The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-03

Items of Intsrs.t GatheTs.l from Al, IA,
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Items OF Interest Gathered From All PART.
OF the world.
There are still 10 bodies in the Louisville
bridge wreck.
Toronto elected Prohibition mayor by
A rich find Of gold is reported in Fayetse
county, w. Va.
The great Manchester ship canal is now
I ready for traffic
The lannon's Chicago liberty bell is to be
taken around the world.
James Darwin, u. was deyoured by a
huge hog at Huntsville Ala
Socialist Williams Monday urged the
London unemployed to piIlage.
The Peerless coal miners struck Monday
against one-hah cent reduction.
Four large religious journals of Mime
apolis have cut wages paid printers.
J. w. Green of Xenia, o., with family
and out of work, committed suicide.
Motorman Hartman was killed in a col
llslon with another car in Philadelphia
Carnegie's workmen will ask reduction
OF rent TO offset the reduction in wages.
1t is said the differences between Hon
duras and Nicaragua may be settled with
out war.
Two men were buried under e5 feet of
Arbor, Mich.
Charles 4. o'Ferran was inaururated
governor of Virginia Monday with great
pomp and ceremony.
Teller William Austin Bennett of the
Globe National bank of Proyidence is miss
ing as IS about sos, 600 of the bank s funds:
Ed Gallagher, %, telegraph operator at
Sisterville, n. Y, suicided by shooting in
the presence of his sweetheart Jealousy.
drink and cigarettes.
Philip III. Bruck was appointed receiver
for the Columbus (o.) Watch company.
The outstanding obligations are about
s20OOoo; assets, $3.50, 900.
The latest news from Dahomey is that
General Dodds has refused Behanzirl's re-
quest for permission to reside at Whydah.
and has given him 90 days in which to sur
render.
The police raided anarchist quarters in
many of the towns in France Monday, and
seized the forms and copy for the New
Years edition of the anarchist journal
Pere Peinard.
At Media, Pa, Swithin C. Shortlidge,
principal of the famous Media academy
for boys, while out promenading with his
wife, bride of only a month, shot and in
stantly killed her. He was insane and does
not realize his crime.
NAOSSp
ment erected in Golden Gate park to mark
the spot where Sir Francis Drake read the
first Episcopal service on the Pacific coast.
was unveiled Monday in the presence of
large number of people. The cross is
the gift of George w. Childs of PhiIadel-
phia.
The legislature of Mississippi has met in
what the constitution denomnates '.spe-
cial'' session. 1t contemplates regular,
special and extraordinary sessions. The
regular sessions are to be held every four
years, beginning with 1891 Alta "special''
session none but appropriation and revenue
bills shall be considered, except such other
matters as the governor may, in writing,
submit to it.
A man high in the councils of the Demo-
cratic party and very close to the president,
says: THE president has concluded that
Hornblower cannot be confirmed In con-
sequence he has decided to withdraw his
nomination and substitute Olney, the pres
ent attorney general, for the vacant judge
ship; put Bissell, the present postmaster
general in Olney's place, and put Josiah
Quincy, late assistant secretary of state, in
Bisselrs place as postmaster general