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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

many Moundsville people. she having
lived here several years.
H W. Allen and family will visit rela-
tlves at Hundred to-day.
Miss Sue Bauer. OF Wheeling, is the
guest of Miss May Dorsey. Of Second
street.
w. U. Brown, of Second street. Is
convalescenE, after a severe Illness
One prisoner was received at the PEN
Nentiary yesterday from Kanawha
county. The total number of inmates
is now SOC. the largest in the history
of the Institution.
The Board of Directors Of the peni-
Tertiary were in session until late FRI
day night. In addition to the large
amount of routine business transacted.
the contract for supplying fresh beef
for a period of six months was let 20
Hess, Lennon & Co., at S. per hun
dred pounds
Hon. L. NJ. stephens, of New Mar
tinsville, was here a short time yes
Jerday. Mr.. Stephens expects to begin
the publication of his newspaper, Taa
Wetzel County News. about June LIST.
Charles Rosser. OF Bellaire, was here
on business yesterday.
Mrs. James Lutes, Of Glen Easton, is
the guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
d. Kemp, OF Morton avenue.
A number of members of the G. A. r.
will attend the State encampment at
Parkersburg this week.
Last evening Jailer Conner had fif-
teen prisoners in his care, there being
three females and twelve males in the
Jail. the largest number that has been in
jail for many months.
Tuesday John Robinson's shows will
exhibit hore and the members OF
Moundsville Lodge. 2S2. b. Z. O. t..
viii lead the parade. A. g. Linch Is
billed to ride an elephant, while Charles
McCamic will be mounted on one OF the
camelS. The Elks will also attend the
evening performance. where a promi-
nent elk from the First ward will per-
form the duties of ring master, and
Squire Pierce will be one of the clowns.
Several members of Robinsons troupe
are members of the local lodge of Elks,
which is the reason the lodge is taking
such an interest in the show. The
| lodge will keep open house in the even-
ing and all Elks who happen in the city
will be welcome.
Casing is being hauled for new well
on the Higgins farm. below town. The
we'll will be located near the mouth OF
! Big Grave creek.
r. G. Hogue, OF Belmont. Ohio, is the
guest Of relatives in the Second ward.
/ The miners OF the Moundsville Coal
Company will go TO work tomorrow
morning. the strike having been de-
clared off. A conference was held be-
tween the miners and operators at Glen
dale yesterday. but no agreement has
yet been made there
! zion. c. r. oldham will leave for
Morgantown tomorrow, where he will
attend a meeting Of the board Of regents
of the West Virginia University, OF
( which body he is a member
II. w Hunter has been appinted at
torney for the Citizens Trust and Guar
anty Company of West Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. f. II. Patton. of Bellaire,
are the guests of friends here.
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M0UNDSVJLLE.
events Yesterday in the Marshall
Comfy TOWN.


Marshal Evans made an important
capture Friday evening when he arrest
ed J. w. VandersloOt. lie was run in
as a plain bum. but be told the officers
that he was wanted In York Haven, Pa.
where he robbed the depot on the Penn
sylvania railroad some time ago. lie
was placed in jail and tie marshal tel
egraphed the sheriff OF York county.
He received a reply yesterday stating
that Vandersloot was the man wanted
and that an officer would come after
him at once. Both the county and the
Pennsylvania Company have offered a
reward for Vandersloot's capture.
Yesterday morning Marshal Evans
arrested a man and woman out in the
Boom Ground. Both parties were very
drunk and acting in an unbecoming
manner. The man in the case is a mar
ried man OF the Third ward, while his
golden-haired companion gave her name
as Emma Moore, Of Wheeling. They
had evidently been out all night, as
their clothing was drenched with rain.
They will be given a hearing before
the mayor tomorrow morning on a
plain drunk charge, and 1t may be that
more serious charge will afterward
be brought against them. In the mean
time they will sober up in the county
jaiI
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LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO, May 1s.-Cattle, receipts,
100 head; market nominally steady.
Good to prime steer s5.15@5.95: poor to
medium $4.00@5.10; stockers and feed
ers about steady at $30o@5.0O; cows
$2.S0G460; heifers $2.S5@4.7o; Gamers
$2.1O@2So; bulls s2.75@440; calves
$3.90@5.60; Texas fed steers 81. 25@5. 40:
iexas bulls s2,75@3S5.
Hogs, receipts to-day, $4,000 head +;
Monday, 10000 head; left over, 500
head; market strong to steady: no
fancy here; top sales $5.95; mixed and
butchers S5.75@5.95; good to choice
heavy $3.50 rough heavy $1,000
$50; light S5.60@5.90; bulk of sales
s5.S0@5.9O.
Sheep, receipts, 1000 head sheep and
lambs steady; good to choice wethers
s4.30q4,65; fair to choice mixed $40
@4.40; western sheep 81 35@4.65; year
lings S4.40Q475: native lambs s4.500
Dos; western lambs s4.65@5.65.
EAST LIBERTY. Pa. Nav 1s-ra,,,e
st ea Ex y 3. 90 .6O571; prime. S. 40a
Hogs stronger. Prime heavy, Sc. oO6Ds 80.
pest assorted mediums, S. 95676 90. hest
Workers. S5.9oQ605; light Workers, S5G
SSo; pigs S. 5d5so; skips, A.25T5 q;
Sheep; steady. Best wethers. 81 Sod4 Is:
choice lambs, s410G5.20; common TO good
S3.50d5.o0. ~ e'oN'
Veal calves, s5.o0d5. Is.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

testing machinery The plant will
hardly be in full operation within SO
days. as there is good deal OF work
yet to be done.
The concern will be the largest indie
pendent competitor of the American
Steel & Wire Company Il. se rod trade
and of the National Tube Works Com
any in the making of pipe. In fact it
viii be such keen competitor OF the
United States Steel Corporation that it
is entirely probable it will be acquired by
that concern before it has been in oper-
alton very long. The Sharon Steel
Company nave opened Offices lately in
New Yorg, and George ~ Darr, who
was made president when Mr.. Bull re-
signed, - III charge Of these offices. Mr.
Darr is identified with stock interests
in Pittsourg, and it is not believed
he cares TO be at the head of the con-
Germ that will require practically all of
his time For this and other reasons
the trade believes that it is only q mat
ter of time until the Sharon Steel Com
pany Will pass into control of the steel
combine.
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THE PRODUCE MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, May 18.-Wheat. CSC
higher; corn TIC higher.

CHICAGO, His, May 1S.-Wheat,
close 725sc for July Yesterdays close
1850. Liverpool was NC to asc lower.
After an easy opening the market gain
ed strength ana advanced sharply. The
influences seemed purely local. The
market was oVersold on the fine crop
prospects and there was no selling
pressure from long wheat. Considera-
bic contract wheat is being moved out
from here and from Duluth to the sea-
board. AS nearly as we can learn this
is largely to fill short interest in Fast
ern markets and partially on account
Of lower storage rates at those points.
Further rains are reported in the south
west and general crop outlook is prob
ably as fine as it ever was at this sea-
son. September wheat closed 234c dis
count under the July. Northwest
stocks have decreased for the week
about pa million. A good part of this
will reappear on the lakes but a fair
decrease in the visible is expected. In
dications are that the worlds ship
ments will be about six and a half mil
lions. Primary receipts for the week,
2,272 600 against :. $4,000 last year;
shipments 5,267 600 against 2,0S1 ,000
Estimated cars so.
Corn. July closed 443s0441ac. The
squeeze in May SENS to be over, the
big end of the shorts having covered
and May closed about &c over July. The
general tone OF the market is steady
and legitimate conditions of supply and
demand may now come into play Re-
ceipts for the balance of the month
will probably be larger until the corn
sold for May delivery has arrived.
Primary receipts for week 2,705000,
against 1,820000 Shipments 4,445,000
against 100000. Estimated cars 635.
Oats. Firm, closed at 2S3sc for July
There lis apparently still some unset
tied interest in May and market for
that option is irregular. There is a
fair speculative interest and the buying
still based on the unfavorable crop
prospects. An average crop of oats is
not at present indicated. Estimated
cars 270.
Provisions Market is firm and prices
are slightly better. Receipts of hogs
for the week at primary markets 399 =
600, against AT 900 last year. A good
run of hogs is looked for during the
next 80 days. Cash demand fair, but
some accumulation is likely for the
next month. Stocks for the past month
have changed very little for pork and
ribs, but lard is thought to have de-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
PITTSBURG, Pa, May 1S.-The
lower southwest fields completed more
and better wells to-day than on any
other day during the week. they We're
confined to no particular locality, but
were pretty generally distributed. On
the Ohio side, in Monroe county, near
Graysville, the Fisher Oil Company has
drilled in it's No. on the Christie
heirs farm and has show for 65 bar
rel producer from the Big Injun sand.
This is a new development and prom
ises to have considerable producing ter
ritory. In the same locality Smith &
Co. have drilled in a test well on the
c. Smith farm and have a show for a
Is barrel well in the Big lnjun sand.
Mooney & Miller have completed their
test we'll on the j. A. Paulus farm and
have a buster. In the Macksburg field
in Washington county. Aiken & Blacks
lee have drilled their No. on the Geo.
Dyer farm and have a buster. One
mile west of Knoxville, Jefferson coun>
ty, f. e. French has completed his No.
on the Mrs. P. Andrews farm and has
a barrel pumper.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
pittsburg Clo,tnr Price,.

PITTSBURG, May 1S.-Vindow Glass
53@4; pfd. 92@93.
Crucible common, 23H 81; Ed, ss77s
@S4.
River Coal common, a2A@1s; pfd
475s.
Marsden, 6@1s.
Plttsburg Coal, a2b@A; pfd, 90 bid.
Mon. Water, Al bid.
Fireproof pfd, 47sa @4S.
Phila. Co., 53@A.
Switch, 64A @65.
U. S. Glass, SO bid
Bonds-Phila, 113 bid.
United Trac., 1171a.
Ft. Pitt Gas, 4S bid.
MASTEN & co.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
RATHER A SMALL
WEEK IN STOCKS.
THE TOTAL TRANSACTIONS WE'RE
ONLY 0,3O3,1C0 SHARES, ONLY
HALF THE WEEK BEFORE.
THE RANGE OF PRICES MAR
ROW.
THE MARKET YESTERDAY SHOW.
ING NO VIOLENT CHANGES.

The Bank Statement Showed Very
Large Decreases in Loans and De-
posits, the Two Combined Being
over Fifty Millians-The State
ment Not as Rad as Expected.
Howeyer-No Market in London
Review OF the Chicago situa-
ton.
Special to the Register.
NEW YORK, May lS.-There was no
market in LONDON to-day, brokers
taking holiday for house cleaning on
the Exchange Here in New York we
cleaned UP last w1ek
The New York market opened to-day
at about yesterdays closing prices,
was strong and only moderately active.
The offerings seemed to be light, and
the buying Of quiet, substantial char
acter, and as rule prices auctuated
within narrow limits. The close was
about the best or Iae DAY.
Baltimore and Ohio common opened
at 102. an advance CT rs, closing at
1041a, and this was ab3ut the most
conspicuous increase of the day. u. S.
steel stocks opened at 40 and "a re-
spectively, closing at 451s and 94B. on
moderate transactions, tie limit OF fuc-
tuations in both stocks being 1a per
cent
The bank statement, appended, was
better than expected as to actual fig
ures, the liquidation OF weak accounts
being apparent as is the withdrawal OF
funds by strong people for investment.
The statement is:
Res. Inc, s5,172,450; Loans, dec.
0a,204, SEQ; Specie, decrease, S2,S71,-
500; Legal, inc, s1.57S,00O Depos-
its, dec, $25,S64 200; Cir, inc, $4,000.
The sales for the week, by days, are
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
Special to the Register.

WESTON, w. Va, May 1S,-The Rey-
nolds No. II, that was a buster in the
Gordon, is well in the fifth. At the
T. G. Smith No. 2, the Southern en-
countered a heavy flow Of gas in the
Gordon, necessitatirS their closing
down to let the well blow off so they
could dril it to the fifth. The South
ern has made a location on the Lot Hall
farm. near Freemansburg. A location
has been made on the Crattrill farm. on
Hog Camp, by Guffey G. Galley. The
Maxwell No. /. just east Of Weston, is
big gasser in the Grantz, Another
well will be put down on this farm at
once and CARBON factory erected.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

HOW TO open, operate and buy goods for
and 10 cent stores. Write SYNDICATE
SUPPLY CO.. 40 Broadway y. y myl9au
COMFORTABLE income assured from IN
vestment $1,000; we accept so Just FOR trial.
Profits paid weekly by money order High
est commercial references and Chv per-
mission only from customers Booklet
free. w w. O'HARA. Union Trust Build
ing, Cincinnati, O. myi9da
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Open. High. Low. Close.
Stocks.
OIL OPERATIONS.

The Higgins well in the narrows, be-
low Moundsville, is attracting good
deal OF attention. 1t has been pumped
and shows up for fifteen or twenty bar
rels in the Cow sun sand. The casing
will be pulled and the we'll cleaned out
to-day. The company is preparing to
lay pipe line TO carry away the pro-
duction,, A we'll will be started in q
few days on the rouss farm, south OF
the Higgins well and material is being
put on the ground for well near the
Higgins residence at the mouth of Big
Grove creek.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
STATES STEEL
PLANT Changes.
PECT AS A RESULT OF PRES
IDENT SCHWAB'S VISIT.
CHANGES TO BE MADE.
THE TOUR OF THE CHIEF OFFICIAL
CT rcETC.-IC-s IMPORTANCE.

The Journey Through the Ohio and
shenango Vnliies. and to Column
bus, VIII Result in Vast Changes
in the Present Situation-Some
Plants to Be Enlarged and Others
Abandoned-An Interesting Re-
view of a Subject of the Greatest
Importance to Thousands in This
Vicinity.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
Chicago Closing Prices.

May wheat, 72N; July, 1875.
May corn, 461a; July, 44%@h.
May oats, 29as; July, 27as.
May pork, $14.72; July, $14.S5.
July lard, s8.05: May, $50.
May ribs, sS.12; July, 1872.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
oil Quotations.

OIL CITY, Pa, May 1s.-Credit bal
ances s1,05; certificates no bid. Ship
ments s5,940; average 1904 Runs 49,
1863; average oS,726.
NEW YORK, May 1S.-Standard Oil
797M800.
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FOH SALE.

FoR SALE.
INVESTMENT bonds
Indianapolis A. Greenfield Rapid Transit
Co g.
CIV 0f Columbus school h0af rHa
citizens street Railway Of iudisnapo~
lie fF
Lakewood Ohio. Mrnirirsi Al
Detroit. Rochester. Romeo Il Lake orion
Railroad Co = ta
central Vermont Rauwav Coz A.
CHICAGO a iihwaukae Electric Railway
Co Is o.
Reading Co g.
Wheeling u Lake Erie Cor a.
Printed Use ~ our lnverfmfrt bonds sent
on application.
WHITE a WHITE.
STOCKS. BONDS AND INvEsTMENTs.
Private Wires
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
MARKET NOTES.

Business in the wool market is light,
with prices about the same.
The New York dry goods trade is
without special feature.
There is no quotable change in prices
in the staple cotton market.
A sharp rise In tin is reported from
London, with an active and excited
market.
In New York interest continues. in
the tea trade, to be largely conferred in
greens. Blacks are dull and I'M
changed.
Stocks of Goldfish. dried or picked. in
bond on May 1st last numbered 1885,
$50 pounds. compare with 1,or7 jog
pounds on the same date last year. The
stock OF dried and smoked herring in
bond aggregated 2,1s1,6 pounds on
May LIST, against 2.676,7e1 pounds on
the same date last year, and of picked
herrings there were 1.037.s3 pounds
compared with 4s7,1oS pounds on the
same date in 1900.
Kansas millers write wheat has lost
ground on the last two weeks Ground
looked hard on top in places and many
fields have turned very yellow in that
time. Fly in maggot form under low
leaves Of plant as well as above fruit
joint, and crop dependent on weather
conditions from now on.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
MARKET POINTERS.

Specials to White & White
NEW YORK, May 18.-No market
in London to-day. Bullish on Atchi-
sons, b. r. T., Copper, Reading.
NJ & co.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

creased. Shipments cut meats 2,013.-
700, against 2 .227 ,00O Lard, 1856. 900.
against | ,290, 900. Pork SGT. against
312. F. G. LOGAN.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

NEW YORK, May 1S.-I am very
bullish for much higher prices on the
Reading securities eventually.
NJ c.. EYRE, WITH p. & W.
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The HauIett Quotations.

The following quotations are furnished
by Howard Hazlett & Son, brokers, Ma
tional Exchange Bank Building:
NEW YORK, May Is.
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HOW TO REMIT.

Sen6 all FemItfanees by ReesstereA
Letter, Expreas 0rder. Ch~ek or
Postal Vote. Patrons run . rssk
of losing remittanees sent in any
other way. ALI amounts for $500
or iess can lie aent by postal order
ter thxee eenfs- Address
THE REGISTER.
Wheeiing, w. W.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
STOCKS AND BONDS.

NEW YORK, May Is
Quotations closed bid.
Atchison ...-...-. S1ls North. Pacific ..l5o
do pref 1880. 9S54 Go pref ......-. eS
Bait a Ohio. .io4A Ont & West.... s2ss
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

NEW YORK, May 1S.-Colorado
Fuel issuing ten million dollars worth
OF bonds to extend it's business.
Chicago reports Metropolitan Ele-
waited there standing cut of Consolida-
tion deals Chicago bull pool buying
Atchison. DOW, JONES &, co.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
The Clearing House.

Manager Alex. Mitchell. Of the Wheel
ing Clearing House, yesterday reported as
follows:
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

NEW YORK, May 1S.-New York
traders reports for week most satisfac-
tory. DICK.
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NEW YORK, May 1S.-Bank state
ment better than expected.
J. S. BACHE.
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FINANCIAL.
STOCKS AND BoNns.


INVESTMENT BROheR.
Member pHfsburg Stock Exchundc.
Room sol Bank for savings build.
ing, SIS Fourth Avenue,
phoneS--BeiI, Court, 56IJ5 q. an.
HON. 1859, epl'7e
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19
VIEWS OF HENRY CLEWS.

ALEA. MI IOEI ELL,
Manager Clearing House.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

Special to White & White.
The following table shows the opening,
high, low and closing prices of stocks on
Wall street yesterday:
Stocks. Open. High. Low Close
| Sales
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

There is no quotable change in price
in the staple cotton market.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

A sharp rise in tin is reported from
London, with an active and excited
market
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19


Do pref. ~
Am. Linseed /
Do pref. III
Am. Tobacco. |
Anal. Copper
Br. Rp. Tran. [
B. d O. .....l
Do Pref. 81
Burlin gton II
G. IL G.. West. |
Col. f., com i
c. Ter Trans.
c. & o. ND
Chi. & Alton.
Del. d Iiud. i
Erie, common
Do lst pre-.
10 96 ITp (
Con Eiao i'
III 800 ~
IT, = ~ ~ ''''
- - g G ~ co+ ~,
Nj . $50 Eed,ilie'
NJ. l a az y
AZ NJ Il l. e e. m
Az" ~ ~ - ~
MI, ~ i pt g.,
Nj 81 % Se ~, Il
n Da liz u a.
~ NJ 49, 80
~ ~ ~.
- 1 Ntut' e.
~ r. - a. " = ~
~. p w.,
% 81 ~
b 81 o. -, -.
D. 80 Staa, 20 80
~ 80 ~
d. Aaii
% q, Ni Tiin,,i
P 81 ,1i'ii"
~ ~ Ia|'i ~, 80 -
~ "a "a ~, ~
pa ~ ~ ~
~ nref
pn M pV'
'T 10 MO
So p5ci6o
e. Ps q n Nv
So,,tb e p, r.
no nre
o
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

The New York dry goods trade
without special feature.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

Business in the wool market is light.
with prices about the same.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

In New York interest continues, in
the tea trade, to be largely centered in
greens. Blacks are dull and un-
changed.
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lOldI ........-... 10, TOO, -oO
Total sales, three weeks, in May, "a, 103,-
zoo shares.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-23
proken at the wheel.

In the diary of that remarkable man.
General Patrick Gordon. who left Scot
land in 1901 a poor, unfriended wan
derer and when he died in 1893 had his
eyes closed by the affectionate hands
of his sorrowing master. the car Peter
the Great, the following entry is to DO
found, under date of Hamburg, March
%, 1856:
''This day, man and woman, a
burger of the towne being the womans
master, for numbering. were carted
from the prisone to the house where
the murder was committed; and there
before this house, with hottie pinsers.
the flesh was torren out of their armes,
and from thence were carted to the
place of justice without the towne. and
there broken and layed on wheels"
An instance 80 years later than those
quoted ut the last reference is record
ed in the Correspondence of Mr.. Jo-
seph Jekylp' Murray, 1894. In April,
17T5, from the balcony of his lodgings
at Orleans, Jekyll saw a criminal bro
ken on the wheel. In letter to his
father %. 49, he enters minutely into
the sickening details, adding that the
crime of the unfortunate creature was
burglary, as we learnt from his SEN
tence, which is posted up at every cor
ner of the streets. Notes and Queries.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-23
A splendid Blum.

Sir Walter Besant is said to have
once settled a disputed cab fare in a
novel manner. He drove from Picca-
dilly to some place in the suburbs out
side the radius. On getting down he
rendered to the driver three shillings
and sixpence, which was a little over
the proper fare. The man, however,
wanted five shillings. Besant refused.
I'D like to fight you for it," said the
driver.
'"The very thing" said Besant, who
had never in his life put on boxing
glove and was almost as ignorant as
Pfckwick even of the fighting attitude.
''The very thingi Capital! Well
have the fight in the back garden.
My brother viii look on. hold the
stakes and see fairr'
The cabman got down slowly, as If
he did not quite care about it after all.
He followed into the garden, where
there was a lovely bit of green turf.
Besant placed the five shillings in his
friends hands, took off his coat and
waistcoat and rolled up his sleeves
all with an air of cheerful alacrity.
Now, my friend" said he. Il am
ready as soon as you are" His anxiety
was great. but it decreased as be
watched the claimants face express
successfully all the emotions of bounce,
surprise, doubt, hesitation and abject
cowardice.
'No, no." he said at last Gimme
the three and six. l know your tricks,
both of you. I've been done this way
before"