Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-03-25
which are shortIyto Give Wheeling
the Most Direct Communication
Possible East and West.
Fenianism In America to Be Su-
pressed --Grsat Land League
Meeting on the Tapis.
sIains's Book--Ths Ex-senator as
an Author. Story Ofthe Latest
Metropolitan DsfaleatiOn.
Sr,ecial Dispatch to the S,sndqy Register.

Special Dispatch TO the Sunday Register.
NEW YoRK March 2L-The charter re-
Gently granted to the South Pennsylvania
Railroad company by the Pennsylvania
legislature II for the connecting link ola
projected trunk line between this city and
Cincinnati. The South Pennsylvania, sur
veys for which have been completed, eX.
tends from Wheeling, West Virginia, to
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. There con-
nectiOn is made with the Reading system
10 Philadelphia and this city. The west
ern portion Of the route is the Cincinnati,
Wheeling and New York railroad, which is
now in process of building. This latter
road, with its two branches, one tapping
the Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley and
Wheeling road at Freeport, and the other
extending south from the main line at
MeCOnneIIsyIIIet 90 Marietta,
will be 600 miles in length. Of this only
l2SI miles, from Senecayille to CUmber-
land, is built and in operation, though -
miles are graded for track-laying and will
soon be ready for business. The road will
be capitalized at SIS, 1888 per mile, and
will be bonded at $4,000 per mile first
mortgage, and $4,000 per mile income
bonds. as cons,ruc; led. The South Penn
sylvania Company has not been fully
organized as yet, b. q syndicate Of Penn
sylyanis capitalists said to be back of the
project, who stand ready to push the
scheme to comple;i a. The projected
ruutr would make a line from this city TO
Cincinnati 20 miles shorter than the
Penn>y lyania road, 100 miles shorter than
the Baltimore and Ohio, 1S6 miles shorter
tLan the New York Central, aad Isl miles
shorter than the Erie.
The Government TO Put n Stop TO Fe-
nian Preparations
\ sun Washington special to-day says:
The report printed in today's Sun that
the British government had directed Min
lister West to call the attention of our gov
ernment to the acts and utterances of the
Irish leaders in this country has excited
no small attention here to-day, and it is
generally understood that there has been
some sort of correspondence on the sub
i ject. No one who would be likely to know
the facts would go into the particulars, but
Minister West told a reporter for the Sun
tonight that the matter had been settled
as satisfactorily as he could wish. He
added he was much pleased with the arti-
acle in the Sun and said that everything
was entirely correct, as stated. You
see, he went on, the majority Of Ameri-
csn people are all right, but in England
the people view the thing differently.
They do not distinguish, as 90, the differ
ence between an expression an from Irish
American citizen, such as Fenerty, and
an expression from the mass of American
people, and the English government in
State department to the matter not as IN
eating that there already existed bad
feeling but in order that a misunderstand-
ing might not occur. They felt such eX-
presSiOns, to say the least, were unkind
and not fraternal and the fact that they
were tolerated and permitted, must endan-
ger pleasant relations.
1t is understood that an interview has
been had between the Secretary OF State
and Minister West at which the
FenIan Threats were Discussed.
and at this conference Mr.. Frelinghuysen
assured Mr.. West this Government would
not permit the open and ayowed collection
OF money or forwarding of weapons to Ire
land for the purposes of assassination or
other criminal acts.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen held, however, that
fhe government had no power to prevent
talk so long as it consisted of generalities.
in other words he assured Mr.. West that
the government would be careful to OBJ
serve the we'll known and accepted laws OF
nations in this particular. 1t is doubtful il
any more formal communications have
passsd between the two governments on
the subject.
An Immense Land League Meeting TO
be Held ia Philadelphia
James Mooney, Rev. Lawrence Walsh
and John J. HYnes, council for the Land
League OF America, have issued call for
a general convention of that body to be
held in Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia,
April 25, at II \. NJ. Parnell and Esan
will be present. Egan. President Mooney
and Michael BOland, chairman Of the coma
.nittse of seven appointed by the Irish Ma.
tional convention, held at Chicago, also
issued q call for an Irish American National
.conyention to be held in the same place as
the Land League meeting, but on the fol.
lowing day. All Irish American temper
ance. literary, military, musical and Patri-
..otic organizations are eligible to rePresen-
tatiOn.