Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-05
TIMELY TOPICS.


Of Mr.. Arthur Gilman are among the
lady students at Harvard.
THE Indian situation in Manitoba
gives cause for grave alarm, the imme-
date trouble arising from the fact that
very few buffalo have come in, and there
is a growing scarcity of provisions.
Great restitution prevails among the
plain Indians. To complicate matters,
nearly one thousand Sioux have come
in, and more are on the way. They beg
from house to house, have had begging
dances, and being well furnished with
ammunition have the power to take for
chile possession ofsupplies.
AT last there seems a prospect that a
monument in honor of Washington will
be set up without the project dragging
along for a generation or two. Congress
at its last session passed a bill making an
appropriation of $1,000 for the erection
of monument at the birthplace Of the
Father of his Country, and Secretary
Evarts has Just visited the spot to fix
upon the site. Washington's birthplace
is situated about fifty miles southeast OF
the Capital, in Westmoreland county,
Va, and nothing but chimney now
marks the site OF the house.
MISUNDERSTANDING w. +. CoCKRELL,
OF Eutaw, Alabama, during his last year
or so gave bis neighbors grounds to sus-
pect that he was not what he should be.
Ii was suspected that he had become
the chief of band OF midnight providers
and robbers. Early in the fall several
residences in Eutaw, the postOtiice at
that place and the Office of the Treas
urer of Green county were broken into
and ransacked, $500 being taken from
the latter. A few days ago CockreIl was
arrested on charges of having planned
and helped TO perform the robberies,
and he now finds himself in the Green
county Jail.
A ROME correspondent of the London
Times says: "a soldier named Marriott,
of the Eleventh Battalion of the Italian
Bersaglieri, though long confined to the
room by illness, refused to be carried to
the hospital. Ultimately, on being forci-
bly, removed thither, the soldier was dis
J covered TO be a woman. She joined the
army during the war OF 1866, to enable
her brother to remain with his wife and
six children. She had previously, being
very strong, worked in the mines. AT
Custozza she won a medal for bravery.
The King has now conferred on her a
decoration and sent her home with a
pension of 800 lire" We suppose the
writer is one of the 800.
THAT exciting tussle between the
students of Ann ArbOr University and
the town authorities began at the post
office, where several hundred boys had
congregated, clamorous for the opening
of the evening mail. One disOrderly
student was arrested, but the crowd
followed the officers to the jail hooting
and iostling and making such bold at
tempts to rescue their comrade that
five others were caught by the officers
and imprisoned. On the night OF the
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passed around among the law and
medical men. On Wednesday almost
all the students, numbering about
one thousand, moved in a disOrderly
mass towards the Jail, with the inten-
ton of releasing the prisoners. Mayor
Smith directed the local military to
clear the streets OF this mob, and the
order was obeyed swiftly and with
fixed bayonets. Several men were in
iured slightly. Ten arrests were made
altogether, the prisoners being held to
bail to answer this week.
King ALpHoNso had appointed his
wedding for the 2Sth of November so
that it should come on his birthday, but
the 2S,h happens to be Friday this year,
and the Archduchess Christina is troub
led with the current Austrian supcrsti-
ton that Friday is an unlucky day, so
at her express desire that date has been
| abandoned, and the event is to take
place on either the 9th or the 10Th. The
bride will leave Vienna on the 18th, and
after a short restin Paris will 90 directly
to the royal castle Of PardO, near Mad
rid. In consequence of the recent disas-
trous floods in several Spanish
Provinces, the appalling loss OF life and
consequent ahliCtion among mis- people,
the King has determined to abandon
the festivities with which his approach
ing nuptials were to have been cele-
brated. This is also in accordance with
the wishes of the bride elect, who eX-
pressed desire that the funds set
apart for the celebration of the happy
event be devoted to the relief OF the
sufferers. But for the unfortunate cir
cumstances the approaching marriage
would have been celebrated by round
of fctcs and joyous demonstrations I'M
paralleled in that country.
THE country has seldom seen so
creditable a display of disinterested
benevolence as the strenuous efforts of
the friends OF Sherman and Blaine to
get Grant fixed in some lucrative and
permanent Washington Post
Ii is reaSsuring to hear that true
bin has been found against the rOwdy
and woull-be assassin Charles De
Young, and it will 20 far to retrieve San
FranciScoS damaged reputation if in
due course he is convicted and punished
as lac deserves. 1t is men like him who
nave given the Golden City bad name.
Philadelphia North Amsric0H.
The courts throughout the country
show an increasing willingness to intlict
the extreme penalty on murderers.
Hangings increase in frequency, and we
are clad to note an improvement in the
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