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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
GOULD RAILROADS
To be Combined Into One Huge Conn
pany with Three Hundred Millions

To be Into One Huge Com
pany with Three Hundred Millions
Capital.
NEW YORK, March 1s.-Geo. J.
Gould has for several days been in n
ference at his Lakewood home with
officers of western roads with a view
to combining all of the Gould roads in
the west and southwest into one huge
company with a capitalization of $780,
900, 900 or $500. o00, 900. and with a total
of about $4,000 mileage.
The chief roads concerned in the
proposed deal are Missouri Pacific. st.
Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway Company, ST. Louis South
western Railway Company. Texas &
Pacific Railway Company, Interna-
tional & Great Northern Railroad, Wa
bash Railroad Company. Practically
all of the stock of the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern Railway Com
pany is already owned by the Missouri
Pacific. When seen at his home Mr..
Gould refused to confirm or deny the
report.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
BOSTON WOOL MARKET.

BOSTON, March 19.-The wool mar
ket here is steadier this week. There
is a firmer tone with a good demand
and altogether there is a great i'm
provement over recent conditions.
Territory woods continues to head
the list of sales with prices about the
same. For good lines of fine medium
and fine the range is on the secured
basis Of about 40 and 43 cents with
strictly staple lots at 44@46c. Fleeces,
fine washed are held steady in price
but offerings are small and demand is
light.
Ohio and Pennsylvania ~fieeces, Xxx
and XXX above &c; delaine 2S@29c;
No. 1 combing 27@27hc: No. 2 and
three-eighth blood 27@2Tkc; coarse
and braid washed 25@26c.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
ACCEPTANCE

Eighty Per Cent. of the Stock of the
Constituent Steel Companies De-
posted.
NEW YORK, March 19.-The Even
ing Post says:
ut was estimated to-day that fully
80 per cent of the stock of the con
stituent steel companies will have been
deposited for conversion into the secur-
tiles of the surviving United States
Steel Corporation by tomorrow night.
While an officer of one of the deposit
tary trust companies said that exact
figures, being in the nature of contiden-
tial details, could not be given out, he
intimated that exchanges had been ne
gotiated on a scale sufficiently large to
insure acceptance of the syndicate's
terms"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20

continues good this work viii soon be
completed, and the foundation work
VIII soon be commenced This work
was commenced some weeks ago. but
has been delayed on account OF the
weather.
John B. McMechen, of st. Clairsville.
has brought a damage suit against
Boyd & Moore. contractors of this city.
and the Scott Lumber COMPANY. OF
Bridgeport, for So, 10S.1 IL, for alleged in
ferior material used in his newly erect
ca residence two miles east Of ST.
Ciairsville. The Scott Lumber Com
pany are made a party to the suit ow-
ing TO their being surety for the con-
tractors.
Rev. Chester Birch, the musical evan
geilst, OF St. Louis. who has been as
sistlng Rev. DR.. Boyle. of the First
Presbyterian Church. for the past week.
closed his services last night and will
leave to-day for Cincinnati to conduct
a series of meetings. Rev. Birch has
had a successful week and has done
much good, making many friends
While IN this city. The meetings will
be continued this week.
The work on the new building Of
Uniform Rank, X. of P, is nearing
completion. The building except the
roof is enclosed and almost all tho
girders for the root have been placed
IN position. When this building Is
completed 1t will be the largest of its
KIND in this county, and will
date several hundred people, making
an excellent place to hold conventions.
A horse attached to a buggy belong
ing to Albert Helling, ran on from
Ferry View school house 10 Fourth
and Hanover streets, a distance of two
miles. Mr.. Helling was on the poins
OF assisting a young lady with whom
he had attended the literary meeting.
into the buggy. AT Fourth and Ham
over streets the rig struck the curb.
throwing the horse. The buggy was
completely wrecked, but the horse was
not bodily injured.
The following clipping from the Her
ald-Fribune will be of interest to Mar
tins Ferry people; "Dr. ]. ]. Burton.
formerly of Martins Ferry. and who
was quite prominent in politics, seems
to have engaged in politics at Logans-
port, Ind, where he is now located. as
a telegram says he has filed suit in Cir
cult Court for $4,000 damages against
Philip Wolford. a prominent farmer.
for the loss of an ear. 1t was the day
following the Presidential election.
when Burton and Wolford became in
volved in an argument in a store in
Lucerne, and finally clinehed, when
Wolford chewed Burton's ear off. hence
the suit. Burton was at one time a
member of the Democratic executive
committee of Belmont county,"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
THIEF DID IT.
Showed the Victim of Pickpockets
How the Trick Was Done.

showed the Victim of Pfckpockets
How the Trick Was Done.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A New York promoter lost his watch
while on a street car some days ago,
That is, it disappeared, and he was
sure that some light-fngered fellow
passenger helped him tt lose it.
He advertised: Fifty dollars re-
ward, and no questions asked"
The next evening as he stood in the
hotel lobby a fine looking man of mid
die age approached him.
You lost a watch?"
81 did"
Fifty dollars and no questions?"
That's it."
well, I have it here. I am not the
man who-found it, but he gave it to
me and asked me to bring it to YOU"
The watch was produced and the
cash handed over. Then the promoter
put it in his vest pocket and attached
the chain to the usual button hole.
Then he turned to the called and said:
"Of course / shall ask no questions.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
MARTINS FERRY.
Local News From the City of Mills
and Factories.

Local News From the City of Mills
and Factories.
Lyman Hanes is at Canton in bust
ness.
7. w. Shreve is at Cleveland on
business.
The Belmont brick works resumed
yesterday.
Mrs. Harry Coss, Of the Fifth ward,
Is seriously Ill.
Louis L. Scheehle was at st. Glars
vile yesterday.
Miss Angie Terrill is still confined
to her home sick.
The /. W. Harper Club rave a very
enjoyable smoker last evening.
Fred Dixon, who has been sick for
several days, is able to be on the
streets again.
A crowd of young people attended
the literary exercises at Ferry View
school house last evening.
The two men who were arrested for
fighting Monday were fined SO and costs
by Mayor Goodhue yesterday.
Mrs. Jos. Medill, who has been visit
ing her daughter. Mrs. c. W. Kuckuck,
has returned To East Liverpool.
The work of rebuilding the crown OF
the furnace at the West Virginia glass
factory is progressing satisfactorily
and will be completed in a few weeks.
The new sheet mill for the Aetna
Standard will be known as No. 10.
Work was commenced on the mill Mon
day.
The concert TO be given by Lewis
Avon Lodge Saturday evening, at the
Star Theatre, will be an excellent one,
and no doubt will attract a large audi
ence.
Local politics is getting quite warm
and all the candidates are woring, and
while the Republicans have a large ma
jority, it Is thought the Democratic has
a fair chance to win.
The funeral of Miss Maggie McHenry
too place yesterday afternoon and was
attended by a large OF
friends. Rev. Reed, Of the Baptist
Church, officiated.
The county commissioners are now
receiving bids for the erection of a
new insane building nnext to the
county infirmary. The COS of the
structure is not TO exceed 10000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Hockaday, of
Oreana, Ills, who have been visiting
friends here for some DAYS. returned
to their home yesterday, accompanied
by Frank Hipkins, who win spend some
weeks at their home
About twenty-five men are now at
work 81 the H1csvaktons for ne new
LAnGhltn a116kmu nd II the weather
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
HARRISON, THE BOERS AND MckIN-
LEY.


The I~ntelligencer is foolishly trying
to defend Mr.. McKinley's position past
and present from the attacks of the
late Gen. Harrison in his magazine ar
ticles, still current literature, by en-
deavoring to belittle the memory of
the dead ex-President. AS to Mr.. Nc
Kinley's pro-British attitude in regard
to the South African wal our neighbor
says:
But the particular reference of the Reg
lister Is to the Boer war, and any other
poncy than that pursued by President Nc
klnley-that of strict acknowledgements
nave brought woeful consequences to this
country. We could not see what Harrison
could have done that would have eased
the situation any more than was done by
this government without plunging us into
war with Great Britain. That is the diff
Ierent turn events would have taken had
Harrison been President and carried out
the sentiments credited to him before his
death. But we cannot take the delirium of
a dying man as the dicta of a normal
mind. However deeply Mr.. Harrison may
have sympathized with the unfortunate
and unhappy Beers, can we authoritative
ly assert that he really would have acted
differently from the course. pursued by
the present administration had he been
in a position to act? He might have done
worse than President Mckinley. Certain
ly not better.
The l~ntelligencer speaks of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's policy of "strict neutrality in
the Boer war. Is it strict neutrality
when he permits the British to send
their army officers to this country to
purchase army supplies. and munitions
in the shape of horses and mules for
service against the South African re-
pu5lics-a thing he refused to permit
the Cubans to do in their war with
Spain-while on the other hand he re-
fuses to. recognize the well established
and patent %belligerency of the Beers?
These are instances among many
others in which the late Benjamin Har-
rison had he been president unques-
tionably would have acted on a line
different from the policy of studied
favoritism for the British and neglect
of the rights of the Beers pursued by
Mr.. Mckinley. And England in that
event would have had no right to COM
plaln, as her own statesmen have ad-
mitted, much less cause for "~plunging"
into war with the United States
which, by the way, would be the last
thing on earth England's willy states
men would think of doing under any
circumstances.
Moreover, the articles in question
were written by Mr.. Harrison when he
was in the enjoyment of good health
and the full strength of n of the
greatest intellects this or any other
country has produced, and are not the
delirlum of a dying man. as the In
tell1gencer would have us believe. AS
for our neighbours statement that Mr..
Harrison might have done worse than
President Mckinley. Certainly not
'better'-that is the perfunctory opin-
ion OF an organ that is permitted to
hold no other opinion.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20

In another column will be found a
communication from Mr.. T. R. Cars
kadon, of Keyser, who accompanies his
letter with clippings from the New
Voice, published at Chicago, which
brands as falsehoods the reports of the
disturbances at Fort Sheridan by
drunken soldiers, who, owing to the
closing of the canteens at the post,
were alleged to have gone to town and
INDUCED in drunken riots. The New
Voice brands these reports as ''lies."
although admitting that Slight dis
t%urbances' occurred, which were not
unusual. AS all the Chicago papers
published these reports and the Asso-
ciated Press sent them over it's wires
to the press of the country, the matter
would seem to be narrowed down to a
question of veracity between these and
the organ of prohibition.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
The Army Canteen.
the Editor Of the Register.

To the Editor Of the Register.
While fully agreeing with you as to
the corruption of the Republican
party l am grieved at your promotion
of the cause of legalized drunkard-
making which lies at the ENTER of
all social and political mischief" tbs
the malaria generated by this national
sin that has given the country this
awful & IL and chill of Imperialism
and political rottening and how under
heaven you propose TO destroy the eff
feet by promoting the cause Is the
mystery of mysteries to me. Shut
off from the earth wen for brief
moon in midsummer the warming
and vitalizing rays of the natural sun
and you have dearth and death, no
nutriment in vegetation and eonse-
~quently death to animal life. By
shutting of the rays of the sun Of
righteousness by the legalization of
the sin of drunkard-making which
has silenced the voice Of religion you
are as. surely deadening, damning the
only remedial forces in the moral and
political woodland while hugging
TO your soul this wedge and Babylon
ish garment how do you hope that
the Democratic party can even raise
a ripple on this sea of damnation.
And now to come to the object OF
this epistle your antagonism to the
abolition of the army canteens and
your mistaken views or m~isrepresen-
tations Of the effects Of their abolition
in your editorial columnA / am .
subscriber to your interesting paper
and q citizen Of West Virginia ana
claim the right Of r~espectzzl pfotsae
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20

sister Of Mrs Margaret Horton Potter.
who, last year. leaped into fame on acc
count Of her book sTncanonixedSs Tho
story concerns the working classes Of Chi
cago, and IL a direct attack on trusts.
The author seems to forget that she her
self derives her support directly from the
sources which she attacks. The hero is a
newsboy and Mrs. Daniels first sweet
heart was a youth who delivered papers
at her home. The plot is thrilling. excit-
ing. The work shows marked evidence Of
originality n the publishers ere SO con-
f0ent of ar immense sale tina. the first
edition viii consist of 10000 copies.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20

article In McC1ures Magaxie for March
Is = character study OF King Edward
VIII. written by George W. Smalley, the
American Correspondent of the London
Times. Life Portraits Of Queen Victor
ia" is a notable feature of this number.
made up of reproductions from photo
graphs and paintings of the noble queen.
Vice President Roosevelt contributes a
splendid article entitled Reform Through
Social Work" Outstanding the Union
Army" is the title of an excellent paper
by Ida NJ. Tarbell: the paper is well IL
Illustrated. Other good contributions in
this number ore What We Know About
Mars" by Edward S. Holden; 'Billy's
fearless Woe" a story written and Illus
trated by Frederic Remington; 1.-The Law
of Life" an Alaskan story, by Jack Lon
don; Dan Mccarthy" a story of the New
York police, by ]. Lincoln Stefens; be-
sides other short stories, an installment of
kim" by Rudyard Kipling. and a poem
by Joseph Dodge Daskam.
THE PARTISAN REVIEW-The Paris
ian Review for March is an unusually
good number. T~he.leading feature is Mar
eel Prevost's new story, MY Don Juan
Husband" which has just had in Paris
a success akin to that of his celebrated
Letters of Women" There are also
stories and sketches by such world-famous
authors as Francois Coppee. Henri Lave
dan, Sienkiewicz, and Mathilde Serao, be-
sides several interesting descriptive ar
ticles. The number is illustrated more pro-
fusely than usual with fine half-tone re-
productions. and in every wav lives I'm 70
the programme it set for itself of reflect
ing the best features of Continental lit
erature.
AINSLEE'S MAGAZINESTwo contri-
buttons of immediate interest in Ainslee's
for March are The Miles-Corbin Feud,"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20

against anything emanating from
your paper against the peace and dig
nifty of the state or the general vel
fare Of the nation and here and now
enter my protest against this false
clamor and mis-statement Of facts rel
alive to the canteen abolition. l mail
to you the absolute and particular
proof Of the falsity of this clamor
and justice to yourselves and fairness
to the public demand that you care
fully read and investigate the facts as
given in the Voice published right
where the facts are known. With
kind regards, / am Yours truly,
I. r. CARSKADON.
Keyser. W. Va, March II, 1901.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
VIEW YORK's REFORMERs.

Tho metropolis is over-run by would
no reformers and suppressors OF vice
these days. Strong minded m
noted for their tendency to break INTO
the press and break out on the lecture
nlatform and the forum to deliver ad-
dresses to assemblies OF other strong
minded women and long haired men,
are in the forefront of the movement
against the vicious element OF h
greater city. They thirst to suppress
the wicked and close up the dives.
These reformers seem to think that
all that is required to make New York
pure as the driven snow and sinless
as the new born babe is to set the po-
lice to work to suppress vice" by clos
ing up the places where it is prac-
ticed.
Any physician will bear witness that
the way to cure a malignant sore Is
not to suppress it from without, but to
strike at the root of the evil and cure
1t from within by graduating the poi
son from the system. And so it must
be with the body polite. These So
called reformers begin at the wrong
end to effect a, cure for the evils they
would combat. New York's tender
loin' dives are not the evil, but mere
ly the effect of it, it's outward mani
festation. Vice is not to be cured by
suppressing them, blu by correcting the
vicious tendencies of the people who
support these places, and but for whom
they would not exist. And the police
are not the agency by which to secure
this correction. That is the work of
moral and religious teaching, but the
churches, somehow, seem to be missing
it badly. They clamor to suppress
vice when they should endeavor to
eradicate it from mems souls. The
suppression of a disease will but drive
it inward to prey upon the vitals. AS
the Rev Minot j. Savage said in his
Sunday sermon "The one thing that
is necessary in order to carry on re-
forms and keep people reformed is to
make individual men and women bet
ter men and women, and there is no
other way"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20

But I will buy the wine for the man
who can tell me how it was DONE"
Easy enough" said the other. Il
used to do a little in that line myself,
but l have reformed and settled down."
"Of course"
I'll show you. Go and stand near
the door, near that group of men,"
He did as told. His friend stepped
outside, turned and came in again. AS
he did he gently pushed his way be-
tween the promoter and the other men.
Then he turned to the left and walked
with head up into the bar room.
The other mar looked down. Watch
and chain were both gone.
So was his friend when he went into
the bar room to look for him.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
BELLAIRE.
News Notes of Interest From tho
Belmont County Metropolis.

News Notes of Interest From tho
Inn County Metropolis.
Rev. d. Wilkinson, of Demos, was in
the city yesterday.
The X. of P. lodge will go to Bridge
port Thursday night.
Charles Anderson was at Glencoe
yesterday on business.
w. w. Weber. OF Cadiz, was in the
city yesterday on business.
O. Cox, of Jewett, was a business
caller in the city yesterday.
William Iams, OF Chicago, is the
guest of friends In the city.
Miss Sarah Brainard, who has been
quite sick, is much improved.
John Ferrell left yesterday for a
business trip through West Virginia.
w. A. McMechen, of st. Clairsville,
was in the city yesterday OF business.
Edward Hemphill, of the First ward,
has accepted a position at Rochester,
PA.
c. Rumbach and C. Horstman viii
leave this week for Mt. Clemens.
Mich.
Jacob Metzger, State inspector OF
workshops and factories, ia in the
city.
The young son Of John Mutke. whu
has been seriously Ill, is much Inn
proved.
The trees on the pave are being
trimmed. so as to give more sunlight
to the grass.
Miss Lulu Nelson. OF the Fifth ward.
has returned from a visit with friends
at Bethany.
William Brady. who has been visit
ing friends in the city, will return to
PittsDurg to-day.
THE Sunshine Of Paradise Alley" 10
the next attraction at the Columbia,
and is an excellent play.
John Clark, of Neff's. has had his
pension increased from s12 TO s14 per
month. through the agency OF Squire
Mason.
The fine weather yesterday brought
a number OF people out and the lar
lAhtO ~ 0lk Ch a iva hAAs
argue the questions Of the day was
in his glory.
The lodge OF Forresters OF this city
have secured the Armory hall, and arc
no win a hourishing condition, being
only about one year old. and having
about forty active members.
The residence Of John Harris, near
Hunter. was totally destroyed by fire
Saturday. Dreamer G. Nef. of this
! city. carried $1,000 insurance on the
building, which was about half tho
value.
Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock
fire was discovered In the house OF
| Jacob Heatherington, occupied by
George Noble, situated just below tbs
| Enterprise enameling works. An alarm
was turned in, and the department re-
sponded as promptly as possible. as the
/ house is situated a considerable dis
/ lance from a fire-plug, and II required
| several hundred feet Of hose 10 reach
il. The chemical was the first on the
ground. but owing to the FIRE being I'M
/, der such Roadway. II vas impossible
to save the building. and the people
worked hard to get the household
| goods out, and succeeded in getting
out about half. when they were COM
PEELED to stop on account Of the fire
reaching all over the house. which was
a frame structure and burned rapidly.
The house il a total loss, but was In
sured. This IL the second time Mr..
Noble has been burned out, and he
seems to be unfortunate. having no In
surance on his goods. and AZ the time
OF the fire was in the mines at work.
It Is thougnl II caught from a passing
ANGINA on the Y Y z q road
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
U OF THEIR MOUTHS ARE THEY
CONVICTED.
From the Intelligencer we quote tn
following:

From the Intelligencer we quote the
following:
The city debt statement published in
another column this morning makes a
most creditable showing of the financial
condition of the municipality, and is a
standing challenge to the recent charges
made against the Republican party of ex-
travagance and wastefulness in admins
trating the affairs of the city. With in,
creased demands made on every depart
ment entailed by the natural growth of
the city and the expansion of the various
works under the control of tho boards, the
finances have been administered with sin
gular economy without Gripping the eff
cheney of any department of the city gov
ernment.
The debt summary for January l shows
the net debt to be only S510. 232. 81. com
pared with a net debt of $685., $50. GA in 1899.
The debt was reduced $37, 875.59 January 1,
1907, and the present statement shows a
reduction OF slS,S22.3l The figures are
net debt January 1, 1898, was s6Ol .9S2. 80.
and that in three years these obligations
were decreased under Republican rule
49,, 7O0.O6 The present Council will have
a hard task to make any showing that will
approximate that record, if they do not
Increase the Indebtedness"
Out of their own mouths are the late
city ring and their organ convicted.
If the people had allowed this crowd
to have their own way in the matter Of
the late refunding ordinances, which
the ring and their organ fought for so
strenuously, but which was happily de-
feated by the Register and the people,
the organ would not have this showing
of a reduced city debt to brag about
as an instance of the singular econ
omy" If the ring.
1t was wholly a case Of FORCED
economy and to the ringsters belongs
not one iota of credit. The city debt
has been reduced In spite Of their eff
forts to refund it and stop payment on
y p years that they might get