Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-01
THE NEWS
OF the Day In Pithy Paragraphs.

The negotiations instituted Dy his
mark at kissengen for peace with the
Vatican have been fruitless.
The Socialists who intended to held
their Congress at Zurich have deter
mined TO meet at the Hague.
Edward Dalton, aged 40, and Wm.
Dunn, aged s., were drowned while
bathing at Jersey City, yesterday.
A Chicago letter carrier named K. f.
Choumari, has been caught ritiiug the
mails. He has confessed his guilt.
News from various parts OF Algeria
leads to the supposition that the ma
ruders have retired into the interior.
Ii is believed that social circles in Lon
don will, for time, miss the form OF
the Baroness Burdett Coutts Bartlett.
The Grand Trunk line is making time
contracts on west bound freights at low
rates extending into the winter months.
Kent McNutt. private secretary to the
Secretary OF State OF Tennessee, Was ac-
ridentally drowned at Nashville yester-
day.
W. ID. Washburn, confidential clerk
oI H. r. BarronyhS K Co, Boston, has
been arrested ior the embezzelment oil
SlN,OO.
The ceusus returns show the popula-
ton Of the Canadian Dominion 10 be
4 so, ,9Si, an increase OF $50. .49S ia the
past decade.
In fight las. night between three
burglars and three watCnmen IN South
Weutnam, Conn, one of the former was
istatiy shot
John ". Lowell. engaged in the pub
lishiny business in New YORK, has asked
I,r an extension TO January on liablli-
uts OF Sl25,OOO.
At GarryONpn, Iowa, burglars Obtain-
I'll Il 100 by blowing open safe IN
store. They then stole two horses and
made good their escape.
David Carroll, the founder OF the first
cotton mills at Woodbury., Baltimore
G, unity. Md in 1886. died at Baltimore
last night, aged 20 years.
An alleged horse thief, Dan W,sson
hy name, was shot dead bv Deputy
sheriff Cubiey, at COrSicana, Texas,
Saturday, lor resisting arrest.
Nomore cigars will be made i'll the
Joliet prison, there having been no bid.
ders ior the labor, and consequently that
branch Of work has been abandoned.
John McCombs, of East GreenviIle,
and Isabella Wright, OF Apponsug, We're
instantly killed while walking on rail-
roa track at Providence, r. I.,yesle dy.
The death is announced in London OF
George Barrow, author OF THE Bib e in
Spain, and we'll known from his asso-
cations with gypsie3 in Spain and else
where.
The Emperor Of Germany has con.
ferred upon Prof VIM. Dwight Whitney,
of Massachusetts, the order OF merit
made vacant by the death OF Thomas
Carlyle.
The Chief OF Police OF Rome has
beeu dismissed for neglect OF duty in
connection with the disturbance on the
occasion Of the removal of the remains
Of Pope Plus IN.
The strike OF the laborers in County
Cork, Ireland. is extending. Seven
meetings were held in different parts Of
the country yesterday, in support OF the
demand for increased wages.
The Immediate followers of Sitting
Bull, and the old gentleman himself,
have been loaded upon steamer and
sent off 10 Sanding Rock Agency. The
fallen rhieftain keeps alOOi from all per
sous.
The Spanish government ha1 ad-
dressed all energetic lemOnstran e t
the French government concerning the
alleged plundcring OF the Spanish Vice
q -. ION NJ 10 N.
ture OF ~iaN.
An IRISH landlord named Swanton was
tired at near Bally Drhoh, aud morIaIly
wounded Yesterday. Ills car driven s
hat was riddled with bullets SNanIOm
recently obtained an ejectment decree
against laOOrer.
The residents of Peoria freI certain
that the internal machines sent ID L'v-
erpool were made in the former city 10y
Peter Grove, an Irish enthusiast, but
London cablegram says the government
has information which sPoiis the cla'm.
The gauge OF the Illinois Central rail
road extension was on Saturday, chang
ed To the standard width from Cairo to
New Orleans. The track IS $50 miles IN
length, aud 5000 men completed the
task in eleven hours, at Il cost OF $500
900.
The Union Pacific railroad is said to
be upholding the Niobrara road,
parallel line, which is laying track
from Niobrara, Neb., to Rock Greek,
Wyoming, q distance OF four hundred
miles, sixty OF which have been COM
pleted.
Jack Hughes, one OF the villains who
served term in the Joliet prison for an
attempt to rob the grave of Abraham
Lincoln, has been identifed by James
CheasbrO, of Cortland, His, as the per-
son who knocked him down and took
500 from him on Friday last.
GeUeral Pope has ordered Lieutenant
Shoemaker and a company OF men to
report to Agent TUFTS, at Fort Sill, Tor
duty in the ChOctsw nation. They will
doubtless be used to expel white in
truders, and those who have been order
ed to leave have sent an attorney to
plead with Secretary HirkwOOd.