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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
CONCERNING INDIVIDUALS.
The Movements of Citizens and the
Arrival and Departure of Strang-

crs.
G. ". Dudley is in Pittsburg.
Miss Vivian Corbett, of East Wheel
ing, is i'll.
Edward Campbell, of the South Side,
is i'll of grip.
VIM. Swan and wife, of Toronto, O.,
have returned home.
Assistant Fire Chief Clator has re-
turned from Pittsburg.
Thomas Clohan, of the Island, is re-
covering from la grippe.
DR.. Bradley, Mayor of Warrington, Is
the guest Of friends here.
Mrs. M. ]. McFadden, OF the Island,
left for a visit in Pittsburg.
Charles Lowe. of the Island. is the
guest of East Liverpool friends.
Prof. H. B. Work. of the High
School, is confined t o his home Ill.
Miss Rice, of North Main street, is
the guest of st. Clairsville friends.
Miss Alice Henderson, of North
Wheeling, is visiting Fairmont friends.
Russell Coe, Of Parkersburg, former
ly of this city, will visit friends here
to-day.
Miss Carrie Martin, of North Wheel
ing, is the guest of St~eubenville
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Rice, of st. Glars
vile, are guests of North Wheeling
friends.
Mrs. John P. H~einlein, of the South
Side, is confined to her room with
bronchitis.
The two-year-old daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Boyd Moss. of the East End,
is critically i'll.
Elwood Seybold, of the Eighth
ward, departed for Brooklyn. n. Y, to
engage in the study Of optics.
Miss Adelaide Burdette. Of South
Charles street, has gone to the inter-
Tor Of the State to visit friends for
several days.
Robert Schilling. of D~illonvale, o.,
formerly of this city, has departed for
Harper's Ferry, to spend a few days
with relatives.
Milton Parker, driver of the Niagara
engine, is confined TO his home Ill Of
pneumonia. Extranan Fred Frank Is
filling his place
County Commissioner Charles Mil
Ter, Of the Sixth ward, and ex-Mayor
John Butts will depart this morning
for New Orleans to take in the Mardi
GraS. They will make the trip on the
steamer keystone State from here to
Cincinnati and the packet John r.
Speed for their destination.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
AS TO AN ELECTRIC LOAN.

1t is likely a new loan will be nee
essary before we can take advantage
of the Wheeling electric light bill by
which the city can enter the field of
municipal electric lighting only by
purchasing the physical equipment of
the present electrical company.
This outlay, however, would be
necessary in any event. whether the
city purchased the existing plant of
the Wheeling company at a fair ap-
praisement settled by arbitration, or
bought an entirely new outfit Of it's
own, which would probably require
even a greater outlay.
The point is that if Council shall be
called upon to submit this loan to
the people it shall take care that no
riders are placed upon it which might
jeopardize the whole project.
Doubtless when the matter comes
up there will be an attempt upon the
part Of those who favored the re-
funding of the city's debt to again re-
vive that proposition and tack it onto
an electric light loan. Council should
firmly sit down on any such scheme.
The people have twice defeated a re-
funding ordinance and lacking it onto
an electric light loan as a rider would
probably defeat the loan and endanger
the success of an enterprise which is
of great Importance to the community.
Nothing should be allowed to jeop-
ardize the restoration of the city's
valuable rights of municipal owner
ship and if a loan is necessary it
should not be burdened with the old
refunding scheme.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

New York World.
To just how many millions John d.
Rockefeller, Jr.. will be heir it would
not be easy to state with exactness.
1t is sure that tie young mamie is
twenty-five years old-has every tenn
tation. were he so inclined. to pre-,
pare himself for a straightaway course
in fast automobiles, fast company and
rapid living generally, Instead he has
taken to sober paths. and we and him
assuring the members of the Students
Club that the things most worth
while are not the search for wealth or
extravaganza joys. but these four:
Character, friendship. health and sue
cess. And success, young Mr.. Rookie
Teller says, lis to do the common duty
OF each day ~uncommonly we'll"
The ~epigrammatic wisdom Of that
single sentence is worthy of an older
head. With all its brevity ii differen-
tiates the characters, accomplishments
and careers OF men rs they have been
since the beginning Of time and as
they are unfolding to-day the world
over. Mr.. Rockefeller's saying is bet
ter than Disraeli's, The secret of sue
cess is constancy to purpose" because
1t expresses more than merely a pa
tient persistence and more than a sue
cess which might be merely personal.
To do the common duty uncommonly
we'll" is to separate yourself from tho
multitude-to excel.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

New York Is going through it's an
nual farce of not cleaning the streets
of their breast-high ac~cumulations of
filth and now In a short time the
balmy breath of spring will dispose of
the snow and then, possibly enough
men and carts can be found in the
metropolis to carry away the filth ere
a summer sun revives into active life
the disease germs that are now refrig-
Grating in the cutters.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

1t must have been with anything
but pleasureable avidity that Mr.. Nc
Kinley signed the commission of Mel
son A. Miles as Lieutenant General Of
the army.
Although the embalmed beef scandal
came too early to seriously affect the
late campaign, yet Mr.. Mckinley must
wildly remember Gen. Miles's part in
stirring up that awful mess in which
ne administration through it's pet
Egan, was deeply involved. If Gen.
Miles had not been too big to make it
prudent doubtless Mr.. Mckinley would
have found more real solid pleasure in
signing the bluff old soldiers dismis-
sal or degradation than in afixing his
signature to his promotion.
But there are some things it is i'm
prudent for even a President with i'm
perial ambitions to do.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
A SATISFACTORY COMPROMISE.

While it is certain this city owes
nothing to those individuals, who by
sharp practice have been enabled to
crowd the city out of the field of cleo
trio lighting and keep it out, to it's
great loss and to the detriment of the
city's gas works, still it is well that
the dispute over the measure to per-
NIT the city to manufacture and sell
electric light, now before the State
Senate. should be compromised in the
manner agreed upon. Although it is
true the city owes the electric COM
pany no consideration, sincA it asks
only the restoration Of its rAkhts. it
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
WELCOMED
70 FLOOR Of THE SENATE
Continued From First Page.
Continued From First Page.

it in which checks issued by the State
must be presented; House bill No. Is.
creating a State board of arbitration
and Cancellation; House joint resolu-
ton No. %. to abolish the irreducible
school fund; House bill No. 40, to reg
ulate the writing of fire insurance in
this State; House bill No. 10, relating
to the appointment of a fish and game
warden.
The House held an evening session
which was entirely devoted to reading
bills on first and second reading.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

The First Annual Report of the West
Virginia Humane Society sets forth in
detail the excellent work of the socie-
by since it's organization in protecting
from cruelty animals, children, the
helpless and the aged. 1t has accom-
plished much on these lines and de-
serves all the encouragement and as
sistance the State can render it.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

If Mr.. P. C. Knox of Pittsburg sue
ceeds Attorney General Griggs, who
will retire on March 4, Pennsylvania
will have two members in the cabinet.
Probably the President thinks this is
not too great a recognition of the SER
vices of a State that can turn out such
tremendous Republican majorities and
such products of craftsmanship as
Matt Quay.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
MARRIAGE NOT PROBABLE.

LONDON, February 6.-Nogotia-
lions are passing between Russia and
England looking to a political mar
riage of Grand Duke Michael, heir
p~resumptive and Princess Victoria,
only unmarried daughter Of King Ed
ward.
Standing in the way is the Russian
church ~forbidding marriages between
first cousins.
A dispensation from the Gar for
such a match is extremely doubtful.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
stepned nj Miuniuht.

NEW YORK. February 6.-For one hour
ana seventeen minutes Ernest Roeber and
Paul Pons struggle in Madison Square
Garden tonight. They might nave gone
on for another hour. but Police Inspector
thompson would not allow the bout TO go
after midnight.
Pons held the upper hand at nearly every
stage, but he lacked the c%leverness Of
the smaller man, who was never caught
unaware at any moment, and Roeber,
though by many ysars the older and In
stature far inferior<to the big Frenchman,
more than held his own The bout was
on the level and zoe people had only the
WarmeSt praise for the athletes.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
NEWS NOTES OF YESTERDAY.
A Collection of Small Events of Each
PnssiUC Day.

A Collection of Small Events of Each
Passing Day.
The Mistletoe Dancing club will
give a dance at Beethoven hall to-
night.
The Nonpareil club will dance for
the benefit Of David Henry, Friday
evening.
N. B. Little was sent to the
ty infirmary yesterday upon applica-
ton of Humane Officer w. w. Echols.
lin Squire Greer's court yesterday
morning Mamie Young was fined $3.50
and costs for using loud and threat
ening words. The complainant was
Ella Young.
Fireman Grippe, of the Eighth
ward, who is hunting at Armstrong;
Mills, o., has with him a pack Of dogs,
two or three different kinds OF fire
arms and a big supply of ammuni-
ton.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
DIAMOND MATCH PROFITS.

CHICAGO, February 6.-At the
meeting of Diamond Match Co. stock
holders to-day, the old officers and di-
rectors were reelected. Earnings IL
$40 per cent on the SIS, 100000 CAPT
tai. The company's business In Eng
land earned 40 per cent. in 1900 against
10 per cent. in 1899.
The Peru factory Is operating sat
iSfactOrilY.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

- AsHertneteSB p1Upet " OOsekto &a0
principle. even in this case, that no
private interest shall be disturbed By
the government without proper com
~pensation. 1t would hardly be eQuit-
able for the city after granting the
present company a charter to do bust
ness to enter the field itself as a COM
petitor without making some recon-
pense.
This ground has already been gone
over. Early in the last decade a law
was passed by the Legislature permit
ting this city to enter the field of
municipal electric lighting after it
should have bought out the then ex-
listing company. For various reasons
the project at that time came to
nought and since then the city Coun-
Gil has granted a new thirty year
franchise to a new concern. 1t has
consequently been a question whether
the law which authorized the city to
buy out the old company, specifying
the same by name, applied to the new
company under the new franchise.
While some have held that the refusal
of the old company to treat with the
city relieved the latter of any obliga-
ton of this character whatever, it
has been generally accepted that a
new law is necessary. At any rate,
the justice of the present arrange
ment, by which the dispute is adjust
ed and opposition to the measure
quoted, is manifestly just.
By it the city will be put to no ex-
ira expense. 1t would have to buy a
complete new electrical outfit in any
event and it probably would be best
to purchase the machinery of the pres
ent company at a fair price to be set
by arbitration, especially since it
is understood that the property has
been renovated and improved until it
is now a perfectly equipped and en-
tirely modern plant, which probably
could not be replaced new as cheaply
as it could be purchased outright by
arbitration.
OF course, the city will be called on
to buy the physical effects of the COM
pany alone and will pay nothing in
the way of indemnity for franchise
rights.
In this connection, however, the
Register desires to call attention to
what may prove a grave omission if
not attended to, namely, that no pro-
vision has been made in the pending
bill by which the rights and fran
chises of either the old or the pres
ent company shall lapse and become
null and void when the city shall
have bought their effects. Without
this omission supplied, what would
prevent the Wheeling Electrical Com
pany, whose franchise has six years
yet to run, or the present company
whose franchise has twenty-eight
years to run, re-entering the field
under new patents and conditions
and demanding that the city
again buy them out? Electrical con-
ditions are liable to change in the fu-
ture to even a greater extent than in
the past and the city should take no
chances in this matter.
Otherwise and on the whole the
compromise effected at Charleston
ought to be satisfactory to the city,
which if anything will be the gamer
thereby, while it certainly will be en-
tirely just to the present electrical
company.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

FOLLOWERS OF DOWIE
INITIATE MRS. NATION.
Half a Dozen Faith Curfsts Demolfsh
Drug stores in Chfcarn.

1AaAA Doxen Fattn Curfsts OemoIfAh
Dru. Stores in Chicago.
CHICAGO, February Crying out
that drugs were the agents Of the de-
VII, a half dozen women followers Of
bowie, the faith cure healer, adopted
the tactics of Mrs. Carrie Nation to-
Gay and wrecked a number of drug
stores on the West Side. In some in
tance there were hand to hand
lights with the druggists.
The women went in a well organized
band, were OF middle age and well
dressed. Most OF them wore automo-
bile coats, under which they conceal
ed their implements of destruction
while on the street. On leaving a drug
store they invariably sang Praised be
the Lord" or Zion Forever"
Six stores in all We're completely de-
molished.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
rHE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DEAL.

FHE MOEfG N-SA NE1IL AI<AA
OF vast interest is the announcement
that the Morgan community OF inter
est" and the Carnegie Company avs
reached an agreement by which these
gigantic interests are merged, Mr..
Carnegie retiring from the field where
in he has so long been a dominant fac
tor.
At this time it is as impossible to
foretell Just how this gigantic comDl-
nation of iron and steel and railroad
interests will result or to what 1t Will
lead as it is to predict the policy OF
the new concern. 1t is sufficient to
know that the deal will combine such
enormous concerns as the Federal
Steel Company, the National Steel
Company, the National Tube Company,
the American Steel and Wire
Company, the American Sheet
Steel Company and tremendous rail-
road and coal interests together with
the great Carnegie properties under
one harmonious management, which
will effectually put an end to all rlv-
airy and competition in this field in
the future.
This much has already been accom-
plished by the gigantic deal between
the interests represented by Pierpont
Morgan and Mr.. Carnegie. But it is
now admitted that this is but the pre-
liminary step in a still greater deal,
which has for its ultimate object the
consolidation Of all iron and steel and
coal mining properties and all the rail
roads of the country in one %stupendous
trust or combination.
The h~armonizing of the Carnegie
with the Morgan and Rockefeller inter
ests is the first and most important
step in the formation of this country
wide industrial combine. These kings
of finance and industry dominate the
situation, and working in harmony
the rest will be easy. There is moth
ing now to prevent the accomplishment
of this or a still greater scheme of in
dustrial combination which shall in
clude other branches of industry be-
sides iron and steel, mining and the
railroads.
This monster monopoly, or trust of
trusts, which has suddenly reared its
head above\ all previous combines,
dwarfs the United States government
itself, while the national treasury is
rivalled by the Golfers of this gigantic
concern , which counts its millions by
the hundred. And by this same token
the protest of public sentiment against
this tremendous trust of trusts is like
ly to avail out little. 1t is admitted
that national legislation may be at
tempted to check it, but the admission
is accompanied with a wink which sig
nifes that Congress is among the
things which this syndicate finds it
easiest to manipulate. If individual
trusts have been able to dominate both
Congress and the Administration in
the past, how much easier will it be
for this all-powerful "plutocratic syn
dictate to dictate It's terms to the gov
eminent in the future,
The answer to the oft repeated query
as to whittier we are drifting would
seem to be answered by the present
straight drift toward plutocracy in
which the Almighty Dollar is King.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
BLACK TAFFETAS DRESS.

The princess dress of black taRe-
tas represented in the illustration
Is very becoming for "a slender figure.
The upper part of the bust is adorned
with fiat N-sbaped pIeats, which are
repeated on the level of the hips and
mt the bottom of the skirt. Below
these picnts are Ibbon of black
velvet, placed vertically, and fasten.
ed by steel buttons. The front IL Of
bisc guipure.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
A DIVORCE.

NEW YORK, February 6.-The Su-
preme Court to-day gave divorce to
AIRS. Wilhelmina Marie MacDowell
against William Melbourne Mcdowell,
the actor and former husband Of Fanny
Davenport. The papers were not made
public and the name of the co-respon-
dent is not known. Mr.. MacDowell is
forbidden to marry again.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

What with the $85, OO0, 900 received
for his stock in. the Carnegie Company
and fifty-four per cent. of the s160, O0O,-
600 of bonds Mr.. Morgan will issue for
the concern, Mr.. Carnegie will have
not only sufficient for a rainy day, but
enough to keep him hustling to keep
from dying rich and therefore disgrace
ed, to use his own expression.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Oil Tank Inside a COAL Mine Acct
dentaIly Set on Fire-Forty Lives
lnnnriIed
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
FAIRM0NT, w. Va, February g.
Some employee of the Palatine Coal
Company's mines Internationally set
fire to the oil house, forty feet back
in the mines, and which enclosed a
tank containing fifty gallons of oil.
The blaze was discovered at II o'clock
to-day and shortly thereafter the
flames and smoke came roaring out
at the many entrances. The forty
employees fed when the smoke began
to fill their rooms and thus escaped
horrible deaths.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

Countess Boni de Castellane has
sold to her brother Edwin Gould six
pieces of New York real estate for the
paltry sum of SAB, 500. The Countess
must be getting hard up for pin
money.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY s.-Tbe
pension OF the widow of Gen. Lawton
was to-day reported to the House at
$50 per month. a reduction from 800
ner month fixed by the Senate. Other
pills pension the widow of Rear Ad-
'miral Colhoon at $40. of Brig. Gen.
HAYES at $50 and of Paymaster Gener-
al Stanton at $50.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
REGISTER AGENCIES.

WHERE THE REGISTER CAN BE
PURCHASED OUT OF TOWN.
CHARLESTON, w. Va. richardson's
Book Store, Capitol Street, opposite
postoffice. Hotel Ruffner News STAND.
WASHINGTON, d. c. Queen News
Stand, National Hotel.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
David Mnrfin entity.

David Martin, Of St C~lairsvilie, was
burglary. The trial occupied all day and
went to the jury in the evening. The
Jury came in about II o'clock with a YER
dict OF gutty. There II another charge
kneWu u be VIII - given bis trial On that
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

Wall street and the New York Stock
Exchange threaten to become a mere
annex to Mr.. Pierpont Morgan's bust
ness Office.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
BOWLING.

Carroll Club League-Progress, a3s. Ss7.
$40. 2,6l5; Palmettos, $40, Sf7, S57. 2.546'
Wheeling League-Big Show. 94T, sos, S2S.
2,tSO; ~Columbias, So, III, 75, 2.aSS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

1t is evidently the ambition of
Messrs. Morgan, Rockefeller and Co.
to make the L. S. Treasury look like
thirty cents.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
EVENING MANTLE.

The mantIe represented I'm the en-
craving Is very becoming for young
ladies. 1t II made Of light colored
velvet or ~ta1etas, trimmed with lit
tie corded pIeats n ecr gufDure.
ehe bottom IL adorned wfth . desu
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

Stockholders in Federal Steel. Ma
tional Steel, American Steel and
Wire, National Tube and the other
concerns included in the Morgan-Car-
negie deal need no longer fret their
brains over the possibilities OF COM
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07

The mantle for town wear repre-
sented I'm n engraving 10 made OF
mastic colored cloth and lined with
white satin. IL is slightly curvea
In shape, I'm the Empire style. On
b breas are a~paftes," fastened 20
b yoke af the top by buttons and
showing . band of Parma velvsa.
The pkgoda Iesye are srnsme.ssa
In theisane way.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-07
PENSIONS RECOMMENDED.

What will Mr.. Morgan buy next?
Arizona republican., 1901-05-14
TO STOP TAX LODGING.

Pittsburg.-In the real estate confis- cation bill introduced in the legislature last week by representative Henderson are embodied the Ideas of John H. Ste venson, a populist of Allegheny, for reaching the tax dodger.
 The bill authorizes any homeless or landless person to appropriate at the assessed value, any house or farm not exceeding 200 acres, not personally oc- cupied by the owner Speaking of the measure, Stevenson said:
 It is aimed to reach land owners and lot owners and house owners who re- turn their property to the assessor at less than it's value. For instance, if such law were in force no man would feel safe in having his property other than his home. assessed at a less figure than he is willing 10 sell 1t for. If he did. some one might make him tender of the price, and if he would not sell the prospective purchaser could go in- to court and ask for a decree that would compel him to sell
 With a law like this you would see property owners rushing to the court house to have the valuation of their property raised. instead of badgering the court of appeals to have it lowered, as they do w."-Philadelphia North American.