
Ariz., over strike OF gold-hearlng quartz,
eight miles out. on United Verde and Paci-
! &c Road. A hole four feet deep has been
made. and sample assay is said to show
$4,000 per ton.
Allen Brooks, the eaineteen-year.oldu negro
who assaulted Mrs. F.W. Hart near Bloom
tngdale, Ga. was taken to the scene OF his
crime, identified aud lynched.
The Nebraska courts have just held that
! condemned prisoner who escapes from
custody before being landed IN the penf-
tentiury cannot, IL recaptursd, be COM
pelled to serve time equa! to that spent OF
liberty. ....'
The lynclfers OF Brandt O'Grady and
Walter Cotton ut Emporia, Va, will
| remain unpunished. The Grand Jury,
after spending two days In examining wit
nesses, reported that no indictments could
be found.
A Federal Grand Jury 10 Savannah, Ca,
charged that delays IN New York City will
probably prevent the prosecution OF Gay
nor, Greene and others accused OF detraud-
Ing the Government OF millions.
Mary Jane Demman, aged twenty-three,
was arrested ut Providence, R. l., charged
with the murder OF her infunt son.
D.L. Bandsr, heir to $100, 900 estate at
Cortland N. Y, threw himself In front OF
train at Chicago, ILL.,, and was killed,
Kansas will have an exposition In 1904
In celebration Of the liftieth anniversary
OF the organization OF the Territory OF Kan
sa5.
Sidney A. Kant, q well-kuown Chicago
wheat operator, dled at his home IN SUI
field, Conn. !,
James Chapman has fled suit for S40,-
! coo damages at King Fisher, OKLA, against
Oklahoma Grand Lodge and King Fisher
Lodge, Ancient Order Of United Workmen,
for injuries inflicted during his initla tlon
Several stations near the mouth OF the
. Yukon River are suffering from serious
food shortage, according to adViees JUST
received from the KlondlEe.
The spring time rush OF immigrants to
this. country has commenced, every steam
ship arriving ut New York City being
crowded with them.
Three children were burned to death in a
Gre which destroyed the farmhouse OF
John Brassill, In East Providence, Il. l..
The new schooner. Helen Miller Gould,
the most costly fishing vessel ever built at
Gloucester, Mass, was launched In the
presence OF $500 people.
Former United States Senator Philetus
sawyer uled at Ms nolne, a. osnAoSu'
Wis. aged elghty-thrse.
The Nebraska Populists have decided to
hold their State convention on June IL.
Candidates will be nominated for all State
offices.
Fred. Rey nolds, forty-two yenrs old:
woodchopper Of Red Beach. Me-. Eilled
ais wife and one son With an axe, serious
~ Injured another son, and burned the
iouss TO the ground. Reynolds was ar
rested. He g believed to be insane.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-04-18

OF Jasper cannot hold 1t.
I wonderland this IS a question l have
been asking myself all the service-wiii
you sing that song2 Will Stag it; Not
unless our sins are pardope1 and we learn
now to sing the praise OF Christ will We
ever sing it there.
Tho first great concert that sve- az
tended was in New York, when Julisn 10
the. CRYSTAL palace stood before hundreds
OF singers aud hundreds OF players upon
instruments. Some OF you may remember
tina. Occasion. 1t was the first one OF the
kind ut which I was present, and l shall
never forget 1t. saw TINT one man stand.
ing and with the hand and foot WELD that
great harmony, beating tue time. It Was
to me overwhelming.
But, oh, the grander scene when they
shall come from tho East and from the
West and from the North and from the
South, 81 great multitude that no man can
number" into the temple ot:the skies, host
beyond host, rank beyond rank. gallery
nbore gallery, AMI JESUS will stand before
that great host to conduct the harmony
with His wounded hands and His wounded
feet. Like the voice Of many waters, like
the yoice OF mighty thunderings, they
shall crv: "Worthy is the Lamb that was
s!aiu TO receive blessing aud riches and
honor and glory and power, world wit!:oa.
end. Amen and amen'
On, II NY ear shall hea: no other swee!
sounds may hear thutl X join no otEel
glad assem- blnge. may join that.
was rendiug OF the butt!e OF Aglncours
In which Henry V. figured, and 1t is said
after the battle was won. gioriously won,
the king wanted to acknowledge the divln.
iuterpsitlon, and he ordered the chaplain
to read the Psalm OF David. and when he
came to the words, "Not unto IA. Q Lord.
hut 20 Thy Dame be the praise" the king
di,mounted, and oil the cavalry dis
mounted, and all the great host, officers
and men, threw themselves ON the ir faces:
Oh. at the story 81 the Savlour's love and
tho SnTiour's deliverance shall ws not
nrost rate ourselves before Htsn to-day.
hosts OF enrrh and hosts Of heaven. falling
unon our faces and crying. 'tFot unto us,
not uuto us, but unto Thy name % :hs
glory
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-The State
Department has received through Lloyd
Griscom, the United States Charge at
Constantinople, the reply of the Turk
ish government to the latest represent
tations of the United States touching
the American missionary claims. The
communication was taken to the White
House by Secretary Hay and presum-
ably was considered by the cabinet
at the special meeting to-day. Mr..
Strauss, the United States minister to
Turkey, who had come over from New
York for the purpose of confering with
the department affecting these claims,
called at the State Department to-day
and talked over the last Turkish note
with Secretary Hay before the cabinet
meeting.
The department made no public
statement touching the Turkish note,
beyond the mere announcement that it
was inconclusive and left the subject
still open for discussion.
The opinion prevails in the diplomat
ic circles here that assuming the Turk
ish government has insisted on includ-
ing the American claims with the 9TH
ers, it has played a diplomatic card of
some strength. Such an answer TO the
American demand may be we'll calcu-
lated to deprive the United States from
sympathy of the European powers, as
it places us in a position of seeking
to extort better terms from the Turks
than are accorded the claimants OF
other nations, or at least attempting
TO secure precedence them which
amounts to the same thing. A reason
which leads to the belief that there
must be some qualification attached TO
the reported answer of the Turkish
government, is the fact that 1t would
amount to a total reputation of the
promises alleged by Mr.. Strauss to have
been made to him by the porte; while
the proposition to the American claim"
ant to throw in their claims with those
of other nations, is equivalent to a
declination to pay, inasmuch as the
Turkish government has not for many
years paid any of these foreign claims
so far as Is known here. 1t is possible
that The Porte has 1t in mind to create
a commission for the settlement OF all
these claims and is seeking to prepare
the United States government for a
| submission OF it's claims to such an In
ternational tribunal. The State De-
| partment. however, is determined not
to abandon the preferential position
| respecting It's claims that 1t has Sc
| cured through the sultan's W prom
ises, so it is anticipated that an ener-
getic response to this last note will be
| sent to The Porte through Mr.. Gis-
com.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
TERRIBLE SUFFERING
In the Famine Districts of India
Unparalleled and ipdescribabIe.


CALCUTTA, April 23.-The latest Of
fetal reports from the famine districts
say that the misery existing there is
Undesirable and unparalleled and that
'-the present relief Is quite inadequate.
They add that the mortality among the
cattle is also so severe hat the author
tiles are trying to adapt farm imple-
ments so that human power can re-
place that of bullocks. Such a dras-
tic Measure has never before been nee
esary even in the great scarcity of an
finals.
1t is also announced that the natives
are developing ugly feelings and are
attacking Europeans. A great crowd
Friday mu~rderously attacked a party
of soldiers at Shahpur, the military
center of the northwest provinces. The
soldiers were rescued with difficulty
and in an unconscious condition.
LONDON, April 23.-The viceroy OF
India, Lord Curzon, wires that the re-
cent, rain storms have not improved
the situation, that the demands for
relief are increasing, but that the ar
engagements for relief are equal to the
increasing strain.
One district lost 1000, 900 cattle out
of 1900, 900, and almost numberless hui
man beings were found dead from star
Walton. In addition, children were
found wandering in all directions,
homeless, naked and emaciated, and
cases were reported of children being
sold. The official reports fully CON
firm the worst stories of the terrible
nature of the district.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
THE QUAY CASE.
A Vote on the Proposition TO Seat
Him in the Senate Is Now i'm

A Vote On the Proposition to Seat
Him in the Senate Is Now in
Sight.
WASHINGTON, April pa two
days debate on the right of the Hon.
M. S. Quay to a seat as a Senator from
Pennsylvania was begun almost i'm
mediately after the Senate convened
to-day. Until to-day the debate has
been desultory in character. To-mor-
row at 4 p. m, under a special order,
the case is to be disposed of. A direct
vote upon the proposition to seat Mr..
Quay may not be taken Immediately
after the close of the debate. Mr..
Chandler has a motion pending to seat
Mr.. Quay, but it is held by the Senate
parliamentarians that every subsidiary
motion will take precedence over Mr..
Chambers motion. These include mo-
tions Indefinitely to postpone, to post
pone to a definite day, to recommit to
the committee and to amend. How the
Senate will vote on any of them is a
matter of speculation.
In support of Mr.. Quay's right to a
seat speeches were delivered to-day by
Mr.. Chandler On. H., Mr.. Kenney
DELI and Mr.. Penrose (Penna.). Mr..
Platt Comm and Mr.. Quarles (Wis.)
delivered speeches in opposition to Mr..
Quay.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24

PITTSBURG, Pa, April 23.-Stag-
nation of trade in iron and steel cir
cles was noticeable to-day as a result
of the cut by the American Steel and
Wire Company, but the principal man
ufacturers declared that the prices
would be held firm, although they
knew that business would be held
back for a week or two. Almost every
manufacturer admits that the past few
days have been the most critical in the
iron and steel business for more than
two years. The cut nail manufactur-
ers, it is thought, will endeavor to adj
just their prices with those of the
combine.
b.. F. Jones, Jr., treasurer Of Jones
& Laughlins, limited, n of the most
conservative iron firms in the coun-
try, said to-day that the reduction in
wire nails would have no effect in 9TH
er lines in the iron and steel business,
as far as prices were concerned. He
said that the wire combine had made
excessive advances in wire nails, and
that the consuming public had waited
in the hope of securing their needs at
lower prices. The result was that
business had been somewhat dull, but
he declared that the consumers had
about made up their minds to buy be-
cause of the pressing needs when the
unexpected cut of the wire combine
was announced.
Mr.. Jones thought the iron and steel
market generally would not be af-
fected, that pig iron would not be re-
duced in price and that present prices
would continue for some time. The
demand for iron and steel of all kinds
was too strong to give any indication
of weakening just now and the man
ufacturers were not IN the least fright
ened at the remarkable actions of the
past week. Mr.. Jones was sanguine
that it would only require a few days
for the market to steady itself and
leave everything adjusted and in a
highly prosperous condition.
Other conservative steel manufact-
urerS held the same opinion.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
CLOSED FOR
Plants of the Federal Steel Company
Not Shut Down of Bad

business.
JOLIET. ILL.,, April 23.-Operations
were suspended to-day at the three
rod mills of the Illinois Steel Com
pany in this city. Between 600 and
700 men were thrown out of employ
ment.
1t is rumored that the entire Illinois
steel plant here, which is controlled
by the Federal Steel Company, will
shortly be closed down. The rumor
lacks official confirmation. however.
CHICAGO, April 23.-President Eu-
gene j.. Burlington, of the Illinois Steel
Company, when asked to-day regard
ing the shutdown of the three rod
mills of the Illinois Steel Company ut
Joliet, said hat the closing of the mills
was merely for the purpose of making
some much needed repairs and was
merely temporary. He said the shut
down had no significance as regards
the condition of the iron and steel
trade and that the mills will be started
again just as soon as the repairs are
completed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24

LOUISVILLE, KY, April 23.-Pour-
ing rains continue throughout the flood
districts of the south, and the danger
to lives and property is becoming more
| grave. 1t vas thought Saturday that
the crisis was passed, but in many To-
calities the rain is falling again with
increased violence. Late reports TO the
weather bureau show that heavy pre-
cipitation has been general within the
last twelve hours throughout the flood
ed country. 1t was estimated last Sat
urday that So, 1000, 900 worth of private
property had already been destroyed,
and it is now thought probable that
this damage will be heavily increased.
Mail and telegraph communication has
been destroyed between the smaller
towns in Mississippi and Alabama
J south of Jackson, the northern limit
of the flood. Many farm houses have
been swept away, the occupants barely
escaping with their lives, and the
drowning of a family of seven negroes
is reported from Jackson, Miss. The
flood district is roughly bounded by a
line drawn from Mobile up to the Tom
bigbee River 10 the centre of the State
of Alabama, thence west through jack
son, Miss, to the Mississippi River.
Around Columbia, Miss, every railroad
and wagon bridge is reported washed
away, and first crops are a total loss.
At Enterprise, Miss, the water stands
five feet in the houses and stores. At
Meridian, Miss, the water is reported
at six feet in the streets, and still ris-
ing. Timber and buildings are re-
ported destroyed at Ellisville, Meridian,
De Soto and throughout the Bayou
Pierre district in Mississippi, and nu-
merous small points in Alabama re-
port great damage.
Many people in the small water
bound towns of Mississippi are reported
on the brink of starvation.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
THE GALLANT SKIPPER
TURNED AND FLED
Capt. CaIIisen Defied the British, but
Was Stampeded by Stage Fright.

capt. CGilfsen Denea the British, nut
Was stampeded by Stage Fright.
NEW YORK, April pa special
to the Journal, from Norfolk, Va,
says: The big Boer flag which foated
from the mainmast of the Danish
steamship Polarsjernen (Polar Starr,
when that ship sailed from her Brook
Ign pier, March II, came near causing
international complications between
this government and Great Britain,
through the enthusiasm of an Ameri-
can skipper in Norfolk harbor. Upon
the ships arrival off Old Point Com
fort, Capt. Callisen again hoisted the
T%ransvaal flag, and his action caused
comment among the masters of a num-
Der of British merchantmen anchored
of the point.
A mass meeting of a branch of the
National Boer Relief Fund Associa-
ton was held in Norfolk on Monday,
April 16. Congressman Smith, Of
Michigan, and George w. Van Siclen,
of New York, were among the an
nounced speakers, and they arrived
on an Old Dominion steamer. When
Mr.. Smith saw Capt. Callisen's vessel,
with the Boer flag waving, he got the
Old Dominion captain, who was also
a Boer sympathizer, to u in neal the
Polar Star, and then the American col
ors on the American ship were dipped
to the standard to the TranSvaal on
the Danish ship.
One ofthe British captains saw the
compliment and sent a protest TO the
English ambassador at Washington,
who in turn sent it to the State De-
partment. The State Department de-
clined to interfere, On the grounds
that a merchant marine man has the
right to dip his colors to anything he
sees ft, and he has also the right to
fly whatever he desires at his mast
head. Thus a threatened complication
because of an American recognition
of a Danish captains courtesy TO the
Boer cause, was avoided.
At the mass meeting, Capt. Callisen
was called upon to make a speech.
The captain. moved forward on the
platform from a box and his face
looked troubled. His appearance made
the hit of the evening, but the i'm
mense gathering was too much for
him and after one desperate glance,
the veteran sailor turned and fed. Any
speech he could have made could not
possibly have made more OF a hit than
did the courageous skipper, who de-
fed his British colleagues by flying
the Boer flag, but was frightened
speechless by an audience of 1000 Of
his friends.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
Overcome All DifaeuIties.

LONDON. April "a, 5 a. m.-The
strong body of reinforcements which
Lord Roberts sent to assist the relief
of Wepener and to endeavor to envel-
ope and cut of the Beers from a re-
treat northward furnishes further ev-
idence that the Beers are assembled
in much larger forces around Wepener
than had hitherto been supposed, and
as the Times in an editorial this morn
ing remarks: Whatever may be the
difficulties of roads and rains. the
Beers always appear to have guns and
sometimes big ones, where they want
them"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24

Special TO the REGISTER.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 23.-
Senator Elkins has presented petit
lions from West Virginia Grange No.
IS, praying for the adoption Of GER
tain amendments to the Interstate
Commerce law, and also for legislation
giving to States control of the sale
of imitation dairy products. He has
also presented a petition from Federal
Labor Union of Keyser. praying for
the enactment Of legislation to in
crease the salaries of machinists en-
ployed at the government printing Of
fee.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
Pension. Allowed.

Special 10 the Register.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 2o-
Pensions have been allowed the fol-
lowing West Virginia applicants:
Increase-Nicholas Miller, Wheeling,
81 to s12; Elias L. Runnion, Grimm's
Landing. IS to so; Franklin Miller.
Wasp. S. to $40; William Beall, Omps.
IS to sig: Peter Mock. Parkersburg, 50
TO So: John c.. Stone, Albright, s. TO
$40. Harmon Wycof, Pennington. s12
to s14; Nathaniel Anderson, Sunson,
$40 to s12.
Original Widows-Elizabeth ". Ny
ers. Huntington, IS; Demassa Bricker.
Morgantown, IS.
Renewal-Jacob Boliner, Grafton,
&c
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
E

One Freight Train Side swiped by
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES System
damaged
Special TO the Register.
sTEUBENVILLE, o., April 23.-Ths
Panhandle had a wreck at New Cum
berland Junction this afternoon which
delayed trains four hours, derailed end
damaged five cars and damaged the in-
ter-locking switch system. A wesS
pound freight swiped a freight thai
was crossing TO go up the New Cum
berland branch.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24

CONNELLSVILLE, Pa, April 3d.
Leaping high into the air, as al ex-
pert diver would in taking a fancy
plunge into the water, an unknown
man committed suicide this morning
at the foundry works of the H.. c.
Frick Coke Company by diving into a
coke oven. In less than a minute what
had been a man apparently in the full
vigor of life had mingled with the
curling smoke of the ovens, distin-
g~uishable only by it's blush brown
color nauseating odor from the gas
smoke of the burning coal. A more
tragic death never occurred in this
section.
The workers saw him only for an
instant, as he prepared for the leap.
For the slightest possible space Of time
he seemed to pause on the sloping
ground behind the ovens; then, quick
as a flash, he. ran down the slope, TAX
ing the quick, short steps of a trained
athlete who guages them precisely for
the jump he intends taking. Eight
feet from the oven tops the man shot
into the air, his hands poised above
his head in the fashion of a diver, and,
descending swiftly, dropped head first
into the trunnel head of an wen that
had burned to the sizzling white heat
the coke reaches just before it is drawn.
For an instant the body clogged the
trunnel head, and the legs wriggled
as though a desperate effort was being
made to squirm through and meet
death quickly in the blazing oven pit.
A rush was made for the oven door
by the Mortified coke drawers. All
there was to show for the man who
but a few seconds before had been in
life was a charred mass of flesh not
three feet in length. There is nothing
about it that could serve as a means
of Identification. 1t will be buried to-
morrow.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
Cape Rifles, Heayy Loss.

BOER CAMP, THABA N'CHU,
Orange Free State, Sunday, April "a
Robertson's lower mill is reported to
have been captured April 81, and it is
said that the Cape mounted rifles have
lost during the siege 120 out of 500.
The British prisoners defy the Burgh-
ers to capture Col. Dalgety's camp,
even if the British are not reinforced.
A surprising number of relatives are
fighting on opposite sides at Wepener.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
Found n Baby's BODY.

SPECIAL to the Register.
FAIRMONT, ". Va, April pa. J.
Poster, late last evening discovered the
body of a two weeks old child. SEEM
ingly of white parentage, on the mill
dam about two miles down the Monon-
gahela. 1t was sewed in a coarse sack
and its head and feet exposed. No in
quest was held, but from all appear
ances it had been in the water FIVE or
six weeks. Sheriff Cunningham had
its remains inferred at Houlttown this
morning.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
COLUMN Fighting
| MAKING DESPERATE EFFORTS TO
CONTINUE ITS WAY TOWARD
THE GOAL.

Wepener Relief Force Finds It's
Progress StubbOrnly Contested By
the Beers at Every ~Step-The Ad-
vance Toward Pretoria Delayed
Because of the Activity of the
Federal Columns-The Transvaal
Government Appeals to Lord Rob-
erts for Permission to Send a
Clergyman to ST. Helena With the
BOer
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
TrtaI of RebeIs begun.

CAPE TOWN, April 23.-The trial of
sixty-nine rebels was begun here to-
day in spite of an application for a
proclamation Of the proceedings on the
ground that a fair trial was impossible
at this place.
Three of the prisoners were sentenc-
ed to i've years imprisonment each.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
Acts of the Governor.

Special 20 inc keglster.
CHARLESTON. w. Va. April %
The Governor has appointed Stewart
H. Bowman, of Barbour county. a
member of the Board of Regents of the
State Normal Schools to succeed Geo.
NJ, Johnson, resigned.
The Governor has issued a pardon
to John A. Griffith. SEN up in 1890
for fifteen years, from Fayette coun-
Nv for murder.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-24
Two ID. & o. Engineers Dead.
Special to the Register.

MARTINSBURG. W. Va, April %
Frank Vulgar and J.. Frank Keller.
two prominent engineers on the B. &
o. railroad, died at their homes last
night.
The former was IS years of age and
the latter AZ. Mr.. Vulgar was recent
ly retired by the company. He leaves
a wife and four children. Mr.. Keller
was a prominent Mason and Odd Fell
low and is survived by a wife and six
children, all under II years.