Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-16
THE NEWS
OF the Day I'm Pithy Paragraphs.
nNrnaatic

Smallpox is still on the increSse i'll
the Eastern cities.
The Kansas Legislature is wrestling
with the temperance question.
Stove coal in New York and Brooklyn
has advanced to So and - per ton.
George Begerlin was found dead in
his bed at Dayton, OHIO, yesterday.
Mrs. +. Mullen stabbed her husband
to death, yesterday, at Scranton, Pa.
Smallpox is said to be increasing to
an alarming extent at the Brooklyn hos
pital.
Secretary Ramsey thinks it probable
that General Garfield will retain some
of President HAYES Cabinet.
A daughter OF David Jones, of Sharon,
Pa, was fatally burned yesterday, her
clothes taking fire from CRATE.
At Paterson, y. j., last night, the safe
in Garside < Berdon's jewelry store was
forced open and robbed OF over SG 900
worth OF goods.
A case of triehin@ has been developed
at Marion. o., resulting in the death OF
John Beringer. His wife is not ex-
pecteu 10 TeCONeIs
A company has been formed at Cleve.
land for the introduction of the Edison
electric light. Some heavy capitalists
are interested in the enterprise.
A woman named Boyle recently be-
came insane ut Newark from reading
trashy literature. She was adiudged in
sane yesterday, and will be sent to the
asylum to-day. She is young mother,
and the case IS a sad one.
Foreign.
Edwin Booth, as "King Lear" had 8
most cordial reception in London last
night.
The Pacific Railway bill passed at OF
tawa on the third reading, by vote OF
33 to Il.
A boat race is being arranged at Hall
fax between Warren Smith and George
Hosmer. of Boston.
The Kurdish chief, 0beidulla, has
again collected a considerable force for
another invasion of Persia.
The Spanish government will push
forward the negotiations for treaty Of
commerce with the United States.
At Dublin a returned lrish-American
named Laughlin, has been arrested in
connection With an outrage and robbery
near Castle Island, county Merry.
In the province OF Mirocello, Crete,
the pOpulsce attacked the police. who
tired.upon the people. wounding several
Soldiers have been sent to the disturbed
districts.
The GuiOs, of ST. Petersburg, received
| in London by mail, states that plot
has been discovered TO blow up the ar
senal at Kietf, and there have been nu-
merous arrests.
At the council OF the ministers yester-
day at Madrid, il was resolved to re-.
Quest all the representatives OF Spain
! abroad. who have not vet resigned, to
| tender their designations.
Itis rumored in Cork that Fenians in
| America and the United Kingdom are
aiding the Beers with men and money.
IL is said five hundred American ad-
yenturers have gone to the seat OF war.
Large bodies OF Beers are reported
moving south of New Castle, apparent
| ly to attack the British reinioreements.
One hundred seamen have been ordered
/ 10 the Transvaal to form a naval brigade.
Emperor William, in his speech read
at the opening of the Reichstag, ex.
presses satisfaction at the results of the
new financial policy, and says he hopes
that the negotiations for treaties OF COM
merce with neighbOring States on the
basis of the new customs policy will
/ terminate favorably.