Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-03-12
THE NEWS
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OF the Day In Pithy Paragraphs.
Domestic.
Ironton, D., has been terrified BY =
ghost that flies in the air.
1t Ia said that John Russell Young will
be appointed Minister to Chins.
The President has nominated II. 9.
Pearson for postmaster Of New York.
Robert Lincoln assumed the duties OF
Secretary of War yesterday morning.
Deaths in New York for the week will
reach 500. A great increase in the
| death rate.
Ex.Speaker Randall has returned to
Philadelphis, and intends resuming his
legal practice.
One million and thirty thousand
dollars arrived st New York from
Europe yesterday.
Jaw Gould has returned to Chicago
from his Texas trip. He is we'll salts.
fed with his journey.
The epizooty prevails to q serious ex.
tent in san Francisco, greatly ineom-
moding street car companies.
Chief Engineer James W. Whitaker,
U. 8. n, died in Brooklyn from erysip-
elias resulting from recent vaccination.
A great smallpox fright exists in
| some OF the towns OF Connecticut, where
numerous cases Of vsrioloid have &C.
Cured.
There are $500 children in Masss.
chusetts under the care OF the State, and
OF these over 1000 are the offspring OF
criminals.
The Wisconsin Legislature defeated.
by a close vote. the woman suffrage and
| prohibition amendments 10 the State
| Constitution.
A quaek doctor has killed several pa
| tients in Polk county, Mimi. the latest
victim being County Auditor Christen-
sen. Crest excitement prevails.
The story that l.. T. Morton made an
argument before Secretary Window in
opposition TO allowing the hanks to re.
deposit their bonds and withdraw legal
tenders. is denied.
At New York the officers Of the
Secret Service Bureau OF the Treasury
department, arrested fourteen OF the
dangerous gang OF counterfeiters.
More arrests are to follow.
Matte Colby, q Toledo domestic,
twenty years old, and OF pleasing ap-
pearancr, committed suicide yesterday
by taking dose OF strvchnine. Disap'
pointment in love was the cause.
Charley Foster, according TO some OF
his friends, is going to quit politics and
engage in raiirosding. As he has run
Ohio for some time he is surely capable
of managing one oi Jay Gould's play
things.
Notwithstanding that the coroners
Jury said yesterday that NJ. j. Reilly
killed A. c. Hatch at 81. Louis in sell
defense on Wednesday last, he is belrg
held for action by the grand jury, and Is
now in Jail.
Five lady physicians were graduated
last evening by the 81. Louis College OF
Homeopathy, one of whom, Miss Julia
+. Haywood OF Rand, ILL.,. received =
prize for high excellence in medical and
surgical studies.
The incneration business has become
such a prosperous industry oil late that
the trustees oi the Lemoyne crematory
| find il necessary to make general an
swer to the army Of inquirers whose let
ters besiegc them continuously.
Bernhsrdt attempted TO play Fanchon
once, but met with miserable failure.
She got along all right until she came TO
the shadow dance. Her dancing is SAID
TO have been elegant, but the shadow
could not he properly managed.
Edward Divers, aged Is, a catcher in
the Alientown rolling mill, on Wednes-
day had his throat cut and his windpipe
severed by being violently thrown on
the rolls. A silver tube has been in
serted into his throat, but no Is not ex'
| pected TO recover.
| Foreign.
Arrests OF the Lanl Leaguers continue
In Ireland.
Parliamentary fatigues are apparently
telling on Gladstone.
Mahomed Jan. the noted Afghan
leader, has been murdered.
Lord Derby states that the report that
he is to enter the ministry isa pure IN
vention.
Thirty persons were arrested Ia 'he
province oi Ternel for demonstrating In
favor Of a federal republic.
Parnell has issued manifesto to the
Irish Editors Covantry, urging them u
vote on Saturday fer Eaton, tie C'nser'
vative candidate.
Count Corovini has resigned his seat
in and the Presidency OF the lower house
of the Reichs'rath, in consequence Of
difference with the Constitutlonalis's
| II is said that the government IN
tends TO associate Sir Hercules Robin
son, Governor OF Cape Colony. with
General Wood in the conduct OF the be
gotiations with the Beers. An addi
tionsl battery Of artillery has been o.
dered to the Cape.