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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-24
! OBITUARY.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, December %
w. E. Jones, who has been treasurer
and assistant secretary of the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern Railway
and It's predecessors for over thirty
years, died suddenly at his residence
here to-day, aged SO years.
CINCINNATI, O., December %
John Riley Chamberlain. a veteran of
the civil war, and a graduate of Mia
mi University at Oxford, Ohio. died
here tonight. aged 70. He had been
engaged in newspaper work in Gin
cinnati for thirty-ive years most of
that time with the Associated Press.
The deceased had been a widower
many years. He leaves two children.
SYRACUSE. N. Y. Dec, 2S~.-Theodore
L. Poole, United States marshal for the
northern district OF New York State.
member of the Fifty-fourth Congress
from 1894 10 1896, and a civil war veteran,
died CT ~apoplexy this morning.
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OIL NEWS.

CHARLESTON. w. Va, December
23.-The Donegal Oil company, which
has made a lease of the great Brock
erhoff tract of land in Clay county for
the purpose of drilling for oil, will be-
gin in January to put down it's wells.
Five will be begun at once, and the
intention is not to stop short of Is or
20 test wells. The land originally I'M
dertaken in this tract was about 75,-
900 acres, but a number of inside sur
veys have also been secured on lease
and the amount now held is almost
10000 acres.
The principal members OF the com
pany are Guffey & Galley. the we'll
known oil men of P~ittsburg; ex-Sena-
tor Don Cameron, who Is one Of the
principal owners Of the B~rockerhon
land, and the B~rockerhot heirs.
The name Of the company Is taken
from Mr.. Cameron's residence in Penn
sylvania, "Donagal."
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faction Of the police and Mr.. Cudahy.
who was called in, that he had nothi-
to do with the case, and was allowed
to return to his wife and family.
Chief of Police Donahue is well pleas
ed with the progress his men are max
ing. saying that the arrest of Johnson
narrows the case down by eliminating
one of the extraneous features and
centering the chief interest about the
light" man who rented the house
from Mrs. Schneiderwind. In the
meantime the city IS being diligently
secured for any sign of the other men
described by persons living in the vi
cinity of the abductors' prison house.
There is still a dark com~plexioned
man in the case, but he is larger than
Johnson, and younger. Otherwise he
is very much like Johnson. having a
black mustache and dark hair, slightly
mixed with gray. If the police have
any idea who this man is they will not
admit it. So far as they know he was
seen by but one person. and that is
Eddie Cudahy himself. The other ban
dit vas the light complexioned man
with the brown hair and long. light
mustache. slight Of build and whose
age is said to be somewhere between
so and So years. This individual is
described by three persons besides the
kidnapped boy, namely, B. K. Mum
shaw, James S~chneiderwind and Frank
Glynn. This is the man who called
at the S~chneiderwind home to engage
the cottage at Thirty-sixth and Grow
er streets. and who called up the Cud-
ahy mansion from Glynn's livery stable
to give notice of the letters being in
the front yard. The police are salts
fed that they know this man and if
he is the person they think he is they
will probably be in custody within the
next ten days. If guilty he cannot re
main at large long, they say.
E. A. Cudahy, Sr., still entertains
the theory that if Pat Grove was not
one of the men who kidnapped his
son he will lose no time in advising
him of this fact. Mr.. Cudahy has be-
friended Grove many times in the
past.
Why" said the packer, 'Pat Grove
knows perfectly well that If he had
come to me a week ago and asked me
for s25. he would have got 1t. He
has often expressed a sense of graft
tude for what I have done for him,
and | can hardly believe he would turn
against me IN this way"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-24

WASHINGTON. December 22-Sam-
uel Macdonald. the treasury clerk who
shot and killed Frank H. Morris, aud
itor for the War Department. at the
Winder building yesterday, and then
wounded himself, was in a precarious
condition at the Emergency hospital
tonight, and his death is expected
~momentarily. Macdonald has been en-
tirely conscious since his removal to
he hospital. His condition this morn
ing seemed more favorable. but to-
night it took a turn for the worse. and
he began to sink. He has constantly
reitered the hope that he would die.
declaring he did not care to live. All
day long there was a continuous
stream of visitors to see the wounded
man, but the latter was particularly
anxious that none of his friends should
talk to the newspapers about what he
told them, and he even took the pre-
caution to tear up their visiting cards
so that their identity might not be
learned. Macdonald has a large mum.
Der Of friends in this city, and the
opinion was expressed quite generally
that his mind was in an unsettled con.
dition at the time OF the shooting.
An autopsy was performed on the
body Of Mr.. Morris to-day, and devel-
oped the fact that three of the five
bullets fired had struck him. The body
will be taken from here Tomorrow
evening to Cleveland, Ohio. where the
interment win be made in Lakeview
cemetery. The family OF the dead
man were the recipients of many tele-
grams and letters OF coincidence to-
day and among the touching incidents
was a visit of twelve children of Mr..
Morris Sunday school class from Faith
Chapel.
Dan. A. Grosvenor, deputy auditor
for the Wa Department. and the next
in line of rank to the late Mr.. Morris,
was discharged on Saturday. Mr..
Grosvenor received his discharge pa
pers half an hour after the killing OF
Mr.. Morris. They were conveyed to
him from the office Of Secretary Gage,
the discharge taking effect at once.
Captain Cobaugh, OF the treasury
watch, took charge of affairs at the
Winder building shortly after the
shooting on Saturday, with instrue-
tions to report OF w. w. Brown, aud
itor for the Navy Department, and
the predecessor of Mr.. Morris, who
has been reinstated in his old position
as auditor fer the War Department
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THE T~HUNDERER"
Is Slightly Unhappy After Confena-
plating the Amended Treaty.

Is Slightly Unhappy After Confem-
plating the Amended Treaty.
LONDON, December 24-The limos
in an editorial on President McKin-
ley's decision to submit the Hay
Pauncefote canal treaty to Great Brit
ain. r~eproaches him with shifting a
dangerous responsibility" on the Brit
i5h government and says:
The President must bear the re-
sponsibility for any friction that may
ensue. The amended treaty is a bar
gain to which we cannot agree and to
which no reasonable American who
tak&s the trouble to reflect upon our
side of the question can expect to
agree.
When Senator Lodge announcer
that Americans expect Europe to keep
out OF America, he forgets that Eng
land is a great North American power
and means to remain such a power.
"If the Hay-Pauncefote treaty Is not
adopted in a form acceptable TO us. we
shall stand quietly upon our indubit-
able rights under the Clayton ulwer
treaty, rights which cannot be affect
ed by any action the American Senate
may choose to take"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-24
A STREET CAR STRIKE
OF Considerable Magnitude Inaugu-
rated at Scranton, Pa, Yester-
d0w


day.
SCRANTON, Pa, December 23.-Ev-
cry n Of the three hundred car and
barn employees of the Scranton Railway
Company obeyed the strike order
which went into effect at five O'Clock
this morning, and as a consequence
only two cars we're run in all of the
Lackawanna Valley to-day. Those
two cars were manned by Superinten-
dent Patterson and aespatchers, fore
men and clerks. No attempt was made
to modest them and although rain fell
a greater part OF the day, the two
cars seldom had a passenger.
The tied-up region extends from
Pittston to Forest City, a distance OF
thirty miles, and includes sixty-five
miles of tracks on which are run or
dinarily eighty cars. The men OF the
Wyoming Valley Traction Company
operating all the lines south of Pitts
ton as far as Nanticoke, threaten to
go on strike Thursday. With both
companies tied up there would be to-
tai cessation Of street car traffic in a
busy stretch of country eighty miles
long, including the four big cities of
Scranton, Wilkesbarre, Pittston and
Carbonate.
The strikers met tonight and APP
pointed committees to man the differ
ent depotS. They are to watch out for
men whom it is reported have been re-
cruited in Philadelphia to take their
places. They will also distribute cards
to strangers notifying them of the
strike and asking them not to ride
on the trolley cars. An appeal to the
local public was also issued asking
that the cars be not patronized.
The men demand twenty cents an
hour for old employees and from Is to
17E cents for new men. AT present
the new men receive an average of
Is $40 cents an hour and after four
years service this is raised to 17A
cents. They also demand a ten hour
day instead Of twelve hours as at
present.
The company in its answer 20 the
grievance committees demands say 10
is not in a position to afford any in
crease in wages at this time
President Clark arrived tonight,
and stated that the road would be OPP
Grated with new men if old men an
not be secured.
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A BeIated Tornado.

MACON, Miss, December 23.-News
was received here to-day that a lorna
do passed through the eastern edge of
Noxubee county, and the western part
or Pickens and Sumter counties, Ala
bama. last night. doing great damage.
On several plantations houses were
blown down. Two negroes are known
to have been killed.
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A MYSTERY
In "A Connecticut Town Which Points
to Murder.

In n Connecticut Town Which Points
to Murder.
NAUGATUCK, Conn, December %.
The finding Of the body Of a man
afterward identified as Gerald Milberg.
with one side of his skull crushed,
early this morning in the yard in front
of the Cotton Hollo wroad house, a
well-known resort, a mile and a half
south of this town, develops a mys-
terry that has every appearance Of muir
der.
News of the happening vas brought
to the local authorities by one Martin,
ted that the man came to his place
alone early Saturday evening and was
assigned to a room on the third floor,
retiring at once.
About 4 o'clock Martin said he was
awakened by a noise in the upper
story, followed by a crash in the front
yard, and, upon investigating, discov-
cred the body. Further than this Mar
tin would say nothing, and the other
! inmates of the house, Martins wife
and three girls, have as yet made no
statement.
An examination of the house, how
ever, revealed the fact that the sashes
of the window frame. through which.
according to Martins story, the mar
must have jumped, when opened wide,
leave a space that is scarcely broader
than a mans body, and very far from
large enough to enable n to fall out
without considerable effort in so doing.
In addition to this, the fact that the
glass in both sashes is shattered and
the shingles ripped from the window
ledge outside, indicates that either
there must have been a struggle or else
the suicide went about his destruction
in a most determined manner. The
body of the man lay some eight or ten
feet from the house, having cleared en-
tirely S six-foot piazza directly under
the window. The fracture in the skull
was such as could easily have been
made by the fall.
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Serious Engagement Reported.

MANILA. December 22.-Advices
brought to-day by steamer from South
ern Luzon say that a lieutenant and
sixty men of the Ninth United States
cavalry attacked a large body Of in
surgenbs last Wednesday near Guino-
balan, province OF Albay. After the
battle As dead insurgents were count
ed, together with many wounded.
The only American casualty was the
wounding of a sergeant, who was cor
nered by several rebels and struck in
the leg by a bolo. The rebel loss was
the heaviest recorded among recent n
counters.
The cutting Of the wires has delayed
the official report Of the engagement.
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MINISTER WI


Is Keenly Disappointed at the Com
tents of the Joint Note to China.
WASHINGTON, December 2S.-Dip-
lomatic circles discussed with interest
to-day the provisions of the joint agree
ment which mas been signed by the
representatives of the powers at Pekin
for presentation to the Chinese pleni-
potentiaries. The hope is generally ex-
pressed that the latter will act prompt
ly in the consideration of the note and
thus pave the way for prompt nego
tiations for the settlement OF peace
terms.
To Mr.. WI, the Chinese minister, the
demands made by the powers are a
keen disappointment, and are not such,
in his opinion. as should have ANNA
ted the governments which have the
ultimate best interests OF the Chinese
empire at heart. He regards them as
harsh and severe, but expresses the
hope that they will be discussed by
both sides in an amicable and concilia-
tory spirit, and that the powers even
tually will amliorate many of the OBJ
j~ectionable features.
Mr.. WI expects that. while Ii Hung
Chang and Prince Ching are fully quail
flied to act in the matter, yet the terms
of the note will be sent by telegraph
to the court at its present abode, which
is connected with Pekin by telegraph.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-24

OMAHA, Neb., December 23.-There
was a decisive development in the
Cudahy kidnapping case Sunday, al
though the disclosure is negative in
kind. 1t has been learned that there
were two banditS-not three, implicat-
ed in the abduction. One of the out
laws has been eliminated. The dark
complexioned man with the black
mustache and black hair tinged with
gray, so infinitely described by Miss
Maud Munshaw, was in the Office Of
Chief Donahue this afternoon and was
there confronted by Eddie Cudahy, his
supposed victim. After carefully
scrutinizing him the boy said;
That is not the man. He is not
tall enough by an inch and half, and
he's not broad enough. He's too small
in every way"
The suspects name is Ed. John
son. He is a laborer in the Cudahy
packing plant, and resides at Twenty
sixth and Walnut streets. He admit
ted having gone out to the Grover
street house three times for the pur-
pose of renting the building, which
he found already let to the light"
man and his accomplices. Johnson
was easily able to prove to the salts
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NO DANGER
For Men Capable of D~ischarGing
Their Duties.

For Men Capable of Discharging
Their Duties.
NEW YORK, December 23.-Eugene
A. Philbin, who has been appointed by
Governor Roosevelt to succeed Asa
Bird Gardiner as district attorney, in
an interview to-day said he would
take charge of the district attorneys
Office as soon as he receives the official
notification.
Il shall not make a clean sweep of
the district attorneys Office he said,
Il shall remove no mar who is COM
petent to fill the Office he occupies and
Who is doing his duty"
The members of District Attorney
Gardeners staff held two conferences
to-day and it was decided that they
would not resign, though several of
them at first strongly favored the res
ignation of the entire staff.
Col. Gardiner will not enter into any
legal contest over the matter, but will
surrender the Office.
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VIII Remain Two Weeks.

ST. PETERSBURG. December g.
The correspondent Of the Associated
Press was informed by one Of the min
listers Of state this afternoon that En-
peror Nicholas and the ministers Of
finance. war and foreign affairs do
not expect to leave Liyadia. where the
Car is convalescing before the mid
die of January.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-24

WILLKESBARRE. Pa. December "a.
Two hundred and fifty girls employ
ed at the Wyoming Valley lace mills,
this city, have notified the manage
ment that they will not report for
work tomorrow. They go out In,
sympathy with the weaver Of the
who have been out on strike fo
months. The failure OF thx
report for work will nece&N
tai suspension.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-24

ST. PAUL, Mimi, December %
This section of the northwest is ex-
periencing the first blizzard OF the
present winter. The past week has
been extremely mild and pleasant.
Early to-day, however, the wind shift
ed TO the northwest and changed the
rain to snow, In st. Paul the snow
fall has been light, but the fierce wind
blew it in binding sheets and made
things very disagreeable. The storm
is general throughout the State.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-24

TRENTON, n. j., December 23.-The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
through a local real estate firm here.
has purchased about thirty properties
in the southern portion OF Trenton and
negotiations are pending for the acqui-
sition of about the same number OF
additional properties. 1t is believed
that the object is to s~traighten the
company's tracks in south Trenton, re
ducing the distance between New York
and Philadelphia about a quarter of a
mile.
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Strike Called Oh,

MUNCIE, Ind, December 23.-The
strike of the snappers in the Trust
window glass plants in Muncie, which
threatened to close all the western
plants, was called off tonight. The
workmen met and decided not to re-
turn to work unless they received the
same pay as before. The management
then offered terms which were accept
ed by the men, who returned to work
at midnight. The new rule decided
upon allows eight rollers single, seven
double for a box. 12O boxes allowed
per month.
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Contract Not Yet a Go.

C0NSTANTINOPLE. December %
The expected imperial trade authoriz-
ing the signature Of the contract for
the construction of a cruiser for the
Ottoman navy by the Cramp Ship
building Company, together with the
initial deposit OF G100, 900 has not yet
been issued.
Il appears that the German embassy
has protested to the Porte against the
payment to the Cramps before the
amount owing to Herr Krupp for nav
al guns has been paid.
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Pneumonia Caused Death.

NEW YORK. Dec. BY an autopsy
performed on the body of Oscar Aaron
son, the six-day bicycler, to-day. 1t was
found that he had died from pneumonia.
instead of injuries from the fall he had in
the Madison Square Garden race. He
contracted pneumonia, however. dur
ing the race. The body vas removed to
Aaronson's home in Brooklyn, and the
funeral viii probably take place to-mor-
yew.
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the earth opened, swallowed her and
closed again, as 1t were.
Early this evening a searching party
returning home from the woods dis
covered here body as described above.
AS yet there is not a single satisfactory
theory by which to explain the killing.
She had no known enemies, no one
would profit by her death as far as has
yet been learned and the circumstances
fatty contradict the suicide theory.
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THE CORONER DECLARES
1t was Murder, and the Police arr
of the Same Opinion.

1t was Murder, and the Police are
of the Same Opinion.
SCRANTON, Pa, December 23.-
Mrs. Celia Macdonald, aged SO, of
Dunmore, who mysteriously disappear
ed from her home last Thursday, was
.ound dead this evening at the foot Of
a ledge of rocks in the woods about a
half mile back Of the hotel.
Coroner Roberts performed an aut-
opsy and declared that death was due
20 strangulation. A shawl found along
side the body was, in the %coroner's
opinion, the mean by which she was
strangled.
The coroner declares unhesitatingly
that it was a murder and the police
are of the same opinion.
Nothing more mysterious ever oc-
Cured in these parts. The woman
was of quiet domestic disposition and
acted as house-keeper for her son, Joan
Mcdonald, proprietor of the Sterling
hotel. Thursday morning she was en-
gagged In experimenting the baking Of
pastry In the kitchen. She filled the
ovens and then left the house. No
one saw her go and her absence was
not noticed until the smell of the
burning pastry attracted, her son and
some of the help to the kitchen. When
she did not return in the codgse of an
hour or so inquiry was made for her,
but no trace of her could be found.
Friday and Saturday passedfand still
no tidings of her. Her disappearance
was a. complete and mysterious a. II
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THE JOINT NOTE
VIII Probably BE Presented to Earl
Lii and Prince Ching ID

Ii ana frlnce thin& To-day.
PEKIN, December 23.-Li Hung
Chang, answering an inquiry from the
foreign ENJOYS regarding his death,
said he believed he would be able to
attend the meeting tomorrow In or
der to accept with Prince Ching, the
preliminary joint note.
The note will be presented by the
Spanish minister, Senior B. j. De Colo
gan, Doyen Of the diplomatic corps.
with a few words expressive Of a hope
Of as prompt a reply as possible to a
note which has been carefully prepar-
ed with every desire to continue the
dynasty and as not 10 be hard toward
the nation. and Of a further hope that
the Chinese plenipotentiaries viii urge
upon Emperor Kwang Su the neees-
sity Of immediate compliance.
An answer is expected about Thurs
day.
View Open Port.
MINIS n~n--A~. ~ -
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BERLIN, December 23.-The popu-
lation Of Berlin, including the suburbs,
is 2,469,s76 as compared with 2,076, 1854
in 1895.
The electric trolley system is rap
idly d~isplacing the storage battery
system on the busiest streets OF Ber-
lin.
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China VIII Accept.

LONDON, December 24.-Dr. Morri-
son, wiring to the Times from Pekin,
Saturday, says that Official Chinese de-
clare that China will accept all the
conditions of the joint note without
losing her face"
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A BIG COAL DEAL.
NineteenSquare Miles in Harrison
County Sold,

FAIRMONT, w. Va, December %
The largest coal deal ever made in
Harrison county will be closed in a
few days. The territory comprises
10000 acres, or 10 square miles, lying
around Salem. The purchasers are
James f. Brown, of Uniontown, and
Alfred J. Cochran. of Dawson. who will
pay $S42, 900 for the entire tract.
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HARDLY UNSUITABLE
is THE CONFIDENCE BREATHED IN
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS FROM
LORD KITCHENER.
THAT is LoNDoN's OPINION.
EVIDENT THAT THE INVASION OF
CAPE COLONY is SERIOUS.

There is a Total Lack of u Proper
Appreciation of the Abilities of
General De Wet, and His Forces
Are by No Means "a RabbbIe-They
Move With the Precision of
Machinery, and Are Not to he
Despised-The Cape Dutch Elated.
and n Rising is Probable, if it Has
Not Already Occurred.
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MCDONALD IS sinking.
THE SLAYER OF FRANK H. NORRIS
EVIDENTLY NOT LONG FOR
THIS WORLD.
BECAME WORSE LAST NIGHN
A CONTINUOUS STREAM OF CALLERS
AT HOSPITAL YESTERDAY.

n Opinion is Prevalent That His
Mind Was Unsettled at the Time Of
Ia ShootinK-The body of Norris
VIII BE Taken to Cleveland To-
Day-Three Bullets Ont of Five
struck Him-The Deputy Auditor
PeremPtority Discharged.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-24

Official Temps announces in confrma-
ton of the press dispatches, that the
viceroy Of the provinces of Hu Pei and
HUI Nan declares that WI Chang will
be made an open port