Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-08
THE EwS
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wears OF age, has an attack OF measels.
II is thought that mining operations
will be suspended in the region OF Tunis.
A fresh conspiracy against the life OF
the Gar was crushed by twenty one ar
rests.
Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York,
has returned home much improved in
health.
Mrs. Redpath, OF Montreal, has given
$4,000 to endow a chair In the Presby.
terisn College at that place.
NJ. Bringard, inspector of telegraphs
in Alseris, and al an escort Of twenty
five men have been massacred.
The st. LOuis Globe. D,mocrdt prelic's
that Blaine will not be a member Of the
Cabinet when Congress meets in Decem-
ber.
General b. III. Bristow and Col. Hor-
acs Porter were yesterday elected life
members OF the National Rife Associa-
tiOn. -
The mother OF President Garfield, to-
gether with the younger of her grand
children, have returned to their Mentor
home.
Believing that the world will come to
an end on Friday next, several farmers
in Ontario have neglected to put IN
Cr',ps.
Mary Anderson, the actress, has
bought another brOwn-stone house in
New York. Al present she Is Willing
away her time at Long Branch.
The members OF the bar Of Maryland
are taking steps TO erect a monument
over the remains OF the late Chief JUS
tice John Buchanan, OF that State, who
died in November, 1874.
The authorities OF Chicago have noti-
fed telegraph and telephone companies
that after a certain date ell wires must
be laid underground, and none allowed
upon poles and housetops.
Rain prevented the sham battle ar.
ranged for the Board OF Visitors at An
napOlis yesterday. Senator Morgan
will deliver the address to the gradu-
ating class at the school
William Malone. Jr., son of General
Malone, was married to daughter OF
Msj0r Tanner, i'm Petersburg, Virginia,
one dav last week. The Senator was
too busy in Richmond to be able to a.
tend.
The death IS announced OF Joseph Sa-
bin, OF New York, who for years has
been regarded as a living catalogue OF
books. IL was he who purchased the
Mszlrin bible for James Lenox for
$4,000.
The Ursuline nuns who recently left
Qlrbec for Chicoutint en- roHte 10 Lake
N. John greatly wondered at the steam
boat, they having been cloistered for 80
years past, and never before having
seen steamer.
A telegram from Sioux City, Iowa,
saws the Central Trust Company of
New York has filed for record in that
county a mortgage Of $50, ,000, 900 on the
Chicago. st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railway.
The New York Board of Health re-
ports that at the end Of last week there
were l2l small pOx patients and 63
typhus fever patients in the hospital;
new cascs o. smallpox in the wtek, 81;
iyphus lever, 81.
A petrifiad forest has been found in
the hills near Calayeras valley, A 'ameda
county, California One silicitied trunk
which lies exposed is about 20 feet long
and ipet in circumference at the base.
Much interest is shown in the discov-
cry.
Girartiin's last will and testamtn Mt is
the subject OF contest on the pert OF
the dead journalists widow. He lett,
il ia understood, handsome fortune,
but she claims that there is not a clause
in the will in her favor, and that TO the
alimony which is her due no allusion
whatever is made.
Thirty-hve years ago the land upon
which the city Of Irontou TO-. stands
sold for Sl7 per acre. To-day there is q
city of ten thousand inhabitants, doing
a business on scale Of S3,0OO,OOO per
annum. Il is in the midst OF the rich
Hanging Rock iron district, which vt the
present rate % consumption of iron ore
in the United States, would ie Il all the
bias, furnaces in the Union for 224
years