Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

lnE N6uS iN pnlGEs
The safe Of the Academy of Music in New
ork was robbed by burglars Of $S,s75.
Coal TO the amount Of $685., 900 bushels
Is slready left Pittsburgh on the recent
The Chicago Young Mems Christian AS
istion has a membership OF three thou
nj.
The Washington Sunday Gazette nomi-
s:es Thomas L. Young for Governor of
q be.
gm Robinson, the bare back circus rider,
sold his farm in Missouri for $4,000
feash. 1t contained 92O acres.
SIX thousand people in St. Louis broke
ae Sabbath in order to witness the first
base ball game of the season.
\ lively contest has begun in New Hamp-
sllire Tor l. S. Senator Rollins seat. The
j gislature will meet in June,
Theodore Thomas is in New York, busy
Nith preparations for his transcontnental
fpur which is to begin in Baltimore April
a;h.
The supreme Court of Illinois held that
Seeyng car companies are common carriers,
helonging 10 the same category as railroad
SoDpanies.
II Lieutenant Dannehover, of the Jean
netre expedition, has been granted leave
,ei absence for one year, owing to his i'm.
barred eyesight.
The clergy of Chicago spoke very gene
ra.,y OF the coming election Sunday.
1ghe;r remarks, as a rule, were against the
n election Of Mayor Harrison.
John Williams, a negro, outraged Rhody
Davis, respectable white lady, near Dres-
H.. Navarro county, Texas. \ hundred
y e. are securing the country for him.
4 IT. Worth, Texas, special says: Paul
I II, aged seventeen, outraged q six-year-
d. daughter Of Doctor Mcdaniel. He has
bccD captured and lodged in Jail. The girls
&!e is despaired Of.
Three little boys at play at Louisville,
~. got hold Of a powder flask, laid train
oi powder and touc' ed il off, exploding the
fask and painfully lrning each of them.
o. ,.t,!e fellow naI.. Rice will lose both
a..
pr. Geo. Buchanan, son Of the famous
bpgu, diploma doctor, John Buchanan, has
hrn convicted in Philadelphia of having
caused the death of Elizabeth Holstein by
. criminal surgical operation. \ motion
Vas made for a new trial.
Dietrich Comman, agardener, committed
suicide at Dayton, o., Friday night by
tbroving himself in the canal. 1t is sup
posed that he was intoxicated at the time
His body was found Saturday and identi-
fed - his former employer.
The experiment OF carrying weather sig
mas on passenger trains on the Cleveland,
Akrun snd Columbus railroad will be tried
ths week. The signals are about two feet
In diameter, and can readily be distin-
gpi,hed from One-toUrth to half mile.
a negro hailing from Crab Orchard, KY,
supposed to be an escaped convict, took
refuge in house in Missouri town. The
ofiCers who attempted to arrest him were
Wounded and had to burn the house in
orjer to drive him out. He was struck by
tEO bullets.
Railway managers in England will or
ganIze protection corps. Their duty will
he TO watch suspicious looking persons
trayeling on their roads, and guard against
the carriage of parcels supposed to be for
use in the prosecution OF unlawful and dis
loyal designs.
4 fall Of substance resembling sulphur
Is reported to have taken place on three
scCc>siye nights in the vicinity of Prince
tpn. by. The people thereabout are great
u sgitated. They believe that the earth
ID about 70 be covered with a coating of
a. phur in order that it will burn readily.
\ petition bearing two thousand names,
over two hundred of which are those of the
81 u ladies' Of Louisville, Ky, has been pre-
senitI to Governor Blackburn, asking for
the pardon Of Dave Ferguson, the embez'
xEDg tax receiver, who is under five years
selt,uce. The Governor refuses to issue
4ot laTuOn.
FTle New York Herald Commissioner has
celu pleted his down river trip for the. re-
lei ii the flood sufferers, and has distribu
ted about 81, 90. lie will now return TO
Cincinnati, and there determine the
an o,nt 10 be yet distributed to the towns
and country committees, so that the Herald
Hoo Fund may be fairly and equally dis
txiLw:ed throughout the whole valley.
Ia slight earthquake occurred at San
Fer cisco on Friday morning last. Fur
DE- south the shock was heavy. At Wat
sonville nine shocks were felt, breaking
crockery, Plastering, etc. At Hollister
plste class windows were smashed and
Nick buildings cracked. \ temporary
nanic ensued. The streets were filed with
Inhabitants and many were injured