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The times., 1900-12-25
LOST ANOTHER MEMBER.
a HoboI<cn Man Keeps His Pledge to
n Suicide Club.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Seven years ago
thirteen young men met in a saloon at
Hudson and First Streets, Hoboken, and
formed a Suicide club" Each member
swore to end his life by his own hand,
and ten of them have kept that VOW.
Frank Wolff, of Newark and Grand
Streets. Hoboken, was the tenth member
of the club who died according to the
compact. He hanged himself in the woods
at Englewood. N. j., on Saturday. He
gave up business a few months ago and
since then had been depressed. The three
surviving members of the suicide club
are to attend VOLTS funeral. One Of
them said today:
Rope, revolvers, raZors, and poison
have been used by the members of the
club who have met death at their own
hands. / will never forget the case of
fresco- painter who was one of the thir-
teen. He jumped into the river, but sew
eral longshoremen managed to stick their
cotton hooks into his clothing and pull
him out. According to the rules, which
provide that a member who is guilty of
an unsuccessful attempt at suicide. shall
be fined $40, he was ordered TO pay the
fine. Before he could do so, however, he
called on fellow member and borrowed
money enough to purchase dose of paris
green, which was just large enough to
make third attempt unnecessary
The times., 1900-12-25
THE SMALLPOX IN NEW YORK
HOuse-tO-House Vaccination Under
Police Supervision.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24-The Board of
Health made strenuous efforts today to
prevent the spread of smallpox by
cleaning UP the lodging houses along the
Bowery and Third Avenue. in which the
disease might find lodgment.
Squads of physicians. policemen, and
sanitary inspectors were going from
house TO house. vaccinating every man
woman, and child unable to produce a
good vaccination sore, or scar of recent
making. and disinfecting all buildings
The crusade was organized Saturday
night, and pushed systematically and
thoroughly all day yesterday and last
night
At . o'clock this morning the depart
ment records showed that more than SEQ
houses had been visited. and that up-
ward Of $500 men, women. and children
had been vaccinated within forty-eight
hours. The work had all been done in
the borough OF Manhattan and the
Bronx. and the Board of Health felt
that the worst part of the city, the part
in which the disease might be expected to
spread most rapidly and do mcst damage
once it gained a iodgment. had been
cleaned out.
The times., 1900-12-25
TAMMANY LEADERS AT SEA.
Unable to Secure Advice by Commu-
nicnting With Croker.

NEW YORK. Dec 24.-The Tamnany
Executive Committee is to meet Friday
evening in the Fourteenth Street wigwam
to reorganize for 1901, and for a week
groups of dstfict leaders have been talk
ing and oaucusing around Senator Plum
kits office In the county court house
The leaders are al odds over various ques-
tions OF policy, and trouble for the or
ganization Is coming thick and fast from
many quarters. Croker is off the cable
line, and for week no leader has been able
10 get a message to or from him.
1t was asserted today by the gossips who
congregate around Plunkitt's office that
there would be no change in the reorgani-
zation of the executive committee and lit
tie II any change in the makeup of the
subcommittee. The leaders are afraid
to make break without orders from
Croker, because they fear that any at
tempt to make changes in the committee
al this time would preciptate row which
would disclose the shaky condition of the
machine. Without saying word in the
open the district leaders are beginning to
divide between the two men who are sup
posed to represent Croker
John F. Carroll and CORPORATION Coun-
sci John Whaien are nomfnaily in charge
England or travelling on the Continent
Carroll stays at the wigwam and Whalen
does not go there to see him Whalen
directs the political policy OF the organi-
zation from his office in Tryon Row, and
Carroll does not call there The fact is
that many of the leaders regard Whalen
as the real agent of Croker and the man
in power, therefore they ignore Carroll
The latter has some followers among the
leaders. and they ignore WhaIsn. A spark
would cause an explosion hat would dis
close the split among the leaders, so all
factions, will try to get through the reor-
ganization on Friday night without trou-
BILE.
Much bitter feeling has recently deyel-
oped in the inner circles of Tammnny and
scores of men who are attached to the
organization by good Offices. contracts, or
other patronage are ready to break ayyay
as soon as they are convinced that the
opposition Is going to win the next city
election. Attendance at the club has
fallen off at a great rate since Croker
went abroad and the district leaders are
beginning 10 express doubt of their ability
to collect dues from members of the yari-
Gus committees. The working fund of the
organization is provided by a system of
fees of 50, $40 and S25 for membership in
various committees. These fees for 1901
will be due January l. and if they are
not paid there will be little money for
preliminary campaign work.
The times., 1900-12-25
ATTACKED BY NEGRO ROBBERS.
Charles Connor BrutnIIy Beaten by
CoIOTcd Footpnds.

Three negroes, armed with heavy clubs,
attacked Charles Connors at Second and
II Streets northeast about II o'clock last
night. After knocking him down they at
tempted to rob him. but were frightened
of before obtaining anything of value.
Cornors received n frightful cut about the
head, and was sent to the Emergency
Hospital in the ambulance.
The negroes left saloon as Connors
came along II Street. on his way from
downtown and asked him for a match
Coinors had none, and he was then at
tackled by one OF the trio, who struck him
on the head and knocked him down Sew
eral persons passing at the time ran to-
ward Connors, and the negroes took
fright and fed. After treatment Connors
was able to go to his home, S4 Jackson
Street northeast
The times., 1900-12-25
MIR. PHILBIN SWORN IN.
Colonel Gardiner Served With the
Notice of His Removal.

NEW YORK. Dec. 24.-Eugene A. Phil
bin. the new District Attorney, was Off
cialIy notified at 4:3O o'clock this afternoon
Of his appointment. John A. Waldron.
deputy appointment clerk OF the executive
chamber. brought the certificate of ap-
pointment.
4 few minutes later Luclen Knapp, the
Governors special messenger, who had
spent the day travelling around with Colo
mel Gardiner, without serving on him the
L notice of removal, because 1t had been
agreed not TO leave the county without a
district attorney even for a few minutes,
heard that Mr.. Philbin had been notified
and Immediately served his papers on
Colonel Gardiner.
The best of feeling was shown on all
sides, Colonel Gardiner concealing admir-
ably any chagrin that he may have felt.
Furthermore. he promised to be on hand
Wednesday morning, when Mr.. Philbin
takes charge. and to introduce him to
members of the staff and to the judges.
Mr.. Philbin was sworn in by Justice
Morgan ]. OBrien. of the appellate divi-
sion just as soon after receiving his ap-
pointment as he could get to Justice
O'Brien's at Madison Avenue and Twenty
sixth Street.
The times., 1900-12-25
MAY RESORT TO THE COURTS
Cincinnati Preachers Determined to
Stop the HuhIin-JeEries Fight.

CINCINNATI. Dec. 24.-The ministers
viii resort to the courts and carry the
fight against the Rubin -Jeffries fight, for
the benefit of the Saengerfest fund, to the
limit. At the meeting today of the Evan
gelical Alliance, composed of preachers
of all denominations. there was an ex-
haustiye discussion of the case and a com
mittee appointed to consult the 3blest
lawyers with view to having the con-
test stopped.
The final suggestion was that a rOm-
mittee of leo or more ministers appear
before the mayor and give their views of
the matter, but action was deferred until
another meeting. 1t was reported and
denied that the mayor had detectives in
hiding listening 10 all that was said at
the meeting
The times., 1900-12-25
A Negro stabbing ARRAY.

James Henderson, a negro, became in
yolred in fight last night with Henry Al
bert and Joseph Edlln, also colored. near
Fifteenth and East Capitol Streets, during
which Albert and Edlin were cut in the
abdomen by Henderson. The police were
notified and an ambulance took the wound
ed men TO the Casualty Hospital. Hen
derson disappeared after the stabbinE. ana
has not yet been arrested. Albert lives at
1913 b Street northeast. and Edlin at l3
Fitzhugh Court southeast.
The times., 1900-12-25
INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.
Statement of the Amount Collected
During November.

The monthly statement of the collec-
tions of internal revenue show that dur
ing November. 1900, the total receipts
were s25. .344zS5, an increase as compared
with November last year OF sSS6,s51.
The receipts from the several sources
of revenue are given as follows:
Spirits, $40, $50. .320; increase, s728,l4i.
Tobacco. s4.905 ,067; decrease, s205.209.
Fermented liquors, s5,447,7S7 increase.
s1S6.06s.
Oleomargarine, s23S,62 decrease. s20.-
532.
$50, ,374; decrease. S11 .097.
Miscellaneous. 1896. 1O9; increase. s2os,-
ATT.
The times., 1900-12-25
TEMPORARY AUDITOR NAMED.
W. W. Brown Appointed to Act in
Frank IL. Norris Place.

Secretary Gage has designated W ".
Brown, Auditor for the Navy Department,
to act as Auditor for the War Department
in place of the late Auditor Frank II.
Morris. The change is, however. only
temporary, and made necessary by rea-
son of the fact that the resignation of
Deputy Auditor Dan C. Grosvenor, for the
War Department. was asked for and ac-
cepted prior to the killing of Morris Mr.
Brown was formerly Auditor for the War
Department, and was succeeded By Mr.
The times., 1900-12-25

sULLIvAN-On Sunday, December %, 1900. at
p. m, LIZZIE SULLIVAN, nee Burke. the be-
loved wife of Patrick Sullivan
Funeral from her late residence. GIG Street
southwest. Solemn high requiem at
A. m. Wednesday, December 2G, 1900, at st. DOM
inic's Church. 1t
JONES-Departed this lie Saturday. December
d. 1900. BELL JONES. loving daughter OF Ann
Young and loving wife of Asbury Jones.
Funeral Tuesday. at l o'clock from her late
residence 1904 Sd st sw., thence to First Bap-
tist Church, 9th ST. sw. Friends and relatives are
invited to attend 1t em
The times., 1900-12-25
A Distinguishes Creole Dead.

zat, of one of the Oldest Creole families of
Louisiana, died here today. aged eighty
one. He was grandson of Delino de
Chalmette, on whose plantation the Battle
of New Orleans was fought, and was born
on that plantation, and son of Don Antonio
de CruZat. Governor OF the province of ST.
Louis. under the Spanish regime. He was
a prominent sugar planter and banker of
Louisiana, previous to the civil war.
The times., 1900-12-25
SHOCKED BY THE TRAGEDY.
Miss RohrbaciS in nm Acute State of
Nervous Collapse.

ALTOONA, Pa Dec. 24.--Miss Juniata
Rohrback, an employe of the Auditors Of
fee of the War Department at Washington,
has been brought to her home in Holli-
daysburg, thIs county, in an acute stage
Of nervous collapse that is likely TO prove
fatal.
Miss Rohrbach was near the desk OF Aud
itor Frank Morris when Mcdonald enter
ed and shot him. The shock OF the TRACE
dy was too much for the young womans
nerves
The times., 1900-12-25
To study the PhiIip,tne..

NEW HAVEN, Dec. 24.-Prof Edward
@. BowRie. head of the history depart
ment at Yale, has been elected Yale mem
ber of the Philippine information COM
mission of Boston. The purpose of the
commission is to study the history and
present conditions of the Philippines, and
disseminate the information In order that
the islands may be better understood in
this country.
The times., 1900-12-25
Past the Century Marx.

HAGERSToWN, Nd, Dec. 24.-Word
was received here by relativss that
Aunt" Kittie Rice, a native of Beaver
Creek, Washington County, was dying
at her home, in Mount Morris. III. She
is 1o3 years and 4 months old. Should
she live until New Year Day she will
have lived in three centuries. During
her lifetime she has been remarkably
free from ill-health.
The times., 1900-12-25
Accidents VIII Hnppen-Jonr

G. A. r. veteran. Of 2i4s Marshall st. Pbila.
delphia, says: by a mere acciden. / came
acros, DR.. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder I was
This wonderful remedy effected a speedy and per
manent cure, and have been SO thankful that
! am willing to spend much time in spreading
the good news" Fifty cents. Sold by r. s. vii
liams, Ninth and r Streets; Edmonds q WiIlizI1
Third Street and Pennsylvania Ayenue.-ld
The times., 1900-12-25
HOLIDAY GIFTS FOR HoBsoN.
A Number of Packages Received at
the Hospital.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24-A number of
packages containing Christmas presents
were received at the Presbyterian Hospi-
tai this morning for Lieut.. Richmond P.
Hobson. They were of all sorts and sizes.
and among them were some boxes con-
tanning cut flowers, presumably from fem
mime admirers.
The lieutenant's condition has improved
SO that he will doubtless be able to ex-
anime and admire his Christmas gifts.
The times., 1900-12-25
UNDER NEW JERSEY LAWS.
International Crude Rubber Com
pany Incorporated for S3O,OOO,Ooo.

TRENTON. y. J., Dec. 2t.-The Inter
national Crude Rubber Company was in
corporated today with an authorized capi-
tai stock of $50. 100000. The capital stock
is divided into $l0.0e0000 Of preferred
stock bearing 6 per cent cumulative divi-
dends and s20,0o0,000 Of common stock
The incorporators are H. NJ Sadler.
George Pope. George F. Brown, w. A.
Towner, c. n. Palmer. and Alden s. Swan.
The times., 1900-12-25
Another Earthquake mt Santiago,

SANTIAGO, Cuba Dec. 24.-There was
another severe shock of earthquake here
at noon today, which caused considerable
of a panic in the poorer quarters of the
city where the people vacated their houses,
fearing that they would collapse. The
walls of few buildings were cracked.
The times., 1900-12-25
TO CURE A CoLp IN OWE NV

Take Laxative Bromo Qyinine Tablets. Ali
druggists refund the money il it fails to c,7re.
E. ". Groves signature Ia on each box. 25c,
The times., 1900-12-25

PARIS. Dec. 2i.-The Senate today pass
ed the amnesty bill by a vote OF 2eI to II
The times., 1900-12-25
A Greeting From Phone 634.
DIED.

Here's merry Christmas, full of good cheer,
From the brewers Of the Heurieh pure beers.
The times., 1900-12-25
SPECIAL NOTICES.

A MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS
of "The National Metropolitan Fire
Insurance Company of the District of Co
lumbia' will be held MONDAY, DECEM-
BER %, 1900. for the election Of Directors.
Polls open at II m and close at O'Clock
o. m SAM CROSS,
no30-24t Secretary.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-23
ONE CAUSE OF Fires.

The Register, in common with other
newspapers, has called attention to the
tremendous fire loss this yeaasoFor the
first six months the total was over
$103, 600, 900, and for the full twelve
months is estimated at $215, 100000 or
more. This is tremendous drain upon
the resources of the country.
Fire Chief Croker, of New York City,
has been making some Investigations
as to fires in his territory IgFing the
first six months of the year. He finds
the total number of alarms was 1903,
a large increase over former records,
and the increase was largest in the
months of May and June, when fires
are ordinarily fewer in number than
in other months. He then investigated
the value of property endangered and
the amount of insurance carried, and
as result it is his conviction that
oyer-insurance is responsible directly
for a large proportion of the loss. He
says:
II believe that the attention of various
insurance companies doing business in
this city should be called to the fact that
tenants of dwelling, occupants of stores,
etc, are permitted to take out policies
for any amount they desire through
agents of the different companies without
an examination being made by said COM
panies or their agents to ascertain the
amount of goods, stock or household fur-
niture the person to be insured really
owns. 1t is well known, of course that
the larger the policy that is written the
greater the premium for the agent and
my investigation shows that in some cases
where tenant possessed about $500 worth
of household effects he has found no
trouble in procuring policy for $780,
Chief Croker recommends that the
board of fire underwriters be urged to
make rule that the amount of prop
erty really in the possession of a per-
son desiring insurance must be inves-
tigated before a policy is issued and
that policies be furnished only for such
amounts as the occupant really owns
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-23


On the second page of this issue of
the Register appears summary of a
thoughtful, timely and interesting ar
ticle upon the causes of industrial and
business depressions, from the pen of
that acknowledged authority. Mr.. Geo.
w. Hull. The article will appear in the
forthcoming August number of the En-
gineering Magazine, and is well worthy
Of the most careful study. Mr.. Hull
finds a distinct relationship between
production in pig iron and steel
and periods of depression, and he ap-
parently makes out a clear case. His
argument, at the very least, is deserv-
ing of careful attention.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-23
4 SECOND arrest
Made at Martins Ferry in the McMa-
hon Forgery Case.

Last week Marshal Irwin received
a telegram stating that Stanton Nc
Mahon had been arrested in Wav-
erly, Ohio, on the charge of forging
a note in Martins Ferry in 1898.
Yesterday morning it was published
in the Register that Harry Shrodes
had been arrested at Martins Fer
ry, but the police would not state on
what charge the arrest had been
made.
Last night it was learned that
while on the way from Waverly to
Martins Ferry, Mcmahon made q
confession to Marshal Irwin impli-
eating Shrodcs.
The check was on the CONNER
cial Bank CT Martins Ferry and
was signed by Mcmahon, who
claimed he had an account there.
1t was s35 and was accepted by J.
f Reynolds.
Shrodes is general character
about town, who earns a livelihood
by doing any odd job he can secure.
Nothing against his character has
ever before come to light. Every
one in Martins Ferry who heard
of the charge last night was sur
prised.
Both men are being held in jail
ar Martins Ferry.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-23
INSTANTLY KILLED.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
HINTON, W. Va, July &c.
Z. Gillian, an employee of the Raj
eigh Lumber Company, situated at
d Grew, ". Va, about twenty miles
west OF this place, was instantly
killed last night by the falling of a
tree upon him. A severe storm was
raging while he was passing
through woodland that was be-
tween his work and boarding house,
when the tree was blown on him,
crushing his chest. He was for
merly Of Abingdon, Va, to which
place his remains will be forward
ed tonight.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-23

The assessed valuation of personal
property In Wheeling, a city of 1000
inhabitants, is about $5,000.000 In
Chicago, which claims 100000 popu-
lation, it is but s6a 100000, and last
year it was only So, 900. At the
Wheeling ratio, Chicago being fifty
times as large, the personal assess
ment ought to be 25o,OOo,oOO. This
is a strange discrepancy. According
to the assessments every inhabitant
of Wheeling has s12 worth of personal
estate; in Chicago the per capita value
is about the price of hair cut and a
shave.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-23
A MILLION IN GOLD
Brought Back by Steamer From
the k1ondikc.

brought Back by a Steamer From
the kIondikc.
VICTORIA, B. c., July 22.-The
steamer Amur reached here this after
noon, bringing the largest number of
rich Klondikers and more gold than
has previously arrived from the north
this season. There is at least a mill
ion in gold dust on board the steamer.
and ninety passengers, one-third of
whom made fortunes in the far north.
The general opinion of these men,
who are actually engaged in mining, is
that the output of the year will be
twenty-five million dollars. This large
output is accounted for by the fact that
just as much gold is now being taken
out in summer as in winter. An Amer
lean, who went over the creeks To
estimate the output, said il was hard
to make an estimate, as claim owners
refuse to give the output for fear that
the royalty of ten per cent will be ex-
acted by the government. Many of the
largest claims barely pay expenses and
if they paid royalty there would be a
,Nyoccursranlg gfingf fnug fof htmeh
loss for the year.
Doctors say there are no cases of small
Pc kin Dawson. but some typhoid. Ar
rangements for the suppression OF disease
are the very best.
The American and Canadian boundary
commissioners have completed their work
above Haines' Mission and are now work.
ing at White Pass.
The Indians have entered a protest
against the erection of a customs house
a no hon dav ha hot -
restrict their trade with interior Indians,
The courts have decided in favor of lot
owners at Skagaway as aaginst Captain
William Moore, who claims the town site
under squatter rights.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-23
a SERIOUS SITUATION.

In well managed city of forty
thousand inhabitants it ought to be
possible to so arrange and regulate
administrative affairs as to make it
impossible that the entire population
should be without drinking water for
an entire day in the middle of summer.
That was what happened to Wheel
ing yesterday. From early morning
until night, with a high thermometer.
four times ten thousand people and
hundreds and thousands of animals
We're without water, and the resulting
inconvenience and even suffering is
not to be measured in words. In hun
dreds of families there was no water
for cooking, some even had not water
to drink. Horses were led to the river
by hundreds to slake their thirst.
housewives who had no water bor-
rowed from their more fortunate
neighbors, or carried it from the river.
from springs on the outskits, or from
the few remaining wells. One well on
the Island was well nigh pumped dry
by people to whom the cessation of
the regular supply of water came as a
complete surprise, for every family
does not take a paper, and many who
do overlooked the announcement that
the water would be shut off. To hotels
and restaurants the occasion was par
tciularly trying. Some had recourse
to water hauled in barrels, manufac-
turing establishments were paralyzed,
steam could not be raised in boilers.
electric plants could not run even
when operated by gas engines. and
there was general loss, inconvenience
and discomfort.
surely this ought not to happen
again. There should be some better
May of m3naging things, and in say
this Here # 40 intention Of cast
any Ie1 ppon the oiacials n
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-23

The more foreign trade the greater the
army and navy, the greater the army
and navy the heavier the tax on the
people, the more the people are taxed
the more prosperous they are. That 5
a summary of Republican doctrine.
The Democratic idea is a still larger
foreign trade, small army. an eff
cient but moderate sized navy, and the
highest possible taxation, this mean
ing the abolition of the war taxes and
the cessation of protection to our sin
FAINT industries.