Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-05-19
THE NEWS.
A Capitalization of the Import.
ant Events OF Yesterday.

TnE ,yrIts OF the great boat race to-
day will b. bulletined at the RSdIsrER
office.
Pittsburgh hal 100000 blaze yes
terday.
Pniladelphia's Milton relief iund now
amounts 10 S2O,OOO
The House passed the pensions def.
cheney bill Yesterday.
The Goss-Ryan fight was another flz.
lIe. The Englishman funked.
The Illinois Convention which meets
TODAY will, Il is believed, be Overwfelm-
in,ly IA iavor oi Grant.
Indiana Is last becoming notorious for
the brutal and luSliul outTages commit
tel within her borders.
ban O'Lrary will open a 72-hour GO
"A YOU please pedestrian contest an Pitts
burg on Monday next.
The latest Tildeu combination re-
ported Is that sammy iayors David
Davis oi Illinois iOr the second place on
the ticket.
The frame residence OF Ccphas Horn,
Z,IIr>v.llr, Pa. was destroyed hy fire
Yesterday morning. Loss $1,000. No
insurance.
Mr.. HAYES has deciled To appoint
Horace Maynard, the Minister To Tur-
kew. tu the Cabinet position OF Postmas-
ter UcuvrtI.
The famine ia Persia is daily growing
more severe. The price OF corn ami
rice has risen enormously, aud the peO.
pie are living on roots,
Two wears ago Mrs. Jennie Reynolds,
oi AmbIa, Indiana. was bitten on the
haul hy a pet cat. Now she Is suffering
with hyirophohla as result OF the bite.
Owing 90 an error la the phraSeolOgy
oith- House adjournment resolution,
twill have tO be returned 10 the Senate,
anl 70 is likely that the whole question
vii. b. reoprned.
r.. VI. Willard, the alroit confidence
man, sketch OF whose exploits was
published ia these cOlums at the time
Of his arres, in Pittsburg, has been com
miJled Tor forgery.
The river aud harbor bill passed the
House with a hurrah. Every Congress
,IontI,listIirtthstO offered an opportunity
ipr % WasIrCased, and the result Was Il
jus, slipped right through.
The striking longshorcmen oi Mon
trral male riOtous demonstration YES
trr,iIy. but the disturbance Was almost
immediately guril-d hy the police
Vessels are being loaded under guard,
Andrew >mjth, drtlulting town treas
urrr ui North Auduyyr, Mas, iur cm-
b,zzhug S2aOOp during the ten years he
he'll thar office, has been sentenced to
slH y,aro hard labor IA the state prison,
The -, rsuuS who wrecked train ou
the Andalu~lan railroad OF Spain, Te.
Gently, have been court mIrtlalcd.
Thirteen were sentenced Ia death, and
thirteen to imprisonment Tor twenty
years.
Tue spring meeting on the National
course at Washington, promises to bc
one nl the most interesting tuTl events
oi the season. August Belmont =, LOTil-
lar,ls, and other famous stables, are we'll
represented.
IL is nov rumUred that Sherman's
ilrc-s will unite with Grant 10 slaughter
Blaine. and that John will be given the
second place on the ticket. The last
section OF the rumor may be taken As
purely hypothetical.
The Republicans are working hard to
make tho action ui tht southern Nena-
tors i'm the Curtiu-lOcum contested
election case, a cause Tor a split between
the northern and southern wings Oi the
Democracy. 10 will bee loves labor LOST,
however.
Mis- Jennie lruuuN, a Young lady Ut
Washington, Pa, MAS burned tO death
while visiting an aunt az leWIstown, \.
Y, hast wr,k. tier clothing caught fire
from a burning brush heap, and she r.
rrIvrd fatal injuries before the iiamts
could be cNtlngulshed.
4 Boston Herald reporter captured
Eugene Hale on his way home, the
other day, and that microscopic states
man assured him, with the utmost cor
dallty, that Blaine would win IN Chlca-
-, though he confessed Il might take
him three or tour DAYS to dolt.
They are still pegging away at Whit
takrr IA West Point, aud the Associated
PtrSs continues tO encourage the arrant
non,rEs. Oi the investigation hy loading
down telegraph reports with the most
worthless trash that ever assumed dis
guise ot news To impose upon a patient
public.
The government will have Ia bo cS-
trcmrIy careful in their dealings with
the Indian question in thu Immediate
future. Our dispatches this morning
report the Nayajos, the Otes, the
Apachrs, and all the Southern tribes,
ready ior war, and single injudiclous
move NAV start frontier war that Will
stretch from Wyoming To New Mexico.