Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-26
THE NEWS
or the Day in Pithy Paragraphs

VI the Day I'm Filthy Paragraphs
Toronto shoe makers are on Q strike
for an Increase Of wages.
Itis reported tha, Stedman & Tuft
Boston brokers, have failed.
Fordham will ride Ksens's Foxhall in
the Prix de Paris, June 18th.
The tide OF emigration from the south
st Ireland is decreasing steadily.
Over two hundred promotions were
made in the P,nsion Bureau yesterday.
Commo iore Mutt, the dssrf, died Of
Bright's disease in-NeS York, yester-
day. .-.-- -
At Ottawa, yesterday, JENNY Rsine
ran a mile in 4:2s, the fastest time on
record.
The twelfth annual Grand Lodge Of
the Knights OF Pythias OF Ohio Is nov in
seSsiOn in Akron.
Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's
youngest son, has been given the title
Of Duke OF Albany.
wm. Att, one OF Napoleon's soldi ers
AZ Waterloo, died at Watertown, Wis,
yesterday, aged 81 years
Il is reported that Jay Gould has
gained control OF the Galveston, Hous-
ton aud Henderson railroad.
Suter, the Englishman who was cap
tured by Turkish brigands, has been
liberated, the ransom having been paid.
John Bush, convicted OF the murder
OF Annie Van Meter at Lexington, KY,
has been sentenced TO he hanged June
oath.
The valuation OF taxable property in
st. Louis has fallen of SIS, ,0O0, 900 SINCE
last year. An investigation has been
ordered.
A reunion OF the soldiers OF Beaver,
Butler. Washington, Mercer and Law
renee cuunties, Pa, is to be held at New
Castle, July 4th.
Awril was served on the Comptroller
Of TrEg Ssee Tuesday. enjoining him
sar."uber of the Funding Board from
funding the State debt.
IL is said that DR.. Lnring, the new
Commissioner OF Agriculture, does not
know a turuip from an artichoke, or q
field pea from Lima bean.
Senator Hoar is said 10 have been
promised that should Justice Clifford
leave the bench he will he succeeded by
Chief Justice Gray, OF Massachusetts,.
Central Illinois farmers report the
wheat crop suffering from the chInch-
bug ami hesSian hy, and thousands OF
acres are being plowed up to plant corn.
Three laborers were killed and two
seriously injured by the caving in Of an
embankment, Yesterday morning, on
the new cut OF the Pennsylvania rail-
road.
Disregarding the advice OF Senators
Mitchell aud Cameron, the President
made his own selection for surveyor OF
the port of Philadelphia, and the bosses
are highly indignant.
Signor Depretis, Minister OF the Inter-
ior in the Caeroli Cabinet, Italy, has
consented, at the request OF the King,
T. form a new Cabinet after being as.
sured of the support OF Signor Cseroi
and his friends.
A Senator at Washington declares
tEat every appointment made in the
New York Custom House is submitted
10 the Secretary OF the Treasury for
final approval, and that Mr.. Window is
in sympathy with that wing of the Re-
publican party which is now seeking
harmony.
Extensive preparations are being
made at santa Fe for a campaign against
the Utes. General Hatch has ordered
the Ninth cavalry, which has been
lighting Nictoria's band OF Apaches for
the past three years. 10 fourth sum-
mer's campaign sginst the Utes- Fears
of trouble with the Utes increase and
the chanches are that some OF the Fsvajo
bucks will also make trouble.
The managers Of the Brazilian hne
having concluded to give up that ser
vice, the Pacific Mail Steamship Com.
pany have become the purchasers of
their two steamships the City OF Rio De
Jansiro and the City-o OF Para. The last
named will take tine place Of the Crescent
City between New York and Aspinwall,
and the City of Rio De Janero will be
put on the route between San Francisco
and Panama