Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The wooden mills at Mexico, Mo-, were
partially destroyed by FIRE. The loss is
about Sc, ,OtO; Insurance 10000.
A gang of eonvicts working on the rail-
road near Ciscoe. Texas, attempted to es-
cape and two of them were shot dead.
In the Monroe county, Ga, court
Henry Green was sentenced to he hanged
May 25, for the murder Of Root Traywich.
The boiler Of saw mill at Abbottsford
Wis, exploded, killing the engineer, Chas.
Hogansen, and slightly injuring three
other men.
An Anarchist meeting was held IN Gene
va, Saturday evening, at which the exist
ing social system was denounced as Or
sanized infamy.
DR.. David o. Farrand, one of the most
eminent physicians of Detroit, Mich, died
yesterday morning from disease of the
krain, after brief illness.
julius Marcus, the New York broker who
was released oD a babeas corpus at Port
land. Oregon. was re-arrested on full war
rant telegraphed from New York,
A memorial mass meeting in honor OF
Karl Marx was held py the workingmen Of
Brooklyn, n. Y, yesterday. DR.. Adolph
Donar delivered the memorial address.
A fire at New Philadelphia, o., Saturday
damaged GlauSer's repair shops, and total
ly destroyed Sharp & Sons machine shops
and warehouse. Loss, lOOOi insurance
$1,000.
George J. Williams, representing the
New York Herald relief fund, arrived at
Cincinnati Saturday and will make tour
of the towns as far as Shawneetown, dis
tributing $4,000.
The store of Moore & Riggs, in Forsythe,
Fancy county Mo-, was burglarized last
Thursday night of five thousand dollars in
money. \ lot of county warrants were
stolen from the safe.
The jury in the case of Charles Lee,
charged with the murder of Dabney Miller,
near Richmond, month ago, brought in a
verdict of murder n the first degree. 4
new trial is asked IIr.
Msrion Britain, . white man OF Colum.
bus, Ga, broke int the house of Peggy
Thomas, an aged colored woman, and
hscked her to pieces in a horrible manner,
killing her instantly, without proyocstion.
Among the passengers by the steamer
WesiPhslis, which sailed for New York
from Hayre, were the following: Lieuten.
ant Hunt, OF the Jeanette search party,
end Il sailors Leach, Bartlett and Lauder.
/. cE, of the Jeanette crew.
burglars broke q large hole in the
yJAte glass window Of Dalheimer & Co.'S
iewelry store, Fifth and walRut streets,
rCircinnati, Saturday, and stole jewelry in
Ne show case valued at $500, and escaped
without being observed by the police.
Tie accident al Marlboro y. Y, Friday
rs.s FUSED by the accidental explosion Of
nitroglycerine, cartridge in shanty Oc-
.cupied by Italian railroad labOrers one of
,whon was instantly killed, two fatally
hurt and six others more are less seriously
tiniured.
n. b. Caldwell, recently merchant we'll
known throughout the Northwest, died
from paralysis at Milwaukee Saturday
might. He was born in 1916 in Wayne
-county, New York. He came to Milwaukee
thirty years ago and engaged in the iron
and lumber trade. He leaves an estate
worth three hundred thousand and nnR-
Der Of relatives in New York and Georgia.
A freight train of the Chicago and Alton
and Illinois Central came into collision at
/. Normal, His, Saturday. Eight Alton cars
loaded with cattle and an Illinois Central
tCngine and several cars were thrown from
the track. Some of the cattle were killed
and the cars all badly wrecked. Cause OF
accident and not determined, but it is be
lieved to be by some misunderstanding of
the signals.
The river at Helena, Ark, is falling
slowly. The overflow extends below Ar
Kansas City. The Old town section is still
overfowed in some places. There is from
three 10 six feet of water over the farms.
%The st. Frsncis aud Logyille rivers are fall
.ing slowly, and there is still great ineon-
tyenience and some suffering in the bot
tome adjacent to these rivers, as the fall
BIAS not been great enough yet to give any
relief 20 the oyerfowed section. There IS
some pros poets of a crop being made in ths
bottoms this year. Great quantities OF
hides are being brought to Helena by the
Inhabitants of the bottoms, they having
takeu them from the boSies Of their
/. drC wned animals.