Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-01
WHEELING, W.. WEDN ESDAY MORNING. JULY l. 1885.
BRIEF TElEeRAMs.

Reports from 95 pointsin the wheat grow.
ing region of Kansas, say that there Will be
at least halt crop this year, as compared
with last year.
Governor Knott of Kentucky has deferred
the hanging of Lloyd Williams, the slayer oi
Pete Stricklin, till Sept. IA.
At Mt. Sterling, Ky. Richard Forman
has been sentenced TO fourteen years in the
penitentiary for killing Jerry Crsnsus.
The steamer Golia having on board
Minister Cox and Senator Conkhng on Mon
day, was 48 hours overdue. 1t is thought
the shaft of the vessel is broken.
AT Allegan, Mich, the body OF woman
named Ella Sage, was found in q thicket
Her throat was cut and her body bruised,
and the indications point to 8 foul outrage
and murder.
The Steamer Colina which ran ashore at
Rothlin Island, of the Giants Causeway,
will probably be total loss.
A. J. Dumont, late naval officer Of New
Orleans port and chairman Of the Repub'
lican State Central Committee, blew his
brains out yesterday at his house in Algiers
Family trouble is said to be the caus, Of
the act.
The Manitoba court has rendered q de-
cision confirming the constitutionafty oi the
law dispensing with juries in the Territories.
This decision will effect Riel.
The District Attorney at Washington says
he can not hold investigations in regard to
the mysterious death Of Madame Ravene, as
he lady was buried in Maryland he has no
jurisdiction over it,
Walker Hammond, counterfeiter serv'
ing three-year term at Joliet prison, was
released last Monday on writ Of habess
corpus He claims he was tried without
an indictment.
A war is raging between the Prohibition
lists and anti. Prohibitionists at Ammons-
vile, Mo. Words and bullets have been
freely exchanged, but no one hes been hurt
yet.
B.J. Hart retired New York merchant,
died of a carbuncle last Sunday. The car
buncle was but pimple the size of pin
head ten days before his death. At the time
of his death it was as large as a mans hand
had eaten over an inch into the flesh.
The strikes at the Wabash, st. Louis
and Pacific shops and the Kerr. Murray iron
works have ended and about 400 men have
gone to work.
Larry o Brien and George Truman, who
fought on Broadway, New York, some time
ago, we're brought before the New York Po
lice Court yesterday morning and o Brien
discharged and Truman held on $500 to ap-
pear before the Court OF General Sessions.
Jacob NJ. Smith, who figured 50 proni.
nently as an incendiary at Atchisou, Kas
has been declared insane.
At Helena, Peter Carr, negro, was re.
iected by Mary jackson, mullatto, and
this so enraged him that he shot and killed
her.
At the A. M. Z. Conference at Buffalo,
n. Y, yesterday, Rev. W. +. Marshall was
expelled for seduction.
The trunk line managers tried to come
% tome agreement at New York abou,
reishts, bst the feeling was too warm, and
t.ey adjourned without agreement.
Frank Long was twice arrested last year
at Lebanon. Ohio. for horse stealing, but
rs acquitted and obtained verdict for
s. 900 damages against his accusers. He
now confesses he was guilty Of the stealing
and also of eight separate crimes ofperiury.
A New York attorney has procured q
writ of "habeas corpus in Virginia to
James N. Bethnue, commanding him TO
produce Blind Tom" the pianist. Tom
mo,her, it isslleged, is in poverty, while
Bethnue has grown rich from Toms play