Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-24
THE NEWS I'm BRIEF.

The Yale boat crew have gone into train
jDg
+ Great lCssts by floods are reported in
Nova Scotia.
\ The milk supplies in New York grows
smaller each day, and there is no prospect
4 Of the war terminating.
The reported fraudulent land entries in
/ the Western States and Territories are to
4 he Investigated.
In the case Of George W. Levi, on trial in
Louisville for completely in the City Hall
i-suds, the jury disagreed.
4 wm. NJ. Stewart, the Cincinnati Postal
Clerk arrested for roObing the mails, has
teen held to answer in the sum OF $500.
The Haytien Chambers has passed a bill
reducing export duties fifty per cent, and
raising import duties thirty-three per csnt.
The cigarmakers at Cincinnati are NOV
Ing in the matter of demanding an increase
lot 81 per thousand on May /. A strike is
Expected.
Matthew Arnold, James Russell Lowell
sri Herbert Spencer are mention ed as
4 candidates for the Rectorship of ST. An
4 t-vws University.
The Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne and Chicago
rsi.uad depot at Bucyrus, o., burned
4 "wednesday. Several hundred dollars
worth of freight was destroyed.
T.ur prisoners-three white men and
Il rre colvred-escsped from the jsil at
4 Mount Holly, n. J., on Wednesday night
. Fv saving the iron bars from the cell win
Bows.
Tie St. Louis Merchants Exchange has
sr,an by which it expects through much
4 s,.,s,ion OF the subject, to force upon the
srfl.;oD Of Congress the needs Of the Miss
..,.ppi.
4 number of Cincinnati capitalists pro-
ro,e 20 operate in timber, copper and other
.ae-als. in North Carolina, and COM
Tsay has been incorporated with capital
u. }D"vuo.
II ryCCucreSsman BUtterwOrth will be
,rpvirtcd by the President one of the
Il { ma. .ssioners 10 e. mine and report up.
81 ca ~ construction a. the new sections OF
n ,le N1-,h Pacific Raj. road.
I. Las 5een ascertained that the defalca
Al "a. ui Ray. the late bookkeeper of the
n Me-. hsuts and Planters Bank of Mont,
grmery, Ala, will amount to $4,000. The
Isl han. assu,licient money to meet all de
/ uands.
II \ certificate Of incorporation OF the
n J-'td States Telegraph Company wa
n led in the Kings county, y. Y, clerk )
+ c:Ece. The capital stock is 100000. The
a oap psny will operate its wires in New
N,r, state.
Two freight trains on the Grand Trunk
Eaivsy collided near Port Britain, three
? lies west Of Port Hope, Ont, Wednesday.
ae engine and two cars loaded with yalu-
sg.e merchandise were burned; loss, $40,
la No one was injured.
Governor Buffers executive council,
Vlsh is composed of seven Republicans
and ore Democrat, rejected the nomination
q Noah A. Plympton for Insurance Com
,,Uner Of Massachusetts,. Governor
-.,r Immediately renominated him.
A,ool.hardy sailor, who put to sea from
San Francisco August 70, in an eighteen
tury. for Australia, vas picked up by
a coaster of Queensland, in an exhausted
uui,uon. lie had lost his instruments
ai b., provisions by the capsizjng Of his
,a.
T-a New York Herald Commissioner
sic b.s way down she Ohio from Cincin-
ya,. TO Iawrenceburg, distributing money
II lc went among the sufferers from the
Is .aol NAO are still in need OF assistance.
l., lavrpnceburg he left $1,000, that place
t4y.n. previously received 5000 from the
/ Head Fund.
The eity of Helena, Ark, has an indebt
mess Of $i25 100, which is about half the
Ja.ration 9th taxable property. A COM
E...,sv has been appointed to confer with
tie 0ondholders TO secure a compromise.
70 The event OF its being refused, an cleo
Nil be held for the purpose Of voting
g. 'l'render the city's charter.
Tie board of directors of the Virginia
~ Normal Colored Institute, to be erect
on Fleets farm, Chesterfield county,
s- Petersburg, met in that city aud
2 0l',i plans and specifications for the
.-tlng, which, when completed, will &C
lmoda,e 100 pupils, and is to cost $50
TNa 80 ~ Nf
l"
Tue bills Of indictment were found in
a.aieIphia for completely in the aims
[ y1se frauds against William E. Curry and
F. John c. Al5crtson, contractors, con-
'sry and perjury; Charles H. Kirke,
.H''actOr conspiracy; J. II. Parke, con-
Factor. conspiracy and perjury; Henry H.
Nyr-S, contractor, conspiracy, and eN'
o'eseeper James F. Brown and boarding
o-se Seeper Kate Adams, larceny and re-
~.rus stolen goods.
'aUt Eads maintains that there is danger
..r bulk Of the water of the Mississippi
''- rnding its way to the gulf through
u A'chafalaya outlet, and in that event
eV orleans would be left on the banks OF
n dead lagoon. At the meeting Of the
s,issippi River Commission at New Or
an, on Wednesday he offered resolution
ii aa.ng TO the clearing of the Atchaialaya,
:J, only obtained his own vote. Capt
al. declared that he would no lsnger re-
an a member Of the Commission, and
Immediately forwarded his resignation to
President.