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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-05-13

as a candidate for road supervisor OF
Union district. Mr.. Riley is an old
timer in the Democrat party and will
make an efficient officer
William Sharp and family and Miss
H. Patterson are spending the day at
Woodland.
The grain transfer at the lower end
of the yards has quite a rush of bus
mess just now, and Foreman Taylor
White complains Of scarcity of
hands.
Earl Gillingham returned home on
Thursday after two years tour
through the United States.
There was a public dance at Nc
Mechen's hall last evening.
George Ellison is making great i'm
provements to his property in the
lower part of town. He has been SOW
ing grass seed in his yard every day
and we are informed that a luxuriant
coat of grass nearly a foot high now
covers the lawn.
The Republican club held a meeting
in McMechen's hall Friday evening
and candidates Knight and Evans, of
Moundsville, and PoNerfeld, of Ben
wood, were present and addressed the
meeting. There is considerable kick
ing here because the different can
didates are not dropping any money
in McMechen this. campaign, and some
people will doubtless wonder why
they did not get certain votes after the
primaries.
Base ball headquarters have been
established at Bohrens, at the cor
nf val cfr ~
Bohren has fitted up dressing room
for the players, which is very con-
venient for visiting clubs.
The Victors and McMechen school
team crossed bats here yesterday af-
ternoon. The Victors will probably
go to Bellaire to play game there
next Saturday.
This afternoon the Doyles and
Daughertys, of Martins Ferry, will
play game on the Doyle grounds
A large crowd is expected to be pres
ent.
At the Disciples church Rev. A. R.
Linkletter will preach at 1920 a. m.
and 80 this evening. Sunday school
will be held at 8: As a. m.
At the Methodist Episcopal church
the usual services will be held. Rev.
Spencer King will preach at 7:30 this
evening. The pastor. Rev. Carroll,
will arrive here Tuesday from a six
weeks visit in Lincoln county.
Miss Edna Campbell spent Saturday
with friends at Glendale.
Rev. Sooesk and wife will conduct
services at McMechen hall at 2:30 to-
day. Mr.. Sooeski was a missionary
in Turkestan for many years, and
but recently accepted call to the
Church of God at this place.
Work on the new Catholic church
at this place is being pushed rapidly
In the meantime services are being
held at the home of Martin Connor
Mass will be held there this morning
at 8 o'clock by priest from the Ca
thedral at Wheeling.
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WESTON.

WESTON, W. Va, May 12.-While
there was a great deal of animosity
shown in the convention last Friday.
We believe it was purely local mat
ter and now that its all over. 1t is
to be hoped they will all join hands
for the good of the cause.
When you reflect over the proceed
ings of the past two conventions held
here, one Republican and the other
Democratic, in a personal way, it was
dog eat dog.
Hon. Geo. C. Cole is in Washington,
D. c.
Hon. w. w. Brannon Is expected
home from a business trip to Philadel-
phia, Monday next.
J. w. Murphy, who was connected
with the drilling Of the Erwin gas we'll,
has left town.
Miss Margaret Cleary has typhoid
fever.
Engineer Jefferson Davis is on the
sick list.
Mrs Price, who has been rooming
at Mrs. May Chidister's, is quite sick.
Mrs. Grant Jordan is on a visit to
her old home at Monongah.
The charitable people of Weston
have sent Mrs. Dotson to a hospital in
Baltimore.
Miss Lottie Mcbride arrived home
to-day from a six months visit to rel
atives in Iowa.
Mrs. Claud Jordan will leave Monday
for a weeks visit to her old home at
Buckhannon. Her husband, who is an
engineer on the Gauley line of the B.
& o. expects to accompany her.
Mrs. O'Connor, who is at John Hop
kins hospital, has passed a successful
operation.
Miss Mable Clifton and her mother
returned Wednesday last, after a six
months visit to Pittsburg relatives.
Joseph Clifton, Miss Mable's father,
will join them here next week.
Miss Clara Erwin, Mr. A. w. Smith
and Mr. Erwin, of the hospital force.
are off on a vacation visiting their old
homes in Greenbrier county.
Miss Gertrude Krause will leave
Monday next for Marryville, Mo-, where
she will take a course of music COW
ering two years.
Hospital attendants Mr.. n. B. Car
penter, to Wayne c. H., and Chas.
W %AuQiSOn HCiC aILCl pa
tients to be brought TO the hospital.
Mrs. Alex. Robinson left Monday last
to join her husband at Covington, Va.
Dr. Elmer NJ. Perry. of Fl. Springs,
is the guest of his brother, DR.. Mark
Perry, at the hospital.
Miss Link Newly, of Sutton, is the
guests of relatives here
Mr. Dudley Britt, of Clarksburg, was
a pleasant caller upon friends here the
past week.
Attorney Dabney Lee, of Clarksburg,
was seen upon our streets Thursday
and Friday.
]. Bland Brannon was a Clarksburg
visitor Friday.
Miss Jessie Bailey, of the Buchannon
telephone exchange, spent Saturday
with her companion operator, Miss
Pearl Malone, of our central exchange
office
Mrs. w. ]. Kitson has been quite
sick.
Miss Estelle Lively and her sister,
Miss Lou yandervort, left Friday at
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M'MECHEN.

Chester Lewis, a well-known fire.
man, is off duty on account of sick
ness.
W. H. Harris, Of Glen Easton, was
here Friday looking after his political
interests.
Homer Morgan is able to be out
again after a severe siege with rheu-
matism.
Joseph Donaldson, a switchman who
was hurt at the yards Thursday even
ing, is able to be out.
Mrs. George Stewart is suffering
with an attack of typhoid fever.
John Conner, the son of Martin
Connor the popular engineer, is get
ting along very nicely after a severe
surgical operation performed some
time ago.
M. Mendheim, representing the
Whitford Distilling Company, of Lou
isville, was calling on the trade here
last week
G. w. Renner the well-known en-
gineer is laying off to take a fishing
trip to Valley Falls.
Charles Stewart and George Mey-
ers will leave this evening for Park
ersburg.
Will Keller has gone to Ravens
Rock to work in a stone quarry at
that place.
Ed letters and Clearance Hart, who
decided to see the world about three
weeks ago. returned home Friday.
They had very keen appetites when
they struck the town. and it is pre-
sumed that they will not leave the
home roof again.
Charles Neibergall is again doing
business at his old stand at the cor
ner of Gravel street and Railroad
avenue.
w. M. Doyle attended a private
dance at Moundsville on Friday even
ing.
H. S. Hart leaves to-day on a bus
mess trip to Indianapolis.
John Riley has announced himself
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J. Thompson win have the Devils
Auction" company at the New Auditors
ium for the benefit of the employees OF
the house. Great interest Is being
taken in the event. and the house will
probably be crowded to the doors.
Ringgold Post No. s., G. A. r.. is
making arrangements for the proper
observance of Decoration Day in this
vicinity. The programme VIII be
about as usual The post will so to
the various cemeteries during the day
and decorate the graves OF their de-
parted comrades.
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returned to their home in Pittsbure
Friday.
Chas. Noll, OF Martinsburg, was here
Friday.
The Grafton Hotel will give ban
quet and May party on the evening of
the 22d
Will H. Bailey was at Moundsville
Thursday.
Roy Randolph, of Salem, was in
town during the week.
Hon. Thomas H. Mckee, member of
Congress, will deliver the annual adj
dress at the National cemetery on
Decoration Day, May 30. The Grand
/! Army post is making the necessary
/ preparations TO entertain big crowd.
The clerks of Grafton met at the
Mayors Office and organized an asso-
citation to be known as the Clerks Pro-
tective Association of the town of
Grafton. John Cost was elected pres
ident, Miss Maggie Ryan vice presi-
dent, and Miss Lille Martin secretary.
| The meeting was large and very en-
| thusiastic. Several interesting speeches
were made in favor of the early clos
ing movement inaugurated the first
of the month. Various committees
| were appointed to draft plans for
| securing the membership of all the
clerks in town, and enlisting the aid
of the various labor organizations.
Dr. H. c. Fueller returned from
Pittsburg Friday, where he had been
attending the funeral of his grand
| father.
| Hon. Fred. T. Martin, of Fairmont,
was in town Thursday.
Mrs. Charles r. Durbin is visiting
| friends in Baltimore
Miss Hattie Black was at Fairmont
visiting friends during the week
The Fetterman public schools will
close on Friday with a festival and
entertainment at night.
Colonel Clarence l.. Smith, of Fair
mont, was in town on Friday. The
colonel was on his way to Mountain
Lake Park.
Misses Edna Warder and Lilly Mar
tin were visiting Fairmont friends Lie
first of the week.
Miss Nellie Buchy is visiting friends
at Morgantown.
DR.. b. B. Powell is attending the
State Medical Society meeting at Fair
mont.
S. w. Ritter. of Piedmont, is in
town.
Hiss Louisa Rodgers was at Fair
mont Wednesday and Thursday.
f. X. Kelly, of Cleveland, O., was
in town Thursday and Friday.
The st. Paul Lutheran church has
extended a call to Rev. Edwin j.
Hopkins, OF Washington, to become
pastor of the church.
/ The Republican primaries Tuesday
promise some surprises for number
of candidates.
Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Jolliffe were
at Fairmont Wednesday.
Hugh Warder has received a position
with the Mabie Limestone Co., in Ran
dolph county.
Shackelford & Co. have received the
contract of the new school building
at Fetterman.
Miss Ella Poe, of Buckhannon, was
the guest of friends in town yester-
day.
Dunlevy commandery No. II, K. Of
P, attended the grand conclave at
Fairmont Tuesday in body. The
Grafton band acted as an escort. Quite
a number of ladies accompanied them
The State Bankers Association will
meet here the 18th and 10th. A big
excursion is contemplated by the local
bankers, and speech from Senator
Elkins is promised.
Georgia Rose, stenographer for Hon.
w. r. Dent, has accepted a position
with the B. & 0.
State Bank Examiner G.. B. Kefow-
yer of Charleston, was in the city.
Mrs. Thayer Warden is attending
the State Medical Society meeting
at Fairmont.
Hon. John T. McGraw left for New
York Friday.
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Pioneer Dead.

Special 70 the Register.
ELKINS, w. Va, May 12.-Elijah
II. Chenoweth, OF near Elkins. one OF
the pioneer residents of Randolph
county, Is dead at his home on Cheno-
wetns creek, the result OF a compu-
cation of diseases He was SO years
old, and leaves a widow and six chill
dren. He was one OF the staunch far
mers OF the Tygarts Valley.
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sISTERsvILLE.

SrSTERSyILLE ". Va. May L.
The fair and festival which the new
City Band has been conducting in the
Olsten Opera House during the past
week has been grand success in
every particular There has been good
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MoUNDsvILLE.

On yesterday at noon John O'Con-
ner entered George T. GrifIitn's resi-
dence, on Second street, and stole a
pocketbook belonging to Miss Alice
Miner, who makes her home at lIr.
1rifiiths. He was seen By Lsss M
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-05-13
Can't sing.

ia love to sing Of gentle spring
II lays like these are pleasing;
But my apologies III bring
My voice will not DO anything
Except in coughs and snsezlng
Washington Star.
, 1900-07-12

Cripple Creek, Colo, July Mrs.
Eva Brooks was shot and Instantly
killed ut the home of her parents ut
2O5 Silver street at Z o'clock this even
ing by Bruce Seward, who immediate
ly after fired two shots into his Owl
heart, killing himself.
The two had beer intimate for some
time in Victor. but the woman left
Seward and moved TO the home of her
parents, refusing longer to live with
him. This evening Seward called and
asked her to return to him, and upon
her refusal, backed by the protest of
her step-father. W. j. Eershncr. Sow
ard drew Il revolver and fired two shots
ut the step-father. who made his es-
cape unframed and ran to n ~neighbor's
for II gun. In his absence Seward turn
ed the gun upon Mrs. Brooks, fired one
shot, which passed through her head,
and Immediately after turned the gun
upon his w breast. fired. staggered
Il few steps, fired again and fell dead.
Both parties formerly lived in La
than, Kansas. and the intimacy be-
tween them caused the separation be-
tween h woman and her usban Il.
\. Brooks, who still lives at that place.
Seward had been married and separat-
ed from his wife. who now lives in the
Chickasaw nation. 1t is his second
murder, he having killed Il maj named
paben in Leon, Kansas, about seven
years ago.. and for that crime served II
d term If four years IN the state prison
mt L~eavenworth. from which he was
pardoned out three years ago. lie
came to Victor about eighteen months
z and has of late been working for
Robert Slaughter in II produce and
commission house.
The KershnerS removed to Victor at
about the same time, but Mrs. Brooks
had returned to her parents only Il few
months ago. She had been trying to
break OFF relations with Seward ana
the family moved to Cripple Creek
about six weeks ago. since which time
Seward has been persistent in his eff
forts to get the woman To return TO
him.
, 1900-07-12

1t is proposed to extend the use Of
wireless tclcgraphy to the operation of
timepieccs. AT the last annual meeting
of the Royal Society II clock was eX-
hibitcd which was controlled at Il dis
lance by wireless telegraphy of the
HertZian wnve system. The inventor
NJ this instrument proposes to adjust
the whole of the clocks in London sim
ultaneOusly by II clock. to which the
necessary equipment has been made.
To render n clock sensitive to the in
fiuencc of the wave system II would
be necessary to utliN Il receiving instru.
ment with n cohercr, which would be
scntitivc to electrical vibrations sent
out from II central source. The system
might be- extended not only TO public
clocks, but TO those of private resi-
denccs. 1t is stated that 10y means of Il
transmlttcr established at any point of
II city II will be possible to adjust every
clock in the place by the instantaneous
pressure of n button.
, 1900-07-12
CONFLICTING NEWS OF
CHINESE

London, July 9.-The foreign consuls
at Shanghai met on July 18th and of
ficinlly announced that the legations at
Pekin We're safe Oh July 4th. The fore
going statement, read with Consul
Warren's Sunday dispatch to the for
eign office on Sunday makes II possible
to believe that the legations will hold
out for IA number of days yet. Having
fought to n standstill the first out
bursts of fanatical fury, it is believed
that something may intervene to saw
them. The news, after the sinister ru-
more Of the last ten days. is enough up
on which to build up hopes.
The Shangai correspondent of the
Express, telegraphing on Sunday, mt
$40 p. m, throws doubt upon Consul
Warren's Information. lie says:
Tao Tai Sheng now admits that
there was an error in his communica-
tion to General Warren. The date of
the courier's arrival at Chiasn Flu WAS
July Bird. which does not s,Dply to his
departure from Pekin."
The journey from Pekin to Chinen
Flu takes five days. The courier. there
fore, could not have left Pekin later
than June 2Sth. The date of the mas
sacre there. as given by Chinese re-
ports. was on June 3Oth of July LIST.
Tien Tsin is still hard pressed. 4
Chinese force numbering from 10000
TO 10000 men, as estimated by incon-
elusive reconnoisances. Hoods the coun-
try round about Tien Tsin. communica-
ton between which place and Taku is
apparently possible by river only.
A Che Foo dispatch to the Express
says the Russians ave landed 5000
men mt Taxi and the Japanese have
discharged several transports. The
japanese pushed on to Tien Tsin, lead
ing ill the subsequent assault upon the
native city. in which their commander
was killed. Ten more transports are
engaged mt Japanese ports. With the
10000 British India troops atioat and
fresh Japanese ~contlngents Ii Is quite
probable that the allies will soon have
10000 men ashore.
The disorders in the provinces appear
to be increasing in violence. \ Chi
nese army is within forty miles of New
Chwang and the foreigners are pre-
pairing to abandon their homes. The
southern part of the province Is swept
by raiders, destroying all works of the
white man, except in spots garrisoned
by Russians. ' -oclamations have been
posted in all villages lear Che Foo call
ing upon the loyal Chinese to rise and
eXpel the foreigners for Introducing
among the pious Chinese an immoral
religion.
Every good Buddhist is expected tn
kneel three hours daily. knock his head
upon the door thrice and pray earnest
ly that sudden, cruel death may over
take all aliens.
, 1900-07-12
\ Lucky Colorado Man.

Chicago. July S.-A special to the
Record from HermOsillo. Mexico, says.
Martin Hulen of Aspen, Colorado.
II. Il. G. Gedine of II Francisco and
james Crawford of Benson, Arizona,
p~rospectors, have arrived from the new
placer gold field in Lower California,
about fifty miles south of Camp Com.
pants. bringing with them over 500
600 in gold dust. This sum represents
their earnings for II period of eight
months.
The prospcctors state that the
placer field embraces II tract of gravel
about 22J,OOO acres in extent"
, 1900-07-12

To check the "indraft' of the Eng
lish rural population toward the cities,
it is proposed to extend stone pave
ments and electric lights to all the
villages and hamlets, thus increasing
comfort at the sacrifice of pictures
queness. The London World says. 1T
is fortunate for those who conjure up
this unlovely vision that Mr..
Ruskin is no longer among us His
reverence for natural beauty was 80
strong that the disagreement OF a
landscape affected him like a bias
o BIARswgSE;
, 1900-07-12

A grim relic has just been presented
to a San Francisco museum. 1t is a
"back-scratcher." once the property OF
the wife of a Fijian chief, which is
made from the leg zone of a mission
airy who was killed and eaten by the
islanders early in the century. The
late owner inherited the item from his
grandfather, but as his newly welded
wife would not permit him to keep in
the house an article possessed of such
gruesome associations, n so it was
sent to the museum.
, 1900-07-12

kind occurred in New Jersey h other
day. A poor old horse was used in a
certain department of a glass factory,
but did not have the privilege which
his human fellow-workmen enjoyed of
knocking off" when the whistle
sounded. The men tried unsuccess-
fully to obtain shorter hours for the
old nag, and at last Struck but gave
notice hat they would gladly resume
work whenever the horses hours of
labor should be made to conform to
their own. The newspapers are silent
as to the result. but it is to be hoped
that matters have been settled to the
satisfaction of aIl-especially of the
horse.
, 1900-07-12

Twenty-one wagons passed through
the city of Wabash, Ind, the other day
in solemn procession. They were load
ed with the last marketable black wal
nut logs in the county. The ceremony
would have been equally appropriate
in any other county of the great cen
trail states. The walnut. which half
a century G was the most plentiful
and majestic tree of the region, is to-
day practically extinct. A stronger
argument for protective forestry avs
would be hard to find.
, 1900-07-12

Mr.. Curtis. the well known CORE.
%spondent of the Chicago Record. says.
The Kansas City people are entitled to
Il great deal of credit for the manner
in which the convention has been man.
aged and the enormous crowd has beer
handled at the railway stations. at the
hotels aud in the streets. Thus far
there has been no accident. No dele
gate has been lost, strnycd or stolen.
Everybody has had II comfortable place
10 sleep and plenty of food and drink
especially drink. The capacity of the
different hotels and the larger saloons
has been extended sufficiently to az.
commOdate every thirsty visitor. AT
one of the hotels forty-eight extra bar,
keepers skilled in the science of mixed
drinks We're imported from ST. Louis
and Chicago. and the regular force at
another was increased by twenty-ninc
new and competent men. The billiard
rooms, the writing and reading rooms
the large apartments in which CONNER.
clal travellers are accustomed to show
their samples, have all been fitted up
with temporary bars, well stocked, and
thus far there has been no complaint
of the quality or of the quantity.
, 1900-07-12

II the suggestions of Charles W.
Garfield of New York. are acted upon,
the statue of Liberty in New York
harbor will have a flaming torch
worthy of the name. At present the
giant lady bears a brilliant but tiny
spark in her hand, which. when the
outlines of the figure are obscured at
night, cannot be distinguished from a
low-hanging planet. Mr.. Garfield
suggests hat a jet of steam be sen up
through the arm and hand and, as
night settles down the cloud of vapor
would catch the glare of the arc
lamps and have all the appearance Of
a veritable flame. The idea was pre-
scented to his mind by noticing the
appearance of a CLOUD of steam from
an elevated train pom which "A search
light from one Of the big dry goods
stores played. This arrangement for
increasing the effectiveness of the
great statue might be carried out with
almost no additional expense. as the
government has its W plant on Bed
loe's island for making the lights in
the torch. A pipe carrying steam
could easily be run from the boiler
room to the torch.
, 1900-07-12

A practical form Of summer club
work has been introduced by Jewish
women of Cincinnati, who furnish free
trolley rides for convalescents among
their sick poor. In many cases such a
ride affords the single opportunity OF
the year to see open fields and wide
horizons, and is of i~ncalculable medi-
cinal value. Those of us who are in
clined to murmur because our summer
program does o include the Paris
exposition may well draw a COMPARE
son OF conditions, and as far as pos
sible arrange some personal outing for
the sick and poor.
, 1900-07-12

The commission on the new East
River bridge between New York and
Brooklyn boroughs finds itself com
PEELED to ask the institution for con-
domination proceedings in regard to
some 50, 900, 900 of property needed
for the Brooklyn approach. Three
churches are among the obstacles.
, 1900-07-12

Two sisters living in San Francisco
are achieving success in unusual occu-
pations for women One is a carpen-
ter the other a boss painter. The
former, a girl of 20. has built a five
room house in which her family lives.
The father of the girls is a carpenter
and conceived the idea of bringing his
daughters up as though they were boys.
giving them mems trades.
, 1900-07-12

George w. Dart, who raised the Stars
and Stripes over the Confederate capt.
tai at Columbia. S. c.. at the end of
Sherman's march to the sea, has Just
entered the Soldiers Home of Iowa. at
Marshalltown. His nome was at Atti-
ca, n, Y.
, 1900-07-12

The E~nglishman possesses on an
average s1,AS0; the Dutchman, s72O;
the Belgian and the German. $3.50; the
Austrian and the Italian. $500; TN
Russian, $500.
, 1900-07-12

Every year a number of boys are
sent from Siam by the king to Eng
land to learn different things. One
learns upholstering, one learns type
writing. one learns languages, one
learns science, and so on.
, 1900-07-12

Oklahoma City is a thriving city of
upward of 5000 people. with growing
industries. and has just begun the
erection of a free library with the gift
of s25 900 from Andrew Carnegie.
, 1900-07-12

The tallest man in Maryland lives in
Carroll county, near the town of West
minister, and, with a strange appro-
priateness. his name is Miles Long.