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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
West Virginia Pensions.

Special to the Register.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April Is
Pensions have been allowed the fol-
lowing West Virginia applicants:
Original-Ross NJ. Myers, Wheeling,
IS; Stephen E. Saunders, Winfield,
Sc. Increase-David S. Pinnell. Graf
ton, S12 to $14; Jilson Blanton, Hun
tington, Sc to S.; Marshall NJ. Erwin,
Weston, Sc to S12; Henry liner, Tria-
delphia, IS to SIT; William S. West
brook, Borland, Sc to IS: George Hen
neman, Charleston, Sc to IS; William
Coudon, Wheeling, SIT to s24; William
l.. Pierce, Loudenville, Sc to SIS; Jas.
W.. Hollis, Terra Alta, S14 to SIT; Da-
vid B. Mercer, Davisville, SIS to $50;
John W. Riley, Pennington, IS to S.;
David S. Wilt, Amboy, S12 to S14;
Isaac Parker, Peytona, $40 to S12; VIM.
H. Jenkins, Hudson, $l2 to $14; Jesse
King, Cross Roads, So to IS; John
Hamilton, Cottageville, Sc to IS; Adam
F. Everets, Kingwood, $40 to S12;
Erasmus Ashby, Tunnelton, SIC to $24.
Original Widows, etc.-Sarah J. Ly-
ons, Centre Point, Sl2; minor of An
thony A. Cunningham, Grangeville,
$40; minor of Charles A. Maynard,
Queens Ridge, $40; Amanda E. Hyatt,
Morgansville, s12; Louisa ]. linn,
Reedsville, $12.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
THE CAUSES of TRUSTS.


IT. does not take Mr.. Thomas G.
Sherman long to find the heart of the
trust question. "The great monorolies
Of this country" he says, in the letter
which we print to-day, lowe their
existence to special unjust privileges,
conferred upon them by course ofa
legislation which the people of the
United States adopted of their own free
will and which are still maintained by
the votes of the very people who most
loudly declaim against monopolies.
Foremost among these are the tariff
laws, the internal revenue laws and the
patent laws"
"The tariff is" he says, "the most
fertile source of American monopolies.
During the last thirty or forty years
hardly an instance has been known
in which an American monopoly has
been denied any part of the benefits
which it has demanded in the enact
ment of tariff laws. : Tariffs
are always made up by the very par
ties who are interested in preventing
foreign competition and in securing
for themselves monopoly OF the do
nestle trade"
The mere statement of these we'll
known facts should leave no doubt in
ordinary minds as to the close connec-
ton between tariffs and trusts. The
only wonder is that a majority of the
voters of this country did not long ago
discover the connection and destroy it
by doing away with the tariff.
Not only does Mr.. Shearman clearly
locate the causes of trusts; he also
has no trouble in finding the only pos
sible remedy for their evils. ut is
simply absurd" he says, "to make any
effort to prohibit or to regulate trusts
and combinations, while their causes
are left untouched If the American
people shrink from competition with
other nations of the earth, and deem
themselves justified in preventing such
competition by force, they have no
moral right to complain if American
capitalists take advantage of the laws
which prevent foreign competition, to
make of them instruments to prevent
domestic competition also. The
demand for freedom of competition at
home, while denying freedom of com
petition from abroad, is absurd and
suicidal
THE remedy, and the only remedy,
for the evils of domestic monopolies,
says Mr.. Sherman, sis the repeal Of
all laws which pretend to give to any
man, rich or poor, American or Euro
pean, any protection against natural
competition, any artificial monopoly Of
natural resources or any advantage
which is not thrown open, on equal
terms, to all human beings"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
PROPOSED RIVER LEGISLATION.

There are two bills pending in the
present Congress which do not appear
to have attracted the attention they
should among those to be effected By
the proposed legislation. These meas
ures are H. B. 9,243, and S. B. 1921,
and have for their object the limitation
of the size of cCcl and other lows on
western rivers. and to attain that end
unlimited authority is given that an
cient river mariner, the Secretary of
the Treasury, to make such regulations
as he, in his wisdom and from his long
experience. may see fit.
These bills ought to be relegated to
the Congressional waste paper basket
without delay. They are wrong in
principle, and to confer any such au-
thority upon any Secretary of the
Treasury would be an outrage, first,
because there is no necessity for regu-
lation; secondly, because he knows
nothing at all about the subject; and
thirdly, because from any decision he
may happen to make there is no ap-
peal. The Secretary of the Treasury
is supposed to know something about
financial questions, but he is not sup
posed to know and as matter of fact
he does not know, about the transpor-
tation problem on western rivers.
Yet it is gravely proposed to put in the
hands of an official who may hail from
the mountains of Vermont or the prai-
ries of Kansas, and who never even
saw river tow in his life, unlimited
and arbitrary power to regulate stu
pendous business in which millions of
people are directly interested
The towing system in vogue on the
Ohio and Mississippi has heretofore
been free from any such regulation, no
one has complained about it, and the
benefits have been great. Millions of
tons of coal, iron, steel, cotton ties,
farm products of all sorts, and many
other commodities are transported at
nominal cost. The railroads could
lot take this business if it was offered.
AID ii they could they would be oblig-
ed to vastly increase the freight
charges. The benefit has been great
in the past; with improvements to the
water ways of the country it will be
greater still in the future Congress
should let the river towing business
severely alone. It would be much bet
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
DIED.

FEINLER-On Friday. April 18th. 1900.
at 4:45 a. m, Anna A. daughter of Joachim
and Kun.gunda Feinler.
Funeral from residence of parents, No.
1929 Market street, Monday. April 10th.
1900. at $50 o'clock a.. m. Requiem mass
at st. Alphonsus church at 10 o'clock In
terment at Mt Calvary cemetery. Special
". & E. G. car viii be provided for friends
of the family.
LOECHER-At his residence, No 100
Main street, on Friday. April 18th. 1900, at
II 80 o'clock a. m, Peter Loecher. in his
S4th year.
Funeral on Monday morning at $50
o'clock Mass at st. Josephs Cathedral at
9 o'clock Friends of the family respect
fully invited 70 attend. Interment at Mt
Calvary cemetery
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
POSfnl Affairs.

Special to the Register.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-The fol-
lowing fourth-class postmasters have
been appointed in West Virginia:
James w. Peters, Lindsey, Mingo
county, vice William T. Poston, re-
signed; William E. Allen, Little, Ty-
Ter county, vice ]. C. Cooper, resigned;
Martie Bambrick. Green Bank. Poca-
hontas county, vice Porter Oliver, re-
moved; Lorenzo F. Mahan, Arroyo,
Hancock county, vice William Hewitt,
resigned.
New postofices have been establish
ed at Dartmoor, Barbour county
Samuel McCamey, postmaster; Atlas,
Upshur county, Camden H. Holden,
postmaster.
Star service has been established
from Barlow to Holton six times a
week.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
Another Pleasure Jaunt.

Charleston Gazette.
The taxpayers of the State will hardly
approve the itinerary which the board of
equalization has given out. Such a thing
has never been done and there Is no occa-
SION for It now. 1t is not a part of the
duties of the board of equalization TO be
hunting over the State for objections to
the assessments of real estate. If there
are any serious objections or discrepancies
in the assessments they will be reported TO
the board by the proper local authorities
The time spent jaunting over the State
should be spent by the board her at the
capitol going over the books and making
the comparisons necessary to ascertain
whether there are any grounds for these
contemplated hearings. If it had been the
intention of the Legislature to have the
board of equalization to view the real es-
tate personally, and assess it, the act
would have provided for it to be done
that way. The board Will be just as well
informed on the matter after it has spent
a few thousand dollars Of the public funds
jaunting over the State, as it is before it
starts out. 1t begins to look Ike every
public service provided for is perverted
into pleasure trip at the expense of the
public. Such a course cannot be too
strongly condemned.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
Given Up AS Dead.

Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va, April Is
H. H. Fritz, who has been mysteriously
missing from Waverly, has been given
up by his friends as dead. Some
months ago he was injured by blow
on the head and since then has suf-
fered excruciating pains. 1t is thought
this may have brought on a derange-
ment of the mind and that in that CO..
dition he was drowned. A reward Of
$50 is offered for his body.
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is THIS THE SECRETs

Is it because the passage of the Puer-
to Rican bill places in the hands OF
President Mckinley individually a
very large number of fat appointments
in Presidential year, the secret for
working that Ubiquitous measure
through Congress under the crack of
the party whip, and in defiance of the
sentiment of the country? 1t looks
very much that way. Here is list
of the Jobs" to be given out, under
the terms Of the bill, now a law: A
governor, at $4,000 per annum; a sec
rotary, $4,000; an attorney general,
$4,000; commissioner of the interior,
$4,000 commissioner of education,
$4,000; five members porto Rico citi-
zens) of the executive council, whose
salaries shall be fixed by the legisla-
ture; chief justice of the supreme
court, $4,000; four associate justices
of the supreme court, $4,000 each; mar
shall of that court. S3,000 United States
district attorney, $4,000; United States
district marshal, $500, and three law
commissioners, at $4,000. Here
are places the salaries of which aggre-
gate practically 100000 a year, all
within the gift of the President, and
they came at time when he needs
patronage the most. Is this the meth
Cd in his madness?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

Maurice Grau has kept his threat of
six months ago that Chicago shall
never again have grand opera under
his management. His aggregation OF
artists will be in Pittsburg this week,
and will go thence direct to Minneapo-
lis, passing through Chicago, but not
stopping. The secret is, Chicago does
not appreciate the opera, and to sing
it in that city is losing venture.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
Cigar Makers Strike Spreading.

MONTREAL, April 15.-The trouble be-
tween the cigar manufacturers and their
employees is spreading and now threatens
the closing of almost all the factories in
Canada. The trouble originated in the
factories of J. Hirsch Sons & Company
and l.. o. Grothe, over non-adherence to
the union rules regarding the employment
of apprentices. The union ordered a
strike. The manufacturers have a strong
association and have promised Messrs.
Hirsch and Grothe assistance. Saturday
night an evidence of this came when Har-
ris, Youngheart & Company and Goulet
Bros. locked out their men until such time
as the union came TO terms with the other
firms. Other large factories may lock out
their emnloYes
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
Better Feeling.
Monroe Watchman.


President Raymond of the West Virginia
University has rendered his resignation,
which the Regents received but have de-
ferred action thereon till the June meet
ing.-Raymond preferred charges of insu-
bordination and ;ncompetency against Pro-
fessors r. A. Armstrong. James H. Stew
art and others. His whole course seems
to have been marked by arrogance, dogma
tism and extravaganza. against which
many OF the faculty rebelled. Bitter feel
ing prsSails.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
DELEGATE CONVENTIONS.


AT a meeting of the Democratic State
Executive Committee of West Virginia,
held at Charleston, on the 25th day of jan
uary, 1900, it was ordered that the twelve
GINA is entitled in the next Democratic
National Convention Ito be held at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 4th dag of July, 1900, to
nominate candidates for President and Vice
President of the United States, be selected
as follows:
The Democrats in each county in the
state shall appoint at such time and place,
and in such manner as the Democratic tx
termine, Delegates to the Congressional
District Conventions to be held in each OF
the founr Congressional Districts of the
State on the
10th Day of May, 1900,
at the following places:
In the First Congressional District, at
Clarksburg, in the County of Harrison; in
the SECOND Congressional DISTRICT. at
Charles Town, in the County Of Jefferson;
IN the Third Congressional District, at
Charleston, in the County of Kauawha; in
the Fourth Congressional District, at Point
Pleasant, in the County of Mason.
Each of said Congressional District Con-
yentions shall appoint one Delegate-at-
Large, and one alternate therefor, and two
District Delegates, and two alternates
therefor, to represent the Democracy OF
West Virginia in said National Convention:
The basis of representation in each OF
said Congressional District Conventions
Will be one vote for each one hundred
votes and fraction thereof over fifty cast
for W. J. Bryan for President, at the No
vember election of 1896 and each county
Is requested to appoint such number OF
delegates to each Congressional D.strlct
Convention as is equal to the number OF
votes it may be entitled to by the above
basis of representation.
ADREW EDMISTON, Chairman.
WILLIAM A. OHLEY. Secretary.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

The statement is made, on the au-
thority of Rev. w. E. Powell, one Of
the Regents of the University, that the
resignation of President Raymond will
be accepted, and coupled with this
there is widespread belief that the
office may be rendered Dr.. D. B. Pur-
linton, a graduate of the University,
ty, O. Dr. Purinton would be an en-
inently satisfactory selection.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

times as much lighting as the Ameri-
can soldiers.
In the Spanish war the United States
army lost 107 officers and 2.S03 men
by death, and 113 officers and 1.464
men wounded. The English loss to
April It'll was 300 officers and 3,944
men killed, and 2SS officers and 4,934
invalided home. and about 10000 sick
and wounded in hospitals. But it
must be remembered that this repre-
sents half a year of continuous fight
ing in the field, something our men
were not subjected to.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
Nor A FAR COMPARISON.

The War Department has prepared
a statement of comparative losses in
the first six months of the Spanish
American and Boer-English wars, for
the purpose of demonstrating that the
advantage as to casualties is with US.
There is no doubt of that fact, but
the comparison is not fair one. for
the sufficient reason that the English
army. in South Africa has done ten
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

Six of the best ships in the navy
must go out of commission because
there are not enough officers to go
around. and it is proposed as remedy
CT temporary nature to graduate the
Annapolis classes of the next two years
one year in advance, and also to
authorize the appointment of one
hundred extra cadets Cutting a year
off the course of instruction is open to
objection in that it is poor way to
make competent officers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
MUSICAL.

PII'TSBURG. Pa, April 15.-The mem
bers of the Grau Grand Opera Company,
which opens a season of three nights at
the Grand Opera House tomorrow even
ing, arrived this evening on a SPECIAL train.
The Grau company in its entirety, consist
ing of go people and all of the principals,
will take part in the several productions
An excellent programme has been arrang-
ed and the advance sale of seats indicates
that the present will excel the very sue
cessful season of last year.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

II the resolution passed By the
House Friday, providing for a CoDsti-
tutional amendment making Senators
elective by the people, should prevail
in the Senate and later before the Leg
islatures of the States, it would be a
trif1e inconvenient for our senior Sem
ator from West Virginia, but Of course,
he would receive an overwhelming ma
jority at the polls.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
The Last Trace Removed.

County Mail
Health OFFICER DR.. D. P. Morgan was
beaming all over Thursday afternoon
when he dropped in to inform the County
Mail that the last trace of smallpox had
left Harrison county and that all quaran-
tine RESTRICTIONS had just been removed.
Our town escaped the smallpox epidemic
without a single case within its corporate
limits. and this result is largely due to the
unt.rirg energy and effective measures
put in operation by DR.. Morgan.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
A NeMsnnner Change.

TOLEDO, Ohio. April 15.-The Toledo
Daily Commercial has been succeeded by
the Toledo Daily and Sunday Times, under
the management of the Toledo Times Com
pany Hon II. p. Grouse. editor-in-chef;
H. A. Eoff, business manager. To-day $
issue, 20 pages, greatly improved typo
graphically and otherwise. They carry
both the Associated Press wires.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
PAYING THE PRICE.
Here is the record of English losses

There is no tangible evidence that
the Committee of One Hundred was
out in force at Saturdays suggestion
meetings. The old crowd of profess
SIGNALS was on deck and in charge.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

md so His Highness the Duke of
Teck, brother of England's future
Queen, has been sent to the rear, in
disgrace, by Lord Roberts, for cow
ardice. He will not be missed. He,
and many others like him, are purely
ornamental officers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
HOW TO REMIT.

Send all remittances by Registered
Letter, Express Order, Check or
Postal Note. Patrons run n risg
of losing remittances sent i'm any
other way. All amounts for $500
or less can be sent by postal order
for three cents. Address
THE REGISTER,
Wheeling, w. Va.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

We gather from the results of the
Republican suggestion meetings that
Col. Horkheimer's resolution carried.
and that the Colonel's ambition will be
gratifed. Why not?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

The authorities at Bonn, Germany,
have discovered that the school pupils
drink wine and beer. That is not
amazing. It's probably hereditary.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
Talking Machines,

We have reduced the price of the
Columbia Grand Graphophone to SIS.
We also have the largest assortment
of cheaper Photographs and Graphic
phones in the city, also a large assort-
ment of records.
F. W. BANNER co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
Five Lines of Fact.

Chicago CHRONICLE.
In politics Mckinley is an abject slave
who dare not call his soul his own. In
cheerful disregard of his word he is as
conspicuous as Chicago Republican al
derman.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

King Leopold, of Belgium, must he
losing his mind. He has presented
his vast estates to the people OF his
country.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

Saturday Congressman Ketcham, OF
New York, was renominated for the
sixteenth term. His name is probably
what makes it easy.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
Tn the Golden we.f.

San Francisco Bulletin.
A gold mine has been located on one Of
the streets OF Keswick. Shasta county,
and there are Indications Of an oil vein in
another. The population viii soon have
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
A Possibility.

Chicago Times-Herald.
Some day we may have Society CT
Daughters of Boys Who Carried Messages
to Famous People.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
The Trio.

County Mail.
Atkinson, Raymond and Stathers is the
aggregation the Republicans will have to
apologize to for the voters of West Vir-
ginia this fall.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
Carrying Things to Extremes.

Pittsburg Times.
The prohibitionists can have little hope
for Texas The damage done by the floods
is not calculated to make the people down
that way take kindly to the cold water
idea
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
even All Take Tea"

Baltimore American.
The sugar trust and the coffee trust are
fighting in New York and the milk trust
is doing things here. Taken all together.
they should be able to keep the pot boiling.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
LOST.


LOST-Bird Dog, Setter, heavily marked,
black, white and TAM Will answer to
name of Sam. Suitable reward for his re-
turn to 81 South Front street apl5dqeq
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

Kansas city Times.
Throwing raw oysters at wife's head
and lathering her face are alleged as
grounds of divorce against wealthy New
Yorker. The cruelty OF some men almost
SURPRISES belief.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

The weather yesterday was as pretty
as the new hats.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

FXCURSIONS-The new Steamer URA-
~ MA is offered TO excursion parties
during the season. For rates. etc. address
CAPT NJ. b. DAVIS, or clerk Str Ruth,
liza Water street. Wheeling. apl2eqb
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

ter 70 pass new bridge bin, and let
it go at that.
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And the Season Nearly over.

to move away The town IS altogethe
too valuable merely to be lived in.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16

New Wash Goods-Geo. E. sufe.. & Co.
Carpets, Rugs and Matting-Stone &
Thomas.
Mems and Boys Clothing-Kraus Bros.
Tailor Suitings-Geo. r. Taylor Co.
Stein-Bloch Clothes-D. Gundling & Co.
Millinery-Iou Swabacker.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
statesmen WANTED.

WANTED-Two reliable statesmen to sell
our weather and tireproof cold water
paints for inside or outside use. all colors.
CLEV ELAiND COLD WATER PAINT
CO, Cleveland, Ohio. apl6ev
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-16
Fifth Page.
Eighth Page.

Chinese OK Blood Poitery-Geo. M
Shook & Co.
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INDEX 70 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Second Page.
a Preferential Cigar.
Fourth Page.

Statesmen wanted-Cleveland Cold Water
Paint Company.
Announcement-J. Wilson White
Grand Opera House-Uncle Toms Capln.
Opera House-Al. G. Fields Ministries.
Lost-Bird Dog.
Summer Law Lectures-Universitv OF
Virginia
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WANTED.
MALE EeAP WANTED.

MEN-Our catalogue explains how we
teach barber TRACE IN s weeks without cx-
peuse. mailed free. MOLER BARBER
Chicago I'll. apriie&dv