Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-25
Robert Henry Crangle.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Corneiips Is Demorest, prominent man.
nfacturer of New Haven Conn, in fit OF
insanity committed suicide by cutting his
hroat from ear to ear.
The wire worm is doing great devasta'
lion amopg the corn fields about Hillboro,
Ills.
Private 7. W. Hienkle, of Seventh U. s.
Cavalry, has become insane through the ex
cessive use Of tobacco.
Secretary Manning says that he removed
Grants brotherin-law from his office at the
port of San Francisco because the Demo
cratic party is responsible, and should have
men in office who are in perfeat accord.
Five hundred singers, Gozen bands and
three thousand strangers are now present
at the ninth biennial SaDgerfest Of the
Pioneer Sangerbund.
Fifty representatives of medical men from
sll parts Of the world are now in session at
Chicago.
The epidemic of dipbtheria is reported to
be raging at Laport, Ind.
Charles Bridges has been convicted by q
New Orleans Grand Jury of the murder Of
Charles Anderson, potorious burglar OF
Cincinnati.
Twenty families IN Rock Island, Ill, hare
been poisoned by eating beef affected with
poison.
CIV. Andrews, Of Muncie, Ind, has
failed. Liabilities $4,000.
The strike Of the Tarrytown shoemakers
still continues.
Rev. DR.. Samuel David Ferguson was
yesterday eonsecrated at New York as
Bishop in rhe Protestant Episcopal Church.
He is the first colored bishop ever conse-
Grated in that church.
A negro desperate named Presco was
shot while resisting arrest at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
The jury in the case of DR.. Azel Ames,
ir. Upited States Pension Examiner,
charged With ex,orting illegal fees, has dis
agreed.
F. l. Thorpe, Of Chicago, while out fish
ing at Ridean lake, Ont, with two men,
sss drugged and spirited, and when be re-
covered he was told he was Scott, the Man
haitian bank embezzler. The strangers
Who drueeed him were detectives who were
after the $1,000 reward. Thorpe soon
proved his identity and was released.
The Roman Catholic Knights Of st. John
are now holding their seventh annual ses'
sion in Chicago.
The mutilated body Of Mrs. McGaugh, Of
| Pineville, Ca, was found buried near her
house. Her husband, who has been trying
to create the impression that she ran away,
has been arrested on suspicion.
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war, having been dismissed as Janitor OF q
New York grammar school, took PARIS
green and died.
While Vice President Hendricks was tax.
ing q drive on Tuesday carriage wheel
came of throwing Mr.. Hendricks into the
road. No injuries.
Ex.Distric: Attorney Wsddell, Of Vir'
pinis, has been arrested for trying 70 en-
gage in a duel With Editor Swanson, Of the
Hanover News. Swanson is also 10 be ar.
rested.
The Commercial clubs of Chicago s..
LOUIS and Cincinnati, are on thsir way to
Boston, where they will be entertained BY
the club Of that city.
The annual convention Of the American
Society Of Civil Engineers, began at Deer
Park yesterday. Two hundred members
are preseut
Vice President Hendricks attended com
msncement exercises at Harvard yesterday.
he was given grand reception in Boston
and Cambridge.
At circus at La Pere, Mich, sn ele.
phant became enraged aud caused q gen,
eral stsmpeDe among 5000 people. Many
persons were badly injured. Five shot:
we're Gred into the elephant before he could
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