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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
TEN INJURED


TOLEDO, O., July 29.-Ten people
were injured in street accident late
tonight, one fatally and two others
very seriously. Three of them were
slight and their names were not learn
ed. The names of the injured people.
SO far as learned, are as follows:
Mrs. OFT. face, nose and neck terri
bly, burned; may be fatal
Miss OFT, feet, hands, hair and face
burned very serious.
Miss Ida Hartzell face burned, neck
injured and arms bruised very serious.
Miss Lizzie Kuhlman. badly bruised
on arms from falling from car.
Miss Sophia Kuhlman, chin badly
burned and arms bruised.
Miss Abbie Rueps, face scratched,
arm sprained, slightly burned and
lambs bruised.
Miss Mary Goustin. head slightly
burned. head. face and arms bruised
and burned.
James Myers, Elm street, burned
about face and hands
They were taken into adjacent drug
stores and physicians, summoned and
their injuries cared for until they
could be taken home.
The accident was a peculiar one. One
of the long belt cars had just reach
ed Twenty-second street when blind
ing flash of electricity followed by
cloud of smoke and cries of injured
passengers as they were tumbled into
the street, attracted the attention of
belated passers-by. The injuries are
of such character that they are in
every instance extremely painful.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
COMMISSIONERS R0CKHILL
Passed Through Chicago Yesterday
on Ills Way to China.

I4SSG4A nFOU<5 4A4AE<t = ~ = CSAGE&A<AE
on His Way to China.
CHICAGO, July 30. Special Com
missioner VIM w Rockhill, appointed
by the government to ascertain the
true situation in China, passed through
Chicago to-day on his way to the
Orient. He arrived at o'clock and at
$3.50 was speeding toward San Fran
cisco, whence he will sail on the Jap
anese steamer American Maru on Aug
ust 8.
Mrs. Rockhill accompanies her hus-
band and will remain in Shanghai
while he conducts his investigation.
Asked if he would endeavor to reach
Pekin to treat with the Chinese gov
eminent direct, he replied
II think not, unless circumstances
warrant it and the country is quiet
enough to render possible the success
of such an expedition. In the coun-
try's state of ferment, the journey of a
party of Europeans or Americans to
Pekin could be accomplished only with
frightful loss of life, if at all.
II shall make my headquarters at
Shanghai and investigate conditions as
far northward as circumstances and
the troubled conditions will permit.
My sole duty is to keep tle President
and Secretary of State advised as TO
the situation Outside that I am not
empowered to do anything"
you are not invested with pleni-
potentiary power, them"
NO. he answered. "My orders can
be summed up in two words 'Investi-
gate conditions In case the govern
ment has further orders for me they
undoubtedly will be cabled."
Mrs. Rockhill apparently does not
fear the prospect before her.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
TEN WOUNDED.
Two Fatally, by the Premature Dis
charge of National Guard
Cannon.
A Lighted Cigarette Among Loose
Powder, at Camp Lincoln, I'LL,
Did the Busfness-A List of the
Victims of the Accident.

SPRINGFIELD, Ills, July 29.-Ten
persons were injured, two fatally, by
the premature discharge of the evening
gun at the Illinois National Guard en-
campment, Camp Lincoln, this evening
The explosion was caused by some one
throwing lighted cigarette into pow
der which had fallen to the ground.
The accident occurred in the pres
ence of large crowd of visitors to the
camp.
The injured
Private Jesse Rupert, Battery A, Dan
vile, head, chest, arms and left leg
terribly burned, left arm broken and
left hand partially shot away; will die
Corporal Charles Balsley, Battery A,
Danville; face, breast and arms badly
burned, left arm broken and chest
torn, entire body mass of bruises; will
die.
Private Edward Smoot, Battery A,
Danville; face badly burned.
Private Charles Sharp, signal corps,
Chicago; face and hands filled with
powder, serious.
Harry Kebeler, civilian, Springfield;
face, hands and neck badly burned:
may lose eyesight.
Chester Hunt, Springfield, face pain
fully burned
Private Albert Stevens, Battery A,
Danville; face and hands burned
Private j. G. Gritton, Battery A,
Danville: hands and face scorchci.
Sergeant Shredder, Battery 4. Dam
vile; face burned.
Harry Peters, civilian, Springfield;
face burned.
Several others were slightly injured.
Corporal Balsley and Jesse Rupert,
acting quartermaster, were loading the
gun, assisted by several men of Battery
A. A sack of powder was placed in the
mouth of the cannon and Rupert was
about to drive the charge home. The
powder sack was too large for the gun
and in forcing it into the cannon, the
canvas was torn and some of the
powder fell to the ground just below
the nozzle of the cannon. Private Ru-
pert stood facing the gun, ramrod in
hand. Balsley also faced the gun and
a number of soldiers and civilians were
gathered around despite the commands
to keep back. Suddenly some one said
Watch them scatter" There was
flash of powder on the ground. The
flame was communicated to the powder
which was being forced into the can
non, and the gun was discharged, the
ramrod being broken and shot from the
cannon.
Balsley and Rupert had their clothes
blown from their bodies, which were
blaekened by powder The other stag
gered back, burned and blinded. All
of the wounded were taken TO hospit-
ais. Some say it was "a man in uniform
who threw the cigarette, but Harry
Peters, who was an eyewitness of the
explosion is of the opinion it was a
small boy.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30

there is no doubt that | am worthy of
all you can do for me, yet no one need
feel under obligations to give. / will
now pass around the hat, and as l
move among you l am glad to observe
that the audience assmebled here to
night is one of the most cultivated |
have seen for months. l will not be
base enough to think that free admis-
sion had anything TO do with It. You
came to hear one Of the great ques-
tons OF the day discussed by one of
the great orators of the century, and
had the price OF tickets been 10 cents
each | believe that one and all would
have cheerfully coughed up. / do not
use that expression in a slang sense,
but as Latin phrase. I find that the
collection amounts to 10 cents, and,
thanking you from the bottom Of my
heart and trusting that you may go
out of here better men and women, |
will now begin:
My friends. | have in my pocket the
figures showing just how many distil-
leries and breweries there are in the
United States and just how much whis-
ky and beer are made every "a hours
during the year. But why give trca.:
Why tell you that 100000 OF our pop
ulation go to bed drunk every night in
the year and that the money spent for
drink every day would provide all the
widows with sealskin sacks and French
heeled shoes? We all know those
things. Let US begin with Christopher
Columbus, who had rather more 10 do
with America than any man who has
come after him give you his picture
on the canvas You look puzzled and
surprised. You can't make it out. You
behold Christopher lying drunk Oh the
highway. with jug on one side and d
hog on the other. Il Is fanciful pic
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
Mr.. BRYAN
IL Well Along with His Notifications
speech--His COMING Trip to 1n-
dfanapOlfs.

IL Well Along with His Notifications
speech-His Coming Trip to fn-
dfanapolis.
LINCOLN, Neb.. July 29.-Mr. Bryan
is so well along with his notification
speech and his plans are so well de-
veloped that he hopes tomorrow to be
able to announce his itinerary for his
trip to Indianapolis and return. He
has no knowledge of the time and place
for his notification by the Populists and
Free Silver Republicans, and it Is not
believed his present itinerary takes
into consideration that function. Lo-
cal politicians had hoped that if it was
to be in the west, Mr.. Bryan's home in
Lincoln would be the place selected,
but it is now thought Topeka, Kans
will probably secure the meeting. 1t is
possible the trip to Chicago of Secre-
tary Edgerton, of the Populist National
Committee, may have some bearing on
the question. Mr.. Edgerton left this
evening ana VIII remain several days.
He expects to see Charles A. Towne
while in Chicago.
Mr.. Bryan and his family attended
Union services at the First Presbyter-
ian church this morning and listened
to sermon on 1.-THE Divine Orator, .
by Rev. Mr.. Rowlands, of the First
Baptist church. Later he and Mrs.
Bryan entertained friends who called.
He had two visitors from outside the
State, w. D. McNulty, of Syracuse, N.
Y, and Mr.. Griffith of Pittsburg.
Mr.. Bryan states there is not the
slightest foundation for the story sent
from here that he narrowly escaped in
jury by being struck by golf ball.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
OBITUARY.

WASHINGTON, July 29-News was re-
ceived here tonight of the death of Lewis
Harvie Finney, private secretary to Sec
rotary Long, at Warm Springs, Va, this
forenoon. He had been away from the
ONCE month and more as the result of
IN attack of fever. He was a native of
virginia, where his people are well
known. He had been private secretary to
Assistant Secretary Solely and to Secretary
Herbert, and was highly thought of by
naval officers and public men. The in
terment will be in Washington.
MANASSAS, Va, July 2e.-Ex-coneress
man e. E. Meredith died at his home IN
this city to-day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
A STIRRING ADDRESS
On China Delivered in Chicago Yes
terday.

On China Delivered in Chicago Yos-
terday.
CHICAGO, July pa stirring adj
dress on China was delivered before the
Bible Institute congregation this after
noon by Rev. Thomas Marshall, field
secretary of the Presbyterian board OF
foreign missions, and Chinese mis-
sionary of wide experience and more
than national fame.
He charged that European nations,
especially England, Germany and
France, are responsible for all the
trouble typified in the national uprising
against foreigners in China; that the
missionaries are not to- blame, and that
the "robber nations of Europe, when
caught in the act OF despoiling the
Chinese of their territory and desecrat-
ing the Chinese graves by running rail-
roads through them, are trying to make
scapegoats of the innocent missionaries
and are using the Christian evangeliz-
ing forces for political and selfish ends.
The speaker expressed qualification
at the fact that the government of the
United States had taken noble stand
for the integrity of China.
Rev. A. NJ Cunningham, another
Presbyterian missionary with ten years
experience in China, followed DR.. Mar
shall, endorsing all the latter said, and
described the Chinese people as by no
means as bad as painted.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30

DETROIT, Mich, July 29.-Section
one of the Buffalo Bill Wild West shows
train suffered severe collision near
Milwaukee Junction shortly before day
light to-day, resulting in the smash
ing of show employees sleeping car
containing some forty sleeping in
mates. One of the latter is dead and
nine others are in Detroit hospitals
suffering from more or less serious in
juries.
The dead
Edward Sullivan, aged 81, of Bridge
port, Conn, poster of the canvass car.
who died from internal hemorrhage
after reaching the hospital.
The injured
Henry Eastman (nickname Nash),
aged 26, of Rochester, N. Y, one of
processes of spine broken off; spinal
cord as yet unaffected.
A. J. Burkholder, aged q, of Brad
ford, Pa, crushed and injured very
seriously internally; back and leg cut
by window glass; recovery hoped for.
Henry Burton, aged %, West Ches-
ter, Pa, knee cut, bruised about back.
Joseph Mccain, aged %, of sc Cham
bers street, New York, confusion Of
right hand; left eye cut.
Noyes Mix, aged 43, of New Haven,
Conn, slightly injured through chest;
hand sprained.
Thomas Kelly, aged 20, of No. Ill
North Elliott Place. Brooklyn, N. Y,
shoulder bruised
John Cusick, aged %, of Pittston,
Pa. right ankle sprained, right side
and leg bruised.
George Hunt, aged 20, of Waterbury,
Conn, ccntusions of both legs.
William Gilmore, aged %, of Oska-
loosa, Iowa, left shoulder and arm
bruised; skin torn from right heel
The Wild West company gave it's
exhibition at Ypsilanti, on Saturday,
and shows at Pontiac tomorrow. At
the time of the collision the train, con-
sisting of twenty wagon and stock cars,
four of the shows sleeping cars, and a
grand trunk caboose, were being trans
ferred from the Michigan Central to the
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee
road. The train was being pushed
backward from the syn at the Mil
waukee junction, when it was struck
by an outgoing Grand Trunk freight
train. The caboose was jammed into
and forced on top of the Buffalo Bill
employees sleeper No S. which was
filled with sleeping tent and canvas
men. When the uninjured men had re-
covered from the shock, the wrecked
sleeper was chopped open and the in
jured gradually gotten out. The car
was complete wreck, excepting at
one end
All the victims will recover shortly.
excepting the three most seriously in
jured.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
Fire at WeIlsburE.

Special to the Register.
WELLSBURG, w. Va, July 30.--At
two o'clock this morning a fire, origin
ating in some mysterious manner,
broke out in the jewelry store of F. E.
Watson, on Charles street, and the re-
sulting loss was probably $500 or $500,
covered by insurance. Fortunately the
most valuable portion of the stock was
in the safe, and escaped injury The
fire department responded promptly,
and did good work
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30

and hanging to lamppogt in the city
OF Boston. The convention waits for
him TO sign his name TO document
which will change the map OF the
world and bring forth new nation,
but he's to drunk to get there. and the
independence Of the colonies is lost
forever. This picture is also crea-
ton Of fancy, but let the moral lesson
sink deep into your hearts. Now and
then, when be had been outchopping
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
@. HOPE JONES.
He Delivers Temperance Lecture
at Black Rock.

Copyright, 1900, by c. b. Lewis.)
My Dear Fellow Citizens-It is nv
custom before proceeding to the bust
ness of the evening to take up collec-
ton among the audience for the benefit
of some charity. On this occasion the
subject is the individual who stands
before you. l have managed to get
along for the last three days on 81
cents, but can go no further. While
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
Slonn Recouerinn

LONDON. July 2s-..Tod', Sloan. who
was injured last Friday at the Liverpool
July meeting, while riding AIaluma is
progressing favorably and it is expected
he will return to London early this week.
II is doubtful, however. that he will be
able to ride for some weeks.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
THE STEAMSHIPS.

NEW YORK;
fornia- Marseilles.
MOyILLE.-
Arrived: Partisan, Montreal for Liver
pool.
cUEENSTOWN:--
Arrived: Servia. New York for Liver
pool and proceeded.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30

PARIS, July 29.-The heavy storm which
began last night and continued to-day
effectually broke the hot spell. the long
est and most severe that Paris has eve
known.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
Only One Train

LONDON, July 29-The war office has
received a despatch from Lord Roberts
explaining that only one train was can
tured on the night of July 81 between
Kroonstad and the Vaal and that ii con-
tained supplies and two officers and 200
men of the Welsh Fusiliers
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
English Movements

LONDON, July 29.-Gen. French has oc-
cupied Middleburg in the Transvaal and
Gen. Pole-Carew,- with the guards bril-
gades, has arrived at Brugspruit, twenty
miles west of Middleburg.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
Great Bargain.

One fine Upright Sterling Piano,
ebony case, was $350.00, but we took it
in an exchange and will sell it at the
low price of $4,000.
F. w. BANNER co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
Great Bargain.

One fine Upright Sterling Piano,
ebony case, was s350.00. but we took it
in an exchange and will sell it at the
low price of $4,000.
+. w, BANNER co
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
No More Arms

ROME, July 29.-The Official Journal
publishes a royal decree prohibiting the
expectation Of arms, ammunition or other
munitions of war to China.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
BUFFALO Bills Wild WEST
ONE KILLED. NINE INJURED.
SECTION ONE, CONSISTING OF
TWENTY SHOW CARS,

Were Being Transferred From the
Michigan Central to the Detroit,
Grand Haven & Milwaukee Road
When an Outgoing Grand Trunk
Train Struck It-Three of the
wounded May Die.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30

Aeollans and Pianolas at bottom
prices. f. w. BANNER co
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-30
TIE HESSIAN FLY.

When King George III. of England
tried to put down the revolution in the
American colonies, he could not spare
enough troops for the work so he sent
to Germany and hired some soldiers in
Hesse Cassel. The American patriots
made short work of these Hessians, but
they overlooked the little eggs of
fly that were concealed somewhere on
straw or in grain bags on the trans
port boats that brought the Hessians
over.
The next year a little brown nudge
not much larger than mosquito was
seen in the wheat fields of New Eng
land. But little was thought about 1t
until the wheat began to wither on the
stalk. Then at all the lower joints OF
the stalks, just where the leaf was
joined, little worms were found busily
at work, feeding on the tender juices
of the plant that should have been
going up to the head to be turned
INTO grain. The farmers of the coun-
try realized that they had among them
an enemy that would be with them
always, and that would defy fire and
flood and siege and starvation. This
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-30

A, larv, b, pupa, c, pupa by England a
---'- y" "'ie'' hundred years
ago, that which was threatened by Ma
poleon with his armies, or that which
was threatened by the Hessian fly.
The first would bring battles but the
second famine, from the destruction OF
the wheat fields. If there were forth
lcations on the coast and lookouts to
give warning Of the approach OF a fleet
there were also garin inspectors at all
the ports to see that His Flyship did
not smuggle himself in in a bag OF
wheat, as the Greeks invaded Troy by
cJncealing themselves in the horse.
So much was written about the Hes
sian fly by men of science, farmers and
English representatives in Germany,
that there Is now whole shelf full OF
books about this one insect in the
British museum.
1t is not much to look at, this brown
nudge that floats in clouds in the
sweet spring air above the young green
wheat 1t has black body and hairy
antenna, dark brown wings and golden
legs that trail behind it lazily. After
it has laid it's eggs on the wheat stalks
1t dies. Little worms soon hatch out
Of the eggs and increase in size as rap
IDLY as the stalks dWindle. Then they
90 to sleep in their little cocoons, and
by and by another brood Of flies comes
out and lays eggs. The second brood
OF worms when ready to 60 to sleep
let themselves down TO the roots of the
plants. There they live in the pupa
state all winter
The only remedy that is by any
means effective is to burn the wheat
field in which the Hessian fly ia
found, declares the Little Chronicle OF
Chicago. Many farmers plant a trap
field late in September. and then when
the worms are feeding burn Il on.
Then they plow the land, burn again
in the spring and put in clover. Wheat
culture has had sometimes to be given
up in wide areas OF country until the
Hessian fly was starved out. There is
no part OF the country now in witch
the fly is not found. It appeared In
the Ohio valley states last fall not in
very great numbers but enough to
weaken the winter wheat SO that
much of 1t was winter killed.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-30
TAI PING REBELLION.
EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE
GREAA OUTBREAK.
LASTED FIFTEEN YEARS
Led by Religious Fanatic Who Called
Himself the Heavenly King-An
American First in Control of the
Chinese Foes, but Gen. Gordon. an
Englishman, Suppresses the Rising.

The boxer rebellion in China recalls
to the Little Chronicle of Chicago the
famous Tai-Ping rebellion in that en-
Dire, which began in 1851 and lasted
nearly fifteen years, and in which an
American, Frederick Townsend Ward,
and an Englishman, Charles Gordon,
figured more prominently than any
Chinaman except the leader of the
rebels.
TAPPING" is word of foreign man
ufacture and means the great peace"
The leader of the Tai-pings was named
Hung-siu-tseuen. He was born near
Canton and his parents were poor peas
ants. When boy Hung heard a mis-
sionary preaching in the streets of
Canton and was deeply interested. The
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-30
PERSISTENCE TO RACE TRAITS.

The recruiting officers of the French
army in Algiers report the probable
survival of hill jewellers descended
from the adventurous vandals that
conquered northern Africa 1900 years
ago. They are blue-eyed, oval-faced.
and apparently much more intelligent
than their Kabyle neighbors, whose
language they have been induced to
adopt. The suns of many hundred
summers have bronzed their hides, but
dark-brown boards unknown among
the unmlxed Semites), are found in
every shepherds cabin of the Algerian
as.-Indianapolis Press.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-30
EGGS FOR LONG KEEPING.

The yolk of the egg spoils much
quicker than the white. For this
reason it is important that the yoIk
should be surrounded with a layer Of
the white. II the egg is placed on the
side or large end the heavy yolk will
settle to the bottom and come in con-
tact with the shell. which admits the
air. If It is placed on the small end 1t
will always have a layer of white be-
tween it and the shell. Eggs absorb
odors easily, therefore only odorless
materials should be used wuen pacn-
ing them.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-30
LITTLE WAR WITH ABERGELE.
Lady Dundonald Has Been Having
Troubles of Her Own.

While Lord Dundonald has been
away in South Africa fighung the
beers his countess has been waging q
little war of her own with tue Welsh
town of Abergele, near which her
castle stands. 1t was all about the
Improvement of a highway. The
countess got so angry that she cut
townspeople wanted preserved. While
the contending forces of the castle and
town were refusing stubbornly to re-
treat there came news of the relief OK
Ladysmith and the story of Dun
donald's entrance into the beleaguered
city. The town and the castle at once
began to rejoice and forgive each
other. Inc town went wild wlln en-
thusiasm over Lord Dundonald, and
the countess made gift to the town of
all the land which the townspeople
desired for the improvement OF the
highway.
To Lord Dundonald was cabled the
news of the ending of the Abergele
war, and in return he requested that
the improved highway be named Lazy
smith avenue. This was done, and
now the castle and the town, which
have been saying all manner of hard
things about each other for the last
few months, have called off their
lawyers and are complimenting each
other at a great rate. Thus was ..e
relief of Ladysmith and Abergele eff
fected at one and the same time by
the valor of Lord Dundonald.-New
York Press.