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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12
JAMES R. COMBS.
Editor and Proprietor of the Pied
mont independent, Crippled ON
20 TAn KaHa un

Editor and Proprietor of the Pied
mont independent, Crippled ON
h B.. a. o. Ten Years Ago.
Elkjns Inter-Mountain.
James r. Combs, the subject of this
sketch, is perhaps the most remarkable
man in the newspaper business. He
has the distinction OF being the only
editor in the world who has no legs and
only one arm. So far as known there
is not an editor, city or country, the
world wide over, who is manned and
crippled as is the editor and publisher
of the Piedmont Independent. He
shows the same pluck and energy in the
publication Of his paper, in the little
mountain town Of Piedmont, as he did
when he lay upon his bed Of affection,
Or under the ponderous wheels Of the
great merciless B. & o. locomotive, and
refused to succumb to what seemed
punishment enough to kill three ordin-
airy men. In a railroad accident on the
9th day Of June, 1892, then in the prime
OF we'll preserved manhood, being in
the employ of the B. & o. as fireman IN
the seventeen mile grade, from Pied
mont to Altamont, he met with an acct
dent that showed him to be a man Of
wonderful vitality and proved that 1t
Is possible for a man to be cut all to
pieces and still live. As his engine wal
sauntering letsursly back down the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12
A hid.

It'sani i'll wind that blowsno good.
We find our esteemed contemporary, the
Wellsburg Herald, extracting this ray Of
sunshine from the strike cucumber:
lone OF the few beneficial effects of
such labor strikes and agitations in the
great cities Is to force the mills and fac
tories away from the cities where they
are opposed by the thoroughly organized
labor unions to the smaller towns where
they can have more freedom to run their
factories according to their own poll
cies.
without taking into consideration the
merits of the steel strike pro and con.
we would like to see a determined effort
made to secure some of these works for
Wellsburg.'
This is unique as a bid for new in
dustries. 1t is also more or less foxy.
Our neighbor up the river takes a view
Numerically opposite that of Mayor
Black, of McKeesport, and boldly offers
capital Immunity from municipal inter
ference in any wal between capital and
labor.
Capital, however, is itself, too foxy
to be caugt by such chaff. Capital has
had IT'S hardest battles in small towns
such as Homestead for instance-where
practically the entire population is COM
posed of workingmen, who elect the
municipal officials, who in turn are
bound to be in sympathy with labor in
any contest between labor and capital.
Thus the Wellsburg bid for industrial
capital to locate there and run things to
suit itself proves a boomerang upon ex-
animation.
Both capital and labor are much bet
ter off In such cities as Wheeling, for in
stance, where each has a fair field and
no favor, where capital has every facil-
ity for the conduct Of a great industry
and the handling and shipment OF its
vast material and product, while labor is
assured all the home comforts and con-
veniences of city life.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

shaded grade, the engineer and fireman
enjoying the fresh air, beautiful seem
cry and fragrance Of wild flowers the
engineer decided to stop his engine and
pluck some honeysuckies as they hung
so tempting wei the bank, almost
touching the cab and filing the air
with sweet perfume, little thinking OF
the awful consequences of gratifying his
love for the beautiful innocent flowers.
AS he returned to the engine, the flow
ers dropped from his hands, a he
stood m~otionless, speeches., n be-
fore he could recover himself so as 10
speak to his fireman, las he stood at
his post on the foot board, shovel in
hand) or grasp the throttle, there was
a whirl; another engine in charge OF
men who supposed the track clear,
rounded a curve and crashed into the
standing engine. The result was that
the engine and tender parted, and Mr..
Combs fell to the track in front OF the
tender. When he was found the wheel
resting OF n of his legs and the other
wheels had passed over his other leg
and his right arm, yet pinned fast as
he was, when help reached him he was
in a sitting position ready to give di-
rections as to how the men should pro-
coed to move the heavy truck from his
limbs. We'll, to make a long story
short, he got well, after loosing pounds
Of flesh from his back, and instead Of
giving up In despair and depending on
the charity of others, he went into the
newspaper business and has been very
successful, having n Of the best pa
pers In that county, with the largest
circulation. He travels around town
on a TRICYCLE. and at his office moves
around on a %troundling chair.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12
THE ISSUE IN MARYLAND.

The bloody shirt wavers and profess
sional politicians OF the Republican
party are doing their best to make
Roadway against the inevitable in
| Maryland. Since the writing of Uncle
Toms Cabin" there hasn't been so
much ~demagogic appeal for the down
trodden man and brother as To- is
| being made by Republican politicians
| whose only use for the aforesaid man
and brother is to vote him at the polls,
after which the man and brother can
hustle for himself.
The Maryland Republicans, however,
were not honest enough to meet the
issue of white supremacy" boldly.
They knew they would lose on that
issue squarely presented. But some Of
their uncoached speakers have been
less cautious. Mr.. Goldsborough, the
chairman Of the Republican State COM
mittee, tried to show that the negro
vote vas a bogy and would scare
nobody. His argument was that the
negroes form only 20 per cent Of the
population, and hence are not danger
Gus.
There might be some force in this
argument il the negro vote were
divided, but cast solidly, blindly, unin-
diligently and undiscriminatingly for
one party it would enable 81 per cent
Of the whites to triumph over 40 per
cent OF the whole number Of voters
forming the bulk of the white popula-
ton. Editor Watterson, Of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, who has had long
experience of this particular phase of
American politics. says it is the conten-
ton Of the Maryland Republicans that
three-eighths of the intelligence of the
State shall rule five-eighths, with the
aid of the concentrated ignorance.
Thus the unintelligent voters would
hold the balance Of power, and enable
three-tenths of the voters to have their
own way.
This" says Editor Watterson truly,
may be acceptable to some people, but
it will hardly commend itself to the
people of Maryland
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12
A Big Deal Closed.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG, W. Va, August II.
A. C. Davis, G.. A. Davis and R. H.
Ruthford, all of them interested in the
West Virginia Western Telephone Co.,
have closed a deal whereby they take
possession of the franchise and proper
ties of the West Virginia Telegraph
and Telephone Company. The lines of
this company extend from Parkersburg
to Volcano and through a part of
Richie county and have been hereto
fore operated by the Bell Company.
The officers of the new company are:
President, r. H. Rutherford Secretary.
and treasurer, A. c. Davis; General
Manager, G. A. Davis.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12
TRYING TO FOOL THE FARMER.

The sedate and statistical New York
journal OF Commerce never talks poll
tics and almost as rarely looks on the
humorous side of anything. But even
the staid Journal cannot help poking a
little pungent satire at what it
calls the Department Of Agriculture's
annual scare ~tabulation of the amount
of agricultural imports" This, says
ed to worry the farmers and make them
feel that nothing but a high tariff
Congress keeps them is a state of rea-
sonable comfort. This is heightened
by the explanation that Europe supplies
more of our agricultural imports than
any other section of the earth, and
next TO Brazil, England supplies more
than any other n country. After the
American farmer has sliyered owe the
idea that we are importing food from
Europe, and especially from England,
he is gently informed that the agri-
cultural imports in the order OF
their importance, are sugar, coffee
hides and skins, silks, wool and vege-
table ibres, tropical fruits and nuts
tea, tobacco Especial varieties,) yege-
table oils and cocoa. Many of these
things are not produced in this coun-
try at all; others are produced to
small extent, or some varieties are, and
others have to be imported unless we
go without them. Still, we may get te
raising all these things. Secretary
Wilson is trying to convince the coun
try that tea Is raised here; we know
that beet and cane sugar, but q very
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

a conservative output next season,
without binding themselves to any
specific amount. A Conservative out
put" Ell, This means that the whisky
trust is preparing to curtail Uncle
Sans grog with a view to putting up
the price. 1t remains to be seen IL a
nation of freemen will stand this lat
est swipe from the octupus, which
means watered whisky.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

small part of the consumption, ! s
raised here. and we may be informed
by the Department of Agriculture that
somebody in the United States has a
coffee plantation"
1t is the old high tariff bunco game
which the farmer is ever up against.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

Dubois, Pa, has, through a commit
tee of citizens, offered the United States
Steel Company one million dollars to
locate the Woods plant, of MeKeesport,
there. By accepting this offer the COM
bine would kill two birds with one
stone: 1t would punish McKeesport for
sympathizing with the strikers, and
would obtain a million dollars as its
reward. There's something to think
about in this paragraph.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

Mrs. Carrie Nation has finally driven
her husband into the divorce court.
He might have been driven to drink il
Carries Ratchet had left any saloon
handy.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

Seth Low is again doomed for Mayor
of New York. But the anti-Tamman-
ties will eve win with Seth Low in
the saddle. Seth Is a busted
phenom," in politics.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

The Register is in receipt Of the
"Rules and Regulations of the w. Va.
Central Agricultural and Mechanical
Society for the T~hirty-ffth Annual
Fair at Clarksburg, W. Va" to be held
four days beginning September 2. 1t
promises to be very interesting. The
programme is elaborate. 1t will be a
fine State Fair appetizer for Harrison
county and ought to give that section
Just the proper relish for the big event
Of the year at Wheeling the week OF
September 8 which will be the biggest
yet.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

Eleven-year-old Elaine Goldlng. who
swan the Narrows, New York harbor,
Saturday, is no mean rival of Leander
and Lord Byron, and Lieutenant Eken-
head, all three of whom swan the Hell
lespont, Leander in heroic times, and
the two latter in 1871 or 1912.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12
TELEPHONES.

EDITORIAL ROOMS-BELL 49,. 008
EDITORIAL ROOMs-NAT'L 008
COUNTING ROOM-BELL -. 9O7
COUNTING ROOMMATE $50. oO7
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

The Pattison boom in Pennsylvania
is growing rapidly. It's a good thing
to push along.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

The industrial situation is resting
yer a powder magazine and intern
perance Of habit and talk is a danger
Gus friction match.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

We are not likely to hear anything
more of a Carnegie library in this
neck of the woods.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

Speaking of a sympathetic coal-min-
ers' strike, when the Sampson-Schley
controversy warns up maybe we won't
need much coal for the winter.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12
REGISTER AGENCIES.

WHERE THE REGISTER CAN BIZ
PURCHASED OUT OF OWN.
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Queen News
Stand. National Hotel
CHARLESTON. W. Va-Hotel Runnsa
Newt Stand.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

1t will take very little more strike ex-
perience to make Uncle Sam rise in his
might and put his fist down with the
legal command, "ARBITRATE."
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

A meeting Of Kentucky distillers Is
to be called for the middle of Septem-
Der, when 1t 10 believed all will agree to
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

The announced policy Of the Steel
Company to cart two or three of its
plants from one point to another has
it's ludicrous as we'll as its serious side.
Incidentally, the work is giving en-
ployment to a good many men, at good
wages.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12
i TIME FOR CONSERVATISM.

The Register believes that the iron
and steel workers of this community
are too intelligent a class of men to
need much advice as to how to conduct
themselves in the present grave crisis.
They appreciate the strength of their
cause with the public and are not apt
of their own %volition, to commit any
act that will prejudice it. In such
cases it is rarely the strikers them
selves but their ill-advlsed and reckless
symputhizers who commit the overt
acts that may turn public sympathy
from them.
The working men are in the majority
III this community and the situation is
largely in their own keeping. We be-
lieve they fully realize this RESPONSE
bility and the urgent necessity OF pre-
serving the peace and protecting all
property rights-especially the property
Of the trust.
The United States Steel Corporation
is the most powerful aggregation of
capital ever gathered under n man
agement. In many places it has pow
er to make or unmake an entire COM
munity. 1t needs but a stroke of the
corporation pen to entirely wipe out
some industrial centres by the removal
Of their great plants employing many
thousands Of men-each man as a rule
representing ave others dependent up
On him.
In the present crisis the men will
Serve their own and the entire COM
m0ity's interests best by taking every
pYecaution to prevent disorder or at
tacu upon the trusts property. Let
there De no excuse for invoking the
United States Court injunction in this
city and above all let there be no de-
mo~nstration against the corporation
that may influence the powers in the
trust to remove any OF their great
plants from this city. This would be
a calamity both to labor and to the
community in general greater than the
total loss Of a dozen such strikes.
Tho Register believes the members OF
the Amalgamated Association appreci-
ate these facts and that it is their cue
to do all in their power to maintain Or
der. This done their cause can be safe
ly left to an intelligent public opinion.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12
THE GREAT APPLE ORCHARDS
OF WEST VIRGINIA DESCRIBED
BY A CORRESPONDENT.

Hancock County Is Notable ms n
Producer of Immense Quantities
of Fine Fruit ON n Very Restrict
ed Area-New CumberIand n
Great shipping POint-The Pro-
duct of Eastern Panhandle
Counties.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

II you want to keep posted on the
strike read the Register.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

President Skaters offer to arbitratc
the differences between the Amaiga-
mated Association and the United
States Steel Company has been refused
by the latter, and the III resident perth
nently asks: What more can men
do?"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

Stamps of the denomination OF Two esn.s
one dollar.
Correspondence containing lmporsnrt
news solicited from every part OF the soi
rounding country. N.-
Tributes of Respect and Obituary NV
uces, five cents per line.
Rejected communications Will mol % !.
turned unless accompanied by sunicie"'
postage.
THE REGISTER, embracing It's severat
editions. is entered at the Postonice at
Wheeling. w. Va. as second-class mAtec..
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

If wealthy citizens of the United
States continue to locate permanently
in London the American colony in the
worlds metropolis will be no small
thing. The increase during the past
year was thirty per cent.
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

At the coming encampment of the
Pennsylvania National Guard intoxi-
cants will be barred and tan shoes will
be allowed. Next thing pop will be
served out with rations and men will
do fatigue duty in shirt waists.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

AS has been before remarked, the
great industrial combines say they
don't care anything about the tariff. But
let any one propose to modify the tariff
and there is a holy howl from the COM
bines and their friends and agents.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

Senator Depew says he has given up
the interview habit, and in saying that
gives a notable expression of opinion
to a reporter in London. It's really
hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

In Pittsburg, yesterday, the police
forbid the newsboys from crying
their papers on the streets. The
Smoky City is a pretty tight PROPOSE
ton, at present
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12

That was a scathing denunciation
by President Shaffer of the threat Of
the steel combine to remove the Wood
mill from McKeesport because the peo-
pie Of that city sympathize with the
strikers.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-16
TRACK IS SMOOTH
We Are Shooting Downwards
 at a Frightful Clip.

Meriden Trimmed Our Sails Yesterday Hoffman Pitched and To-day He Was Released-Herndon and Hinch- man also Get Their Discharge Pa pers-New Men are Being Sought After-Wires are Out for Two New Pitchers-Results of Other Games.
 Hoffmann of Torrington was given a thorough trying out yesterday in the game with Meriden and like some others that have gone the way of the weary he was sent into the woods to join his companions. Up to the seventh inning he did fairly well and although the score stood 4 to 2 against us yet there was a chance to pull the game out of the fire. In that seventh inning, however the Meriden batters got after Mir Hoffmann and they banged him and smited his curves all over the lot and the adjacent lots. They gave him no mercy and when the slaughter was over there were eight more runs on the Meriden score That settled the game right there for Hodge held the Waterbury players at the mark and there they remained after they had scored one more run. That is the whole story of the game. The score:
 R. H. D. Meriden 70 1 8 900 1 *-13 9 WaterburyO o 0 2 o 001 1 O. 3 8 3 Batteries Hodge and Lamar; Hoff mann and Luskey.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-16
MULTUM IN PARVO.

One hundred cod-liyers yield one gallon of oil.
 British railways carry 350,O0o tons of fish in year.
 The United Kingdom has $50 blast furnaces, France 570.
 Great Britain spent e1,60o,0O0 on currants and raisins last year.
 England beat Ireland, Wales, and Scotland at water polo last year.
 Ten English houses hold, on an average, 54 people; 10 German, so people.
 Prague holds the record in glove making, exporting 5,ooo,oo0 pairs a year.
 The biggest fresh-water lake in the world is Superior, equal in size to Ireland.
 The deepest lake in Europe is Con- stance, 1,o27 feet. It is equal in area to the Isle of Man.
 Norwegians eat more potatoes than Irish people, the average being 500 pounds each year.
 There is house in Lombard street, London, which rented at g 25 in 1865, and now rents at e2,6oo.
 No dyeing was done in England till the year 1908. Before that, dyed stuffs came from Holland. z One hundred pounds of wheat produce 2s pounds of four, and 100 pounds of barley 78 pounds of malt.
 There are 80 cities in India with over 5o,0o0 inhabitants, a record beaten by no country of the same area.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-16
We are playing at home today with NTr,rr Ilnr,

We are playing at home today with New London. .e
 Queen hit Dorsey on the shoulder and gave Murphy hot one on the hand. Three times he threw for Gal lagher's head and only for the quick drop of the Norwich pitcher he would have been laid out. Queen has a long drawn delivery, which accounts for the stolen bases of the Norwich team.- Norwich Record.
 Roger Connor has, withall, the weak est team he has ever entered in the State league, "a bunch of colts that l can never teach base ball." he said yesterday afternoon. Roger did not put up his usual steady game. Eyi- dently he was too much worried about his team. In Luskey he has fine backstop and hard, ready hitter Norwich Record.
 Manager Connor has begun to wield the axe and the heads of three more players have fallen into the basket. Herndon, Hinchman and Hoffmann were released to-day. Herndon came here out of condition and evidently did not try hard to get in shape. Hinchman proved a failure in the field and at the bat. Hoffmann, of course,
  else and he did the best he knew how, but that was not good enough. New men will come and make try for po- sitions and trials will be kept up until a good team is secured.
 Six of the base ball clubs in the Ma tional league have wired to President Young their votes in favor of an ex- tension to June 15 of the time within which each club under the provisions of a resolution adopted at New York must reduce the number of it's players to sixteen The original resolution named May 15 as the date when such reductions should become effective. Two clubs remain to be heard from. It cannot be said whether or not unanimous consent is necessary to the proposed extension or only majority vote. Several of the clubs have sent lists of players to be released, but if the extension resolution is adopted the players named will not be dropped for the present at least.
 This weeks schedule is as follows:
 Thursday, May 16-New Haven at Meriden, New London at Waterbury, Norwich at Derby, Bristol at Bridge port.
 Friday, May Waterbury at New Haven, Meriden at New London, Bris- tol at Norwich Derby at Bridgeport.
 Saturday, May 1S-New Haven at Waterbury, Meriden at Norwich, Brls- tol at New London, Bridgeport at Der by.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-16
HERRERA NOT Al NOVICE.

It is now asserted that Aurelio Her rerra, the Mexican who is to fight Terry IcGovern May 29, is no such novice in the ring as was supposed. He is 27 years old and made his first appearance in the ring against Solly Smith in the days when Smith was eff fective. The Mexican gave Smith a terrible beating in ten rounds. Later he knocked out 'Crockey'' Boyle, well known in the east, in ten rounds, and Tommy Cox in eight. He has fought thirty-six battles, thirty three wins, three draws and no defeats. He stands feet 4 and weighs 124 pounds when in best condition. At that he will think he's novice when McGoy- ern gets through with him.