Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-20
The NEWS IN BRIEF.


At the New Orleans wrestling match, be-
tween Ross and Bauer, the latter won.
Rewards are being offered in Indiana for
the apprehension of the ''oarn burners"
A telegram from Lisbon says the Buck
nell cork factory has been burned. Loss,
$4,000.
The regatta Of the Mississippi Rowing
Association will be held at Pullman, ILL.,,
July 9th and 18th.
-Four men were buried under falling
wall in Bloomington, Ind, and three Of
them fatally injured.
Several persons were injured st a circus
in New Orleans. One Of the tents caught
fire and caused a panic.
Lafayette Ind, is excited over quarrel
between two editors of that place, whichre-
suited in q knock down.
At Williamsburg. XIV, an old man
named Darnell was msrdered Sunday
morning BY Jesse Water, section hand.
The parish priest at Widnes, in Ian
cashire, received by mail box which was
found on examination to contain dyna-
mite.
The English speaking Socialists Of Gin
cinnatl have effected a new organization,
aad meetings will be held for the purpose
OF agitation.
Robson & Crane have leased lot on
Randolph street, opposite the Central
Music Hall. Chicago, and will build
thes,er TO cost 100000.
A decree Of divorce has been granted 10
Z the wife of Rev. Joseph Z. Martin, OF
Lafayette, Ind, on the ground of failure
20 provide for her and harsh treatment.
The army and navy officers on duty in
Washington have the reputation of con-
stituting the most audacious and intuen-
tisl lobby with which Congress is afflicted.
The story is told that the authority to
locate the Capital nfDakOta isin the hands
of q syndicate Of l. I'd spectators whe eN-
Fect to buy up al. The lots and realize a
profit OF s., 10000.
The people of Min en-, a cotton center in
Mississippi, will grade q road from their
town To the main stem OF the Cincinnati,
. New orleans anu AeAAS dCAllC SgSNSuAr II
that company will iron and operate it.
The circumstances attending the death
OF Frlnce GortSchakof promise 70 reveal
Que of the most startling political crimes Of
The age. There appears TO be no longer
any question of his having been poisoned.
4 Tie annual meeting of the American
Tract Society was held in Washington.
Justice Strong presided. The secretary
preserted his report, showing total re-
t Ceipts for the year of sS73,OOO; eIpendi-
tures. S36S, ,OCO; donations and legscies,
slOO 400.
A heavy storm is raging in Scotland with
snow. Railway travel is suspended. A
number of boats have been driven from
& their moorings in FindOn haroor and
wrecked. Large quantities of wreckage
have been washed ashore on the coast of
Aberdeenshire.
Superintendent Snowden, Of the Phila-
delphia mint, says that the dies Of the al
tered design of the new fve-cent pieces
will not be ready for two or three weeks,
and the altered coin cannot be issued till
then. The nickles now in circulation, he
said will not be called in. At the request
OF the Secretary Of the Treasury, Superin-
;eudent Snowden will start to-day for New
Orleans 10 investigate the recent issuing of
coin from the mint in that city which was
: found to be below the standard.
81 Charles Henry Lee, colored, tried at
R:Chmond, Va, for killing Daniel Miller,
was on Saturday found guilty of murder
6n the first degree. \ motion for a new
trial will he beard on Tuesday. This is
the case in which Barbara Miller, wife Of
llthc deceased, and Lee were arrested on sus-
t.picion of Numbering Miller and placing
bis body on the railroad track to create the
Suppression that the man was killed by the
train. Barbara subsequently confessed,
6mplicsting Lee. She will also De indicted
b. q tried.
4 dispatch from Dublin says: Archbishop
truke writes to the Freeman's Journal ten
eering subscription Of $50 to the Parnell
Testimonial fund, ard strongly eulogizing
fhe Irish leader Mr.. Psrnell he says, has
esrued for himself the bitter hatred and
possibly the sxecrstion OF Mr.. Forster and
: associates aud Of every enemy Of Ire
hnd Archbishop Croke suggests the for
n alton Of q national committee, composed
of dozen gentlemen like E. Dwyer Gray
Snd the Lord Mayor, to take charge Of the
matter and to appeal TO Irishmen at home
snd abroad.