Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nine. Albani has presented $500 to the
city charities of Montreal
Mr.. Parneu will sail for the United States
the second week in April.
John Brown, the queens late servant
left a fortune Of over SI,OoOOOo.
The Legislature Of Wisconsin has de-
cided to adjourn sine die on Wednesday
April 1.
At the last leVee in London there were
but twenty, five civilians among some 400
gentlemen who attended it.
According to a correspondent Of the st.
Louis Republican, Gen. Crook is severely
criticised by the Arizoniaas for failing to
put down the Indian riots.
Lieutenant Danenhower, of the Jean
netts expedition, was granted one years
leave Of absence from yesterday.
The Infanta Maria Della Paz, sister OF
King Alfonso, vii! be married tomorrow
10 Prince Ferdinand, Of Bavaria.
The Minnesota State officers have sigued
apetition urging the appointment of Mark
ii. Dunnell as Postmaster General
Alta meeting of the Geographical Society
in Frankfort, yesterday,the resumption OF
the Polar expedition was advocated.
An officer Of the Emperor Williams body
guard committed suicide in Berlin yesser-
day by shooting himself with pistol.
The American expedition sent to Pati.
conia to observe the transit Of Venus, has
arrived at Liverpool on their way home.
Antonio Luis Schultz & Co, Of London,
general merchants and cigar importers,
have failed. Their liabilities are $4,000.
NJ. Leon Say, in his recent speech at
Lyons, declared that he was in favor OF
opening free trade campaign in France.
In the trial OF Buffalo priest for an as
sault on a child, every member of church,
whether Roman Catholic or Protestant,
was kept from the jury.
The Roman Court Of Appeal has coz
frned Ysler,an's sentence OF three years
or having thrown stones into the Aus
trian Ambassadors carriage.
In New York and TarrYtown the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth oil
Washington Irving will be appropriately
celebrated. April Sd is the day.
The ST Gotbard Railroad is evidently
doing great deal for Italy. Among other
benefits, it has developed an egg trade
which promises TO be of vast magnitude.
Charges Of corruption in the collection
of taxes have been made to the Sultan OF
Turkey against several members Of his cab
met. The Sultan refuses to entertain the
charges.
Stealing watermelons has assumed the
PROPORTIONS Of a serious crime in Illinois.
Seven young men who engaged in that
pleasant pastime last summer have just
been convicted Of rioting.
The preparations for the Cars corona
ton are OF enormous magnitude. Moscow
glass factories and potteries have received
orders for 100000 brandy and liquor glasses
Of strong make and various coloIs, stamped
with the imperial arms.
Colonel F. A. Conkling, of New York,
charges that the knit goods trade expended
$4,000 in influencing Congressional action
upon the tariff BILL and declares that
Senator Warner Miller took a foremost
part in the transactions.
Mr.. Tabor, it is understood, will make a
bard fight to succeed Senator Hill in the
United States Senate. He says that he has
occupied seat in that body just lonG
enough TO convince him that, With little
more practice, he would take high rank
among the nations statesmen.
The local campaign in Springfield, o., Is
Of the volcanic variety. Burning Laws
flows through the streets and alleys. A
correspondent writes: There has moi
been single issue Of q newspaper in this
city for over two weeks in which some one
was not called liar" Curiously, ne libel
suit is yet reported, and no blood has been
spilled.
At the funeral of Mr.. Samuel Burden, oil
RaYeuswoOd, L. l., the father OF the de
ceased ordered the undertaken to compel {
coach containing the wife and children o.
the dead man to leave the procession. The
driver Of the coach refused to so. The
father called upon a constable to arrest
the driver, when the nephew warned the
officer not to interfere. The constable le
the widow and orphans so to the grave.
A fanatic in Alabama, who for several
months has been preaching Mormonism, or
religion closely resembling it, has come
TO grief His polygamous teachings, il
appears, were listened to by many fanilie:
on account Of the acceptance they obtained
n few days ago a man whose domestic
peace had been thus disturbed waylaid the
Mormon preacher and shot him. Il is not
always safe to preach Mormonism outside
Of Utah. The Utah commission would dc
well to keep out Of Alabama