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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-24
GRAND LODGE ADJ0URNS.
Odd Fellows Elect officers and COM
plete the Business of the Grand

Special 10 the Register.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va, November
23.-The Grand Lodge OF Odd Fellows,
which has been in session here since
Wednesday, adjourned this afternoon
to met next year at Fairmont. The
following officers were elected: Grand
Master, John D. Timms, Parkersburg;
Deputy Grand Master, Chas. NJ Roach,
Grafton; Grand Warden, C. A. Vincent,
Fairmont; Grand Secretary, E. A. Bill
ingslea Fairmont; Grand Treasurer,
Henry Seamon, Moundsville; Repre-
sentative to Sovereign Grand Lodge,
w. R. Cummins, East Bank.
The State Assembly of the Daughters
OF Rebekah adjourned after electing
and installing the following officers:
President, Mrs. L. A. Miller. Morgan
town; Vice President, Mrs. Porter
field, Benwood; Secretary. Mrs. Hattie
Roney, Golfers; Treasurer, Mrs. Payne,
Huntington; Warden, Miss Alice Rath-
man, Martinsburg.
The matter of establishing home
for disabled and decrepit Odd Fellows
was discussed and it was resolved af-
ter considerable discussion to assess a
fee of ten cents per capita on all the
members in the State to be devoted TO
to the fund for the home. The matter
of when and where 1t should be erected
was lie t to a committee which is to
report at the next annual meeting of
the Grand Lodge. An offer was made
by the Grantsville lodge to give a
house of six rooms and eight acres Of
land for the home if it is located there.
The offer was received but not acted
upon.
Before adjourning the Grand Lodge
granted charters to the following new
lodges: Mountain Rose Lodge, No. 1877,
wildwood; Centerville Lodge No. 1873,
Alma; Creston Lodge No. 1879, Creston;
Tecumpseh Lodge No. 200. Hundred;
Temple Lodge No. 201, Buffalo; Berke-
ley Lodge No. 202, Martinsburg; Fern
Lodge No. 203, Lansing; Indian Mound
Lodge No. 2O4, Pomeroy; and Gay
Lodge Noa2e5. Gay.
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VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
OF $4,000 REFORMERS.
BISHOP POTTER OUTLINES PLAN
FOR THE PURIFICATION OF
NEW YORK.
HOW IT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED.
POLITICS, RELIGION AND NATIONAL
ITY MUST ALL BE CAST
ASIDE.
HOW IT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED.

NEW YORK, November 23.-Bishop
Henry C. Potter to-day delivered an
address on God and the City," before
an audience of $500 persons in st.
Paul's chapel, in which he suggested
the organization of vigilance COM
mittee of $4,000 reformers to cleanse the
city of vice. He favored a central COM
mittee of three or five men, under
whose orders the huge committee
should act. The Bishop said in part:
"If in New York tomorrow there
could be organized a vigilance commit
tee, sucn as was in San Francisco of
$4,000 men sworn to service for three
years and pledged by night and by day,
when their business and their oppor-
tunities gave their freedom to it to see
for themselves whether our souls had
been smitten with the sorrow of that
little victim of five years who was
picked up in the street the other day
in broad daylight and ravished by some
brute who had lived here, would such
things be possible in decent and God
fearing community?
mo, men and brethren, not if you
anu udu our eyes OPCn dhu hOPs
open and stood where God calls us to
stand to-day. And then finally we
must have not only vigilance, but per-
slstence.
I'VE shall not redeem New York,
men and brethren, by emotions. We
shall not redeem it by denunciation;
we shall not redeem it by pessimistlc
temper that wraps its garment around
it and turns its back upon it. There
are burning with zeal and energy and
high purpose of sacrifice in this
great city to-day great multitudes of
men and women; they are of different
religions, they must forget that; they
are of different nationalities;
they must not forget that
they are of different political associations,
most of all they must forget that and If,
having reached that point we could find
three or five men whom all of us trusted
and believed in there are hundreds or
them) and Say to these three or FIVE men
Now then tell us what you want us to
do, where you want me to stand, what re-
lation you want our party, our church,
our organization to bear to the betterment
of New York, we will trust your judg-
ment, we will follow your lead and the
work is done, and next to that in this SER
vice of enlightened soul, we want vigil
lance -
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MARIETTA,
Trades and Labor Council AFFILIATED
with the American Federation.

Trades and Labor Council AFFILIATED
with the American Federation.
Special TO the Register.
MARIETTA. o.. November 23.--rhe
Marietta Trades and Labor Council,
which for several years has been an IN
dependent organization. has been grant
ed a charter by the American Fedora
tion OF Labor and became a member az
that organization tonight. The Mari
eta Council now has about sixty men,
bers. but recent activity in labor cir
cles here will soon bring the number
up to one hundred.
Mr.. Henry Everly and Miss Elizabeth
thinner, two prominent young people
of Marietta, were united in marriage
Thursday evening at the home of the
bride on Third street. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. w. e. Brink
man in the presence of a large company
OF invited guests.
Miss Eva Head a we'll known lady
20 years of age. was adjudged insane
in Probate Court to-day and taken tn
Athens for treatment at the State hos
pital. She has an imaginary lover and
her friends feared that she would do
bodily harm TO herself or others
The foot ball team OF Ohio Univers-
ity at Athens has again cancelled q
game with Marietta and the eleven
from Dennison will play here to-mor-
row.
BY unanimous vote the Marietta
Board OF Health decided to erect a
building to be used for pest house in
case OF smallpox or other similar dis
eases. The case recently developed
here, from exposure at Gallipolls, led
I'D TO the action.
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NEWMAN ON THE STAND
70 TELL Of THE MURDER.
CAULEY AS A MATTER OF
SLAF DEFENSE.
SAYS ACTOR WELDED BOTTLE,
AND WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM
HAD HE NOT RESORTED TO
HIS PISTOL.
Special to the Register.

6pecldl 10 the Register.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, November
23.-Shortly after noon to-day the ev-
idence was all in the Pearl Newman
murder trial. Newman was the last
to take the stand. He told of his trav-
els on the evening Of the murder, how
he came to enter the Brown home, and
in an excited way of the incidents
leading up to the murder.
He testified that he was walking
about the room in perfect good humor
when Mr.. McCauley said to him: Sit
down or III put you down.
Newman says this enraged him and
he cursed McCauley, when the latter
arose and made for him. Newman
says he backed out OF the room, hurting
two beer glasses at McCauley as he
did SO.
McCauley seized beer bottle and
raised it to strike him, when he pulled
a gun and fired.
Il verify believe McCauley would
have killed me with me bottle had
not shot him when l did, testified
Newman.
Newman's evidence was badly pune
tured on cross-examination
Chauncey Hicks, young friend and
cousin of Newman, testified in New
mans behalf. He said that McCauley
was attempting to strike Newman with
a bottle, when the fatal shot was
fired. Half a dozen witnesses testified
that Hicks was never in the room
where the trouble occurred. The in
terest in the case was undated to-day.
Every available space in the court
room was taken. Attorneys argued
the case this afternoon. The argument
of E. II. Fitch for the prosecution will
be heard tomorrow morning, and the
case will then go TO the jury.
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doctors arms. Before entering the
trance his pulse, being taken was 12O
beats. While in this state his feet
were laid on the bottom of one chair
and his head upon another. DR.. Ack-
erman and DR.. Mcdonald. the two
heaviest men in the room, sat upon his
stomach. The combined weight of the
two is 40 pounds. DR.. Alderman
then stood upon him.
He was lifted to his feet in rigid
condition, and finally with a start
seemed to regain consciousness. His
pulse was $50. This concluded the
exhibition. The physicians were very
highly pleased with Mr.. Rogers work.
1t certainly demonstrates his knowl-
edge of the methods in vogue in mod
ern spiritualism.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-24
GROCERIES" BARRED OUT.
Auditor of the Interior Department
Turned Bill for a Wake.

WASHINGTON, November 90
Some time ago the auditor for the in
terror department disallowed the claim
of Bridget O'Brien for $8267, reim-
bursement of the expenses of the last
sickness and burial of Michael O'Brien,
a pensioner of the United States, who
died a. Dungarawan, Ireland, May 49,
1898. The beer, tobacco. pipes, ETC.,
proving conclusively that much of
the expense of O'Brien's funeral con-
sisted in the holding of an old-fash-
Toned Irish wake. After the disaI-
lowance of the bill, Mrs O'Brien ap-
pealed, but in her appeal she Jumped
the objectional items under the general
head of groceries"
The controller of the treasury now
decides that there were but $3.50 of
accrued pension available for paying
the expenses of the last illness OF
OBrien, and after rejecting the item
of groceries" he decides that that sum
shall be pro-rated to pay the bill of the
nurse, grave digger cemetery fees. etc.,
aggregating $51.05.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-24
CHILDISH ANGER
Led Ten-Year-Old Boy 10 Stab Play.
mate-The Victim Dead.
Special to the Register

Special to the Register.
WEST UNION, w. Va, November
23.-With barlow knife, Ben Helm,
a ten-year-old schoolboy, stabbed to
the heart his schoolmate and play
fellow, Joe Pinnell, aged thirteen, on
the playground of the Jockey Camp
school, near here, several days ago,
from the effects of which Pinnell died
yesterday. The little boys were seiz-
ing each others hats and throwing
them up into the air. Pinnell seized
Helms hat and tossed it into the
air. He1in drew his knife and started
after him. Pinnell ran for a fence
which he intended to climb, and when
almost at the fence he turned around
to see how near his pursuer was. Just
as he turned around Hefiin reached
him and plunged the knife deep into
Pinnell's body, just missing the heart
He fingered several days, but nothing
could be done to save his life.
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A DIRECT REFUSAL.

Sultan Will Not Grant an Exequater
for an UnitedS tates Consul at Har-
pOOt.
CONSTANTINOPLE, November %
The porte has definitely rejected the
request for an exequatur for a United
States consul at Harpoot. This refus-
al is regarded by the United States le-
cation as direct violation of treaty
rights; and, consequently despite the
refusal, DR.. Thomas H. Norton, who
was appointed by President Mckinley
sometime ago to establish a consulate
at Harpoot, has been directed to pro-
coed to his post
The expected visit of the battleship
Kentucky to Smyrna is believed to re-
late quite as much to this matter as
to the indemnity question.
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TO RESTORE THE BANK.

WASHINGTON. November 23.-The
comptroller Of the currency has been
informed by National Bank Examiner
Tucker. temporary receiver Of the Ger
man bank at Newport. KY, that an
effort is being made by the directors
Of the bank to restore the bank to
sclyency.
CINCINNATI. Ohio. November zs.-Par-
ties who went TO Canada 70 find Frank
NJ. Brown. the missing bookkeeper have
returned. but II IS understood that the
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OUT ON $4,000 BAIL.

wILKESBARRE, Pa. November r.
Rev. u. r. Stuart, the minister charged
with having performed an Illegal operation
on his WIFE, whose death subsequently oc-
CURED, was arraigned before Judge Wood
ward to-day for a writ Of habeas corpus.
Judge Woodward thought time should ba
held the minister In $1,000 bail. ban was
furnfshed
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-24
OTIS A. THAYER.
One of CharIeston's Prominent Bust
ness Men, Found Dead in His bed
Yesterday Morning.

Special to the Register
CHARLESTON, w. Va. November
22-Otis A. Thayer. one Of the most
prominent citizens and business men
of Charleston and the Kanawha valley,
was discovered dead in bed by his
nurse at his home in this city this
morning. He has suffered with heart
trouble for some time. He was IS
years old, and was the senior member
OF the South Side Foundry G Machine
Company, besides being largely inter
ested in coal mining on New River.
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SUES THE RAILROAD co.
Mrs. Nora Shannon Asks Damages
for the Death of Her Husband.

Special TO the Register.
PARKERSBURG. w Va. November %.
Mrs. Nora Shannon to-day filed suit for
$1,000 against the Ohio River Railroad CO.
for damages sustained because Of the
death OF her husband. who was killed in
the naptha explosion in the yards OF that
company at this place last Fourth Of July.
Mr.. Shannon was a telegraph operator and
had just been promoted to be assistant
dispatcher. He was standing beside Cen
eral Superintendent Hamilton when the
explosion occurred. killing both Of them.
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MAKING LITTLE PROGRESS.

ELDORADO, Kan. November es.-Little
progress has yet been made toward secur-
ing jury to try Jessie Morrison on the
charge of killing Mrs. Olin Castle last
June, because of alleged jealousy OF the
sixty men examined for service on the
Jury, only eleven have been accepted BY
the prosecution. They have not been ex-
amined by the defense and ii is proba bic
number will be discarded.
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w. H. LAWRENCE DEAD.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, November 90
W. H. Lawrence, president of the Ma
tional Carbon Company, better known
as the Carbon Trust, died early to-day
at his home in Dover, suburb. In
July last Mr.. Lawrence met with an ac-
cident, receiving injuries that necessi-
tated the amputation OF his arm. He
failed TO rally from the shock and com
plications set in which finally caused
his death. Deceased was so years of
age
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THE OLD MANS HOPE.

BRUSSELS, November 2S-The Soir
this evening says Mr.. Kruger, on his ar
rival at The Hague, will ask for mediation
all the documents of state in his posses
sion, showing the secrets of war. The pa
per adds that Mr. Kruger believes that
duce such an outburst of public opinion
that Great Britain will be compelled to be
less harsh. The Soir adds that failing in
this; Mr.. Kruger will return to the Trans
Naal
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TRESTLES WASHED AWAY.

Special 10 the Register.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va. November %.
Two of the longest trastles on the limo
or the Guyandotte Valley Railway across
Guyan river, were washed away to-day
during a heavy timber run. The loss
will run far into the thousands This
will greatly retard work on this line.
watch the company hoped to have ready
for traffic by the first of the year.
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CROKER WILL REST
In Europe for Six Months-WouId
Not Talk Politics.

QUEENSTOWN, November 23.-Mr.
Richard Croker looked somewhat indis-
posed when the Cunard line steamer
Lucania arrived here this afternoon.
He said to representative of the Asso-
ciated Press that he was not in the best
of health. He had done much work
during the campaign and intended to
rest in England and on the continent
for six months.
Mr.. Croker declined to comment on
the charges made against American
jockeys, nor would he refer to The
Scotchman lis running at Doncaster
until he knew the details. He eschew-
ed politics wholly.
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MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
of Young Attorney From Destruc-
ton BY an Internal Machine

CHARLESTON, III, November %.
II. N. Cofer, Jr., prominent young
attorney and Democratic politician,
escaped destruction miraculously. A
box of dynamite, came to his office by
express. The label said:
Sample puzzle box. Open, pull
string with quick jerk, the result will
be surprising"
Mr.. Golfer pulled the string which
protruded, but it broke. The box was
pried open, disclosing three big sticks
of dynamite, and a hundred match
heads intended to ignite when the
string should pull. There was enough
dynamite to wreck the whole town.
The express agent has no clue to
the consignor.
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BLEW OFF HIS HEAD.

wAyERLY, n. r. November zs.--An-
thony Kinney. q. to-day blew Off the sids
OF his head with shot gun. He was a
gunner on the Marbiehead AZ cardenas,
and was honorabIy discharged. A couple
OF weeks ago he started for New York 10
re-enlist but was nearly asphyxitted and
the report that be mad attempted suicide
became current. Bro0ding over the fan
cied disgrace unsetfled EliA mind
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-24
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
The Size of the Standing Army Want
ed by the President-Niltary Conn
mittee Called.

WASHINGTON, November 23-Chair-
man Hull, of the House Committee on
Military Affairs, to-day called a meeting
of the committee for next Tuesday He
hopes that quorum will be present, and
that the committee can GO to work i'm
mediately upon the outlines of a new army
bill
Mr.. Hull conferred to-day with the Pres
ident and War Department upon the leg
is!ation desired. He saio the President
VIII communicate TO Congress very fully
his recomma rdations about the army. and
he did not assume to speak the Presidents
mind in advance. His impression was
that the President wanted authority to
raise a regular army sufficient for the
needs of the country, 100000 men if neces-
sary, the number to be reduced when
there was no longer need for them.
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FOOLISH ENGLIsHMEN

whose ill-timed levity at the Hotel du
Louvre in Marseilles exasperated the
people in the streets there, never
dreamed of the serious consequences of
their act. They sowed the wind and to-
day the English people are reaping the
whirlwind the news of the supposed
insult to Mr.. Kruger seems to have
spread across France and at all sta
tons, but especially at Lyons and
Dion, shouts for the Beers were min
gled VITA loud cries of Down with the
english"
indeed, at Lyons the denunciations Of
the English drowned the shouting of
the Beers. This is disturbing feature
which is universally discussed. Fears
are expressed that to-morrows recep-
ton in Paris may assume a character
calculated to arUse the feeling of Great
Britain against France to such an ex-
tent as to result in unpleasant relations
between the two countries.
The warmth of enthusiasm reached
in Marseilles yesterday probably raised
the spirits of Mr. Kruger and his ad-
yisers to a high pitch.
The faces of Dr. Leyds, Mr.. Fischer
and others, which on the eve of the ar
rival Of Mr.. Kruger revealed the anx-
iety they felt regarding his reception,
were to-day llgAted up with happiness
and confidence.
Evidently hope had revived in all that
his mission to Europe would be crown
ed with success.
Mr. Fischer spoke to Mr.. Kruger to-
day regarding the visit of the Boer en-
voys to the United States and told him
Of the welcome they had received there
from
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WILL BE RECEIVED.

patch from Paris to the Journal and
Advertiser says:
The French government has decided
that as England has not notified the
powers of the annexation of the Trans
vaal. Kruger will be received at the
Elysee, if he desires, ASA foreign SOW
ereign travelling incognito.
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HOSTILE TO ENGLAND.

raising anti-British cries. A process
sion Of students paraded, chanting
monotonously denunciations of every
thing English. The enthusiasm lasted
until a late hour.
Tomorrow morning at 6:25 Mr..
Kruger will start for Paris. Dr. Leyds
says he has been informed that NJ.
Crozier will greet Mr.. Kruger at the
Care de Lyon, Paris. in the name of
President Loubet.
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Charged with Attempted Murder.

Special 10 the Register.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, November
% Jas. Spaulding was arrested by
United States officers and placed in
jail here to-day charged with an at
tempt to assassinate VIM. Lowe,
mountain mail carrier. owe was fired
on from ambush and his horse shot
dead from under him. SpauIdIng is a
desperate character.
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THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

He expressed himself grateful TO know
that so many Americans had displayed
sympathy with the cause of the Trans
yaal, adding that he was not at all sur
prised to learn this, as he had expect
ed all along that the freedom-loving
citizens of the American republic
would stand by the Beers in the strug-
gle to defend the liberty which they
had previously won for themselves.
To-day Mr.. Kruger was dressed in
familiar attire, wearing the rosette of
the Legion of Honor in a buttonhole
Of his oyercoat. AS soon as the train
left Marseilles amid deafening salvos
he took seat in the saloon in an arm
chair and his friends, where he sat for
the most of the time silent, listening
TO the conversation going on around
him and putting his big bowled pipe.
4 At Tarascon, delegates awaiting the
trains arrival on the platform, pre-
scented addresses and bouquets. He
made his appearance at the window
and bowed in response to the cheer
ing. Similar scenes took place at
Avignon and Valence, where the plat
form, in each case was black with peo-
pie.
During the run through the rural
districts the train passed groups of
peasantry who waved handkerchie.
and hats and cheered.
The most remarkable demonstration
along the route occurred at Lyons sta
ton. AS the train slowed down, on
entering the town, the windows and
roofs of houses within view were seen
to be occupied by people. When it
stopped in the wide, lofty station, every
inch was covered by
coNcoURsE OF THOUSANDS
who sent I'D mighty shouts eof Long
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UNIMPORTANT MEETING.

WASHINGTON, November 23.-The
cabinet meeting to-day was unimport-
ant. The Presidents message is al
most complete. Secretary Hay report
ed that the Chinese situation was pro-
crossing favorably, but beyond this
bare mention the Chinese matter receiy-
ed no attention
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CONDITION OF THE TREASURY,

WASHINGTON, November 23.-To-
days statement Of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the s150, 100000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption shows:
Available cash balance s135, 731 ,339;
geld s92, TO-, 209.
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WASHINGTON. November 7.-For Ohio
Rain or snow Saturday. Sunday fair IN
western portion. rain Or snow In eastern
portion: fresh northerfY winds.
For Western Pennsyivania--Fai in the
northern portion. probably rain or snow in
the southern portion Saturday and sum
day; fresh northeriy winds
For West Hirginia-Rain or snow Safur-
day and probably Sunday; fresh north
sasterIy winds.
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A SHORTER ROUTE
Between Pfttsburg and Chicago Com
femplated by the ID. q o.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, November T.
Surveys are making for road for the
Baltimore & Ohio 70 give shorter line
between Pittsburg and Chicago The new
road win run almost IN an air line from
Pittsburg to Canton. Ohio. 1t win shorten
the distance between Pittsburg ard Chi
cagc "a miles and viii give entrance into
the pottery region about East Liverpool.