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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21

The Chinese OF San Francisco arc
more patriotic for the land of their
adoption lhnn some Americans who
would sell their bIr,hrlght On the slight.
est proyocatIon. The San Francisco
Chinese have denounced the boxers aud
approved OF the governments course In
China. Let the Democrats say half as
much, and much VIII BIZ forgiven.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21

Bryan would better so slow on his
paramount issue" II 1t had not been
for Prince David. of Hawaii, his 16 to /
shlbholeth would have been smothercd
in the committee on resolutions. Cleve-
land hauled down the flag at Honolulu,
and, II the Republicans had not again
set the stars in glory there" Prince
David would have been impossible ut a
Democratic convention.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21

1t Will now be in order to inquire who
was responsible for those heart
wrenching details OF the massacre OF
the legationists In Pekln.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21

Hello, here is Spain determined to re-
fuse to receive the new Chinese minis
ter to Madrid, the country that gavecto
tho world Butcher" Weyler. ,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21

The Democrats are terribly afraid.
President Mckinley wlll exceed his coul
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

Sherift-D. II, Taylor.
Prosecuting Attorncy-Frank W. Nesb!tt.
Assessor Getty Dlst.)-Addison Israel.
Assessor Country Dist.)-Lcster Smith.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21
REPuBLIcAN NATIONAL TICKET.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

For Governor.
ALBERT B. WHITE,
OF Wood County.
For Auditor.
ARNOLD c. SCHERR. .r
or Mineral County.
For Treasurer.
60 PETER SILMAN. a
OF kanawha County. =
For Supt. OF Schools,
T. c. MILLER,
or Marion County.
For Attorney General,
ROMEO II. FREER,
or Richie County.
Judges Supreme Court.
HENRY BRANNON,
or Lewis County.
GEORGE PoFFENBARGER,
a OF Mason County
Electors-at-LarSe.
BENSON B. McMECHEN,
or Marshall County
J. B. LEWIS.
OF Lewis County.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21

The real paramount issue" is Bryan y /,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21

Minister WI Ting Fang is indicated.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21

Care must be taken to avoid baking powders made from
alum Such powders sold cheap bccausehey cost
lew cents per pound lust as good and cheaper
.raauie:t cry intended deceive the unwary Alum
corrosive WITCH taken in food injury to health
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21
A POET OF THE PEOPLE.

Minister Conger is safe.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-21

Again did Maud on summer dny
Go forth to rake some additional hay,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
FREDERIC DE G TAU
Porto Ricnn DclcEntc to Conr:r"ss
Says i;is People want 10 EecOMic
Root and Branch American.

New York, Dec. 3.-Porto Rico's
first delegate to congress, Frederic
de Getau, is in the city. He arrived
CD the steamer San Juan Saturday
night and will stay here to visit
friends for few days before he goes
to Washington. He has a great de-
sire to study the English language.
"My people want to become, root
and branch, American" he said Sun
day. "Wc can rct do II too Tri~'-'-'
We rcc0CEizo ih9t we are naiura. ,v
Americans and that our future is prrt
of the future of this country. After
centuries of sleep. Porto l,ico t.
getting there with alacrity. The
first sign is the development of the
nt tural resources of the island.
"The evolution of the people. their
development, their education and
their enrichment will follow. The
only question now in Porto Rico is
between the federalists who want to
hurry up and be made state with
an autonomous government at once
and the republicans, who want to GO
slow and first be made a territory
with a territorial government and
later graduate into full statehood"
Senior de Getau is a republican and
was chosen by a large majority over
his federalist opponent. He is about
As years old. His home is in Ponce
where he formerly edited La Isla de
Porto Rico.
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IN VIGAN.
Twenty-Five Hundred Natives of the
Region, Mostly Fighting Rebels,
Take the Oath of Allegiance.

Manila, Dec. 3.-Sunday in Vigan
was great day for the American
cause. Twenty-Five hundred natives
o. the region, nearly all fighting reb-
els, crowded the church and took the
oath of allegiance to the United
States. The oath was administered
by the priest. All but 500 of those
sw orn were Bolomen. The number
included the 1.2OO !}olomen who had
previously surrendered.
"The proceedings in the church oc-
cupied the entire Gay. and included
an address by Gen. Young and an ex-
bortation by the priest. Scarcely any
rebels remain in the vicinity of Santa
Maria. Gen. Young attributes this
fact to three causes-the reelection
of President Mckinley. the arrival of
a stronger body of troops, and the
especially rigid enforcement of war
measures, and the deportation OF
prisoners to Manila. He reports that
it is necessary to occupy all the bar
racks in order to protect the natives
from the vengeance of Tagalog raid.
ers"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
OSCAR WILDE DEAD.
He Expired of Meningitis in an OBJ
scnre Hotel in the Latin
Quarter of Paris.

Dublin. Dec. IA dispatch to the
Evening Mail from Paris says Oscar
Wilde is dead. The dispatch adds
that he expired in an obscure house
in the Latin quarter of meningitis
and was received into the Catholic
church on his deathbed.
Paris, Dec. 1.-Wilde had been liv-
ing in a hotel on the Rue des Beaux
Arts, where he had been known for
several months under the name of
Mammoth. For some time he had
been indisposed. In October he was
obliged to submit to a serious op-
Grafton, from the effects of which he
never recovered. He died at 2 a. m.
Friday ut the Maison du Pierier, an
obscure hotel, in the presence OF
Lord Alfred Douglas. The Journal
says it is rumored that Wilde com
mitted suicide.
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KITCHENER IN COMMAND.
II the Government Withholds Re-
inforcements, He May He Greatly
Handicapped I'm Pacifying
the Boer Country.

London, Dec. There was virtu-
ally no fresh news from South At
rica Saturday morning; but the re-
tirement of Lord Wolseley, the re-
turn of Lord Roberts and the APP
pointment of Lord Kitchener to the
supreme command, occurring as they
do simultaneously are keenly discuss
ed. Despite some misgivings hearty
approval is generally expressed of
Lord Kitchener's appointment 1t
is felt that, if any one can clear up
matters in South Africa, he is the
man; and it is readily admitted that
the task before him, though of diff
ferent kind, is almost as difficult as
that which faced Lord Roberts ten
months ago, and is calculated to give
the fullest scope to all of Kitche-
ner's talents as an organizer.
The Morning Post hints broadly
that the recent demand of Lord Rob
erts for reinforcements has not been
complied with and insists that Lord
Eitchener's hands must not be tied
by any lack of men and horses. 1t
says: "If reinforcements are with
held or delayed, Lord Kitchener may
be paralyzed with what consequences
to the empire no one can foresce.
From 10000 to $4,000 men are requir-
ed"
London. Nov. 30.--Lord Roberts Ca
bles from Johannesburg. under date
of Wednesday, November 2s:
"The De Wetsdorp garrison OF two
gums Of the 6sth field battery, with
dctachments of the Worcestershire
regiment. the Highland light infant
~ and Irish rifles. 400 in all, surren-
lered ut $50 p. m, November %.
Our losses were IS men killed and az
wounded, including Maj. Hensen and
Capt. Digby. The enemy is said to
be $500 strong. Four hundred men
were dispatched from Edenburg to
relieve De Wetsdorp. but they did
not succeed in reaching there in time.
Knox joined this force and found De
| Wetsdorp evacuated. Seventy-fivc
sick and wounded had been left there.
Knox pursued and is reported to
have successfully engaged Steyn and
De Wet near Vaalbank. November 81
They retired west and southwest
NnoN's messenger failed to get
through. so | have no details"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
STORM VICTIMS.
Buried on the Island beyond Gall
vcstOn's Limits This Week.

Galveston. Tex, Nov. 3O.-Forty-
five bodies of storm victims have been
found and buried on the island be-
yond the city limits this week.
Prior to any action on the part of
the central committee to have the
bodies in the swamps and marshes
down the island inferred so or rs bod
les, victims of the late storm, were
buried by volunteer parties.
The corpses were decomposed be-
ycnd recognition and not thing of
value was found upon them. The
pockets of the mems clothes were
turned inside out, showing that the
corpses had been robbed.
1t is probable that the burying
force will go to the mainland in a
few days to continue the search for
VI. buried bodies.
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AT THE PENITENTIARY.
COnvicts Enjoyed Three Hours
Entertainment, Followed BY
a Turkey Dinner.

Columbus. o.. Nov. 30.-All the
shops at the penitentiary were closed
Thanksgiving day and the prisoners
were treated to a three hours enter
tainment Thursday morning, followed
by a big turkey dinner. The enter
tainment consisted of songs, charac-
ter sketches, etc. For the first time
in years there was no announcement
of a Thanksgiving pardon. Gov. Nash
has construed the law to mean that
the granting of pardon arbitrarily
by the governor in honor of national
holidays is illegal. He holds that he
can only grant pardons upon the rec
ommendation of the pardon board
after regular application has been
made and investigated. In the past
governors have granted holiday par
dons to prisoners who were not ap-
plicants. usually TO some long-termed
convict whose behavior had always
been perfect.
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SUNDAY.

Over 300 Chinese were killed by a
powder magazine explosion at Nan
king.
Ex-Gov. Joseph McClurg, aged IS
years, died at Lebanon, Mo-, Of hem
orrhage of the stomach.
BY 4 collision between towboats
Coo,OoD bushels of ccal were sunk
near Huntington. w. Va.
VIM. HALEY, who was with Guam
trell al The sccking and burning of
Lawrence. Kan. is insane i'm st. Jo-
seph. Mo.
Two Killian brothers, merchants
Mt Pnrkdale. Ark, qulrreled with Sta
tion Agent Philips. All drew pistols
and the three died almost instantly.
1t is rumored that Emporer Kwang
Su will return to Peking Immediately,
and that the empress dowager will
follow If the reception given him
10 satisfactory.
Four companies of the German
troops are reported to be severely
menaced 35 miles west of Pao Ting
Flu. French troops have left Tien.
Tsin for their relief.
Paul Kruger has abandoned his pro-
posed visit to Berlin owing to the
receipt Of an official intimation that
the emperor would not receive him
He will proceed direct from Cologne
to Holland.
In Vigan. Philippines, 1900 natives
took the oath of allegiance to the
United States. Most of them were
fighting rebels. The oath was admin
istered by the priest in the church
All but 500 of those sworn were Bolo
men.
Administration officials continue
sanguine that the ministers of tht
powers at Peking will soon reach {
common ground of agreement in th'
demands to be made upon the Chi
nese imperial government in salts
faction for the Boxer outrages.
Hassan Pasha, Ottoman ministel
of marine. and Gen. Williams, repre-
senting the Cramp Shipbuilding Co.
of Philadelphia, have signed con
tract for the construction of cruiser
for the Ottoman navy. The price tt
be paid is G35O,O0O, which include
e23,O0O as indemnity to the Unitet
States for losses sustained by Amer
leans during the Armenian massacre
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STROKE OF APOPLEXY.
Rr. Adm. Frederick G. McNair Ex-
pircs at His Residence
in Washington.

Washington, Nov. 29.-Rr. Adm.
Frederick &. McNair died at his resi-
dencc in this city Wednesday after
noon al $3.50 o'clock from stroke of
apopleXy. He had been in poor health
for many months, and it was in con-
temptation to make a trip to Europe.
Tuesday he was taken violently i'll.
and Wednesday his condition became
so critical that his attending physi-
clan called into consultation DR..
Stone, one of the naval surgeons, but
the admiral slowly sank away. He
was the ranking rear admiral of the
navy and the officer next in line to
Adm. Dewey.
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The German Emperor Declined to
Receive the Ex-President of
the Transvaal Republic.
he PLEADS PREVIOUS ENGAGEMEN +.
The Boer Statesman Has Therefore
Decided to Proceed Direct From
Cologne to Holland.
An Inspired Article in the Cologne
Gazette Says That MIR. I<ru-
gers Visit lis Not Agree
able to Germany.

Berlin, Dec. 3.-Mr. Kruger has
abandoned his proposed visit to Ber-
lin owing to the receipt of an Off
cial intimation that Emperor William
regrets that, IN consequence of pre-
vious arrangements, he will be un-
able to receive him. The Boer states
man will therefore proceed direct
from Cologne for Holland. He tele-
graphed to this effect Sunday noon.
The emperor's intimation was con-
veyed to Mr.. Kruger by the German
envoy AT Luxembourg, who arrived at
Cologne Sunday.
The Cologne Gazette, in an inspired
comminique, says: "Mr. Kruger's
visit is not agreeable to Germany, his
aim being to obtain intervention in
South Africa. 1t would be grave
political mistake, it would be even u
great crime. TO allow him to enter
tain even a spark of hope that Ger
many will render him any practical
support"
This declaration is accompanied
with reproaches. Mr.. Kruger being
charged with having encouraged q
useless ynerriita warfare ana having
diSregarded "rrmanys advice when
he might have St'il Followed 1T.
me press generally strikes the
same note.
Paris. Dec. 3.-Empcror Williams
refusal to receive Mr.. Kruger has
caused general surprise here. Most
of the morning papers make it an
c'rnse for articles sympathiHlng with
the hoer statesman or condemning
thc kaiser.
"The kaiser is no longer a modern
Lohengrln." says the Echo de Paris,
"but a simple disciple of Bsmar",.
His attitude is dictated by the in 'nr-
ests Of Germany. which he considers
identical with those of England"
Some OF the papers publish the
kaiser's famous telegram of 1896 to
Mr.. Kruger side by side with that OF
Sunday. The lntransigeant and other
nationalist organs comment with
their customary violence.
London, Dec. 3.-All the London
morning papers comment with un-
bounded enthusiasm upon the abrupt
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
MRS. EMMA VAN LEW.
She Pleaded Guilty to MRnslaughter
and Was Sentenced to the PEN
itcntiary For Ten Years.

Van Vert, o.. Dec. Mrs. Emma
Van Liew, indicted for murder in the
first degree for having caused the
death of Miss Alice Hammell, by
throwing vitriol in her face on the
evening of September 12, last, Friday
afternoon pleaded guilty to man
slaughter and was sentenced to the
Ohio penitentiary for ten years. Mrs.
Van Liew had been arraigned last
Monday and had pleaded not guilty
to the indictment. The case was to
have been assigned for trial Friday,
but by an arrangement between rela-
tives of the accused and the prosecut-
ing attorney, plea of guilty to man
slaughter was accepted.
\ statement was issued by the
mother of the dead girl explaining
the arrangement that had been en-
tered into and reasons therefor. She
says:
81 have one comfort from the plea
as given that l could not have from
conviction by jury in any degree.
The plea of guilty is a confession that
my daughter was right in fixing the
crime upon the accused, SO that no
one can say that I caused an inno-
cent person to be prosecuted. If in
adopting this course l have erred, 1t
is on the side of mercy
Mrs. Van Liew was Immediately ia.
ken to the penitentiary at Columbus
by the sheriff. She was accompanied
by her husband, John Van Liew, who
is cashier of local bank. Mrs. Van
Lew has never disclosed the motive
of her crime and has never publicly
expressed regret for it.
Columbus. o.. Dec. 1t was learn
ed at midnight that Mrs. Van Liew
and her husband were at the Neil
house. where they registered under
fictitious names. The sheriff is at the
same hotel. He delivered his prisoner
at the penitentiary Saturday morn
ing.
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sroHTIrN DEAD.
Five More OF the Victims Of the
Glass Works Accident at San
Francisco Have Died.

San Francisco, Nov. 30.-By the col
lapse of the roof of the San Fran
cisco and Pacific glass works. at 18th
and Bryant streets, thursday after
noon, about so persons were more or
less injured. some of them fatally.
At 3:15 o'clock the number of dead
was reported as 10. The victims
were watching the football game be-
tween the Stanford and the Universe
ty of California teams, when the roof
beneath them gave way. precipitat-
ing them to the floor of the factory.
Some of them fell upon the furnaces,
and one man of unknown identity
was burned almost to a crisp.
So far as known the list of dead is
10. as the first reports were ex-
aggerated. 1t is reported that one
man, Joseph Gumper, fell into the
furnace and that his body was incin-
Grated. There were 500 people on the
roof when 1t fell, and of these "a
went through.
San Francisco. Dec. 1.-Five per-
sons injured in the glass works acci-
dent Thursday died Friday morning,
making the total number of dead IS.
Several more of the injured will die
About the morgue Friday there
wer crowds of anxious inquirers, rel.
atives and friends of those who are
known to have been victims of the ac.
cident. The dead have all been iden.
titled.
Until all the dead have been viewed
by the coroner's jury no bodies
be permitted to be taken away from
the morgue.
All of the hospitals are crowd
with the maimcd. and injured, and :
large staff of physicians and nurses
are at work.
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NEWS CONDENSED.
lnteresting Intelligsnce Gathered
by wire From All Parts 81
both Hemispheres.


The clothes w. j. Bryan wore dur
ing his campaign aboard the Rambler
has been distributed by him to the
newspaper correspondents who made
the tour with him.
-Four convicts were killed and sew
eral others were injured by the fall
ing of wall of the old prison in At
lanta, Ga. The men were engaged in
removing the wall when it collapsed.
The duke of Manchester, with his
bride. formerly Miss Helene thinner
man. of Cincinnati, arrived in New
father. They were escorted to the
Holland house, where they will re-
main few days.
Gov. John Lind took snap Judgment
on the democrats of the state, imme
diately after the funeral of the late
Senator Davis, by privately offering
the place to Loren w. Collins, repub
lican, associate supreme court jus
tice of the state, who had not even
been mentioned rs candidate fol
the high Office.
The state department sent instruc
tions TO United States Consul Gum
mers. at rangiers, Morocco. to pro
ceed to the capital of that country
as far as possible on a United States
mnn-of-war TO present afresh thu
claims of the United States for in
drmnity on account of the murder
OF Marcus Ezagun. nnturalizet
American citizen. who was killed il
June ZOO.
Secretary Hay, for the Unitet
States, and Senor Core. the Mica
raguan minister. for his government
Signed conditional agreement
which viii be made the basis of :
,reaty should congress adopt the Mic
| araxta route FOR II canal. This actiol
is taken in anticipation of congres
sional action upon the pending Mica
ragua canal bill and the lIay-pauncr
| fote treaty.
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ANTI-SCREEN ACT.
The Supreme Court of Ohio Givea
Out the Syllabus in It's De-
| cisiOn on the Law.

Columbus, o., Dec. 1.-The supreme
court Friday gave out the following
syllabus in the decision on the anti
screen act case:
The act of March 0, 1898 (93 o. L.,
s3). to provide for the weighing of
coal before screening, having no
other object than to prevent the
making of contracts between opera
tors and miners, whereby the former
shall become bound to make and the
latter entitled to receive compensa-
tion having regard to the skill and
care of the miner, is repugnant to
the bill of rights as an unwarranta-
BILE invasion of the right to make
cnntrnctS"
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The Hobart MOnuInen (.

New York, Dec. 1.-The design of
the monument of the late Vice Pres
ident Hobart has been decided upon
at Paterson, \. j. The successful
competitor is Philip Martin. 1t
shows Mr.. Hobart standing with a
gavel in his hand and leaning for
ward slightly as if listening to the
speaker. 1t will be of bronze and be
about nine feet in height. 1t will
stand upon pedestal in front of the
city hall in Paterson.
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SHOT IN HIS ACCOUNTS.
The late George X. Grimths Embez-
sled SIOO.OOO of the Public school
Funds of Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, Nov. 3O.--The late Geo.
R. Gritfiths, former clerk of the
board of education, is short about
100000 in his accounts. The city
auditors experts have not yet got
to the bottom of the discrepancy. A
special meeting of the board of edu-
cation has been called for 8 p. m. Fri
day to consider the startling situa-
tion. An immediate move will prob
ably be made against Griffiths' estate.
GHffiths had legions Of friends. They
will be shocked at the unexpected dis
closure.
Griffiths was not like Defaulter
Frank Brown. of Newport, an IRE.
sponsible person in responsible po.
sition. He was a steady man, a far.
seeing man, who stood high in the
esteem of men we'll known in the
community. 1t was also believed that
he was wealthy. In fact, he had
enough of an income for all his
wants. But the fact is indisputable
that Grifffths was short in his ac.
counts. The auditors experts say
that he misappropriated nearly all
the tuition fees paid by nonresident
students since 1898.
He kept one private cash book in
which accounts were correctly entered
and he kept four fraudulent cash
books with forced balances made to
fit the case of each examination as i,
might arise. He had forged receipts
for moneys purporting to have beer
paid by him into the city treasury
the forgery consisting of fraudulent
signature purporting to be the gen
uine signature of the city treasurer
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Pitcher Piatt Caught.

Portsmouth. O.. Dec. 1.-Wiley
Piatt, the pitcher of the Philadelphia
ball club, spent Thanksgiving day in
the custody of the sheriff on account
of charge preferred by girl named
Scott, of Rarden. He had hearing
at Rarden Friday morning. The sher-
if chased Piatt about Cincinnati last
summer. but he escaped across the
river. He was caught at his home in
Otway.
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ST. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 1.-The North
ern Pacific railway has decided to
substitute the telephone for the pres
ent telegraph system of the road, and
will build and equip long-distance
and division telephone lines to take
the place of the telegraph wherever
It is deemed practicable.
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Live stock Men to Meet

Salt Lake, Utah, Nov. 3O.-Secrctary
Charles T. Martin, of the National
Live Stock association, has issued the
call for the fourth annual convention
O.: the National Live Stock associa-
ton to meet at Assembly hall in
this city on January is, 1901, at 1O