Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-21
SUNDAY COMBINATIONS.
Interesting TelegraPhtc News Condensed
From Sundays Register"

Interesting Lelegrhphtc news NohuehSeu
From Sundays Register"
In a wreck at Port Neuf, Idaho, Fri
day, two passenger trains collided,
killing five men and seriously injurlng
several others. The accident was
caused by the failure Of the air brakes
10 work.
Twenty Of the persons arrested Fri
day night upon the occasion OF the
second performance Of "Lohengrin" at
at the Grand Opera House, were after
their preliminary examination yesterday
morning held for trial.
Pierre, 5. D., Is enjoying a baccarat
scandal In which prominent merchants
aud city officials are implicated. The
police raided the players recently, but
owing to the prominence Of the people
they were not prosecuted.
At the conclusion of the arguments
in the trial Of John Gilpin, at Greensboro,
Ca, for the murder of his brother-in-
law, the audience burst I'm cheers
Judge Jenkins had the doors closed and
fined each Of the 200 people present.
He then discharged the jury and de-
cared the case to be a mlstrial.
A number of prairie fires are reported
from many localities in Minnesota and
North Dakota. Three or four miles Of
the Great Northern railroad track has
been burned and made impossible. At
least so, 900 bushels OF wheat were de-
stroyed near Lisbon, North Dakota. At
WinOna the entire neighbOrhOOd gath
cred and fought the flames. 1t is
feared that WilliamspOrt has been
burned.
A three-Story brick apartment house
took fire I'm Chicago Saturday morning,
which was occupied by number OF
families. Seven of the occupants were
Smothered and burned TO death, and
another fatally injured. The fire Ori-
ginated in the rear Of the first floor,
which was occupied by William keOiitz
as bakery. II is thought TO have
caught fire from one of the bake ovens
The fire ran up to the rear stairway into
the sleeDing apartments on the second
and third floors. A number Of the Oc-
cupantS were rescued by the tiremen.
Peter w. Jackson, a lawyer OF Fres-
no, asserts that he knows Miss Vera
Ava we'll That his relatives In Eng
land live on an estate adjoining that OF
her father. He says that she came to
this country in 1857 with her brother
and spent some time Ia California.
Later he heard she had returned to
England. jackson has no doubt that
the Vera Ava now in Cincinnati and
the English woman whom he knew are
one and the same. Two friends who
came with Jackson from England ex-
- -. ont, olfhnnuh Mona
OF them had seen Miss Ava for years.
Her father, they say, was a wealthy
man.
A special to the SUNDAY REGISTER
from ParkerSburg says; Thomas Z.
Crawford was instantly killed at the
Piedmont pulp mill at one o'clock this
morning. He was standing near the
circular saw when the shaft broke, re-
leasing the saw, which struck him,
splitting his head from the right temple
back TO the neck, scattering his brains
over the floor. He was a son OF James
). Crawford, formerly Of Columbus,
Ohio, seventeen years old, and mem
Der of the Junior American Mechanics.
The funeral arrangements ara delayed
by Inability TO hear from his brother,
Ellsworth, visiting near Columbus. In
terment will probably be on Monday
afternoon.
Frank Melbourne, the rain maker, re-
Gently experimental at Cheyenne, Wy
Oming, with remarkable success. The
weather bureau for that district had
predicted fair weather. AT 1O:45 In the
morning there was not a cloud
visible. Melbourne predicted a shower
for u o'clock. At II o'clock the clouds
gathered from east and west and met
directly over the rainmaker's scene OF
operations. At 1905 a rain poured
down steadily. Shortly before 2 the
rain had ceased and the sun shining.
Melbourne promised another rain Tor 8
o'clock, when the clouds gathered and
the rain poured. Shortly after the
clouds again dispursed. The rainmaker
predicted another shower for o'clock,
which came according to prediction.
Governor Baxter and his associates
e were present and pronounced the eX-
perimeutS as thoroughly satisfactory.
Trouble IS feared between the white