Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-10
the NEWS IN BRIEF.
piaz is in Boston.


fers on Saturday.
In consequence of the success OF Booth
u King Lear his engagement at Vienna
Ids been renewed
AThc heaters of the Brooke Iron company,
c< Birdsboro, near Reading, Pa, have &C
cepted a reduction.
\ 0rrs Il Co.'S Mount Vernon, \. Y, paper
hill was burned on Saturday. Loss $40
cOO; insurance $4,000,
Julius Marcus the abscondiug whisky
broker of New York City..has been brought
back from Portland Oregon.
Trains of ten to fifteen coaches arrive
daily at Bismarck, Dakots, filled with emit
frsnts from the Missouri slope,
Mayor Harrison, OF Chicago, is mention
Cd as the probable candidate OF the Democ'
racy fsr the vice presidency in 1884.
Emmet Jones, a negro, who killed An
foine Vale on the steamer Lady Lee, at
st. Louis, has been sentencedto be hanged
May p.
The Dominion Privy Council has decided
not TO allow the importation of American
whisky in bond, even under the - hours
limitstiun.
A nine. year.old boy playing with shot
ern, near Clinton, Joses county, "a, XIII
ed Mrs. Wheeler, an old lady, and wound
ca her daughter.
The detectives who arrested julius Mar
Gus. the deiaulting whisky broker, who
fisd to Oregon, have arrived with their
prisinor in New York.
The steamers Falcon and Bear have ar
rised at It. Johns, y. s., from the ice
hslds. The former has 2l,OvO and the lat
ter 81 CCo seals, worth nearly $4,000.
President Arthur passed a quiet Sab
bata at sanford, Florida. He attended the
EpisCoral church in the morning. Nestsr-
-,dsy he n,u; down the Kissimee River.
-TLe coronation OF the Car will probably
be pc,.roued The police believe unless
hbera. reforms are granted the NihiliSts
have determined to prevent the ceremony.
ID. Ii. Coy, OF the suspended bank in
Toledo. has disappeared. The meeting OF
the deTvsitsrs will be held odsy. There
a good deal of excitement over the mat
Ter.
Thc striking iron workers of the f. x C.
Brooke Iron Company, at Birdsboro, Pa,
have accepted the reduction in wages pro-
posed by the firm. Work at the mills will
be resumed on Tuesday.
Island 10, in the Mississippi river, 40
miles below Memphis, has been entirely
swept away within the past few days. Pi-
lots. who recently passed South, using its
forest-cOyered service as beacon by night,
express surprise at its sudden disappear
ance.
The journeymeu painters Of Philadel-
phia have accepted the compromise rate
Of $40 per day offered by the Master
Painters' Association, and will resume
work to-day. The agreement holds good
for ore year.
The Dakota capital Commission, organ.
lied in Nankton without leaving their
special car. and the train was under way
sgain within ;iye minutes with Sheriff in
pursuit. The plan seems to be to locate
the capital 50 far north as to prevent The
diyiding Of the Territory.
About lnI switchmen employed in the
Eric railway freight yard at East Buffalo
sfruck on Saturday on account of dissatis-
faetion with changes OF yardmaster and
reduction OF wages. They were paid OIL,
md new NE will be put in their places.
The yard is badly blocked.
Secretary Folger has given up his Ber
muda trip, and hopes to be at his desk
again some time next week. This resolu-
ticn is al variance with the adyica OF his
physician, and is prompted by the Secre-
taryS determination to continue 10 person.
any manage the affairs OF the Treasury
department.
The striking tobacco operatives at Lynch
baTg. Va, are divided into two factions,
one fsvoring the resumption of operations
md the other opposing. The manufactu-
rers met on Saturday and decided to open
the factories on Monday to those operatives
who will return to their benches under the
usual schedule prices.
Henry Berg, the defender OF all animals,
has written letter 20 Barnum, the circus
man. condemning the killing OF the ele-
phant Pilot. His argument is that kind.
ness, instead OF cruelty, would nave sub.
dued the animal. Barnum's reason for
killing Pilot was that he considered it
saser than To subject his patrons to dan.
ger.
l. II. BurCn, advertising himself as the
Union Manufacturing Company OF Galeua.
uls... and recently posted as a swindler by
the postal authorities, has disappeared,
suindling innocent people, mostly Sgedes,
by promising to send articles through the
mails. 10 the extent of $4,000. Since the
public exposure 800 money orders in reg
istsred letters have been returned to the
senders
The Griswald mills at Darby near phila-
delphia. having been employing children
under thirteen years of age, in violation of
law, Ar. James McGshey called the atten-
tion OF the authorities to the matter, and,
rs result, twenty five children were dis
missed from the mill. In retaliation the
operatives have joined a movement to
boycott the store Of relative Of Mr. Nc
Gaheys.
Matt. Grace, the wrestler, was buried IN
Calvary Cemetery, New York, yesterday.
His mineral was attended by large num-
Der OF sporting men. Among the pail
bearer were John l.. Sullivan, old Bill
Tonee. James Csloran, of Troy. John Han
oran. Of Boston, Mike Cleary, of Pnilaiel-
phia. and Harry Miner. Many beautiful
flowers were sent to to the dead mans late
residence.
II was feared the present strike OF brick.
layers at ChicsgO would interfere With the
Of the new Board of trade and
ether large public structures, but the con-
a-.-k,.~. y uvill MOI tba