Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-14
THE NEWS.
siftings From Our Reports oy
Railroad and Wire.
Domestic.

The strike OF the Chicago shoemaksrs
continues.
Tbs census returns will give Ohio the
third place. IT,
The total number Of postofhces in the
United states IS u, ,9Ss.
persmbula,ing ice water cart Is the
lsirst thing in New York.
The wife of John III. sutterly hung
herself i'm Trenton, New Jersey, Ihurs-
day.
The Pittsburgh window glass workers
wiII s,on demand an advance oil iO per
cent.
Magnolia. y, e., is a fragrant place. A
,,siJrnt ,here has $4,000 tube roses In
bloom.
The Vermont Democratic State Con-
van,ion will he held at Concord, Sep
teuber 18th.
A mammoth railroad excursion party
from Georgia arrived at Little hocA'
KrSansaS, yesterday.
The steamship Donan arrived at New
York. yesterday, from Bremen, Win
81. .S57, $50 in specie on board
Ipnper,'s furniture factory at VIII
T,mspor,. Pa, was burned. yesterday.
LIS. $1,000; insurance, SSo,OOO.
Cbirfs Cutnow, Bear Dog and two
o,ber Indians have been arrested IN
Manitoba Tor shooting tr"aty cattle.
During the last fiscal year S,i62 new
,,.roihreS were established and l,S-S
& d.~contInusd, making the net increase
2lSL
Margaret Markley. a Cincinnati wo-
man, drank a quart OF whisky IN iorty
minutes. last "Wednesday. She Is dead
now.
ire in the Louisville City Hospital,
LAT night, created great excitement
among the patients Damage to build
ing, 500. ,
There was insurance TO the amount oil
sls469G on the property destroyed by
the Hunters Point cOntagratlon on
Tuesday.
The United States signal Office at Bis
marck, ID. T.. on Wednesday reported
the heat lO2 degrees IN tine shade anu
l3j degrees IN the sun.
Oarhundred dollars reward las been
offered for Horace Phillips, manager oil
IN, Rochester base bali cub, who has
been missing since July 9Th.
t,he tiremen's tournament in Dem
yer. Yesterday, Hook and Ladder Com
piny No. :, OF that city, ran OIL 80 teet
OF hose, raised a 25-ioot ladder and put
man ON top in 25i seconds.
A New Orleans dispatch says: by
the explosion and sinking OF the Bonnie
Lee, on Monday, in addition TO the cas-
ualtirS before reported, SIX rouStabouts
and one cabin boy were drowned.
Potato bugs took entire possession OF
A church a, Sandoral, Ills, on recent
Sunday evening Windows, doors and
s.1ls uerc swarming with them Ladies
screamed and the services came TO a
sudden end
A well near Brandon, VT, forty-two
fee, deep, ire, z.s solid in winter and
furnishes ice for a family the year round,
while one hundred rods away, IN a
gravel pit, is a spot which never freezes
and which sends up a cloud OF steam.
In the Mexican village OF Los Plocitas,
about 50 miles from Santa Fr, y. VI, a
proSppctOr has struck pay dirt With a
venyence. The houses are built upon n
le,lgr OF rock, which has been found to
contain three dollars worth OF gold To
the pound.
Anthony Allen aud Thomas Saxton,
living near sidney, o, were engaged IN
cutting wood. Allen attempted to swing
hi4 axe, when in flew from the handle,
striking Saxton on the head, cutting 4
irightiul wound from the ear 10 Eear the
eve. There is little hope OF his recovery.
On Wednesday last four little boys OF
Cleveland, aged from seven 70 nine
years, finding time hanging heavily on
their hands, caught another lad about
the same aye, stripped HIM, and took
turns beating him with leather strap
until all were exhausted. The victim IS
confnrd To his bed, his back being a
mass Ui bruises.
: Hanna, OF Pemaquid, Me, caught
what might he called a young sea ser
pant in ms nets the other day. Ii was
about twenty. five feet long and ten
inches in diameter in the largest place
shaped like an eel. The head was Hat,
an1 the upper part projected out over
the mouth, which was small aud con-
tained sharp teeth. IL was dead when
FUND.
Foreign.
4 fresh political crisis has occurred
al 6jrunS AyreS, and the Chamber has
been overthrown.
The amount of bullion withdrawn
from the Bank Of England on balance,
Yesterday, was GlOlOO(
OF the bullion withdrawn from the
Bnk OF England, yesterday. Elm,WO
Was Tor shipment to the United States.
The attempt OF the young physician
OF Lyons. France, 10 fast fifteen days,
was abandoned, Yesterday, the seventh
day.
the staff OF the German army, after
succeSSiul experiments, have adopted
the telephone 10 replace, in target prac-
tee, trumpet signals.
\ Young man named Brooks, dlids
z ne, Was Yesterday arrested at Quebec,
n the instlgnatiOn Of his tather.in law,
Tor forgery at Columbus, o.
A London telegram SAYS: "The boiler
makers az Jarrow demand an advance
In sag's. Should strike result. twelve
thousand hands will be affected"
A London dispatch says: "The steam
er Gdllrrt, from Hamburg took Es75 900
In specie Tor the United States. IL is
expected that the Hayre steamers will
take 100000.
The Revolutionary league, in Ireland,
Is said 10 have a. 500 men enrolled, H.
ODl oi whom are armed with Snyder
nils and bayone,s, and the treasury
contains E20O00 in gold.
R'well has csbled an acceptance OF
the challenge 10 contest in England
Tor the Ashley belt. Curtis, who iss ued
the Challenge, declines 10 give the lame
OF The American pedestrian.
The dispute between England and
AnSiria, IN regard To the navigation OF
the Danube is by no means as serious
As represented. The differences have
long since been settled In reality.
The Mexican government has replied
10 the proposal Of the Vatican for the
ra-Asfnl nl,lfaifpt, Of .lt,,lnraa,t., ralatinpa