The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-15
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY

newspapers IN the United States
ME. BEEcHERs baptlsmal robe Is an
Ulster shaped waterproof.
OSAKA, Jayan, IS said to be the most
religious city of the universe. 1t has
1918 places Of worship, principally Of the
Buddhist and Sintoo persuasions.
A BELGIAN doctor reports cure Of
apoplexy, with parslysi, Of the right
side, by causing the patient TO inbale
pure oxygen.
Is the anthracite coal counties Of Penn
sylvania, 450 persons were killed and
1912, more or less hurt, in the mines dur
ing the i've years ending with 1874.
The Supreme Court Of Louisiana has
given Judgment, with $4,000 damages
against Samuel Hastings, druggist
whose clerk made mistake in preparing
prescription and which caused the death
Of Mrs NcCubbin.
A WASHINGTON special says that the
} Postmaster General has under cOnsidera-
/ ton Il reduction of postage to all coun-
/ tries where the rates are now established
/ by treaty, to correspond with those fixed
by the international treaty
SINCE the whisky frauds have become
/ So prominent, it is asserted that there l.
Il good deal of crooked whisky" consum-
ed the Eastern States 1t has alway.
been our idea that whisky should be
taken straight, and since tn" above has
come to light, We are more than ever OF
that opinion.
/ WHILE digging around some works at
! North Adams, Mas, Ia week ago labor
er struck some hard substance which he
wa- unab to move aud after digging
around 1t, he took out about one hun
drri pounds of nitro glycerlne in one
lump. |, was frozen hard, or most Ikeiy
there would not be- left % him one plec"
to lell the tale.
WEsrERvELr. the brother-in-law of
Mo,hier, one of the Charlie Ross abduc.
tors. rs heretofore noted, has himself,
been indicted for conspiracy in the case.
lie made application, on Wednesday.
for release on haJeaS corpus, but 1t wns
refused on the ground that he was already
under indictment. Subsequently he was
remanded 10 custody in default OF Sl5,-
900 bail
WILLIAM WATSON, the insane clerk
in the War Department, who was report.
ei some weeks since Il, carrying about n
banner Inscribed Henry VIII, and Lu-
thcr the head. Bismarck and Becchcr
the tail of Professionalism and proclaim
! inc his mission 10 be- the destruction Of
PrOtcstantsm, was out again Thursday,
and WAS arrested by the police. lie was
cent to the insane asylum.
ABOUT nine hundred men and women
went to Fisher, and Whitehead's mines
in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, on
Wednesday, compelled the miners at
work t. suspend operations, sacked their
houses and appropriated the valu"bies'
The striker, have become wild and IN
soveruablc. and say all new men must
and shall leave the region. II the men
had resisted, blood would have been she'd
; freely. The sheriff had promised to be
m Attendance To- project the new men,
/ but owing to some cause not fully eA-
! planned, he did not come. The success
/ Of the mob for the last two days threat
/ ems the total suspension Oi business
, The miners propose to clean out every
bank operated.
/ GEN. W. F. BARTLETT, the Union sol
dior whose speech i'll favor Of peace be-
tween the sections at the Lexington,
/ Mas. centennial banquet wa, SO favora-
Div received, having been invited to at
tend the Mcckcnburg, n. c, centennial,
has written letter to the chairman oI
the executive committee, in which he eN-
presses the fear that it will be- impossible
iur him to attend. wishing for the affair
the greatest possible success, and
hoping that the people of North Carolina
will keep i'll motion the ball OF recon-
ciiliutlun that was started at Lexington
judge William -. Kelley, of Penus lv',-
/ n'a, ina, also acknowledged an invitation
to take part in the proceedings, in which
h. says: 'lou have my thanks Tor this
token Of Your kindly remembrance and
ior having thus enabled me to contribute
my mite toward the cost of commemora-
/ ting one of the most memorable events
in our revolutionary history.