Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-01
BRIEF TELEeRAMS.

ing purpoSely wrecked his brig, the Mary
Celeste, on o coral reef off Hayti. The YES.
sci was insured for $25, ,0C0, and the arrest
was made at the instance Of the insurance
companies on the testimony of the mate.
0zias ". Fletcher and his son, Merritt,
have been convicted in Wheaton, ILL.,, the
!Drmer of manslaughter, with penalty of
three years in the penitentisry, and the lat
Ter of murder in the first degree, with the
peraltY Of death. Their crime was the kill
ing Of Otto j. Hope, German farmer, on
June /, 1884, in quarrel over some pas,
turage which both claimed.
Lisle Esylline, aged IL years, in fit Of
mental alteration, committed suicide by
shooting in Hamilton, n. Y, last evening.
A relative, who was buried today, commit
led suicide on Thursday last in the same
village.
A mortgage for $500, 900 has been filed in
Baltimore by the Bankers and Merchants
Telegraph Company to the Farmers Loan
and Trust Company of New York, payable
In 1913. The mortgage is to secur bonds
for the payment of Indebtedness and to ex-
tend the lines of the company.
{ Frey and Malone, both claiming the
Ahilliard:pool championship of the world,
have challenged each other to play match
game in Rochester for $500 side.
In an alteration between John Carver
and Walter johnson, both colored, in Will
mingtou, n. c., on Saturday night, Carver
struck johnson with stone. breaking his
neck and causing death almost instantly.
The gas we'll al Ironton, o., has reached
a depth OF 2,O30 feet, and work is stopped by
reason of having struck thick vein of tar
like water so offensive In odor as to drive
the workmen from the well.
The English Government is chartering
American steamships for use in the event Of
war with Russia.
Henry Irving addressed the students of
Harvard University on Monday on the sub
jeet of Acting"
General Fitzhugh Lee is a candidate for
Governor OF Virginia.
Ida Flick was arrested at Hamilton, O.,
on the charge of bigamy.
A Fire in Pensacola burned sixteen resi-
dences. Loss $4,000.
Ex-Mayor Baxter, of Louisville, died at
Hot Springs, Ark.
The steamer Colon was seized at Aspir-
wall BY revolutionists.
George Rouse, the negro eX-convict who
outraged and murdered the wife OF Jesse
Doles, living near Vienna, Ga, was taken
by q mob, his body mutilated and then hung.
Mrs. f. Fierlein was severely burned by
the ignition of some camphor which she WAS
heating over a CRATE. Her injuries are re-
garded as fatal.
Receiver Lamb, of the Harrison National
Bank, of Indianapolis, SAYS he has no ex.
uectstion OF being able to declare even
five per cent dividend.
James Lynch, brakeman of Norwalk,
O., was killed near Spencer. He was
BIZ wn from the car BY a gust Of wind and
fell beneath, his head being severed from
his body.
The Windsor Salt Furnace was sold to
the Pomeroy, CO., National Bank for
$4,000, at Sherif's sale. The furnace
cost $4,000.
William Shular, for the murder Of vii
liam Lane, of Ladoga, Ind, was convicted,
and sentenced TO seventeen years in the
penitentiary.
Sylvester J. Osborne, at spper Sandusky,
o., was sentenced to three years in the
penirentiary for bigamy.
Alfred Myers, the father OF large
family, was accidently drowned in the
canal at South Akron, o.
David Martin, of Wooster, o., committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head.
Financial trouble is the cause.
Ed. Goodwin, of Traders Point, Indian
apolis, about thirteen years old, died Sun.
nay night from the effects of drink OF
whisky.
On Saturday evening nine pound babe
was found wrapped in a piece OF brswn
pa per and tucked away under theice at the
junction of Broken Straw creek and the Al
legheny river below lrvineton. Infanticide
is suspected.
The interior of Douglas Eureka theat,r,
at Calumb BUS Ohio. was burned yesterday
morning. The loss on the building is
81 OUO. The properties were all ues'royeu'
TIE valre is not given, though covered by
insurance.
Mrs. Louise Turner, her son, WilliIu
and niece, Eva, while catching clans Satar
day on the Eastern shore, near Onanc o,k
Va, were capsized by a gust of wind AM
drowned
Coinage ct the United States mint at
Philadelphia, Pa, for March was s2,2OO'-
492, including 100000 silver dollars.
At New Orleans Antoine A. Lab lzan
was found guilty of the murder of John J;
Fischer, December 5th, without capital
punishment.
John Baptiste, colored, convicted of rape
nm a white woman at New Orleans last
November was yesterday sentenced to be