Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-01-08
THE NEWS
OF the Day in Pithy Paragraphs.

At Eastan !, Texas, yesterday, John
Contley Wa, shot dead by his brother
| Charles.
Rutherford b. and Mrs Hayes an
nounce their intention Of crossing the
Atlantic this summer.
A bill has passed the Ohio Senate
iorbidding pool selling This is good
move N ,c right direction.
A statue Of Theodore Parker, to cost
81, 900, VII be erected on one Of the
squares in the south end OF Boston.
Another cold wave has reached Chi
cagO. The Thermometer wa, below zero
last night and rapidly growing colder.
The Democratic caucus last night at
Jefferson CITY, Mo-, nominated Frank
NJ COcErell .or re election to the |. ).
Senate.
Ben Holidays claim for over half
million Gollars on his mail contract has
a fair chance for success in the Senate,
but dark prospect in the House.
Charles VI. Hatand, OF New Haven.
Conn, suspected OF rObhng his unCe's
safe of $4,000 i'm securities, has con-
iessed the crime, and implicated man
named Badrnschaetz
Malone, the dictator of Virginia, is
about tuiaiorm the people oI the Uni
ted States upon what conditions he Will
continue to participate in TN" work OF
governing the country.
Charles Foster will not be a candidate
ior reelection as 20 ernor OF Ohio
Stat" Senator Henry b. Perkins and
Congressman Keller will be the chief
contestants for that position
1t is asserted that the Grant people at
Washin gton are very much dissatisfied
at the course of Don Cameron, who is in
constant communication with the lead.
ers OF the new administration.
The pork packing report, annually
prepared at Cincinnati, shows the total
number OF hogs packed to date at all
Western points to he 1875, 900, an in
crease OF 265, 600 over last year.
The Chicago and Alton road, evident
" intent on forcing a restoration in pas
spnger rates, has cut rates from Kansas
City to Wabash points from 3 to 20 be.
low those charged from Chicago or St
Louis.
An Atlantic, New Jersey, telegram
saws: A three-masted schooner, sugar
laden, came ashore on Brgantine Bar
last night during dense fog. All
hands were down with the chills and
fever, and the captain dead.
With the provisions that S400O0OO
shall be raised in New York for the
worlds fair. the Central railroad has
subscribed S25OOOO Grant, Tilden and
Vanderbilt are mentioned for the presi.
dency of the commission.
Foreign.
A Brrst dispatch states that three
hundred amneslied communists have
arrived from New Caledonia.
The French ambassador urged the
Porte on the 5th inst to accept the ar
bitration declaring that Europe could
not tolerate war.
A London telegram says that yester-
day large steamer was seen to 20 on
the Goodwin sands and afterwards went
down with all hands.
A Naples telegram says that twenty.
two internatiOnalists have been arrested
mere, tlldl SCh Win 81 NDl'' l'iaNH w
overturn the social order.
A dispatch from Durham states that
the Nata Government has sent TO
Joubert, the Boer cOmnandant, de-
manding an explanation with regard to
! the invasion Of Natal territory.
4 dispatch from Dublin says that the
report of the Land Commission has
been sent To the government The re-
port expresses the views Of three OF the
commissioners, two dissenting.
The London Times SAYS il is * ected
that the debate in tie Hous" of Com
mons on the address in reply TO the
speech from the throne, and the amend
ments thereto, will occupy three nights.
In order to facilitate the discussion OF
the coercion bill, and expedite their
passage, the government intends, II
necessary, to have prolonged sittings OF
| the House.