Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-10
THE NEWS
OF the Day in Pithy Paragraphs.

| Congressman Leon II. waldo, t1
Hartford, Conn, died yesterday.
The Social Science Convention at Sar-
atoga, yesterday, adjourned sine die.
Great precautions have been taken to
prevent the assassination OF the En-
perors at their meeting at Dantz:c.
The steamers Necker and City Of Brus-
sells from Europe, yesterday arrived at
New York, bringing $3.50, 900 in gold.
Pink Flagg, well-knowu gambler,
shot his wife in st. Louis yesterday.
The woman will die. Flagg escaped.
Tecumseh, Michigan, has a sensation
in the way of recent wedding, the
bride being Is and the groom IL years
OF age.
The village OF Reichensbach, in Bernz
0berland, Switzerland, was almost de.
stroyed yesterday by fall OF stone from
the mountain.
The Supreme Judicial Court OF Massa-
chussetts, at Boston, yesterday dismiss
ed the petition OF Selia j. Robinson to
be admitted to practice as an attorney
in the courts, on the ground that under
| the constitution OF the commonwealth
women are not entitled to be admitted
as attorneys.
Henry Long left Rushville, Ind, one
day last week, very suddenly, for the
Pacific coast. He sent note to his wife
saying that he had lived in Hades as
long as any mortal man could stand it,
and proposed to begin life anew all
alone.
A Lansing, Michigan, burglar under.
| took to fish some articles out OF lady's
bedroom, using a pole for the purpose.
He bungled in his burgling, tickling the
feet OF lady who occupied the room,
and she arose with death in her glance
and a revolver in her fist, and opened
fire. The burglar found it worth which
to 60 away just then.
English papers say that DR.. Tanner,
| the faster, died in Amsterdam some
three weeks ago. He is said to have
visited that city for the purpose OF re-
peating his fast for the edifcation OF a
celebrated German physician, and in
running down the hotel stairs to greet
the latter, tripped and fell, receiving in.
| juries which resulted in death IN lew
hours.
On Thursday there appeared in the
township OF Sharon, Washtenaw county,
Michigan, an army OF worms Of a variety
hitherto unknown to that section. The
worms vary from one.hslf inch to four
inches in length, and are striped with
black and yellow. The first were seen
in sixteen acre field of parsley, which
is literally covered with them, and they
are now spreading to the adjacent fields
to the distance OF half mile, always
keeping to their favorite parsley. Great
numbers of people have come to the
field to view the novel sight. Whence
they came and what they are is mystery
to everybody.
Great excitement was occasioned at
Battle Greek, Michigan, on Wednesday,
by the announcement that A. b. Miles,
well.digger, had discovered a vein oil
gold in well which he was digging on
a vacant lot on Cherry street. Mr..
Miles stated that while drilling through
a sand rock strata full thirty feet below
the surface the drills struck this netal
which, although the vein was only an
inch or two in thickness. took the men
three days to drill through, so hard was
the ore, and several drills had been
broken in the operation. A specimen
OF the ore was taken to a chemist, who
applied nitric acid, when it was imme'
diately coroded, showing that at least il
was not pure gold. 1t was melted, and
looked to all appearances like the best
quality OF gold, and it stood all but the
aid test. 1t was not copper nor brass
and what it is puzzles the best jewellers
in the city to determine. By some it il
pronounced a new metal, and as it ex
lists in considerable quantities there il
talk of mining it, il it can be utilized
Meanwhile the man who owns the lot ID
holding on to it in the hope that he has
struck bonanza which will make his
fortune. Specimens have been sem
away to eminent metallurgists for exam
ination, and until heard from that vel
will remain just as it is, and, should the
owners hope be realized, he will never
dig deeper for water.