Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-18
THENEWS
OF the Day In Pithy Paragraphs.
Domestic.


The steamer Germania from Europe,
which arrived at New York yesterday,
brought 500, 900 in gold.
Chas. p. McGrail, U. s. Army re-
cruit, was brutally murdered yesterday
morning at Columbus, Ohio.
Over thirteen hundred cases OF small
pox have been reported in Chicago this
wear, of which forty per cent proved Ia
tai.
The Indiana Democrats are making
desperate fight against the confirmation
of Dudley, of Indiana, as Commissioner
of Pensions.
The annual meeting Of the American
Woman Suffrage Association will be
held at Louisville, Kentucky, October
25th and 26th.
c. p. Huntington and other rsilroad
chieitains are at Cincinnati, making ar
raugements for the new Kentucky Cen
tral bridge to Coyington.
A roll of dynamite sufficient to have
blown a train to atoms was found on the
track of the Baltimore and Ohio road ut
Zlnesyille, D., yesterday.
The receipts under Secretary Win
dom's recent offer 10 redeem tve mil
lions Of three and half per cent. bonds
on and after to-day, aggregate about
$5,SOO,0OO.
James Gordon Bennett, puzzled by
the indefinitencss of his fathers will, has
commenced an amicable suit against his
sister for the sale and division OF the
real estate, which is valued at SS,OOO,OOO.
In the Democratic caucus at Wash
ipgton Yesterday morning il was decided
TO defer discussion OF the question OF
the Secretaryship OF the Senate until
that body reassembled on Friday next.
A pool for the purchase OF Confederate
bonds has been formed at Amsterdam,
10 appeal to the honor 9i the Southern
States. Three banking firms in Texas
telegraphed 4 New York speCulator that
they recognise the fourteenth amend.
ment as the supreme law OF the land,
and will not encourage the movement
in worthless paper.
In the Senate yesterday Senator Sher-
man ; Treasury resolution was laid over
until Friday. The President pro tenn
announced the appointment OF mum.
berOi Senators To ill vacancies on the
committees, and the assignments made
ky him were poor proof Oi his declara-
ton that he accepted the Presidency OF
the Senate "SithOut party obligation"
The Senate then adjourned until Fri
day.
Foreign.
Gladstone is suffering with cold.
The Turkish delegates to Egypt have
been recalled.
The Turkish force in Tripoli will be
RAISED TO $1,000.
The Arabs lest 800 kiIlel in a recent
engagement in Tunis.
The Porte has requested the ambassa-
dors ui Great Britain and France to ex-
plain the dispatch OF iron-clads to Alex
andria.
The Italian pilgrims who were re-
ceived by the Pope Sunday were at
tackled by gang Of roughs on leaving
the church.
The Pope on Sunday declared that the
deplOrable state of affairs placed before
him the alternative of enduring c"ntin-
nal captivity or OF going into exile.
Tug recent hurricane in England was
tne most disastrous for many years,
very few places escaping damage: Even
the london parks are strewn with iallen
trees, and steamboat traffic was sus-
pended in the Thames. FOrty-nve per-
sons perished in fishing smacks OF the
coast of Scotland. The British steamer
Cyprian was wrecked on the Welsh
coast, the loss ol lie being twenty-five.
one hundred and thirty British and
foreign vesS-.S were wrecked last week,
an increase OF lO4 over the previous
week. Approximate value ol the prop
ertv lost, $500 UOJ, Of which E6,OOO,OOO
represent British losses. One hundred
and thirty eight persons are reported
lost or missing. Accounts received sub
seuuent TO the compilation OF these sta
tistics state that down to last evening
iitv-nine fishermen belonging 70 Burn
mouth and EyemOuth were known 10 be
drowned, and one hundred and forty
others belonging to both places were
missing