Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-09
HERE YOU HAVE
In Black and White the Little Newslets
of the Night.

| Telegraph Company, is still investigating
| Tuesdays pool room swindle by whicn
| Western pool rooms were victimized out OF
many thousands of dollars. He has not
yet succeeded in locating the blame
Severe snow storms accompanied by in
| tlnsely cold weather prevail in many parts
| Of Great Britain. A mail train Is blocked
by the heavy drifts near Glenbarry IN
Banffshire, Scotland.
Fire has almost destroyed the town OF
| La Chute, thriving manufacturing center
sixty miles from Montreal, Canada. Out
! of the 400 houses composing the town fully
800 are destroyed ana three-quarters OF the
| inhabitants are seeking shelter in the
churches and public buildings which have
withstood the flames. The loss is S2OO,OOo'
At 1890 o'clock last night the foundry
Of the Syracuse, n. H., Steel Works was
totally destroyed by fire, involving loss
of 900. Insurance, s25,OOO
The Clarksville, Ca, woolen mills have
been totally destroyed by fire. The loss Is
800, 600: no assurances. Two hundred en-
ployes are thrown out OF work.
A motion for a new trial in the case of
DR. Graves has been made and next Satur-
day has been set at the day to hear the ar
| guments.
The boiler Of large saw mill at Boiling,
| Ala, the property of Caldwell, Miller &
Flours, exploded yesterday, instantly kill
| ing Engineer Cooper and forr other en-
ployes of the company. The mill Is TOTAL
| loss. Loss, $50, 600; no insurance.
In q collision between two freights at
| Bristol Station, Ills. on the Chicago, Bur
| lington and Quincy road yesterday, Fire
man jackson was killed and the engineer
badly injured.
I'M. AIfnpen hac haar
ordered 10 Tangier.
The Czarina of Russia is i'll and is unable
to leave her apartments. She receives no
| visitors.
A meeting Of 900 Paris cabmen yester-
day decided to continue the present strike.
Physicians in Berlin express belief that
| the influenza epidemic has passed the acme
there and is waning All the clergy con-
nected with the Cathedral at Treves are
| prostrated with influenza.
A fire at Jeanette, Pa, yesterday de
stroyed the Cook block, Dispatch building,
Sowash and Fink's drug store and the resi-
dences of DIR. Hugh Henry and VIM. Sieg-
ler During the fire lamp exploded in
| Sieglers burning three men seriously.
| The fire Is believed TO have been incen.
diary. Loss, $4,000, partly insured.
The stage running between Mokelumne
! Hill and Valley Springs, Cal, was stopped
! by a lone highWayman yesterday. Ihe
! robber had a shot gun and made the driver
| throw out the express box and empty his
pockets.
An explosion OF gas at the Nelson, Pa,
colliery yesterday killed Philip Deserts
and Paul Crunzie and injured six others.
The cause of the explosion is not known.
Recorder Smythe yesterday sentenced
| ''Billy" McGlory, the notorious New York
dive keeper, to one year in the penitentiary
and to pay fine of $500 for keeping dis
orderly house.
Steamboat Era No. TO- owned by Capt.
Hamilton, burned yesterday in Boen river,
| La. No lives were lost. Cargo, cotton,
total loss; value Of boat, $4,000; insured
| for 30,000.
Paul Grunzski was killed and Philip
Desert and George Steele were fatally in
| iured by gas explosion in the Wilson col
! iiery at Shamokin, Pa. yesterday, caused
by the improper use OF a lamp by Grunz-
| ski.
The Roman cabmans' strike has col
| lapsed.
A. X. Sloan, for years a wealthy busi-
ness man of Memphis, Tenn, but on his
uppers from drink, butted his brains out
| against the bars of his cell, at Memphis,
| last night. The bars were covered with
hair and blood. When found his skull was
| broken open.
A telegram from Hamilton. Ont, says
| the Hartman Steel Wire Co., Of Pittsburg
will remove to that place.
Andrew Carnegie has decided to add an.
| other million TO his Pittsburg library
| fund and make it the finest library build
! ing in the country.
| The iron ship Ashburne, Ifrom Sunder-
! land, England, went ashore at Tasty, Va,
! last night, and was wrecked. No lives are
reported lost.
Five boilers exploded in the Warren
! Springer building on Canal street, Chicago,
| killing Arthur Hall, o. d. Rush, John Lee
and Pat Rogers.
| A freight wreck on the F't. Smith road,
| near Little Rock killed fireman and en-
gineer and did $4,000 damage, yesterday
| afternoon.
1t is alleged as grounds for a new trial in
the Graves case that the deputy sherifs
who summoned the jurors first inquired OF
them as 10 their feelings concerning the
crime charged, and the probable weight OF
evidence they would require before bring
| ing a verdict of guilty. 1t is alleged that
those who were not opposed to the Doctor
were not called.
JP. Witherow, an iron founder Of New
| Castle, Pa, made an assignment yesterday
| TO Alexander Thomas for the benefit OF his
| creditors.
There was no feature to the New York
dry goods market.
Charles Watkins. very light mulatto
was hanged at Salem, Va, yesterday for
| the murder of his wife Susan last April.
| He became enamored Of white woman
| and left his wife to live with her and when
| his wife protested he beat her brains out
with rail He has lately feigned insani-
| ".
It Is reported on good authority that
| Neil Sims is surrounded in a swamp in
Mississippi and is almost certain TO be
| captured by the organized regulators that
are after him.
Duu's Review Of trade issued yesterday
for the week notes that the iron market
shows improvement, with largely increased
sales. The money market has been we'll
| supplied and the beginning Of the new
year finds conditions favorable except in
| the South, where the heavy northern crops
are giving ground for confidence The
| business failures since December 81 are
| ABS: last week 329; same week last year 403.
Wm. Mccoy was hanged at Homeryille,
| Ga, yesterday for murder. At the first
attempt the rope broke and the sheriff had
| TO 20 To town for new one. The second
| attempt made an hour and half after
ward, was successful.
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| NOTES OF THE RIVER.