Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-05-10
THE NEWS.
A Capitalization OF the Import
ant Events of Yesterday.

The spring meeting OF the Louisville
Jockey Club is expected to be the largest
ever held.
Fourteen persons are believed to have
persisted in a fire IN London, Eng, ON
Friday night.
Hon. George Brown, editor OF the To-
ronto Gtibc, and a prominent Dominion
politician, died Saturday night.
Bismarck SAYS he has a right 10 chip
Off slice oi Hamburg, and he proposes
10 De- il. without regard to the klckers.
The assassin Of the Russian Col. Com
orof WAS sentenced 10 death by court
martial in Constantinople on saturday
A fire at KinderhOck, Saturday night,
DESTROYED the business portion Oi tue
village. Loss $4,000. Insurance So
600.
On Saturday lee houses, that with
their frozen stocks were valued at
$4,000, were DESTROYED by hre IN ~
Louis.
:. u. Perry, Treasurer Of the state
Savings Bank of Connecticut, dled oil
heart disease in New Haven ON Satnr-
day.
The troops have oyertaken and given
battle % NictOria's band Of Apaches.
The result Of the fight has not been re-
ported.
The potato beetle has developed IN
robust size, and with yOraciOus appe-
tite in Russia, and 'he peasants are IN
despair.
The Porte is massing troops IN Con
stantinople. Evidently the sick man
has recovered sufficiently To make
show Oi fight.
The Nav meeting oi the Kentucky
Association ON Saturday, was marked
with fine weather, a good track, and
spirited races.
Joseph Abbott. a jurorin a Patterson
u, murder trial, became insane on
Saturday. IL would be unkind 10 charge
this to the lawyers.
The law emancipating the Cuban
slaves has been published and will 20
into effect a. soon as u receives the APP
prOyal Oi the home government.
Cook county, Illinois. OF which Chi
cagO il the metropolis, went against
Grant al the primaries ON saturday. In
the city the result was Grant 81, Blaine
-, Washburne -.
In "A civil suit in Cincinnati ON Satur-
day, Archbishop Purcell swore that Of
the three millions deficit in his az
counts not dollar hal been used for
personal purposes.
The Porto Rico budget proposes to
abolish the six per rent bounty on
yOOds imported direct from producing
countries, and 10 reduce the present im-
port duties 80 per cent.
Clarence b. Davis, the Chicago biga-
mist has been sent To the penltentlary
Tor live wears. tie had numerous wives,
and this last punishment seems Ike
piling Pelion upon Ossa.
American citizens Of Peru have called
upOn this Government tO secure them
indemnity for the losses they have sus-
tanned by the barbarous methods ol
war pursued by the Chilians.
An explosion Of sulphur in the Henry
CLAY colliery at ShamOkin, Pa, Satur-
day. probably fatally burned William
aud Robert Harper, Joseph Griffith,
Jerome Reed and Samuel Straw.
A Minnesota blizzard on Friday un-
roOied several houses near Madden, and
blew one down. in the ruins Of which
were found the dead bodies Of the
owner, Arthur Pond AMI his vile.
The Consular aud Diplomatic appro-
priatinn bill has been increased s. 900
6y the Conference Committee. to provide
for the bucharest Mission and tO meet
theexpensrs oi the Chinese Commission.
Saturdays session Of the southern
Baptist Convention, i'm Lexington, n.y.,
Was devoted 10 the consideration Oi the
reports of the mission service. The
next convention will meet ia Columbus,
Miss.
lsham kapp, negro raplst WAS pub
liely hanged at Fort Worth, Texas, ON
Friday. Just before stepping ot, he as
snred the multitude that he was "a Sol
dier of the Cross" and then he took his
Cruel.
The Louisville and Nashville Railway
Company assumed control on Saturday
oi the New Orleans and Mobile road.
The Mobile il now added tO the South
ern roads operated by the Louisville
Company.
There ~ "A prospect oi Cnmmunistic
demonstration in Paris during the
month to commemorate thOss pt the
"Rads" who fell In 1871. The govern
ment has taken measures To preserve
the peace.
A pillar OF ore forty feet high in Taft's
shaft mine, near Whitehall, New Iork tell
Saturday, killing Roger Moyenhan and
Willie O'Neil. and iniuring several
others. IL will take several days To re
cover the bodies.
The recent storm ON the Columbia
river Oregon, was more disastrous 10
fishermen than was at first supposed.
Twenty-Five bodies have already been
recovered, and many lashed To boats
driited out to sea.
The Curtin OCum contested election
case was the subject Of debate again IN
the House ON Saturday. BeltZhOover
will offer an amendmenl 10 the majority
report Of the committee, declaring that
Curtin il entitled 10 the seat.
The sugar bill which the Ways and
Means Committee have decided Ia re-
port to the House has not their ap-
proyal, and il will be presented without
recommendation and merely Tor the
purpose OF bringing the subject directly
before Congress.
In Saturdays session Of the Women's
Foreign Missionary Society Of the United
States, in Columbus, Ohio, II Was re-
ported that the total receipts for the
past year, from all sections Of the eoun-
try, were S7l ,l46 This Is the largest
sum ever received in any one year.
Little Johnny Davenport Was before
the Wallace Investigating Committee In
New York on Saturday. His TESTIMONY,
as we'll as that of the other witnesses,
WAS wholly directed 10 the election pa
pers, claimed 10 be fraudulent, which
were issued under the Tweed regime IN
1853.
The New York bank statement is as
follows: Loans increase, 500, ,}OOi
special increase, $685. 600; legal ten
der increase, $24S,lOO; deposits in
crease, S5,750,OOO, circulation decrease,
S73. 500; revenue increase, $3.50, 400.