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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-19
NV York Mining Stock.
preadstuRs and provisions.

cHICAGo-The grain and provisions
markets were dull to-day. Wheat
weakened on lower cables and q poor
demand, closing at A@%c down. Corn
closed a shade and oats &c depressed
and provisions tribe lower.
With Liverpool and Paris lower,
northwest receipts liberal and worlds
shipments expected to show an increase
Monday, May wheat started the day
Mc under Friday at 6SBc. There was
some covering by shorts early, which
sent the price to 6S% 16Skc, but this
was lost. The seaboaTd reported only
ten loads takent for export. II was re-
ported that the Argentine plague had
been stamped out. The cash demand
was slack. May eased on TO 6Shc,
where the market held firm for some
time, with some outside demand for
May. The local talent was bearish, how
ever, and the close was weak, May Ac9
80 under yesterday at 6Sh96SNc. The
speculative trade was small. Primary
receipts were $4,000 bushels, compared
with $4,000 bushels last year.
Minneapolis and Duluth reported 502
cars, against 437 cars last week and $50
cars a year ago. Local receipts were
81 cars, none OF which were graded
contract. Atlantic port clearances In
wheat and flour were $4,000 bushels,
Corn opened easy, had a. spasm Of
frmness and then relapsed into It's
original state. Sympathy with wheat
a Bit more iiberality In country offer
ings, lower cables and some profit taxi
ing by longs were influence. The bulge,
which carried May TO 35c, was caused by
shorts covering and buying for the
long account by one firm. Receipts
here were S. cars over the estimate, 625
cars. May sold from Csc to 3iSSc, and
closed shade under yesterday at Si&
oats were easy. with corn. The
market was small. Receipts were 256
cars, SO over the estimate May ranged
from 23Nd235Sc to 23&c, and closed &c
down at 2S%. There was some buying
by shorts
Provisions were dull, and the price
suffered little In consequences. The
feature was the quietness Of specuia-
tion. There was no noteworthy trade,
Hogs were barely steady, and the eHsl-
ness of corn had some effect. May
pork sold from $40 s5 to $40 s2h. and
closed 2h05c under Fridays price, at
$40 92n; May lard from so 07ih 10 S6 Of.
closing a shade lower at 50 O5 and May
ribs from SO 0O96 02h to So 90, with the
close 2ikc lower at SO 90.
Estimated receipts Monday:
Wheat, IS cars; corn, $50 cars; oats,
80 cars; hogs, 1900 head.
The iGadinE futures ranged rs follows;
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-19
Land Case Settled.

Special Dispatch to the Intelllgencer.
CHARLESTON, W. Va. Feb. 1s.-A
final compromise was effected here to-
day by which Judge Daniel B. Lucas.
OF Charleston, comes into undIsputed
possession Of 1900 acres Of litigated
coal and timber lands in Kanawha and
Boone counties, West Virginia. Smaller
ran. OK Charlottesville, Virginia, and T.
i. Brown, NJ this city. The land 10
valued Mt Sl2 an acre. II came into lit
igntlon on account Of the overlapping
Of old patents.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-19
Wnnklv Bank Statement.

NEW YORK. Feb. i7.-The weekly
bank statement ave days in the week.
shows the following changes: Surplus
reserve, Increase. 1881, 900; loans, IN
crease, $i9, eS4, 200; specie, decrease, ST.
COG, 100; legal tenders, decrease, $i,02S,
600: deposits, Increase. $6,23i, 200: cir
culntlon, Increase, 100000. The banks
now hold $2l,O15,675 in excess Of legal
requirements.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-19
aErIEcTfoNs OF a aAoHEIoR.

Married life is always a duel between
love and affection.
Every man is a hero to somebody and
every man is somebody to a hero.
Men are all alike. and it's lucky for
most women that they're not all diteF-
ent.
Getting married is a lot like laying
-out a corpse; you have to have special
talent for It.
Every old maid is living monument
to some woman who didn't make good
man miserable.
The reason why women fight so at
bargain sales isn't because they want
barRnin themselves, but because they
are afraid some other woman Will get
1t lnstead.-New York Press.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-19
STATE PRESS a1EAN1Nas.

Local news 10 somewhat scarce this
week. 1t 10 not our fault. II things
do not happen we cannot safely pub
liah them. II the people want a real
newsy paper here they will have to do
Eomething-hght, kill somebody. get
robbed, have smallpox, wreck trains.
lang Themselves or get married. Then
we'll tell H., and have news 10 I'LL the
Paper with. But n they do not choose
90 do these things, nor things OF like
kind, our readers will please not hold
us responsible for it.-West Union Her
There 10 quite a mad dog scare in
Greenbripr district. ]. w. Williams
dog went mad and bit two pigs that
soon became similarly affected. There
were several dogs bitten and two or
three cows. Mr.. Williams narrowly CT
caped being fcarfuliy gnawed by the
dog. while trying 10 look NJ the dogs
loot, thinking R0re foot WAS the cause
OF the trOuble.--West Union Derrick.
Mr. chcsadine Lowell and Miss Hap
py Boswell, gypsy girl, nineteen years
OF age, were married nj the parsonage
or the 81. T.. church, south. In this plHoe,
Fhur1day afternoon, by the Rev. II. II.
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Kennedy. They are rdsiloef1 ot q pann
q gyp5Ie1 that paseed through town.
shepherdStoWn Free Press
Tis local eorreapond dent Of the Wheel.
inF Bagister has long been Jealous Of
the fdnous Parkersburg liar, says the
VVesfon independents. a few days ago
he wired that paper that Weston was
enclosed with barbed wire fence, and
guards every 100 feet were stationed
for protection against small pox, It -
said that after he READ ME own ettort
a. Il was reproduced In the AIoFgantOwn
New Dominion and other papers, he &c.
tnaiiy started out 10 zee the outside en-
ciosure, but being quarantined at the
hospital where he Is employed, escape
was Impossible.
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carly relief from the factors which are
maiiinF infoada on the banks cash ~
sources ana with continued pressure
upon ne banks ( the present rate for
credits, the encroachmeut8 upon sur
plus reserves must be rapid.
There has been a good business 10 the
bond market, although prices were not
fully maintained at an pointS
United States new a advanced : per
cent. and the old q and g = Per cent In
the bid price.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-19
ENCOURAGING
Z. the Condition Of the Oh Trade at
opening Of the Year.
JANUARY PIPE LINE REPORT

Analyssd BY aThs scout' IN support
q his Optimistic visws-Nsysr
Has a Year Opened with Such q
Favorabls outlook IN the Petroleum
Industry-Ths Cash Returns in
1899 were the Largest in History
Of the Trade,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-19

TIME MoNoNGAH ROUTE IS TUE
j Short Line between Fairmont and
ClarknburR, Quick Time-Fast Trains
Sure Connections. When travelling 10 or
from ClnrkBburg or West virginia and
Pittsburgh railroad points SEE. that your
tickets read via tho MonDngRhC!N River
Railroad. Close Connections at Fairmons
with i, q o, trains. and at ClarkshuTB
with b. 4 O. and W., v. & T. trains: Tick
etu, via this route on sale g. ~ B. q o.
and W., v. a p. n. r. stations.
HUGH @. 8oWLEs, Gen'l supE
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-19

NEW YoRw-Credlt balances 81 6s:
shipments Ss,20S barrels; average o., $50
barrels; runs s5.3T2 barrels; average
81, Gi6 barrels.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-19
Wool.

NEW YoRK--Wooi steady; domestic
fleece 2fD26c; Texas, 16120c.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-19

Electric cars Bridgeport 70 wheeling,
Bellaire and Martins Ferry. Consult
10 ali points. n. G. cARREL,
General PASSENGER Agent
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Cash quotations were as follows;
Blour--Dull; winter patents, 50 500
az 10; straits, 81 1903 ~; clears, 81 90
Q5 10: spring speclnls. 81 5000 90; pat
ems, 50 2OI3 IS; Btraights, g eO45 90;
bakers, 50 1902 50.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-19
Total sales Of stocks were 11,ioO shares.
s4seI Tin Tnhe and Hoop Stocks.
Opened. Closed.

Tho following prices tor the above stocks
are furnished BY Simpson & Tatum, City
ppnIs building.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-21
CHINESE IN AMERICA.
Origin of the CcIestinls' Emigration
From Home.
From The Kansas City st1r.)

tfIou1 hdtlsaS tltH Sltf-
In view of the well-known conservatism
Of the Mongols and of their aversion to
travel. the presence of so many Chinese
in the United States is remarkable At
the time of the passage Of the Geary Ex-
clusion act in 1892 II was estimated that
there were about leo, 900 Cinnamon in this
country. Comparatively few Mongolians
are found in Europe. Russia, which is
fairly accessible, is almost free from them
Yet wages in Europe are much higher
than in China. Minister WI is authority
for the statement that all of the Chinese
in the United States are from the province
OF Canton, and that they come from two
or three places only in that province. r7
According to the Chinese Minister, the
presence OF his countrymen here is to be
explained by the fact that. forty years ago.
when the Fscifc Railway was building,
there was a great scarcity of laborers.
Agents went TO China and induced many
coolies to come to this country to assist
in the construction Of the railroad. After
the work was done most of them returned
home with their earnings. Their stories
of their good fortune and of the excep-
tional opportunities for making money in
the United States induced their friends to
emigrate. Were 1t not fo- this cireum-
stance Mr.. WI thinks there would be as
few Cinnamon in this country as thsre are
in Europe. Even were the exclusion act
repealed he believes the distaste Of the peo-
pie for travel, which they generally re-
gard as an unmitigated evil, would pre-
vent any extensive immigration.
The Minister refers to the exclusion act
as one Of the few grievances that his
country has toward the United States II
is not because the Law is designed to ex-
clude the illiterate and degenerate that
he complains. but because it appliss only
to the Chinese. He urges that this ground
of irritation would be removed should the
education test be applied to immigrants of
every nation. One of the coed things that
will result from the present crisis IS that,
hereafter. the Chinese disposition VIII be
more fully understood than it has bsen.
This better understanding should lead to
a more considerable treatment OF tn yellow
race by the civilized nations.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-21
ROOSEVELT VISITS MKINLEY.
The Political Situation Discussed mt
the White House.

Governor Roosevelt, OF New York. was
the guest last evening OF President Nc
Kinley.. at the White House. The Gov
ernor arrived from the metropolis at $40
O'Clock in the evening, and was met at the
station by Secretary Corteiyou. who ac-
companied him to the Executive Mansion.
An informal dinner party, given in his
honor by the President and Mrs. MeKin-
ley. was attended by Secretary and Mrs.
Gage. Secretaries Wilson and Hitchcock.
Postmaster General Smith, and Adjutant
General Corbin.
The guests departed early and left the
President and Governor Roosevelt to talk
over the political situation. The two were
closeted together in the Cabinet room
until after midnight. Comptroller Dawes
was caller during the evening, but -~as
present only a short time.
1t is UNDERSTOOD that during their con-
ference Mr.. Mckinley and his running
mate made thorough CANVASS OF the wh3le
political situation, and the part which
Governor Roosevelt will take in the cam
paign.
The Governor refused to see newspaper
men last night. He expects to return TO
New York today.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-21
JOHN P. FLOWER DEAD.
Sudden Demise of the Senior Member
of the Banking Firm.

NEW YORK, Aug 20.-Jobn P. Flower,
senior member of the firm OF Flower &
Co., died last night at the summer home
of his daughter. Mrs. Ira A. Kipp. Fronts
Neck, Me. Mr. Flower suffered stroke
of paralysis on Saturday night and die not
regain consciousness.
Mr. Flower was the sixth of seven broth
ers. the youngest of whom is a member OF
the firm of Flower & Co. Another brother
is living in California.
Mr.. Flower was born in Theresa, Jeffer-
son County, n. Y, about sixty years ago.
He went into the dry goods business first
in his native town. then in Utica. In 1850
he moved to New York and was admitted
to the firm of Flower G Co. He became
senior member upon the reorganization Of
the firm year ago last May. after the
death Of ex-Gov. Roswell p Flower. He
was member of the New York Stock Ex-
change. director in several corporations,
restTyInan in St. James Protestant Epis-
copa; Church, Madison Avenue and Seven
ty-first Street. and a member of the Me-
tropolitau, Lotus, Lawyers, and Manhat-
tan clubs.
Unlike his brother. the late Roswell p
Flower, MIR. Flower was very conservative
in his business methods.
One o. his most prominent traits was
his philanthropy. Every year he gave
large sums OF money to deserving chari-
ties.
Mr.. Flower leaves a wife and three
children. Mrs. Ira. A. Klpp, jr.. Miss May
Flower. and Nathan NJ. Flower. who is q
member of the firm
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-21
SURPRISED THEIR FRIENDS.
Mr.. Lodge and Miss Davis Married
Sooner Than Expected.

BOSTON, Aug. 29.--The announcement
today of the marriage on Saturday Of
Miss Matilda Frelinghuysen Davis. daugh-
ter of Judge John Davis. of the United
States Court of Claims at Washington. to
George Cabot Lodge. the younger SON OF
Senator Lodge. surprised their large cir
Gle of friends. who had expected that this
event would take place at Bar Harbor
next month. The ceremony on Saturday
was quietly celebrated at the Church of
the Advent at noon, with only a few
present to witness 1t.
MIR. Lodge. who is his fathers private
secretary. went to the church In the fore
noon, and when Miss Davis arrived with
her maid met them at the door He
escorted the bride to the altar. whore
Rev. Harold E. Addison. curate Of the
Advent. performed the ceremony. Mr..
Lodges brother. John E. Lodge, was the
only relative of either family present.
and. outside the organist and the French
maid. there were no oSler acquaintance
at the ceremony. The bride wore a mag
nificent gown OF white taffeta silk with
a veil Of rare old lace trimmed with
orange blossoms.
gentleman closely connected with
the two families stated this afternoon
that the reason the couple were so quietly
married was because they were both
averse to wedding which would be made
a social event. particularly in view of
tho recent death Of tie grooms grand
mother. He said the parents of the
couple approved of the engagement, and
they were married with the consent OF
both families. In order TO avoid a public
ceremony the couple decided to circun-
vent their friends and anticipate the
ceremony set for September IL
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-21
AN APPEAL BY GOMEZ.
Cubnns Urged to Choose Revolution
isis in the Coming Elections.

HAVANA. Aug. 20.-Gen. Maxine Co
mez, in a circular letter to the press. says
that he writes in order to prevent cid and
well-tried revolutlonists from being de-
ceived in the coming elections. Cubans.
he declared, must not confound iieas with
principles. Honor demands that the lat
ter be saved even at the cost of life. The
constitutional convention should be COM
posed Of genuine Cuban revolutlonists, the
convention being the outcome of the revo-
luton. Nobody should be elected<a dele
gate who has DETAINED the revolution, or
who at the last moment Joined the revo-
luton after having opposed it.
Many rich and intellectual men have
proved by their actions their antagonism
10 the evolutionary cause. These should
not be elected. The time has come for
the people to see clearly. Men should
be loved not for their knowledge and tai
ents, but for their virtues and patriotism
General Gomez demands that those wish
ing to manage the affairs of the country
be elected on account of their worthiness
rather than their wisdom. Until the re-
public is established society in Cuba can
not be properly arranged. For this reason
the Spanfards are standing to one side,
waiting until the establishment OF the
republic shall make all equal.
BY claiming that only revolutionists be
elected to the convention General Gomez
is following the course pursued by him
before the municipal elections. He also
asks the people to act contrary 20 the
advice now being given to them by General
Wood namely, to elect the most compe-
tent men no matter to which party they
belong. The fear is expressed that the
reyolutionists will form a large majority
IN the convention. Most OF the candidates
are revolutionary generals, including the
civil governors CT the various provinces. Z
It would seem that a majority of these
are utterly untitled intellect
lally to perform the work they will be /
expected to perform.
Count Das. claiming to be the represent !
-ative of the Republic OF Uruguay at the /
Paris Exposition, has sailed for New York +
IN the steamer Mexico. All the local news [
papers claim that he is an imposter.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-21
PREHISTORIC REMAINS.
Remarkable BuiIdings With Roofs
Made of Stone in Japan.
(From tile Philadelphia Record.)

From tile Philadelphia Record.)
On the hills to the east of Nagasaki are
to be found the remains of ancient build
inss, built in part of immense blocks of
stone. Some OF the constructions are very
roomy, while others are so small that it
does not seem possible that they can have
been used as dwellings.
The roofs are of immense nat stones,
some measuring by by 8 feet, others
10 by by T. The roofs are covered with
earth, in which. in many places. trees have
taken root. There are twenty OF these
buildings, between which S2d modern
buildings there is no similarity.
Similar stone erections are to be found
in various parts of Japan, in fact about
400 have been discovered The almost en-
tire absence of decoration on these struc-
lures is also different from modern Japan
csc buildings.
Near Yokohama are rooms hewn out in
the soft rock. and the workmanship shows
such skill that 1t is evident the builders
were of a highly civilized people.
On a hill, $50 feet above the bay two
heaps of mussels were found. Not only
had they been opened skillfully and scien-
tifically, but mixed among them were
pieces Of pottery dating from very early
times. A similar find was made near
Tokyo.
The general distribution OF such evidence
of an early civilization in Asia. as in
Europe, Africa, and America, is OF the
highest interest.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-21
Hanna's Third Ticket Hopes.

(From the Peoria Herald Transcript)
Tie Republican party evidently Hoped that the
anti-impt riai7tsls would name new ticket
This would render them harmless. Men who
would not vote the Democratic ticket and could
nos vote the Republican ticket could here cast
away their ballots without injury to the imperial
istic party. This hope has proved elusive. The
men who broke with their party because of its
reputation Of the Declaration OF Independence
and its violation Of the provisions Of the Con-
stitution were too much in earnest TO adopt any
halfway measures. They have not only reused
to go with their party, but they have declared
war against it, \ state Of neutrality not
tolerable with so much at stake in the coming
contest They viii oppose the mushroom policy
which has sprung up in the past year aud vote
Tor the principles which Lincoln advocated even
though these principles in the rapid evolution
OF politics are now called Democracy.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-21

Thanks to the suppressive efficiency OF
the carpesbag government in Manila and
the rigorous news censorship maintained
there by the Administration, the existence
of Neelyism, Rathboneigm. or worse in
the Philippines has been concealed from
the American people with some degree Of
success. This is not strange when we re-
feet upon the remoteness Of the archi-
pelago, the high cost OF passage to that
antipodal possession. and the zeal with
which anything that might reflect upon the
poliJico-commercial locting combination at
the back Of tne island administration is
taken into account. But. once In a great
while, some wanderer turns up with a
story that shows but too plainly that con-
ditions in Cuba and Porto Rico are honest
and angelic when compared with those in
the Philippines.
A Chicago editor, Johnson by name has
just returned from our far Pacific happy
hunting grounds with a story that will
excite national and world wide atten-
ton. He asserts that the administrative
conditions in Manila. and other places
under imperial control are inconcely-
ably seandalous. We have often called
attention to rumors of irregularities in the
Philippine customs service. Mr.. johnson
says that 1t is rotten, that prominent
Government official Is the silent partner
of firm Of custom house brokers' who.
through the favors. facilities, aud blind
inspectorship they can command. are able
to monopo.ize most of the custom house
business OF the port and its many sub
ports. One custom house Inspector man
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-21
THE STOLEN STRADIvARIUs.
Famous Violin Identified as Prof.
Roft,s Properfy

NEW YORK. Aug. 20.-John Frederick,
a dealer in musical instruments at Is
Cooper Union, and Bernhard Sinheimer. a
yiolinist. living at 10s East Seventieth
Street. called upon Captain McCiusky at
police headquarters today They asked
MIN to show them the old violin, of which
the detective bureau took possession II.
brooklyn last week, and which Victor
Fiechter says is the stolen Bott straii-
varius. Flechter vas convicted Eve yesrs
ago OF stealing the instrument. but has
always protested his innocence
The violin was brought forth from the
pile OF scattered miscellaneous articles In
the stolen property room. The men drew
IL out OF Its wooden case. and looked at IL
carefully. They turned It over and looked
at its back. which Is made all OF one piece
They noted a tiny crack by the taiIDieca
on the top; they fingered a slight depres-
sion Just forward of the tailpiece.
the two men were OF one mind. The
shape and makeup of the fiddle denoted
that 1t was Stradivarius. Certain recon-
dite tests showed that it was genuine,
not copy. The depression, crack, and APP
pearance identified 1t as one with the
celebrated stolen violin, the Bott Strad.
The men identified 1t formally and posi-
lively
Sinheimer knew the violin at the tins
Nicholini was debating purchasing it. He
was pupil of Nichoi1nrs. and had han
died Prof Bott's violin and played upon it.
Captain McCluskey is nov expecting
member of the Bott family to pass upon
the identity of the fiddle Mrs Bott is in
Europe, but Prof. Bolts brother Charles
Is now in this city.
When Flechter was informed that the
violin had been identified. he said cody:
II told you so; there is no question
about it. II is found at last"