Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-05-07
THE NEWS.
A Capitalization Of the Import

The Porte Is again decidedly hard up.
Cleveland had destructive eonhagra-
ton yesterday.
A war between China AMI Russia
seems inevitable. U..t LIZ
J. J. Baitelle died at his residence on
Wheeling Island, last night.
Billy Chandier has ulA,ie New HanP-
shire solid for Blaine.
There is a prospect OF a large laiinro IN
the Virginia tobacco crop, .fa
TueScar K Gus hstilIery IN Sc l.ouis
was destroyed 10y ire yesterday.
Dr. lost, OF Warren, o., was drowned,
yesterday, at the Wheeling wharf.
The Southern Baptist Conference con
vencd ia Lexington, ky.. yesterday.
The supreme Court Of Michigan has
recognized Christmas rs a legal holiday.
The trill OF DR. Weimer, the would-be
assassin 1t the Car, will begin on the
llth.
The tariff hill win be finally adopted
by thr MAYS aml Means Counmittet to-
morrow.
Thurman il Ohio's taNor,te son, SURE
enough. Look cut or hlm m Cin-
CiRnati.
In the Mississippi delegation there
are six lor sherman, i've ior Blaine, an''
five iur Graut.
4 protest against the enforcement oil
the Muurue pU,tTiuC has been male va
the Canadian parliament.
The postoiire appropriation has been
finally reported tothe liuusc, and action
will be- taken on u to-day.
It's likely that the Ways and Means
Committee will he done tiukerIng with
the laTiu by Saturday.
Windom in the Scuate, yesterday,
failed 10 provide plumber for the Mar
shals and their deputies
That n. Louis convention will hll the
ait With music that wIIl CRATE harshly
on the ears ut the Grant managers.
Tho Treasury purchased 10000
ounces ui fine silver Yesterday hT the
Philadelphia aud san Francisco mine.
The Pittsburgh iron manufacturers
allegr that the trade y now, tot the hrst
time va its history, controlled 10y Specu-
latOrs.
GIadstouc's Cabinet has expressed
itself in favor ot preserving Engiands
pres, nt amIcable relations with the ha-
ance ct Europe.
There u 70 strike smuus the stone-cui-
tiers at Cincinnati against a 10 per cent
reduction ui their wages. Three nun
dred men are out.
senator Bayard yesterday introduced
into lhc senate biil tu regulate the pay
AMI appsiutmyut Oi United States
Deputy MarshalS.
A great uii aud forest 6ie raging IN the
northern uli hUlds 0i Pennsylvania
threatens the destruction at a great por-
tioH ut that region.
Tha deficit Ia the Indian War IA
chelucr il making tine press OF bngland
howl The Minister Ut Finance Is being
handled without gloves
The MARYLAND Republican Convention
wraugird all day, AMI dld not elect an.
arnniz ,lIun until u 30 last night lhe
drlrlati1u Was almost unanimously IL
StrurIvd Tor Blaine.
Brandt and iiummel the Riter mur-
derrrs. under sentence ot death 20
Reading, Pa, made an unsuccessful at
tempt to escape yesterday.
-Four thousand ut the Midileborough,
England. iron workers, Who have been
on aStrikr. returned tO work Yesterday,
having acccptci . per cent. reduction In
their wages.
The Delaware convention ut Green'
4 a.. 80.
numbered nine persons, bat they male
Congressional nominations and appoint
ei state CUmm.ttrU all the same.
The effect at the adoption ut the two
fiity card will be-, besides finally pros
traiing the boom Co make disastrous re
duc,iuus IA the present scales Oi wages
oi mill workers.
Mississippi Republicans instructed tIr
Hon. Horace Maynard Tor Vice Presi-
dent. The delegation stands 10 toe sh'r.
man. aud the remaining slN are diNided
betweau Gragt and Blaine, according to
the latest reports.
The platform oi the Tennessee Repub-
Leans declares Ia favor ol the payment
oi the banded State debt, and against
the employment Oi convict labor IN
unnecessary competition with Tree IA.
blr That last clause leaves qui1e
margin Tor skulduggery.
New Jersey, u h said, will cast her
vots ioT Grant IN IhicagO. The state
Convention Yesterday aranglcd resoln-
tons respectively iavoring Blaine AMI
Washburne. aud the delegation ~ said
o. be- undcr the sOntrOl ut Sccor- knbeN
son, oi infamous memory, whose Natul-
est support Is pledged 30 his OIL oh'el
TheneawaTe Republican Convention,
which met in Dover Yesterday hugAt
all day aud did not ssCure q pcrtnanent
organization until lO.S0 They adopted
resolutions under which the deiegauoa
will 20 to Chicago without instructions,
aud adjourned about mld Ilght The
Delegation is believed to be tor hiAme
r. NJ. Willard was arrested IN Pitts
hurgh, last night on suspicion OF at
tempting todeiTand Bishop lwisg- On
his person was found lectnrrs IRON
clergymru in various parts oi the conn'
try. Nhirh are thought to be iorgeres.
Ia il believed that he is the man who has
been swindliug the Catholic cleugymen
OF Ohio and other States by couhdence
schemes.
Grsonbaek oTstory IN Clarksears.
special Dispatch b. the Kegisisr