The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-08-02
ooNDENsED NEWS.
A Collection Of Interesting Items ON Var
ous subjects. Especially Prepared fp

A Collection OF Interesting Items ON yarf
ous Subjects. Especially Prepared 10.
the Hasty Readers.
The cotton mill and betting factory o
Henry Pearce Sons company, Cincinnati
have closed. About 500 hands, half O
whom ara girls are out of work. Dull
trade
rail viii probably be given Schweinfurtl
the Rockford Q1ls.) Christ, should he visit
his branch heaven in Lexington, Ky, as Ii,
proposes TO do.
Captain A. Z. Hunt, Pittsburg chem
ist. suggest scheme to produce doIlal
which Will be worth leo cents, without en-
countering Senator Shermanis objection.
to goloid coins His plan is to coin the al
10y discovered by Sir Robert Austin. which
consists of 7s per cent of gold and p PEI
cent of aluminium. It is of beautiful
be counterfeited, as the metals mix only IL
the proportions named, and gold is =,
heavier than aluminium.
Clark's mammoth thread factory al
Newark, N j., viii run on about two
thirds time until trade is better. They
employ 1000 hands.
Up to date 300 men have registered al
Denver as being out of employment
Means are being taken to furnish employ.
? Ray Earl, so, of New Haven, has startec
to walk to Chicago In 70 days. He has n,
money except enough to pay ferriages
Commander Weissert of : the Crane
Army advises that no money b,
wasted ON fireworks at the Indianapolis
encampment in view of the business de
preston.
The Denver chamber of commerce ha,
prepared a memorial to congress fayorins
an increase in the circulating medium o.
the country by the free coinage of silver
produced from the mines of the Unitec
States and demanding the paying out Of
the money boarded in the vaults of the ma
tonal treasury.
DIR. a. w. Wheeler, the United State,
marine hospital surgeon who was recently
sent abroad by the treasury department u
examine into the sanitary condition of the
ports where emigrants are embarked fol
this country, says that, owing to the pre-
cautions both here and abroad, cholera i,
not at all likely to reach this country thi.
year
Washington is almost deserted now.
Lewis Irig, who had been sleeping fol
three months, died near Chadron, Ia.
from starvation.
Many of the mills and factories at Am.
sterdam, n. Y, have shut down-some foI
short time and some indefinitely.
IL Is asserted that Mr.. Cleveland, in his
message to the extra session of congress
will urge tariff revision as well as repeal OF
the Sherman law.
Worlds fair exhibitors are complaining
of poor ventilation and lack of facilities
for visitors to reach the galleries in the
various buildings
Ex-Assistant Secretary Bussey and ex-
Commissioner Tanner deny that the re
cently-discovered "secret decisions" IN
pension caseS We're ever formally rendered.
A compromise has been agreed upon in
the Behring sea case. American counsel
feel that they have the best of it, pelagic
sealing in American waters being re
stricted.
Over 600 men lost their lives in Nicara-
qua in the battles of Mateares and Ma.
argua. 1t is lacimed that the loss will be
from 600 to 400 lives. The fighting was
at close range. and the most desperate ever
witnessed