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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
brides maid IN : Wedding to occur
early IN Anril

brides maid IN i wedding to occur
early IN April.
Mrs. Virginia Tsornton, Of Provi.
dence. r. L. is IN the city introducing
a new and novel puzzle game. suitable
for 2 Darlor game.
Mr.. VIM. dillingham; and wife, who
have been sojourning it Ponce Park.
Florida, for the past two months, will
be home Saturday.
Arthur Anderson has resigned his
position at the Wheeling Candy Com
pany and will leave early in next
month to join the Bistoll. Conn, base
base ball club.
Mrs. Maud Heiskell, Miss Flora Stifel
and Miss Elizabeth Rogers. Mr.. ].
Camden Mckinley. DIR. Fulton and DR..
Haning will go to Pittsburg this eve
ming to see Bernhardt in LtAiglon.
DR.. Ulrich has received notice from New
York, that as every State is entitled to
a vice PRESIDENT. he has been named
as such Tor West Virginia to the
american Congress of tuberculosis"
to be held May 1th. England, Canada
etc., win be represented.
General Funston, the latest hero
which our land and naval forces have
produced, is related to j. Hoge TYLER.
Governor of Virginia. and by the same
token he is also a relative of Lucius.
w. V. and DR.. Hoge, and the Messrs.
White & White, the brokers.
William Welty. William Hoefer. Jos.
Weisgerber. G. Naegele. Martin Rugga-
Der, representing the Wheeling Turn
ers Society, attended the funeral of
Capt. John Engel. at Steubenyille. o.,
yesterday. Capt. Engel was in this
city about two weeks ago attending
the funeral of Mr. Julius Lohse. He had
many friends in this city.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
WHICH WILL 1T BE?

The unusually well-informed Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Sun confirms the previously expressed
opinion of the Register that the pres
ent situation of affairs in China gives
the United States the choice OF two
courses-insistance upon Chinese in
tegrity or trouble with Russia, should
that country persist in the endeavor to
acquire, by any means, jurisdiction
over Manchuria.
In the early stages of the Eastern
complication Russia. with other pow
ers, at the instance and request Of the
United States, formally subscribed to
the proposition that there must be un-
animous consent to either territorial
or financial arrangements with China,
and since that time Russia has repeat
edly disclaAmed any infAntipn Of hold
inS psrms1sntly any Integral part Of
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
CreditabIe Entertainment.

The pupils of Washington public school,
under the direction of prof. c.. S. Brilles.
presented "Bibi." a comedy of toys, to a
large and a~ppreciative audience last night.
1t is an admirable little dramatic produc-
ton from the pen of Charles Barnard, and
a rather p~retentious undertaking for
school children. The cast was published
in the Register several days ago. The
work of all was SO uniformly excellent
thai it would be unfair to ind~ividualize.
The entertainment will be repeated to-
night.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
IN BRIEFEsT r.

The Minor Events of Yesterday Pre-.
scented in Condensed Paragraphs.
Henry Schwab had a finger cut off
while at work at the Acme box fac
tory Wednesday,.
Wheeling lodge No. 81, United
Commercial Travellers, will meet Satur-
day evening i'm X. of p. hall to elect Of
fcers.
An alarm from box 81 yesterday
afternoon called the department to the
Belmont, where a chimney was on fire
in a house occupied by Charles Reilly.
The Germania Half Dollar Savings
Bank, at a meeting held yesterday,
adopted a resolution reducing the au-
thorized capital stock from $500, 900 to
$4,000.
Mrs. Thomas McKeever was
stricken with paralysis yesterday
morning. Her son, John w. Gou, post
master at Bellaire. vas called to her
bedside.
The Pink Carriers base ball club
will cross bats with the Olivette team
next Sunday afternoon. Game called
at 2 o'clock. The game will be played
on the Forty-first street grounds.
An entertainment for the benefit
of the organ fund of the Second U. P.
church will be given on the floating en-
tertainment boat at the foot of Twelfth
street. 1t has a seating capacity of
400.
Driver Harry Weisinger, of the
Wheeling company in the Eighth
ward, lost one of a new pair of gloves
while responding to alarm 81 yesterday
afternoon. The finder will confer a
favor by notifying him or returning
same.
The funeral of Mrs. Bridget Doo-
ley, widow of the late Patrick Dooley,
took place yesterday morning from
the residence of Mrs. M. A. McDon-
ough on Main street. Requiem high
mass was celebrated at st. Joseph's
cathedral, and the remains were buried
in Mt. Calvary cemetery.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
Carroll Club Leaxue.
RESIDENTS AND

The Movements of People You Know,
and the Coming and Goinx OF
Transients.
Mrs. Albert Auber has been i'll for
over a week.
G. E. Rice, of GAINESVILLE, was in the
city yesterday.
Miss Maud Mitchell is able to be out
after a evere attack of grip.
Mrs. Botsford is visiting her sister.
Mrs. Williams, in Sistersville.
Chas. Miller. of the North End, win
leave shortly for Portsmouth, o.
Miss Nettie Morris, Of Wellsburg. is
the guest of friends on the Island.
Chas. Miller, Of Twelfth street, is
able to be out after a severe Illness.
Miss Kate Monroe of Wellsburg. is
the guest Of friends in the North End.
The Misses Cummins saw Bernhard
in L'Aiglon in Pittsburg last evening.
Mrs. w. P. Lear returned home after
spending yesterday in East Liverpool,
Ohio.
Alfred C. West and wife, of Cumber-
land, are the guests Of Chapline street
friends.
Miss Nettie Christman, of Little
Washington, is the guest Of Island
friends.
G. A. Landmesser and w. B. Reed
are among the Wheeling people in Sis
t~ersville.
Fred Warner and Theodore Auber
of the South Side. have returned from
Pittsburg.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kreiter, who was IL
for a considerable length of time. is
recovering.
Lester Conway and C. e. Morgan
left yesterday morning for their homes
in Cambridge.
Mrs. w. H. f. Randolph, of Brook
Ign, N. Y, is the guest of Chapline
street friends.
Mrs. Pat Quigley has returned to
Sistersville, after a brief visit with
Wheeling friends.
Harry C. Blaney, clerk at Ebeling's
drug store. is visiting at his home
nea Claysville, Pa.
Mr.. Harry Vain, who has been i'll
at his home on Virginia street, suffer-
ing from gastric fever. has had a re-
lapse.
S. H. Church, of Pittsburg. was In
the city yesterday attending the meet
Ing of stockholders of the P. w. &
Ky. R. R. Co.
Miss June Bradley left yesterday for
Lancaster, Pa, where she will be
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
A POET OF r.

The Boston Herald, one of our most
esteemed contemporaries, has added a
poet to its otherwise complete edi-
torial staff. and he sings pleasantly
and melodiously. For instance:
In a gun-plate night gown built for war,
With double-bolted seams
And a chilled-steel nightcap on, the Car
Lies down to pleasant dreams.
And again:
Ajax defying lightning,
And simple things like that,
Seems dull and slow since now we know
Odell defied Boss Plat.
And a third time:
The golfer full of brag and bluff
May know a lot less golf than gun.
We are thus afforded a renewed
demonstration of the va~riegated char
acter and pleasing possibilities Of
Hub journalism.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
THE BOER,s THREE SHOTS.

The shadows are falling narrow and long
Jan, take my horse by's bridl strong.
The nights coming. Before we sleep
Three shots must from my barrels leap.
They have forced it, willed it of old -
l cast my bullets of red gold
OF gold that in lonesome hills did lay
Three bullets / shoot every day.
And if my first bullet e'er wounds,
A wall from the bride of the Isle ~resounds.
When the second its aim doth win,
Then trembleS in London some mobiles kin.
And when my last bullet is gone,
Some Croesus loses his only son.
Three graves they dig in to-morrow's
ground;
Three croaking vultures circle around;
Three callow youths, wild victims of fame,
To their hearts my gold, to the earth they
came.
There they lie so still and rest as warm
AS my little children in the ruins of the
farm.
Three mothers, however. who sorely sigh
In rich London, are as poor as l..
| have no wife, no child, and no roof and
no home,
Only %gold-and / cast bullets therefrom.
OF gold that in lonesome mountains lay,
Three shots l fire on every day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
ATKINSON'S DIMINISHING
CHANCES.i~
MIR.


The Register long since warned eA-
Governor Atkinson that lie would prob
ably be stabbed in the house of his
friends when he set IN foot a move
ment having for it's object the secur-
ing of the appointment Of Federal
Judge for the new West Virginia dis
trict, and our prediction appears. &C
cording to a Washington special, pub
lished this morning, to be very close
to realization There has been some
thing more than a suspicion from the
first that Mr. Atkinson was not being
fairly dealt with by the Senators from
this State, to say nothing of other and
minor influences in the dispensation of
good things, and the intimation that
Hon. A. G. Dayton will probably get
the Judgeship will be readily accepted
as a decided probability.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29

As heretofore mentioned in the Reg
lister, one Of the largest coal deals ever
consummated in the Ohio valley took
place last evening at the Mcclure House
when a sale Of a million dollars worth
of coal lands and mines was closed,
the purchasers being The Empire Coal
Mining Company Of this city, princi-
pally composed of Eastern capitalists
who have been looking over the coal
fields of West Virginia and Ohio con-
tigeous to the Ohio river.
The territory lies in Belmont coun-
ty south and west of Bellaire, and is a
block of 10000 acres, including five
mines now in operation.
The history of this gigantic sale is
interesting. About fifteen months ago
Messrs. Theo. Neff and D. S. Creamer
conceived the idea of optioning the
coal in Pultney, Meade, Rachland,
York, Smith and Washington town
ships, and secured about 80, 900 acres.
They then commenced to make out the
abstracts and titles, and for several
months have had a number OF attor-
neys at work, but owing to SO many of
the titles being defective were not
able to close the sale when they ex-
pected. They informed the people Of
their inability to close the deal and
many of the land owners demanded
the return of options. and Messrs.
Neff and Cramer assured the people
they would be paid. and pleaded with
the owners to not throw up their OPP
tions as the sale would be made, but
with all explanations about 5000
acres, principally in Richland, was
thrown up, and the owners declared
the sale was a bluff, and would never
be made, but the two gentlemen kept
on, and increased the number of abb
~stracts, and promised to pay all clear
titles by April list, and have kept
their premise, and to-day will mail
notices that all having clear titles will
receive their money at the Clarendon
Hotel in St. Clairsville, April 1st. One
million dollars will be paid ont in this
section.
This sale also includes the following
mines: Rose and Morgan, better
known as the old Heatherington, the
Pittsburg Coal Co., Neffs, Simpsons,
and the mine at Wegee.
This large sale means much to this
community and will make it a rival
of P~ittsburg. The 10000 acres is all
available for shipping by river as well
as rail. When dam 13 is completed
the company will be able to ship coal
down the river when the Pittsburg
shippers are shut out on account of the
low water. The sale of coal lands
in West Virginia neal this city marks
a great coal development.
The railroad shipping facilities are
excellent, having the following roads:
B. & O., C. & P, c., l.. & w, B. q &
c., and the proposed new Adena & Bel
laire road.
This sale will be of much benefit to
Bellaire and will make business boom
in Belmont county. The block disposes
of all the coal territory in this part Of
the county, as a short time G the
coal land near Powhatan was sold, as
exclusively mentioned in the Register.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
THE MUNICIPAL MIDDLE.

As is fully detailed in u news col
umns this morning, arguments were
heard by Judge Hervey, yesterday
morning, on the application for a writ
of mandamus brought by the remnants
Of the late Republican ring against GER
tain de facto officers of the city gov
eminent having for the object the res
toration, at least temporarily, of the
old and popularity discredited order OF
things. Counsel made their arguments
and the questions at issue are now
with the Court.
1t would be manifestly improper for
a newspaper to offer any manner OF
suggestion or intimation in a cause be-
fore an impartial and equitable tribu-
nal, but it is within the puryiew OF
~propriety to call general attention to
the fact thatwithin certain departments,
Wheeling has, and has had for quite
a number of weeks, a dual and largely
an imperative city governmental con-
dition of affairs anomalous and to be
sincerely deplored. The City Clerk, a
Republican, regularly elected by he
people, recognizes and transacts bust
mess with the former City Solicitor,
and cashes or causes to be cashed, the
pay rolls and warrants of the old
Boards of Water and of Public Works,
while the new Boards, in de facto pos
session of the Offices, are transacting
public business to whatever extent
they can in the absence of important
public documents, removed from those
Offices by individuals acting in I'M
doubted contravention of public policy
and against all things tending to the
public good. In like name he
Health department has two claimants
to its head, and there is conflict and
controversy among many minor ofic-
ials-and all this has been brought
about by mere obstructionists anxious
at any cost or inconvenience to the
people, to hold on to salaried positions
HUH WHICH luSy WClC OuSICh w q
clear majority OF legally elected mem
bers of Council. It really matters little
by what means this was accomplished.
Council is a legislative body with
large powers to do as it chooses, both
as to the standing ana qualification of
its membership and its method of do
ing business. 1t may, although this
is not a concession CT fact as to what
has been done, proceed by unusual
methods to depose one official and
place another in his stead, but the act
once done, the change becomes a mat
ter of fact which technicality ought
not t. upset, particularly to the incon-
venience of the public and in opposi-
ton of the popular will as expressed
through Representatives recognized as
having been legally and lawfully chos-
en-. In other words, a Council having
been selected by the voters, it is for
Council to designate who shall occupy
the offices within its gift, and the in
reference by d%isgruntled and disap.
pointed contestants with the choice
made leads, as it has led in this in
stance, to unfortunate and undesirable
results.
1t is a matter for sincere congratu-
lations that the important departments
of fire, police and lights and the City
Clerk and Receiver, are not involved,
for if such were the case it would not
only be confusion far worse confound-
our citizens.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
Two Fathers.

Memphis Scimiter.
DO you know what my fatner
would have done if l had been caught
doing such a thing?" asked an irate
Memphis father of his little son.
The latter did not consider the sit
uation at all alarming, and said. in a
rather jocular manner:
You must have had a pretty bad
daddy"
This cool, sarcastic name nettled
the old gentleman all the more, and in
his loss of temper he exclaimed:
well, sir. / want you to distinctly
understand that I had a better daddy
than you'll ever see the day to have
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
TIE GREAT COAL DEAL
IS CLOSED At LAST
AFTER A YEAR OF ENERGETIC Eff
FORT ON THE PART OF MEsSRs.
DREAMER AND NEFF.
THOUSAND AC


The Property Lies In the Six Town
ships of Richland, Mead, P~ultney,
York, Smith and Washington-
About One Million Dollars Involv-
ed in the Transaction-The Rights
Acquired Fall Int the Hands of
h Empire Coal Mining Company
of this City, and Will be Paid for
ON the First Day of April-The De-
tails of a P0rtentious Enterprise,
About Which the Register Has
Previously Said Much.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
MISUNDERSTANDING
Sporting. !!
The Inter-City League.

If there is no professional club in
Wheeling this season. there will be more
interest than ever in the Inter-City league
which it is hoped to reorganize. When the
representatives of a sufficient number OF
clubs indicate a willingness to join. a
meeting for organization will be held In
the Register office. 1t is very likely that
Wheeling will be shut out Of professional
company this season.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
AGED WOMAN KILLED
Under Peculiar circumstance n
Maynard yesterday.

Under circumstances mt
Maynard Yesterday.
A fatal accident occurred under UNI
usual and peculiar circumstances at
Maynard, O., yesterday. Mrs. Scott.
aged ~. living near the C. L. & w
water tank, started to lead a young
calf across the railroad tracks. The
animal stopped in the middle of the
track.
Freight train No. 80. south bound,
was approaching. Mrs. Scott saw it,
and stepped out of danger. She evil
IDENTIFY became confused, for she i'm
mediately stepped back. Engineer
Harry Wright saw her. but too late to
avert the catastrophe, The aged lady
was horribly mangled and almost in
stantly killed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
After McClelland.

Backers of Eddie Gardner will have
sl00 on deposit in the Register office 1T
noon to-day. as a forfeit for a match be-
TWEEN Gardner and Jack McClelland, for
door receipts and from 500 to $500 a side.
Corcoran claims to have a deposit in the
Pittsburg Dispatch office. and If he means
business he can now be accommodated
The match should be made at the earliest
possible date.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29

Disguise the situation as diplomats
may, the leading nations of the world
are on the verge of a quarrel without
a parallel since the coalition of Eu-
rope against France in 1914 and 1915.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29

Charleston Gazette.
A Parkersburg paper says that city
is the busiest in the State, and from
other things contained in the same pa
per and others the conclusion is
drawn that it is. Half the people are
busy robbing the other half, and half
are busy keeping from being robbed
by the other half. All are hustling.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29

tie ssnnc dime demxnds that hi own
rights shall be respected" The defl-
milton is 4 very fair one, but the last
clause might be modified. A two
strict insistance upon ones v rights
is apt to lead to ungentlemaniy acts.
IA gentleman is just q gentle man;
no more, no less" Perhaps no more
concise definition can be given.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
Change i'm Briti.h Coins.

Among the odd changes brought
about by the succession Of King Ed
ward VII. is that while Victoria's face
on British gold coins looked to the
left King Edwards looks to the right.
This is in accordance with a long es-
tablished custom that makes each sue
cessive sovereign face the opposite way
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29

The administration will now once
more proclaim that the war in the
Philippines is over, but it is asserted
from Washington that fifty thousand
soldiers must be maintained there for
some years to come.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29

The statistician Of the Dominion Of
Canada represents that there were
thirty-four electric railways in the con-
federated provinces at the close OF last
year, aggregating $50 miles OF track.
Capital amounting to $21, 100000 has
been actually invested in these lines.
During the year they carried 104,035,-
$50 passengers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
REGISTER AGENCIES.

WHERE THE REGISTER Can BE
PURCHASED OUT OF TOWN.
CHARLESTON, w. Va.-Hotel Runner
News Stand.
WASHINGTON, D. c. Queen News
Stand. National Hotel.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
From Twins to Centipedes.

From Twins to Centfpedes.
New York Weekly.
Whats twins, mammal" asked 4
year-old Bessie.
:" know" exclaimed her small
brother, before the mother could an
swer. Twins is two kids just the
same age, three's trfplets, tours quad
rupeds and ive's centipedes."
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
Catching the Drift.

Boston Herald.
While the people of Colorado cannot
quite understand why they are visit
ed with a heavy snow storm at this
season of the year, they are catching
the drift of it more or less.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29

The State Normal school at Shop
h~erdslown, recently destroyed by fire,
will b, rebuilt at a cost of $33, 600, de-
spite tire efforts Of Martinsburg people
to have the institution removed to
that town.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
H F
To Lucius II. Martin and Philip Mar
tin by Fostoria Employees.

The Register yesterday contained an ac-
count of the presentation to Mr.. L. r.
Martin OF a fine vase. as a testimonial
from the employees of the Fostoria Glass
Works, with which Institution he has sew
cred his connection.
When the employees assembled wednes-
day evening, other gifts were presented 70
Mr.. Martin and his son Philip. The for
mer received a handsome and valuable
diamond stud, and the latter an elegant
gold pen, secured through the Dillon, Han
cher Company.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29

The Richmond Dispatch refers to
West Virginia as "a delinquent debt
or" This is an epithet as unwarrant-
ed as it is gratuitous.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29

And Aguinaldo is really under lock
and key! All honor to Funston, n
may his reward be commensurate
with his success.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29

"Posterity," remarked Mr.. Fod-
sick, will never forgive Nero for i'd
ding while Rome burned"
"Posterity hasn't so much to COM
plain about" suggested Keendick.
There is no intimation that Nero
played rag-time."-Judge.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
On the Anxious Seat.

, Boston Herald.
Boston liquor dealers, like the Car
of all the Russias, do not know what
10 expect next. An explosion is likely
to occur at any minute.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29

What Was the Clothes Trouble?
Martinsburg Statesman.
President Raymond got off and with
difficulty took his clothes with him.
1t is hardly probable that the Dr.'s
opinion of the West Virginia haweaters
has been improved by his recent ex-
perience.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
A Pair of 3Iisfts.

New York Tribune.
They are telling this story in Washing
ton about Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, who IS a member of the HUI
name Society and wears q. badge that en-
titles him to investigate the condition of
any animal that appears to be i~ll-treated.
A day or two ago, as he came down from
the Capitol. he inspected a team that was
standing by the curb.
Here, you." shouted the driver, what
are you doing there feeling about that
horses neck?''
Il am an officer of the Humane So
city, replied Senator Jones. mildly,
IAN / want to see il this collar fits
this horse
WELL" snarled the drived, 'if that col
lar don't fit that horse any better than
your collar fits you, you Just run along
and get a cop and have me arrested
Mrs. NewwifeII feel sure that Al
fred will bring me a lovely present
from the city to-day.
Miss Conhdante-An anniversary or
birthday. dear?
Mrs. Newwife-Oh, dear mol But we
had such . dreadful Quar1el this morn
g.-Tit-B tts.