Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-29
THE NEWS
OF the Day In Pithy Paragraphs

Boycottlng Is increasing IN Ireland
The Michigan relief fund in New YorI
amounts to S74, 100,
There was q reunion Of ex-Conieder
stes at Moberly, Missouri, yesterday.
One thousand houses have been rem
dsred uninhabitable in Alruzzi, Italy
by an earthquake.
Senator Fair, OF Nevada, has paired
with Senator Platt, OF Connecticut, and
will not come East. -
Subscriptions have been opened in
New York for a fund for the mother oi
President Garfield.
King Kalaukua and party will soor
90 to Yorktown and Fortress Monroe in
q government vessel.
Twenty warehouses have been de-
stroyed by FIRE in Moscow, and the con
fiagration is still raging.
The CRANKY stakes at New Market,
England, yesterday, were won oy
Keene's Golden Gate"
The Massachusetts, Prohibitory State
Convention met in Boston yesterday,
ana nominated q full State ticket.
A fire at Bryan, Texas, yesterday,
DESTROYED the principal business bssck
m ths tovn. including the postottice.
Near orrviile, Cal, E r. Sprou1 shot
and killed Jas. Andrews, mistaking him
Tor J. r. Espie, who had ssduced his
wife.
Wm. Walter Phelps, U. S. Minister at
Vienna, has asked to be relieved OF his
position as soon as = successor can reach
Vienna.
The second New York Assembly Dis
trict. st. Lawrence and Allegheny coun-
ties. elected anti.St.Ilwsrt delegates to
the Safe Convention.
The indictment for embezzlemeut
against x-COngressman G. II. voorhees,,
was yesterday quaShed IN the U. >.
Court, at Trenton, \. J.
1t is reported that Col. Rockwell will
be retired from the position Ot Superin-
tendent OF Public Buildings and
Grounds at Washington.
A collision is reported to have oc-
CURED on the International road, near
Paestine, Texas, in which fourteen
eight cars were wrecked.
The Western Nail Association, at its
regular quarterly meeting at Pittsburgh.
Yesterday, advanced the card rate to
s. 25, an advance OF - cents.
The Old Man Eloquent" DR.. Ter.
re I, OF Orange county, Va, sged 50, has
h, en- nominated By the Democrats OF
h county iOr the House OF Delegates.
Queen Victora has sent warm ex-
preston oil sympathy to Mother Gar
field and the widow OF the late Presi-
dent, and asks for a good photograph OF
GENERAL Garfield.
The threatened strike OF coal miners
in Pittsburgh, Pa , district, has been
averted by the miners Withdrawing their
demand for an increase ot hve cents per
bushel for mining.
A Paris dispatch says France desires
10 force a treaty on the King Of rOnqaln,
and there will be a repetition OF the
Tunis affair there, and China would
probably take hand in the difficulty.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad Company, the Norfolk
and Western and Shenandoah Valley
Railroad have consolidated, HDder the
name OF the Virginia, Tennessee and
GeOrgiS Air Line.
A Mr.. Bayley, an Office holder, has
fled a sworn statement that he over
heard two men plotting the asslsslua'
ton OF President Arthur, in front OF his
window on Monday night. But little
importance is attached to the matter
Judge Mackey, of Montreal, Canada,
has refused Henry MullhOliand, late oil
the firm of Mullholland " Baker, hard
ware merchants, his discharge in inSol-
vency. The failure OF the house some
wears ago, involved liabilities u the
amount of $42O. coo; deficit S1SO,OOO.
The stockholders of the Wabash com
pany met yesterday and confirmed the
consolidation oi the ptnvlll", south
western aud Cairo aud Niucpnnes rail
roads, making line direct from Dan
Vile to Cairo, Illinois; also the leasing
of the st. Louis bridge and tunnel 10 the
Wabash and Missouri Pacific lines.