Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-15
MULTUM IN PARVO.
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Interesting News by Wire Boiled Down
for Hurried Readers.
The chief Of the Secret Service division,
Treasury Department, announces that
new counterfeit 50 silver certificate was
put in circulation in Chicago October llth.
il has the new back aud is OF the series
1891. check letter G, Rosecrans, register;
Nebeker, treasurer. The paper Is lar ana
is An imitation OF the new distinctive DIS
tributed fibre used by the Government, the
fibre being initiated 10 blue and PINK lnK
by the use OF pen.
A porter named Matthew Columbus, who
Is employed in Tudela, in the province OF
Navarro, Spain, has arrived IN MADRID &c,
companied by his nephew, VINO Is natleu
L christopher Columbus. he brings docu-
ments which be declares prove that he and
his nephew are descendants OF the great
Columbus. II is the intention OF the elder
Columbus to ask the Queen Regent 70 pro-
vide for the education Of his nephew.
John I. Davenport, author Of the Force
bill, refused 70 attend the meeting or the
social committee of the House OF rep
resentatives appointed TO investigate aim
aud his methOns. He sent a letter to Con-
gresham Fitz, chairman ofthe committee,
announcing his intention 70 disregard the
summons OF the committee and giving his
reasons, coupled with some disagreeable
remarks about the committeeman.
Word comes from Banners Ferry, Idaho,
that the KcOtenay Indians will probably
make serious trouble in that county on &C
count Of diking OF Kootenay river by an
English company The other day band
of twenty Indians, all fully armed, went to
the workmen ard forced them TO quit work
on the dixie. Pae Indians say they Will
shoot anyone who attempts TO resume
work.
At Kansas City, Mo, the coroner's jury
investigating the cause OF the cable car &C
cident which cost four persons their lives,
rendered/s verdict, holding that the acct
dent was caused by gross negligence Of the
hagma9 in the employ of the Kansas City
Belt Line Co., in tagging neither the cable
train nor the freight train.
The number Of persons carried bp the
various railroads during the Columbian fss-
tifities at New York was enormous. The
pennsylvania railroad broug>t in during
Wednesday, over the DesbrOsses and Cort-
landt street ferries, ninety thousand pass
engers, sixty per cent. more than their usu-
al traffic.
A large number of the men who were ar
rested for taking part in the cholera riot at
SaratOff, Russia, were tried by court mar
tial and judgment was rendered yesterday
at Astrakh2n. Four of the rioters were
sentenced TO death, while many OF the prls-
oners were sentenced to exile in Siberia.
Generals Crespo and Bustamente are
anxious 10 secure the recognition OF the
United States for the new government OF
Venezuela. They have requested private
conference with Minister Scruggs, and are
anxiously awaiting a favorable answer
from the Washington authorities.
President Harrison has received many
friendly greetings for America from the
representatives of foreign countries. One
was from the Governor OF MADEIRA, who
congratulated the people of the United
States upon the success Of this great Re-
public.
Captain Orlando r. Ross died at w ash
tngton, yesterday. He was native of
Bethel, Ohio, and served in the Union
army during the war. He was q cousin Of
General Grant and member of his staff,
the last survivor it is said, Of that body,
The Paris correspondent OF the London
Times says that the French government
will not make a Cabinet question OF the
Franco-Swiss Commercial Convention.
hAAN-A was APONbSN IL SSAAAS dNeANSAS ~
lead to the defeat Of the government.
The New York Herald correspondent at
BuenOs Ayres says that Senior Luis Sans
Pena took the oath of Office as President
of the Republic yesterday. Everything
was quiet in the city despite the fears Of
violence
AT Sioux Falls, S. D., Judge Andrews
granted a divorce 10 Mrs. Margaret Mac
kay, OF New York, from Archibald Kenne-
dy Kearney Mackay. The plaintiff is al
lowed 5000 alimOny. The charge was
cruelty.
The Board of Education Of Detroit has
adopted a resolution, after fierce fight,
practically excluding Catholicsfrom teach
ing in the Detroit public schools.
At Aritton, 5 D., thirty-tlve hundrenths
Of an inch OF rain fell yesterday and last
night, the first in a month.