Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-01
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She will spend this week in the Paris
Of Aheriea. -
Two brothers named Talbot are TO %
hanged at Maryville, Mo-, on March
18Th, for the murder Of their fsther.
New York Is threatened with sn ad-
v,nce in rents along the whole line. The
As,ors announce an extra levy Of 10 per
cent.
S.ephen McCabe, OF Pittsburg, who
v,s sralded at the time Of the explosion
oi the Bengal Tiger, died on Sunday at
C.urinnati.
Mr.. W. ID. Howells- will soon resign
I'm, rditorship Of the Iiidntie Ii is Tu-
m1rei that Mr.. James L. Fields will ill
the vacancy.
Ohio intends to keep up her success
sion of great men, raised from the ranks
oi the common people. She built 442
new school houses last year.
The surrender OF fifty-one lodges Of
Indians under Crow King and Lone
Day reported, proves 10 be only nomi-
nal, as they still retain their arms and
ponies.
George Jones, OF the New York Tins,
announces that the subscriptions to the
presidential fund have reached S225 900,
which is likely to be given outright to
Generil Grant
The steamer City OF Sydney arrived at
san Francisco on Saturday, and among
her passengers we're King Kalukus OF
Hawaii and suite, who are on q trip to
the Eastern States and Europe.
Secretary Eyarts declined to give Col.
Musby permission to return from Hong
Kong. hut u is said that the Secretary
Las been Oyerruled by Mr.. Hayes and
that Mosby will get his iurlough.
The Chicago driving park has put
forth the programme for hve-dsy meet
my In Jriy. the purses sggrega:ing S40,-
ulJ. Something akin to the g. U. ID.
principle will govern the mode OF entries.
That national scandal, the Sprague
divorce case, is set for trial at Kings
town, K. l., on February 2l. 1t is fear
ei tha. the little state will not comforta-
b.y hold the gathering OF statesmen, cor
respondents, and witnesses.
A Milwaukee clergyman, asking cor
re,tion in published report OF one OF
his sermons, remarks: 81 do not mind
sd much being taken for hereto, but
seriously object to anything which will
condemn me as a lunatic.
About fifty editors and reporters OF
Pittsburgh met on Saturday afternoon
,n the Select Council Chamber to or
g,niza Press Club. Mr.. James Mills
vas called To the chair, and Mr.. Thomas
keenan, was chosen Secretary.
General John Love, graduate OF
West Point, who served in the Mexican
war and in West Virginia during the
rebellion, died in Indianapolis OF heart
disease on Saturday night. He was one
oi the New State Home Commissioners.
The wheat spectators are trying to
yet up a scare on the fact that some OF
wheat fields in the West have been del
ugrl and frozen. This game is a little
t1J venerable. They will have to give
something irtsher than that to make
anv scare worth cent.
The heaviest storm experienced in
California since 1861 is now raging
there. u began raining on the seth'
and the rivers and creeks have over
f,Wn their banks. The damage IS very
Great. Railroad tracks are washed away
anil some towns are inundated.
General Tom Thumb and his manager,
n. K. Jacobs, were hauled up In the Po-
lice court, at Washington, Saturday,
charged with selling reserved seats alter
the Performance had begun. They de-
4. lalE
rpurt. as stated, With view of iorielt-
.us /, % avoid trial.
SATURDAY, morning, while Mr.. Doerner,
the r,rrk of the CouderspOrt, Pa, bank,
WAS hxJUg the tire, two men entered
lhr bank who threw a blanket over his
heal. tied hun and shut him in a vault.
They secured about nine hundred dol
Lars IRON the money drawer, and escap-
rd before any one else arrived at the
building.
Foreign.
The engineers on the Tyne have re-
solved 10 demand an advance Ot 10 per
rent. IN their wages.
The engagement between the British
and the Beers at Drakenburg Pass, Is
described as bitterly fought battle.
The illness OF Thomas Carlyle is re-
ported by the London Tunes. The Lon
don N,rs SAYS his illness is dangerous.
4 correspondent at COnStsntinople
states tnat nothing il known OF the re
volt in Armenia, which isimProbable IN
winter.
Chilli demands from Peru and Bolivia
an indemnity oj $50 900 900, Peru TO pay
twU-,hiuls in aldIt,On To the territory
"i AstOiagasia
Mrs l.angtry, the Jersey Lily" ex-
poets soon 10 appear upon the stage.
England Is excited over this new move
o., the well known lady,
Montreal reports boom in real es-
ta'c. Every good parcel offered at suc-
ton is eagerly bid for, and Harrison
Stephens has commenced to invest three
quarters Of million OF idle bonds.
New army corps are being formed
daily in Greece. Several regiments
have been ordered to YOnitzl, and two
regiments Of artillery have been ordered
to b. in readiness to proceed to the
The frontier.
\ dispatch IRON Vienna to the Lon
drn Tjr,ss says England mas accepted
tue proposal Tor negotiations at Con-
sLanunOple on the Greek question on
the condition that the decision of the
Bcrbn Conference and treaty will not
bee considered as dropped.
Every effort that has been made by
the Ministry TO concii late the Irish par
~ has utterly broken down. Glad
stones Oyertures have been repulsed,
and during his speech ON Friday night
he was several times subjected to disor-
der,y Interruptions IRON the benches
occupied by the Home Rule phalanx.
No Chinese in Ris
SAN FRANCl>Co, January 3l.-king
kalukua states that the object Of his
trip in visiting the different Asiatic and
European nations with a view to finding
the most feasible means for attracting a
desirable class Of immigrants 10 the