Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-04-12
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! several days, Is now seventeen ice. AZ .N
channel and is still going up. The low pot-
toms are inundated. Much damage has
been done 70 bridges aud fences. Farmers
are getting their stock TO high gro',nd 70
save il.
The low lands along the Illinois and San,
gaman rivers are completely flooded ana
both rivers are still rising. Al Boards
/ town the Illinois is five miles wide boIn
rivers are above their high water marx Ior
the last ten years and no small damage mas
been done the growing crops in the Sanga-
mon valley.
Eight cases OF smallpox have been re.
ported at the Bureau OF Vital Statistics OF
| New York since Saturday.
Brigadier General Thomas w. Sweeney,
! United States Army, retired, died at ASto-
ria, n. Y, Sunday night
Hon. John X. Porter, senior counsel for
the people in the trial of Garheld's assas-
! sin. Guiteau, and for the defense IN tne
| Beeoher teial, died az Waterford, y. l.,
yesterday.
The Chronicle Telegraph, the only Pitts
! burg afternoon paper having the Associat-
ed Press franchise, reduced its price 70 one
| cent Yesterday. IL is an eight page paper
/ EIGHT columns 10 the page, has been eslao-
I lished over fifty years, and is a prosperous
concern.
! The New York Hcrdld's Washington
! special saws Cyrus w. Field, Jr., is 10 De
/ appointed 10 place in the foreign service.
| His efforts 10 secure employment for him.
! self. he SAYS. are rendered necessary by the
| financial reverses which his father has re-
Gently suffered.
A certificate Of the increase OF capital oil
| the Standard Oil Co., of New York, from
five to seven millions of dollars was nled
/ with the Secretary Of State Yesterday
| The certificate shows that the amount OF
the capital at present actually paid is Ia
| five millions of dollars, and that the llaoli-
/ tiles of the Company amount 10 Sl,So0,O<g
! Another certificate was filed showing that
the number of directors OF the Company
had been increased 10 nine but the names
of the additional directors are not given.
The Navy Department is informed that
! the United States Steamship Newark,
sailed from La Guayra yesterday Tor Cura-
Goa. West Indies. This is taken TO mean
that peace has been restored in Venezuela.
The first shovelful Of earth was turned
Yesterday afternoon in the work or build
ing the wigwam for the Democratic Ma
tioual Convention on the lake front, Chi
cago. According 10 contract the structure
is TO becompleted before June.
For the first time in the history Of New
| Britain, Conn, the Democrats yesterday
elected their complete city ticket.
A crowd OF anti-Parnellites attacked
Parnelite band at Waterford, ireland, yes
terday, and a free fight ensued. Many
stones were thrown and several persons
were seriously wounded.
The cases OF "Prince" Michael Mills and
his spiritual wife, Lizzie Courts, the ely
ing Roll" disciples, who are charged with
| ID, ttn in tho COnrt nj Detroit.
Mich, yesterday, and were postponed for
one week.
The second election in Charlestown, K.
| resulted Senator, Joseph G. Church,
Republican; Representative, Herbert A
Gates, Democrat
The eastern window glass manufacturers
have decided 10 shut down all factories on
Nav 81. and remain idle until October 10
III the rule Is enforced IL will be the longest
shut down since the strike OF lSS3. The
movement is attributed to the extreme
dullness in the trade.
The case of VIM. f. Jordan and j. j. Nc
Laurin, OF the Harrisburg Morning Cal,
charged By Governor Pattison with Grim
inal libel in publishing the famous Turn
ON The Lightnarticle, during the campaign
Of 1890, has been postponed until thursday,
May D.
Notices we're put up in the Phoenix Iron
Companyis iron works, at PbGnixyille,
Pa, yesterday, that work will be sus-
pended in all departments excepting shops
No. and until Monday. April ID. This
suspension affects l,OOO men.
The New England Methodist Conference
is emphatically against the opening OF the
Worlds Fair on Sunday.
About two hundred electric bell wiremen
went on strike in New York yesterday for
an increase Of wages.
James Scott, a negro, brutally murdered
his wife with an iron poker last evening
In Rankin county. Miss. The negroes OF
the neiehborhood were preparing 10 hang
Scott, but were dissuaded by white man.
The explosion Of a lamp in hotel kitch'
en- at Belding, Mich, caused the destruc-
ton OF the hotel and i've business blocks.
Great meetings Of unemployed workmen
are being held daily in London and de-
mands are made for work or bread.
At the regular monthly meeting Of the
New York Presbytery yesterday, all the
delegates elected 20 the General Assembly
were favorable 10 reopening OF the Briggs
heresy case.
A corn dealer at Taganroll, Russia, has
been sentenced 70 a months imprisonment
for selling 10 the starving Peasants corn
with which earth has been mixed.
Deeming. the murderer. passes most o.
his time at MelbOurne writing his defence.
His counsel Mr.. Lyle, declines 70 see
Deeming alone, lest be be suspected OF
prompting the murderer 20 feign madness.
Howard Fchols. cOlOred, 81. Louis,
threatened 10 murder his mistress. Jennie
Harris. and went for pistol 70 do II with.
When be returned Jennie was there but
had pistol too. They fired five shots each
and both will die.
John Carman and Michael Callahan,
aged inmates OF the Muncie, Ind. innr-
mary Yesterday charged the superintend-
ent. his son, aud the matron with iuhumsn
treatment and with causing the death OF
John Jack, blind inmate.
Methodist preachers meeting at
Columbus. o.. Yesterday, adopted a memo
rial 10 the General Conference 70 enact
such legislation as will enable pastors 70
drop members who do not support the
church according 70 their ability
Republican primary elections were held
In four counties in western Pennsylvania,
Yesterday. and In all Of them, Senator
Quay was successful in the matter OF oo-
tanning determination Of bis Iieutenants.
The steamship Fulda, from Bremen,
which arrived in New York yesterday,
had four cases Of smallpox aboard.
Ten villages In Hungary have been
burned The spread Of the flames was
assisted bv dry and windy weather. Five
persons were killed and thousands are
homeless.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convection meets in Harrisburg to-mor-
row. The chief interest centers In the
delegates AZ large 70 the Natioral COrven-