Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-03-09
THE NEWS
or the Day i'm Pithy Paragraphs.
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General Grant started yesterday for
New Mexico TO attend to his railroad
and mining interests.
The Legislature of Maine will elect a
United States Senator in place Oi James
q. Blaine on the 18th instant.
An Altoona woman has a new tongue
growing from the side OF the old one.
The husband of the lady is to be pit
led.
John Orr and Frank Colbert, two
Chicago men, have been sentenced TO
imprisonment for lie for killing Chi
cago man in August last.
TIE Citizens Guard, of Titusville, Pa 4,
visiting New York on their way home
from Washington, was the guest OF the
Old Guard yesterday evening IRAN .
till I O'Clock.
The demand OF the religious press foI
the removal of Minister Isaac Chris.
tiancy, is not unlikely 10 have some
weight, now that Mr.. Evarts is no long
er in a position 10 holt him in place.
Owing t2 difference between the
proprieto s and employees, the SPRING
field, Illinois, lion Works are closed,
and about one thousand men will be
thrown 1t OF employment.
The completion OF the track OF the
Cincinnati Northern railroad from Nor
wood, on the VI. & G. X. Il. to Lebanon,
WAS celebrated at the latter place yester-
DAY with banquets, speeches, &c.
An eighteen wear old daughter Of
BENJAMIN lshmeal, residing in Jones'
boro, Arkansas, was murdered by some
unknown persons few days ago The
ooiec, of the rinrderers was robbery.
The Maine Fusionists, had a srJmy
caucus az Augusta, Yesterday evening,
over the nomination OF \ United States
Spnstor The main contest is between
Piaisted aui Talbot. No nomination
was made.
Tne George Fox Starch Manufactur.
ing Company, of Cincinnati, tirm we'll
kno an throughout the country, made
an assignment. yesterday, for the bene-
fit of its creditors. The firm was found
ed in 1924, and employed about 100 men.
A Pittsburgh dispatch says that the
coroner's Jury in the case OF Mary
Holden, a young lady inmate OF the
Allegheny Home for the Poor, whose
death recently aroused suspicion that
she died from cruel treatment on the
part of Superintendent Grubb's return
ed q verdict OF death from natural causes.
A Des Moines, Iowa, telegram says
Judge ]. W. McDill, OF Union county,
one OF the three State Railroad ComHis-
siouers, has been appointed bv Gov.
Gear TO fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of L. s. Senator kirkSood.
Judge McDill was 4 member OF the
Forty-thiId Forty-fourth Congress, and
also one OF the Electoral Commission OF
1876.
Foreign.
Capt. Eads says he has now three par
ties OF engineers at work surveying the
route OF his proposed Tehauntepec ship
railway. De leaves for the lsthmus in
a few days to superlntend the work III
in person.
4 Rome telegram SAYS one hundred
and iorty bodies have been dug out oi
the ruins OF Csssamacciola, the Italian
town visited by an earthquake day OF
two ago. The total number OF deaths
is estimated at three hundred.
The first arrests under the Irish coer'
cion bill were made yesterday. Corne
lius Koegh, of Carrochbish, County
limerick, was arrested at his residence
on q charge ofintimidation, OF and Michael
p. Boyton, a League organizer, and one
of the traversers, were arrested in Kill
dare on a charge OF inciting murder
The latter, on being taken into custody
protested in the name Of the American
Republic.