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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
AMERICAN RAILWAY UNION.
Movement on Foot 10 Unite All the
Railway Organizations under
One Head.

CHICAGO, May 4.--The Record
Herald tomorrow will say
Railroad officials in Chicago have re-
ceived information that an attempt 10
being made to revive the American
Railway Union under the name OF the
United Brotherhood of Railway En-
ployes and to make II even more far
reaching and powerful than in the days
previous to the Pullman strike.
The avowed purpose is said to be to
band together all the employees OF rail-
roads in the United States In an or
gaIiization similar to the one that went
to pieces under the administration OF
Eugene V. Debs.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
BIG DEMAND FOR BRICK.

PITDSBURG. Pa, May 4.-There is
an extraordinary demand for brick
among the manufacturers in the Pitts
burg district and unless there is some
chance OF filling the orders sent by out
side brick manufacturers there will be
a big shortage in the market. The I'M
usual demand for brick at this time
has forced the manufacturers to seek
other fields as the great structures that
are being erected in this city are rap
Idly consuming all the building bricks.
A close estimate of the brick wanted
in the Pittsourg district to be delivered
without delay is IS 900.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
SENSATIONAL RESOLUTION

Adopted by Allegheny County G.. A.
H, Demanding Removal of II.
Clay Evans
PITTSBURG, Pa, May Am a SEN
sational resolution unanimously adopt
ed tonight by the Allegheny county
members OF the G. A. R. 1t was decided
to petition President Mckinley to re-
move Henry Clay Evans from the Office
Of pension commissioner, alleging gross
mismanagement- The resolution will
be presented by the Allegheny county
delegates to me department encamp-
ment to be held e Gettysburg the first
week in JunA
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
BANQUET OF CANTONESE.

NEW YORK. May 4.-Sixty former
residents of Canton, O., were guests at
banquet given at the Hotel Manhat-
tan tonight by VIM. S. Hawks. pro-
prietor of that hosiery, The host was
POSTMASTER, and the principal addresses
were made by Mayor J. H. Robertson, Of
Canton; Mahlon Chance, former consul
at Nassau; Samuel Mcmillan, former
president of the New York Park Com
mission. and Charles P Bush. Presi-
dent Mckinley, Judge Day and Abner
Mckinley sent regrets
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
TO BE CONSOLIDATED.

CLEVELAND, o., May A special
to the Leader from Akron says:
1T was learned to-day on the return
of the men who were present at the
birth of the Great Western Cereal Com
pany in Chicago this week, that nego-
tiations have already been started for
the consolidation of the new company
with the American Cereal Company. 1t
has been predicted since the inception
of the Great Western Company that
the result would be such a combination
but it was not expected that steps in
that direction would be taken so soon
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
CROWDS ARE LEAVING

the city on outgoing trains, yet the null
titude of homeless people on the streets
does not appear decreased. The night
scenes are picturesque and pitiful.
About the city are cordons of soldiers
and policemen have been placed and at
each corner a soldier stands Amid the
great excitement the day has passed
and tonight the city is very quiet and
little disorder has been reported.
AT meeting of the citizens commit
tee this afternoon a resolution was
adopted prohibiting the running of ex-
cursion trains into the city Request
had been made by several places for
special trains to Jacksonville, but the
committee notified the railroads that if
the trains were not run the excursion
lists would not be allowed to leave the
trains. The negroes though hungry and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
$4,000 ACRES OF COAL.
Involving an outlay of Four Will
lions of Dollars, Bought by q
Pfttsburg Syndicate.


lions of Dollars, Bonght by
Pittsbnrg Syndicate.
Pm ISBURG. Pa, May 4.--Probably
the largest coal deal ever successfully
carried through has just been eomplet-
ed by James w Drape a. Co, and in
wolves almost all the Murraysyille vein
OF coal, located in Allegheny and West
moreland counties. The total acreage
Of coal privilege sold approximates 3d.
600 acres, and the price was very Gloss
to s4,00G.000 The company which has
acquired this vast coal deposit is made
up OF Pittsburg capitalists almost en-
tirely. and will be known as sae Black 3
Run Coal Syndicate Some 800 pieces
Of property are included in the pur-
chase.
shaft was sunk near Midtown, In
Plum township, and coal was taken out
and tested for cooking purposes and
found to equal, II 1t does not excel. the
Connellsgille coal. For furnace and
manufacturing purposes it is OF unsur-
passed quality. At the Allegheny end
the vein is only about 30 feet below the
surface
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
AFTER FOUR MONTHS.

SPRINGFIELD. Ill, May AFTER
passing bills reapportioning the State
on the basis Of the last federal census,
the Illinois Legislature this afternoon
adjourned sine die. 1t was the forty
second General Assembly and had been
in session a few days less than four
months
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
RACE WITH A CYCLONE.
Experience of n Railroad
Engineer in Nebraska.

LINCOLN. Neb., May "A journal
special from Hastings says:
A small but genuine tornado tore
things up in a lively way between jun
iata and Hastings late shis afternoon,
while Burlington freight train was
coming into Hastings from Juniata.
The wind picked up a large barn and
carried it straight towards the train for
a distance Of over hundred yards. The
engineer saw his peril, put on full steam
and an exciting race followed, but the
wind changed its course before reach
ing the track. People of Hastings saw
the approaching twister and sought
places of safety The storm just touch
ed the west edge of town, and after de-
stroying trees and outhouses. picked up
a large barn and tore it into kindling
wood.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
INDEPENDENT GLASS co.
Henry G. Fry to Bald One of ths
Largest Plants I'm the Gounfry.

Largest Plants I'm the Country.
PITTSBURG, Pa. May 4.--Henry G.
Fry. formery president Of the National
Glass Company. has purchased 254 acres
of land at South Monaco. rs miles from
Pittsburg on the Pittsburg G. Lake Erie
railroad and it Is said viii erect one OF
the largest independent glass factories
In the country. The plant will make
glass tableware, lamps. globes. cut glass
articles and imitation opal tableware.
Ii Is understood a tile company COM
plete in every detail and another large
industry. the nature OF which the pro-
moter refuses TO divulge, will also De
built on this site.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
ON A SYMPATHY STRIKE.

SCRANTON, Pa. May 4.-More than
one thousand employees of the car shops
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern railroad at this place went on strike
to-day, in support of the men at the
Dover, n. j., shops. who are on strike
for the reinstatement of two Of their
number who were discharged because
of activity in forming a union.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
AGAINST THE CAPITAL.
Union Miners of Pennsylvania. TO
March to HarrishurG-Want Laws
Passed.


March to HarrisburG-want Laws
Passed.
POTTSVILIE. Pa. May National
Organized Daugherty, Secretary Hart
lein. of the Ninth district. and Presi-
dent Duffy. of the Seventh district, held
a conference here to-day and arranged
for a march of mine workers to Har-
risburg for the purpose of urging the
passage of bills recommended by the
United Mine Workers 1t is proposed
to rendezvous the miners from Hare
ton. McAdoo. Panther Cheek valley and
Schuylkill region at Pottsvile on Tues
day.
They will take six days rations each
and will march to Millersburg where
they will be joined by those from
Northumberland and Columbiana coun-
ties.
At least 10000 men will leave when
the orders to march are given. They
will camp in Agricultural Park.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
FIVE THOUSAND MEN.

JOHANNESBURG, May 3.-Friday.-
Gen. Delarey, the Boer commander. has
now four or five thousand men in the
hills around Hartbeesfontein. Gen.
Darlington. in command of the British
forces in the district is without suf-
fcient force to attack and is observing
the Beers while Generals Methuen and
Rawlinson are converging higher. A
battle appears imminent
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
Many Are Supposed to Have
Perished in the Flames, But
There Are no Means of Verify
ing Reports.
Wealth and Poverty Brought to
a Common Level by the Flames
That Respected no Station.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 4.-Jack-
sonville's great fire, which began yes
terday has burned itself out
One hundred and forty-eight blocks
of a beautiful city have been laid in
waste.
The loss will not be known even ap-
proximately for a week. but it is be-
heved it will amount to S10,000,000.
There are many rumors afioat of loss
of life, but as every undertaken in the
city was burned out, 1t is impossible
to obtain an official report. One story
which lis persistently reiterated, is to
the effect that party OF men and wo-
men, driven to the docks by the fire,
were compelled to jump into the water
and that several of them were drowned.
Mrs. Hogan, a negro woman, was
burned in her house and her charred
remains were buried by ner friends this
afternoon.
The burned district is thirteen blocks
wide and two miles long and extends
from the St. Johns river, where it burn
ed ten docks to the waters edge, to
Catherine street, on the east, Orange
on the north, and Davis on the west.
This immense area was swept as clear
as a floor.
The city is under martial law, and all
of the available State militia is on duty
in the streets of Jacksonville. Some
order is being brought out of the con-
fusion
Jacksonville Is facing the emergency
calmly and has organized for relief
work.
Ten thousand people are homeless and
many of them left on afternoon and
night trains for St. Augustine and
other coast cities and nearby towns,
while numerous river craft took many
to little places on the ST. Johns river.
Supply stations have been established
dn various parts of the city and all
day they have been thronged by the
hungry.
The prompt action of Secretary of
War Root in rendering the use of the
barracks at Fort Barrancas, near st.
Augustine, was received with gratitude
on every side. The East Coast train,
leaving here at o'clock this afternoon,
carried
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
OHIO DEMOCRATS

VIII Hold Their state cenveEffon
In Cleveland In July.
CLEVELAND. o.. May 1.-The Dem
ocrarie state Committee, in secret con-
ference at Columbus to-day, decided to
hold the state convention OF that party
II Cleveland between July Is and q
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
RICHARD REDHEAD DEAD.

LONDON, May 4.-Richard Redhead
who wrote the tune TO which Rock
Of Ages is usually sung, Is dead. For
years he was known as the champion
OF Gregorian music. He had been or
ganist OF St. Mary's church, Padding
ton. since 1864. set several well known
hymns to music and composed various
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
OHIO DELEGATION OFF.

CINCINNATI, O., May 4.-The see
cial train bearing Governor Nash and
stan and about one hundred Ohio citi-
zens, who are to journey to San Fran
cisco to witness the launching OF the
battleship Ohio. left here at 5: 90 O'Clock
this afternoon.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
C0NGER rs FLIRTING
with Iowa Repubiicans-wilii to
Have Govcrnorship Nomination
Thrust tDou Him.

DIES MONIES, Ia, May minister
Conger to-day authorized the publica-
ton of the following card.
DIES MONIES. la, May 4.
Editor Register:
In reply to hundreds of letters from
all over Iowa which / cannot answer
personally, urging me TO accept the
nomination for Governor by the Repub
lican party. / ask the Register TO say
that repeat the statement first made,
that / cannot be a candidate, but will
accept the nomination If 1t is rendered
to me.
Very respectfully submitted.
(Signed.D Il. n. CONGEk-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
WON THEIR STRIKE.

TOLEDO, Ohio. May THE 700
union carpenters in TOLEDO have won
their strike and went back TO work to-
day. receiving 81. 10 for eight hours, in
stead of 1925 for nine hours, as was the
case before the strike.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05

LANGTRT. Texas, May president
McKinleys route this afternoon dipped
southwark and for a time ran along the
picturesque cliffs of the Rio Grande.
At Del Rio. just before dark, the train
stopped to change engines and the Pres
iuent shook hands with quite a number
CT people, some of them Mexicans from
across the border.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
PAPERS CAME BACK.
Il. II. Amos Loses His Cash, But Got
Checks ind Drafts Out of the
PoStnffice.

PITTSBURG. Pa, May 4.-Pittsburg
bankers were on watch to-day for notes
and checks stolen on a Baltimore &
Ohio train yesterday from p. B. Amos,
Of Amos, W. Va. They amounted TO a
sum estimated to be between $4,000 and
1900, and last night it was expected
that they would be offered here for dis
count. However, mail carrier at
Fairmont found the notes in a letter
box to-day The $40 in money stolen
at ,Ae same time has. Of course. disap-
peared. The papers consisted of checks
and a certificate for $4,000 in favor OF
S. W. Toothman, Of the First National
Bank of Fairmont, signed by Mr.. Amos.
The others were checks made payable
mostly to MIN.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
FRIGHTFUL TORTURE
inflicted Upon boy by Two Conn
panions-The Victim May Die

Special to the Register.
STEUBENVILLE. O., May 4.-Roy
Smith and William Noltemeyer were
arrested this afternoon charged with
fiendishly torturing John Robertson
aged IA years, at the Jefferson glass
works, and are held awaiting the out
come of his injuries. which may prove
fatal. One of the boys, it is alleged,
held Robertson while the other thrust
a red hot iron between his legs and
held it there, burning him frightfully.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
TO BUY PALISADES.

ALBANY, N. r, May 4.-Governor
odell has signed the bill appropriating
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
THE RICH AND POOR

and a common catastrophe has made
all kin. Beautiful women, wealthy
yesterday, penniless to-day, sat on the
curbing beside the beggar, sharing
alike the pittiless fate that befell them
both.
Tonight the sidewalks are thronged
with homeless people. The wharves
are crowded with sleepers and every
available craft in the harbor has been
made into temporary hotel.
Religious services will be held to-
morrow in the open air. Not a city
church remains standing. Fire Chief
Haney has improved tonight and it is
thought he will entirely recover.
The children of DR.. P. H. Dean re-
ported as burned or missing this morn
ing, have been found alive. DR.. Deans
injuries are slight.
President Barnett, of the National
Bank of Jacksonville, is not seriously
hurt There were many prostrations
from heat during the day.
Jacksonville is in total darkness to-
night save from the red reflection that
burns in the sky in the western por-
ton of the city marking the vast fields
of glowing embers that are now and
then famed into fame.
At o'clock the first trolley car was
operated since noon yesterday. Later
in the evening semi-schedules were
maintained on the western end of Bay
street and on the Riverside line.
AT Z O'Clock additional State troops
reached the city to relieve the soldiers
who had been on duty for more than
"a hours.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
OVER 1000 PEOPLE

to st. Augustine, who hope to receive
temporary shelter from the govern
ment.
A committee was appointed at
meeting of citizens this afternoon to
telegraph the Governors of various
States to send all tents they can spare
70 Jacksonville 1t will be weeks be-
fore anything like permanent shelter
can be provided for the homeless thous-
ands and Jacksonville for some time to
come will be a city of tents.
The relief fund raised by the citizens
of Jacksonville at a meeting this af-
ternoon amounts to $4,000. This was
augmented tonight, by telegram from
The Armour Company of Chicago, in
structing Mayor Bowden to draw for
$1,000. Other subscriptions are being
received from many places.
The city of Jacksonville has not yet
made an official appeal for aid. There
seems to be Some objection to this, but
it is based mainly on the assertion by
many leading citizens Ghat Jacksonville
and Florida can meet the emergency
and care for its own.
The following telegram was received
from the Governor:
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, May 4.
MacWilliams, Adjutant General
Your call for Gainesville, Orlando and
Starke companies approved. Have APP
pointed LEngle, Broward and Rogers
special relief committee, placing $40 900
at their disposal.
0Signed) w. S. JENNINGS,
Governor.
AT O'Clock this morning, Governor
Jennings declared the city under mar
tlal law.
Col. Lowell, of the First regiment,
is in command of the troops. The city
is patrolled and the entrances to the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
MILITARY HEADQUARTERS

have established on the vacant lot be-
hind the Federal postoffice building.
Passes are necessary to enter the lines
in any part Of the city.
The suburbs of Jacksonville stood
out to-day like GASES in the desert of
desolatlon. From Bridge street to
Laura, thin fringe three blocks deep
stands uninjured along the river front
but TO the eastward northward and
westward of Hemming Park an I'M
broken bed of ashes meets the eve in
which quaint chimneys rear themselves
like monuments in forgotten city.
On every vacant lot in the territory
surrounding the burned district. famil-
les are camped. Some had piled furni-
ture about them, spreading over this a
Blanket which made a tent In MANY
cases this covering was only enough for
the baby. Some had brought q frying
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Continued ON Eleventh Page.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
HOW THE FIRE STARTED.

E. E. Cleveland, proprietor of the
Cleveland riDre Company, made the
following statement to-day regarding
the origin of the fire:
Outside the factory there was a dry
ing platform two hundred feet square,
upon which the moss is piled after it
has been glnned. Twenty feet away
there are two negro cottages and the
chimney Of one of these cottages was
on fire. This, however, is a frequent
occurrence, and once or twice before
the fibre on the drying platform had
been set afre from the falling SCOT
from the chimneys of the cottages.
The men knocked off at II O'Clock for
dinner and were lying around in the
shade, when one OF them discovered
that in the middle of the pile of the
moss smoke was issuing. This having
happened before, no Importance was
attached to it, and two men seized
buckets of water and went to extin
guish the fire.
But the fire by this time had gained
considerable Roadway. 'Ghe hose was
quickly brought into play, but the fire
got away from the men and the alarm
had to be sent in.
There is no fire in the building, the
factory being worked with electricity,
and it is two months since the boilers
We're in use
Every effort that could be made to
put the fire out was made, but the
strong wind and the dryness of every
thing was too much for the men at the
factory, and when the department
reached the scene the pine buildings
and the flying shingles made it impos-
sible to control the fire"
The prisoners in the county JAIL
thirty-fve in number, including many
for serious offenses. some capital, were
marched to Riverside under a heavy
guard before the fire reached them.
This morning the prisoners were taken
by the sheriff to Green Cove Springs
Fernandina and st. Augustine.
The county records were placed in
the vaults in the court building. Their
condition will not be known until the
vault cOols.
The disaster has effectively obliter-
ated the dividing line between
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS
AMIDST THE GAUNT RUINS.
But For the Prompt Aid Of Surrounding Towns,
Famine and Misery Would Fol-
low the Great Fire.

pan, some a coffee pot, some had mon
ey to get bread-all were shared in
turn.
Over the gathering occasionally
shrilled the mourning of negress
whose child was missing, to be follow
ed by sobs in every key that told of
the habit of repression in the Caucas-
ian and the savage frankness of the
African.
During the progress. of the fire hum
dreds of people moved their goods into
the streets, but it was impossible to
get drays to cart the goods away and
furniture, books and Dric-a-bra were
burned up.
DR.. Stout saved his library by dig
ging hole in his yard, in which he
buried his books, wrapped up in a
blanket. This plan was followed by
several people, some who buried their
trunks in the same manner.
Drays loaded with furniture and
trunks filled the streets all day. Home
less people slept on improyised beds
near their furniture in quarters away
from the burned district. In the early
hours of the fire many people moved
their property of half mile or mile,
only to find it necessary to move it
again, as the flames encroached.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-24
CITY NOTES..

You can save 90 cts. on the dollar to
buy holiday goods of j. p. Foss.
For the best and purest of home
made candies. g 10 John Youngs.
The w. G. L. U. will hold meeting
in the Presbyterian church next Friday
afternoon.
Dr. Turbin, the eminent German
Specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House Dec. 81.
Hiram Allen, an old soldier residing
on the west side, was recently granted
pension of So per month.
VIM. Hunter, who formerly held a
position in the St. Paul freight depot,
is very sick at his home on Forest
street.
Anything in the clothing line present
ed for IA Christmas gift is always appre-
ciated For fine and complete stock
of mems aud boys clothing to select
from cal! at Seim Bros store.
j. NJ. MacLachlan, a land agent of
the Canadian Pacific R'y CO., has
opened an office in the rooms just va
Gated by DR.. Trevitt, over Weinfelds'
store.
The Barker Il Stew art Lumber com
pany recently made II contract for Is,
O00, 900 feet of hemlock logs, paying s.
per thousand delivered to the Wiscon-
sin river.
Used by tn. ladies of fashion all over
the world. It's without doubt the great
est beautifier ever offered the American
women. S5e. Made only BY Madison
Medicine Co. w. w. Albers.
f. S. Bailey, who for some time past
has been doing the local writing for
the Central Wisconsin, has decided to
leave Wausau, and will this week re-
sign his position.
All kinds of Christmas candies, home
made, pure and wholesome ut John
6oung's,
Eugene Parker, who has been having
months vacation from his duties as a
teacher ia one of the country schools,
has been confined to his home of late
with inflammatory rheumatism. He is
now Improving.
A silk muller or neck scarf makes ;
very beautiful Christmas present. Sem
Bros. have an endless variety.
The northbound passenger train on
the st. Paul road Wednesday left New
Lisbon an hour before the belated train
on the main line arrived ard eonSe
quently everyone was shy of mail thai
day. Passengers on the main line train
hound for the north were compelled to
wait at New Lisbon all day before they
could complete their journey. Tn,
trouble was all caused by the intense
cold