Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-14

WHFEIING W. VA.sATURDAY MORNING, MARCH IA. 1885.
BRIEF TElEeRAMs.

An unknown man, about thirty -6ve years
old, neatly dressed and Of prepossessing sp"
pearance was found dead in sleeper of
south-bound Louisville and Nashville
train on its arrival at Mobile Ala, yester-
day. ....'- . .-
Mrs. Mark Hopkins, wife of the St Clair.
Mich, millionaire, has begun suit for di-
vorce on the ground of cruelty.
Edward Burke, railroad hand, was kill
ed by train near Harrisburg, yesterday.
During cyclone on the Texas Central
road FIVE cars were blown from the track.
Three negroes, Ambrose Young, Charles
Latham and Frank Freeman, implicated in
the murder of Montgomery near the State
line last December, were last night lynched
at Union City, Tenn, by mob Of one hun
dred.
Yesterday morning the works OF the
Michigan Saw Company, at Fast Saginaw,
were destroyed by fire, causing a loss OF
$4,000. = y IL
Theodore Pultz a wealthy and we'll
zsaowR farmer has disappeared from his
home in Lodus, N. Y. Foul play is sus-
picioned.
In Brooklyn, Michael Murphy three years
old, was burned to death while playing
around the stove.
Andrew Woods colored, died at New Or
leans yesterday, aged ll0 years. He
boasted that he had been the body servant
Of Gen. Lafayette.
The Missouri river is very high at and
above Waverly, Mo, and the ice gorges
have caused an overflow that is doing much
damage.
A neatly dressed, unknown man was
found dead with bullet in his brain at
Niagara Falls Ont, yesterday.
A burglar in disguise visited Mrs. App
a wealthy widow of Reading, Pa, aud after
being Hospitality entertained, during the
night blew open the safe but got only few
dollars.
John W. Feeney was shot dead in the
woods near Jonesboro, Me-, BY his son-in-
law. who took him for a wild cat
A large boiler in the blacksmith depart
ment of the American Tube and Iron Com
pary's works at Middletown, Pa, exploded
Thursday afternoon and injured II persons,
two will die. Loss $4,000.
The President has designated Marcellus
Gardner to represent the Interior Depart.
ment in the Executive Board Of the New
Orleans Exposition, Vice Benjamin Butter
worth resigned.
The receipts for the sale of seats for the
Chicago Opera Festival were $1,000.
At o'clock this evening $50 men in the
employ OF the McMurray and Judge archi.
tectural iron works quit and inaugurated
strike. The mems wages were cut 10 per
cent.
At Roseville, O., 10 miles west of Zanes.
vile, a saloon owned by Harry Burton was
blown to atoms with keg Of blasting pow
der. No clue to the perpetrators.
James Ritchie, probably the oldest florist
in Pennsylvania, was sufocsted by escaping
gas at his home in Philadelphia.
Chief police, of Louisville, Ky, notified
all proprietors Of gambling houses TO close
up or be raided. One and all quietly close
up shop and closed games.
The Cleveland Herald has been bought
BY the Plain Dealer, which will run Dem
ocratic morning daily something Cleveland
has heretofore been without.
The House of Delegates at Hartford, Ct,
yesterday passed bill giving women the
right to vote at school district meetings.
The agricultural works at Atlanta, Ga ,
Elias Harman, President, made an assign
ment yesterday. Liabilities Sl97rO 900; as,
sets $500, 900. = Failure caused by dull
times and shrinkage in value. The works
will continue operation.