Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-28
CONDENSED TeLEeRAMs.

The early frosts have made sn abundsn
Eastern peach crop.
The Ohio State Board of Agrieultur
elected j. C. Levering President.
Great preparations are making for 1
floral display at General Grants tomb OF
Decoration Day.
! American wine growers will follow th'
butter makers in asking for high tax or
bogus wines.
William Woodson, Cincinnati colored
pugilist, was beaten in fight with col
ored slugger at Pittsburg.
VIM. Boettger, city treasurer of Cincin-
natl. and Republican candidate for county
treasurer last fall. is dead.
Charley Sergeant, the little Cincinnati
boy bitten By a raoid cat, will PROBABLY be
sent to New York for treatment.
1t is believed that Isaac NJ. Jordan, OF
Cincinnati will decline the tender OF the
Assistant Seeretsryship OF the Interior.
The Retail Grocers' Clerks Association
of Cincinnati is strenuously moving tor
early closing, the system to begin June Z
The trustees Of the Archbishop Purcell
estate have sued the bondsmen of j. b
Mannix, assignee, for the full amount Of
their liabilities.
Minister Pendleton's soH and daughter
will sail from New York for Europe on Sat
urdsy. 1t is not known when the father
will return home.
Two little sons of Henry Blsir, Of Gar.
dingtou, Ohio, were nearly fatally poisoned
by eating sour dock roots which they mis-
took for radishes.
At Gaithersburg, Nd, yesterday after.
noon l3 year old daughter Of Mrs. Lloyd
was brutslly outraged by q negro, who
was identified. Probable lynching.
Swain Anderson, a wealthy farmer Of
Mountain Grove, No, was murdered in
the road at nigh on his way home from 9
Masonic Lodge. His two sons and and
an accomplice confess tie crime.
Luther C. Bryant, New York old coiu
dealer aud miser, died yesterday in hos
pital. Some years ago, while under arrest
on trumped.up charge, his lodging roem
was robbed of sll his savings, claimed by
him to be 100000.
A New York dispatch says that the fac:
that President Cleveland aud Miss Folsom
will both probably De in the city on Deco
ration Day has served to increase The utter
est in next Mondays celebration. "
The State Convention OF Coal Operators,
at Columbus, o., instructed delegates in
the Interstate Board Of Arbitration snd
to vote Tor o continuance OF
the present system, ten hours constituting
4 day 8 work.
Captain John Ross, of Seymour, Ind,
nss Just received his commission brevet-
ling him Major for msritorioas conduct
during the war. The commission has 0een
waiting for him for nineteen years in the
Adjutant Generals Office at Columbus, U
The annual meeting Of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company was held yesterday,
ana the net earnings fog the year reporte1
1t about 81 per ceut. Jay Gould, Sidney
Dillon, Russell Sage, e. ?. Huntington ana
,thers were elected Directors.
The annual session of the General as,
,embly of the United Presbyterian Church
,i the United States and Canada has
opened at Hamilton, 0. A number of im
,ortsnt oues;ious will come before the
Assembly for settlement, aud thsre are
promised some exciting debates, including |
,ne on the question Of INSTRUMENTAL music
The Indiana Prohioiionis,s, in eoayen-
ion at Indianapolis, adopted q platform |
declaring for prohibition, greenbacks and
emals suffrage, Gpd nominated ucSet
or State officers. Rev. : B. Leonard, OF |
Ohio, made speech in which he dcnouac,
d the Ohio Republicans for turning out |
be Hamilton county Senate frauds.