Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-07-29
BRIEF TeLEeRAMs.

Domestic.
A number of delegates 20 the Nation
Labor Convention, which WA to meet at
Chicago tomorrow are air ady on the
ground. The Executive Committee has
postponed the convention until SePtem-
Der lst.
Otis Strong, Of the Yale College Glee
Club has brought suit for $4,000 damages
against the o. l. NJ. railroad for leg lost
in a collision.
The total expenses Of the Greely Relief
expedition were 100000. The original es.
innate was 100000. ....
News is received Of the robbery Of the
stage between Ketchum and Vienna, Idaho.
There were FIVE passengers, three white men
and two Cinnamon. Two masked men
halted the stage, finding little booty. One
Of the robbers was arrested the same night
and gave his name As Vim. Calhoun, con-
Tossing the crime. The other has aed and
oficeSs are pursuing him closely. tr
The day house and machinery belonging
to the Chester Brick Works, located At the
Southern Illinois Penitentiary, burned at
midnight. The loss is fully covered by in
surance. For time general conhaga-
tion seemed inevitable. The loss to the
State is trifiug. The entire force of the
prison were untiring in their efforts to sub
due the flames.
Henry Hilbert, farmer living about fifty
miles west of Topeka, Kan, in Marion
county, shot and killed boy named David
johnson for tresspassing upon his premises
When fred, the muzzle of the gun was but
two feet from the victim, and the discharge
tore fearful cash in the victims side.
B Joseph Seisterheim, formerly saloon
keeper at Oxford, Ia, pleaded guilty on
Saturday to selling intoxicating liquors,
He was fined only SIS, and his stock OF
whisky, gin, rum, wine and beer, worth
about 5000, was officially destroyed. This
is the first fine assessed and liquor destroyed
in this county.
Green Crews, Of Marlboro, Carroll county,
Pa, was yesterday killed by his stepsor,
whom he had attacked with knife for
beating mule After the boy had been
cut by Crews, he drew knife and cut his
steptathers throat from ear TO ear.
At a depth OF l2O feet yesterday the
workmen in Coal Shaft No. ?, at Coal Port,
ILL.,, struck a stream of water that drove
them out, and in short time filled the shaft
TO depth of so feet. The stream for
awhile rose in solid column to height OF
20 feet.
The committee appointed by the Nation
al Democratic Convention Mt Chicago 10
notify Grover Cleveland and Thomas A.
Hendricks. assembled at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, yesterday afternoon
Nearly all of the members Of the committee
went to Albany BY boat last evening To no
tifv Gov. Cleveland to-day, and will then
leave for Saratoga and notify Mr.. Hen
bricks on Wednesday.
Foreign.
The Figaro, Paris. in bitter language de
clares England is an enemy OF France, and
advises an abandonuept Of relations be
tween the two Countries.
Spain finds it difficult task to recon
Gle the conflicting commercial interest,
between Cuba and the Peninsula.
The steamer Tiger from Marseilles ar
rived of Athens yesterday with cholera OF
board.
II is proposed to stop the through rail
road cars between France and Germany OF
account Of the cholera scourge.
Heartman, the notorious Nihilist who at
tempted TO assassinate Car Alexander II
has committed suicide.
The action for libel brought by Geo. +
Bolton, prosecutor for the Crown. against
VIM. o Brien, editor Of United Ireland, in
connection with the Cornwall scandal, came
up Yesterday at Belfast, but was formerly
adjourned until to-day.
The FTfiy.sixth regiment has been or.
dered to Assouan.
The legations at Constantinople are in.
structed to resist strongly the abolition OF
the foreign Post-offces.
A riot occurred at Klirnof, Russia
workmen attacked the shops Of the old be-
levers. whom they denounced as worse
than Jews. The contents Of the shops were
carried off One person was killed and two
wounded
DR.. Fernandez, Of the Cold Stream
Guards; Mr. Cornwall, the Postofice Sec
retary, and James Pillar, member Of the
Society Of Friends and an extensive grocer
and wine merchant, charged with having
committed and attempted to commit IN
natural crimes, were before the Police
Cour, to-day, and after hearing the mag.
istrate remanded the prisoners without bail
Warrants have been issued against thr ,e
clergymen charged with like offenses in