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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
A REIGN Of TERROR
IN POwHATAN, OHIO. A SMALL Wiz
LACE EIGHT MILES SOUTH OF
WORTHWHILE.
FOUR HOLD UPS AND RoBBERIEs
Committed There Within the Past
Manth-The Victims Are Always
Found and Gagged Mnile the Rob-
bers Go Through the House.
Thought to Be the Work of Local
Talent.

The little village of Powhatan, Ohio.
eight miles below Moundsville, is un-
dergoing a reign of terror on account
of the recent hold-ups and robberies
committed there. Within the past
month no less than four robberies have
been committed there, and as in each
case the number or the robbers and
their method has been the same. it is
supposed to be the work of one gang.
There are three of the parties, and they
are. always masked, and they always
enter the house and blindfold and bind
the inmates and then proceed to ran
sack the house. Their first victim was
Ben Neff, stock dealer, who rooms
alone in the DisQpe store building.
They secured watch, gun, revolver
and about SIS cash from him. The gun
was subsequently, found sticking in the
sand on the West Virginia side of the
river. Jacob Newhart, the ferryman,
was next held up on Christmas eve
while the family was at church. n
small sln~of money was secured.
ssssTfs time the oloodhounds were secur-
ed from the peniJentiary at Mounds
vile. The hounds took the trail and
followed it to shanty boat on this
side of the river The boat was search
ed but nothing was found to warrant
the arrest of the occupants. The third
hold-up occurred last Sunday night,
when the trio entered the Office of Dr..
E n Riggs and bound the only in
mate, a ten-year-old boy, TO the chair
on which he was sitting, and demanded
the keys to the residence. The boy re-
fused TO give them up, when they be-
gan to search for them, when the boy
succeeded in freeing himself and run
ming to the street gave the alarm. The
thieves were forced to leave without
securing any booty.
On last Tuesday night the same gang
gained an entrance to the residence of
Jacob Lehman, prosperous farmer
l.yiDg about mile south OF POwhatan,
and the inmates were bound and all
tie money and valuables in the house
were taken. Now the citizens of the
village are afraid to leave their homes
after the night falls, and are afraid to
sleep lest they are visited before the
dawn 10y the robbers.
4. was thought at first to be the work
of the occupants of the house boats
which were tied along the river but
the boats have gone and the roloberies
continue, so it is generally conceded to
be the work of local talent. Suspicion
points to three well known characters
or that locality but thus far no evil
dence has Deen secured to cause the
arrest OF any of them.
A prominent citizen of Powhatan
said that every one is sleeping with a
gun within easy reach. and that some
night one of the robbers will receive
a outlet and then the reign of terror
W. cease.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

Brains Repaired Postum Cereal Co.
Seyenty-Seven Cures Grip.
Wanted-Capabie Man With 50 200 Cash.
Information Wanted-Pasauilier De
Benedicto.
Wanted-Salesmen to Sell Imported and
Domestic Liquors.
Wanted-Men to Advertise.
Wanted-Hustlers.
Why Be Hard Up-The Caiile-Scheimsr
Company.
WaRted-Two Statesmen
Wanted Business Manager.
Wanted-Man and Wife.
For Sale-F Farm.
Notice to IavestorS-The j. Sloan John
son Mining and Investment Co.
WanteG-Salesmen
New York Corporation Wants Manager
in West Virginia.
Real Estate for Sale-J. c. Devine q Co.
Wanted-Lady Stenographer.
Fog Sale-Valuahle Market Street Ho-
tel Property.
Real Estate Bargains-Orloff L. Zane.
Lost-Writing Tablet.
Property for Sale-L. A. Rolf.
New Dessert-Albert Stclxe & Co.
Watch OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. the Jew
eler.
Observation-Disclosures.
so Daily to Live Men--Ctncinnati Lea
Their Susrender & Belt Co.
Wanted-Agents Eyerywhere in West
Virginia
Wsnted-Good Cook
Nanted-Girl TO Do General HouseworiS.
Wanted-Men TO Represent the Fern
bank Co.
Stockholders Ieeting-wheeling Steel
Business Change-W w. Irwin & Co.
Stockholders Meeting-West Virginia
Printing Company.
Notice-Dowfer & Dowlar.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

A still alarm yesterday morning at
ten O'Clock called the Niagara Engine
Company to the Rumble property, at
No. 2351 Market street, which is oc-
cupied by A F. Carpenter. A small
frame building located in the rear of
the property and used as coal house
am workshop had taken FIRE from the
explosion of lighted lantern. The
flames were extinguished in few mo-
ments with the use Of one 'tBabcock"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
C.rroII Club uinisfrelx.

The Carroll Club Ministries will give
performance on January 18th at the
club auditorium. Judging from the
rehearsals which have been regularly
held it will surpass any local Minstrel
show ever given in this city. The sale
OF tickets promises large house. An
other assured fact OF success y that
Prof. G. ]. IAHoche has given His par
sonal attention at every reheaJsal
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
COMPILING DATA

Which VIII show the Volume of
Manufacturing and Mercantile
Business.
Secretary 5. A. Thompson, of the
Board Of Trade, will send out about
four hundred circulars next week TO
manufacturers and jobbers in the
Wheeling district asking lor informa-
ton which will assist MIN in compil-
ing statistics to show the volume OF
trade in this city and vicinity. Each
manufacturer or jobber will receive a
chart which &c is asked to fill out in
accordance with instructions.
Mr.. Thompson gives his personal as
surance that all the information given
will be absolutely confidential, and that
his compilation of statistics will be
made in such manner as not to dis
close the business of any individual
manufacturing or jobbing concern.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

Yesterday morning Thomas Red
mond, colored, was taken to the asylum
at Weston by special officer. He was
a resident of North Chapline street and
was well known in colored circles.
About year ago his daughter lost
her mind over religion. but after time
recovered. Her fathers loss of mind
is supposed to have been caused by his
brooding over this affair and the too
close study Of religion.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
IN THE JUSTICE SHOPS.
squire Fitzpatrick Court.

James Finney will be given a hear
ing Monday at ? o'clock by Squire
Fitzpatrick ON the charge of resisting
an officer. disorderly conduct and as
sault and battery. The arrest was
made by Constable II. P. Kennon.
Warrants have been issued for B. Mil
Ter Elsie Gray, Charles Bennett and
Frank Thomas. charging them with
refusing to assist an officer.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
COILS ARE Tightening
TRIAL FOR COMPLETELY IN THE
WARWICK MURDER.
THE THIRD DAY OF THE TRIAL

In the Common Pleas Court ut st.
Ciafrsviue-Sery Damaging Cir
cumstantfal Evidence Was offered
by the Pr0secuti0n-The Mother
Of the Boy Tainted After Giving
Her Testimony-Albert stephens
Makes q Good ~ itness.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

Watch leaning-McNamee. the Jew
eler.
Half Price Sale--John Friedel Co.
Winter Goods Reduced in Prlce--Lou
Swabacker.
January Bargains-Geo. r. Stifel & Co.
A Month of Clearances-Geo. h. Taylor
Company.
Opal Rings-Dillon, Hancher &NCo.
Mutual Savings Bank.
Laundry.
Twenty-Five Per Cent. Discount Sale
ID. Gundling & Co.
---~=zs---
Grand rabbit lunch "Wednesday even
ing. All invited. JULIUS HCCSE,
1892 Main street.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
--~1s--1---------
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY NEWS.

The Carroll Club will give one of
their enjoyable euchres Tuesday,
January 8th. The card parties of the
CLUB have always been very successful,
and no doubt there will be large at
tendance. The ladies in charge of the
affair are Mrs. Ignatius Brennan chair
man, Misses Lizzie Counihan, Tillie
Reilly, Mary Hughes, Mary O'Kane,
Lizzie Gundling, Lavinia Carroll, Mar
garet Howard. Annie Lee, Eleanor
Black, Nina Bosley, Mamie Owens and
Mrs. w B. Gundling.
Miss Mamie Henry of Leatherwood,
and Mr. George Yoke, of Fulton, were
united in marriage Wednesday evening
at 7 O'Clock at st. JoseDh's Cathedral.
The Rev. Father Galloway offlciated.
Miss Annie Henry. sister of the bride,
was bridesmaid, and Mr. Louis Chimney,
of Pleasant Valley, groomsman. Both
the bride and her maid were dressed
in white organdie At the conclusion
of the ceremony the bridal party re-
paired to the home of the bride, where
a reception was held in honor of the
bride and groom.
Mrs. J. P. Rogers and Mrs. II. f.
LANCE gave a dinner to the ladies com
posing the receiving party after their
reception last Friday afternoon The
dinner was served in courses and was
elaborate in every detail.
Miss Daisy Johnson, of Bellaire. will
entertain Monday evening at her home
in honor Of Miss Sarah Agnew, of Sis
tersville.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

We are placing our students in
good positions just as rapidly as we
can get them ready Our employment
register As open for the inspection Of
those interested.
TILE EIL0TT SCHOOL
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
MARTINS FERRY.
Local Views From the City of Mills
and Factories.
Thife Easily CnuRht.

A tramp while passing the ton Ton
store yesterday about noon helped himself
to a bolt of cloth In front Of he store
Officer Krieger was on his way TO dinner
and saw the man pick up the Goth. and
ne Immediately gave the thief chase
and caught him, securing the cloth and
locking the man up. The cloth was re-
turned to the store. Another tramp, while
passing Selby & st warts shoe store
stole a string of samples Of shoes hang
ing outside. Mr.. Stewart saw the man.
ran him down, securing the shoes and
turning the man over to Officer Camp
bell. who locked the man up. 1t is
thought by many that these tramps are,
making these thefts only to get in jail 7
so as 20 get in out of the cold They gave
the names Thomas and James Finley
On next Saturday evening weIcon.e
Lodge A. 0. L. w will give banquet
and entertainment at Mechanics hall.
The following is the programme:
PART /.
Song 49,. ........ Glee Club Quartette
Ionic Sketcn. Harry Morgan
Address-A. o. L. Wv. o. Mecb1skey
Selection......2 10th Century Mandolin Club
SHdckS.
PART H. ).
Solo. 80. Goth Century Mandolin club
comic Sketch............H Harry Chambers
gong .-..........--.-.-.Lop Star Quartette
song -....-+..--...-+.......R eece Williams
AuuFess -..'.....: .-....-.......D. e. Heron
Selection. 18th Century Mandolin Club
Everybody Smokes.
song ..'.... +.....+.+.........W William Clemens
Master OF Ceremonies IT. " Salisbury
The affair no doubt will be a grand
success. Over one hundred invitations
have been issued
Geo. Heiing left yesterday for Cleve I
land to resume his studies in Case school I
Jack Johns will leave tomorrow fof
Philadelphia, where he Is attending rnedk
cal school
DICK Psdden has returned from a visit
with friends at Marietta.
VIII Stewart is home from Mingo, hav-
ing resigned his position at the steel
plant
MISS Retta Wright left yesterday for
f'tseurg, where she will take a course
IN Dun's business college.
MI and Mrs. Name Martholomew en-
ser'aihed number OF their friends Err
aay night at their home on waluut
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

New York Dentists.
Wrap Sale-J. S. Rhodes & Co.
Sterling Remedy Company.
Qliyilo Soap.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
Thirteenth PnEe.

Tremendous Sale Now Going on-The
Racket.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
Eiftn PnGe.

You Man With Narrow Foot--Alex-
an6er.
January Sales Now IN Progress-Geo.
NJ. Shook g. Co.
The Majority of the Peeple--F. w. Bau-
mer Ce.
The Best Shoes ct the Best Prices
Locke Shoe Co.
Cinderella Stoves and Ranges-H Kali
kifzer
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

Grand Opera House-Bon Ton Stock Co
Mont De Chantal Academy.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

Lydia L. Pinkhams Vegetable Conn
| pound.
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Eighth rage.

Second Week of the January Clearance
Sale Begins To- Morrow-Stone Sc Thomas.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

Seventh Pave.

Breakfast Cocoa.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
Twentieth Page.

Soldiers stomachs-Dr. r.. V. Pierce.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
Ninth Page.

Throat and Lung Sclentist--Dr. ].
Gallagher.
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Fifteenth PA

Doans Kidney Piis-Foster- Milburn
| CDmpany
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
Fourteenth Page.

The Prize Winners-House & Hermann.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

SohB. ..-...-.-..... William Clemens
Master Of Ceremonies. IT v. Salisbury
The affair no doubt will be a grand
success. Over one hundred invitations
have been issued.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
Third Page.

Brains Repaired-Postum Cereal Co.
Seyenty-Seyen Cures Grip.
Wanted-Capabie Man With 81 900 Cash
Information Wanted Pasquilier d
The courier., 1901-07-27
THR COURIER.

buggies Of brown, striped in red, they
would be more acceptable to the
community. The conspicuousness OF
black ia their garb and expression is
what object to, and the hypocrisy
Of all their customs. There is no
reason why an undertaken should
not wear just as cheerful clothes and
drive as cheerful buggy as any other
man. He has no grief to express, and
he should not attempt to express it..
If he would lay aside his lugubrious
attire, expression, manner and We.
hicles, we might the sooner give up
some of our absurd funeral customs
which serve to harrow the feelings
rather than to soothe them. The
plumed, urned hearse, that ostenta-
tious relic Of a grief worn upon the
sleeve, is vulgarity which will be
longer disappearing than all the rest.
From the custom of carrying the
body of dead friend upon a bier TO
the grave, we have come to the glass
hearse framed in black, and it is not
an evolution.
The courier., 1901-07-27

arrives, pick up the country paper In
the hope Of finding out what the
world is doing and for the recreation
of the stories and anecdotes. In a
recent examination Of the literary
part Of the patent insides Of Nebraska
papers. find that stories OF cannibal
feasts. of poisonous insects and rep
tiles, Of tortures inflicted by Indians
and of retaliatory tortures inflicted
by white men upon them; stories OF
outlawry and Of strange murders. and
serial stories of adventure make up
these inside pages which are the only
fresh reading matter offered from
week to week to the wives and chill
dren of the farmers OF Nebraska.
The inferior and unwholesome charac-
ter of the patent inside matter sup
piled Nebraska publishers is. OF
course. corrupting the taste of the
rising Nebraska generation. But the
publishers are not to blame. 1t is
not a money making business, pub
fishing country paper in this state,
and the patent insides are an econom
ical necessity; but if the syndicate
which supplies the newspapers with
matter would employ men and women
of discrimination and taste to select
the stories which the patent publish
ers give to their compositors to be set
up and printed on the insides of pa
pers which are sent with blank out
sides TO their country patrons, the
taste of the advancing generation
might be perceptibly affected by the
change in literary diet. But the price
of discrimination is high, and it is
not likely that the publishers OF the
patent insides stuff will incur any ex-
pense to improve their product when
it sells we'll enough as it is.
The courier., 1901-07-27

Uncle Eb. Holden was only farm
hand with no visible property, and
the town council had no more eve
then for character than town coun.
ellis have now. So Uncle Eb.. who
fOresaw the ruin of the boys soul. if
he were committed to the care of a
man like the Uncle, Kidnapped the
boy when he was only six years old.
He started out in the night carrying
the little boy as squaw carries her
pappOOse, only strapped into a basket
instead OF on board. They travelled
by night through cornfields and for
ests and although the wicked uncle
was often on their track, he never
caught them. The journey is unique
in literature. The rest of the story
does not quite equal, in the open air
effects, the first chapters, where
the old man who was boy in heart
and had boy ia basket on his back
journeyed through Vermont from
north to south and landed in a farm
house in northern New York. Uncle
Ed. is shrewd naturalist. He is d
poet. a lover and servant of all youth
and innocence. He serves the boy as
the lion served Una, to frighten wick.
edness and corruption from his path
The atmosphere is out doors from the
beginning to the end.
Mr.. Irving Bacheller, the author of
the book, is the organizer of the
Bacheller syndicate which supplies
papers of the better class with excel
lent reading matter. In consequence
of long trial of what the public likes
to read. he has acquired discrimina.
ting taste. He knows, far better than
the writer who continues to write
historical novels about obscure per-
sOnages very little of whose history
has been preserved, that we who read
novels like the plein air, and SIM
plicity, and that we do not care to
rack our brains in the effort to re-
member which Louis it was who said
"After me the deluge" and which
Louis head was cut off and to identi-
fly and date many harder speeches
and acts. The novelist who has spent
years studying the costumes, conduct,
manners and morals of the seven
teenth century and writes novel
thereof is like the club woman who
prepares paper to deliver in one
hour which could not be read in five
hours. Both waste the goodwill and
impose upon the patience of their
audiences.
The novel is not medium for
teaching history. 1t is not an exam
pie of anything except literature.
The tiresome efforts of the historical
novelists whose books are bought by
hundreds are rebuked by the sales Of
"Eben Holden" and others somewhat
like it. Books containing hero,
wholesome, tender, possessing hOmely
common sense and quality of virili-
ty are what all men and some women
dote upon. Abraham Lincoln pos
sessed the quality which is not hu-
mOur, it is not common sense, it$
not ability, it is not sentiment or a
love for children and the weak, it is not
shrewdness. and it is not strength, it
is not camarierie, but it is a lOveable-
ness which is a combination of all
eight and something else added in
herent in the person. This quality
has not yet been named in English.
The French have a word which eX-
presses it better, but the kind of
The courier., 1901-07-27
Eben Holden.

A story of an old man who carried
an orphan boy in basket on his back
from northern Vermont to New York
state in the fortieS. When the boy
was left an orphan by the drowning
OF his mother. father and elder broth
er, the town authorities found that
the boy was penniless. and decided to
put him in the poor-house. until the
The courier., 1901-07-27

tribute to superior destinations.
But since the establishment OF girls
colleges and the assured eEtry OF
young girls into the joys of college
life, when grown into wOmanhOod
they like each other better than they
used to decade ago when woman's
love for woman was measured by the
attentions or snubs of men. In the
girls schools thoroughly wholesome
and enthusiastic liking for women in
groups is developed, not al all like
the unwbolesome, feverish devotion
of couples developed in the old fash
ioned female seminary; not, however,
that this latter phase Of adolescent
feminintiy has altogether disappeared.
Girls pass through stages of devotion
to this woman or that one, and the
spasms can only be mitigated. The
contemporary girls college teaches
girls esprit du corps and they need
it. Largeness. the pleasure and
wholesomeness of associating with a
large number of ones peers who are
engaged in similar occupation with
ourselves, stimulates the social sense
and is retarding the development of
those pitifully narrow women who
cannot comprehend the use of any
institution outside of their set.
Girls in good girls schools do not
miss young men. They talk about
them and weave pleasant romances
about them. but the girls would re-
sent the intrusion of men into their
games, dramas and classes more de-
cidedly than would their teachers.
In co-educational institution, girls
fraternities are introducing young
women to each other and teaching
them the charms Of purely feminine
society.
At last the college women of New
York are to have a real club house.
containing a restaurant, library, bed
rooms and every thing that a WON.
ans club should have. The women
who are going to start it and have
charge of it are college bred. 1t is
to be called the Woman's University
club, and 49, women have signified
their intention Of joining. To be
eligible to membership woman must
belong to one of the colleges included
in the Association of Collegiate Alum.
nae, which includes Nebraska uni
versity. Vassar, Bryn Mawr. Smith,
Wellesley. Radcliff, Barnard. Cornell,
Oberlin, Wesleyan, Syracuse, Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, Le-
land Stanford, Northwestern, West
ern Reserve, and the universities of
Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas and
Chicago. 1t is announced that the
annual dues of this club are ten dol
lars for resident members and five for
nonresident members, and that men,
bers who join now will have no initia-
tiOn fees to pay. 1t is not possible to
run much Of club in New York on
ten dollars a year. The club may,
however. receive so many five dollar
subscriptions from college women set
tied in different parts of the country
that it may continue its existence
and be comfortable and comforting
to the college women Of New York.
The club has the best wishes of The
Courier. The women who are found
ing it have kept alive in their hearts
the glowing memories of the compan-
ionship and society of their college
days, and their desire is to light a
fire that will warm others so haunted
y IL