Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-01-22
THE NEWS
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or the Day I'm Pithy Paragraphs.
Domestic.
There are $4,000 Chinese in Callior'
MIA.
wiunepcg, Manitoba, has another
blizzard.
Governor Murray, of Utah, isa native
| OF Kentucky.
tis reported that Minister Christian
CIV is to be recalled.
The Whitaker Court OF Inquiry cost
| The Government " 900.
Kansas harvested $4,000 acres OF
Egyptian or rice corr last year.
Fifty thousand dollars have been vot-
ed by Milwaukee for normal school.
The original area OF Boston was 773
acres 1t now comprises 23,66l acres.
Alfred Backus, in Jail at Brooklyn, for
abusing his wife, committed suicide the
other night.
Andrew Nader, student, Louisville,
wiped himself out OF existence last night
with his little pistol.
Tuscan, Arizona, gained S6a per
cent. in population in leSO. Property
has increased in value 60 per cent.
The trouble among the stockholders
of the Keokuk Northern Packet Line,
Mississippi river, has been adjusted.
Five members Of the family OF ia
cob @. Gassmay, OF Findley,. D., were
sutTocated by gas escaping from coal
stove.
An opera company in which little
bows and girls sing and dance, has been
refused permit to perform IN New
York.
Max Van Dorm, of Put.in.Bay island,
one OF the most extensive grape-Srow,
ers IN the west, broke his neck by iali
in his yard.
The annual Sleighing party rivalry
between Omaha and Council Bulls cnl-
minated in visit of 222 sleighs from
the former to the latter city.
Sitting Bull, having grown tired OF
negotiating with the military authorl'
ties, has started for the British posses
sions, accompanied by forty lodges.
Congressman House, OF Tennessee, is
making special efforts to secure full at
tendance Of Democrats next Monday to
pass the Morgan electoral count rule.
General Sheridan and three members
of his stall, accompanied by Colonel ii.
w. Farrar, are in New Mexico, engaged
on a tour of inspection of the military
posts.
An effort is 10 be made to have day
al nf Rpnrnclntn-
tives for the discussion OF all matters
bearing on transportation routes across
the isthmus.
The announcement is made that Gen.
Grant is to give up the presidency OF the
Nicaragua Canal Company, and that
Sir NJ. Romeo, late Mexican Minister
to this country, will succeed him.
Governor Foster is greatly displeased
over the circulation OF petition at 20.
lumbus for his appointments rs Postmas-
ter General, and has written to General
Garfield in regard TO it.
A telegram from Valparaiso reports
that great battle has been fought near
Chorilios, nine miles sonth Of Lima.
The Peruvitns were defeated and driven
from their position with heavy loss.
The Chillians hold Chorillos. .-
Senator Sharon, OF Nevada, slipped
into his seat few days ago and was
looked at with amazement and curiosity.
He had been so long absent that several
OF his brother Senators tailed to recog-
nize him.
The directors OF ftheIllnois Central road
have declared semi.annual dividend
of 81 per cent, payable March l. The
New Orleans branch is in position to
liuuiha'r its bonded Indebtedness OF
Sl2,000,0O0.
A domestic in q boarding house at
Marsha,ltOwn, Iowa, who is chaIitaby
believed TO be insane, poured an ounce
Of arsenic in The coffee prepared for
breakfast. Although ~ ky discovC red,
some who slipped the beverage are very
i'll.
The Pacific Railway Company, at a
meeting of the Stockholders in New
York Yesterday, voted t. increase the
capital stock by Sl0O00,O00. The oh.
| iect OF the increase is TO relieve the COM
panv of small floating debt, and to
capitalize the money which has been
expended in branch lines.
Foreign.
In a small town in Nova Scotia one
family lost eight children by diphtheria
within q week.
Tie Scottish Heritablc Security Com
panv OF Edinburgh, Scotland, has sus.
pended payment.
A project is on foot at Montreal for
Il e making Of q railway tunnel under
the Falls of Niagara.
The London Truth says the marriage
of the Baroness Burdett. Coutts with
Ashmead Bartlette will take place at her
own residence next week.
A company has been formed at Lon
don, with a capital OF e500, 600, to facili-
tate the importation OF beef from Ameri-
ca, and will build four large steamships.
Adyices from Valparaiso, dated De-
cember "a, state that the Ohilians oper.
atinp against Lima number $4,000 men
of all arms, while the city is defended
by 10000.
In the Canadian Senate, at Ottawa,
Ont. Senator Power moved for copies
OF all the correspondence relating to the
alleged Justification OF statistics TO pro-
cure the fisheries award.
Leopold de Rothschild, youngest son
of the late Baron Lionel de Rothschild,
was married to Miss Perugia, OF Trieste,
IN the Portland Street Synagogue, In.
don. The Prince OF Wales, Lord and
Lady Roseberry and other persons OF
ranl were prpsent