Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-14
ABsaa SisTED DISPATCHES.

The total Number of immigrants landed
at Castle Garden last week was 1895.
A business meeting of the Society of Bsr-
lin masons wes dissolved last night by the
police.
Abdul Muta1itil, formerly Grand Sheriff
of Mecca has embarked at Yeddah for Gen.
stantinople.
Michael Lee, sentenced to be hanged at
Ottawa, Ont, Tomorrow, has been re-
spited until December 1st
An effort is q be made at the coming
session of Congress TO reduce patent fees
from thirty dollars TO one dollar.
A colliery explosion occurred at 0ber-
Vettes Green, Saxony, yesterday. Thirty
three persons were badly wounded.
An entire negfo family was consumed,
with their log hnt, by fire on Thursday
night near Lunenburg Court House, Vir-
ginia.
In consequence Of the fight between
Western railroads the rate between Mime
apolis and st. Panl to Chicago is only five
dollars.
A st. Petersburg telegram says a prairie
fire on the Monongolian frontier, has burn
ed over an area sof 10 square miles, and
consumed many villages.
Thorough organization, followed by wise
action, is the remedy recommended by the
Boston, .Gsntrai Trades and Labor Union,
for the grievancesiof wage workers.
1t is expected and predicted in well in
formed official circles that the German
Reichstag will finish its work and reach an
adjournment by. the Easter holidays.
The courts in Philadelphia decided in
favor of the United States Mutual Acciden-
tai Association, which refused TO pay the
10 ls..lf l.,, L.,
poison accidentally.
A New York telegram says: Sixty wo-
men, young and old, were arrested last
night as street walkers on the east side of
the city. The whole batch were committed
to the workhouse for six months.
King Alfonso yesterday telegraphed the
wish 10 Cuba that the money which
would otherwise be used to celebrate the
birth of the infant Spanish princess, be
used to relieve the sufferers by the late
cyclone.
The Russian ambassador at Constantine
pie admits that it will be necessary to send
letters of recall to the Russian consul gene
raj at Phillippopolis because of his unau-
thOrized and improper interference in the
election there.
The Governor OF Vermont yesterday
vetoed the bill to pay the Ruthland
National Bank the expenses incurred by 1t
in effecting the arrest of a defaulting and
absconding teller, on the ground that the
bin would establish bad precedent.
A Cairo telegram says the native popula-
ton in the Delta is in great destitution on
account of the failure of their chief means
of sustenance, the rice crop. Unless aid is
given them by the government it is feared
many deaths from starvation will ensue.
The Supreme Court has modified the rule
as to the charges by the clerk for making
copies of records. Hereafter if no copy is
made only half the fee can be charged.
The practice has been under the printing
rule TO send the original manuscript to
the printer, and the supervising clerk be
allowed to charge for copy by the approval
of the court.
There is considerable discussion over the
awarding of the contract for dredging the
Potomac flats. It is said the Washington
bidders have been bought off in order that
the contract may go to the NEXT lowest bid
der, who il New York man. There is
talk of bringing the subject to the atten-
ton of the Commissioners of the District
when Congress assemblies, and considerable
discomfort is shown that anything occurred
involving delay in the work, which it is
generally recognized should be done at the
earliest possible moment.