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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31
A Short, Funny Tale.

What is an anecdote. Johnny?" ask.
cd the teacher.
"A short, funny tale" answered the
little fellow.
That's right" said the teacher.
"Now, Johnny, you may write a SEN
tence on the blackboard containing the
word"
Johnny hesitated moment and then
wrote this:
"a rabbit has four legs and one an
ecdote."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31
Pythians Have n Shortage.

Chicago. Jan. 31.--An inyestigat ton
of the financial affairs of the endow-
ment rank of the Knights of Pythias
during the last four days has resulted
in the discovery of a shortage of near
ly $4,000. The shortage is charged
against a trusted clerk in the society
building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31
r.. ;. Kiugman Is Dead.

Sparta, Wis, Jan. 31.-R. 5. King
man. well-known throughout the west
among stock breeders and scientific
farmers, died yesterday after a pro-
tracted illness, aged %. He was at
one time part owner of the famous
Bob-Tail mine near Pixies Peak. and
was also interested in the Maine tan
neries. said to be the largest in the
world
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31

Catarrh of nose, throat and stom-
ach, consumption (tirst stages) bron-
cbitis and asthma and remedies that
have proven almost universally sue
cessful. BY use of these methods,
combined with their home treatment,
a cure can be effected in every case.
Deafness, Ringing In the Ears, Running
Ears.
Many of these cases are caused by
Catarrh extending from nose to throat
into the middle ear. Recently appli-
ances have been invented that carry
healing agents direct to the diseased
parts, effecting quick and perma-
nent cure.
Office. Der Democrat Building,
Hours q IN I IN 4 and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31
LittIe Hope Tor } nudge PhIllip..

HiIlsboro, Ills, Jan. 31-Justice
Phillips is rather worse and is grad
lfally growing weaker. He has stonl-
ach and heart trouble and can neither
sleep we'll nor take much nourish-
ment. lbs friends have little hope
of his recovery
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31
President win Attend the Service.

Washington. Jan. 31.-President
Mckinley and all of the cabinet mem
bers will attend the memorial services
of Queen Victoria TO be held at st.
Johns Protestant Episcopal church
next Saturday morning. This pro
gramme. as now arranged, will be car
ried out unless something unforeseen
should occur 10 prevent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31

Henrietta, A. T.. Jan. 31-Peace
among the warning Creeks has appar-
emily been reached, and all that re-
mains to be done is to give Chitto
Harjo. who caused all the trouble, Q
trial for treason.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31

Chicago Jan. 30.
Following were the quotations. on the
Board of Trade TODAY:
Wheat Open. High. Low. Close
January .....S 1885 1885 .l3A .l31s
May -. 1865 1865 1855 .76
Ja GGnny ... SOS .sszs 1855 .ss7s
February $50 $6S $50 S SS
May ........- SO .S9 1928 -SS1s
s May .. ., IS. IS .s5is IS IS
s MaS y.......14o7i. 14.oiis 1880 1862 1867
s Hag ": -. 7 9.i7ss 7.7s 7.s4 7 7a5
s Ms@ s s.ss 7.o5 s.siis s sss3g
Produce: Butter-EXtra creamery.
zoe per ID; extra dairy: 1Sc; packing
stock. 111&@12c. Eggs-Fresh stock, lie
per dozen. Dressed Poultry-Choiee tur
keys, SEC per 10; chickens, 7@74sc;
ducks 76191sc: geese. sore. Potatoes
Fair to choice 42@45c per brk APP
ples-Common to choice. 81. 5Og4:0O per
bril- Cranberries-Cape Cod, $7.00QS.00
per brl: bell and bugle, $3.50.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago. Jan. 20.
Hogs-Estimated receipts for the day,
81 900: sales ranged at S460@513 for
pigs, $0.10eT0.50 Tor HSnl. S0-IO09.lf lOf
rough packing, $5.15@5.40 for mixed,
and 81. 2O@5.40 for heavy packing and
shipping lots. with the bulk of the
sales at S5.25d5S0,
Cattle-Estimated receipts for the
day. IL 500: quotations ranged at $1,000
6.10 choice to extra steers. S3.2OQo.60
for good to choice do. $4606515 fair
to good do. S4.2064.1O common to me-
dunn do. $3.60d4.10 butchers steers.
$44O@560 fed western steers, S270G4.oO
stockers and feeders. $2.0064.40 cows.
$2.75@45O heifers, S2.5O@4.25 bulls and
oxen. s375646O stays. $3S0@460 Tex
as steers and $4.50@6.O0 veal calves.
for the day. $4,000: quotations. ranged
at $3.25d46O westerns, S2.75@4. Go ma
I tiyes S42565.50 western lambs, and
$425@5S0 native lambs.
Milwaukee Grain.
Milwaukee. Jan. 30
Wheat-Lower; No. l northern, 751z
6761sc: No. northern. 721 974Kc Rye
Quiet: No ,. 5S06Oc: sample 45@60c.
Oats-Steady; No. 2 white, 2TIz @27Szc.
Loca, Market.
Corn-356oS5c.
Hay-Timothy. s1O6sII; prairie, ss9slo
Straw-S5
Coal-S3 per to1.
BUtterechoice to fair, zoe: fresh creamery
s3c.
Eggs-20c
Hens &c per pound.
spring Chickens per pound.
Turkeys 0sc.
Euc.s-6Mc.
Cattie-Butchers pay for corn fed steers
4c@5c; cows and neifers, Sszc@4c; calves
sheep..4;1e99c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31
Money for Public buildings.

Washington. Jan. 31.-Mercer OF
Nebraska. chairman of the committee
on public buildings and grounds. has
introduced an omnibus bill increasing
the limit of cost of public buildings
in various parts of the country. 1t
carries about S1,J00,000. Some of
the increases are as follows: Eau
Claire. Wis. $4,000 TO 100000; Cres-
ton. Ia. $4,000 TO 100000: Freeport
Ills. $4,000 to $4,000: GAINESVILLE,
Wis $4,000 to $4,000; Joliet, Ills.
100000 10 $130.0O0; Oskaloosa, Ia,
$4,000 to $4,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31
Notice of special Meeting

To the stockholders of the Rock Island Plumb
ing, Heating and Roofing company.
You viii please take notice that special
meeting of the stockholders of the said Rock
Island Plumbing, Heating and Roofing compa.
nv viii take place Monday. the 4th day of
March, A. D.. 1891. at I O'Clock D. M, at the
place of business of sad company, No 22I,
near twentieth street, In the city of Rock Is
land, Illinois. for the purpose OF submitting to
the vote of said stockholders the question of
changing the name of said company from the
Rock Island Plumbing. Healing aud Roofing
company 10 the rock Island Roofing company,
and for the transaction OF such other business
as may come before said meeting
CHARLES HANSGEN.
HUGO V. TEUsCHER.
WILLIAM T. HANsGES-
majority OF the directors of said Rock Is
land Plumbing, Heating and Roofing com
Rock Island, III. Jan 81, 1901.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31
The Wonderful Success
Many by English Specialists
Demonstrates Their Skill and Ability Treat all Forms of
Chronic Diseases.

Diseases of Nervous System, Rheumatism
Diseases of Women, Blood and Skin
Diseases of Men, VarIcocele, Strict
ure, HydroceIe, Rupture, etc..
Diseases of the Heart, Liver
and Kidneys.
The German-English specialists are
all graduates of the leading colleges
of the country. and have spent years
in college and hospital work, as their
numerous diplomas and certificate
will show. Their offices are equipped
with every electrical and mechanical
appliance and curative agent known
TO the worlds greatest scientists to
be necessary in the diagnoses and
and cure of catarrhal, rheumatic
nervous or lingering diseases. Not
one physician in thousand possesses
such facilities. 1t is to these appli.
ances, new remedies and new meth
DDS, together with fifteen years of ex-
perience in college and hospital work
that many of their remarka BILE cures
have been attributed.
No matter if your case has been pro-
nounced incurable, call and see them;
it can do you no harm. Science is
advancing, you may yet find cure.
If your case is hopeless they will not
treat you.
Consultation and examination free
and confidential.
2O5 West Third ST., Davenport
to 8 p. m. Sundays to IL a.. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31

consideration the question whether the
minoriy will desire to take the respon-
sibility OF defeating a party measure
Of the majority. Some of the opponents
of the bill on the Democratic side feel
that if the Republicans are determined
TO pass the bill the minority should
not go further than TO state their OBJ
jectious fully and vote against ii, and
TO let the Republicans take the respon-
sibility which is theirs.
Ii also developed that no one wants
an extra session. and that one will
be avoided if there is any possible
way of doing so.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31

Never take a substitute
for Omega Oil. If your
druggist persistentiy re-
fuses to give what you ask
for, the Omega Chemical
Co. z57 Broadway, New
York, win mail you a bot
tie, prepaid, for soc. in cash,
money order or stamps.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-31
THE MARKETS.
Chicago Grain and Produce.

Chicago. Jan. 30.
blowing Were the quotations on the
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-04

Architect f. A. Walker left this
noon for Bellows Falls and Ludlow
on short business tip
There will be regular meeting OF
the Machinist'S Union at Engineers
hall tonight All union machinlsts
are requested to be present.
A e Batchelder, Ernest A Mich.
OILS, j W. Mcdonald and j hn Dodge
went out SATURDAY. night and captured
two coons, weighing "a and 26 pounds
respectively. This was better luck
than the party Of eight from the South
Main Street Cunning Club had last
Thursday night when they went up
into O ange under the leadership of
NJ. J MCGOWAN and V. f. Ayers and
got no'hin. Except the nose OF G. h.
Mines new dog filled with brstles.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-04
NED STOKES DEAD

New York. Nov. 4,-Edward S
Stokes died late Saturday afternoon a,
The b. me OF his sister, Mrs McNutt.
Succeeding severe atack, which
tame while be was travelling in Can,
ada, St keS ha FIR 8 ME t me- been In
failing health. He was low ten days
ago, huj raj led only TO sink again.
He began ia Ii G + i'ay. his strength
slowly ebbing a way uuLil his death
Stokes was born in Philadelphia
April q, 1871 He as educated in
zslannss lvlnia and won fame as a
srartsman and alhl-'e in his college
iays He came to New York in 1850
and organic ID tn firm of Budlong &
SsUkes, which q lick y won artenti,n
for its b Id, successful operations in
Tito produce tx ;hange. Tue firm dis
solved in 1868 and >tpl eS BEGIN the
4lection Of tn Br ok lyn oil Refinery
1t was Will . galzn NJ the pr oct
ina, Stokes met Jim III X, whom he
shot LATER. Il yersts is oil anu fire
at his refine y ruin-d ok's but
chen he emerged fem bankruptcy he
promptly formed AZ, ther company
and reb lit the retiue y With Fisk,
LAY Gulld and he others VINO operat
"a Me Erie railroad he made an az
aeemenJ as to oil rates that p!u cd
nigh]y lucrative.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-04
CARRIE NATION

Wheeling, ". Va, NV 4.-Pr' s.
acuting attorney Nesbitt Today asked
the criminal rand jury t. Indie, Cal :
ns Nation for incl ing riot on the
HcaSion of her visit early in October.
Mrs. Natiol says she hopes be will
4 nd promises to remain and fight the
sASe to a finish
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-04
EAST BARRE.

There was no preaching service In
The Congregational church last even
ing, because the morning service wss
asCommunion service.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-04
GREAT BR1TAIN's HELP.

Vienna, Nov A report publish
I'd here says the Porte has demanded
Great Britain to fulfil the terms o
tbs convention Of 1878, and to protect
she Sultan's Asialic possessions from
We nch attacks. ..
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-04
AT OYSTER BAY

Washington, Nov. - President
ana Mrs. Roose velt left this morning
Az II O'Clock for New York, where
they remain over hight and. then 60
to Oyster Bay for the day.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-04
CITY NEWS

Capt. and Mrs N. ID. r )utwell left
Shis m rninp for B ,S'o after a week s
visit with Mr.. and Mrs C. N. Bene-
dict.
W. B Kendrik left this morning
for Greenfield NJ on his way
through New y 'rk and Pennsylvan Ia
n the interests of Rye & Mccormick,
Won peIier.
W. e ?, a>lee left This m ,rning for
Boston wbe he will work on the
Boston & Maine.
Mrs. c. T. Chare left this morning
lor Haverhill Mass. after visit with
Mrs. G. H. Stone.
Mark A. Davis has finished wo.k
for w. II. Gale.
Mr. and Mrs r. G. Ia lOr left this
morning for M ,ntreal on their way To
Malone, n. H., after visit OF several
says with Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. l.
iulian.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-04

SATURDAY FOOT BALL
Harvard 48, Brown 0.
Yale S, Wezt Poins 5.
Princeton 8, Cornell d
Columbia II, u. OF P %.
Dartmouth 20, Wesleyan IL.
Amherst 20, Bowdoin o
Williams 80, Hamilton O.
Amherst, A. G. 10, Springfield, T.
c., o.
Bates II, Colby 6.
Holy Cross 81, Andover
TUFTS II, Trni'y0,
Annapolis II, Dickinson 6
University Ut Michigan %, Car
Isle 0.
University of Chicago II, Beloit H.
Lafayette 20, Lehigh 0.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-24

O., returned home yesterday after a
visit with friends on North Market
street.
Mrs R. NJ Clendenning and son. of
Kansas City, are the guests of DR.. and
Mrs. C. M. Frissell. on Fourteenth
street.
Charles Iseman, George Fullerton
and Benjamin Fitzgerald, of Fulton,
have returned home after a visit with
friends in this city.
Charles Schrader has returned to his
home on the Island from Middleport,
where he had been assisting in the work
Of the new steamer Liberty.
Mr.. A. c. McMechen and daughter,
Miss Mary, have returned from two
months stay at Orlando, Fla, and are
registered at the Stamm house.
DR.. E. LIE Roy Biggs, of West Liberty,
is a member of the the class of 1901,
POSTGRADUATE School of Eomeopathics
and Dunliam Medical College, OF Chi
cago. The annual commencement will
take place at Steinway hall this after
noon.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-24
RESIDENTS AND STRANGERS.
all around.

The Movements of People Yen Know.
and the Coming and Going OF
JrnnsfentS-
i'll.
Mrs. Rose Otto, of the South Side, is
III.
Miss Lizzie Gundling, of the East
End, is i'll.
A young child of Dr. ]. N. Meyer, of
the South Side, is II.
Hery Groetch, of Sistersville, is the
guest of friends here.
A. l.. Johnson left yesterday for
business trip through Ohio
Miss Nettie Young, of Pittsburg, is
visiting North End friends.
Miss Matte James of Cameron, is the
guest of Coal street friends.
Oswald Hildebrand, of the South Side,
is confined to his home by illness.
Mrs. d. w. Fyfe, of South Broadway,
is improving after severe illness.
Charles 'Oberman, of the South Side,
is confined to his home by sickness.
Mrs S. Klein, of North Indiana street,
who has been critically ill., is GONZALES
cling.
Mrs. George Caldabaugh, of the South
Side, is the guest of friends in Barnes
vile.
Miss Clara Frank of the East End,
is suffering from a severe attack of ty-
phoid fever.
Frank Mccoy, of the Island, has re-
turned from visit to Middleport on
business.
Constable F. c. Darby, who has been
i'll at the Douard hotel, is somewhat i'm
proved
William and Miss Tenie Hoskey, OF
the East End, are the guests of friends
in Pittsburg.
Harry Brown. of the South Side. is
confined to his home by an attack OF
rheumatism.
Ross C. Thomas has returned to his
home in Coolville, after visit to
friends in this city.
Mrs. Maggie Steen. of the South Side,
is the guest OF her daughter, Mrs. Mag
gle Early, at Paterson, N. J.
Charles Carroll. Of PIT. Pleasant. O.,
left yesterday for Columbus after an
extended visit to friends in the North
End
City Clerk Thos. O'Brien, Jr.. will
leave to-day for Baltimore to join his
wife, who is visiting her parents in that
city.
Mrs. Nelson Blanchard. Of Cameron.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-24
SEVERAL SIGNED.

The Striking Miners in Sub-District,
No. Encouraged-A Break Among
the Operators.
The striking miners of the southern
part OF Sub-district No. 5, still stand
firm, and yesterday received much en-
enlargement This district includes
also the Pan Handle district in West
Virginia and many of the latter have
agreed to sign. At the miners head
quarters in Bridgeport yesterday, they
received word that all the miners were
willing to stay out unless the scale was
signed. It is understood that the mill
mines in Martins Ferry, OF the Amer
lean Sheet Steel Co., would sign, also
that the mines operated by the National
Steel Co. would sign, and on this side Of
the river the Whitaker mill. Reymann
Brewing Co., and the Kasley mine Of
East Wheeling, would sign. The first
break among the larger operators was
the signing Of the scale by the Schick
1tl1AcS NCSl VI DCiidtAS, Va tAlC ID. q VI.
which employees about sixty miners, al
Of whom returned to work. At the
headquarters yesterday Mike Ihnat, of
Cambridge, arrived. Mr.. Ihnat is Be-
hemian, and speaks number OF differ
ent languages, and is one OF the best
organizers that the United Mine Work
ers have. He Is quiet and conserTa-
tive in his manners, and is well known
to the miners, and Is held in high re-
spect by the operators A report from
the scale committee that has visited
the different mines. will be made to-
day. The miners were much encourag-
ed from the reports received yesterday.
The following telegram was received
last evening:
! COLUMBUS. O., April q. IA strike Of
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-24

Council meets again Friday night.
Webster school will be re-opened
this morning.
Five drunks will be up before the
municipal throne of justice this morn
ing.
The Atlantic engine company
pumped out the cellar of Hicks & Hoge
yesterday.
Ia meeting of stockholders OF the
Sand Fork Petroleum Company will be
held May LIST.
The sewer at Forty-fifth and Jacob
streets caved in from the high water
Sunday afternoon.
There were no cases in the Circuit
Court yesterday. Court will he in ses-
sion this morning.
AT 2:30 O'Clock this afternoon Prof.
Delbrugge's physical culture class will
meet in the Arion hall.
The lobby of the Council chambers
last night had the appearance of con-
vention OF retail liquor dealers.
Both gas companies had forces of
men at work on the South Side, yester-
day, pumping out the gas pipes.
One application was received at the
local recruiting station yesterday, and
the applicant will be examined to-
day.
john Diehl. of the East End, while
riding about the creek in a canvas
canoe, upset the boat, and had a mar
row escape from drowning.
The Scottish Thistle Society will
hold its regular meeting Friday even
ing in McLain's hall, and an interesting
programme viii be rendered
The supper which was to have been
given this evening by the Widely Re-
becca Lodge, No. 2, at Odd Fellows hail.
has been postponed indefinitely.
Harry Boyce, OF the Sixth ward,
while riding along CaldwelPs Run, had
narrow escape from drowning
through the upsetting Of the log.
i'm police court yesterday tina
gentle but irrepressb5le Annie Costello,
WnO 40 pOSSC5S5u vi d 1HlOIIlC
was sent to Jail for thirty days.
Sheriff W. w. Irwin did not recsige
a reply yesterday to the kilograms sent
to Nick Young and John I. Brush, rel
alive to the Grand Rapids franchise.
The present high water has caused
an agitation in favor of the enactment
Of a law to regulate the running Of
steamers on the Ohio river in food
times.
R. C. Higgins, manager for Brooks,
Mead & Co., yesterday began the work
of removing their goods from Sixteenth
street to South Main street, near TWEEN
ty-first.
"A Wheeling company has leased
the Buckeye Mineral Springs back of
Martins Ferry for period of Is years,
with the privilege of extending 1t for a
like period.
The Blue Pencil Club will meet in
regular session this evening at o'clock
at the Windsor Hotel. An unusually in
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-24
i T7APPENINGS OF ADAY

GIVEN IN BRIEF SPACE.

teresting programme has been pre-
pared.
John Scott, aged IS, coal miner
who was well known in Ohio county,
but has no living relatives so far as
can be learned, died OF consumption
yesterday at the county inhrmary.
There was break in the main OF
the Natural Gas Co. Of Nv. Va, near
Elm Grove. caused 10Y the flood. The
West Virginia Company suffered con-
siderable damage at different points.
The funeral of the infant child Of
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Miller, of the
South Side, will occur this morning.
The service will be conducted at No.
1858 Chapline street, the home OF
relatives, as the Miller home was mum
dated by the food.
The funeral OF Mrs. Adelaide M.
Boggs. whose remains arrived in the
city Monday night, will occur this af-
ternoon from the family residence on
the Island The interment will be at
Greenwood
Fired Huseman has accepted the po-
sition OF cashier Of the Centre Wheeling
Savings Bank, and will assume the
duties of his position as soon as the
bank is ready for business. Everything
is getting in shape rapidly, and the
bank may open on May LIST.
Merchants in the jobbing districts
and elsewhere, were kept very busy
yesterday in pumping water out Of
IN
OF merchandise which were removed
in anticipation OF high water,
The lecture on 1.-THE Passion Play"
to have been given by the Rev. DIR. S.
T. Westhafer at the Fourth Street M.
b. church. for the benefit OF the City
Union Of the Kings Daughters. has
been postponed from Thursday Of this
week until Thursday of next week.
The Ohio River road will run trains
out of this city this morning. The
tracks are cleared as far as Sistersville,
and no trouble is anticipated below
that city, as the condition of affair.
was never serious, and force of men
has been sent out to look over the
tracks.
Archbishop j. j. Kahn, of St. Louis,
yesterday notified the clergy at st. Jo-
seph's Cathedral that the remains of
his sister. Miss Kahn, were shipped
from st Louis, and that the funeral
will take place this morning from st.
Joseph's Cathedral. Solemn requiem
mass will be celebrated at nine o'clock,
and the remains will be laid at rest in
Mt. Calvary cemetery.
Lizzie Berger was placed under ar
rest at the Pan Handle depot yesterday
afternoon. she carried half empty bot
tie of whiskey, which accounted for her
disgraceful conduct She was passing
cards among the ladies in the waiting
room, containing the name Miss Joe
Hornbrook Clarksburg, w Va with
Good music and entertainment, open
day and night" printed in one corner.
The Fort Henry engine house re-
ceived a still alarm last evening at $50
O'Clock, which called them to the Man
ners property at No. 1918 alley H. The
men had considerable difficulty in get
ting the chemical up from McCulloch
street, and this again brings forth the
fact that a better roadway is needed
to this portion of the town The loss
as a result Of the fire was slight.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-24

The last act of Becky Sharp which
will be seen in this city on Saturday,
April 81, is thought by many to be
the most artistic OF the play. Certainly
it suggestively eptomizes Becky's ad-
ventures at PumpernickeI, as they were
somewhat indefinitely pictured by
Thackeray. and in it Mrs. Fiske reveals
her happiegt touches in this charac-
place of Thackeray's Imagination. The
scenery Of this act. like that OF all
the acts OF Becky Sharp" is as near
the actual As possible Thsckersy
spent some time as young man at
Weinar, and there Is no doubt that the
characteristics Of bis Pumpernickel
were drawn from his observations dur
Ing this soiourn- The scene ia the
play is 4 rs2roduct. ,n OF an old inter-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-24

PHILADELPHIA, April 23.-Up to the
Eighth inning, to-day's game between Bos-
ton and Philadelphia looked like victory
for the visitors, but a timely triple by
Delehanty with three men on bases,
brought in the winning run for the locals.
The game was well played by both clubs,
and but for two bad fumbles by Dumont
would have been perfect. Both Ortiz and
Willis were in good form, but the eighth
proved an unfortunate inning for the lat
ter. Threatening weather resulted in
small attendance. Score:
Boston -. 20 2 0 0 0 o-3 10 2
Philadelphia 20 0 0 IS 0
Batteries. Willis and Kittredge; Orth