The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-08-16
NEWS IN A NuTsHELL.
Items of Interest Gathered From All Parts
of the World.

Items OF Interest Gathered From All Parts
of the World.
The worlds dental congress is now in
session in Chicago.
Fleming McNeal was killed by Charles
Morrow, near Newsted, Ky. The murderer
escaped.
Barrett Scott, treasurer of Holt coun.
ty, Kan, has disappeared, leaving SEQ, O0l
shortage.
Gold ore assaying So, 500 ton has been
found 10 feet below the surface Mt Cripple
Greek, Colo.
BY surgical operation at Rochester a
finger has been substituted for u nose upon
Fred Darcy
Forest fires are doing great damage in
northern Wisconsin and the upper Michi-
gan peninsula.
The National bank note circulation out
standing is S1S9, 40, 700, an increase of more
than S5,OOOOOO since Aug. 1.
Two hundred men are thrown out of en-
pioyment by the closing down of the Mich
igan forge and iron works mt Detroit.
A. w. Brady, mayor of Muncie, Ind,
has been appointed receiver of the suspend
ed Citizens National bank of that city.
The Rev. S. d. Roberts, Methodist, com
mitted suicide by shooting at Lincoln
Neb., as the result or financial embarrass-
ment
Rioting between the Hindoos and Mo-
hammedans at Bombay has been sup
pressed by tue authorities, and business
has been resumed.
Two thousand men were present at the
commencement of work on a new sewer in
Denver seeking employment There was
work for but 40 of them
John H. Kettell, the negro who did the
actual robbing of the Pacific Express com
pany's wagon at Wichita recently, securing
$500, was arrested at Kansas City
Ex-President Harrison left Beverly.
Mass, Monday for Cape May, where he
will remain untE he goes to the Grand
Army eneampment at Indianapolis.
Monroe Smith, the negro who assaulted
Mrs. Deseafs, white, at Springhill, Ala,
was captured by posse, hanged, and shot
and his body thrown into the creek.
Chairman Thacher of the worlds fair
executive committee on awards is angry
because of the premature publication OF
awards made on sculpture and will inves-
tigate.
The A. r. Beck Lumber company. with
yards and offices in South Chicago, as
signed to the Equitable Trust company.
Assets are placed at $511 90 and liabilities
at $3.50, eco
The Crescent flour mill and elevator adj
Joining Denver, burned. Loss between
s25O,OOO and $500, 900; insured. Fire Lieu.
tenant Mclean was seriously injured by a
dust explosion.
John Schilder of Chillicothe, o., who was
sued for damages by William Meriday.
colored. because of the refusal of SchiIder,
who is a restaurant keeper, to serve lunch
to Meriday, was acquitted.
A pipe line is being laid from the gas
territory west of Elwood, Ind, TO Frank
fort, Ind, the Frankfort Pipe Line com.
pany having leased several hundred acres.
Additional wells will be drilled.
Thomas Vlasak, Bohemian, and Henry
Papcka, a German, of Warrensville, o.,
neighbors, quarreled over VIasak's chick
ems. Vlasak struck Papcka ON the mead
with stone, killing him. yIasak and the
members of the family were arrested and
lodged in Jail
Fire at Evansville, o., destroyed the dry
goods store of Lorbef & Ruman, in the Ely
building, entailing loss of s, 500 It also
damaged the art gallery of W. P. Baker
and the law office Of G. J. Howard. j. I