Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-03-08
THE NEWS
OF the Day I'm Pithy Paragraphs.
Domestic.

Brooklyn wants a cremation furnace.
Florida strawberries bring only S2.15
per quart in New York.
The iron moulders Of Louisville are
preparing for strike.
Frye will undoubtedly succeed Blaine
as Senator from Maine.
A BILLS reported before the Connec-
ticut Legislature to ascertain whether
'life is extinct in deceased person"
A dispatch from Tucson, vArizona,
saws Ben Hogan, the noted prize fighter,
was shot and mortally wounded at Bis
bee, few days ago.
A Detroit dispatch says that the
wholesale grocery firm OF j. A. Il j. I.
Williams closed their doors yesterday.
Liabilities about S30, 900; assets $4,000.
Jacques Seebo, a Frenchman, who
was born six miles from Mt. Clemens,
near Detroit, and had always lived in
that neighborhood, died yesterday, aged
los.
Mr.. John Jacob Astor is mentioned
as willing to accept the English mission
from which Mr.. Welsh retired because
the pay was not adequate TO the situa-
ton.
The Jacobus & Nimick Novelty Com.
pany's moulders at Pittsburgh have
struck for an advance OF ten per cent.
The proprietors refuse to pay il, and the
men are out.
Private advices report the burning OF
the steamer Carrie Hogan in the laz)O
river, above Yazoo City, on Friday last,
with 7S6 bales OF cotton on board. The
cabin boy was drowned.
With the exception OF Lincoln, all the
new Cabinet officers qualified yesterday
morning, at the Executive Mansion, be-
fore Judge Cartier. They took charge
of their respective departments in the
afternoon.
Mr.. Levi Z. Morton is not going TO
fall back into dignitied ohscurity be-
cause he did not get satisfactorily placed
in the Cabinet. He is to have the
French mission,n the Washington wise
acres are not deceived.
A Springfield, H., dispatch says that
there will doubtless be a serious strike
in the rolling mills to-day, as the 300
employees contracts expire, and they de-
mand higher wages, which the company
is unwilling to grant.
A sp .cial iroM Springfield, o., says:
fire broke out in Wilson's building,
West Main street, at 5 o'clock this morn
ing, consuming that building and dam
aging the Reiser building, on the west.
The entire loss is $4,000 and the insnr-
ance about $4,000.
When George Shaub and wife, OF Mil
lersville, Lancaster county, Pa, cele-
brated their golden wedding recently,
they both expressed the wish that they
might die on the same day. Mrs. Shaub
ddiisA &afg ATy,SHGa5a58Gtsa::" "''"''
Foreign.
Many suspected persons are leaving
Dublin to escape arrest.
Brennan. Secretary OF the Land
League, has arrived in Dublin.
Cox, the Carrick Land League organ
izer, has been placed on trial on charge
OF intimidation.
Mrs. Elizabeth X. Churchill, widely
known as i speaker and writer IN behalf
Of the rights of women, is dead.
DISPATCHES received at the London
War office deny the special news TO the
effect that General Sir Evelyn Wood has
been shot by the Boer1.
The earnest attention OF the British
government is promised for information
al copyright Ii il il not given English
authors will be the principal sufferers
The steamer Sultan, from Hamburg,
for the United States, with l2O emf.
grants, was run into and sunk by
steamer on the Humber. 1t is thought
all on board are saved.
The Executive OF the United States
of Columbia executed the contract for
the cable north and south from the
Isthmus of Panama TO connect with the
United States and Europe via Central
America and Mexico.