The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-20
CONDENSED NEWS.
A Collection of Interesting Items on vari-
Gus Subjects, Especially Prepared for
tina Hasty Reader.

A Collection of Interesting Items on vari-
Gus Subjects, Especially Prepared for
tina Hasty Reader.
Schools at Anna, his, have closed be
cause of diphtheria.
The ill-health of Mrs. Harrison has
caused the president to abandon his trip
through New York.
Champion Corbett was given a grand re-
ception upon his arrival in New York. He
bore his honors modestly.
Nearly 800 delegates from the various
branches of the Iron Hall met at Indian
apolis. The prospects of reorganizing are
very poor.
The price of sugar is to be advanced by
the sugar trust.
The supreme chief justice of the Iron
Hall order, +. ID. Somerby, has sold his
dwelling house in Philadelphia.
Orders have been received at the Mare
Island navy yard for the old cruiser AL
lance to start within ten days for Homo
Thirty-fiye Hungarian laborers were
shipped from Alliance, o., to Homestead,
IA, where they are insured steady work
In the Carnegie iron works.
Lieutenant Peary, who just returned
from an expedition, says he planted the
American flag two points nearer the north
pole than was ever before reached by civil
lied man.
The strike at Shoenberger's mill at Pitts
burg has been declared off by the Amalga-
mated association, and the men are return
ing TO work at the employers terms. The
works will be operated independently of
the Amalgamated association hereafter.
The Society of t1e Army of the Cumber-
land held reunion on the battlefield of
Chfckamauga. Addresses were made by
Doth Union and Confederate veterans.
General III. v. Boynton delivered the an
nual Grafton. Among those present were
Generals Rosecrans, Wood, Baird, Carter,
Morgan, Reynolds, Wiseman and Warner
The report of further Russian seizures
around Behring sea has been confirmed.
President Rodiquez, of Costa Rica has
declared himself dictator. Great excite
ment prevails
Iron Hallers, at indianapolis, have reor-
ganized with S. E. Towne, of Philadelphia,
supreme justice. Bylaws were also adopt
ed. The next move will be to try to take
the orders funds out of the receivers
hands, if it can be done.
The relatives of Frank Riley, the sailor
ON the United States steamship Newark,
who. was killed in lodging house in
Genoa, have retained counsel to secure
some reparation from the Italian govern
ment.
Mrs. Charles Billings, the wife of a
mountaineer in Ashe county, N. c., has
surprised herself and the people through
out that region by giving birth to six baby
boys, weighing each from five to nine
pounds, and all alive and well.
: Wilder's brigade has begun the erection
of a monument at Chickamauga, at a cost
OF $4,000. 1t will be a limestone column,
100 feet in height, with chamber for rec
ords at the base, and a winding staircase
leading to circular gallery. on top.
A moonshine distillery was discovered
in the heart of New York city. The oper-
ators escaped.
The Nashville pest house was burned by
persons who feared the place might be
used for cholera patients.
The Choctaw nation political troubles
are settled for the present by the surrender
OF the sixteen men of the jackson party,
charged with murder, to the legal authori-
ties, which is the Jones party.
Meredith Stanley, of Cincinnati, pro-
poses to float over Niagara Falls in a bar
rel of strong oak, well hooped and covered
with copper. It is eight feet long and six
feet in diameter the inside being f,addad