Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-02-20
The NEWS IN BRIEF.
., r.,se Prnnhst is A prisoner.

The False Prophet IS prisoner.
The st,. ,ner Grey Eagle was caught in
A.. irs and sunk at Peoria, yesterday.
An explosion has occurred in a powder
,iII At Corbeil, France. Six persons were
billed.
c,olr the man who assaulted the Queen
So ,,5-. has died in the Broadman Asylum,
England. =.
The statement of the Imperial Bank Of
cs-manv shows an increase OF specie Of
-.to,uoo marks.
Ffye stores and offices and four dwellings,
81 Bradford, VI, were burned. The loss
viii exceed $4,000,
The report that Prince GortschakOf was
diving at Nice was incorrect. A cousin OF
the Prince is i'll there.
Hing Humbert, Of Italy, has issued de-
cree providing for the resumption OF spe-
c.e payments on the 18th of April.
John Dwyer, charged with cOnspiring in
the murder Of the government officials, IS
dying in the prison hospital at Dublin.
A
Russia and The Vatican has been cOmplet-
ed. Bishop Popil will take the See of
Warsaw.
An inventor Of a rope fire escape tried
LIS apparatus at the corner Of Halstead
srd Madison streets, in Chicago, on Satur-
lsv. sud sustained fatal injuries.
oscar Richardson, an insane patient at
The Ersttleboro lYt} asylum, turned the
h.t tf.ucyt in the bath room, and sat in the
t.:lius water until fatally scalded.
The new steamship Guyandotte, of the
0H Dominion Line, on her trip from New
York 10 Richmond, ran into the United
States monitor Ajax At City Point on Sat-
urlay morning.
Of the persons arrested in Alexandria, in
-,rrcction with the murder of Professor
Palmer and party, five have been sentenced
20 dssth and the Others to from three 10
.i,eea years in. rrisonment.
4 ire b-oke o. Sunday afternoon in the
-sv theatre ut Nlt-Arad, Hungary. The
n rric arts, jun, d from a window into
The street, sud wa seriously injured. The
loss is estimated al 10000 florins.
The British government has approved
the calling out Of the Irish militia this
wear io- the usual training. They have
vt l,tu called out for several years past,
cujrc 20 The disturbed state of Ireland.
Tie E,,:cn Daily Advertiser, which for
,Lrlast fifteen years has been located on
Cour, street, removed Saturday morning to
IL, rev six story marble building at Wash
lsc'ou and Deyonshire streets.
Mr. John Gilbert, the actor, who lost his
N.tein the Newhall tire, Milwaukee, is
atout TO bring suit for damages to the
aaouut Of $25 600 against C. D. Nash and
tie Nrwhau House Company at Milwau-
Lse
Ccunor Bros, commission merchants and
Southern shippers, at st. Louis, have tenn
} yora,lly suspended. They were short on
grain on account Of their customers, Tor
whom they had advanced some $4,000 for
margins.
Cara Belden, the actress, complained
Yesterday in the Jefferson Market police
court, New YORK, that Philip Gergier had
stolen her two pet pug dogs, valued at 500.
They were recovered, and Gergier was held
for trial.
Customs Officials at Chicago have sejzrl
q 500 worth Of imported hair in the pos
session OF woman named Eva Stuff. The
woman says that she got il through the
New York custom house free Of duty by
'seing an official.
At Buffalo, Daniel Moran and James
E,iord, two laborers, had a prize fight Of
twenty-five rounds Sunday in the unused
Union Iron Works. Both were badly in
urrd. There were no stakes. This morn
ing the police arrested the principals, sec
CLdS and referee.
The Joint resolution proposing to sub
nit to the people of Pennsylvania sn
amendment - the constitution prohibit
ing the sale of intoxicating liquors was de-
iyated IN the lower house Of the Legisla-
ture on the first reading. Under the rules,
however il was laid over for second read
.Ug.
The municipality OF Rome has placed a
memorial tablet in the house which sam,
Uel Morse inhabited in 1850 The syndic
has Informed the American Minister that
the unyyiling of the tablet will be deferred
unit, the wishes Of the American colony
!, in regard To the ceremony are made
known.
Col. s. Ross Green, Of Bastrop, La, died
srayirs maniac in New York 4 few days
ego \ few weeks ago Col. Green's wife
committed suicide by pouring burning oil
over herself. Her helpless husband wit
uc>sed her horrible death. He was taken
10 New York ior q change OF scene, there
Lccame insane and died.
The dress rehearsal of the Passion Play,
which Mr. Salmi Morse had announced to
take place in New York Saturday evening,
did not come OF Mr.. Morse had on Fri
cay applied for an injunction restraining
The police from stopping the announced
rehearsal, but the authorities asserted
Tie night Of three days notice in such a
case.
While sish; miners we're descending the
S.oIe in Col. Bennett's old coal mine, near
Nscrsnn, y. 5, Saturday, rush Of black
Damp Frustrated them 500 feet from the
cira.cs. one managed 70 crawl out and
give Vsrn'rg. Five were rescued, but two,
- ra|sd Is';cn and Wilson, and one rescuer
hs"'d Burrows, perishel. All leave
GInts.