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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-14
ONE MEMBER Of THE HOUSE,
HON. j.. f. DRIANT, OF SUMMERS,
WILL REFUSE TO QUALIFY,
CREATING A VACANCY.
THE SCHOOL BOOK LOBBY
is VERY MUCH IN EVIDENCE, AND
SOME DOIN'S ARE EXPECTED.
University Is To Be Recognized
with President Raymond On the
Outside-CoI. Dawson Gives Out In
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DOrr Is
Ont After Revenge, and Is Even
With Whitaker.

Special TO the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, January Is.
-B. B. McMechen, of Marshall county,
being too ill to come here and attend
the meeting of Presidential electors to-
morrow, William M. Riggs, of Mounds
vile, has come bringing the creden-
tials, and will probably be elected to
act in his place.
1t is stated that Hon. J. F. Briant,
of Summers county, member-elect OF
the House of Delegates, will refuse to
qualify, leaving his seat vacant so far
as he is concerned. He is an employee
of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad at
a good salary, and as under the rules
of the road he would lose his job by
serving in the Legislature, he prefers
10 give up craftsmanship and stick to
business.
The school book lobby is beginning
to thicken up, and before many days
the town will be full of sleek, well-fed
gentlemen who are anxious to do good
to the rising generation by selling its
members the best books in the world.
1t is expected that school book money
will be largely in evidence very short
ly.
1t now transpires that the fight
against Raymond became so fierce that
the bosses took official notice, and
Colonel Dawson gave it out cold, last
night, that the University was to be
reorganized with Raymond on the out
side, and that was the reason it was
so confidently asserted last night that
Raymond would resign and leave the
State.
1t is said Whitaker's defeat for pres
ident of the Senate was chiefly brought
about by ex-Congressman Dorr, in set
tlement of some old score. Dorr is
here taking an active part in every
scrap, and as he has nothing to lose,
being a candidate for no position, any
small rewards he cali nand out to his
enemies are so many victories gained,
and nobody has a keener appetite for
revenge hat has the gentleman from
Webster.
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The BOoz Committees.

WEST POINT, N. Y, January 13.-The
Congressional committee which is inves-
tigating the alleged hazing of former Ca
Diet Booz, did not attend church to-day.
but put in their time visiting places of
interest in the highlands. This morning
in the company of Col. Freberger and Ca
diets Bettison, Farnham and Spalding.
they visited Fort Putnam and were shown
the locality where so many cadets nave
settled their difficulties by personal en-
counters. The committee were led over
the same course as that taken by cadets
when going out to fight. A second visit
was also made at Fort Clinton and Bat
terry Knox. where also several fights have
occurred. The committee expect to com
plete the investigation tomorrow night
or Tuesday morning.
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Would Not Be. Interviewed.

PARIS, January 13.-The Duke of
Norfolk, who, during the reception to
English Roman Catholic pilgrims by
the Pope last Tuesday, expressed a
hope that the new century might see
the restoration of the Roman pontiff
to a position Of temporal ~indeperd-
ence, passed through Paris to-day, ac-
companied by 200 of the pilgrims, en-
route for London.
He declined to be interviewed re-
garding the sentiments he had express
ed to Leo XIII, saying he expected to
publish a statement in the course of a
few days.
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VIII igh 1t Out.

LONDON, January 13.-The Daily Tele-
graph publishes a three-column dispatch
from its correspondent at Brussels, Civ
ing a conversation with DR.. Leyds and
Mr.. Abraham Fisher. The general pur-
port of the statement of the Boer repre-
sentatives is that Great Britain is still
under false impressions concerning the
war, as she has always BEEN" and that
the Beers are fully resolved to continue
the struggle and are as hopeful now as
they were a year ago, of preserving
their independence"
DR.. Leyds and Mr.. Fischer also assert
ed that Great Britain cannot make enor-
nous sacrifices %eternally and has retain
ed the friendship of the great powers at
a terrible cost"
They admitted that the Beers were suf-
fering h~ardships, but said that hardships
were the normal Hfe of the Burchers.
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PORTLAND, Me-, January 13.-Thos.
C. Moshier, a farmer, aged twenty
five, was murdered, and his mother,
Mrs. Rufus Moshier, aged seventy-two,
was brutally assaulted at their home
in Gorham, Saturday evening, by two
men who forced an entrance into the
Moshier residence with the evident in
tention of robbery.
After completing their CHASTITY work
the men ransacked the house, taking
what v%aluables they could find. One
of the men was a negro.
About DON to-day, William Hands,
a negro, was arrested at Scarboro. In
his possession were found a blood
stained razor marked with Moshier's
name, $40 in money, consisting chiefly
of bills, which were also stained with
blood, and a watch. His hands and
clothing were soiled and bloody. The
man admits having been at the Moshier
farm house, and he says he left his
companion in Portland. The story of
the crime as told by Mrs. Moshier, is
as follows:
She and her son had eaten their sup
per when a knock was heard at the
door. No attention was paid to it, as
Mrs. Moshier thought the caller might
be a man who formerly worked on the
farm, and who, it is said, left under
somewhat unpleasant circumstances.
Soon after the kitchen windows were
forced in and W. men, one a negro,
jumped into the room.
Moshier grappled with the white
man and the negro knocked down the
woman, striking her a terrible blow
on the head with a stick. She begged
for her life and, after striking her
again, the negro went to the assist
ance of his comrade.
Together they dragged Moshier into
a room off the kitchen and hid in a
closet. The noises soon ceased and
the men went to the cellar for food.
Mrs. Moshier then fed to the second
floor, where she was followed by the
negro, who demanded her money. She
replied that she had NO money, but
told where she kept her few ~valuables.
Shortly afterward the negro rejoined
his companion and Mrs. Moshier heard
them opening drawers and o~verturning
furniture. After the men left the
house she wrapped herself in a blanket
and made her way to the house of
Freeman Richardson, who lives a
quarter of a mile distant. The police
of this city were notified, and, going to
the farm, the body of Moshier was
found in the parlor covered with blood
and with the head beaten almost to
a jelly.
In the house were found two heavy
fence stakes, one of which was matted
with blood and hair and had appar-
emily been used to kill Moshier,
Everything of value was missing.
Mrs. Moshier's injuries, while seri-
Gus, are not fatal.
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indignation In England.

LONDON. January IA, 1870 A. M
The brief report of the fate of the
three members of the peace
commission who We're SEM to see Gen.
DeWet excites the deepest indignation
IN all sides. One or two papers ex-
ctess a hope that Lord Kitchener has
been misled by false Kafir reports:
but 1T is generally felt that he would
not have reported the matter to the
war office without undoubted evidence.
The Daily Mail heads the report with
the word Murder" and declaims
against aL3 further attempt 20 coax
the enemytinto submission. 'DeWet
has Dlaced4himself outside the pale Of
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1876 WHEELING, W. VA, MONDAY. JANUARY IA 1901

humanity" says the Daily Mail, land
not proclamations but large reinforce
ments must be our watchword."
The Morning Post says:
This marks the point where the
guerrilla phase ends and the bandit
phase begins"
All the papers appeal strongly to the
government to hurry forward rein
forcements, since it is evident that the
Boer leaders have now become desper-
ate and Cancellation is quite useless.
The Pretoria correspondent of the
Daily Mail announces the return to
Pretoria of Mr.. Pretorius, a former
president of the late South. African
republic, from a futile endeavor to
persuade the Boer leaders to surrend-
er.
Details of the attack upon Kaalfon-
tein and Zuurfontein stations show
that there were only small garrisons
of about one hundred and twenty men
at each station. The British had eX-
cellent trenches, which enabled them
to withstand the attacks until the
Beers, having ascertained that rein
forcements were coming to the garri-
sons, retired.
At Zu~urfontein a party of Beers in
khaki succeeded in capturing a Brit
ish patrol of eight men whom they
subsequently liberated. The railway
and telegraph lines will be speedily
restored.
No further news has been received
regarding the invasion of Cape Col
ony.
Sir Alfred Miner writes to a cor
respondent in England saying:
st would be useless for me to no
tice the wholesale lies hat are spread
about concerning me. If attempted
to do so, l would have no time for
anything else"
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For "Target Practice."

SHANGHAI, January 13.-The Ital-
ian consul at Shanghai, in explaining
the presence of Italian warships at San
Nun bay says they went there for tar
get practice.
1t is again reported here hat the al
lies are preparing to enter the prov
ince of Shan ST..
A French force is reported to have
defeated a body Of boxers west of Pao
Ting Flu, killing a thousand.
LONDON, January 13.-The Ameri-
can hospital ship Maine has arrived at
Southampton with invalids from
China.
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Burned to Death.

BUFFALO, N. Y. January BINARY
Spitzman and Clara Myers. servants, were
burned to death this morning in a fire
that destroyed the fifth floor of the Buck
ingham apartment house. The fire start
ed in the kitchen of the fifth floor, direct
ly below the servants room. Ordinarily
eight girls occupy these quarters. but last
night six Of them were out of town, Ieav-
ing but two girls in the house. The wom-
en- came originally from Titusville. Pa.
The property loss is estimated at So. 900.
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Starting to Pay I'm.

TACOMA, Washn., January 13.-The
Chinese viceroys of the southern prov
inces are paying American, English
and French indemnities for destroyed
mission property. The French have
received s275, 900 for the burning of
Catholic missions in the Canton pre-
lecture. The claims are being paid
with money raised by special assess
ments on rich gentry and by the let
ting of gambling monopolies.
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One Hundred and Fifty Drowned,

TACOMA, Washn., January 13.-In
December an overcrowded passenger
steamer plying on West river lost her
rudder, and was carried by the current
on the rocks near Canton, China, sink
ing in a few minutes. Of 500 passen-
gers on board, $50 were drowned
through being unable to reach the deck
and jump overheard. Others jumped
and were rescued by passing boats.
MARSEILLES, January 13.-Mail
advices from Madagascar, dated De-
cember 10th, report the drowning of
fifty natives from the capsizing of a
barge.
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VIII Die.

LEXINGTON, KY, January 10
Rankin Clemens, a farmer of Fayette
county, whose estate is valued at half
a million, was brought to a hospital
here tonight, with his skull badly
fractured. Robbers visited his house
last night. called him to the door and
broke his skull with a hay fork. They
attempted to force their way into the
house, but the women within barri-
caded the doors. Only a small amount
of money al secured from the mans
pockets. He will PROBABLY die.
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THE QUAY FIGHT rs HOT.
Friends of the Ex-senator Say
He lis Certain to Win Out.
While His Opponents Are Equally
sure He Cannot Succeed Without
Democratic Support, and Say He
Will Not Receive One Democratic
Vote.

HARRISBURG, Pa, January 13.-
The result of the struggle for United
States Senator is still in doubt, with
both sides protesting to be confident
Of victory. Col. Quay. the choice of
the Republican caucus, is here direct
ing his campaign, and he says there is
no doubt of his election. He has given
his friends the assurance that he will
be elected on the first ballot and they
claim to have no reason to believe
otherwise. United States Senator Pen
rose, Attorney General Elkin and In
surance Commissioner Durham are
with Col. Quay, looking after the de-
ills of his fight.
VIM. T. Crosby, of Columbia, the
House leader of the Democrats, says
Quay cannot get a single Democratic
vote and without the Democrats he
cannot hope to be elected. Col. James
NJ. Guffey, Of Pittsburg, will be nom
mater for Senator by to-morrow's joint
House and Senate Democratic caucus.
F. A. Valkenburg, who is in charge
of the anti-Quay Republican head
quarters, reached mere tonight from
Philadelphia, with him were Represen-
tatives Edwards and Wilkinson, of
Bucks county, and other anti Quayites.
Mr.. Van ~Valkenburg issued a formal
statement in which he says enough
Republican Legislators, with the Dem
ocrats, are pledged to oppose Mr..
Quay's reelection to accomplish that
result and that the anti-Quayites have
no reason to doubt hat every mar
will remain true to his pledge. I'm
der the circumstances" he added, 81
cannot see how Mr.. Quay can be elect
ed on the first ballot and if he is not
elected on the first ballot, he certainly
cannot. as he has admitted, be elected
at ALL"
Several Legislators are i'll at their
homes and neither side can tell with
accuracy how many of their followers
will be absent when the House and
Senate vote separately Tuesday noon
There is not more than a score of Leg
islators here tonight and neither side
is apparently making n effort to as
certain it's relative strength. Both
Houses will re-convene tomorrow eve
ming and by that time the city win
be crowded with Legislators and poll
ticians. Col. Quay's friends are plan
ming a large street parade for Tuesday
evening if he should be elected on the
first ballot.
A conference Of the anti-Quay Re
publicans win be held tomorrow af-
ternoon to formulate a plan of action
when the first ballot is taken. 1t is
expected that they will repeat their
practice of two years ago of distribut-
ing their votes among a half dozen
more 'favorite sons"
Congressman John Dalzell, of Pitts
burg, seems to be the choice of a large
majority of this element and it is al
most certain hat he will receive some
votes.
The standing committees Of the
Senate and House will not be
ed or the officers and employees elect
ed until after the ballot for Senator.
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A BRAVE POLICEMEN.
Officer Goss, of Cumberland, Tackled
Six Burglars Single
rTrNEnT@nv ANuD NJ

Officer GOss, of Cumberland,
Six Burglars Single Handed.
CUMBERLAND, Md, January 13.-
Officer Charles w. Goss, of the city po-
lice force, surprised A gang of men
attempting to rob the German Savings
Bank at an early hour this morning.
He engaged in a s~ingle-handed battle
with three of the men in the bank and
one acting as sentinel outside. Goss
is sure he hit two as they came out
of the bank door. He emptied his re-
volver from a vantage point behind
the shadow of a telegraph pole, and
all five men shot in his direction a
number of times. Five bullet marks
were left on the pole. The gang ran
down Baltimore street and made their
scape out the West Virginia Central
railroad tracks, terrorizing the few
persons they met on the way by in
discriminate firing. They probably
numbered six persons, armed with
Winchester shot guns and large re-
%volvers. They shot at the operator of
the West Virginia Central as he raised
the window at the station, a bullet
crashing through the glass. They also
shot at another policeman. Nothing
was stolen at the bank. Afterward the
gang committed two small robheries
in South Cumberland. They are still
at large. The bank has offered a re-
ward of $3.50 and voted S50eto Gross.
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TERROR REIGNS
In the Vicinity of as a Re-
suit of Rebel Activity.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 13.-The
British steamer Texan, Captain Lund,
which arrived here to-day from Colon,
Colombia, reports that when she left
Colon terror reigned among the inhabi-
tants around Panama in consequence of
another rebel descent upon the city.
Heavy fighting began outside Panama
January 10th and continued fercely
throughout January 18th, when the rebels
were making desperate efforts to get
within the city. The government troops
were strongly contesting the advance of
the insurgents when the Texan left.
Captain Lund says the losses on both
sides had been considerable though with
out advantage either way. The rebels
had been largely reinforced and were well
stocked with supplies, Two British war
ships had arrived at Panama and an
American cruiser was momentarily ex-
pected.
1t appears also, according to reports
brought by the Texan that business in
Colombia is at a standstill everywhere.
with a general enforcement of martial
law. and that the people are becoming
disguised with the government, owing to
its failure to crush the rebellion. The
fighting is now over a wide field and the
rebels have become more stubborn than
ever.
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A RICHMOND LADY
Attacked by IL Negro, While on Her
Way to Church.

Attacked by a Negro While on Her
Way to Church.
RICHMOND, Va, January 13.-Early
tonight, in a thickly settled portion
of the city, a negro nan seized one of
two ladies who were on their way
to church together. and was dragging
her into an alley when her screams at
tracted the attention of Policeman Cor
man. On the latter's appearance the
negro fed, but German brought him
down with a bullet in the leg and
landed him in the station house. The
negro proved to be James White, who
has been in trouble before for indecent
conduct. The affair created intense
excitement in the section of the city
where all the facts were known.
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WICHITA, Kans., January IA
series of riots began in this city at
midnight last night and ended this
evening at six o'clock in a street duel
between three colored and three white
men. Many shots were exchanged in
the crowded street between Wiley
Schnell, a Texas negro, and Cash John
son, a white trunkmaker. Schnell was
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-14

Odessa is the fourth city in point
of size in Russia, with a popula-
ton of about $4,000. 1t is in latitude
Al N, about that of Orleans in France,
and south of the latitude of Paris. 1t
is located on the northern shore of the
Black Sea, about midway between the
estuaries of the Dniester Us miles to
the southwest and the Dnieper go
miles northeast Of the mouth Of the
Danube), and is 967 miles by rail from
Moscow and 381 miles by rail from
Kieff. to which latter city the main
line Of railway involved in the above
dispatch runs, and upon which Raj
dyelnaia is located. The travel upon
this route is always heavy, as Odessa
is an immensely important city, botR
for manufacturing and for the hand
ling of the import and export trade or
ali southern Russia The climate Ia
ordinarily comparatively mild in win
ter, but heavy SHOWS are not unknown.
-Editor.)
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shot, but will not die. Johnson's on
aition is serious. Several others were
seriously but not fatally injured. The
principal negro contestant fed but was
captured and saved from the mob by
the police. Seventeen arrests were
made.
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soldiers Eaten by wolves.

LONDON, January 1.-THE Buchar-
est correspondent of the Daily Ex-
press says that five Roumanina soldiers
while going home, were attacked and
eaten by wolves. after a desperate
struggle.
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President IMPROVED.

WASHINGTON, January 13.-President
Mckinley vas 50 much improved IN healtA
that he was able to go out doors in 4
carriage for a short time. 1t is expected
that a few more days viii see him agai
able to attend to business as usual.
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A Blizzard OF PARTS.
RUSSIA BURIED UNDER
AN UNPRECEDENTED FALL
OF SNOW.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH AT
ODESSA ALONE.

me Awfui experience of Passengers
on Trains-Ffve Thous.
ana helpless Passengers at One
Staton-Eghteen Thousand Sol
Soldiers With ShoveIs Endeavor-
ing to Clear the Line-A Remark
able State of Affairs.
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LONDON, January 1.-THE Odessa
correspondent of the Daily Mail sends
a heartrending story of the suffering
OF railway passengers snow-bound
while on the way to Odessa. The bliz-
zard, he says, ragged continuously for
more than one hundred hours over the
whole of Southern Russia. He de-
scribes the gradual arrival of trains
at Razdyelnaia. with hundreds of pas
sengers from the north who had en-
trained six days before.
They had been showed in for five
days. he continues, and fighting
among themselves for the scanty food
supplies provided at the railway buff
cts. Women and children were weep-
ing with hunger while n of men
battled with snow drifts which were
thirty-five feet deep in some places
and that too. without snow plows. al
though these would have been useless
even if they could have been found.
Finally some five thousand passen-
gers had assembled at R~azdyelnaia.
A regiment was sent from Kieff, south
ward, and three thousand troops went
n%orthward from Odessa with shovels.
On the third day the relieving parties
succeeded in cutting a passage FOR a
couple of trains, which started with
two thousand persons after a mad rush
the weakest going to the wall.
THE trains proceeded for forty-eight
hours and were stuck again in the
snow, unable to go forward or back
ward. The blizzard continued. De-
monical fury and pandemonium pre-
vailed, the passengers cursing the rail-
way management, fainting and weep
ing. The trains were buried, and all
passed a horrible night. When morn
ing came a peasant volunteered to
walk six miles to the nearest station
with kilograms beseeching assistance.
supplies, firewood and water having
been exhausted.
Finally driven to desperation sixty
passengers with Count Kapnist determ-
ined to walk to Odessa. Count Kap-
mist, with forty, reached a point where
he was able to secure sledges and all
arrived at Odessa, though uncertain as
to the fate of those they had left be-
hind.
Meanwhile Governor Schulovoff had
organized sledge trains with supplies
which after herculean efforts relieved
the two trains. 1t was found that
many of the passengers had their arms
or legs frozen.
Eighteen thousand troops are now
engaged in the work of clearing the
line. The storm has aibated and it il
expected that the trains will get
through to Odessa this evening. No
mail has been received here for six
days. Corpses have been kept I'M
buried eight days. as it has been i'm
possible to inter them. The conduct
of the railway officials is loudly 0 n
demned."
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THE IT

WASHINGTON. January 13.-For Ohss
and Western Pennsylvania Generally
fair Monday: s~outheriy winds. fresh on
the lakes. Tuesday. probably fair.
For West V~irginia-Fafr n warmer
Monday: winds becoming southerly. Fair
Tuesday.
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LONDON, january 1.-THE Odessa
correspondent Of the Daily News wires
that a hundred and twenty people
were frozen to death in the blizzard.
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Mr.. C. Schnepf. the Opera House drug
gist, made the following observations OF
the temperature yesterday: 7 a. M, %: 0
a m. 81; II m. %: 8 p M. 40s Z p. M. q.
Weather. fair.