Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-29
THE NEWS
OF the Day in Pithy Paragraphs.
Domestic.

The Erie road yesterday reduced pas
senger fares from New York to Chicago
10 -.
A $4,000 fire occurred in the John
Mitchell Building, Cincinnati, last
night
Baron Fava, the new Italian Minister,
presented his credentials at Washing
ton yesterday.
The losses from the breaking OF the
Sny Ievee, near Hannibal, Mo-, will ag-
gregats $500 ,OG0.
Capt. Howgate was yesterday ar
raigned in the District CriminA! Court
ami plead mot guilty
Parties in London ordered yesterday
one million dollars OF confederate bonds.
They are scarce at six dollars per
thousand.
The Mississippi River Improvement
Convention, AT St. Louis, after the
transaction OF some routine business
Yesterday, adjourned sinedts. -...-.-
ID. w. Loekart, Kid Coulter and a
man known as "Slim' were taken from
all at TERRA Amaretta, Colorado, on
Thursday night, and lynched.
John Cain deputy sheriff Of Roane
county, on Wednesday beCamein vOlved
m 4 quarrel with Henry Brown OF Jack
son county, and shot him, intlictiDg
mortal wound. Cain has been arrested.
The lake steamer Jennie Gilchrist
was lost near Rock Island, ILL, yesterday
morning. Seventeen lives were lost
through the criminal negligence OF the
officers and drunkenness OF the crew.
An attemp; was made yesterday
morning in Philadelphia to rob the
room of General Bonlauger, one Ut tine
French delegates To Yorktown, but the
tIrneral aSOke and succeeded in captur-
ing the wouldbe thief.
The struggle in the Senate over the
confirmation Oi S.alham, Reldyuster,
nominee Tor postmaster at IynchburE,
continues. Th4 Democrats seem deter
min 4 10 defeat the Republic ,n-Eeat-
'Us,-r r0a,;ti0n as far as possible.
TIE nomination Of Judge Folger gives
satisfaction in New York without arous-
ny anY enthusiasm. The new secretary
: reported as opposed 10 paving the in
trrrst ci bonds when the money for
.heir REDEMPTION is idle in the Treasury.
As the Treasurer OF Beaver county.
Pa, was opening his safe yesterday
morning, he was knocked down by two
unknown men who had seCreted them
selves in the court house, and $4,000 OF
III. county funds were abstraCted. The
thieves escaped.
The Santa Fe Ns'r Ns,TcdE has partic-
u,ars OF a recent scout made By the Ter
r!,orial militia at SocCOra, under com
mant OF Lieutenant Miles. He secuted
south and west OF SOccora. going over
the Naydalsa, Sanmata Bear and CALI
mas mountains, making in all about 24O
miles. but saw no trails or other signs OF
Indians. The Territory is believed TO
be free from hostile Indians.
At Charlotte, y. C., Allen Johnson,
colored, was hanged for the murder,
und most brutal clrcumstancesand
fora lew cents, OF q blind olt negro
named Crump, in January, 1880. The
rulprIt mounted the scafold with no
indication Of weakness beyond slight
nervousness, and after a prayer ot a
,ozen words, he told the sheriff he was
ready. The drop was i've and halt
ieet and his necS Was broken.
Foreign
The British Channel squadron has
rrarsedsd 70 the cUa.t of Ireland
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AJAX MulIprWas elected curator Vi the
B'dilan library "I;''""t 'PpoS'''on
G,mhe,ta vas Yesterday elected
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Ii Is UT'l"r-i"'i inat the "ith''r'"di
of troops i'"n, South A.'it" All pro't'"
with aA spa1d.
The election in Germany ON Thurs
DAY for members oi The Re'rhstS2 re-
suited III '"S't'"S '"''' 49,
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The bTii,s" S'eaI"r' N"'''t' "'u, ,'u,
Odessa i"r bFe"!rI t"S o cE 'o'' J.! .'s'
on tas Spanish ''aS'' va. o'' PERI"
VA, saved.
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