Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-16
THE NEWS.

i THE NEWS.
FIN. Eastern question grows harder OF
s,ntion every day.
More attempts at assassination are re-
.,r,ed from Ireland.
Another massacre or JEWISH I'i'''5
3. announced from Russia.
A Washington dispatch announces
-.r,eap, Mason'S trial will begin on
Monday.
Tbeoption spectators are SUFFERING
a tbere does not seem to be much
,vmpathy for them.
The people Of Bismarck have organ
:,.I q rompany with S2,OOO,OOo capital,
- b,,ild road of $50 miles toward MAN.
uoba.
II costs S.s,0OOo per year to maintain
q forcc at Castle Garden, New York, TO
axe charge of the tremendous immi-
grafton.
Bishop wightman, Of the Methodist
Episcopal church, died at Charleston
:. C., yesterday.
Canadian exports of the last fiscal
wear exceeded the previous year by
S1nOOO,OOO. The increase is wholly In
,be trade with Great Britain.
Richard Egan, stone cutter, anu John
Pox. \ blacksmith, both of Troy, y. y,
,p. training for a fight, the winner Of
which i, to challenge Sullivan.
Mr.. joyce. chairman of the House
committee on Pensions, does not look
IN any Substantial change in the PEN
SON laws rs probable.
The silver Valley Mine, in Davidson
.ountv. y. C., employs about eighty
hands. and produces five tons of con-
.,ntrated ore daily, which is valued at
$40 per ton.
The man who expects To adjust the
~npc sruund Guiteau'S neck is named
Robert Strong. lie has had enough
practice to make him proficient. He
>svs that, although Guiteau seems brave
now, hc expects to See him die like a
ruT.
seven watchers with clubs couldn't
prevent ghost from holding carnival
IN \ vacant Vermont farm house, but
good healthy skunk, let loose in the
building, sent the ghostly visitor away
On the gallop. There's your remedy for
-hn~tS.
The pressure for tickets To the Gar
field Memorial services in the House of
Representatives is enormous. 1t is sta
trd that the supply was long ago ex-
Aau>ted Applications are pouring in
irom all parts of the country, and it is
evident that the audience will he of an
extraordinary character.
A fashionable young lady at IaneS-
vile, Ohio, astonished a den Of GAM
blerS by walking into their kenO-roOm
with policeman. She found her young
brother, for whom she was in search,
and marched him home. She also dur
ing her briefstay gathered enough solid
facts to cause the arrest and conviction
Of the pOprietOrs.
The present debt of France in round
numbers is 2O,OOO,OOO,OOO francs; of
Great Britain, GTS4,OOO, 900; of the
United States, 81, T62, 49l 900. The pub
lie debt of France is only e2O,OOO,OOO
greater than the debt of Great Britain,
ANA the debt of the latter is more than
twice as large n the debt of the United
States.
4 fresh irruptiOn of insurance agents
has been experienced in Pennsylvania.
They canvass among the poorer classes
and take risks upon thelives Of children
against the diseases usual in childhood.
Measles is one price, scarlet fever. comes
higher, and the whole list goes at the
top rate. 1t is vigorously denounced 10y
the newspapers as a swindle.
The revised constitution of san Do
mingo has been promulgated. 1t pro-
vidCs that slaves are to be free from the
moment they enter the Republic. All
male citizens of the age of eighteen and
upwards, are to have the right to vote.
The Presidential term is to betwo years,
and the President is not to be eligible
Tor reelection, unless term has inter-
vcned.
Ii is announced from the Hot Springs
Of Arkansas, that eX-GOv. Washburne,
Of Maine, has reached there, where he
his brother, cX-Gov Washbune, of
Wisconsin, and where he expects to
meet his brother, eX-GOv. Washburne,
Of Illinois, and where there is a chance
of his meeting later on his other brother,
Congressman and can-bc-governOr-
Observation-Disclosures, WaShburne, of
Minnesota.
The news from Arabia is disquieting,
and causes some anxiety to the Turkish
government. The insurrecIion there,
which has for its motive the rehabilita'
ton of MANUEL ISLAM as the head OF
the Mohammedan people throughout
Europe, Asia and Africa, is increasing.
The movement has deep root in the
religious feelings of the Mohammedans,
and threatens to become the cause of
considerable trouble.