Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-04
TUE NEWS
or the Day In Pithy Paragraphs.

Or the Day In Filthy Paragraphs.
President Arthur viii returned to
Washington this afternoon.
T. P. O'Connor, the Irish agitator,
sails for Americs this week.
King Kalakus las gone to Lexington,
Ky., to buy blooded horses.
A prayer-meetlng crusade was begun
in London on Sunday against liquor
selling.
A company has been formed in LON
den for the purpose OF reclaiming the
waste lands in Ireland.
The twenty-frst annual fair OF the st.
Louis Agricultural and Mechanical AS
sociation opened yesterday.
There was a great public reception Of
Parnell in Cork on sunday. The pro-
cession was two miles long.
In Charleston, S. c., yesterday about
l,5OO, wharf laborers, draymen and cot
ton press hands, struck for higher
wages.
The coinage at the various United
States mints for September was 7,S47.-
800, of which ., 100000 were standard
dollars.
The German schooner "Phenix," has
discovered a new island in the Pacific
ocean, about one hundred miles west OF
Punta Aguia-
Two lives were lost and seven thous-
and dollars damage done yesterday, by q
boiler explosion at Ladne < Phinney's
ore factory, Carrotion, Michigan.
A Canadian paper claims that Wrangle
Land, which was recently taken posses
sion of on behalf of the United States,
belongs to the British government.
The letter received in New York and
which is supposed to contain threats to
assassinate ex-senator Conkling, is to DO
made public at the request OF the writer.
A farmers convention, having for its
object the promotion OF the agricultural
interests of the country, met IN st.
Louis, yesterday, and adopted consti-
tuition and bylaws,
The Grand Jury met in Washington
yesterday and Immediately proceeded
10 consider Guiteau's case. Several wit
nesses were examined, and the Jury
adjourned until to-day.
1t has been reported that q large def
icit has been discovered in the Pawtuck-
ct Navigation company, OF which Gen
eral Benz. +. Butler and A. NJ. Boyn-
ton are the principal controllers.
In New York yesterday Policeman
Peter LUCENT shot dead q man nSmed
Baxter, who had broken away from
hIm, and mounted high rock, from
which he was about to hurl heavy
stone at the officer.
The German ship Hugo was burned
in the South Pacific, August 9th. The
captains boat, containing himself and
seven men, reached Chloe, Chill, after
travelling 800 miles and suffering terribly
from want of food and water.
III. Sanders, of Chicago, a member
of the Commission on Diseases OF Cat
tie. who has been edltor-in-chief of the
National Lircst0ck Journal, has with
drawn from that monthly, and will be-
gin the publication Of q weekly paper OF
a similar nature-The Breeders Gazette.
Postmaster Palmer's return oil the
business of the postofiice OF the city OF
Chicago for the quarter ending Septem-
Der SOth, shows the aggregate receipts
of the office to be S40O,Ol2; expenses,
SSi,42e, Net revenue TO September
3lst, S5,6O2 Increase OF business over
corresponding quarter last year, S6S, l39,
a gain OF 20 per cent.
A terrific storm swept over the east
ern part oIlKuoX county o., on Sun lay.
II was accompanied by high wind and
rain. It is reported that every shock OF
corn in a field belonging to a Mr..
Tucker near here, was carried to an ad-
iaceut farm. \ house owned by Mrs.
Myers, a widow, was totally destroyed.
Mr.. Bakers barn was badly damsged,
and several other barns and houses were
more or less injured.
Among the callers on President
Arthur yesterday were Senator Saun,
ders, Nebraska, General Sharper ana
Postmaster Pearson. A man named
wilkins, evidently 8 crank, called, but
was not admitted. He had long docu-
men containing a large number OF sig
natures, and was looking for a foreign
consulship. He said the document was
a letter from Gov. Jewell, and was
signed by the most prominent men IN
the country.
A call has been issued for q caucus Of
the Republican Senators to meet on
Saturday next to devise a plan OF &C
ton for the organization OF the Senate.
The Democratic caucus will probably
meet at the same hour. Some efforts
will probably be made to effect a COM
promise in the organization between
the parties, but both parties feel
the Importance OF securing the Presi'
dency of the Senate, and both are will
ing TO enter upon a struggle for It