Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-25
THE NEWS
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Gen Francis A.. Walker, Superintend-
sut of the Census, has resigned.
The French and German national
,,ussts were entertained at the naval
academy at Annapolis
Edwin d. Morgan, OF New York, hss
been nominated by the President to be
Secretary OF the Treasury, and his nomi-
nation confirmed by the Senate.
James Findly. q prominent and
wealthy farmer, leaving near Wallace,
Mo-, was mysteriously assassinated
while sitting at the supper table on Sat-
urday night.
A Democratic Rea1juster has been aP-
pointed postmaster at I.ynchburg, IN
place of the Republican incumbent, thus
indicating the administrators sym
pathy with the Readiusters.
Chief Clerk Shober has been made
acung secretary of the Treasury by the
adoption OF q resolution introduced oy
Senator Edmunds, who thereby fore
stalled the action of the Democratic eau
Gus.
The troubles between the proprietors
oi the Cincinnati iron mills and the
workmen are in fair way towards sd-
instment, as conferences are now being
held at which mutual concessions are
10 be made.
The Shiskey distillers OF the United
States have determined to make an et-
fort next winter to get Congress to re-
duce the tax on whisky from ninety to
dtty cents per gallon. They will have 8
powerful lobby at Washington.
When the Supreme Court OF the
United States convened, yesterday, At
torney-General NacNeagh presented to
the Court resolutions adopted by the
bar meeting with reference TO the death
Of the late Justice Clifford, and the
Court, as mark OF respect to the latter's
memory, adjourned.
Foreign.
Pink eye" has appeared among the
horses in Pittsburgh.
Habibilla Khan, the Ameer's son, has
been appointed Governor OF Candahan.
King Humbsrt, OF Italy, will start on
Wednesday TO meet the Emperor OF
Austria.
CAPTAIN Paul Boynton started yester-
div from Yankton, Dakotah, to swim
10 The mouth of the Missouri river.
Choleraic fever is raging at Umritoir,
India Nearly all the shops are closed.
Not European has escaped the dis
easr.
The relics of the Franklin expedition
recovered By Lieutenant Schwatka,
have been placed in the Museum OF
Greenwich Hospital, England.
\ dispatch dated Buenos Ayres, 22d
inst, announces that the boundary
uel,y has been confirmed by both the
Argentine and Chilian Congresses.
Several more arrests under the coer-
cion act we're made in Ireland yester-
day, including that of Miss Hobrett, OF
Ballvdehob, for persisting in exhibiting
a copy of the mo rent" manifesto IN tue
window of her house.
since the commencement OF the Tu-
nlsian expedition the French troops,
yarving in number from 1000 to 3d.
100, have had from $4,000 to $4,000 on
the sick list. Deaths from disease 9OO,
typhoid fever being the cause OF 50 per
cent of toe mortality.
Morton, American Minister to France,
Yesterday performed the ceremony oil
iXlng the first rivet to unite the parts
of Bertho!d's statue OF Liberty, at Paris.
This occasion was chosen because ot It's
nearly coincidiug with the Yorktown
centennial.
The steamer Alexandra OF Malmo,
Sweden, bound for that port from New
castle, with a crew ottwenty men, SIX
adult passengers and four children, ali
Swedes returning from America on
visits 10 friends, is now a week over due,
and it is feared that she has been lost
IN the recent gale.