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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
B. & O. NEEDS MORE CARS.
viii Build Several Thousand to
Handle Increased Traffic.

VIII Build Several Thousand to
Handle Increased Traffic.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company Will shortly award contracts
for the construction Of several thousand
freight cars. The order will be divid-
ed between the leading builders of the
country. and will include box and coal
cars.
The box cars will be the largest of
that class, with capacity for 10000 to
$4,000 pounds. They will be equipped
with the latest appliances Including air
brakes and safety couplers. The coal
cars will be constructed of steel, with
capacity for 40 to so tons.
TIE number of cars to be built has not
baen definitely determined, but 1t is I'M
derGtood that it Will be from 1000 TO
5000. Should the latter figure be the
number the order will be the largest
ever placed In this country. Plans for
-Ae new equipment were prepared by
the mechanical department.
Contracts for the cars viii be award
ed as soon as the executive committee
makes the necessary appropriation. The
Pressed Steel Car Company. of Pitts
burg, has recently delivered 5000 coal
cars to the Baltimore and Ohio, and is
building 1000 more for the same com
pany The various coal mines on the
line Of the road are running to their
full capacity, and there are not enough
cars to handle this class OF traffic.
Coal dealers report a growing demand
for coal, Goth for domestic and foreign
consumption, and say that sales could
be largely increased We're the facilities
for bringing coal to the seaboard ade-
quate.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
MEN ARE DRINKING LESS,
WOMEN DRINKING MORE

Good Old Fashioned American Ideas
of Propriety and Responsibility
Giving Way to Dangerous and
Progressive European Methods.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, September 90
Men of good social position drink less
now than formerly but the women of high
society are becoming tipplers, and increas-
ngly so. They are initiating the evils Of
English society and staid old American
notions of responsibility are on the wane."
Such was the burden of an address by
the Rev. Father Walter j. Stanley, of the
Cathedral parish in Hartford, who pre-
sided here to-day over the thirty-irst an
nual convention of the Connecticut Catho-
lie Total Abstinence Union.
There were about one hundred delegates
and hundreds of visitors in Saint Aloysius
Hall. Pausing In the delivery of his adj
dress Father Stanley said slowly and
distinctly, that none in the hall might APP
prehend:
considerable comment has been made
lately concerning the drink habit among
society women, and the danger of the Gus
tom growing among other women.
According to competent authority,
drinking is decreasing among men, but in
creasing among women of the weather.
classes.
TT is to be regretted that women who
are leaders in society initiate the drinking
customs of English society, and that the
old American ideas of respectability in this
matter are fast disappearing"
Because of the social prominence of Fa-
Their Stanley in Hartford and his popular
ity in the State, his comment caused a
sensation. He was reelected president at
the concluding session, and no attempt
was made to controvert his sweeping
statement
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
SWEARING IN DEPUTIES.

HAZLETON, Pa, September 20
There was little activity to-day around
the United Mine Workers headquarters
where the coal miners strike is being
directed. Most of the union officials
spent the day in the outlying towns
meeting the striking men and giving
them instructions. No overtures have
been advanced by either side and there
is at present no indication that any
will be put forth soon. The strike Of
ficials are still at work getting the
men cut and say they will not cease
their activity in that respect until every
mine in the anthracite region is tied up.
The operators, though badly Grip
pied, are to-day as confident of success
as they have heretofore been.
The production of coal in the Halle
ton region is growing less with each
succeeding day. The report OF the
superintendent of the Lehigh Valley
railroad shows that the shipments
have fallen off to less than two-thirds
OF the normal quantity during the past
four days.
There is no denying the fact that the
inhabitants OF the region fear trouble.
believe that there will be an outbreak
somewhere in the region. Most if not
ell the coal mines are being protected
by extra watchmen. Rumors are afloat
that the sheriffs of Luzerne, Schuylkiu
and Carbon counties, which counties
adjoin one another at a point two miles
south of here, are swearing in deputies
by the score. None of these rumors
can be confirmed.
Number forty shaft of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company, east of this city,
was the center of numerous
Petty Acts of Violence
morning handful of Hungarian wo-
men wanted to whip three coal and iron
policemen for persuading breaker boys
to go to work The police, however.
managed TO get out OF the difficulty
without fight. Shortly after that a
mine worker says he was shot at by an
unknown person, but not hit. while on
ais way to the shaft. Later in the day
an Italian was badly dubbed. Tonight
while two OF the mine workers were on
their way home from the shaft they
We're attacked and badly beaten. The
striking miners say they are doing their
best to prevent disturbances.
Meetings were held this afternoon at
10th Halle mines and at the Silver
Brook colliery. AT the former place
addresses Were made by a number of
mine bosses who appealed to the men
TO resume work. Several labor organ
izers also addressed the men and urged
them to stay on strike until the fight
was won.
The Lahigh Coal Company's coalieries.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21

Eaton farm, and have a 25 barrel pump
en-
In the Sand Hill district, in wash
ington county, Ohio, the Young Boston
Oh Company has drilled its test we'll
on the j. NJ Mcl<itrich farm through
the first Cow Run sand and has
buster. Mcdonald a. Co. have drilled
their test on the James Shocks farm
through the Berea Grit and found that
formation barren.
In the Bowerston pool. in Harrison
county, CaIwailader q Co. have COM
pIeted and shot their No. i3 on the j..
H. Hathaway farm, and have 80 bar
rel pumper.
In Jefferson county. the Ohio Oh
Company has completed test Well on
the Galbraith farm and have a buster.
In the Corning field. the Charles TAFT
OIL Co. has completed its No. 5 on the
John Grannon farm, and win have a 10
barrel producer,
The efforts to extend the Bowerston
pool in Harrison county have not been
very successful, but some very fair
producers are coming in inside OF de-
fined territory. The indications are
that the production, which Is now no
barrels day, will reach the 1000
mark.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
CHARTERS ISSUED.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, September
PA charter has been issued by the
Secretary OF State to the Asnew Auto
matte Machine Company, of Charleston.
with an authorized capital stock of one
million dollars. The company Is form
ed for the purpose OF manufacturing
and dealing in mailing and addressing
machines and other inventions. The
corporators are Lee Agnew, John ].
Conklin, Joseph Fl. Herman, Hugh V.
Donnell and James c. Lenny, all OF
New York City.
I A charter has also been issued to
the West Virginia Oil & Gas Corpora
ton, of Martinsburg. W. Va. with an
authorized capital of $4,000. The in
corporators are w. c. Leonard, w. L.
Robinson, James w. sNoll, Alexander
Parks and Margaret Leonard, All of
Martinsburg.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
HORROR WITHOUT PARALLEL.
Five Thousand Chinese Driven to tn e
River Amur by the Russians, and
There Drowned Like Rats.


LONDON, September 21-"Authentic
accounts have been received here" says
the Moscow correspondent of the Stand
ard, "of a horrible massacre at Blago-
vestchensk, which was undoubtedly car
ried out under direct orders from the
Russian authorities and which then let
loose the tide of slaughter through
Amur
'The entire Chinese population of s.
600 souls was escorted out of town to
spot five miles up the Amur, and then
being led in patches of few hundreds
to the river banA, were ordered to cross
over to the Chinese side. No boats
were provided and the river is a mile
wide. The Chinese were flung alive
into the stream, and were stabbed or
shot at the least resistance, while Rus
sian volunteers, who lined the bank,
dubbed or shot any one who attempted
to land. Not one escaped alive. The
river bank for miles was strewn with
corpses.''
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21

HAZELTON, Pa. Sept. 20.-In the
absence of President Mitchell from
headquarters to-day, Benjamin James,
who is next in charge of the strike in
this region, issued the daily bulletin
from the U. NJ. W. headquarters. 1t is
AS follows:
'+HAZLETON. Pa, Sept. 20, 5:45 p. Ia.
"The reports received at headquar-
tiers to-day have been most gratifying.
Harwood, Coleraine and the Star wash
cry at Audenried, shut down this morn
ing The men at these places decided
last evening to strike with their fell
low men. This is a gain for the mine
workers.
Sat Jeddo, where afr. John Markle
tried to influence the men to go to
work, they remained firm, evidently
realizing the shaliowness OF the offers
made by their employers.
Eight hundred more men are on
strike to-day than On any previous
day during the strike.
'HThe suspension in the Wyoming
and Lackawanna valleys is now COM
pleted, the only mine which worked
the fore part of the week being closed
Reports from District No. g. (the
lower antnracite) show that there mas
been large accessions to the strikers
ranks, great inroads having been made
on the Philadelphia & Reading en-
ployes.
81 ne situation over the entire an
thracite field is such that we nave
every reason to believe that in a lew
days the suspension will be general
throughout the three districts.
'fBENJAMIN JAMES,
Member National Executive Board,
limited Mine Workers of America.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21

next House, though by very small mar
gin
I'm New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Illinois, there are more than forty Demo-
Gratis in the present Congress and we must
make inroads into this phalanx to counter
balance in the new solid south with which
we are confronted We expect 10 make
gains here and also in Missouri. | believe
we shall hold our own in what are gener-
ally called the border States.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21

E. w Boomer, C. H. Carpenter. B. A.
Reese, A. L. Green, John Hughes, '. ..
Clarke.
All the court officials are not yet
here. Those WAC arrived yesterday
were Assistant District Attorney En-
NETT Showalter, Of Fairmont; Clerk
Delhcker, of Parkersburg; Deputies
Berry Lee Priddie, OF Huntington, and
Wilton Randolph, of Clarksburg; Field
Deputy Marshals D. R. Jackson, OF
Kingwood, and Granville Stout, of Par
kersburg.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
BOYS BADLY HURT.
Special 10 the Register.

Special 10 the Register.
BUFFALO, W. Va, September 90
Earle Barrows, the little son of Captain
BalTows, of the ste.mer New, and Err
rest Cargo, another little boy, were
playing around pile Of crossties yes
terday. when In some way the ties fell
over and seriously injured both chill
dren. The Barrows boy had both legs
crushed and broken so that one Of them
will have to be amputated, and he may
not recover. The other boy was not
SO seriously injured, although one OF
his legs was broken.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
OIL NEWS.

Special to the Register.
PITT3BURG, Pa, September 2O.-In
the Keener sand development, near
Graysville. Monroe county, Ohio. the
Deyonsan Oil Co. has drilled in its No.
IL on the ". A. Delaplain farm, and has
show for % barrel pumper. In
the same development Grace & Goldstein
have completed No. on the Elizabeth
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
Special 10 the Register.

Special q The Negister.
F'HILIPPI, w. Va, Sept 20.-Bar'
bour county is experiencing oil ex,
citement. Messrs Hame g. Co, who
have extensive oil possessions in Har-
rison and Tyler counties, have leased
several thousands of acres here and
are now drilling test we'll II will be
drilled on the land of T. B. Smith.
Prof S. b. Brown. professor OF geo.
logy in the State University. has been
in Barbour county for the past month,
making a careful investigation OF the
land He thinks oil will be found In
the vicinity
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
RIVER NEWS.

The Ohio river has broken all previous
low water records. Last night at mid
night the marks on the wharf showed q
inches and falling Trafic on the river
has been suspended and the wharf Is very
dull
The steamer Acorn IS on the Elizabeth
marine ways.
The Ohio River Improvement Associa-
ton Is arranging TO hold its annual meet
ing IN Cincinnati on September =.
The Pilots Association. II Pittsburg.
has notified w " Bixby that the Pipe
line crossing the Ohio river above Steu-
benvlHc bridge IL a dangerous obstruction
to navigation.
Marks From Above.
PITTsBURG- River II feet aud rising.
Rain
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
4 THOUSAND MORE BODIES
REMAINS TO BE TAKEN OFT o..
THE RUINS AT GAIL
WESTON.

Expected That by Saturday Might
This VIII Have Been Accomplish
ed-suppiies vii Not be Given TO
Men Able to Work, After Next Sat
urday-Revfsed List of Casualties
Shows 4,754 Identified Dcad-Sit-
uafion on the Main Land.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
THE NEXT HOUSE
Is Causing the Republicans Genuine
AFarm-See Their Danger

NEW YORK. September n.-congress-
man ]. w. Babcock. OF Wisconsin. chair
man OF the Republican campaign COM
mittee is in the city
Il have no Doubt said Coneressrs,an
Babcock 70 the reporters. OF the re-elac-
ton of President Mckinley, but to secure
Republican majority in the next lower
House of Congress. hard work is neces
sary. We hope and expect to carry the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
OH gnrlxets.

OIL CITY Pa. September 2o.-Credit
balances. $L2J: certificates no bid. Ship
ments s2G Gs bbls. average 1856 bbis.
Runs 108 So 3bbts; average. a0.g71 bhls.
NEW YORK. September 20-Standard
OIL sfnrlt. hnlMa1.M.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
The Paris Fund.

PARIS, September 20.-The Calves
ton fund being raised in Paris has
reached 100000 francs.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
GRATIFYING REPORTS At
STRIKE HEADQUARTERS.
TIIE UNITED MINE WORKERS.
CLAIM TO HAZE MADE EN-
COURAGfNG GAINS.
WYOMING AND LACKAwANNA
REGIONS ARE NOW COMPLETELY
IN THE HANDS OF THE STRIK-
ING MINERS.

Eight Hundred More Men Out in the
HazletOn District-Reports From
fhe Lower Anthracite District
Show Large Acccssions to the
Strikers Ranks--Siucn Disorder,
bat All of Miaor Character.
Owners All Against Arbitration.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
4 CORRECTED LIST
Of American Casualties Makes n
Worse Showing Than Did the First


MANILA. September "a corrected list
OF the casualties sustained by the Ameri-
can soldiers Monday last in the engage
raent al Siniloan, shows that q men are
dead. The total number OF Americans -,
gagged is now announced as 1874 The en-
emy's casualties have not been reported.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21
Efchfh Page.

Common Sense Suits-Geo. r. Taylor Co.
The Ladies Ready-to-W Wear Department
Geo. E. Stifei & Co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21

Third Rage.

HAIN = NEs-s
Wanted = German Girl for General
Wanted-Girl at 81 South Front Street.
Bonds for Sale-Howard Hsziett & Son.
Lists Excelsior Baking Powder.
Wanted-Lady to Assist at Cooking.
Wanted-Young Man or Lady.
Fifth Page.
Ribbons-Geo. NJ. Shook & Co.
Sixth Page.
Sweaters-McFadden
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-21

Alum is used in some baking powders be.
cause il is cheap. 1t costs but few cents a
pound whereas the chief ingredient in pure
powder costs thirty. But alum is a corrosive
poison which, taken in food, acts njurously
upon the stomach, liver and kidneys.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-09-20
THREE BEFORE BREAKFAST.
Record, Monday, Beginning at
Springfield, Mo.

Carthage, Mo-, Sept. 17.-Col. Bryan
began his days work at Springfield,
Mo-, at 5 a. m, and he had made
three speeches before breakfast. The
second appearance of the day was
at Aurora, and the third at Monet.
1t was barely daylight when Spring
field was reached, but notwithstand-
ing the early hour, there was large
crowd awaiting the arrival of the
train, and a band was heard in the
distance as the presidential candidate
emerged from his sleeper buttoning
his overcoat closely about him to
keep out the chilly morning air.
A vast majority of those present
were men, but there were not a few
women and children in the throng,
and they cheered quite as Justify as
did the men when Mr.. Bryan came in
to view. He did not speak to exceed
five minutes at either Springfield or
Aurora, but at Monet he left the car
and addressed the crowd from the
elevated porch of a nearby hotel. His
talks were all along general lines, re-
ferring principally to the trusts and
to Imperialism, and suggesting ques-
tons TO be put to republican oppo-
nents.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-09-20
SPECIAL WEATHER BULLETIN.
Frost Has Occurred and More is Pre-
dicted, But Not Severe Enough
to DO Damage.

Washington, Sept. 17.-The weather
bureau has issued the following spe-
cial bulletin:
The unseasonably low temperature
announced for the eastern part of the
country in the general forecast Sat
urday morning will cover all districts
east of the Mississippi river during
the next As hours.
Frost has occurred generally in the
northwestern states, and the first
frost of the season is indicated for
tonight in the states of the Ohio val
ley, the lake region, western New En-
gland, the center of New York, and
in the mountain districts of Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland and West Virginia.
The frost will not be sufficiently Sc
we're TO injure vegetation or crops,
and the minimum temperature in the
districts named win not fall below 40
degrees.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-09-20
THE BIG STRIKE IS ON.
While Not Unanimous Its Extent
Amounts to a Practical
Tie-Up.
THE MINERS EXPRESS CONFIDENCE.
Pump Hands and Mule Feeders are
Required to Remain mt Their
Posts the Latter as Long, Only, as
the Mules are Not Employed to
Draw Coal.

Philadelphia, Sept. 17.-Reports
from the anthracite coal fields of this
state indicate that the tie-up caused
by the strike for higher wages and
redress of other grievances, of more
than 100000 mine workers, is at least
as complete as the leaders of the
United Mine Workers of America, the
organization back of the strike,
claimed at any time.
Missed in Their Reckoning.
Companies and individuals owning
mines who had claimed that their
workings would operate as usual, de-
spite the strike order, apparently
reckoned without accurate knowl-
edge of the attitude of their men. 1t
is true that some operations in the
Hazleton region were working, with
as high as so per cent. of the men at
work, nevertheless the greater num-
Der of men in the district were idle.
Tie-Up Practically Complete.
In the Scranton and Wilkesbarrc
districts the tie-up was practically
somplete. AS was expected, the Schuyl-
kill region, with Pottsville for a CEN
trail point, was at work with very few
defections.
These men have not the same griev-
ances that prevail in the other dis
tricts, and if they go on strike it will
be largely through sympathy.
Mitchell Directing the Strike.
President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers, who has established
headquarters at Hazleton, and is per-
sonally directing the strike, estimates
that over 100000 men struck, and that
$4,000 more will join them Tuesday.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-09-20
OPERATORS IN CONFERENCE.
II Looks to Them Like COmpIets
Tie-Up.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept. 17.-After
hearing reports from the mines, the
representatives of the big coal COM
panies and individual operators went
into conference at ten o'clock. The
situation was gone over and views
were exchanged. One of the opera
tors said it looked like complete tie
up in the region. The operators here
do not hook for a compromise now.
They are going to prepare for the
worst. 1t is known that detective
agencies in Pittsburgh, Chicago and
New York have received orders to
send a large number of operatives to
the Wyoming region at once.
Caused Great Enthusiasm.
The striking miners held a meet
ing and there was a very large at
tendance. Reports received from the
various mines to the effect that all
hands had refused to go to work
caused great enthusiasm. Organizer
Nichols addressed the men at length.
He counselled them to be on their
good behavior.
Not Ton Being Mined.
At IL o'clock it was given out at
strikers headquarters that not ton
of coal was being mined in the
Wyoming valley outside of the West
End Coal Co.'s collieries at Mocana-
qua. A committee of United Mine
Workers was dispatched to Mocana-
qua to confer with the miners there
and if possible, induce them to quit
work. The committee will have a diff
ficult task as the company has al
ways treated its men with exception
al kindness.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-09-20
HAVE JOINED THE STRIKE.
Carpenters, Car Repairers, Black
smiths and Helpers Quit.

Scranton, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE car
penters, car repairers, blacksmiths
and helpers at every Delaware,
Lackawanna e. Western company
mine here have joined the strike.
They were asked to take care of
coal outside the mines and to
handle it in the breakers.
They refused and quit as every mine.
An attempt was also made at several
mines to have engineers and fremen
do other work. These men also quit,
and all at once repaired to district
headquarters and joined the United
Mine Workers.
The pump runners have been or
dered by National Board Member
Diloher to remain at work, so that
there will be no occasion for water
accommodating in the mines. He has
also directed that the men who feed
the mules in the mine barns keep on
doing so, but only so long as the
mules are not used to draw coal.
Crowds of men fill headquarters and
streets here, showing how complete
the strike is.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-09-20

Galveston disaster, revised to date,
accounts for 4,o7s persons.
The number of people who have left
Galveston, it is now stated at relief
headquarters, is over 5000. OF these
about 5000 are now in Houston being
cared for. Others have gone on into
the interior of the state or to other
states. Refugees are constantly ar
irving here with each train. Gov. Say
ers has now taken charge of the re-
lief work here, as well as at other
points, and money is being given out
where needed, more than provisions
and clothing.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-09-20
DAMAGING TESTIMONY.
Jim Howard the Man Seen to Run
From the State House Grounds
After the Shooting.

Frankfort, KY, Sept. 17.-Bowman
Gaines, the most important witness
for the prosecution in the Jim How
ard trial, testified that Howard is the
man he saw run out of the state
house grounds and jump the fence inn
mediately after the shooting of Geo.
bel.
Bowman Gaines was severely cross
examined by Col. Owens, but the wit
ness insisted that Howard was the
man he saw running out through the
rear grounds of the state house.