Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-10
The white and Freer Contingents
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Special to the Register.
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, February
9.-The members of the party from this
county who attended the meeting OF
Freer's adherents are back at home
and are we'll pleased with the result
of the meeting. Senator Elkins is be-
tween two fires in the State on account
Of the struggle that has arisen be-
tween the two contending sides and
Is in a quandary over which to train
with. He wishes to maintain a strict
neutrality but the adherents of White
are trying to get him into the light.
Freer's friends are worried up over the
attitude of Elkins' ~lieutenants who are
directing the White fight but this will
probably go on until the convention.
The matter of choosing delegates to
the State convention is causing some
feeling. In some of the counties 1t is
being proposed to hold conven-
lions for the county instead of con-
ventions in each district. The federal
Office holders who are booming White
can by this can capture the dele
gates and the Freer men are kicking
vigorously. The warmth of the fight
is not expected to do the Republicans
any good and the leaders are casting
about for some means of keeping the
contestants from dividing the party
hopelessly over the question of leader
ship. 1t will do them no good no mat
ter what compromise is affected.
Dell Bayes,. a member of the First
West Virginia band during the war
with Spain, died this morning at his
home near here Of fever. He was
about twenty years old, and was very
popular with his comrades. Six of
them were selected as pail bearers.
The quarterly bar examination which
were being held by the law faculty of
the University have been completed.
The results will be announced as soon
as the papers submitted can be grad
ed. There were ten applicants as fol-
lows: Hon. M. A. Kendall, of Parkers-
burg, R. Douglas, Of Jackson county;
J.. E. Pennybacker, of Pendleton coun-
ty; Earl Smith, of Fairmont, and +.
Wolfe, C. A. Wolfe, Hugh Warder, E.
W. Spurlock, H. O. Davis and ]. J..
Hendricks, all of the law department
of the University.
The University is ~agitating the mat
ter of retirement from the oratorical
league into which 1t has entered with
the several colleges and universities
in this State and Western Pennsyl-
vania. Those who are agitating this
move feel that the institution is too
large to compete with the other
schools in the league and that a more
pretentious organization should be en-
tered by us.
The. ice has gone out of the river. A
gorge in number nine broke at a late
hour last night and that in number
eight left late in the afternoon. Cheat
river began going out yesterday and
is still running. No damage has been
reported from either river.
A little girl who was vaccinated
scratched the sore and then scratched
her nose. Her face took beautifully
and she is suffering untold agonies for
fear that the injury will be perma-
nent.
The quarantine has been raised in
Morgantown and the only person who
has eve been suspected Of having
smallpox here has been released. The
physicians disagreed as to the exact
nature of the case but the patient was
promptly isolated when he first became
sick. There has been no further out
break and lone Is anticipated.
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