Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-20
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An official return states that there
are now $50 blast furnaces in operation
in Great Britain.
Grant has engaged hotel room, at the
CITY OF Mexico, from September, ior
himself and party.
The Mexican Journals have begun TO
demand tha: the government stop suo-
sidizing railroads.
The Republicans OF Farmlngtoh'
Maine, on saturday nominated hA'"o''
Dingley for Congress.
Some Chicago scientists are engaged IN
hunt Tor a mastodon some miles 10 tue
w.slward OF Msdota, III.
Owing to warning from london, the
authorizes oi Birmingham are s'rietiy
guIrdiag their town ball.
TEX Senator Henry :. Lane. OF ln'
,ilana, died at his home in CraStords-
vile. Saturday, aged 80 years.
Emancipation Day was enthuslas'
ticSlly celebrated by the colored people
OF Galveston, Texas, Saturday.
Since Thursday morning there has
been ten cases OF sunstroke IN New Or
leans, six Of which have proved iatal.
ATTEMPTS to burn the two Roman
Catholic churches Of II. Lawrence have
been discovered and thwarted at Que
bee.
Bpehm, the noted London sculptor,
has been commissioned TO execute
statue Of BeacOns6eld for Westminster
Abbey.
Rafael, the editor OF the leading Jour-
nal of Havana, is in the police headquar-
ters for some scathing criticisms on the
judiciary.
The Hannibal and st. Joseph road is
making contracts for live stock IRON
sKansas City to Chicago at $40 per car,
when the tariff rate is $50.
Gould has filed at Carson. New, arti-
Is OF incorporation for road from
salt Lake TO San Francisco, to compete
with the Central Pacific.
The Preiect OF the Marseilles police
has issued an order withdrawing his
authorization Of the Italian National
Climb, which he Immediately closed.
Mrs Grant and Fred are at Long
Branch. The purse oi S20O,OOO VIII
soon be- presented to the General, who Is
At the Fifth Avenue hotel with Conk-
ling aud Piatt.
A Polish Jew, with an unpronounce-
able name not translatable into English,
treated mis- friends in New York ss-
loon Saturday and then shot himself IN
dramatic style.
The underground railway company OF
New York is about TO commence exca-
vatiOns for line from the Battery TO
Central park. The work will require
nearly three wears.
The Little Rock Gd-etts's Pine Bluff
dispatch says: Ralph Edmund's little
colored boy, aged Is years, shot himself
through the heart yesterday, novice in
the use OF the pistol.
Prince Alexander, OF Bulgaria, contin-
ues his tour. He is enthusically re-
ceiyed eryWhere and presented with
numerous addresses, declaring that the
people accepted his conditions.
The indictments against Midhat Pdsha
and other persons accused Of being con.
cerned in the murder OF Abdul Aziz
have been communicated to the prison
prs. The trials commence on Thursday
next
Fritz Miller, OF New York. a German
who hal suffered bad luck oi late, end
Ell il to-day BY laying his head on the
track OF an approaching train. IL was
severed from his body. He leaves
family.
A dispatch from Gatella, Tunis, says
that an explosion occurred on board
Her Majesty's irsn clad Monarch, while
making preparations for torpedo prac
tice, by which an officer was killed and
several sailors injured.