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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12
DEsoLArI0N AND DISTRESS.
Relief So.eIy Needed-FIrst Estimate
OF Denths too Conservative.

Relief So;eIy Needed-FIrst Estimate
OF Deaths too Conservative.
Houston, Sept. 1O.-The following
dispatch was received from Galveston
by boat to the mainland:
The loss of life may be stated at
1000 of drowned, killed and missing.
The property loss will run into the
millions. Scenes of desolation and
distress are on every hand. No one
can miss them. Fully 70 per cent of
the buildings of the city are more or
less damaged. Whole families and
communities are being taken from the
debris and each minute brings the dis
covery of some new victim. On the
gulf side of fremont street, the water
has made a clean sweep of everything
for a distance of three blocks. All the
bath houses and residences along the
beach are gone and the debris has
blocked the approaches OF the street
to the gulf
About 1000 people took refuge in
the fremont hotel and all these escap-
ed injury.
The Dulitz building, three-story
brick structure, was the first to coll
lapse. Rltter's saloon and restaurant
on the Strand collapsed from the top.
imprlsoning a number of persons,
among whom were Richard Lord and
f. G. Spencer, who were killed. The
building gave way with such rapidity
that it will be impossible to give an
approximate estimate, even as to the
number of those who were inside.
The Rosenberg school, the city hall
and the Ball high school suffered Sc
verely and all the residences within
three blocks of the beach were de-
stroyed on every side. The city is
practically without fire protection.
The equipment could not get about
the city even ii there were wires to
give alarms.
A meeting was held at the fremont
hotel to consider means of relief for
the distressed and homeless people.
Medical attention is badly needed as
are also disinfectants.
Appeals We're sent to President Nc
Kdnley and Governor Sayres with the
request that this appeal be published
at once and that it be extended for
the relief of the city. Relief must
come, human lives are at stake as
actual starvation and death from lack
of medical attention forces many hun
dreds of people.
The list of dead is growing mo-
mentarily and the first estimate of
1000 deaths is too conservative.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12
Fiduciary settIement-

The account of Sam Somerv;lIe,
trustee, for James SomerYille. is be-
l Iore me ior settlement. Given under
JOHN e. BBLLER.
commissioner of Accounts for Mason
county w Va. sept. 4-2w.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
Election Nov. 8, 1900.
NATIONAL TICKET.


NATIONAL TICKET.
w,111AM Fq gfnRNES ssiS&SG9ss' BRYAN,
OF Nebraska.
Ab1.k For EN Wlrsi PF ssTFRi&SSnh!ksoN,
For Presidential Electors at Large
OfIIarrIson.
Il. NJ. GILKESON,
or Wood.
For District Presidential Electors,
Third District,
JOHN a. PltESTONi
OfGreenbrler.
Fourth District,
JOHN NJ. HAMILTON.
OfCnlhoun.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS-
GREED COLLINS,
or Richie.
STATE TICKET.
JOHN II. Holt,
OF Cabell.
JAMES II. MILLER,
OfSummers,
For superintendent of Free SCHOOLS
ROBERT a. ARMSTRONG,
or Monongalia
For Attorney General,
GEORGE r.. MCCOY,
OTTyler.
For Treasurer,
j. GARLAND HURST,
OfJefIerson.
For Judges supreme Court Of Appeals
OF Mason.
WILLIAM G. BENNETT,
OF Lewis.
COUNTY TICKET.
For House of Delegates,
JAMES Il. MENAGER,
g. j. BAKER.
For Sheriff,
w. T.. RUTTENCUTFER
For Prosecuting Attorney,
JOHN Il. BELLER.
For County Commissioner,
JOHN II. SOMERNlLLE.
For Assessor LIST District,
JOHN =. ROUSH.
For Assessor 2nd District,
j. II. HEREFORD.
For County Surveyor,
WILLIAM STEENBERGEN.
SENATORIAL TICKET.
For state Senator, 9th Senatorial District
CHARLES l.. BROWN,
OrJnckson.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12
Ilnights ofLabor warmed.

1t is proper that the knights of
Labor, that has for more than thirty
years been the pilot of practical
economic reform, should take an
elevated position and view the
field where, in few weeks, will be
fought the battle of the giants, and
that every true Knight may know
that the two great weapons of this
warfare are deception and the COR
rupt use of money. How long can
the republic endure in such cyc-
lone destruction2 The present
system of imperialism, military SUI
premaoy, inequalities in the oppor-
tunities for life to secure homes or
enjoy benefits of industry, the pro-
duct of the hand and brain, and
harvest the blessing of an honest
and industrious citizenship, are so
rapidly bearing fruit that it would
seem as nobody need be deceived
in the fact that trust government
will surely turn manhood into de-
cay, undermine the foundations of
citizenship, and assure the fall of
the republic.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12
President Asked For Aid.

Washington, Sept. 1O.-The presl-
dent received telegram from Mr..
Stillane of Houston, in behalf of the
mayor and citizens committee of Gal
weston, which in few words gives to
the president the general situation in
Galveston and says that money. food
and clothing are needed Immediately,
also that they must be furnlshed by
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12
Hnnna,s Corruption Emnd,

Syracuse Telegram.
Hanna's "hold-up" extends to
the federal office holders, from cab
met officers and ambassadors down
to the lowest of the GLASS. The
question is naturally raised, what
does Hanna propose to do with the
stupendous sum of money he is
raising2 He cannot spend it on
Legitimate campaign expenses, and
the conclusion is unalterable that
the vast sum is to be used in the
attempt to debauch American vot,
ers and to buy McKinley's election
in close or doubtful States. The
great body of American voters is
honest and ipcorruptible and are
not for sale, as the unscrupulous
Hanna is likely to find out to his
bitter disappointment.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12

Bonrke Cochran, who opposed
Bryan in 1896. has offered his
services to the Democratic nation
al committee for two weeks after
the middle of September. He
will speak in Minnesota, Wisoon-
sin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland,
Delaware and New York.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12

Republican papers quoting
Thomas jefferson forcibly reminds
one of the Devil quoting Scrip
ture.-Lincon News.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12

The farmers have not yet tasted
of the fruits of prosperity except
in the higher prices that they have
paid for the material they have to
use in their work caused by the
trusts, the products of Republican
ism.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12
LOSS OF LIFE is ENORMOUS.
lndescribable Scenes of Devastation
And Distress.
STATE AND NATION ASKED FOR AID.
Greatest Havoc Wrought at Calves
ton Hundreds of Dead Bodies
Picked Up-NIany Swept to Sea
Who VIII Never BE Acc
counted For Property
Loss ln the Millions.

Houston, Sept. 10.-A scene of desc
latlon and death, not only at Calves
ton, but at many inland points in Tex
as is the result of Saturdays storm.
Estimates of the number of dead are
now placed between 1900 and $500.
The property loss will aggregate many
millions of dollars. although no ac-
curate figures can be given at present.
The streets of Galveston are mostly
under water; wires are in a hopeless
tangle and dead bodies are thickly
strewn among the floating debris. No
complete list of dead is obtainable un=
til the water recedes.
narrowing tales of the loss of whole
families, and many miraculous es-
capes, arc told by the few survivors
who have thus far reached this city.
The relief trains which arrived here
have been the only means of commu-
nication with storm-swept Galveston.
and definite information as to the
present situation is scarce.
The cotton and rice crop throughout
the district devastated by the storm is
badly damaged in many places, and in
others is totally destroyed.
Reports from Richmond, Texas,
Letitia and Bagle Lake, bring addi-
tionaI lists of dead and property loss
es, and many places cut off from all
communication are to be heard from.
The Horror Grows.
Dallas, Sept. 1O.--Huston and Texas
Central railroad officials at noon re-
ceived bulletins from their general Of
fee in Houston that the loss of life
will reach 5000 in Galveston. The
Misoursl. Kansas and Texas relief
forces near Galveston and along the
coast telegraphed at noon that the loss
of life will not be less than 5000 and
may reach 10000.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12

Democratic Headquarters have
been established in the Capt.
Helm building, just below this
office, They have very oozy rooms
upstairs. on the second floor.
Everybody is welcome to call at
headquarters.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12

Bryan on the Full Dinner Pail.
"The gentleman asks me to say
something about the dinner pail
The Republican party is trying to
escape discussion of it's attack
upon the foundation principles of
government, and when laboring
man ACCUSES the Republican party
of an attempt to destroy the de-
claration of independence the only
answer is that you have got full
dinner pail, and while you have got
plenty to eat you should be salts
fed. / want you to remember in
the first place that you cannot sat,
isfy man by giving him plenty
to eat, and, in the second place, l
want you take the cost of what you
have to buy as laboring man and
measure it against your wages and
see if the trusts have not raised
the price of what you buy more
than they have your wages. The
Republican party has no plan for
tho betterment of the permanent
condition of those who toll, but it
has permitted the great branches
of industry to be monopolized by
n few"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12
hive Been sSnot.

Fayetteville Free Press.
Our Republican friends make a
wonderful ado about Cleveland's
administration and Coxey's army
They seem to forget that Cleveland
when he couldn't get the support
of his party to help him to carry
ont the Republican bidding of
Wall Street he went back and dug
up musty Republican precedent
and statute law passed by a Re-
publican Congress and signed by a
Republican president.
They also ask whore is Coxey's
army? Wellit was bred under Re-
publican rule, happened to bloom
cut in Cleveland's administration,
and under McKinley's regime was
sent to the Philippines, and most
of them have been shot. That
seems to be the Republican idea of
relieving the labor market. That
is to send the overplus into an un.
holy and an ungodly war and get
them killed
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12

When a Republican attempts to
explain to you that his party is
against trusts, it is pretty difficult
to repress a smile, even at the risk
of being discourteous to personal
friend.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12
Tcdoy's UnruIy Member.

Richmond Times.
Teddy's throat is naturally II
matter of serious concern to the
Republicans, for Teddy's tongue is
thing which not even DR.. Hanna
himself can control when it once
gets to wagging. Teddy is fine
man for spectacle in rough rid
ing campaign, but when it comes
to talking in public he is as dan
gerous as dynamite.
The Two Parties and the Trusts.
indianapolis Sentinel.
The Democratic party has not
only condemned the trusts and
pointed out ways in which they
can be remedied, but has main
tanned steady war against them
The Republican party has sought
to excuse them in various ways,
has boIstered them up by legisla-
tive favors, has refused to adopt
any effective means for their sup
preston and today is virtually adj
hitting that it will not adopt any,
and claiming that the Democrats
will not do any better.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12

A movement has been started
among the temperance women to
pray Mckinley out of his office.
The Republican campaign mana
gers have become alarmed about it
and have issued circular in de-
Tense of the army canteen.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12
Trustaa's sale Of a Farrn

Trustees Sale Of a Farm.
RY virtue OF the authority vested In me by
ID certain deed of trust executed by IL. G.
SaNTe and Ella l.. SaSrc, his wife, to the un-
dersIgncd Trustee. dated on the % II day oil
the CLERK of the County Court of Mason
County, West Virginia, In Trust Decd Book
No. y, pages ESQ, &C., TO secure the payment
OF the notes therein set out and described,
ment of the first noIes to mature. and being
required by c. w. Mnunin. the owner and
holder OF said notes, VIII ON
Saturday, the goth day of September,
1900,
public auction, at the front door of the Court
House, of Mason County, in Point
Pleasant, West Virginia, To the INCEST bid
der, the following described tract of land
conveyed in said trust deed, situate In Ma
son County, West Virginia: Beginning at
am al in tree corner in line of Hiram SRyre,
and also corner of lands of Larry McI.nne,
thence with McLane's line y. So 90, w. li5
poles to "a white oak, markell for corner to
lands OF Lawrence Hoover, thence with his
corner to John Werner tract, thence with
line OF same n. lI9 20, r. - poles to n stake,
corner 10 lands OF Vim. Sayre, thence with
his line and Hiram SayTe's line, ~ ~ 30 E.
2Oa poles to The place of beginning, contain
ing IO3 acres and poles by actual survey.
TERMS or SALE-CaSh as to $1,000 and in
tercSt thereon from October I'd, 1883, and
costs and commissions of sale the residue
upon a credit, $50 % and interest to become
due October I'd, 1909, and the residue to be-
come due october III, 1901. the purchaser to
execute notes with good security for the de-
fercd payments, and the title to lie retained
ms iurther security .....,,,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12
This Trick TOO Transparent.

This Trick TOO Transparent
1t is to avoid meeting the para
mount issue, which goes to the
very existence of free institutions,
that the Republican leaders are
now endeavoring-even at the cost
of confessing themselves either
fools or knaves rehabilitate the
old free silver scareorow which
they found SO effective in the clos
ing days of the 1896 campaign.
There are some tricks, however,
which can be successfully played
but once. And this is one of
them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12

Now that the price of wheat has
declined Is cents on the bushel
within the past few weeks, the Re-
pubIicens may be expected to deny
that Mckinley has anything to do
with the price of wheat. The only
time that Mckinley is responsible
for the price of wheat, it seems, is
when the price goes ur.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12

Mother England nor Germany
will leave Peking, and SO it comes
about that the United States and
all the rest will take slice when
the robbers enter upon division
of the loot of the Chinese empire.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12

There is bolt of colored voters
in West Virginia that may mean
much this year. A number of in
huentiaI ooIored men in Charles
ton and Huntington declare they
will not support Mckinley, and
the Republican leaders, who
laughed at the idea at first, are be-
coming alarmed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-12

The burning issue of imperial
ism, growing out of tho Spanish
war, involves the very existence of
the Republic and the obstruction
of our free institutions. We regard
it as tho paramount issue of the
campnign.-From the Democratic
Platform.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-01-13
Samoan Chief Kicks.

London Jan. 10 Malctoa ranu. IN
letter to the London Times published to-
day enclosing copies of tho protests ho
addressed Go the United states. Great
Britain and Germany against the samoon,
treaties. characterize The partition of
Samoa as a gross violation OF tho treaties
ana as a crdime against the law of ma
tious only equal to the dlsmembcrment
OF Poland. Denmark and France He
thinks that it Is for the great powers to-
promote wars and annexatious 20 dis
tract Ac minds OF the peoples then lhc
Hague conference was the greatest farce
OF the century. The writer also asserts
that the civilization introduced by the
great powers IN their annexations in the
south seas, Africa and elsewhere, Is IN
ferior 90 the primitive estates OF the
countries stolen, leading to war through
breach of faith on the part OF government
officials TO declmatlug OF the peoples
by contagious diseases and spirltuous
liquors. ffo continues:
"The missionaries who graccd our coun-
try with their holy and unholy presonoes.
introduced the Same religious differences
and hatrcds against each other as per-
tanned Ut the hour in civilized states. Tho
missionaries live m palaual houses
with am the luxurios their country can
afford and charge us for bibles and pray
er books which we understand are sent
as free offerings"
Moliatot Tanu further charges the mis-
sionaries with Extracting aii tho money
possible from thcm. in return for which
thew Df1v r.refNaI d nfIfs Ia pV. van hn,ts
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-01-13

St Louis Jan. l2-The failure OF the
city delegation to contract for tho light
ing of alleys and parks, eliminated IN a
serious demonstration today.
Alfred Life a page OF the house, was
assaulted, At one time revolver was
drawn by the sergeant-at-arms Of the
house, Henry l.. Weeke. who guarded the
door leading TO The delegate floor, and
several times before the arrival of the
police, Il looked as though bloodshcd
could not be averted The arrival ~
police sergeant and a squad together
with a speech 90 he crowd from Ex-Gov-
ernor stannard, cauuoning them 10 com
nit no overt act had the effect of quening
the disturbance. Tonight the situation ia
the different situations was practically
unchanged
Al a meeting OF che house Of delegates
this afternoon the three ordinances
passed by the city council this week,
providing for temporary relief IN the city
lighting situation had their FIRST reading,
and assurances were given by leaders in
the house that the measures would re-
ceiye prompt attention and iinai action at
the earliest moment under the law. The
house adjourned at 5 o'clock after one OF
the most extraordinary sessions IN the
history 81 the city. until II O'clock to-
morrow morning. whcn the bills are 20 BE-
taken w Tor second reading.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-01-13

Hartford, Conn Jan. 12.-Prof Arth-
ur M. Wheeler, Of Yale university,
spoke in denunclatlon Of the attitude
of the British IN South Africa towards
the Beers, In lecture given ton
in the South Hall school. His subject
was England and the Transvaal. He
said that whatever be the result Of the
contest the British must lose In The
end Living on the islands and sur
rounded by an almost impossible wall,
the English go through the world as
II there was nobody else in existence.
The Beers were forced back into the
interior The Beers cultivated the soil
and established institutions, but the
English came IN and took the fruits
Of their labor One OF the grievances
OF the English against the Beers, IL
that the latter will not live under the
British rule which Is an objectionable
sin "a England He sharply criticised
the manner in which the English oh
tanned possession OF the Kimberley dia-
mond fields and attributed all her in
reference in the Transvaal and The
Orange Free state 10 greed and rapac-
ity Other claims made by the Eng
lish were only excuses.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-01-13

Denver, Jan. ia special TO the News
from Alamo Gordo n. NJ says:
Details Of the blizzard which swept ov-
er southwestern New Mexico Tuesday
and Wednesday are coming IN and they
indicate that IL was the sevorest storm
ever experienced in the region. A stretcn
OF territory fifty miles IN width with
While oaks and Noagl for center seem
ed 20 suffer the most although the Sc
verify Of the storm was fully felt through
out the Sacramento mountain reg on. The
velocity OF the wind was terrible, all roads
and trails were obliterated and the driv-
ing snow made Il Impossible for travel
ers TO see their way in the storm When
the storm abated wagons which had been
abandoned were found strewn all over the
section Several fatalities are reported,
including the driver OF the White Oaks
Lincoln stage. II rs feared that many
sheep herders have lost their lives.
Thousands OF head Of stock have perished
and IL is believed the loss will aggregate
over half a mollion OF dollars An old
prospector found dead at the head OF Cox
canon In the Sacramento mountains.
had been identified as John Voss Be
tween Carrizeze and Captain, on the El
Paso and Northwestern railway, the snow
w~s eight feet deep and the down train
to Alama Gordo WAS IN The drifts day
and hilf before being liberated.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-01-13
A BILL TO ALLOW RAILROADS TO
CONaOI InATR

Washington, Jan. 12,-senatoF Jones OF
Arkansas, introduced in the srnate bin
conferring an additional power upon rail-
road companies operating m the Indian
territorye IL authorizes ,nem 10 purchase
the property Of or 20 consolidate with any
other railroad coupapy whose lines may
now or hereafter form continuous Inc
OF railroad. either directly OF by means
the company so purchasing The bill also
authorizes The company purchasing from
or consolidating with another company
TO increase IT'S stock and 20 guarantee tho
principal ana interest on fonds and other
obligations ot he company whose proper
ty is acquired
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-01-13

MARK HANNA VISITS
CONVENTION HALL.
Philadelphia jan 12.-Chairman
Mark Hanna and Joseph II Maney
II. G. Payne and United states senator
N B Scott who constitute the SUBJ
committee 0f the national republican
committee arrived n This city tonight
They were accompanied by national
committeeman. r.. G. Kerens. of Mo,
and Charles Dick, of Ohio. the sccre-
tary of the national committee The vis-
itors VIII inspect the auditorium OF the
recent national export exposition in
West Philadelphia where the conven-
tion VIII be held.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-01-13

Mexico city, Jan A military fun
eral wa saccorded tna remains Of the
late General Felipe Berrlozabal min
lister OF. war today, attended by Presi-
dent Diez and his cabinet, the entire
diplomatic members ~ the senate and
house Of deputies and military men
Immense crowds watched the depart =
ure OF the diRnitaries for the cemetery.
General Powell Clayton the Amerio
can ambassador, was given the place
OF honor az President Dlazs right dur
ing the ceremonies
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-01-13
COLLECTOR PAYS FANCY PRICE
FOR RARE SPECIMEN

New York san. 70 One postage
stamp brought 81 no tonight at the sale
~ the collection az r " Hunter. o.
thl scity This Is the largest sum
stamp mas ever brought ia this country
al auction. 70 was specimen Of the
Arst issue of British guinea IN 1850 n
s 0f the twO-ceut denomination print
cd in black "a q pink background anY
without perforatlous. Postmasters "
he colony on those days had To- sepal-
rate one stamp from another In \
sheet with scissors, The stamp was
purchaged by prominent stamp ana
coin company Of this city who repre-
sented an English collector
Mr. Hunter bought this specimen for
Si0lO. A number OF other stamps also
brought good prices