Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-24
THE NEWS
OF the Day In Pithy Paragraphs

VI the Day In Filthy paragraphs.
Comet &C." is visible to the naked
eye.
Forty incendiaries were arrested yes.
terday at EStremadura, Spain.
A fire occurred in a petroleum rein.
cry near Paris yesterday. Loss 10000
francs.
The San Francisco Examiners story OF
the return Of the defaulter Stuart is a
.nard.
c.doubt now exists that Fremont,
Ohio, will get the Wheeling and Lake
Erie Railroad.
Cincinnati is having an exhibition OF
portraits of many OF its pioneers. The
collection numbers 225.
Col. ]. &. Benton, commanding the
Springfield army, died at Springfield,
Mass, yesterday morning.
The liabilities OF the suspended frm
Of Judah, Lee, Simmonds & Co., OF Lon
don, are estimated at 100000.
1t ID reported that the Russian gov
ernment will shortly request the extra
zditis&sef leo Hartmann. tbs. Nihilist, =.
A report is current at Brockville, Ont,
that ex-senator Conkling has purchased
Robinson Island, just below Thousand
Island Park.
Baron Mayr, Austrian Minister at
Washington, at present at Vienna, is
about to tender his resignation on ac-
count of illhealth.
In the British House of Lords, yes
terday, the newspaper libel bill, for the
amelloration Of the newspaper law OF
libel, was read a second time.
The Berlin correspondent OF the Lon
don Times says the fact thst Gambetta
only obtained small majority at Belle
Vile caused great satisfaction there.
The Rothschild group, it is under
stool, will place another 100000
forins OF the Hungarian four per cent.
loan on the market early in September.
The cotton on board the Anchor Line
steamer Furnessia, from New York to
Glasgow, took fire last night. The
flames were nearly subdued this morn
ing.
Shells six feet in length and weighing
500 pounds, the covering Of clam
which weighed 60 pounds, are among
the curiosities in the Smithsonian Insti-
tute.
Jappert Cross, who for thirty years
has been running a jewelry store at
Adrian, Michigan, failed Yesterday,
scheduling liabilities of $4,000; assets
$4,000.
The will OF the widow OF the late ex-
President Fillmore leaves public be-
quests to the amount OF $4,000, among
which is one OF $4,000 to the Univer-
sity OF Rochester.
The Buffalo and Rock City Pipe Line
Company commenced the delivery OF
oil at Buffalo yesterday. This is the
first independent anti-standard line or
ganized under the act OF 1878.
Vienna advices state that a marriage
has been arranged between Count Will
helm Bismarck, son OF the German
Chancellor, and the Countess Helene
Andrassy, daughter OF Count Andrassy.
West Virginia rejoices in Judge
named Ice. He should be able to keep
cool under all trying circumstances in
any climate. But il his heart should
meIt--there's the questlon.-Pitts. Tel.
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SchuylKill county have been compelled
to send to New York for hands, and
like state of affairs exists all over the
State.
George Smith, the Pittsburgh sprint
runner. who recently achieved such a
great victor y in England, and caused
such great sensation, arrived home
Yesterday, together with his hacker, Mr..
John T. Crossley.
Private advices received at Paris,
France, state that the explorer, Henry
NJ. Stanley, is lying dangerously ill ha.f
way between Stanley Pool and the
mouth OF the Congo. He has 80 little
faith in his own recovery that he has
made his will.
The "Father" OF the House OF Lords,
the Irish Earl of Mount Cashel, aged
eighty nine, is reported 20 bs hoplessly
in failing health. He was born in 1892,
succeeded his father in the title in lS22,
and in 1926 was elected representative
peer Of Ireland. He is the oldest peer
in the House, as we'll as the Father" OF
it by the longest tenure. But after him
there are no fewer than twenty.three
peers who number eight winters or more.