Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-24
BRIEF TElEeRAMs.
Suicides.

Suicides.
Serena Morse, young woman who was
deaf and dumb, committed suicide by hang
ing, Monday night at St. Charles, Ill.
Accidents.
Bernard Battishwhiler, aged l3, employed
to carry press dispatches from the Nashville
American Office to the Evening Banner, fell
from the banisters from the third story of the
American building yesterday, and was in
santly killed.
Henry Koehler, merchant at Decatur
ILL.,, walked, while asleep. to an open window
early Tuesday morning, and fell to the
ground, dying of his injuries few hours
later.
At Kansas City q young man under 20
years of age walked into Main street res.
tauIant Yesterday, ordered dinner, and after
dispatching it, drew a revolver and shot
himself through the brain, without rising
from the table Cards on his person bore
address j. Edwin Liddy, New Paris, Ind
It is supposed he had been seeking work.
He is in dying condition at the hospital.
Fires.
Seven business houses in the village of
Wheaton, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
Four fires started last night in the Welsh
Mountains, Pa, about three miles from
New Holland, and were still burning at last
accounts. The territory burned Is consid-
ersble.
Forest fires near Williamstown, N. j.,
which were supposed to have burned out
for lack of material on Tuesday, sprang up
again Wednesday and spread toward Will
Jamestown, which for time was in danger,
All the inhabitants turned out and fought
the FIRE by back firing
Within the past forty-eight hours thou
sands of feet OF valuable lumber have been
destroyed in the pine forests near Mt Car.
mel Pa. Unless rain Immediately falls
the fire will reach the more valuable tracts
north Some Of the collieries have narrow
ly escaped. In a number of instances fires
have been started by malicious persons.
In Camden county, N. j., the damage
done by the forest fires is estimated at
$4,000.
At New Harmony, Ind, the Oregon mill
was burned yesterday. Loss, $4,000; in
turaDce Sl7,500.
At Louisville, Ky, the extensive shops Of
the Louisville Il Nashville railroad, at
Eleventh and Delaware streets, burned last
night.
Miscellaneous.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
celved from the Union Pacific Railroad
company the sum of $9l6,7O4, Of which
2G33,5 ,54l is to be applied to the sinking
und account and $2s3,2S6 to the bond
and interest account, in accordance with the
ward made by the Cour: OF Claims, and
he computations thereon made by the
officers of the Interior Department.
Two pugilisiic miners, Ernest Williams
and Patrick Lawler, began fight in
regulation ring near Parsons, Pa, Monday
afternoon, but friends OF Lawler incited
riot, pistols, clubs and stones being freely
used, resulting in serious injury to num-
ter of Williams friends ihe battle was
stopped, and many arrests are pending.
The Mine Inspector finds great difficulty
III lut law lDl NtilNlidlIOh ohN oeu
itary regulations in certain coal mines in
iowa and Governor sherman has announced
his intention to call out the militia if neces
Sary. and close the collieries until they obey
he laws
James Dennis, charged with the murder
of the McMullen family in January last, was
YESTERDAY convicted OF murder in the first
degree o. Charlottesville, Indissa, and sen.
,cnced to be hung. His accompics in the
crime, Coffey, is also unier sentence of
DEATH
Mrs. Scoville, sister of Guiteau, has
ioined the Salvation Army.
Bayless W. Hanna ..of Indiana, has decid.
ed to accept the Persian mission.
Gov. Martin of Kansas, says the Sullivan
Ryan fPht will not come off within the
boundaries of Kansas ii the civil and mill
tary powers of the STATE can prevent it.