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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21

NEW york., April 20.-New Orleans
has ceased to regard the food situation
as a temporary inconvenience. AS time
has passed and as the full scope of the
disaster which visited this section of
the country in the excessive rains
which began in the early days of the
week and still continue has been learn
ed, the conviction has been irresistibly
brought home that a calamity of ap-
palling magnitude has been experience
ed, and that instead of the worst being
over the evil has just begun. There
are now within the gates of the city no
less than five hundred water-bound
travellers, who are not only unable to
return to their homes now, but who
do not know when they will be able
to leave. Partial reports of the dam
G incurred in the storm belt have
run the figures up into the millions.
and taking into consideration the
losses. real and resultant, the amount
foots up to an enormous figure.
The Illinois Central railroad system
has incurred damages which will
amount to hundreds of thousands of
dollars, figuring the loss of business,
and the end is not yet. Not only was
that road tied up to-day, but there is
no telling when the trains will be able
fn MIN Thn ora cfafo Af a fPoirc ~
walls on the other southern roads. The
streams are still rising, and rains con-
tinue to fall to-day.
Belated news is just now beginning
to arrive regarding the loss of life.
-Four people were drowned near Meri-
dian and two near Hattiesburg, Miss.
In the vicinity of Enterprise, Miss, the
waters of the Chicakahasay are raging.
The water is five feet deep in the main
streets, and throughout last night cries
for assistance filled the air. The loss
of life, if any, could not be ascertained.
The three bridges between East and
West Enterprise have been swept away.
The Eenterprise Academy, a building
which was the pride of the town, is
swept away. "A number of buildings
were also demolished.
Shubuta and Desoto, Miss, are COM
pletely inundated.
The floods have been worse than
ever before known, and to-day's adj
vices may bring additional news of
disaster and loss of life.
AdNces to<1ay from Pennington say
Pearl river has reached its highest
mark since 1874. To-day the timber
booms commenced breaking up and
thousands of dollars worth of timber
has 1oated out to sea. All business is
at a ~standstill. The water has reach
ed the first floors of all stores along the
river. Several boats are at their
wharves in the ne~ighborhood of Pearl
ington with steam up and will be used
as a means OF escape If the waters con-
tinue rising. Hundreds of cattle and
hogs have drowned.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
LITERARY NOTES.

THE HOME MAGAZINE.-General Lord
Kitchener is presented as the frontispiece
in the Home Magazine for April. Hudson
Maxim writes an excellent paper on The
Warfare of the Future" AN American
in the Transvaal" will be found an inter-
esting sketch A sketch Of Col. Baden
Powell. the gallant defender Of Mafeking,
by Thomas Calver. Is q fine tribute to that
plucky officer. The Lincoln Museum at
Washington" THE Mystery of the Puz-
zle." and Scientific Kite Flying are
other excellent papers in this always up
to-date magazine.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21

Insane Hospital Directors.

Special 70 INC Register.
SPENCER, w. Va, April 2O.-Tle
board of directors of the Second Hos
pital for the Insane adjourned lat
night after being in session two days.
The ~semi-annual reports of the Officers
of the institution were read and every
thing found to be in a satisfactory
condition. The contracts for beef aid
other supplies were let for the year.
Nothing outside of routine business
was done.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
A BRIDGE TRUST.
A Seventy Million Dollar Corpora
fiOn Charfered In New Iarsax

A Seventy Million Dollar Corpora
ton Chartered in New Jersey.
NEW YORK, April 20.-The Ameri-
can Bridge Company, incorporated at
Trenton a few days ago, with a NOM
inal capital of 500, 600, which nay be
increased to $40, GOO, 900, of which $780,
000, 1000 shall be seven per cent. cumu-
lative preferred stock and $40, 000, 900
common, is said to include most of the
prominent steel bridge manufacturing
companies of the country. 1t is re-
ported that J.. P. Morgan & Co. are to
finance the consolidation, the negotia-
lions for which were started about a
year ago.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
A POOR PROSPECT

For Passing of Wheeling, BIuefeld
and Huntington Public Building
Bills.
Special TO the Register.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 20.-It
is stated that there is very small pros
poet of the passage during this session
of Congress of any of the pending bills
providing for the erection of public
buildings in Wheeling, Bluefeld and
Huntington. Speaker Henderson, it is
said, on good authority, is averse to
granting time for the consideration of
these and the many other public build
ing bills, and most of them will be al
lowed to sleep peacefully in the House
committee on public buildings and
grounds. The Wheeling and Bluefcld
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
JOHN PETERS LYNCHED
At Tnzewel1. Virginia, for Assault
ing n Sixtcen-YearOld-- Girl.

At Tnzeweil. Virginia, for Assault
ing n Sixtcen-YearOld- Girl.
BLUEFIELD, w. Va, April 20.-John
Feters (colored), who assaulted Kate
Richie, a 1~6-year-old white girl, near
Tazewell, on Wednesday, was lynched
last night. Peters had been captured
with the aid of bloodhounds ard placed
in Jail at Tazewell.
At midnight masked men broke open
the door with axes. A rope was placed
around Peters's neck and he was drag
ged 200 yards down the railroad track
toward the woods. Hundreds of shots
were fired into his body while he was
being dragged, and before the woods
were reached he was dead. The rope
was then thrown over a tree and he
was drawn up.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21

bills have passed the Senate, and are
now in the House, while the Hunting
ton bill has just been introduced in the
Senate. Senator'S Scott and Elkins can
steer these measures through the up
per body, but they are not likely to be
able to exercise much influence over
the lower house, where a spirit of econ
omy in small things appears to rule
the Republican leaders.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
Lieutenant's Commission Issued.

Special to the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, April 20.-A
commission was issued to-day through
the adjutant generals Office to Robert
Losborn, to be second lieutenant in the
West Virginia National Guard, First
regiment, and assigned to duty in COM
pany K. of Clarksburg. He takes tile
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS.

Fine s-room house, all modern, at Echo
4-room house, No. 1913 McColloch street.
8. 400; cheap.
4-room house. No. "a Baker street, at $3.50,
on easy payments like rent.
4-room house on Erie street. cheap, at
81, 100.
broom house, No. 11 South York street,
at 81 $780,: big bargain.
6-room new house at Echo Point: price
1850.
Groom house at Echo Point: lot IS by 1856
feet: fruit trees on same. a bargain.
Lots 25x120 feet on Island at 1850 each, on
monthly payments.
ROLF & ZANE,
Tel. 566. No. 30 Fourteenth Street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
Old Land Mnrk Burned.

Special to the Register.
UNION, w. Va, April 20.-The Bap-
fist Church at Peterstown, this county,
burned at the close of Sunday school
on Easter. 1t was one of the old land
marks of the county. Loss. $500; 10
insurance.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
Senatorial Convention Called.

special 70 The Register.
HINTON, w. Va, April 20.-The
Democratic Senatorial executive com
mittee for the Eighth district met here
to-day and agreed on July 18th, at
Montgomery, Fayette county, as the
dayand place for holding their conven-
tiOn.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
Patents Issued.

Special to the Register.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 20
Patents have been issued to the follow
ing West Virginia inventors: Charles
E. Mclaughlin. Kanawha City, on a
Irvine cutter; William W. yenable,
Charleston, on a movable dam.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
The Savage Bachelor.

universal brotherhood of man?~ asked the
sweet young thing.
Not much hope. I dunno. though. The
women may yet drive EN- to It in self
defense" said the savage bachelor.-In-
d~iapapolis Press.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
SERIOUS LOSSES BY FLOODS
THE MAGNITUDE OF THE GALLANT
TY UPON LOUISIANA AND
MISSISSIPPI.

lions of Dollars Damage Has Been
Done, and the End of it is Not in
Sight-SOuthern Railroads Are
Tied Tn and There is no Telling
When They May be Opened for
Traffic Again-Five Hundred Wat
er Bound Travellers Are Now in
New Orleans, Unable to Leave for
Their Homes-Loss of Life Report
ed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
Big barn burned.

Special 70 the Register.
PARKERSBURG, W. Va, April 90
The big barn of Silas Woodruff, near
Barlow, Ohio, burned last night, with
three head of cattle, feed, etc. Loss,
50, 500.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
BOTH WERE
Earl Russell and His New Bride
Were Freed From Calling Bonds
a Few Hours Before the wedding.

a Few Hours Before the Wedding.
RENO, New, April 20.-It has been
learned that both Earl RUSSELL and
Mrs. Somerville, nee Mollie Cooke, who
were married on Saturday last, We're
granted divorces on Saturday by Judge
{. E. Mackin in the District Court at
Genoa, in this State. Mrs. Somerville
charged her husband with extreme
cruelty. 1t is understood that Earl
Russell alleged desertion in his com
plant.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21

WASHINGTON, April 20.-Today's
statement of the treasury balances in
the general fund exclusive of the $780,
600, 600 gold reserve in~the division OF
redemption shows:
Available cash balance $751;, 1856, 131;
gold $50, sos, 100.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
In the u. $. Court,

Special to the Register.
HARRISBURG, W. Va. April 20
The jury in the Ray Randolph Ease dis
agreed and were discharged
J. E. We'ch, who was charged with
ccuntcrfeiting, was acquitted.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE.

FOR SALE-T1mber lands. 800 acre Stock
Farm, 200 acres timber, 5 other timbered
dress J. L. HANNA, Franklin, Pa.
apr19e&da
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
SALE.

EOR SALE.
Bargains in building lots in East Wheel
ing, South Wheeling, Island. out the pike.
Splendid Broom house at 132 Twelfth st.
Eight-room dwelling. full lot, 60x120. 1875
Zane street, for $3.50.
Five-roomed brick house, 44 Main
street. 81, $50.
Splendid home on South Front street.
river front.
MONEY TO LOAN.
G. o. SMITH.
Real Estate, Fire Insurance, Surety Bonds,
National Exchange Bank Building.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
CHORT CREEK FARM FOR SALE.

BY virtue Of a deed Of trust dated the
18th day Of January, 1897, and recorded in
the office Of the Clerk of the County Court
OF Ohio County IL. deed Of trust book II,
page 3s9, from r. l.. Mccolloeh. widow OF
Joseph McColloch, deceased. J. 81. McCol-
loch and Mary r.. his wife: A. j. McCol-
loch, sue II Evans and jeremiah Evans.
her husband, and Mary r. sawteile 10 the
undersigned as trustee. 10 secure q nots
therein named and It's interest. which note
is signed BY j. NJ. McC0iloch. IL. 4. Me-
Colloch, A. j. McC0lloch, Charles Rohrig
and Louis Zoeekler, and made payable 20
N. p. Mercer or order, Will. On Saturday,
the
2sth Day of April, 1900.
at ten O'Clock a. m. Of said day. offer for
sale before the door Of the court house of
ONO county. a public auction. tg tbs
highest bidder the following described VAL
liable farm, that Is 70 say.
north fork Of Snort Creek. II ne District
containing sixty and one-haIf S905k5 aSres'
more or less X being the same tract OF
land conveyed to said Jo9eph McColiOch
in MS life time BY Josiah Morgan and wife
by deed dated the 9Th day N May, 1871.
and recorded In said clerks offict m deed
book p, - 552 and also the right. tits
and interest Of the said grantors IN said
deed Of trust Of IN and to another piece
NJ land Of which the said Joseph McI-oi-
ioch died seized and possessed. and which
was conveyed to him by James Mcdonald
by deed dated the 5th day Of April 1854.
and recorded IN said clerks office III deed
DOCK a. page %3s ANA 1sHcr3Ned as con-
tanning thirty f11D acres or whereabouts.
The said sale viii be made upon the fol-
lowing terms, to-wit: Oue-thiTd OF fhs
purchase money cash r. hand, one-third
thereof, with interest. in ore year. and
the residue thereof. with interest. IN two
years from the day Of sale, the purchaser
the deferred pag uSenfs. ard the legal title
70 be retained as furthr security for such
deferred payments. OF u preferred BY the
purchaser the legal title viii be conveyed
reseryinz In the deed a lien FOR fhe security
81 the deferred p~urcnaRe moaeF.
ROBERT WHITE.
mh5i0awi Trustee
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
NOTICES.
TRUSTEES SALE OF REAL
ESTATE.

EEH [
By virtue Of a deed OF trust made by
Henry Hess to me, as trustee. dated ON
the 18th day Of October. 1895. and recorded
in the office of the Clerk OF the County
Court OF Ohio County. West Virginia, In
Deed OF Trust Book i3, page 6l2, / VIII sell
at the front door Of the Court House OF
said Ohio county, on
saturday, April 2Sth, 1900,
commencing at 10 O'Clock a. M, the fol-
lowing described property, situate IN tho
city OF Wheeling, IN said Ohio unit That
is to say: all of lot number fifty 800. as
designated upon the plat or streets, alleys.
and lots laid out by Row q Bauer, on
what is known as the Peninsula, as an
addition to said City of Wheeling. which
plat is recorded in the clerks office OF tho
County Court IN said Ohio county IN Plat
Book No. /, folio 10, being. the same prop
erty conveyed to said Henry Hess by
William Row and wife by deed dated Octo-
Der 18th, 1886.
TERMS or SALE:-tl.O0 in cash. and
the residue In one year. With interest from
the day of sale; the purchaser giving his
negotiable note for the deferred payment.
secured by a deed Of trust on the property.
l. r. JONES. Trustee.
mchatu.t h. sati
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT.
FOR RENT-Desirable suburban residence
two miles east. modern c~onvenlences, pos
session at once. Enquire Room a. Tele-
phone Bldg. or Phone 4T4. aprl9e&da
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-21

the greater production in the last few
years, which is at this time about r.
000 barrels daily, with but 1900 wells
in the whole field. The oil is chiefly
found in the Cow run, Keener, Big
1njun and Berea sands, and is a high
grade oil, being known in the market
as Pennsylvania oil. The Peasants
county field consists of the following
principal pools: Hebron, Aliens run,
Sugar creek, Tice, Bills, Willow ISL
and. Calf creek, Broad run, Virgin,
French creek, Alum Cove. Henry
Camp, Limestone, Cook and Boreland.
T. N. Barnesdall has eight wells ff-
teen years old, which are producing so
barrels a day, which goes to prove that
the field is a lasting one and not des-
tined to give out in a short time. The
greatest production Is gu of the Cow
run sand, but the largest wells are
gotten in the Keener sand, while those
found in the Big Injun and Berea are
the most lasting. The Rock run pool,
which is now just starting to be devel-
oped, is expected to be a record breaker
in the way of production. Only one
well has been drilled in this pool so far,
it being the Morrison No. /, which has
more than verified the expectations of
those concerned. Nearly every farm in
the whole county is already leased and
wells are being put down on many of
them, and almost in every instance
with good success.
The country is in good condition,
New-York tribune., 1900-01-31
WORK OF MR. CoMsTOCK's SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of the Board Of Managers
of the New-York Society for the Suppression of
Vice was held in the boys OF the Young
Mems Christian Association Hail. Twenty -third-st.
and Fourth-ave., last night.
The annual report OF the work done by the society
in the last year presented by Anthony Com
stock, the secretary of the society. The report n
a long document. In it Mr.. Comstock says tha:
the society made hundred arrests and secured
eighty-sx convictions in the year Just ended. Seven
prisoners who were released on bail failed to ap-
pear for trial
The report also states that three tons Of contra
band matter was seized. This included faro lay
outs, red and black layouts. roulette tables 2
hazard layouts. 2Ss packs of playing cards, 2.sss
lottery tickets 10 gaming tables. 1900 chips 6SOl
lottery circulars, 100 faro tally cards and 200 dice
The total length OF time meted out to prisoners
Where convictions were secured seven years
and five months. The amount paid in fines was
There was election of officers after the reading
of the report. Welcome G. Hitchcock elected
president in place of Charles NJ Jesup. w n.
Cochran, Bowles Colgate and w. E. Dodge were
elected vice-presdents, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer,
treasurer, and Anthony comstock. secretary.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-31
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE.

Washington, Jan. SO.-The House was in session
3 little over an hour to-day. and only business of
minor Importance transacted.
Mr.. Eddy, Of Minnesota, rose to a question Of
privilege to call the attention OF the House to rep
resentations made by alleged agents of the set of
books known as the Messages and Papers of the
Presidents OF the United States" Mr. Richardson
Of Tennessee, who compiled the volumes at the
order Of Congress, explained that Congress had
voted him copy of the plates of the volumes for
his labor, and he had made a contract with a pub
fisher, from whom he received a small royalty
He much opposed to fraudulent representa-
lions any one.
Mr; Eddy disclaimed any intention of rejecting
Mr.. Richardson.
A Senate resolution TO authorize the erection Of
q statue Of DR.. Samuel Hahnemann in the Dis
tIict Of Columbia was adopted.
Resolutions were adopted calling the Secretary
of the Navy and the Secretary Of War for informa-
ton as TO the amount cf money expended and
the amount for which the Government liable re-
manning unpaid for equipments, transportation,
supplies and naval operations IN the Philippine
Islands from May l, 1888. to November l. 1899.
Under the call for committees. bill to authorize
The Secretary of War TO accept site for military
post near Des Moines, Iowa, was passed. Also
bill 10 extend the time for the completion of the
Incline railway West Mountain, Hot Springs
Reservation, Arkansas.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-31
APPEAL FOR A cApr1vE's PAY.

Miss Ella NJ. Sauer, manager OF the New-York
Library, has placed in the hands of Edward A
Sumner. of No 145 Broadway. the claim of the
family OF Frederick Hoppe. second officer on the
United States hospital ship Relief, who capt
ured by the Filpinos near Manila last May while
Hoppe and Assistant Engineer Blanford, of the Re-
lief were sailing along the shore Manila Bay
AS the Government learned of the capture
Of Hoppe. his salary stepped. it is said. Miss
Sauer is supporting the two younger brothers and
sister OF Hoppe, and has had no benefit from
Heppes salary from the time he captured last
May. Mr.. Sumner, In behalf Of Miss Sauer, wrote
to Secretary Root, and Mr.. Root gave the matter
his personal attention. but unable to get
Hepoe's name back on the payroll. Miss sauer last
way it had been smugged from the interior to
Manila He says that he Is being fairly well treated
and hopes before long to make his escape. Mean
while Miss Sauer and her young charges are re-
ceying no money from the Government, although
Hoppe made provision for his brothers and sister
before he went away.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-31
PULLMAN COMPANY MUST PAY.
COLONEL KING. OF BROOKLYN EJBcTED FROM
CAR. GETS $4,000 DAMAGES.

COLONEL KING. OF BROOKLYN. EJBcTED FROM
A CAR GETS $4,000 DAMAGES.
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals has
recently decided q regarding the liability of
sleeping car companies for election of passengers,
which will be of interest to the general public.
Colonel Albert H. King went into the office of the
Pullman Palace Car Company in the St. Charles
Hotel New Orleans, to purchase sleeping berth
through to New-York. He exhibited his ticket,
which was Of the class commonly known as a
strip ticket with coupons attached over the con-
Meeting lines the last coupon being from Washing
ton to New York. over the lines of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad
The agent after examining the ticket sold him
a berth in the car Dioces, from New-Orieans to
Jersey City. This ticket was surrendered to the
car conductor who gave him in exchange a berth
check to Jersey City in that Mr.. King con-
tinued to occupy his berth without molestation
until after the train left Washington. when he dis
covered that the being over the line
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. his attention being
called to this fact by the Pullman conductor de-
manding that he pay the regular fare from Wash
tngton to New-York and refusing TO recognize his
ticket for passage on that train.
In consequence of his refusal to pay the regular
fare on the Pennsylvania Railroad Colonel King
elected at Baltimore, the act OF election being
accomplished by the Pullman conductor assisted by
the Pennsylvania conductor.
Colonel King brought action to recover damages
in the Supreme Court of Kings County, which suit
was afterward removed to the United States Cir
cult Court for the Eastern District The was
tried before Judge Thomas in February last, and
the jury gave verdict OF 5000 which has just been
affirmed by the United States Circuit Court of Ap
peals and the Pullman Lompany has adjusted the
claim by paying over the full amount of the judg-
New-York tribune., 1900-01-31
MR.. GRUBER'S LEGACY"

report that a legacy had been left to Abraham
Gruber, the Republican leader in the XXIst Assem-
bly, District interested many politicians In the dis
trict last evening Some friends OF Mr.. Gruber mag
niied the amount Of the legacy, and said he
inclined to blow It In TO aid those who were
helping him In the political fight which had been
forced upon him by George c. Austin and others
Certain followers Of Mr. Austin, who heard the
story, began to protest that tie had always been
friendly to Mr.. Gruber and loved him like a
brother
1t was learned that the legacy amounted to $40
and was left to Mr.: Gruber by Esther Aaron, who
died recently at No N2 West Northumberland
seventh-st. Her will was fled for probate yester-
day. Mr.. Gruber said he lent $50 to the woman
some time ago.