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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
ARE WE THERE TO STAY.

Some of the administration journals
are now explaining" at great length
and with much legal phraseology,
that the tenur of American control of
Cuban affairs will be of "undetermin-
ate duration" and say that If we
should leave the government of the
island to the people thereof at any
future time, and disorder should break
out, it would be proof positive that we
did not await complete paci6cation
and would be justifable in resuming
the direction of affairs. Therefore,
working this out carefully, it appears
that we must hold Cuba for ever and
ever, lest something happen once we
depart. The Cubans may not like
this programme, but then there are
only a few over a Il lion of them,
and they must, perforce, be satisfied
with whatever treatment we may see
fit to accord them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
THIS WEEKS PATENTS.

Special 70 the Register
WASHINGTON. D. c., December IA.
Among the patents granted are these
to West Virginians:
John 3. Daniels, Of Bronwstown, for
ratchet wrench. the essential feature of
which lies in combining with a handle
and spring actu2ted pawl a rotable nut
socket carrying a ratchet wheel, where
by the nut may be turned by simply
vibrating the handle.
John w. Mccoy, Of Sinks Grove, for
a saddle, in which the saddle part
proper is piyoted at its forward end to
a base-plate and is held yieldingly up
ward at its relr end by a spring which
bears on roller journaled on the bot
tom of the saddle at its extreme rear
end.
Horace G. Virgin, of Penrith, for
clay screening apparatus, consisting OF
an inclined screen or sieve, a gang OF
brushes mounted on the sieve and con-
nected together, and a crank shaft for
reciprocating the brushes up and down
OF the sieve during the passage down
the same Of the pulverized clay.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
MIDDLEBoURNE.

MIDDLEBCURNE, w. Va, December
14-Circuit Court is still in session
and an unusually large amount of bus
mess has been taken from the docket.
The petit jury was discharged to-day,
and the remainder of the term will be
given to chancery cases.
The case of State against G. c.
Seckman for the murder of Cal Jordan,
was continued till the April term, and
the motion to admit him to bail was
overruled, and he was remanded to
Jail.
Attorneys T. P. Jacobs and B. T.
Bowers, who have been attending
court, have returned to their homes at
New Martinsville.
A. B. Hunt, G. c. Kesterson and G.
NJ. Mccoy, of Sistersville, have gone
home
]. J. Mccoy, who has been visiting
relatives here for the past two weeks,
has returned to his home on Pursley.
C. j. Allen, o. Braden Station, left
for his home, after two weeks of court
at the Hub.
Sheldon ]. Craig, of Shiloh, was in
the city Thursday.
]. w. Jemison, of Delnorte, Colo, is
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F.
NJ. Jemison. of GOrrels run.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dorman Watkins, of
Van Camp are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
B. F. Leach.
Mrs. Lucretia Spencer, of Auburn
Ritchie county, is visiting her sister
Mrs. T. S. Wells
Eli B. Long and Sarah B. Long,
Wick, were shopping here Thursday.
Assessor-elect w. e. Long, of Cen
treville, was in town Wednesday,
Hon. P. B. Lowery, OF Sistersviile
is in town on business.
Miss Lizzie Jemison will spend the
holidays with relatives in Cameron.
John Seckman, of Acorn, is in town
on business.
Andrew Stackpole, of Alvy, has pur-
chased the Thomas Villers farm on the
pike near Luzon. and will make his
future home there
The Cricket on the Hearth" which
was to have chirped for the library
fund, has hopped of.
F. h. Hickman went to Sistersville
Wednesday night to witness Sherlock
Holmes" at the Auditorium.
j. G. Arthurs. of Sistersville, is Wis.
iting relatives here.
The oil business about town is boom.
ing again. The Home Company's D. J
Henderson No. / has the rig completed
and is ready for the drill. Sistersvill.
people have the rig up for the Thomas
Hickman No /, which is located on
nra mol, Of EOrTpl'c rIly, near tho Ctate
road Treat & Crawford's John Crum-
rlnd No. 2 is ready for the drill Yoke
Fertig and others are preparing the
rig timbers for their No. 1 C. Engle.
Local talent have a wild cat wen on
the Hess farm at Joseph's Mills down
about 900 feet.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
DAMAGES AWARDED.

KETSER, w. Va, December IA
The jury in the case of the Pattersons
Creek & Potomac Railway Co.. VS..
Annie Page Smith, ct al. for condem-
nation of land last evening awarded
damages of S6,25 When the lands Of
Mrs. Smith were condemned for the
purpose of building the Pattersons
Greek 6, Potomac cut off the commits
sioners awarded $3.50, which the COM
pany refused to pay, asking that the
matter be tried by jury with the re-
suit after tedious trial, above stated
The immense mill of the R. F. Whit
mer Lumber Co. At Dobbin. forty miles
south of here, is running fve-quarter
time, and will continue t. do so during
the entire winter.
The town of Davis has a straight
Republican ticket in the field for mu-
nicipal officers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
n Clarksburg with the same object in
OPPOSITION DEVELOPING.
The Sugar Trust May Not Trouble at
Two Pointa-No One VIII Talk.

NEW YORK, December 1.-THE
Times prints the following.
New opposition to the American Sugar
Refining Company is developing it
comes from two sources The two
fold opposition comes first from the Ar
buckles, and second from Philadelphia
interests and is admitted by Herman
Sielcken, who is at the head of the
American Compsny's coffee business
and who is generally credited with be-
ing closer to President Havemeyer
than any other man in the trade.
Briefly outlined it may be said that the
plan of the Arbuckles is to build a new
refinery equal in capacity and every
other respect to and adjoining the pres
ent one in Brooklyn. So far as the
Philadelphia opposition is concerned
not much of definite nature is known
At the office Of Arbuckle Brothers.
James n. Jarvie said:
Il refuse absolutely to talk on the
matter
President Havemeyer would not dis
cusS the report.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

AS a grape viner the Intelllgencer has
long been famous in the fraternity, and
its success in that l!ne iG a part of the
newspaper history of the State.
The disposition of the 1ntelligencer to
kick is all right enough, and in View of
the late political undOings it has a few
kicks coming, and 1t should SO out and
kick itself and receive d public encore
ParkersDurg Sentinel
Now. why cant you folks get along
quietly and peacca5ly? If you simply
won't give each other credit, let it go
at that. The Sentinel is just a little
unkind, however, under provocation.
in abiding to the Intelligencer as a
''grape-viner." VIII call attention to
the multitudinous tendrils which clus-
ter about the brow Of our aged contem-
polary, or to the almost sapless
branches which bear none or bitter
fruit?" The Intelligencer is at pres
ent sad, and deserves kind and sym
pathetic words rather than hard ex-
pressions. Perhaps, if condoled with
and petted it might recover by and
b."
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
Chuckin' r. Stigma,

This is an extract from a debate in
the New York board of aldermen last
Tuesday on a request from Water Com
missioner Dalton for leave to contract
without public letting for an $4,000
high level pumping station for the
Bronx:
Alderman Downing, (Rep), Brook
lyn-This board should assert itself
There was time when it was an honor
to belong to this board. There may be
a time again.
Alderman Bridges, Dem.), Brooklyn
If we take them two statements we
will see that the intimation is that
this here present board is not so full of
honor as they was. Now, that amt So
and it amt right. The gentleman what
says that chucks stigma on this body
it oughtnt to stand for.
The request was denied.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
CAPTIVE OF EsoUIMAUX.
An EngIishman Held for Five Years
in n Village of Neutrality-suspicious.
lions of the Fer North.


lions of the Fer North.
VANCOUVER, B. c., Dec. 14.-Prof
]. w. Terrell, the celebrated explorer
of Canadian wilds, has returned from
an expedition through the barren lands
of northern Canada He travelled over
5000 miles on the tour. His expedition
was sent cut by the Canadian govern
ment, and met with many perils in the
long journey to the northwest of Hud-
son Bay.
Prof. Terrell made the important
discovery that the barren lands gen
orally supposed to be treeless prairie,
were covered in many places with
rich northern forests, and there were
stretches of timberland 200 miles in
extent.
In August, Prof ]. w. Bell, of the
Geological survey, who was second
in command of the expedition, went
on a side tour of 500 miles up one of
the branches of the Thelon. There
he rescued an Englishman named
Charles Bum, who had been held in
captivity by the Esquimaux for five
years. Prof. Bell was in the lead of
the party when they entered village
just before nightfall, and was amazed
to see a tall, well-built man, dressed
like an Esquimaux come running up
and address him in English. Bum
told a marvellous story. He said that
he had gone out from Edmonton in
1885, and had wandered far into the
interior, shooting and trapping. He
ran short of provisions, and applied
to an Esquimaux family. They took
him to their village, where he was
compelled to remain, living as one of
them He had several thousand dol
lars worth of fur He joined Bells
party and came out to Edmonton with
the explorers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

Miss Caroline w. Murphy is the Point
Pleasant. \. J.. young woman who took
up the cause Of the harmless birds and
other small creatures that find their
haunts and coverts in the woods, thick
cts. meadows and lakes within the
borough limits, and successfully pro-
secuted those who violated an ordinance
in shooting these creatures. She has
caused the punishment of several viola
tors Of the law ana inspired them with
such wholesome terror that the firing of
4 gun is now rare sound in Point
Pleasant. summer visitors and resi-
dents Of the place feel very grateful to
Miss Murpdy for her crusade.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
FEAR CASE OF SMALLPOX.

Special to the Register
MANNINGTON, w. Va, Decembe.
14.-What purports to be smallpox has
broken out within two and a half
miles of this city, in the neighborhoo1
OF Joe's run. County Health Officer
Jameson, of Fairmont, visited the
homes of the patients, but mas not as
yet given out an opinion as TO the re-
suits of his diagnosis. Health Officer
pebendorfer, of this city, has advised
vaccination for all citizens as a meas
ure 0 protection, should the MALAY
prove to be smallpox.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
Change Of Practice.

Parkersburg State Journal.
The lawyers OF West Virginia will be
much Interested in the following:
The decision of the Supreme Court
OF Appeals in the case Of Richmond VS..
Henderson. from Tyler county, is the
most interesting and important to the
largest num0er of people that has been
handed down by that court lately. It
decided that in a case tried before a
jury in a Justices court an appeal may
be taken the same as in q case tried
merely before the justice himself. This
overrules the decision &C the same court
found in 18th ". ". p. 512. wherein the
opposite is held. From lay point of
view the latter decision seems a good
thing, as it obviates the necessity Of
taking down the evidence and noting ex-
ceptiops, necessary to be done under the
old decision, which require a writ Of
certiorari to be secured before a case
decided by justice jury could be car
ried up.
The opinion in 9th W. Va. was
written by Judge Adam c. Snyder. and
the new opinion is by Judge Brlnnon- "
all this shows that even a Supreme
Court is not infallible She decision in
the 25th West Virginia has subjected
the litigants and attorneys of the State
TO great labor and much inconvenience.
L largely operated to prevent appeals
from the decisions OF justices; and to
get UP on certiorari was difficult and
cumbersome matter. The bar never
really saw the necessity of the holding
by the Supreme Court
The new decision viii be widely vel
coined, and will make the practice be-
fore a justice in jury cases, as well as
others, the easy and not the formal and
troublesome matter. intended by the
trainers of the Laws Of the State.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
CAST YOUR VOTE TODAY.

To-day, between the hours of Loon
and seven o'clock, the Democratic vot-
,rs of this city will be called to the
polls to make selection Of a general
.ity ticket and of candidates for Coun-
I'll in the several wards.
There ought to be an unanimous re-
spouse to this invitation, carrying out
The very commendable spirit shown
at the ward suggestion meetings it
avails nothing to suggest the best men
If that action be not followed up by
seeing that they are nominated. And
to-day is the accepted time 1t will
only require a few minutes OF the
very busiest business or professional
mans time to drop around at his
ward polling place and cast his vote,
and very little more time to take
some interest in seeing that friends
and neighbors do the same. If that POI
ley be carried out by the citizens not
satisfied with either past or present
conditions, there will be no doubt
about the result--the nomination OF
ticket which will commend itselt to
the favorable consideration of the
masses Of our citizens The profess
sional politicians and the so-called
undesirable element OF both political
parties can always be depended upon
to come out to a man at primaries.
They not only contribute their votes,
but their influence, their personal
endeavor and their money. Those who
are dissatisfied, and who growl and
grumble,, lament and complain, crit
icize and deplore during the two
years terms of Councilmen ought at
the very least to be willing by their
votes to endeavor to right the wrongs
they complain of, and to thus aid in
changing an unsatisfactory situation
for something better. To-day they
have this opportunity. If it is not ia
ken advantage of, the grumblers ought
to hereafter and forever hold their
peace.
The Register urges a full vote to-
day in every ward of the city. 1t is
virtually half holiday in a
large portion Of the local bus
mess and commercial world, being
Saturday afternoon. On an aver
age ten minutes Of time will result in
the casting of a vote See to it that
your ballot is placed in the box in
your ward. The polls do not close un-
til seven o'clock.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
"COMINs HOME,o

All the time l sing an say:
She'll be comm home some day!
Some time in the light I'll hear
Her faint footsteps on the stair
See her sm.lin on me there
Night an day l sing an say:
She'll be comm home sine day.
But the time wears on. an she
Seems as far as heaven from me.
Ger the gardens cold ] call
Where the late, last roses fall,
TO the sweetest rose OF all,
Hope still whisperin' DER the way:
She'll be comm home some day."
Comm home . What's home where
there
| but see her vacant chair?
When the flowers her smile made sweet
Listen for her hearts low beat
Flowers her lips made red and sweet
Yet | sing, and yet | say:
Shell be comm home some day.
Then the light will dawn, and be
Like the smile of heaven to me.
Then-sweet songs for all the signs,
Though the happy tears may rise,
Failing. rain-like, round my eyes,
There Is light upon the way
Shell ha ccmin' home some day.
@tRANK i. STANTON.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

The rumor from London that the
native population of South Africa may
rise against the British is probably
purely alarmist, but If there should be
popular outbreak England would
have something worse on her hands
than two Boer republics, for the natives
can muster from 100000 to 100000
men, who can fight with all the zeal
of fanatics. The total native popula-
ton of South Africa is conservatively
estimated at 100000
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
ARE LEARNING TO SHOOT.
A New Worlds Record Establish ed
u Cunnarn ~, L. TorriE,ln

A New Worlds Record Established
BY GunDers ON the Terrible.
VICTORIA, B. C, December IA
new worlds record has been established
by the gunners OF her majeSty's ship
Terrible, the big battleship Of the Ash
attic squadron. The percentages OF ac-
tual hits made in target practice with
the six-inch guns on the Terrible was
7G.8. The Terrible had two 90 and
twelve six-inch guns, the shooting from
the former being also a brilliant rec
ord, so per cent Of hits having been
made Four captains of guns made
"possibles" two with ten and two with
nine rounds.
The misses" would have been "hits"
had a ship been substituted for the tar
get.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
ONE POPLAR CORPORATION.

The Louisville Gas Company is to-
day a popular corporation with the
people of the chief city of kentucky,
because it mas kept an agreement with
and promise made to the public and
reduced the price Of Illuminating gas
to one dollar per thousand feet as
against $120 net last July and $1.75
net eleven years ago. The saving to
the people of Louisville who burn gas
is estimated at $4,000 per annum, or
s1.590, COO by the time the franchise of
the company expires in 1919.
This is all very well, and a good
thing for Louisville, but yet how small
the Denofit compared with our own
experience right here in Wheeling.
There was a time when. the gas con-
sumers of this town paid $3.50 per l 1000
cubic feet for gas, and had to pay for
lighting the streets besides. Now we
pay 75c net per 1000 feet to the city
not to a corporation-and the streets
are Illuminated by nearly 500 1000 C. D.
arc lights without a dollar of expense
to the people. Louisville is doing well
in obtaining cheaper gas, but Wheel
ing is much better off. Our only cause
for regret is that two City Councils
were foolish and short-sighted enough
to give away electric lighting fran
chises. Those gifts were more than
foolish-they were almost criminal.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

The Registers special prize of five
dollars for the largest number of cou-
pom votes received up to noon to-day
will be awarded as soon as the votes
can be counted. Remember, no votes
received after noon will count in this
little special matter. The main con-
test for free scholarships closes at mid
night February 18th.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

The transport Hancock has arrived
at San Francisco with the bodies Of
fifteen hundred American soldiers and
sailors killed in battle or who sue
cumbed to disease in the Philippines.
Fifteen hundred That's a part of the
price We are paying for our colonial
policy. 1t means sorrow and mourn
ing in fifteen hundred American homes;
but there'H be others. Only one ship
loaded with the dead has arrived in
port These men, in number more than
a full regiment, left our shores in the
full vigor Of health. They come back
to their friends and relatives in boxes.
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DETERMINED TO DIE.

Used His Coat and Cushions TO Stop
Cracks and Keep the Gas in the
Room.
LANCASTER, Pa, Dec. 14.-Major
A. c. Reinoehl, postmaster of this
city, and prominent member of the
Lancaster bar, was found dead in his
office to-day, having committed sui
eide. The lights in the gas jets and one
from a heating coil were turned on
full, and the crack under the door was
stopped by his coat, while cushions
didNsimilar duty at the windows.
Financial troubles are ascribed as the
cause.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

chicago CAfOnlcIe.
The mugWump newspapers are be-
ginning to shuttle out whining pro
tests against the Republican treasury
looting campaign which is now in full
swing at Washington, yet these same
mugwump sheets supported the Repub-
lican ticket with full knowledge that
this was exactly what would happen if
Mckinley We're victorious. Your thor
oughpaced mugwump is nothing if not
a hypOcrite and humbug.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

1t is rumored in Washington that the
Senate having wounded the sensitive
feelings OF our friend and ally, Great
Britain. through the adoption of the
Davis amendment to the canal bill the
administration may withdraw the
measure that Mr.. Pauncefote may be
assured OF cur continued disposition to
toady. But will the Senate submit to
that sort of thing tamely7
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

For years the tax commissioners of
New York returned the taxable per-
sonal property of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt at 100000 The New York
World prints al itemized schedule of
the estate, showing bonds and mort
cages of the market value of $17,1S5,-
122. and yielding an annual revenue of
$663,47 while the total value of the
estate is $52,999,SG7. This is simply
one of many such cases.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

The proposition to make Governor
General Leonard C. Wood, of Cuba,
Brigadier General in the regular army,
will not meet with the approval of
about fifteen hundred officers, over
whose heads he would be jumped.
General Wood is a Major General of
volunteers at present, but only a cap
tain in the regulars. Such a promotion
as is contemplated would be without
precedent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
SEEKING FACTORY LOCATION

Spacial ~ no EaEisr-.
MANNINGTON, W. Va, December
14.-George W. Burkhart, o. Detroit,
a manufacturer of small glass jars, is
seeking location for a factory here
Mr.. Burkhart operates d factory in
Ontario. just across the river from De-
troit. He desires to locate in the gas
belt of West Virginia and hopes to
have a factory in operation by May l.
He has also consulted real estate men
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

Three more new battieships, the ILL
nois,, Alabama and Wisconsin, are prac-
tically completed, and while the Ala
b2ma is now on her trial trip the other
two could go to sea in two or three
weeks in an emergency. Three others,
the Maine, the Missouri and the Ohio,
are about one-tk.rd advanced to com
pletion, and six protected cruisers, four
monitors and a number of small boats
are in various stages, three vessels, the
Goldsborough, Bailey and Lawrence,
being 80 per cent. done.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

Providence has a good deal to Shout
der these days. President Mckinley
attributed the Philippine war to Provi-
dence, and Lord Roberts has followed
the same precedent as regards the
South African war This is a con-
venient way of shifting the RESPONSE
bility for bloodshed, but otherwise is
without commendable feature.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

The Pittsburg municipal ring has.
followed the example set by our own
local authorities. They haven't in
creased the rate OF taxation, but have
marked up the assessment $50. G00. 900.
Any means to an end is good enough
for ring.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

One Of the New York papers prints
pictures of defaulter Morgan, his wife
and the baby, but omits the nurse girl,
the cook and the coachman. We sub
NIT that this is an unjust discrimina-
ton.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15

Our neighbors over at GAINESVILLE are
going to jubilate over the dawning of
the new century, and have invited
everybody for fifty miles around to drop
in and have a good time.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-15
The Point of View.

New York World
An increase over night Of $1,000, 900
in the value of a coal stock as a result
OF the triumph Of combination over
competition may be regarded as an evil
dence Of prosperity-or it may not. 1t
depends a great deal on the point Of
view, and the point Of view of the man
Who pays the coal Dill may be quite
different from the point of view Of the
man who gets the dividends.