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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
Postal Affairs.

Special TO the Register
WASHINGTON, D. c., February Is.
The following fourth-class postmast-
ers have been appointed in West Vir-
ginia:
j. B. Jenkins. Albert, Tucker county,
vice ]. B. Moore, resigned; j. p. Arnett,
Arnettsville, Monongalia county, vice
w. E. Price. resigned; J.. w. Light.
Cold Stream. Hampshire county, vice
NJ. j. Clark, resigned; H. B. Wilhelm,
Orr, Preston county, vice Joseph Dill
low, resigned; ]. H. Boyd, Stone Cliff,
Fayette county, vice o. c. Kubach,
dead; J. d. Hamrick, Bergoo. Webster
county, vice E. H. Gillespie, resigned;
S. r. Atwood, Morley, Braxton county,
vice S. E. Dufield. resigned; A. S.
Stephens, Sycamore Dale, Harrison
county, vice w. B. Stephens, dead.
New postofices have been establish
ed at Doyle, Wood county, Shannon T.
Doggess, postmaster, and at Turkey,
Mingo county, Edmund Osburn, post
master.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

pleader before his old colleagues and
his colleagues-to-be as chief counsel
against Nathan B. Scott, Of West Vir-
GINA. Senator Blackburn is a power
in the role of counsel for the plaintiff.
At each seeming trip and each digres-
sive start he will worry and nag Scott
and the West Virginia Senatorial
Trust. When he has rounded out his
work against the seating of Senator
Scott, the Vice Presidential boom of
Stephen B. Elkins will be nailed to
the door of the woodshed. and the
senior Senator from West Virginia
will have less hair upon his political
scalp"
1.-The West Virginia Senatorial
Trust" is good, very good. How aptly
it characterizes the political situation
which a few years of ring rule have
created in this State!
No wonder the honest rank and file
of the Republican party are rebelling
against a situation that has become
notorious throughout the country.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

Can interview with the Duke of Yelling
ton on the South African War.)
My soul last night took a sudden flight
And flew to the land of dream,
For to locate the cause of fate
And the power that was to blame.
| made a march for prominent men
To get an interview;
And | thought I'd fail to make a scoop,
Their numbers were so few.
Then 1 met the of Wellington
And he grasped me by the hand,
Saying, Tell me, my countryman,
How does old England stand?"
England is more distracted, sir,
Imam ever she has been,
Though she hangs no man nor woman now
For the wearing of the green.
But her lords are in South Africa
Rafding night and day,
And the Kruger boys won't let them hold
AS much as a kopje.
Again the mermaids and maidenroys
Are fooling with her cable,
And when she gets a grain Of news
It's no truer than a fable.
She is like a great thermometer.
Measuring intense sorrow,
And her only consolation
Lays in Buffers move tomorrow.
Brilliant men upon the earth
Are predicting another row,
And that Britsin's empire won't be known
One hundred years from now.
'If that is true, England's doom
Is written upon the wall.
| Isn't her arm in South Africa
Making any showing at ALP
| Oh, yes, the military censors
Are making a success,
For they never fail to silence
The brave writers of the press.
Duke. nv lord. I am a bard,
You know what l am seeking
Is a midnight raid, a brilliant move
To butcher Beers whilst sleeping.
A midnight raj. that don't succeed
To Britain is no glory;
And the British dead left on the field
VIII prove a boor had led her army.
| Say where and when you will call again.
That | might have my ideas written
To prove I'm an enemy of Great Britain.
p. SARSFIELD.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

ed from the s~trictest neutrality. Ny con-
fdential dispatches to the department. con-
tanned information which will show my
sympathy for the republic, but which time
will prove to be unbiased as to actual
facts"
The reply to Mr. Macrum's circum-
stantial and convincing arraignment,
the State Department was forced to
send out from Washington answers
nothing. And the arraignment of The
administration and its alliance with
Great Britain to compass the down.
fall and destruction of the South Afri-
can Republics, which has been kept
guiltily secret from the American peo-
pie, stands forth but the stronger and
o convincing.
Mr.. Macrum has amply vindicated
himself.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

1t is doubtless true, as the ablest
judges declare, that the electric light
provision in the refunding scheme is
simply a bait relied on to catch
enough unwary voters to carry through
the whole iniquitious scheme to refund
some half a million of debt that needs
no refunding. 1t is openly declared
that the electrical provision was not
meant to be and could not be carried
out, for more reasons than that the
sum named would not be sufficient.
Let no voter be deceived by this bait.
Municipal electric lighting a only
come through the defeat of the refund
ing scheme without an increase of
taxation.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
The Man to blame.

Baltimore Sun.
President Mckinley stands revealed as
the Moloch of these closing years of the
nineteenth century-not the last years, we
hope. of the American republic. All his
subterfuges, his DISCUSSES, his hypocritical
pretenses of being the mere child of des-
tiny, an humble instrument in the hands
OF Providence, the obedient ervan of the
American Congress and of the American
people, are brushed away like so many
cobwebs He can no longer accuse the
Almighty of being either his accomplice
or the instigator of his deeds or hope to
put upon Providence the responsibility
which is all his own.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
DIED.

KRAUS-On Thursday, February. 18th,
1900. at CPS o'clock p. m, John Joseph, son
of Joseph and Emma krauS, aged Il years,
3 months and 6 days
Funeral notice hereafter.
WILLIAMSON her late residence, No.
$50 Main street, on Thursday, February
| 18th, 1900, at 5:15 p. m, Caroline LoTlmore
Williams, relict of the late Kew. Danlel
Williams, in the I'D year of her age.
Funeral from the residence OF w. ii.
| Caldwell, No. rs South Front street, Sun
day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends are re-
specially invited to attend. Interment at
| Greenwood cemetery.
| BOWMAN-On Wednesday, February IA,
1900. at $40 a. M, Charles +. Bowman, III
the 9th year of his age.
Funeral from the residence of his daugh-
ter. Mrs. James Crosby, No. 1873 Jacob
| street. Saturday, February II, at 2 p. m.
Interment at Peninsula cemetery. Friends
of the family invited.
FBBERT-On Thursday, February, 18th,
! 1890 at 1890 a. m, Marie Genieve, infant
| daughter of Daniel and Mamie Ebbert,
aged IL days.
Funeral services from the family resi-
| dence. No. 20 Ninth street, on Friday, Feb
ruarv 10th. at "a. M Interment private
at Mt. Calvary.
McCABE-On Wednesday, February 18th,
1900. at 1925 O'Clock p. M, Miss una Nc
Cabe, in the 18th year OF ner age.
Funeral from her late residence, No.
Alley 10. Saturday morning at $50 o'clock.
Mass at ST. Joseph's cathedral at s
| O'Clock. Interment at Mt. Calvary GENE
| terry. Friends of the family invited.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
JUDGE TAFT REPRESENTED

The Associated Press should look af-
ter the Cincinnati reporter who sum-
married Judge Taft's opinion in the
Kentucky case for the Association. In
this summary the statement was made
that Judge Taft reviewed the Goebel
election law as the most Infamous
statute that had ever come before the
attention of a court"
Now, the full text of Judge Taft's
opinion is at hand and in it there is
no such language as that quoted, nor
anything approaching it, or that could
be tortured into such meaning.
Evidently this Cincinnati scribe de-
liberately interpolated in Judge Taft's
opinion the statement regarding the
Goebel law.
The only point in Judge Taft's ut
terance which might by a glazing and
ineXcusable error of Interpretation be
tortured into a condemnation of any
law occurs in the following paragraph
and this in no name refers to the
Goebel law:
The case on in re is a leading case upon
the subject and settles concluSively for
this Court the principle which must be
followed in the exercise of the injunctive
power of a Court of Equity. The case is
so elaborate that any other citation of au-
thority and any discussion upon the prin-
ciple which it receives are wholly super
fiuous. l should have been, able to decide
this question at the close of the argument,
but the Importance of the interests in
volved and the outrageous character of the
Electoral fraud under the forms of law
which the bills charge that the State Con-
test Board is about to consummate have
led me to give the question presented a
fuller and more careful investigation. This
sion and requires me to make an order
denying the motion for a preliminary in
junction in both cases"
Judge Taft here refers simply to the
frauds alleged in the bill of charges
against the contest board-not to any
thing prior to the election, not TO the
Goebel law, or any other law.
There has evidently been a deliber-
ate effort by an irresponsible reporter
to deceive the country on this mat
ter.
1t is too much to hope, however, that
the organs which have been gleefully
emphasizing the words placed in Judge
Taft's mouth and which he never ut
tered, will make correction. Honesty
and fairness need not be looked for
from editors who deliberately con-
done assassination.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

Otherwise there will be, not only a pros
pect, but a certainty of the taxpayers
having their annual bills reduced" Rat
ify that ordinance, otherwise there will be
a certainty of an increase in the rate of
taxation. That is the simple proposition
the people have to deal with.-Inten. gencer.
Now, if by hook or crook this ordi-
nance should be adopted our neighbor
will rue the day it gave this positive
endorsement to this unqualified false
hood. The Intelligencer knows full
well that if this ordinance is adopted
there will be an end of all opportunity
for a reduction of taxation for prob
ably a generation to come, and in that
event its positive u%tterance would re-
turn to plague it. The people do not
forget those who deliberately deceive
them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
HARp1NG ON THE TAX FALsEHooD

HARPING ON THE TAX FALSEHOOD
The favorite because the strongest
argument" the advocates Of the re-
funding scheme have to advance is
the brazen falsehood that this iniqui-
tous proposition will reduce taxation.
The Intelligencer goes even further in
its reckless disregard Of the plainest
facts in this connection and yesterday
declared that if this ordinance is
passed there will be, not only a pros
pect, but a CERTAINTY" Of reduced
taxation, adding: "Ratify that ordi-
nance, otherwise there will be a GER
TAINTY of an increase in the rate OF
taxation"
What does our neighbor mean by
such wild statements as these? Upon
what shadow of fact does it base these
positive assertions that if the ordi-
nance is not adopted taxation will GER
tainly be increased and if it is adopted
there will be an equal certainty" that
taxes will be reduced?
How does it know this? How is it
enabled to make these positive and un-
equivocal statements? What facts has
1t that the public has not? If it has
exclusive facts why does it not publish
them and thus convince the public be-
yond any doubt of the truth of its
gratuitous assertions, which now are
not wholly unsupported?
Does our neighbor mean that if this
scheme to mortgage the future of
Wheeling for a generation is not
adopted that Council will revenge it
self upon the people, its own sup
porters included, by g~ratuitously in
creasing the rate of taxation? Hardly.
True, the present Council has long
been engaged in weaving it's own
shroud, but it would not thus abruptly
commit suicide with it's eyes open
simply to secure a revenge on the peo-
pie which would react with tenfold
force upon itself. While the people
have never had an ~overweening regard
for the intelligence of this Council, it
has not gone stark mad. Yet, unless
this is what it means the Intelligen-
GERS cocksure assertions cannot mean
anything and are a reckless and most
unblushing effort to deceive the peo-
pie.
And in this connection we war; the
organ that if by dint of logrolling,
heeling and the lavish use of money
this iniquitous scheme should happen
to be successful this time its asser-
ton that the ordinance means mot
only a prospect but a CERTAINTY" of
reduced taxation will not be forgotten
but will certainly return to plague it
in the future and to discredit any ut
terance it may thereafter make. For
you can't fool the people all the time,
and they have a keen memory for
traitors to their interests.
Thus the I~ntelligencer is taking
great risks if it honestly believes that
this ordinance will be ratified by the
people. For our neighbor knows as
we'll as every intelligent man who has
examined this matter that while under
the present easy and common-sense
plan of l%iquidating our debt there will
be an opportunity in a few years to
reduce taxation. if this ordinance is
adopted there can be no reduction of
taxation for at least ten years and
probably not for thirty years-a gener-
alton to come.
We would commend to our neighbor
the time-honored adage: Honesty is
the best policy"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

Col. Romeo Freer must not let the
sincere and outSpoken admiration and
support of his numerous friends in the
Republican party mislead him into the
belief that he will have a walkover
against the ring and its candidate, A.
B. White. Mr.. White and his friends
are pursuing the very wise policy OF
allowing Mr.. Freer and his friends to
do all the talking before the conven-
ton. But if the Hon. Romeo could
take a peep into the combines wood
shed he would probably discover that a
powerful sight of wood is being sawed
therein.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

Defeat this refunding ordinance and
continue the present easy, sane and
business-like method of l~iquidating
the debt and reducing the annual in
terest charge in progressive ratio and
in a few years there will be released
sufficient funds to justify a reduction
in the rate of taxation. If the ordi-
nance is adopted taxes will not be re-
duced for at least ten years and proba-
bly, not for a generation, while we will
have to pay double the sum we other
wise would to get out of debt.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

Defeat the refunding ordinance and
Council will be at once compelled to
submit an ordinance refunding only
the compromise loan-the only debt
that is pressing-and provide for the
purchase of the electrical company's
plant that the city may again enter
the field of commercial electric lighting
out of which right, by the way, men
now behind this refunding scheme
buncoed the city some years ago.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
RequisitiOn HOnOred.

Special to the Register.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, February Is.
Governor Atkinson to-day honored
the requisition of Governor Stone, Of
Pennsylvania. for the extradition of
Frank Davis, under arrest at Romney,
w. Va, for horse stealing in Pennsyl-
vania.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
"THE WEST VIRGINIA SENATOR
IAL

The following keen observations on
the case of Hon. John T. McGraw and
a majority of the members of the Leg
islature of West Virginia against N. B
Scott are worth reading and remem-
bering. They are from the current
number of that spicy publication, The
Verdict, published in New York:
Joseph Carey Stiles Blackburn, for
mer Senator and Senator-elect from
Kentucky, Is to appear as q special
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

Business men and taxpayers-and
every citizen is a taxpayer directly or
indirectly-must remember it will take
work to defeat this refunding scheme,
for which the whole city machine and
hired heelers in every ward are busily
Logging. ~log-rolling and deceiving the
uniformed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

The only way to secure reduced
taxes during the lifetime Of the pres
ent generation of taxpayers is to de-
feat the refunding ordinance at the
polls on the oath. which provides for
a special tax to cover the entire loan.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

The whole city machine and a regi-
ment of paid heelers besides are work.
ing like beavers for the refunding or
dinance. 1t behooves citizens and tax
pays generally to protect themselves.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

Assist the city to a speedy entrance
into the field of commercial electric
lighting by defeating the refunding
scheme at the polls on the oath.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

The Verdict, of New York, speaks of
the Elkins-Scott combine as "the
West Virginia Senatorial Trust" A
clever Characterization.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
NOTICE TO

The undersigned committee will receive
sealed proposals until II O'Clock noon of
Thursday, March LIST, 1900, for the erection
of a Banking House for the New Mar
t~insville Bank, New Martinsvine, w. Va
Plans and specifications for same can be
seen at said bank. A certified check for
$500 must accompany each bid as an evi-
dence of good faith.
The committee reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
S. r. MARTIN,
ID. H. cox.
j, A. BANDIT,
fe16mon, wed, fri, orb Committee.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

The Kings Daughters market, at
Huscroft's, Saturday, will present
many attractions.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

MALE HELP WANTED.

w~ANTED-A reliable registered drug
clerk. References required. Address
PHARMACIST, care Register. fef6esda
WANTED-A competent registered phar-
n1acist. salary good for amount Of york.
fe14e&da
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

The method of selling Fels-
Naptha soap is queer. The
grocer returns your sc, if you
don't find it as stated. You
keep the soap and the money
too.
ySls 4 Co. makers. Phuaddphla.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
AGENTS WANTED.

WASTED-Agents TO handle fine line Of
instailmen1 goods. Commission paid every
Saturday. good Inducements 10 the right
party. G. r. ADAMS & CO.. 800 Market
street feliet
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

Every citizen is q taxpayer directly
or indirectly. Hence. every citizen viii
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
NEW IMPROVEMENTS.

FOR RENT-A six-roomed brick house
with cellar and large yard. No. "a Thir-
teenth street: water and illuminating gas;
possession April LIST, 1900. Also stable in
rear OF SO west side of Market street; inn
mediate possession. Enquire at S27 Mar
ket street of w. J. Colts. fel6erdQ
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

FINEST cutlery grinding done right here
\ in Wheeling; c~oneaving razors a spec
ialty for barber use: clipper. scissor and
knife work lone promptly; prices reasona-
able. Wheeling Scale Works, 1888 Market.
Tel. 965. ja22esb
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
ANNoUNcEMENTs.
T THOGRAPHING

In all It's branches. and as r~ea-~nabis as
superior quality wiz allow. Get prices ana
samples. we can suit you both ways.
WEST VA. PRINTING en-.
lzs Market sussl-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16
FOR INSTRUMENTATION

FOR SALENTwo-fiue so h. p boiler. Good
as new. Crate bars; front breeching; buck
slaves complete. Address B, this office.
fel5es
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-16

FOR SALE" For Rent" Rooms for
Rent cards and house leases for sale at
REGISTER Counting Room.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-06
BRADFORD COUNTY.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune
Towanda, March 5.--The Towanda
Red Men will banquet at the ever pop
ular Ochs house on Wednesday night
The home of Charles Swartwood
near Sayre, was the scene of pitiful
Sight during the late food last Thurs.
day Some ten days ago a like occur
renee happened when the family We're
compelled to move to other quarters
At that time the children We're i'll with
measles and one of the children con-
traoted a cold from exposure and died
shortly. afterwards. The family We're
lriven from their home the second time
by water and taken care Of
Detective IIollon delivered Henry and
Francis Heeman and Joseph Johnson,
who deserted from the United States
army. and were arrested at Waverly,
20 For. Siocum. ~ y, on Saturday.
The penalty given by the government
Is severe.
Rev. j: D. Tilinghasi. pastor of the
Uniyersaiist church of the Messiah, Is
Assisting in a series of meetings al
Scranton.
The clothing store of ]. x. Bush was
closed by Sheriff Drake on Saturday
Judgments amount to $4,000.
Andrew c. Noble. of Athens, died al
the home Of his daughter. Mrs. II. r
Braund. in Towanda, Friday night
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-06
THE MARKETS.
Wall Street Review.

New York, March 5.-Attention in the
stock market continued to be largely de-
voted to the feverish and excited fiuc-
tuations of small number of stocks
sponsible for the changes. In the case
of Sugar the operations of the profess
sional traders were interrupted by the
unexpected action of the directors in de-
claring quarterly dividend OF lia per
cent. on the common stock. This sud-
den tearing aside of the veil Of mystery
rather nonplussed professional traders
who had counted upon period of uncer-
tainty until Wednesday In which TO cir
culate vague reports and to keep up an
excited tiuctuation in the stock with OPP
portunities for profit both up and down.
The cutting into half of the dividend
was about. what Wall street sentiment
had settled upon, but coming suddenly
upon the half executed plans OF specuiu-
tive contngepts, II left them all at sea.
Tho stock opened under pressure. but
after falling nearly points encountered
very vigorous support and was rallied to
1854 by noon. 4 1000 share lot was
came known of the dividend action.
Enormous selling for both accounts i'm
mediately followed and the price slumped
by wide breaks with occasional spas
modic rallies to 81 while fluctuations were
wild on. the recovery TO par. The hood
but on the reaction to 9S large buying
was In evidence again. which rallied to
99a. where II closed at a net loss of 1ss
In the half hour after midday transac-
tions In this stock reached the enormous
aggregate of $4,000 shares. There were
Coal at the same time with the slump in
Sugar. but the general market was not
affected. In fact the stock market gave
evidence Of its rejoicing over the set
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-06
New York Grain and Produce.

New York. March 5.-Fiour-Fairly act
i've on spring wheat grades and favored
by buyers. but continued dull for winter
wheat. Wheat-SLot steady; No, red.
73aac. elevator; Ii@ic. {. O. b. afloat in
store; No. northern Duluth. 77sic. {. o.
b. atioat prompt; No. hard Duluth, 795tc;
(. O. b. aflOat prompt; options opened
steady but subsequently weakened. ruled
dull all day with the final tone easy at
May. 72c.; july, i21sc.; September, i2c.
Corn--No. 2 ilc.. f. 0. b.. afioat and 4lhc;
elevator; options opened steady but eased
off and closed weak at unchanged prices
May closed 39hc.; July, Ss5sc. Oats
Spot steady; No. .. 2SAa2Nac.; No. :,
2Siac.; No. 2 white. Sllac. No. 3 white.
Sllac.; track mixed, western, 2siaaS0c. I:
track white, 31a3jc. options inactive and
easy. Butter-Firmer: western creamery,
2oa26c.: do. factory, l1a2Oc.: June cream
cry. 1Sa23iac.; imitation creamery. 1Sa23c.
state choice, 1Sa2ic. Cheese-Firm; fancy
large white and colored, 15a13hc.: fancy
small colored. 13i4c.; choice grades, ia
12alc. fancy small white 13al2hc. EGGS
Steady; state ard Pennsylvania. at
mark. 16a1Glac.; southern. at mark, l5al6c
western, at mark, 1Ga16Ic.