Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-29
THE NEWS
or the Day In Pithy Paragraphs

Ben. Buffers income is 100000 1
year.
II is said that Congressman AckliI
is engaged to Spanish countess.
The Fort WAYNE HcroH has a libe
suit on the strength Of the first issue.
MeCahill, who killed Martin Corcoran
the striking printer at Pittsburgh, ha:
been admitted To bail.
The death Of Charles Wyudham
Stsnhope, Earl Of Harrington, is AL
nounced from London.
Mr.. Beecher tells his people that labor
strikes are Working great benefits Ia all
classes OF SOIkingmen.
The iionsss IN Forepaugh's show gave
birth 10 three Young lions, NJ Oshkosh,
one morning lsSt week.
The Indianapolis Council has voted to
build A city hall and market house at
cost not exceeding 100000.
The Chicago Board of Trade mas de-
cided to adjourn from Friday until
TUESDAY on account Of Independence
Day.
In the Commons, yesterday, Glad
stone said he hoped to be able TO
prorOgue Parliament the flst week in
August.
The Hebrew rabbis OF New York have
collected 81, 800 Tor their prosecuted
brethren in Russia, and propose To make
il $1,000.
Jesse ii. Moore, OF Decatur, H.,
who has been appointed consul at Cal
lao, has started thither, accompanied by
his family.
The master iron ship builders at Tees
decided To yield to the demands of their
employees and the strike which was i'm
minent was averted.
ParnelI has not vet fixed the date of
his visit TO the United States. His OBJ
iect is To use his influence to discourage
the exertiOns OF the skirmishers.
The LAYING of the corner stone OF a
Catholic cathedral at Marquette attract
ell delegations from all over the upper
peninsula The cathedral is to cost
$l2j, 900.
Spanish Protectiouists at Barcelona
have held an imposing meeting, in
which the example OF the United States
was pointed TO, and resolutions adopted
asking the government tor protection
for merchants and manufacturers.
Alta point in Peoria, ILL.,, where a
water pipe underlaid gas pipe the wa
ter pipe barst, aud the escaping water
boiled the sharp sand against the gas
pipe until il actually wore hole in 1t,
and then the water entered the gas pipe
and ran all over the city.
All the personal effects OF the late
Henry Wilson, including his library and
collection of valuable autograph letters,
are sOou to be sold. Mrs. Howe, Mr..
Wilson's mother-in-law, who is now "a
wears old, will continue to live at the
old homestead.
Mr.. Marshal Johnson, OF Clsiburne,
La, dreamed for two nights in succession
where his grandmother, who died q
number of YEARS ago, had buried aqusn-
tity OF money, and going 10 the place
which was pointed out to him in his
dream, aud digging, he found the money,
81, 10 in gold.
The suit that has been in litigation for
a number OF years Involving the owner
ship OF the Linden mine, near Mineral
Point, the richest zine mine IN Wiscon-
sin, has hsAn dacided bv the, Supreme
Court in the case OF Ross and Henry vs.
Heathcock 1t al. by tnsl verdict Tor
the defendant.
A iarmeE at Ephraim, Utah, while en-
gagged in irrigatinS his grain held last
week, suddenly felt the earth sinking
beneath him. lie ran backward several
steps TO sohd ground, aud then saw that
the soil where he had heen standing had
gone down out oi sight. Tue hole thus
created was twenty teet deep, hlteen
ieet across, aud lis walls are OF clayey
formation.
NJ. VI. A Kellogg, night watehmsn
AZ Odeli, His, claims to have discovered
the supposed comet OF lsl2, on Mon
day morning, the 2lst inst at about
$50 o'clork, and again on Tuesday
morning at an earlier hour. lie not
only saw it himself, but called the at
tention of the night agent OF the Chlea-
20 and Alton Railroad at the place. tie
has made affidavit to the above, aud
sent il and his claim for the 500 prize to
Prof. Swift, Rochester. \. Y.