Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-29
TIE NEWS IN BRIEt.

Mo, yesterday.
Few departmental changes are expected
| to follow the change in the Cnanceilorshlp
of Germany.
There was a heavy snow storm in Ne
braska, yesterday, and stock is suffering
! greatly as a result.
Governor Mckinley has declined to speak
| at Nashville. He will speak at Erie, Pa,
| on the morning Of November I'd.
At Berlin it is expected that the appoint
ment of Prince Won Hohenlone as Imperial
Prime Minister will be gazetted to-day.
The John Street NJ. E. church, New
| York. celebrated its one-hundred and
| twenty-tfth anniversary yesterday.
Hugh J. Grant yesterday addressed a
| letter to the Executive COmmlttee OF Tam
many Hall, accepting the nomination Tor
| Mayor.
a Spanish Ministerial Council has been
| summoned for today to discuss important
| questions. 1t is expected that the meeting
will result in Cabinet crisis.
The chief interest of the present week
| among New York Republicans centres in
| the appearance of eX-President Harrison
| on Wednesday evening next, in Carnegie
! Music Hall, in that city.
J. A. Gates, Populist candidate for Con-
| been withdrawn by the POpullsts, VINO are
making an attempt TO fuse with the Repuo-
| licsns and support Call, Rep, against En-
| loe. Dem.
Great forest fires are raging sin the
vicinity of Corinth, Miss, and several cot
| ton fields and much valuable timber has
been destroyed. Similar fires are raging
near Trlmble, Tenn, and much damage IS
reported to timber and farms.
Charles Reeves, of Mexico, committed
suicide at the Brockway Hotel, Hot
| Springs, Ark, yesterday Ia the evening,
| in the same town, Charles d. Anderson,
Swede committed suicide at tue Sulphur
Well Hotel, by taking poison
The East st. Louis freight depot of the
! St. Louis Transfer Company caught fire
| from some, as yet unknown cause, at ii
| o'clock last night and was totally de-
stroyed with its contents. The loss is
about Sj00,0OO.
In Democratic circles in New York the
| starting tomorrow Of Governor Flower on
a tour through the State in the interests OF
| the Democratic ticket, is raising much IN
! terest, because of the master stroEe the
| Democrats claim Chairman Thatcher has
made in securing the Governor on so i'm
/ pOrtant mission.
Governor Waite, of Colorado, was re
! ceived at Chicago yesterday, by large
! delegation Of Populists and escorted to his
I hotel. In the afternoon he addressed ten
| thousand people at Lake Front Park. he
assured his hearers that the Populists
would carry Colorado.
The earthquake shocks in Southern Cal
| ifornia, which began last Tuesday, con-
! tinued throughout the week, eliminating
in a lively shake Saturday night Neas
San Diego spring which went dry after
the earthquake Of two years ago, was
started up again as result OF the present
shocks.
Rabbi f. Well of the Hebrew congrega-
| ton at Bradford, Pa, has been notified by
his congregation that his services as pastor
will not be required after February LIST,
owing to his views on spiritual philosophy.
| The Rabbi says be will never preach In a
| Hebrew pulpit after his present engage
ment is ended.
Five tons Of dynamite exploded on a
hilltop, near Chippewa Falls, Wis, yes
| terday The village of Bloomer, twelve
miles away, felt the shock everelv. The
glass in every farm house for miles around
was broken, and the aggregate damage
| done was very large. A handkerchief and
a fragment Of a coat sleeve, all that re-
NAMED Of an Austrian, were found.
Inspector McKelvey, OF the Brooklyn
police, was seen last night regarding the
series of glove contests scheduled to take
place tomorrow evening in the South Side
| Athletic Club, the most important Of
which is the Grifin-Lavigne fight.
|, The Inspector had just returned from
the island with Superintendent Camp
bell, where he had caused notices
| to be served upon the club authorities 10
the effect that no blood-spilliBg and no
heavy fighting would be allowed in the
ring The inspector ridiculed the idea
that any matchmaking would be allowed
at the ringside or in it. The thing is
ruled to be illegal, :" said the officer, land
won't stand IL for a moment" Captain
Clayton and the inspector will command
forty men in the club house on Monday
night "Our orders are plain" he said,
| "and / will guarantee that no violation OF
the law will be tolerated for a minute"
| This determination on the part of police,
if BARRED out, will put an end to anything
like hot fight between Griffin and La
vigno.
The very large registration Of voters in
New York City has been the subject OF
much discussion and speculation with both
parties, each claiming the advantage from
the additional votes that will probablWbe
polled on election day. At the State
Democracy headquarters, on Twenty
third street yesterday, there was
general feeling OF elation over
the results of the registration. The
leaders agreed in saying that it meant the
overwhelming defeat of Tammany Hall.
Francis NJ. Scott said that in his opinion
MIR. Grant would not get more than 100000
votes. He believed that the Social
istic. Labor, Populist and Prohi-
bition vote would not be over 10000,
which would leave in the vicinity Of 45,O 600
votes 10 be divided between Grant sud
Strong, thus allowing A., 900 plurality for
| Strong. This was the substance OF a
computation made by the various leaders
early in the day. The recent arrest Of sew
eral hundred men for alleged fraudulent
registration, II is believed, has deterrent
effect and the large registration is consid-
cred big increased in the men entitled TO
cast their ballots. District Attorney John
| II. Fellows however, expressed himself as
not at all surprised at the registration.
| He thought there was nothing e&traordin-
ary in il, and said that he could see moth
ing substantial to be derived for either
side from it.
AS the political situation at Berlin clari-
fies the retirement Of Count Won Capriyi
from the CHARACTERISTIC assumes still fur
| Their the character Of an actual dismissal.
| The trouble appears 10 have origin
ated in the Emperor's reception
recently of a deputation of the East
| Prussiau agrarians headed bv Count Zu
! Eulen berg. The deputation was submits
| siye. but the agrarian organs used the re-
| hat ETrura &c