Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Rio Grande-MonteVideo cable Is IN
tsrruPted.
Allen Spencer, aged so was kicked to
death by a horse at East CiaidOn, o.
1t is predicted by Professor Sorokiu that
The cholera will prevail in Russia this
year.
The wife OF Michael Barrett Of Louis
VILE, gave birth to triPlets, Sunday, all
loys.
James Cameron, aged lOS years, died at
the Home for Aged Men, ir Albany on
Saturday.
An outbreak Of typhoid fever has caused
the deaf and numb institute at Belleyiiie,
Ont, to close its doors.
-Four young ladies and a boy were
drowned by the apsetting OF a boat hear
New Bedford, Mass, Sunday.
The New Jersey Court of Chsncery has
pronounced the Globe Rubber Company,
Of Trenton, fraudulent concern.
Tip Harrison, his brother and Sid Ward
ousrrc,ed over q game OF cards at Harveys-
bury, o.. and Tip was fatally shot by Ward
in the fight which ensued.
During a severe storm at Farmersville
Is, u. Stein & COS fire wall was blown
down. demolishing II. c. GlaSson's saloon.
Glas>on was killed aad W. A. Darby prob
ably fatally injured.
Antonio Tsliesa died at Patterson, n. j.,
q saturday, from the effects Of an injury
10 lrs ear. \ practical joker fired some
cotton waste under Igliesa while the latter
wss riyeting boiler, thus causing the in
.ury.
George Brimmer, John Wertz and Alex
aadsr Lamar, of Lancaster Pa, convicted
a.: arson, were sentenced on Saturday,
trimmer 70 sixteen yeaas' imprisonment,
Vert ten and LAman three in the county
I-.son.
Lacy Garland, white woman, has been
conn uirted to jail in Nelson county, Va,
iu- the murder of 5er infant grandson.
TLeChl1d's body Wa, 'Ound in fence cor
ner, with the head t. lst into an old cop
Per pot.
Superintendent Tho npson has arranged
with the railroad and steamboat lines run
ming from Boston to Washington for large
reduction of passenger rates during the
reunion of the Army of the Potomac in
Washington in May next.
The boiler in the yarn mill of Reser 4
Scoteld, Evansville, Ind, exploded Satur-
day, instantly killing Ferdinand Schult-
CLiz. Three sheets of the boiler were
blown over three hundred feet from the
building, making a wreck Of the mill.
Another attempt was made on Saturday
in Chicsgo to form pool on marine
cargo insurance, but there were evidences
oi a thorough lack Of co operation, and it
is believed it will be the last attempt made
during the present season.
The alleged box of dynamite sent from
Newark, Y. j., by the Adams Express and
turned over at Chicago to the American
Express to the Milwaukee Central Com
pany. was opened on Saturday and found
10 contain fuse for blasting purposes.
\ heavy snow and wind storm, acSom-
panied by thunder and lightning, prevailed
generally throughout Colorado on SAtur-
day. IL was most severe in the mountain
towns. Houses were unrooied and miles
Of telegraph poles blown down.
Thomas H. Paul < Son, locomotive
builders and machinists, Baltimore, a new
firm only recently begun operations, have
made an assignment. The works are ex-
ien>.ye. No statement of liabilities made
public. \ large number Of men are
thrown out of employment.
Milford FishmaR, a merchant oil Wash
/ ircton, D. c., has brought suit against
i United States Marshal Clayton McMichal
for $4,000 damages, alleged to have been
sustained by him through all unlawful en-
Try OF his place of business sad seizure OF
stock by the Marshals officers.
4 Joint stock company known as the
i Swift Creek Cotton Misunderstanding Com
i pany, of Virginia, has been organized in
j Petersburg, Va. 7. Arlington, Of Peters
burg, is the President, The capital stock is
4 500 OOO, 5000 of which has already been
paid in. The mills of the company are sit
1 uatCd in Chesterfield county.
Il. II. Melroy, of the Yakima Indian
Agency, Washington Territory, writes to
q the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that
the recent trouble between the Indians Of
his agency and the white settlers arose from
a Quarrel occasioned by the scattering of
b poisoned meat near the camp of the In
oisns. on the Columbia river, by one Of the
white settlers.
The managers of the Garfield Memorial
j Hospital have purchased piece OF proper
" situated in the suburbs of Washington
at cost of $637, 900. The money to be re-
) allied from the sale of the Soldiers and
d Sailors Orphan Asylum property, which
was donated to the Garfield Hospital, will
s be devoted to the erection of the hospital
+. building upon the land just purchased.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has received report showing that the num-
& Der OF Illicit stills captured, persons arrest
cd and casualties in toe internal revenue
i service in connection with the seizure Of
d Illicit stills from July l, 1876, TO March l,
l>>3 were as follows: Stills seized, 6,37l;
Persons arrested, 62O; officers and employees
killed. 50; officers and employees wounded,
! ;6.
There was intense excitement at Atlanta,
la, on Saturday, over an attempt to lynch
. negro named Leonidas Johnson, con-
q yiC:ed on a charge Of outrage. After his
Sentence to % years Imprisonment Mrs.
4 Cook appeared snd declared he had COM
mitted a similar crime on her. Indignant
citizens attempted TO lynch Johnson and
were only prevented by the guard opening
IRE with blank cartridges on the crowd.