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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
DISCOVERED A CAVE.
| Hunters Came Upon an Enormous
| Cavern Near Davis, w. Va.


Special to the Register
CUMBERLAND, Nd, November 20.
Some hunters discovered a cavern
near Davis, w. Va, that promises to
rival that of Luray. Talbert Franc, 2
noted explorer, who is sojourning at
Davis, after making a partial explora-
ton Of the cave, to-day stated that it
was most interesting and from what
he saw Of it, thought that it surpassed
the Luray cavern. 1t is comparative
ly free from water and in many places
is covered with white sand. In the
sand old footprints appear which are
no doubt the footprints of Indians
The skeleton of what is supposed to
have been an Indian, together with
beads, arrow heads and stone imple-
ments, were found. An old Indian his
tory which tells OF the massacre Of
F. A. Sigbert in Pendleton county, w.
Va, in 1858, states that the Indians
often spoke of Keninsheka, the place
OF the wet spirits, and pointed to the
setting sun. The cavern just discov-
cred is believed TO have been the place
referred to, as there is no doubt that
it was used as rendezvous by the In
dams. The cavern is reported to be a
very large one and the scenery beyond
description. The entrance is very
small, but gradually widens after it is
traversed for a mile or more. A party
may make a full exploration at once.
The discovery is creating much excite
ment about Davis.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
HE TOOK LAUDNUM.
Sad End of the Wayward Son OF
Good Parents.


Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va, November
Pot will lie down, but it will be
never to riseagain, said Scott Hyde last
night at o'clock, when the woman
with whom he has been living saw
that he had been drinking and asked
him to lie down. Then he put a phial
of laudanum to his lips and took about
an ounce He was in a house Of bad
repute, where the woman whom he
had separated from her husband was
living. and the inmates who had often
brought him around before when he
had taken too much morphine, worked
with him until midnight when they
sent for a physician. But no physi-
clan would respond to their call and it
was $3.50 when DR.. Davidson arrived
at the house. 1t was then too late to
do anything for Hyde and he died in
fifteen minutes.
Hyde has been here for about five
years, his former home being at Boil
var, n. Y, where his parents now re-
side They are respectable and well to
do, but the young man had always been
wild. The Prosecuting Attorney de-
cided that an inquest would be unnec-
cessary and none was held. Hyde was
about 80 years of age.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
| HAVE CONE 70 SETTLE
WITH YOU, SAID BEATTY.
WITH THAT HE RAISED HIS GUN
AND FIRED THREE SHOTS IN
TO MINES BODY.
VICTIM DEAD IN TEN MINUTES.
THE DEPREDATIONS OF AN INCOR-
IGIBLE BOY LED TO THE
TROUBLE.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
TERRA ALTA, November 20.-The
beautiful farm of David A. Nine, located
about four miles west of Terra Alta,
was the scene of a deplorable tragedy
at s o'clock this morning and as re-
suit David A. Nine lies dead and his
wife is i'll.
On Sunday morning last, while the
Nine family was at church, a young
sor of ]. Wesley Beatty, brother-in-law
of Nine, and residing within a mile,
broke into Mines cellar and stole cider.
The BOY is about Is years old, and is
incorrigible.
Monday morning Mrs. Nine had the
boy arrested and at the trial Justice
Hill, of Terra Alta, committed him to
jail at Kingwood. The boys father re-
fused to do anything in behalf of the
erring lad, and did not even attend the
trial.
This morning at 8 o'clock while Mr..
Nine and a Mr.. Norris were husking
corn in the formers barn, Beatty came
strolling up with gun over his shout
der, and after greeting the two men
heartily told Nine that he had come
to make a settlement.
A few words were exchanged between
the two men, when Beatty raised his
gun, a Winchester repeating shot gun,
and fired three shots point blank at
Nine.
All three shots took effect and the
victim was dead ten minutes after
ward.
After doing the shooting Beatty
walked slowly home and informed his
wife that he had killed Nine, and bid
ding her good Dye took his gun and
a Ratchet and walked into the woods.
A warrant was issued and officers
are now after the murderer.
The horrible affair has created great
excitement here.
Both men were wealthy farmers,
stood high in religious, social and bus
mess circles anu were highly respected
as peaceful citizens.
Beatty married Mines sister and
the brothers-in-law had always been
good friends.
Their ages were about the same,
near 90 years. At this hour Beatty has
not been apprehended.
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SPYING SERVANTS TELL
WHAT THEY WITNESSED
WHEN SELLS WAS AWAY WITH
THE SHOW.
sTABLEMAN WITH KEEN EYES
AND A HOUSEkEEPER WHO LIVED
NEXT DOOR AND DID NOT
SLEEP WELL.
Snecial to the Register.

Special to the Register.
COLUMBUS, O., November 20.-At-
torney Booth for Peter Sells took the
stand this morning and read the depo-
sition of Fred Johnson, who was en-
ployed as hostler by Peter Sells from
March, 1896, to some time in 1899. He
had room in the barn with window
facing the house. Johnson said Mrs.
Sells, when he first started in, told
him not to do too much talking about
what went on about the house. john
son carried the key to south door
which opened into narrow passage
way between the Sells house and the
first house south. This door was sell
dom used by the family, but Mrs. Sells
had an extra key made for herself.
Johnson heard the domestics discuss
ing Harry Lyon soon after he took en-
ployment at the Sells mansion. After
ward Johnson saw Lyon enter the Sells
residence about three or four times a
week, during times that Peter Sells
was absent.
At this stage of Johnson's deposition
Mrs. Maggie Kirwin, who was house
keeper for W. H. Fish, Sells's neigh
Dor, appeared and further reading of
the deposition was suspended to hear
her testimony She had been at the
Fish residence for five years. Mrs. Kir-
win, owing to an injury, had been I'M
able to sleep well for several years,
so she saw great deal that went on
at Sells's residence, she said as she lay
looking out of her south bedroom win
dow. She told of seeing two different
men calling at the Sells residence. One
was tall, the other short, answering
the descriptions of Lyons and Bott.
She first saw them in 1897. After Sells
would come home at the end of cir
Gus season she would see no more OF
these men. She, too, saw Mrs. Sells
station herself in Florence's bed room
and watch for the coming of her call
ers. The mansion was always bril-
liantly lighted throughout when Sells
was at home, but only dim light in
the hall could be seen most of the time
when Mrs. Sells was there alone With
one exception the witness was never
awake late enough to see these men
leave tie Sells house. Miss Kerwin
was the first of Sells witnesses that
Attorney Huling could tangle up.
Ella Davis, aged about so, who was
the cook for the Sells family from Oc-
tober, 1895, until June, 1896, said Lyon
came to the house both when Sells was
home and away from home. When
Lyon was there on one occasion, Mrs
Sells gave instructions that no one was
to be admitted to the residence. She
said she was sick and was going to
bed. Mrs. Sells was in her night dress
when she called the witness and gave
these instructions.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
DENIED THE PRIVILEGE
Of HUSBANDS COMPANY.
SHERIFF WEBSTER CAPITULATEs
TO CRITICISM AND VAN LEW
SLEEPS HOME.
HOW PRISONER SPENT THE DAY.
READ "TO HAVE AND TO HOLD
AND SEEMED CHEERFUL
WITH FAMILY.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
VAN VERT, Ohio, November 20
The attorneys for the State filed a
demurrer this morning in answer to
the plea in abatement filed yester-
day by the attorneys for the alleged
murderer of Alice Hammel
A hearing will be given Wednesday
morning.
Mrs. Van Liew on the whole has
spent a cheerful day She had brief
respondent spell this morning and wept
a short time. Part of the day she spent
reading the very interesting late novel,
ITO Have and to Hold
Her husband and daughter are with
her this evening, cheering her. For a
time after her Imprisonment and UP to
a day or SO ago, Sheriff Webster per-
mitted Mr. Van Lew to sleep with her
in her cell.
The officer had the utmost confidence
in him that he would not be party to
any rash act, and that his presence
would be guarantee for the safety of
the prisoner.
However, the officer was so criticiz-
ed that he had to finally deny the
privilege.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
CAMPANIA WHOLLY TO BLAME

LONDON, November 20-The Judgment
of the Admiralty court was rendered to-
day in the action brought by the owners
of the British bark Embleton to recover
damages for the sinking of that vessel by
the Cunard line steamer Campania, in
July last during a heavy fog, about six
hours after leaving Queenstown, the coll
lision resulting in the drowning of eleven
of the crew OF the Embleton, which was
loaded with dynamite The court found
that the Campania's speed was excessive
and that the Campania was solely blam-
able for the sinking of the Embleton and
judgment was pronounced accordingly.
The Cunard company intends to make an
appeal
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
ODD FELLOWS GATHER
At Parkersburg for the Annual Meet
ings of the Order.


Special TO the Register.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va, November
20.-By tomorrow morning it is ex-
pected that there will be fully six
hundred strangers here to attend the
Grand Lodge meeting and the other
meetings of the Odd Fellows to be held
at the same time. There are nearly
that many here now, and many more
are yet TO come, as the Grand Lodge
meeting does not commence till to-mor-
row. To-day the Grand Encampment
was in session, but nothing but bust
ness of routine character was trans
acted
Tomorrow the Grand Lodge and the
State Assembly Of Rebekahs will both
meet. In the morning there will be a
meeting of the Grand Lodge to which
the public will be invited. Mayor Tur-
ner will deliver the address OF welcome
and will turn over the keys of the city
10 the visitors. Rev. C. H. Cox will
respond to the address of welcome on
behalf of the Odd Fellows, and Mrs.
". H. Cecil on behalf of the Rebekahs.
Grand Master Cummins, OF East Bank,
will then deliver an address.
evening the RSUchdus
VII mold an open meeting al which the
degree will be conferred for the benefit
of the lodge members.
The grand encampment this evening
elected the following officers: Grand
patriarch, Geo. v Rathman, Martins
burg; grand high priest, G. T. Harden,
Sutton; grand senior warden, John
Peacock, Sewell; grand scribe. G..
Adolph Heihle, Parkersburg; grand
treasurer, Henry Seamon, Mounds
vile; grand junior warden, E. A. Bill
Hngslea, Fairmont; representative TO
supreme lodge, Louis A. Hoffman,
Wheeling
The grand patriarch appointed the
following: Grand sentinel, s. F. Brown,
Fairmont: grand deputy sentinel, Per-
cy Hamilton, Wheeling: grand mar
shall, j. B. Stone. Grafton.
At the meeting Of the Patriarchs Mil
liant c. A. Heihle was elected Depart
ment commander for two years. He
appointed G. a. Vincent assistant adj
jutant general.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
GAVE WORTHLESS DEED.
Son of Cashier CIOsson Gets His
Father and Bondsmen Into
Trouble.

Son of Cashier CIosson Gets His
Father and Bondsmen Into
Trouble.
RUTLAND, VT, November 20-A
special to the Herald from Montpelier
says:
A report is current here that G. L.
Closson, cashier of the First National
Bank OF Springfield, VT, is $780, 900
short in his accounts. F. G. Field, the
president Of the bank, made the fol-
lowing statement last night:
Cashier Closson some time ago al
lowed his son, G. L. Closson, Jr., a
member of the defunct brokers firm of
Knott & Closson, of Burlington, TO
draw $4,000 from the bank, giving as
security deed of real estate which
has since proved to be worthless. AS
the deed was made out to Closson per-
sonally his bondsmen have been called
upon to make the amount good. They
have asked that Closson be retained as
cashier while they are making an in
Yestigation.
The credit of the bank is in no way
impaired.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
OIL NEWS.
Special to the Register.

Special to the REGISTER.
PITTSBURG, Pa, November 20
Near Beall's Mills, Lewis county, J..
NJ. Guffey & Co. have drilled a test
well on the James Gilhooly farm. into
the Gordon sand and have some oil and
gas. The location is about two and a
half miles northeast of the Reynolds
farm producer.
The gauge of the two Sand Fork
gushers for the a hours ending to-day.
showed slight variance from that of
the previous day. The production OF
the Copley was 1920 barrels, and the
Turner 1,440 barrels.
In the Bricker pool in Harrison
county, Ohio, the National Oil Com
pany has completed its well on the
Perry Stephens farm and has a ten
barrel pumper. Near Bowerston, Gum
bert & Co. has completed their test on
the R. Winger farm and have buster
in the Berea formation. They will
drill for lower sands.
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IGNORED THE Bill.

PHILADELPHIA. November z0-Ths
United state grand jury to-day ignored
the bills Of indictment against Isaac A.
Sweigard. former superintendent OF the
Philadelphia and Reading railway COM
pany. who was charged By the Brother
hood Of Railroad Trainmen with having
discharged employees Of the Reading com
pany because they were members OF the
Brotherhood. The otfenss alleged consti-
tuted a violation Of the act OF Congress
of June ], 1885. and the charge by the
president Of the Brotherhood Valentine
Fitzpatrick. whose headquarters are at
Cleveland.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
TWO PARDONS GRANTED.
Special to the Register.

Special TO the Register.
CHARLE51 in. W. Va, November
20.-The Governor has granted a par
don TO George Ensminger, convicted
OF robbery in Barbour county. in Feb
ruary, 1898, and sentenced TO eight and
one half years in the penitentiary The
pardon Is conditioned on the good be-
hayior Of the party.
The Governor has also granted a
pardon to NANNY H. Golden, convicted
in the Summers county Circuit Court
OF malicious shooting at the May term
1895. and sentenced TO ten years in the
penitentiary. Golden was convicted Of
shooting into a railroad coach.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
CONTRACT LET.

Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG, W. Va, November
20.-The contract has been let by the
Parkersburg & Williamstown Street
Railway Co. for surveys for the cleo
trio line which they propose to build
between the two points named. II is
thought that the surveys can be COM
pleted in about a month and after that
work on the road will be begun at
once. 1t is the intention to have the
line in operation by the fourth of July.
The road will be one of the best in the
State and it is expected to make a
speed Of 25 miles an hour over it.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
THOUSAND MEN LAID OFF.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, November 2o.-All
the night men employed at the Newburg
mill OF the American Steel and Wire CON-
pany in this city, have been laid off.
About 500 men are said TO be affected by
the order. The officials of the company
refuse to make any statement concerning
the matter.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
THE WRIT ALLOWED.

ALBANY, N Y, November 2.-The an
pellate division of the supreme court to-
day decided TO allow the alternate writ
of prohibition asked by Charles w Morse.
president of the American Ice Company.
TO restrain the attorney general from
compelling the company's directors and
officers to appear before the referee ap-
pointed to take testimony as to the allie
cation that the company constituted a
trust in violation
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Rev. stewart Admitted 10 Bail.

wTLKEsBARRE, Pa. November %
Rev. D Z. Stuart. the Baptist clergyman
who was arrested At Philadelphia last
night on the charge Of numbering his wife
and performing an abortion upon her. was
brought to Wflkesbarre this afternoon.
Stuart fatty refused to say a word about
the charges against him He was admit
ted 10 bal In the sam of 81 $50.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
SHIRT WAIST GIRLS STRIKE.

FORT WAYNE, Ind, November 90
Two hundred of the three hundred girls
employed in the Paragon shirt waist fac
tory in this city went on strike this morn
ing owing to the refusal of the company
TO increase their wages. There are ru-
mors of similar trouble pending in two
other large shirt waist factories in this
civ
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
ROBBERS DRIVEN OFF.

ASHLEY. Ohio. November 2o.-Eight
men made an unsuccessful attempt 10 rob
the bank of Ashley early to-day. After
using four charges OF dynamite and shat
tering the outer doors Of the vault num-
Der of citizens gathered. They were met
with a fusilade of bullets, but the would
be robbers beat retreat
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
oFFENsEs AGAINST MORALITY.

BERLIN. November 20.-Tn the trial Of
Herr Sternbsrg, the Berlin banker. sccus-
ed Of orense against morality, the court
ordered the arrest Of the witness Luppe.
whom the proceedings strongly implicated
and who disappeared to-day
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
RELEASED FROM PRISON.

CONSTANTINoPLE. November 0.-The
repeatedN representations of the United
States legation here have resulted in the
release from prison Of the Armenian Ar
zauyian, who was arrested while travel
ing on an American passport. Arzoyian
was ordered to leave the country.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
a CHARTER GRANTED.

Special 10 the Register
ga charter has been issued by the
Secretary of State in the Piney Colliery
with principal office in Charleston. The
ineorporators are ~ t. Davis. John
O. Dickinson, ]. L. Dickinson, Enoch
Carver and L. Prichard, all of Charles
ton
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
MILL OWNERS WON.

CHARLOTTE. y. c.. November 70
The big cotton mill operatives strike in
Alamance county. North Carolina has
been declared OF The strike has been
in force about three months and several
thousand hands were involved. This is
the third strike recently among cotton
mill workers in North Carolina and the
mill owners in each case have been thu
winners.
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CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Sad Fate of Young Man at the Lew
iston Coal Works.

Special TO the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, November
20-Bruce McConihay, aged IS, the son
of D. NJ McConihay, of Lewiston, was
crushed to death this afternoon in the
mines of the Lewiston coal Company
by a heavy fall of slate in a room in
the mines where the young man was at
work. The only person in the room
with young McConihay at the time was
Ed. McConihay, manager of the mines,
cousin of the deceased who had a
narrow escape from a like fate When
help was summoned and the slate r
moved from the PROSTATE form, life
was extinct and the body was horri-
bly, crushed,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21
A BIG NEW ENTERPRISE
That viii Operate Electric Ligh.
Plants and Trolley Lines.

Special 70 the Regisrer.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, November
pa charter was issued to-day to the
Marietta, Williamstown & Parkers-
burg Electric Light and Railroad Com
pany, which proposes to build and OPP
crate an electric railroad from the CEN
ter of the city of Marietta, Ohio,
across the Ohio river into Williams
town, W. Va, thence to Parkersburg
and to furnish electric light to the
three cities named. The incorporators
are: w. R. Ryan, c.. NJ. Hayhew and
James "A. Griffin, of Williamstown;
Thomas A. Barrett, of Parkersburg, and
VIM. We'll and Max P. Goodman, of
Cleveland, Ohio.
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PHOEBE MEEKS rs DEAD.
A Famous Recluse Ends Her Life as
She Declared She Would Sixty
Years Ago


ROCKVILLE, Ind, November 20.
Miss Phoebe Meeks, the famous re-
cluse, is dead at her home here, aged
50. Sixty years ago she was disap-
pointed in love and she made a resolu-
ton to cut herself off from the world.
So far as known. from that day she
never left her house. and, notwith-
standing there is a railroad within one
hundred yards of her home, she abso-
lutely refused to look az the cars. The
windows and doors on the ground floor
Of the little brick house were closed
and the only Communication Miss
Meeks held with the outside world dur
ing recent years was through a small
aperture in one OF the doors, where the
necessaries of life were passed in by
a woman employed by the reeluse.
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NOT so GOOD
Was Yesterdays Bulletin on the
Health OF the Czar.

LIVADIA. European Russia, Novem-
Der 20.-The bulletin issued by the
Cars physicians to-day is less favor
able. 1t says:
The Emperor passed satisfactory
day yesterday. At nine in the evening
the patinents temperature was 102 2;
pulse 80. His majesty slept TRANQUILITY
until three in the morning. Suisse
quently his rest was broken and pers-
piration appeared. This morning hIa
condition was fairly satisfactory, tenn
perature, 1904; pulse, TO-"
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BLEW HIS HEAD OFF.

DETROIT. Mich. November Own II
Brady. a prominent young business man
OF this city. blew one side Of his head
completely or with a shot gun to-day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21

Mr. c. Schnepf the Opera House drug
gist. made the following observations OF
the temperature yesterday. a m, 81.
a M. S.: L m. 81. 3 p. m, 81 ?. m, g..
Weather changeable-
Mondays thermometer record. a m.
g. a m. 8; y m. Is: p NJ. &c: .. ~.
a. Weather cloudy.
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The Oil Markets.

NEW YORK, November 2o.-Standard
oil stock. 710G7I5.
OIL CITY. Pa. Noyember 20.-Credit
balances. les; certificates no bid Ship
rents, 1854 bbls. average 99.7e9 bbis.
Runs, 10o,962 bblS. average So 262 hills
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-21

WASHINGTON. November 30-For
Ohio and Western ennzylvanla.-R Rain
wednesday and somewhat cooler: Thurs
day. rain or snow and colder: soHtherfy
winds becoming fresh 70 brisk northerly.
For West yirginla-Rain Wednesday and
probably Thursday. colder Thursday:
southerly winds. becoming variable.