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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-27
RELAXING THE TRACK.
Company Is Fixing up the Liber..y
street Lire.


The street railway tracks on Liberty
street are being torn up and relaid. The
company is carrying its almost completed
plan Of improving the roadway into effect
on that street. and, when the work is
finished, which will be within the next
three or four days, there viii remain but
one short stretch of track that has not
been relaid.
Heavy steel rails are taking the place
Of the lighter ones, and the cross lies and
stringers are being removed where neces-
sary and new ones substituted The Lib
erty line has been in need Of this i'm
provement and its patrons will find the
change decidedly for the better. After
the line has been finished the force will
go to Randolph street, where its work
VIII complete the company's plan. The
west end Of the Liberty line was improv-
ed some time ago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-27
TO COLLECT Unpaid DIVIDENDS.
On stock Held in Trust by the Late
w. \. Habersham.t

An order was granted in the Superior
Court yesterday directing Saussy & Saus-
sy attorneys. for Margaret f. Walblidge
formerly Ritchie, to collect and pay over
TO their clients unpaid dividends on 100
shares Of Camden and Amboy Railway
stock and 125 shares of Southwestern
Railroad stock, which has been held by
the late William Neyle ITaberAham as
trustee for Mrs Wallbridge under the viii
of the late Miss Mary Telfair. The order
was consented to by Mr.. G. Noble Jones
administrator of the estate of the late Mr.
Habersham.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-27
Cooking Glasses at WOman's Ex-
change.

Miss Andrews having arrived. the cook
ing classes viii be held at the Woman's
Exchange daily throughout this week. as
was originally advertised by the Savan-
nah Cotton OIL Company.
The first demonstration will be this af-
ternoon from 4 to 6.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-27

The World Almanac. Chicago Now.
Almanac, Hicks Almanac, Ayers Alma.
nae, Tribune Aim lnac. Clipper AnnIai
German calendars. otc., Tor sale al Es'
tilfs News Depot, % Fun street sa.
rannah. Ga.--ad.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-27
GAVE FICTITIOUS NAMES.
No Indictments Found for Hunting
ON County Farm,

on County Farm.
The grand jury is reported 10 have had
before il yesterday afternoon che cases
of several parties who were charged with
trespassing on the county farm and shoot
ing on Sunday. Five names had been
furnished TO the jury as those of the
guilty parties, but Il developed suisse
quently mat when the parties were an
pretended by Supt. Wimberly of the conn
~ farm, four of the number had given
hctitious names. The matter was ac-
cordingiy dropped, bur IL Is stated that
the County Commissioners intend to pui
a stop 70 promscuous hunting on The
county farm, and especially on sunday.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-27
AGAINST TELEPHONE COMPANY.
Two Judgements Taken in the Cit,
Court. One Agninst County.

In the City Court yesterday jude ment
was ia ken by consent in favor of Julian
E. Rob .nson. by his next Of kin and best
friend, Maurice f. Robinson, against the
Southern Bell Telephone Company for
$50.
Judgm ant was also taken against the
county for the sum of $i5 and costs by
Ben Gordon. individually and as trustee.
for lands taken by the county in con
structing the Buckhalter canal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-27
GATE CITY STILL BEACHED.
Work of Unloading Has Been Delay
ed by the Storm.

The situation Of the Ocean Steamship
Company's steamer Gate City remains
practically unchanged. The storm that
has been raging off the Long Island coast
with more or hess violence for several days
has not broken the ship up, by any means,
Vice President John VI. Egan says. and il
is stu likely that the wreclers VIII be
successful in their efforts to float her.
The most serious work of the storm was
TO delay the unloading. The ship must be
hghtened Of her cargo before she can be
hoated, and it is desirable to get It out Of
her as speedily as possible.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-27
Sleeping Cars Between savannah
and Montgomery.

The Plant System will inaugurate
sleeping car service between Savannah
and MONTGOMERY Monday Feb. 10 Leave
Savannah p. m city time. Arrive Mont.
gomery $40 a. n ,-ad
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-27

Make home place OF pleasure. Keep
therein your greatest treasure. Cooks
Imperial Champagne. Extra Dry. 1t is
superior -ad
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

The national platform of the Repub-
lican party was adopted at the Phila-
delphia Convention, yesterday after
noon.
AS was to have been expected. it is
a machine-made aggregation of gener-
alities, sophistries and untruths, and
will nowhere command consideration
as a statement of facts. Originally
drafted by a Cabinet minister, it vas
revised by the lieutenants of Mark
Hanna, and amended, and corrected.
and added to and subtracted from by
this and that party leader until it was
judged to be best calculated to fool and
bamboozle the people. The full text
of the document appears in the Reg
lister this morning. 1t is only neces-
sary to call attention to a few of its
u~tterances at this time.
1t endorses the administration of
President McKinley-of course; civil
service refrigeration, Porto Rico insin-
certify, Cuban rascality, the shielding
of fraudulent public officials. the Phil
ippine monstrosity-all is endorsed and
commended.
Allegiance to the gold standard idea
is reaffirmed. OF course.
Equalization and the lowering of in
terest rates is advocated. Rats!
There is a declaration against silver.
Certainly; that was to be expected.
The tariff tax is endorsed, and with
II, by implication, at least, the on
tinuance of the war taxes. The plat
form points to a bond reduction of
$40, oOo, 900. but says nothing about the
burden of twice that sum still hung
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
about the necks Of the American people

about the necks Of the American people
by reason of the war tax.
An isthmian canal is favored, but
there is a paucity of detail.
The markets of the world are COM
mended as a good thing, which is good
Democratic doctrine, but the thought
is handicapped with a recommendation
for a new Cabinet minister, and the
continuance of the protective tariff.
The trust plank is a farce and a
fraud, intended to be such. The Re-
publican party is responsible for the
trusts.
The Peace Conference at The Hague
is commended, while the administra-
ton has involved the country in I'M
necessary war-and so on to the end
of the chapter.
The platform is just about such a
document as has been forecast by re-
cent developments, and might have
been expected by the acts of the admin
istration managers. 1t is a deception
and a snare, and will be accepted seri-
ously by no sensible voter.
The machine and the big bosses die
tated it, as they have dominated the
Convention.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
survivors and for all future visitors.
whether missionaries or traders

i SURVIVORS ana LOT ali future ylSIl0TS,
whether missionaries or traders.
The position of the menaced foreigners
in Pekin is serious, but the government,
| such as it Is. must be impressed with the
| vital importance of shielding them from
! the mob. and unless the revolution is
complete the Empress and the imperial
officials must still be able to enforcessome
authority in the capital. In the open
country. through which s-outheastward
the road stretches one hundred miles and
| more. through Tien-Tsin. on the river Pei
no, to Taku, at its mouth. on the Bay
of Chill, the insurgents seem to be domi-
nant. This. at least, would appear from
the fact that Admiral Seymour and the
small force anded from the various ships
in the harbor V not succeeded in bat
Ting their way to Pekin and nave re-
turned to Tien-Tsin.
The attack made by the forts at Taku
yesterday upon the foreign warships in
the harbor means hat war has actually
begun. and the speedy capture of the for
tifications for~eshadows the rapidity with
which the combined foreign forces will
NOW down the natives and wade through
their blood to the capital when a con-
Z NCo ~ Va NNAO - NoA&No 4
on. Perhaps the decentralized system of
government, with its eighteen provinces.
each ruled by a governor general, and
with adequate means of communication
and transportation, may admit of the in
surrection being suppressed and a new
authority being installed at Pekin by
the Powers before a general revolt oc-
ours throughout the empire. In any
event the problem of dealing with a ter
ritory three times as large as India and
with a population of four hundred mill
ions is one of the most gigantic recorded
in history.
Whether it's solution is to be very diff
cult depends upon whether there is to be
absolute accord and unison of action
among the leaders of the narious national
fire ~brigades. If any should yield to
temptation to loot the premises there
might be disastrous conflicts. Fortu-
nately all the facts thus far known in
dictate concordant action.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21

semi-domestic or undomestic relations
are neither congenial or pleasant, that
they either put out the lights or pull
down the blinds before they engage in
small differences of opinion wherein
scanty costumes and contests OF skill
and endurance with bare knuckles and
without the restraint Of prize ring rules
play prominent parts. These exhibit
tions are at all times unseemly, but
particularly so between the hours of
2 and 8 a. IN, when good men and
women ought to be asleep.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
The Conhngration in China.

New York Herald.
The clang of the alarm bell turns .he
eyes Of a whole neighborhood in one di-
recton and brings the police and the fire
engines Gathering from all quarters TO
the scene of the danger.
So the attention of all civilized man
KIND Is now turned to the Chinese capital,
and the worlds fire brigades and police
are being rushed from all corners of the
earth TO extinguish the c~onfagration
and restore order.
Two score war ships of all nations are
already assembled in the Bay of Chill.
and others are on the way. Our own Or
egon has been ordered from. Hong Kong
to the scene of disturbance. and our
Ninth infantry will start from Manila
directly the typhoon now raging will ad-
NIT. England is hurrying troops from In
dla, Germany is rushing them from Kiau-
Chou and at midnight the overland and
undersea wires were hot with messages
in~terchanged between all the World-Pow-
ers IN consultation as to the next stem
that must be taken.
There nave been SO many blazes IN Chi
ma, but non so serious as this Did the
Dowager Empress directly encourage the
ineendiaries, or was the house set on fire
by servants over whom she had lost con-
troig The question cannot now be an
swered. but in either case it is evident
that a new administration is necessary,
and It must either be chosen by or be
satisfactory to the Powers who are about
to extinguish the fire. They must have
indemnity for the suffering and loss of
life among their people who were So
1ourning In the doomed structure, and an
assurances Of ample protection for the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
to the Register.

Special to the Register.
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, June 90
Commencement exercises are on in full
blast at the University. Last night
the P~arthenians and Columbians had
their inter-society contest. The for
mel won. In grafton, Charles Benton
Hickman, subject Purity in Politics"
won over Emery Isom Ireland. whose
subject was Abraham Lincoln" Miss
Gillian Jamison, defamation. "a Sis
terly Scheme" won over D. L. Morri-
son, scene from Romeo and Juliet"
Gilbert Benton Miller. essay, The
Lands of Literary Promise" won over
Ira Benton Bush, on The Sympathetic
Samuel"
The competitive drill for colors was
held to-day. The result will not be
announced until tomorrow morning.
The judges were Captain George ".
Freeman and Lieutenants B. F. Laugh
lin and Justin NJ. Kunkle.
Tonight the Phi Kappa Psi fratern-
ity gave an elaborate banquet and
dance. One hundred covers were laid.
The graduating exercises take place
on Thursday morning. The address
will be delivered by DR.. John Fiske, Of
Boston. Fifty members will receive
diplomas in the academic department
and in the law department.
The impression is rapidly growing
that DR.. Raymond's resignation will
o be taken from the table, where it
was placed at the last meeting. 1t Is
to take effect on June q. The regents
have been in session several times, but
have not reached it nor the charges
against the five members of the faculty
preferred by the president.
The members OF the board are very
reticent on the subject. They will not
adjourn before Saturday and will act
on these matters at the very last mo-
ment.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
BRIDGEPORT.
Chronicle Of Daily Events from the
Town Across the Way.

Chronicle of Daily Events from the
Town Across the Way.
Jacob Heinlein left last evening for
Macon, Ga.
Mrs. Samuel BUGGY is quite sick at
her home.
Mrs. Geo. Medill is visiting friends i n
East Liverpool.
Everly South was at Flushing yester-
day on business.
DR.. Hepler was at West Liberty yes
terday on business.
DR.. j. o. Howells was at Darlington
yesterday on business.
Mrs. Charles Daugherty Is visiting
friends in st. Clairsville.
H. ". Herman, of Bellaire, was In
town yesterday on business.
DR.. ]. A. Hobson, of Flushing, was IN
the city yesterday on business.
Frank McNichols, of Bethesda, was
in town yesterday calling on friends.
Stew at Louis Frfck.s sum
mer Garden this CT~hursSay) evening.
MIS-. y. W.. I1cisicg anu MIS. huklll.
OF Kirkwood, are visiting the family OF
Philip Frankhauser, at Povhatan.
Clyde Bowers was fined $40 aud costs
by Mayor Neininger. Bowers will be
taken to St, C%lairsville Jail to spend a
few days.
A. T. Bowie and family are expected
home to-day from Baltimore, where
they have been spending several weeks
with friends.
John Gordon and family will go to
bethany to-day to attend the gradual
ing exercises. Fred Gordon is a mem
Der Of the class.
Mrs. Charles Lowe and daughter left
yesterday for Brooklyn. where they
will spend several weeks visiting Mrs.
loves brother, DR.. John Clayland.
The A. o. U. W. will meet tonight
and initiate several applicants. This
lodge is growing fast. and will soon
be one Of the largest on the Ohio side.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21

The platform is a thing of shreds and
patches. Originally drafted by Post
master General Smith, it has been
amended and doctored and blue pen
ciled and added to and subtracted from
by everybody who is anybody. An es-
sentially administration document, the
administration is lauded to the skies.
This, is perhaps, natural. HE who
bloweth not his own horn, the same
shall not be blown"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
AN IMPORTANT NATTER.

From time to time, during and since
tie completion Of the census enumera-
ton, the Register has been informed of
instances where families were not
called upon by those taking the count,
both in this city and in surrounding
towns. The Register suggests that in
ali cases of omission the individual or
householder, knowing or believing ne
was skipped, communicate with Mr..
Helmbright at once, calling his atten-
ton to the house, street and number,
that the delinquency may be corrected.
Wheeling has a population of at least
10000. 1t is important that we be
given credit for the full number. If
citizens missed will go to this slight
trouble, Mr.. Helmbright will do the
rest.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
MckTNLEY AND RoosEvELT.

Last Friday morning, four days be
fore the Republican National Conven-
ton assembled, the Register predicted
in these columns that the ticket would
lie Mckinley and Roosevelt.
That will be the ticket nominated at
Philadelphia to-day. The New York
Governor, confronted by the popular
clamor within the party for his candi-
dacy, has given his consent, Platt has
gone home satisfied. and Mark Hanna
has been beaten and, must hide his
disappointment as best he can and
hold on to such shreds, of party power
as Platt and Quay may consent to al
low him. 1t is an anti-administration
victory. Neither Mckinley, Mr.. Hanna
nor Ell1irs, nor any of the other bosses
owing alliance to the White House,
even down to William Finn, of Pitts
burg, wanted Roosevelt. But the pres
sure was too great to be withstood, and
the New York man will be McKinley's
running mate.
Roosevelt is not a strong man polit-
tcally. That was shown by his vote
in his own State when he was chosen
Governor by a majority a quarter of a
million short of that given Mckinley
in 1896. He will add nothing to the
ticket outside of New York, and will
tend to detract from it there, for in his
own State Roosevelt has many ene-
mics in his own party, who will not
hesitate to vote and work against
him.
<The issue, so far as the Republican
party is concerned, is now made up.
We know the platform, and we know
the ticket a day in advance. Neither
platform Or ticket has anything to
commend them to the masses of the
people. The Republican party simply
goes before the country with a con-
tinuance of the unrepublican and cost
ly policies and methods of the past
four years. Mark Hanna will probab-
ly not be quite so much in evidence:
but Tom Platt will be more prominent,
and Matt Quay will have something to
gay. In a word, instead of one ad-
ministration boss, in the event of Re-
publican success, there will be a trium-
yirate, and the people will not be in
1t.
The Hanna-Platt-Quay compromise
ticket is doomed to defeat. The peo-
pie have had enough of boss rule.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
BROKE THE RECORD.
Lewis Circuit Court Did not Offer n
Case to the ~Jury-Judge Benefits
Docket Clear.

Lewis Circuit Court Did not Offer n
Case to the ~Jury-Judge Benefits
Docket Clear.
Special to the Register.
WESTON, June 20.-The June term
of the Circuit Court is generally a
short one, but the present term bids
fair to eclipse all previous records.
There was not a single case submitted
to the petit jury and they were dis
charged yesterday. The grand jury
held over until this afternoon, closing
their usual three days session. The
business turned in by this body which
was a few misdemeanor and one felony
case, possibly could have been lone in
two days, but as the law allows pay
ments for three it vas just as well
that this time be made. However, to
the credit of Judge Bennett it must be
said that the docket was cleared of a
number of cases. His Jealous efforts
to do this was noticeable. Evidently
Judge Bennett wants to leave a clean
docket for his successor when he
leaves the circuit bench to enter upon
his duties as Supreme Judge.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21

Up to date five thousand American
troops are under orders to go to
China, the Japanese government has
ordered the mobilization of %, 900 men
and an entire fleet of merchantmen
has been chartered for transports
France has ordered 10, 600 men north
from Tonquin, England has taken
steps to forward six regiments and ar
tiiiery from India to China, Russia has
at least $4,000 men available, and Ger
many has taken energetic steps, In
two weeks there will be fifty thousand
foreign troops on Chinese soil, but they
will probably be too late for anything
but revenge.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
REpuBLrcAN1sM AND THE NEGRO.

The colored delegation at Philadel-
phia, representatives Of some millions
of their race.in the Southern and what
used to be called the border" States,
more than bare recognition at the
hands of the machine-made delegates
in Convention assembled. They set up
the claim that the party has never CIV
en- the negro proper recognition, they
have demanded a plank in the platform
de~nouncing lawless persecution of the
negro race, they ask for a free ballot
and a fair count, for adequate repre-
sentation, and, above all, for their full
share in the distribution of the offices.
The negro delegates and leaders are
wasting their time and money, as they
often have BEFORE" They will be CIV
en- the stereotyped promises, and later
a few bones, such as one would toss to
a homeless cur. The negro has had
enough Republican promises to satisfy
nail q dOLCA ldSOSS bhC PCLAOA ldoAAO
accorded him has been scant and un-
satisfactory-and yet he is expected to
continue a party allegiance without a
parallel in its unselfish patriotism, and
to continue to vote the Republican
ticket out of gratitude for events of a
generation ago, in which Democrats
had quite as prominent a part as Re-
publicans, for hundreds of thousands
of Democrats, under Democratic Gen
enals, were in the Union army, and out
of the operations of that vast host, ow-
ing allegiance to no party, came negro
freedom in North America.
The average negro Republican has
and does serve the Republican party
well. He stands up for its alleged prin-
ciples, and votes It's ticket. The negro
element of the Republican party has
always given it its preponderance-
when it had one. Without the negro
vote Republicanism could not have
commanded success in the last twenty
years in one out of four States it has
carried. The race numbers in its mem
bership many men of education, rea-
sonable wealth, deep thinkers-men
honest, capable, intelligent and pro-
gressive. And yet, after election day,
when the dark-skinned newer of
political wood and drawer of
partisan water no matter what
his standing, or capacity, asks
for some adequate reward for
the party fidelity of his race, he is put
off with a p~ostofice janitorship, a us
tom house porterage, a city hall col
messenger in the subordinate depart
mental office of some third-rate white
ward heller.
This is the average reward Of the col
ored man, for his fidelity to the Repub-
lican party. He is bossed, %snubbed,
over-ridden in small meetings, ignored
in conventions, treated with a contempt
objectionable in the party he espouses,
and yet he must toe the line, vote the
ticket, and, if necessary, accept a small
bride in the shape of cash or a promise
never intended to be kept.
Republican party treatment Of its
black contingent is one of the shameful
things in Republican politics. and the
negro is beginning slowly to find it out.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
ANNUAL MEETING
OF the Daughters of the C~onfederacy
Opened Mt Charleston Yesterday.

OF the Daughters of the C~onfederacy
Opened MT Charleston Yesterday.
Special to the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, June 90
The annual meeting of the Daughters
of the C~onfederacy began in the SEN
ate chamber of the capitol this morn
ing. 1t was called to order by the pres
ident, Mrs. Virginia McSherrey, of
Martinsburg. Rev. R. D. Roller, of this
city, offered prayer. In the absence
of the president of the Charleston
Chapter, Mrs. S. S. Green, who was
sick, Miss Mamie K. Davis read the
address of welcome, which was re-
sponded to by Mrs. l.. G. Burlington, of
Huntington.
To-day's session was devoted to hear
ing and considering reports. Mrs.
Green gave the delegates a reception
this afternoon, and this evening the
visitors were taken out on a river ex-
eursion.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
Small.

Parkersburg Sentinel.
Senator Elkins's boom for Vice Presi-
dent was confined to a dispatch from
Scott and banners on the sides of two
passenger coaches. Like the maiden's
excuse for the infant, it was u a lit
tie thing.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21

Senator Platt has left Philadelphia
for New York, to nurse a broken rib.
The Senator may be satisfied with the
situation, however, Notwithstanding a
fractured bone.