Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-17
CONDENSED NEWS.
Interesting Telegraphic Items Condensed
From the Sunday Register.

into by a train near Jane Lew, w. Va,
| Saturday evening. His face was terri
| bly, cut and his nose broken.
A special to the REGISTER ann ounced
| the death of Mayor B. 81. Maulsby, OF
West Union, w. Va. He died at his
home at o'clock Saturday morning OF
consumption after four months i'll
ness.
President Wilson, of the Health
Board, Saturday morning announced
that the Chinese lepers, Ong Moy Toy
| and Tsang Ding have been removed to
| North Brothers Island, where they will
be placed in hospital tent isolated
from the other buildings.
Saturday evening Grafton's postmas-
ter, A. ]. Nuzum was forced to resign
and James w. Holt, of the Sentinel as
sumed control. AS he was Union
veteran it was thought he would at least
serve out his term, but a Republican
was given his place.
In balloon ascention at Coney ISL
and, Cincinnati, Saturday Miss Annie
Harkess, at an elevation of five hundred
feet, left the balloon in a parachute.
| The parachute closed and fell rapidly to
the ground, dashing Miss Harkess to
pieces.
Three more incendiary fires occurred
at Rerdon, O., Thursday. 1t Is thought
that the lawless element there started
the fires to avenge themselves on those
who voted liquor out Of the place. Sew
en- dogs were poisoned the night OF the
fire.
Socialists are not letting the grass
grow under their feetin taking the full
est advantage of the gloomy situation
to actively push their propaganda.
The coming of winter, and what seems
to be inevitable distress, perhaps al
most famine, promises rich harvest
to socialism. Workmen pinched with
hunger and goaded by savage articles
of the radical socialist press will fall an
easy prey to the propagandists.
Advices from various parts OF the
country show that large importations OF
grain will be imperatively needed. The
government relies on America TO supply
the deficiency, but the public are not so
easily satisfied as to that, especially
workingmen. The radical press, in at
lacking the government, dwells on the
probability that the corn syndicates OF
America are not likely to show much
consideration to Germany If by holding
their grain they can force the markets
and so get their own price.
A disastrous hail storm struck Will
mar, MIMI, Thursday evening, uproot-
| ing trees, breaking window-panes, and
entirely destroying the grain. At st.
Cloud the large hailstones ruined the
crops. Men caught in hay and harvest
fields were badly bruised and cut about
the head. In some places the hail was
| from fifteen to twenty inches deep.
Twenty hours after the storm Captain
William Smith, of Minden, brought to
st. Cloud a lump Of snow and lee two
feet in diameter.
The executive committee Of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor has instructed
President Gompers TO cooperate with
President Weihe, Of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers,
for the purpose of preventing and dis
couraging the attempt TO import tin plate
workers into this country In violation OF
the alien labor law 1t was resolved to
send representation Of the Confedera-
ton to the British Trade Union Congress
at New Castle on September 1st, for the
purpose of extending to the trade I'M
ions of Great Britain personal invita-
ton to attend the National Labor Con-
press called by the Federation In Chica-
go for 1898.
A copyrighted dispatch from Berlin
says: Despite positive assurance to the
contrary it was hoped that the Cabinet
meeting announced for this afternoon
would resolve on some reduction on the
corn duties. 1t was hoped that the in
fluence of Minister Miguel, who still
strongly urges a reduction, would have
the object of persuaGing his colleagues
to consent to such a measure. The re-
suit of the ministerial deliberations as
announced this evening In the Reich
zanger shows that although the govern
ment decisions are modified, still they
are determined not to reduce the corn
duties till absolutely compelled to do
so.
The excitement Saturday in the
Chicago wheat pit was partially due to
the shortage of the rye and wheat crops
in Russia, France, Germany, Austria,
Hungary and India. Foreign markets
are excited and as America is the only
country which has full crops, dealers
count on profting by the European and
Asiatic scarcity. There was a rumor
that b. P. Hutchinson, who retired
from the Board some time ago, and who
is now in the East, has been very right
on both wheat and corn OF late, making
lots of money, and it was conjectured
that he had given some Of the Eastern
fellows bull pointers, on which they
have been acting to the detriment Of
Partridge and the other Chicago bears.
A special telegram from Parkersburg
says:-The worst wind and hail storm
ever known on Lee creek, struck that
locality Friday, and cut swath across
the lower end of the country on Lee
creek. Corn fields were leveled, or
chards and forest trees blown down,
and hay stacks carried off and destroy
ed. The corn was stripped clean. Cap
Tain bechWltn IepOIIs his toOal COIn
crop destroyed as do many others. At
Mineral Wells, and in fact across Steele,
Taggart and Slate districts, the storm
levelled almost everything it came in
contact with. Many barns are reported
unroofed, roads were rendered impass-
able until the trees and rubbish were
cleared off. 1t is impossible to estimate
the loss, but it will doubtless run into
thousands.
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