Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-16
BRIEF TELEaRAMs.

Charles Rugg, the Long Island murderer,
has been sentenced to be hanged May 10.
The Shortsville Wheel Compsnyof Shorts
vile, N. Y, has failed. Capital, $4,000.
During Monday night the Mama Savings
Bank at Marshall, Mo-, was robbed OF
$4,000.
Fire DESTROYED the hardware store Of
Giles & Hutchinson, in Wilmington, N. c.
Loss S65, 900.
Wade Hampton, a transfer clerk in Coun-
ell Bluffs, Iowa, has been arrested Tor rob-
bing the mail.
The Pine Bluff Lumber Manufacturing
Company, Pine Bluff, Ark, has failed.
Capital, $4,000.
Banker John Johnston was Yesterday In
augurated president ofthe Milwaukee Cham
Der OF Commerce.
Mrs. Catharine Quinn, of Muncie, Ind,
was poisoned by accidentally swallowing
dose of Rough on Rat"
Noah Vest, Marshal Of Buckner, near
Independence, Mo-, was shot twice last
night by an unknown assassin.
The Franklin Bank, at Franklin, Va,
has failed Nominal capital, 100000, OF
which only $1,000 was paid in.
Rev. John ]. Daugherty, at one time
Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Bald-
more, died yesterday in that city.
AT. Skinner, grain merchant, Of Logaus-
port, ind, accidentally killed himself yes
terday while cleaning shot gun.
Clyde Lee, the cripple son Of John c. Lee,
of Elizabeth, near Galena, ILL.,, committed
suicide Saturday by taking rat poison
Roland Wilson, an old settler of st.
Joseph Mo, dropped dead in the street
Yesterday from congestion Of the brain.
The candidacy of Mayor Low, of Brook,
ku, for Governor Of New York, is looked
upon with great favor by Republicans.
The prospects of the winter grain crop in
Prussia are good, except in the provinces OF
Saxony, Posen, Pomerania and Schleswig.
The. work in the Office of the Second
Comptroller Of the Treasury is three months
in arrears, owing to insufficient clerical
help.
A special from Troy N. Y, says that
orders have been received by a manufac-
turer there for $4,000 undershlrts for
Russia.
Yesterday afternoon the extensive tan
merry of ]. II. Mooney & Co., Montreal, Can
ads, was burned Loss 800, 900; insurance
| $4,000.
Secretary Endicott has issued an order
that all clerks in the War Department
must pay their just debts or be subject to
discharge.
Fellows, Shaw & Raymond, wholesale
boot and shoe dealers OF Boston, have as
signed. Liabilities, 100000; assets more
than that amount.
At a meeting of the Detroit bakers it was
decided to advance the price Of bread one
cent per loaf on account of the advance In
the price of -four.
Albert Nelson and Edward Kicker wres-
tied in a St. Paul livery stable yesterday.
Nelson was thrown under horses feet and
Was stamped to death.
A young Kentucky desperate was cap
tured by U. s. Marshals and taken to
Louisville to await trial in the U. S. Court,
or various crimes.
Benn Suggs, colored, Of Elgin, ILL.,, fell
out of a canoe Saturday and stuck in the
mud up to his neck. He was alive when
rescued but died in an hour.
Governor Dawes, of Nebraska, has desig-
mated April % as Arbor Day, and by law it
is legal holiday. One million trees will
probably be planted that day.
The cigarmakers' strike in Cincinnati,
which has been maintained for 81 weeks, is
practically at an end, the International
Union refusing further financial support.
The Lilley Hotel, the Albright House
and Struther's bathing house at Sea Isle
City were burned yesterday morning. Loss
about $4,000, mostly covered BY insur'
ance.
Professor Anderson, principal of the
II gh School a. Norborne, Mo, shot him
self through the heart yesterday. Despon,
dercy and business troubles are ascribed as
the motive.
The platform of roller.coaster, at To.
ledo, o., gave way, precip;tating twenty
five Children distance OF twenty feet ia
tally injuring one boy, and seriously hurt.
jrg about dozen others.
Charles Stole, formerly cashier OF the
First National Bank OF North Platte Neb
is credited with shortage in accounts OF
3, coo to $4,000, just discovered. He has
en- captured in San Jose, Cal
1t is stated that secret societies Of Irish
Nationalists have several regim ents ia
drill in and about ,Pittsburg, and number
one thousand, eager for service in Ireland
in the event of an Anglo, Russian war.
The Poe Memorial Committee have de-
cided to have the statue unveiled May 4.
There will be speeches by Edwin Booth,
Lester Wallack General Cesnola, a poem
by VIM. Winter, and other interesting fea.
lures.
At meeting of the New York sporting
men last night delegate was appointed to
start for Butte City, Montana, to arrange
for the fight between Sullivan aud Ryan,
which will take place on the race track in
that city June l6,
Friday Elmer F. Firth and two compan,
ions tried to enter the house of Jacob Sey-
bert, IN Marshalliown, Iowa, mistaking il
for an improper place Seybert attacked
them with an axe and split Firth's head
open. Firth died Yesterday.
At Weimer, Texas, on Sunday night A,
Knipsoher, = prominent citizen, shot and
dangerously wounded Kirk Tinsler, lead
ing druggist, and was himself shot and
| painfully wounded in turn. The shooting
grew out of family troubles.
At Union City, Tenn, Bud Fsrriss, white
and Freeman Ward, colored, were hangeC
a, the fair grounds yesterday morning q
, o'clock by q mob ofnasked men number
ing about two hundred. They belonged tC
a gang of thieves, who recently have com
mitted many depredations on citizens o
that place.
, Rudolph Keppler, an aged man, Of Ida
, vile, near Logsnsport, Ind, killed himsel
with q revolver yesterday. he had quar-
relied with his child, and some young MAJ
. told him he would be arrested aud put Il
| deaih. he knew no better and when b
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