Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-29
CONDENSED TElEeRAMa

0etefA lndfhn eketeton5 nave oeou uuB
out of mounds near Fan Claire, Wis.
II is said President Cleveland il seriously
considering the advisabiity Of turning I'll
the Indians over to the War Department.
Eight thousand people living at Gilbert,
St. Nicholas, Maizeville and Mahsnoy City.
Pennsylvania, are threatened with an un-
precedented water famine, owing to pro.
longed drought Nearly every stream ID
dried up.
There is great scramble for positions in
the Office Of Collector Of Internal Revenue
at Springfield, ILL., There are said to be
already over one hundred applicants for the
eighteen positions to be bestowed
A mob entered the Jail OF Kosciusko,
Miss, on Saturday, to lynch Shippy, the
murderer of Avery, but the sheriff having
been apprised Of their designs had removed
the prisoner to jackson.
The propeller Cuba, Of Buffalo, was dam.
aged By FIRE to the extent Oh 5000 early
yesterday morning.
The weather has sgain turned sultrY
throughout the West In Chicago at 8 q
m, yesterday the mercury stood 750 above
zero, and has since risen to s5O. At Keo-
kuk the thermometer registered go st 8
o'clock. Dubuque go, Des Moines So and
81. Paul 92'.
- Tia Ehscaae-L L,..harmap,e Exchansshas.
determined 10 orgnniss n insnfence oSep-
pany under the laws Of the State. Tor The
purpose Of carry fire risks on the yards the
city, policies to be written at three-quarters
OF the board rate.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company in
tends to issue an order within day or two
restoring enigrant rates from New Fork TO
Chicago to sl5.
James Hamilton, the sSsconding deputy
postmaster at McGregor, Tex, was brought
to Waco, Tex, Monday evening and lodged
in Jail.
The German-Americar Teachers Asso-
citation is now in session atSt. Louis. There
is large attendance.
The train records at Indissapolis last
week show that the number Of loaded cars
was the smallest Of any week in the year,
except at the time Of the snow blockade last
winter.
At New Orleans On Monday, man
named Casey quarrel,ed with some other
parties in regard to horses. and after the
quarrel was thought satisfactorily settled,
Casey drew his revolver, Sred into the crowd
and walked down street firing at every per-
son he saw Several were wounded. Casey
was arrested.
=. Monday afternoon cyclone struck in the
vicinity OF King City and Flint, on the st.
10 and Des Moines road, and demolished
every thing in It's track for distance Of
mile. A train went through the cyclone,
greatly terrifying the passengers.
A meeting of ifeight agents Of American
and Canadian lines will be held al the Wind
sor Hotel, Montreal, to-day.
One hundred female employees in the
weaving department Of tho cotton mills at
Evansville, Ind, stuck on Monday. on ac-
count Of reduction Of Is per cent. oftheir
wages.
A swimming match occurred at Philadel.
phia between two soldiers, II. Leonhardt
and G. A. Hoffman. Hoffman gained the
prize OF 500. He was in the water one
hour and twenty seven minutes.
Edward Welch, Of Buffalo, n. Y, was
shot yesterday IN contest with a police
man.
News has been received that President
Diaz has consented 10 all the Mexican Cen.
tral Railroad to maintain its deferential
rates on goods coming from the United
States.
The report that Mr.. Bayard received from
s. l.. NJ. Barlow $1,000 fee for writing an
opinion sustaining the Maxwell land grant,
Mr. Barlow says is oil nonsense"
Strawbridge and Ta5lor, counsel for
Edward Cooper and Abram s. Hewitt, Of
New York have brought suit in the United
States Circurt Court at Philadelphia, claim
ing SlOO 900 damage from the Pennsylvania
Steel Company for alleged Infringement Of
patent for an Improved process Of refining
and converting cast iron into cast steel.