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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-07-22
BURIED ALIVE THREE DAYS.
Hypnotised Girl Tells of Her Strange
Experience.


Experience.
After having been buried in a grave
in Woodlawn cemetery, at Lexington.
KY, for three days while hypnotized.
according to the dispatches from that
city, 16-year-old Maude Mathews was
disinterred the other day in the pres
ence of a thousand persons. She was
in no way affected by her experience
"Oh, no. this is not the first time !
have been under the ground, and the
other time | was under the ground it
was in a coffin, too." said Maude
Mathews to a New York Journal re-
porter. 1T was on the Fourth of July
at Natural Bridge, in the Kentucky
mountains. We had gone up there on a
pleasure trip. and Professor Leon
thought it would be n good place to
make n trial to see what | could do
1t was so far from civilization that
should l die he felt safer, and so did L.
81 have seen hypnotic tests where
men were buried a day or so, and /
thought could do it if they could, so
/ allowed him to bury me all day and
stood the ordeal well. At night he
lOOh Iue up. i was convinced that
would not fail IL buried for a greater
length OF time. and they do say look
ed beautiful laid out five feet below the
surface of the earth.
II did not feel at all. There Is no
feeling. When one is hypnotized. the
sensibility is entirely taken away. All
l know was that l was hypnotized Ia
the Park auditorium at night and that
was in the same place when awoke.
BY consulting my friends | find that
the earth has been revolved twice. /
know l was buried. for they told me
so. and here is the coffin. l feel no
stiffness in my limbs, nor do feel any
hunger.
After I awoke / drank a glass of
warm water and ate a cracker. This
morning l ate breakfast as usual.
Upon weighing 1 find / have lost IL
pounds. 1t is a fine way to pass the
time away, and any one feeling that
his time Is too slow should try It. /
am going to undertake the death test
next ! am certain can live under the
hypnotic spell as long as any one, and
they tell me men have lived 21z weeks.
This is called the death tes&s
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-07-22
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
THE COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED.

The Committee of One Hundred is
composed Of worthy gentlemen who
evidently desire honestly to purify as
far as possible the politics of the city
and eliminate the machine and the
element of partisanship which are apt
to warp the judgment Of the citizen
and conduce to corruption and trick
cry, and these gentlemen have gone
about the matter of indicating proper
candidates in the manner which SEEM
ed to them the best and most prac-
ticable. But, nevertheless, it must be
plain to all, and especially to the gent
lemen of the committee themselves,
that their efforts have not met with
success. Why this is so need not be
discussed here. Suffice it to state the
plain fact that the interference of the
Committee Of One Hundred has been
resented practically from the start not
only by gentlemen who are candidates
for office on both sides and including
uOI OAll JAOoC WIZ hoNN SNS'
Committees endorsement, but those
who did not-anomalous as that may
seem-but also by the very voters
themselves whose interests the COM
mittee has honestly but impracticably
sought to promote. Many voters look
upon the Committee with suspicion
and as ~arrogating undue and dictator
ial powers to itself and for other rea-
sons that are at once obvious to the
practical observer of city politics and
the various elements therein.
In short, every mans hand seems to
be against the Committee of One Hun
dred, from rank and file of the voters
to the political leaders and candidates
who are governed by and cater to the
prejudices of the majority, and who
resent the Committees endorsement as
they would a reproach or stigma.
In such a condition of affairs it is
plain that the public work of the said
Committee must be wholly nullified if
it persists in its interference in the
political affairs of the city. While it
is to be regretted that this is so it is
impossible to be blind to the fact, and
it is plain that the Committee must
adopt some other plan if it does not
wish to make a bad matter worse.
The Register would suggest that
these gentlemen hereafter cease the
work of the Committee as a public
body and endeavor to accomplish
their work of reform quietly and by
individual or united effort in private
among the voters. In this manner by
an active canvass for their choice and
with an eye to Kidding the taxpayers
of machine politics and -eXtravagant
and unbusinesslike machine DONNA
ton the gentlemen of the Committee
may accomplish a very great deal for
reform, which it is plainly evident they
can never hope to accomplish by the
present method.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
MORRIS WAS AN ICONOCLAST.

The murder of Auditor Morris seems
to have been prompted by the late Of
ficiafs earnest desire to get an hon
est days work out of Uncle Sans en-
ployes for an honest days wages paid
out of the public treasury. This at
least is the theory of the minister who
preached the funeral m By thus
attempting to introduce practical bust
ness methods that obtain in every
successful private business into the
public service Mr.. Morris raised a
tremendous storm among the army of
t~ax-eaters in hts department. The
dearest tradition OF the Rsaxholders
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
A EXAMPLE.

While the mighty administration at
Washington is trying to pursuade IT
self that the Constitution is something
apart from the government of the Uni
ted States, and does not follow Ameri-
can government wherever the conquer
ing flag may introduce it, and that
while poor little Porto Rico is to be
considered American territory is yet
not to be treated as such by u tariff
laws, the wretched people-without-a-
country in the interior of the war-de-
vastated island are dying of what an
army surgeon reports to be chronic
starvation"
1t is an example to make certain
other Of Mr.. McKinley's alleged con-
quests frmer than ever in their deter
mination to rebel against similar bless
ings of American latter-day govern
ment under the flag, but outside the
fundamental law. And it is interesting
in this connection to note that the war
department is convinced that it will be
necessary to maintain a permanent
army in the Philippines of at least co.
900 American soldiers.
All of which is cheerful alike for our
devoted dependencies, now undergoing
the bracing effects of benevolent as
similation" and also for the great
American taxpayer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26

Scranton, Pa, is undergoing Q street.
car strike that exhibits some of the pc
culiarities of the last great car strike
in Wheeling. Aside from the fact that
no violence is practiced in the Scran-
ton tie-up, the people Of that city, as
did those of Wheeling, under similar
circumstances, generally refrain from
riding in the cars manned by "scabs."
Even in the busy season of Christmas
shopping, when men. women and chill
dren were overburdened with bundles,
the convenient street cars ran practi-
cally empty. This was an especially
severe test of the public temper, ant
would seem to show that the strikers
have decidedly the upper hand in that
community.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
Receiver Appointed.

Special to the Register.
STEUBENVILLE. O., Dec. 25.-J. Q.
Nailor, Esq, was appointed receiver for
the American Marble Works at a private
session of Common Pleas Court, and has
taken charge. 1t is alleged that the com
pany is insolvent. Recent pressing claims
and attachments forced the r~eceivership.
The company has been in operation only
two months, and made the only glass
marbles in the United States, and was
turning a fine product. According to the
petition. there is a mix in the issuing
and distribution of the stock based on
the patent owned by J.. H. Leighton. of
Akron. N. H. Wagner and DR.. e. John
Kaufman, of Philadelphia, are officers of
the company.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
PROFITABLE LOSS.
lie is wealthy Because He Had Lost
n Dog.

~ bcEs
Chicago Daily News:
Hello exclaimed the ADVERTISE
ment clerk as he read the ten scrawls
on the yellow slip. Lost another
dog"
"Sure." responded the little man at
the counter. "and If things coEtinue |
may keep on losing them"
The clerk was interested.
What's the game?'
Easier than falling off a log and
richer than Cape Nome. You remem-
Der that ! came down last Tuesday
with an 'ad' that informed the public
that ] had lost a dog. / didn't mem
ton the breed nor the pedigree Of the
missing canine. but merely stated that
a suitable reward would be paid for
the return. Well. the 'ad' appeared in
the afternoon and the dogs appeared
in the morning. Yes. sir. they appear
ed. I had to get a dog medicine alma
nae to distinguish the breeds. There
were towering magting. ugly bulls,
French poOdles and scores OF others.
Every five minutes the bell would ring
and a kid would say. Is this our dog.
mister?' Sure, Ia say. Just hand
him In and here's a dime for your
trouble n the kid raised a rumpus |
just threatened To have him pinehed.
II they brought a yellow cur around
I'd just tell them the nearest route
to the dog pound. Say | must go down
and see about that carload Of pugs
I'm shipping East"
"Carload2"
Sure. Why. man, you don't under
stand this business. II beats the end
less chain all hollow. So"
What's the matter with your hand7"
Writers cramp from indorsing
checks. Tonight I eat lobster, drink
imported and try a few turns on tho
green cloth. One week ago / COULDN'T
drink third-g-ade California. Rut to-
Ay-well. to-day, I'm tie man who !
ldEt q dog. So lons!"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
AN ASSISTANT POSTMASTER
Arrested en- the Charge of Stealing
Money From Registered
Letters.
in Fifteen Hundred Dollars Bail
for His Appearance Before the
United States COurt-The Sums Ia
ken Aggregate $500, as Far as
o at Present.
to the Register.

Special to the Register.
SUMMERSVILLE, W. Va. December
25.-L. j.. Voley, a young man of TWEEN
ty-six years, assistant postmaster at
Redwood, a small postofice in this
county, has been arrested and jailed
on the charge of stealing money from
registered letters. In that neighbor-
hood there are a large number of
Italians working on a railroad, who
have been sending their savings by
registered letter to a bank in Phila-
delphia to remain there until they
went to take it back with them to
Italy. About a month ago several Of
them took money a~ggregating $3.50 to
the p~ostofice. Voley received it and
placing it in an envelope before their
eyes sealed it and gave receipt for it.
The envelope was registered and upon
it's arrival at Philadelphia was found
to contain nothing, but the seals and
marks had not been tempered with.
Voley was suspected and discharged
by Postmaster GIiggs and Voley at
once began to make remarks throw
ing suspicion on Griggs. He said he
would put S37 in a letter directed to
the Traders Bank at Weston and mail
it at Redwood. If it failed to reach
the bank people could know where the
trouble lay. He addressed the letter
and sealed the money up in it, but in
putting it into the p~OStOffice was seen
to switch it and put the letter with
the money in it into his pocket and
another similarly addressed into the
postoffce. Postoffice Inspector Allen
was notified and Voley was arrested
and held under $500 bond for his
appearance at the United States Court.
iona Antona lost S285; James Daluke
$113 and others lost smaller sums ag-
gregating $3.50.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26

Street-car patrons in Philadelphia
Christmas eve, on the suggestion of a
Philadelphia editor, made glad the
hearts of the motormen and conductors
by contributing a Christmas Offering
of one penny above the regular fare.
This enabled these hard-worked serv-
ants of the public to purchase nice fat
Christmas turkeys. "a
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26

was set at nought and government en-
ployes were made to understand that
public Office was not a private snap
nor the salary merely recompense for
work long since done in past cam
paigns. This was so direct a thrust at
the beneficiaries of the spoils system,
who largely hold that their labors
should be limited chiefly to drawing
their salaries. that a perfect storm of
Indignation was reused amongst them
against Auditor Morris, with the re-
suit that Macdonald probably believed
he would perform a service to his fell
low workers as we'll as settle his own
private score by removing" the aud
itor.
Thus Auditor Morris by doing the
best he knew for the public service
made untold enemies as many another
good man has done by the same devo-
ton to strict duty and by demanding
a strict performance of duty by those
under his supervision.
In short Auditor Morris seems to have
been an uncomfortable thorn in the side
OF the spoils system. If there were
more auditors and chiefs like him in
the public service unquestionably
there would be a vast pruning of sim
ecures in Washington with the result
that Uncle Sam would find that he
could get along better with a good
deal smaller pay roll.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26

Every mans hand, whether politi-
clan or layman and whether endorsed
as candidate or not endorsed, seems to
be against the Committee of One Hun
dred. 1t is the Registers advice to the
committee to drop present methods
and try the "still-hunt." Several
scores of active, earnest workers for
reform would be a mighty power for
good among the voters.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
A Conditional Pardon.

MONTREAL, Dec. 25.-James Baxter,
formerly of Chicago and lately of New
York, who was sentenced here some time
ago to five years in the penitentiary for
his connection with the Banque Vile
Marie frauds, has been released on con
dit:onal pardon" from ST. Vincent de Paul
p-enitentiary. HIS wife and friends have
been working necessarily for his pardon
on account of i'll health eyer since his con-
viction. He is suffering from dropsy.
and his condition is serious.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
RUSSIA SUPPORTS
The American Contention This
Treaties May Be Changed.

The American Contention That
Treaties May Be Changed.
ST. PETERSBURG, December 20
The Novoe Vreyma, discussing the
English newspaper indictment of the
United States Senate for Its %unparal-
leled attempt to overturn the Clayton
Bulwer treaty" says:
1.-The case is not unusual. Conditions
have changed and the treaty must
change too. Russia afforded al eX-
ample in 1870 in declaring that she
was no longer bound by her promise
not to maintain war vessels in the
Black Sea-"
The Bounse Gazette says:
Russia is gratifed by Americas
diplomatic victory over England.
Western Europe dislikes the Monroe
doctrine because it desires to grab ter
ritories everywhere. Russia, which has
sympathized with America since her
independence, which %liquidated Ameri-
can possessions to America, has moth
ing against the Monroe doctrine and
the old sympathies have grown more
cordial in China.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
Goes EQSf.

DULUTH. Mimi. Dec. 25.-D. H. Ba-
con. of Duluth. who has been president of
the Minnesota Iron Company for the past
ten years. will on February LIST resign
his present position TO become chairman
of the board of directors of the Tenn
essee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company.
Mr., Bacon will reside in New York city,
and will have the direction and manage
ment of all the departments of the COM
pany's business.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
A Generous Offer.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
HARRISBURG, w. Va, December
26.-The National Baptist Educational
Society has notified President S. f.
Swartz, of Broaddus College at this
place that John H. Rockefeller has
made Broaddus an endowment of So, 900
conditioned upon the Baptists of the
State raising by January l, 1902, the
sum of s20,250. of which $40, 900 is to
be placed with Mr.. Rockefeller's s., 900
to the credit of the endowment fund.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
.'Twasn't exactly a green Christmas
neither was it a frigid one.
Tour to Be Resumed.

ST. LOUIS. Dec. 25.-E. H. Sothern. the
actor, who has been for some time laid
up with an accident that necessitated the
cancelling of dates all over the country.
made his first appearance last night since
the accident, presenting Hamlet at
the Olympic theatre, before a crowded
house. He IA well supported. an the
production was well received. The inter
rupted tour will be resumed. the COM
pan leaving for Chicago next week.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26

The Duke of Manchester is luckier
than Count Boni de Castellane mas
much as the Dukes rich. American
papa-in-law has paid $3.50 900 of his
debts. The nobility come high but it
seems that some of US on this side
must have them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
Died From Her Injuries.

Special to the Register.
old daughter of Mike Heamer, of New
Cumberland, w. Va, died to-day from
burns received at an open CRATE. The
mother was dangerously burned while
rescuing her child.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
A NEGRO DESPERATE
Arrested at New MartinsvilIe After
a Lively Time.
SpaciaI m the REGISTER

a Lively Time.
Special to the Register.
NEW MARTINSVILLE, w. Va, Dec.
25.-It was not a very merry Christmas
for William Creil. a negro who is under
the employ of C. Ruby, having gotten
into a row on the South Side at Con-
nelly's saloon. Constable Nolan under
took to search him, upon which the negro
resisted and drew his gun and said that
no one should search him, and fired a
number of shots. The police also fired a
number of shots at him, but without eff
feet. He then ran across the railroad
bridge and was caught at the railroad de-
pot and landed safely in Jail, He will
have a preliminary hearing before Squire
Young to-day, and it is thought he will
be held over to await Indictment before
the grand jury.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26

The smallpox quarantine is getting
in its work in Kentucky, and great is
the complaint OF the cutoff localities.
1t is the only practical way, however,
of isolating and stamping VI the dis
ease.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
Christina. Tree Caused It.

Special to the Reglste.
PARKERSBURG, W. Va, Dec. 20
A small residence, owned by James Sig
mer and occupied by Grant Reeves, was
destroyed by IRE, which caught in a
Christmas tree tonight. Loss about 1900.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26

Kitchener, in a qualified" report,
says the Boer invasion of Cape Colony
has been checked. Kitchener will have
a chance to qualify" again.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26
Committed Suicide,

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Obrecht Reiber,
a prisoner charged with attempted felo-
NOUS assault, committed suicide in his
cell in the West Twentieth street station
house last night by hanging himself with
his handkerchief.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26

And our erstwhile very good friends,
the French-what has made them so
q%uerulous and snappish with Uncle
Sam of late?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26

Twas a merrier Christmas. after all.
for the struggling Beers than for the
mighty British.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-26

And now to celebrate the advent not
only Of a new year out a new century.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-09-21
4 NOVEL IDEA

MRS HELEN ROOF. Of Lima, Ohio. writes
that abe has supplied herself and three
dauRhters With Shirt waists and earned q
beautifully decorated. 100 piece dinner-set.
also . - piece Gtlver-service. In three
months. By simply getting few friends
and neighbour 70 Try DIAMOND D1oEsr
TABLETs for Dyspepsia and Constipation.
The premiums are certainly beautiful, ana
Mrs.. Roof says she II over $50 ahead In
useful household articles and wearing ap-
Darel. What makes It % easy 70 earn these
lovely presents q that DIAMOND D1oEsT
TABLETS are warranted - cure any case
Of DyBpepsia and restore the bowels and
liver 70 perfectly natural action In two
weslEs or the money - refunded. The tab
lsta do exactly what n claimed for than.
md 4 few persons once started win use
enough 70 secure 700 several lovely Pre-.
miurns In very short time. II you would
IKE q Beautiful shirt waist, very latest
style. color and material. Just send your
name and address 20 tho DIAMOND DRuo
Co., 90 West Broadway. N. Y. requesting
them 10 send you eight boxes Of tablets q
be sold ct sc. o box. and get your father.
mother, brothers, uncles. cousins OF pour
aunta 70 take them with tho understanding
that they pay you II fould good. This they
viii do and want more every time. Collect
the % and send Il in and receive your
present. You can then get the ~ piece
silver-Bervice and 100 piece dinnef-set In
Q very short time and absolutely without
cost. This hrm requires no money in ad-
vance and will mail tablets with premium
offers merely uDen request