Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-28
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

AT Cincinnati, O., ]. R. Wares stables
and six valuable horses. Loss $4,000; in
sured.
At Columbus, O.. the cooper shop of the
penitentiary and 100000 cigars Loss
about $4,000.
At New York, Parsons & Sons blank
book establishment, Hoop & Crane, 1.-the
grapher, and other firms Loss, $3.50
At Mccall, H., Wednesday morning,
Professor C. P. Crum, OF the La Harpe
Seminary, was killed by train.
Schmitinsky 4 Son, commission mer-
chants at l07 Water street. New York, have
assigned. The business has been princi-
pally importing coffee and goat skins from
Venezuela. Liabilities, 100000.
Emile Pfugler, German bar-keeper, was
murdered in drunken Brawl in Savannah
yesterday.
Governor McLane has commuted to i'm
prisonment for life the sentence of John
Scott, colored, of Baltimore, convicted OF
poisoning his wife.
Prof. Otto Scheuler, musician and com
poser, died wednesday, night of blood
poisoning, at Louisville, caused BY cutting
corn.
Grannis & Co., bankers, of Utica have
suspended but claim they will pay in full.
The firm was estimated to be worth about
S20O,OO0
The Buckeye Creek Coal and Iron Com.
pany, of Columbus, Ohio has been placed
in the hands of receiver. The long strike
By miners necessitated the action.
Orth Stein, formerly city editor Of the
Kansas City Evening Star, who shot and
killed George Fredericks proprietor Of a
variety theatre, in June, 1882, has been ac-
quilted.
Mrs. r. S. Goddard, the insane wife Of a
prominent resident Of Lockport, n. T., at
tempted suicide Wednesday morning by
cutting her throat and beating her head
with a fiat iron. Her husband, after des
perate struggle, thwarted her purpose, but
her recovery is doubted.
Miss Laura B. Phelps Il years old, made
her debut as violinist last night in New
York and was pronounced by critics to be
equal in many respects to any vlollnIst be-
fore the public.
A man while suffering from delirium tre-
mems leaped from third story window OF
the Davis House at Chicago, last night, and
was instantly killed Letters in his pocket
we're addressed to Andrew Redly, Quincy,
Mich.
Solomon Shipley, Sr., seventy years old,
committed suicide yesterday morning by
drowning himself in a pool at New Hol-
land, o.
Mrs. F. u. Morgan, widow Of Ex-Governor
Edwin D. Morgan, died Yesterday in New
York.
The miners Of the Palmyra, OOio coal
district are on su.ke against ten per
cent. reduction in wages.
While playing with revolver supposed
10 be unloeded Tuesday, at New Corner,
Ind, Richard Brown, IL years old, fatally
shot his brother, aged 7.
An old taed was settled Wednesday at
Stesartsville, Ind, by a farmer named
Fleishman breaking the skull Of John
Scharsdial with plow point, the latter then
cutting his adversary to pieces with par
ingknite
AtSt. Louis, Hayiocks carriage factory
and DR.. Posts old Congregational church.
Aggregate loss $4,000. Three firemen
were hurt.
At Har6ies Station. O., oil mill elevator
and other bni!dings Of tie Ohio Linseed Oil
Co, 500 barrels OF linseed oil and 10000
bushels ofnaSseed Loss, Sl2j,00O.
Fire at Rose7ille Ind, Wednesday morn
ing swept away fourteen buildings. The
insurance is but So, 900.