Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-03-30
VOL. Is.
THE NEWS
OF the Day In Pithy Paragraphs.


Stree. car fare in Pittsburgh has been
reduc, to tive cents
New York telegram says: The Earl
Of Carthness died Yesterday,
Francis Murphy is going to Europe to
start a total abstinence crusade.
howell and Weston have signed arti.
clps 10 walk for the Ashley belt in May.
The compOsitors employed on the
Pittsburgh evening papers want more
money,
SomeriOrd, Ohio, has several cases of
small poN. Considerable excitement
prevails.
The Wisconsin Legislature has passed
bill imposing fine on persons for
creating.
Dan Rice has tired of being an evan.
gelist. and returns to his old profession
As clown.
Mr.. Archibald Forbes, the distin-
guished correspondent OF the London
Duly Times, is in Pittsburgh.
Gen. Adam Badeau declines the posi-
ton OF Charge DAffairs to Denmark, to
which President Garfield appointed him.
The Jesse W. Starr Iron Works at
CamdeH, y. j., were closed yesterday.
A large number of hands are out OF EN-
plOyment.
The New York Herald OF Sunday last
contained one hundred and one columns
Oi advertisements, which, il claims, in
dicates heavy spring trade.
Five hundred thousand immigrants
are expected TO arrive in this country
within the year. About one-third OF
them will hail from Germany.
A New York telegram states that the
contest for the Ashley belt between
Weston and ROsell will take place in
England and commence June Goth.
All the furnaces and mills in Sharon,
Pa, and vicinity are in full blast. Six
hundred and seventy.fye foreigners ar
rived there in one week in search OF en-
ployment.
The Ohio Greenbsckers have fixed
their State Convention for the 9th OF
April. The Cleveland Lsddsr thinks a
mistake has been made. April lst
should nave been the date.
The Directors OF the Northern Pacific
railroad company unanimously resolved
that the suit of Henry Willard against
the company, its directors and others
Tor an injunction be vigorously defended
by al legal means.
The Brush Electric Light Company
PROPOSES to erect IN Cincinnati hand
snale towers, 200 feet in height, and
place on tor Oi them lamps with capac
ity of from l6 coo to 5000 candle power,
anl on the twenty-five foot posts lamps
Oi iron GOO q 1000 candle power.
The coroner's jury at Rochester, y.
y, inyeSiigatin. the cause Of the eX'
plOsiDn oi the boiler OF the hydraulic
cOmpany's building in that city, found
that the company was crimlnally neyli-
gent in employing an Incompetent man
orun defective boiler and they should
be held answerable for the loss OF life
and property.
Foreign.
Eiwin Booth has won golden opin
ions from the press OF London.
Jnn. Cooke K Sons shareholders OF
Bradford failed. Liabilities $4,000.
Oscar de Lafayette, Senator of France,
and grandson OF General Lafayette, is
dead.
ne page VI tue NAdi litlo bCCh aiAOohCN
on the charge OF secretly serving the
sentence OF death upon the late Empe-
rOT.
The London Morning Pos. says: Nc
Gable, Archbishop of Dublin, will
shortly be created Papal Legate in Ire
land.
The AustrO- Hungarian delegates TO
the international Monetary Conference
are instructed not TO enter into any
binding obligations.
The Emperor ol Russia has a salary Of
$40 OOOOOOO year. Lots Of men would
be willing 10 stand &s target Tor the
Nihilists Tor such wages
The garrison OF PoteheistrOom has
finally surrendered, because Of the fall
ure Of provisions. The total loss TO the
troops were Is killed and ~ wounded
during the siege.
A dispatch from New Castle, Nata',
saws a BOer is imprisoned at tleIdel'
bergh, charged with the murder of Cap
tain Elliott, who was killed while cross
ing the Naal river in January last.
The report Of the surrender OF Patched
sfrosm, in the Trans Vaal, is confirmed.
The provisions sent under the condi-
tions Of the armistice reached there
twenty-four hours alter the surrender.
At Manchester warehouse seven
stories high filled with valuable stock
belonging to John Hastam & Co, cotton
manufacturers was burned. Loss esti-
mated at eS0,OOO. One fireman killed
and two others injured.