Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-11
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Henry Vance died OF small-pox, near
Charleston, W, Va, Sunday.
The Board OF Stewards Of the Rochester
rrotting Circuit meet May s.
At Deasoavilne, Miss, John Moriarty
&shot James w. Ricketts, dead.
Howard, postoffice clerk, at Atlanta,
Ga. has been convicted of robbing the
mails.
Henry Carter, of Raleigh, N. c., was muir
gdered by his wife and Benjamin Gillian
,sH colored.
George Rose has been arrested up
kanawha suspected Of being connected
with the Pauley counterfeiting gang.
EThe anniversary of Lees surrender was
celebrated bya campfire Of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Elmirs, y. Y.
A Port Worth, Texas, special says:
Twenty.four prisoners escaped from the
Jail. All were recaptured excepting four.
Frsnk Mcconnell, a prominent physi-
scian OF Greenville, Ill, was kicked TO
death by his fayorits horse Monday night.
The rail mills of Pittsburgh are reported
10 bave orders for all their production up
no August, at about $50 ton at the mills
The Dominion Government has been
asked to grant an appropriation for per-
snanent exhibition Of Canadian products in
Paris.
Last Saturday Taylor Musseman was ar
rested up Kanawha for burning the stables
,of the Winifrede coal company in May,
1SS2.
At Oskaloosa, Iowa, Congressman Cuts,
OF the Sixth Iowa district, is lying in very
critical condition from peritonitis, and 1t
Is believed cannot live.
Over three hundred Italian immigrants
arrived in Pittsburgh yesterday over the
Pennsylvania Railroad. They go TO work
mo the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Cornetti. who has been sentenced to be
hapred at White plains, n. Y, on May
nth, refuses to eat. I'D has become COM
pleteIy prostrated ON lack Of nour-
khment
Jan Is Parker and T. WoOdman, two
men Who few days az robbed a safe at
Fors, the. No, of $500 OF the county funds,
Mere sentenced to eight years in the peni-
sntisry.
In the paper image case at Boston. Of
Lizzie Cannon vs.. Archbishop Williams
and Father Fleming, suit against the Arch
bishop was ISithdrawn, and the latter was
.erntiDued,
The Lyman cotton mill in North Proyi-
,6ence, Il. l.. owned by H. c. White, and
run by E. X. Johnson, burned this morn
ing. Loss, $4,000. Fifty operatives are
Brown out of work.
The Louisiana Supreme Court oyerruled
The order of the lower Court and refused a
mandamus requiring the city of New Or
leans to levy tax of S650,O0O to pay inter
est on consolidated bonds.
Three young men, named Sharpe, Sto-
val and Cowart, got into a quarrel and
hight with Jim Russell and several other
negroes at Decatur, Ala, Saturday night,
and Russell was shot and killed.
THE latest adgices from the scene Of the
Sunday cyclone in the eastern part OF
Arkansas say fifty houses were destroyed
and ten persons were killed, and over
swenty injured more or less seriously.
8 George Holm, of Canton, o., in attempt
ing to cross the east branch of the Minis
hiilen river, swampeG his horse in hole
some twelve feet deep and it was drowned.
Holm barely succeeded in reaching the
shoe
Yesterday morning about two o'clock
burglars entered the Virginia House,
Rochester. Beaver county, Pa, and sue
,ceeded in blowing open the safe in the
pffce. There were $3.50 and a number of
cAecks stolen.
At Leavenworth, Kansas, Charles Fou-
lree, lshorer, was struck by a wrench
falling from above, which knocked him
through the elevator Of the sugar works.
lie fell--seven stories, sixty feet, and was
picked up shaPeless mass.
AT Chicago squads of striking bricklayers
were on duty yesterday in the vicinity Of
buildings in the course OF erection to pre-
vent the engagement Of new hands. A
large force Of men are expected from ST.
Louis and trou bic is feared.
Edward Murphy, once we'll known as a
rich gambler, died in his cell at the Essex
Market prison, in New York, of supposed
apoplexy, last night He was at one time
Worth $4,000 and member Of council.
= Under Tweed ne held variety of Offices.
The editor Of the Kenney Gazette, in
DeNitt county, III, has beeA writing up
the hoodlums Of his town, and kas been
getting letters warning him to stop. One
might this week q coffin box was left at his
door. He now proposes to fight the hood.
lums to the bitter end, let come what will.
I'm. Fowler, a rabid prohibitionist, Of
Mount Vernon, o., who has a drunken
son, announced TO the latter that the next
time be (the SOM went on a spree ne (the
father would accompany him, and kept his
word Saturday night by not only drinking
with the son, but by visiting houses of i'll
fame, whereat the community is Mortified,
as the citizens of Mount Vernon do moi
consider the last proceeding necessary to
the moral reformation Of the son.
StenbenVilIe.
SpeciGl Dispatch 20 the RegiSter,