The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-07
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Items of Interest Gathered From All Part
of the World.
A terrific thunderstorm visited central
Texas Monday.
It's rumored that the Chesapeake and
Ohio will be extended to the Mississippi
river
Sylvester Rhodes, colored, was lynched
near Atlanta for shooting young white
man.
Joseph Funk, an old soldier, was kicked
to death at Kansas City by a tough named
Leroy.
The Michigan salt trust has declared an
advance of 10 cents barrel, to take effect
at once.
Tom White had his throat cut at Buffalo
by Ollie Henderson for speaking to the lat
ter's girl.
In New York Justice Barrett sentenced
several men to fine and imprisonment fol
frauds in the recent election.
Governor Mckinley has ordered the CON
gressional election in the Third Ohio dis
trict to be held Tuesday, May l.
The steamship Venetian, from London
arrived at Boston with four cases of small
pox on board. The vessel is in quarantine
Joseph Lamonde, known as Tony Park,
er, leader of the Garden theater orchestra
st. Louis, blew out his brains. Mistress
deserted him.
Thomas Towns. farmer, arrested fol
drunkenness at Lawrence, Mass, had his
pockets full of dynamite cartridges. He
said they were for blowing up stumps.
John B. Coe, a lawyer, for nearly q
quarter of a century a clerk in the New
York court O. common pleas, was found
dead in vacant lot adjoining his resi-
dence.
Lewis Ulmer pleaded guilty at st. Louis
to murder in the second degree and was
sentenced to life imprisonment. Two years
ago Ulmer shot and killed his landlady
Mrs. Mary Elimann
DIR. Simon, formerly editor of the New
Yorker Handles Zeitung and we'll known
to the public through his interviews with
Prince Bismarck, is hopelessiy insane and
has been placed in an asylum at Munich.
The county attorney at Chicago was in.
structed by the county commissioners to
begin a suit in ejectment against the cor
poration of Chicago, compelling to vacate
the land on which the city hall is built tho
county claiming title.
Henry Asch, %, surrendered himself tC
the st. Louis police, saying he is wanted in
New York city for forging the name of c.
Jatfe, fish dealer, to Is bogus checks
Since Jan. he has been wandering to es
cape arrest. but is tired of it.
William Pitt Washburn, who claims to
be the son of Senator Washburn, was ar.
rested in New York on complaint of cab
driver, who said Wash burn refused to pay.
He was intoxicated. Later he settled with
the cab driver and friends took charge Of
him.
Count de Villeveuve is in Jail at Quebec
charged with forging, in France, the name
of his wife, who is very wealthy. Mr.. Dill
Ion, wealthy merchant of Quebec, has
sued his wife for divorce, owing to her con
nection with the count since his arrival in
Quebec.
A cable dispatch received at the navy de
partment announces the arrival of the
United States steamer Bennington at Per
nambuco. The vessel will coal there and
proceed around South America to San
Francisco to be fitted out for service in the
Behring sea.
Miss Jennie Lander of Mansfield, o.,
will leave for Washington on Wednesday,
where she will assume the duties of gov.
erness of Ruth Cleveland, the daughter OF
the president. Miss Lander is a native OF
Bonn, Germany, and came to America
about a year ago.
Thomas F. Gilroy; mayor of New York,
reiterates the statement that his letter oil
Friday was an ample disavowal of any In
tention on his part to shirk responsibility
He says the story that he was arranging