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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-03
ORIGINAL "OLD PROBS."

Thirty years ago there was not a
weather bureau in existence. 1t has
been growth from the inception, but
the man who conceived the idea and
to whom more than any other, it's be-
ginning was, and it's subsequent sue
cess has been due, is Professor Cleve-
land Able. once intructor in mathe-
MATES at the University of Michigan.
1t is he who has always borne the
title of "Old Probabilities, and he
first began the work Of sending out
reports Of weather conditions and
forecasts for the benefit of people at
large.
After graduating from the New York
Free academy he came west to the
University of Michigan, where he
taught mathematics, and at the same
time studied astronomy under Pro-
lessor Brunnow. After two years he
went to Cambridge, where he engaged
in the Geographic longitudinal work
of the United States coast survey. In
1S65-GG he was at the Imperial observa-
tolS at ulhoNd, NEAR OL. PETERSBURG,
as the guest of the astronomers there.
After a short stay in Washington on
his return he was chosen director OF
the Cincinnati observatory. 1t was but
shortly afterward that he suggested
the choosing of Cincinnati as the CEN
ter for meteorological observations In
the United States, where reports from
all parts of the country on the weather
conditions should be collected and
compared and forecasts made, and
Sept. /, 1869, Professor Able began
the publication Of the weather bulletin
of the Cincinnati observatory. Previ-
ouSly, reports had been gathered by
the Smithsonian institution, but they
had never been sent out for the public
good.
The success of the move induced
congress to direct the secretary of war
to establish a government bureau. In
1871 General Albert J. Myer was APP
pointed to take charge Of the work.
and he appointed Professor Ahbe as
his meteorologist to prepare the pre-
dictions and probabilities. His name
Of "Old Probabilities, arose from this
fact.
Professor Able was prominently as
ISOLATED with the Inaugural ton OF
standard time in this country Detroit
Free Press.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-03
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
spANIsH-AMERIcAN ISLANDS.

An election will be held in Cuba in
June.
The United States have completed
arrangements to substitute American
currency for Porto Rican money.
The war department has returned to
the canned beef sometimes cailed
"embalmed beef'O; and has placed a
large order for shipment to the Philip
pines.
The signal corps has 1851 miles OF
wire in operation and l60 telegraph Of
fees in Luzon
Members OF the bar OF the proVl-
sional court of San Juan, Porto flco'
have decided to ask President Mckln-
ley to continue these courts until
permanent courts are established.
Mixed paints guaranteed the best
from one half pints to gallons. n
child can use them. Quality the hrst'
HOLSTERS Pharmacy.
Everybody their own painters. we
sell mixed paints from one-half pints
To gallons. Best made. Try them
when in need Of good thing. HOT
listers Pharmacy.
Cuban census showed a population
of 1,572,797, Of whom 443,426 can read
and write; So per cent. are native
whites and 80 per cent. negroes
Hayana's population is 235,9Sl.
At Manila the military commission
which tried three Flllpinos for gucrrl-
In warfare has found all three guilty
and sentenced two OF them to life I'm
prlsonment and one to thirty years
Imprisonment. Major General OTIS
MAS approved the findings, but has re-
liced the sentences to fifteen years
Two Ladrones, convicted OF murder
have been sentenced to be hanged.
Gen. Ruls Rivera, secretary Of agrI-
culture industry and commerce In
Cuba, has written letter asking all
Cubans to unite in securing independ-
ence after next year Rivera talked
with Wood of the proposed Cuban de-
mand for Independence by the end OF
1901, and the cabinet, which Is nation
allst. may resign, but there are fears
1t would be succeeded by one favoring
annexation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-03

ton, who succeeded Gen. Woodgate on
Spion kop, Is put on half pay.
Information to the London Times
says that the present boer strength Is
5000 men, $4,000 OF whom are In the
Free State, 10000 in the Biggarsbere
district and $4,000 at other points.
The 10000 British soldiers on the
way to relieve Wepener met with
check in two battles. Lord Methuer
was forced to retire and his entire sup
ply train narrowly escaped capture.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach says the
war bids fair to have the greatest re-
suits for the empire and the world ant
that Great Britain should see to II
that when 1t Is over 1t should never oc'
cur again,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-03

tablsh a separate state under her pro-
tectorate.
The newspapers of Portugal de-
nounce the government for permitting
troops to cross Portuguese east Africa
to Rhodesia.
French fishermen of St. Pierre are
bitterly indignant because a British
cruiser prevents them from obtaining
supplies of bait.
The revolution in Colombia may
compel the United States to forcibly
intervent to preserve the neutrality
guaranteed in 1916.
Sir William Wedderburn, an author
ity on Indian affairs, declares the Eng
fish government is responsible for the
awful famine there.
The people of Konitz Prussia blame
the Jews for the murder of a boy just
before Easter, and troops are there to
protect the Hebrews.
The big steel bridge of the Quebec
Central railway, over the Etchemin
river at st. Anselme. built in 1896,
was carried away by ice
German steel producers fear that the
cut in prices in America may mean
competition, but think danger to their
industries is not immediate.
German agrarian newspapers publish
letter from a German employee of the
Chicago stock yards, charging Armour
& Co., Nelson Morris & Co. and Swift
& Co. with conducting meat inspection
in farcical fashion.
American tourists who usually take
their pet dogs with them cannot bring
them into England this year. The
board of agriculture has put into
| rigid force that old order forbidding
the temporary entrance into Eng
land of dogs.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-03
CARNEGIE'S PHILANTHROPY.

IL would require volumes TO describe
in detail just exactly how and where
the iron master bestowed an y still be-
slows his munificence Ehe world
knows about the many II lries al
Braddock, Homestead. Jamestown,
Edinburg, Dunefrmline b sides the
great Carnegie library ami Music hall
Mt Pittsburg, which have so stimulated
the intellectual pulse of city tempted
to devote itself too absolutely to ma
terial pursuits, That he is not charit-
able in the strict acceptance of the
term he rather glories in. At any
rate, he has stated emphatically that
1t is almost useless to give promiscu-
ously and that it is little short OF a
crime. He wants to help those who
help themselves, he says. Let Others
lift up the submerged TENTH" to
keep them above water is the task
which requires attention He is not a
charity giver he affirms. but looks
for the elevation OF the race through
the elevation of the mind For this
purpose he will give of his millions.
but he eXacts of the community what
he would exact of the individual--that
once in possession of its library It
must carry the work forward.-Julius
Moritzen in Review of Reviews
Republicans of the 5th Nebraska
district nominated W. S. Morland OF
McCook for congress.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-03
FOREIGN

Robert A. NJ. Stevenson died.
Cardinal Logue dined with Queen
Victoria.
A new fort will guard the mouth OF
the Thames.
Earl Russell's new wife has had two
other husbands.
Over 100000 persons witnessed a
football game in London.
A Turkish torpedo boat exploded al
beyrout, killing % men.
King Oscar of Sweden visited the
Sailors home in London.
Colombian rebels capture Bocas del
Toro and threaten Colon.
The car Will call on Franz Josef on
the latter's SEVENTEEN birthday.
Italy tal.;s of a Latin alliance, and
may not renew the dreibund.
Spain, fearing American aggression,
Is fortifylns the Canary islands.
Shakespeore's birthday was cele.
brated at Stratford- Avon.
Bocas del Zorro is said to be in pos
session OF the Colombian rebels.
The sultan of Morocco is protesting
against French occupation of Tuat.
All England is angry over the blund-
ers of her generals in south Africa.
The German government has sent a
gvro5at to Clina for naval demon
strJiion.
IT. Emil Hanover, the Danish art
Historian. charges Professor Richard
Mucher Of the University of Breslau
with gross plagiarism in his lateSi
book, The History of Painting.
Coomassie is relieved and British
hope to suppress the uprising of the
natives.
The German parliament reconvened.
Heinze law and canal bill appear to be
doomed.
Waldeck Rousseau may reopen the
Dreyfus case to bring disgrace on the
generals
Russian aeronauts start to organize
a military balloon service for the
Transyaal.
rhe legislature of Sweden has voted
several million kroners for arms and
ammunition
Castros rule of Venezuela is alleged
to be tyrannical and another revolu-
ton threatens,
The French press hopes that Bryan
will be elected president and intervene
in boer war.
The kaiser and prince Of Wales kiss
ed each other at Oltona, Prussia, and
dined together in the railway station.
An army of workmen continue to
hammer night and day on the unfinish-
ed buildings at the Paris exposition.
The inhabitants of Norfolk island
are facing starvation on account Of the
failure by drouth of two successive
crops.
Pope Leo blessed 5000 pilgrims and
20 600 foreigners. The benedictlon ex-
hausted him SO that he tottered back
ward
Germany is intriguing in southern
Brazil to produce revolution and es-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-03

Masked men fred reyolvers through
the windows of Lot Barger's house
near Shelbyville, Ind. at night, wound
ing him, probably fatally. Earger, a
widower had been notified TO dis
charge his housekeeper, but refused to
do so.
Henry Cook, of Scotch Plains, ~ j.,
seeks divorce, saying that his wife
deserted him ten years ago immediate
ly after the marriage ceremony, which
she forced him to submit to in order
that she might win a bet made with
her relatives.
Senator Hale introduced bill auth.
orizing the purchase of about 1900
acres Of land in the vicinity of Pearl
harbor Hawaii. for naval purposes.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars is proposed to be appropriated
for the purpose specified.
The indictment against Ex-Governor
Taylor charging him as an accessory
to the murder of Governor Goebel OF
Kentucky, is not to issue until supreme
court rules on the contest. 1t Is denied
that Gov. Beckham has issued a re-
QUESTION for Gov. Taylor.
w. w. Thomas, Harry Waters
principals of the Waters Business col,
lege; Mary Stone, confidential book
keeper for Thomas, and his brother
Isaiah Thomas, were indicted at Gin
| cipanti fOr. buroipu 'Tbnp,oc' whole
sale grocery house last November
Charles Mahn night Waterman al
the Havemeyer mansion at Mahwah
n. j., fought revolver duel with two
masked burglars. After wounding him
the burglars compelled him to help
them carry away their $4,000 in booty
Then they gagged. and blindfolded
him and tied him to tree.
The National Academy of Sciences
honored the following named persons
by electing them as members of the
association: James e. Keller, Henry
f. Osborne, Samuel l.. Penfield and
Franz Boaz. The academy awarded
to Wilhelm Conrad Roetgen, the in
ventor of the ex-ray the Bernard
medal.
Senator Davis introduced an amend
ment to the sundry civil appropriation
bill appropriating $4,000 for defray-
ing the expenses of a delegation from
the United States to the international
conference of American states. proposed
to be held in Mexico in the interest
of the union of American republics
The amendment is offered in response
to suggestion by the president.
The house committee on commerce
has substituted the sherman bill for
the construction of a Pacific cable In
place of the bill recently passed by the
senate. The Sherman bill had been
previously reported to the house, but
this action puts it in the form of sub
stitute to the senate measure. 1t diff
fers from the senate bill in providing
contraction by private contract under
government supervision, while the SEN
ate bill provides for government con-
struction and operation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-03
BRITISH-BOER WAR.
Cecil Rhodes started back to south

Cecil Rhodes started back to south
Africa.
Beers are employing guerrilla
methods in Natal.
wounded have died.
Gen. Methuen's force had a lively
engagement near Boshof.
Boers are reported to DO cOncen.
trating near Dewetsdorp.
Beers report that they still have
Branbant's force surrounded.
1t IL reported that not single gun
remains In the Pretoria forts.
Roberts Ia reported to have recap
tured the Bloemfontein waterworks.
The beers around Wepener are re-
enforced and heavy lighting Is eX-
pected,
A boer force Is being sent toward
the east coast to intercept Gen. Car
rlngton.
Rain Is delaying Roberts opera
lions. noers planning to harass his
advance,
Boer women are said to disguise In
mems clothes and kill wounded Brit
lsh soldiers.
Boer prisoners at st. Helena wish
the services of clergyman and n
neutral consul.
Thir!y.S.x -sbels were tried at Cape
Town and sentenced from six months
to five years.
1t Is told In London that Lord Kitch
ener has been severely sat upon by
Lord Roberts.
A dispatch from Ladysmith says the
beers are much Disconnected by pres
ent condition OF affairs
Among the dead and wounded beers
and those taken prisoners the English
find many women dressed as men.
Tho Irish brigade paradcs before
President kruger's house at Pretoria
and he makes speech to them.
A report OF fighting north OF Bloem-
fontoln Is taken to signify that Rob
erts's advance on Pretoria has begun.
Refugees from Johannesburg say
that preparations have been carried
out for the destruction of all the mines
there,
Lord Roberts is ready to move from
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. with
his troops, but heavy rains still ham
per him.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
given nm audience to the hoer peace
commissioners, and they are gratifled
at her airability.
An official boer notice commands all
burghers in GrQualand west to Join
the army under penalty of punishment
by martial law.
1t Is reported that other European
ambulance corps besides the Irish
Americans, are taking up arms in be-
half OF the beers
Friends Of members OF tho Chicago
ambulance corps feel indignant that
some should tear Off the neutral Red
Cross badges to take up arms for the
beers Colonel John T.. Flnerty does
not credit the report to that effect.
Mafeking dispatches have been
strangely silent for three weeks about
Baden-Powell, though tho hoer report
OF his death was dlscredted In Lon
don.
Washington authorities say the gov
eminent can take no action regarding
the reported desertion to the boer
army of portion Of the Chicago ambu
lance corps.
Gen. Warren. censured by Lord
Roberts, Is said to have been peremp-
torlly ordered home, while Col. Croft
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-03
HARD-HEARTED QUERY.

No, sir, | wouldn't ask for help,
but You see I've got me brothers,
family to support, an it's big one"
Where's your brother?"
He fell on San Juan Hill, sir
"Oh, did he2 Which way was he GO
g?"-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-25

names carried OF the prize. He did
It, too, with the greatest ease. and Mr..
Hall, Republican manager in Ohio
county and Past Grand Political Boss,
is once more a wanderer on the face OF
the earth, without honor in his own
party, and only sustained and sup
ported in the hour OF his second
humiliation by his friends at home
No wonder he sulked in his tent Mon
day night, and refused to be COM
forted by White or even Elkins, and
small surprise it Is that he spurns the
empty honors of the Secretaryship OF
the Committee, thrown to him by the
triumphant Dawson as one would
throw bone to dog.
Mr.. Hall deserved a better fate. He
has earned some of the good things Of
political life, il ever Republican in
West Virginia did, But-he came from
the First district, and from Ohio
county, and the city Of Wheeling, and
hence must be content to hew wood
and draw water and run errands and
do chores-drive home the COWS and
water the ducks-for some years 10
come. Perhaps, in the course of tire.
if James is real good and does what
the big men tell him, and appears
cheerful, and spends his money, and
carries Ohio county some more, and
lends his influence to the success OF
others, he may aspire to deputy
clerkship in the circumlocution office at
5000 per year, ten per cent. to go to
the campaign fund.
It's very hare lines, but such is the
political reward Of the faithful.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-25
A NEW DEPARTURE.

At a sitting of the Russian Grand
Council Monday, the Car is reported
to have said, as defining Russia's poll
cy as regards China:
1--WE want no conquest. What we de-
sire is to protect our frontiers and to
steer into smooth waters the Chinese
ship of state, now buffeted by the
waves of civil war"
This is a new dispensation for Rus
STA. Her policy for hundreds of years
has been to acquire territory adjoining
her frontiers wherever she could find
it, on the west, on the south or on the
east. No opportunity has been lost to
extend the boundaries of the empire
and here is great opportunity to abb
serb Manchuria. His Majesty the
Car must have been incorrectly quot
ed, or else he is assembling.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-25
DEMoCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
THE CASE or JAMES *. HALL.

THE CASE OF JAMES II. HALL.
The second slap in the face received
by Mr.. James X. Hall, of Wheeling,
Ohio county, First district, at Parkers-
burg, Monday, calls for some dis
cussion, consideration-and sympathy.
Mr.. Hallais Republican of Republic
cans. He has been a bitter and ag-
gressive partisan. He has held the
throttle of the Republican machine in
this city and county, and has eXerted
a large political influence in adjoining
regions. He has fought the Demo-
cracy with skill and certain amount
of vindictiveness, and through his in
dividual efforts, his advice, his time
and his money has brought local vic
tory for his party upon several occa-
SONS. The Register don't believe in
his methods any more than it believes
in the principles he advocates, but it
recognizes him as party leader
worthy of a foenan's steel, and a man
possessed of a host of friends even
among the ranks of those opposed to
him politically. 1t thus happens that
James K. Hall deserved well of his
party. He was entitled to preferment,
advancement and a fat Office. He went
after one and met the fate of a brave
man leading forlorn hope. 1t was
really worse than this. Leading the
charge, he was assaulted by men whom
he believed to be his friends, and was
carried off the political field. The blow
was heavy one, but in a measure he
recovered, and it was announced that
he would be given a certain amount
OF recompense and prestige by being
appointed Chairman of the Republican
State Committee. Reluctantly, and
still smarting under the wound re-
eived at Charleston, he consented to
stand for the place, and received, in
writing, assurances from eight of the
Committee that his election would be
concurred in. On this understanding
he went to Parkersburg, only to be
keel-hauled and then marooned. -Four
votes were all be could muster, and
Mr. Dawson-he Of the assorted first
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-25
A Close Call.

Chicago News.
Did you hear about the Joke on the
city prosecutor over in the police court
this morning." asked the bailif, as he
took possession of Chris's chair.
'Nope; what was it?" asked the desk
sergeant.
He did not arrive until late and he
looked a trifle rocky. An officer brought
in a young woman whom he said he had
found very drunk on State street at 3
O'Clock this morning. She looked appeal
ingly at the prosecutor, but he gave her
the stony stare and recommended to the
judge a fine of ten and costs.
"She deserves it for being out at such
an hour in that condition." he said,
sternly.
But I was with YOU she whispered.
Whats that?" he asked, leaning over
TO hear her.
Il was with you last night, don't you
remember
WELL said the prosecutor, recovering
himself. if that's your name and he's
your father I'll have 10 ask the judge to
discharge you this time
''The judge let her go, but it was close
call"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-25
WITHOUT A PARTY.

Republicans throughout the State are
not overwhelmingly enthused over the
nomination of Judge Brannon for the
Supreme Bench by the Charleston Con-
vention. From the interior counties
come limitations from leading party
men that the selection is viewed with
anything but satisfaction by all ele-
ments in the party while the Republic
can newspapers are either silent as to
the Judge or openly counsel scratching
him off the ticket. He appears to have
no friends in either political organ
ization, and will fall many thousands
Of votes-perhaps tens of thousands
behind his ticket.
Judge Brannon was nominated at
Charleston at the dictation of the
bosses, in the belief that he would not
only poll the party vote, but would at
tract the votes of Democrats in addi-
ton. He will do neither. No Demo
crat will vote for him and he will fall
far short of the Republican strength,
whatever that may be. Politically he
has no standing. He is man without
a party, by his own confessions. Polit-
ically he is neither fish, flesh nor fowl,
nor yet good red herring. Vibrating
from one side of the political fence to
the other with every wind that blew,
he has lost standing, friends, support
ers and influence. He's on the Repub-
lican State ticket-that's ALL and that
isn't much, under the circumstances.
Judge Brannon will be, on the tail Of
the ticket in more senses than one
when the votes are counted.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-25
sarcasm aid Ridicu1e.

Louisville Courier-Journal
The spectacle of the nations of Europe
quarreling over the possible division of
the prospective spells in China while their
subjects are beng slaughtered by the most
brutal means is the most disgusting that
has afflicted the world within the time
embraced In written history. Their ac-
tions will do something toward justifying
the whitening comment of Minister WI
at Washington. who charged the nations
with melting the disorders for the pur-
pose of having an excuse to partition
na.'-Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Don't get overheated. Maybe the ma
lions of Europe are quarreling over the
possible division of China, and maybe
they are not. Where did you get your
news? What is the Cedar Rapids method
of telling what is real foreign news and
what isn't nowadays? How's the corn
crop around Cedar Rapids?
Timely Warming.
Charleston. Gazette.
Once more, as a precaution to our
friends the enemy: Don't let Freer travel
with Dovener. There's something about
the Wheeling man that makes the Richie
man sick.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-25
DIED.

SHELDON-On Tuesday, July "a. 1900. at
800 p m, Benjamin Sheldon, aged rs
years, 5 months and II days, at his home
in Aetnaville.
Funeral notice hereafter.
ROTHAKER-On Monday, July g. 1900.
at $50 a. m, T. j. Rothaker, in his 74th
year.
Funeral from the residence of his niece,
Mrs. Christina Vierheller, No. 2113 Eof
street, on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30.
Friends invited to attend. Interment pri-
vate at Mt. Wood cemetery.
ROWAN-At the North Wheeling Hos
pital on Sunday, July %, 1900, at 1855 p.
m, Mrs. Louisa Rowan, wife of j. H.
Rowan, in the 34th year Of her age.
Funeral from her late residence. No. 1874
Baltimore street, on Wednesday morning
at $50 o'clock. Requiem mass at st. AL
phonsus church at 10 o'clock. Interment
at Mt. Calvary cemetery.