The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
CONDENSER NEWS.


Plantz wagon factory, Chicago, burned.
Los about $4,000.
The Buckingham arcade, Scranton, Pa,
burned. Loss, 100000.
Or. 2. Harold Hayes, the asthma special
tst, died Monday at Buffalo
The commercial treaty with Uruguay
was accepted by the German reichstag.
Queen Victoria has fixed May 81 as the
date OF the royal opening of the AIanches-
ter canal
ElwOod Qnd.) retail druggists have or
ganized to advance prices and regulate
Sunday closing.
ington university, died in st. Louis of
blood poisoning.
Frank Nicholas, prominent miner of
brazil. Ind, was fatally injured by a
premature blast.
The anti-Briggsites won in New York
city at the election for delegates to the
ate convention
Two wOuld-be train robbers were shot by
Jake Harmon, express messenger, near
Pond Greek, Kan.
The agent of the Marquis of Clanricarde
has obtained writs for the eviction of los
more Of the tenants
William Parry, president of the Cinc;n-
natl, Richmond and Fort Wayne railroad,
died in Richmond, Ind
The carpenters of Montreal have been
victorious In their agitation for nine hours
day at 20 cents an hour.
The prevalence of cholera at CONSTANT
nople Is creating considerable alarm The
disease Is spreading rapidly.
Bernard Manion,s livery aud boarding
stable, Baltimore. burned with 100 valu-
able horses and $50 carriages.
Police Captain Denery was acquitted in
n fHf rs1Ro
him by DR.. Parkhurst's society.
Mill No Of the Briggs Manufacturing
company of VOlunton, Conn. burned.
Loss between SIS, 600 and 1900.
Lord Bowen died in London. He was
lord of appeal in ordinary, and had filed
various important judicial Offices
The horseshOers>s strike at St. Louis has
ended in a victory for the men, who gain
increased wages and reduced time
The. Glamorgan pipe and iron works
were destroyed by fire at Lynchburg, Va.
Three hundred men are made idle Loss
100000.
The Werner company of Akron. O., has
closed down in preference to increasing
wages, throwing 200 men and women out
of work
Against the nickel-in-the-slot machines
Superintendent of Police Meagher of Terre
Haute, Ind, has commenced a vigorous
warfare
From the way reports reach the state
board of health it looks as if general cpl
demic Of smallpox in northern Illinois
would occur this summer
The trial of ex-Secretary of State John
W. Jochim of Michigan, on the charge of
falsifying the canvass of the vote on the
salary amendment, has begun.
Richard Evans, a colored man of Column
bus: O.. was removed to the pesthouse i'll
wITTm ~ T~
communicated the disease to others.
The congressional investigation of Judge
jenkins for his action in enjoining the en-
ployes of the Northern Pacific railroad
from striking has begun in Milwaukee
Newton Garrett. 20, a well known young
merchant of Bowen, KY, almost blew his
head from his shoulders with large navy
revolver A love affair caused him to take
his life.
at Chester, Pa. terrific explosion in
the EddystOne print works occurred dam
aging machinery and buildings thousands
OF dollars and injuring three men, two
seriously.
The steamer veendam at New York
quarantine had one case of smallpox.
The patient was transferred to the Recep-
ton hospital and held for distinction and
vaccination.
Mr.. Gladstone, in a letter to friend,
writes: IF anyone asks you how 1 am.
tell them 1 feel like a disestabIished
church, with bracing breezes blowing
around me-"
The Scotch Unionist members of the
house Of commons have resolved that If
the proposed Scotch grand committee shall
be appointed, they Will decline to act as
members of it.
a bag containing $3.50 in bank notes
and bills, belonging to the British Column
b:a bank at london, was stolen from the
counter of the private bank of Smith,
Payne & Smith on Saturday
Aterrific fight occurred in the district of
Malabar between force of Madras mount
ed police and band of Moslems. Thirty
three Of the MOsIems were killed and many
wounded. Few police casualties.
Engine at Staples & Covell's logging
camp. near Whitehall, Mich, wrecked.
Gus Anderson, fireman, instantly killed;
Otto Shelander, engineer, and Martin
Lynch, brakeman, seriously injured.
There is no change in the ChiIian min
isterial crisis. President Montt has signi-
fed his willingness tSaecept any cabinet
that is supported by congress- and the peo-
pie, but refuses to ally himself with any
party
The San Francisco globe trotters, Oscar
Schick and Frank G. Carpenter, who are
walking around the world, have arrived in
new 1OEk- 1uey started from San Fran
cisco Jan L. They expect to encircle the
world in two years.
Frank and Louis Floyd, convicted of
aiding and abetting Phil Schieg in the
1ooting of the Bank of Minneapolis, were
taken to Saltwater penitentiary They
were unable to obtain S15, 900 bail pending
, appeal to supreme court.
The 80 heaters employed in Oliver &
Roberts South Ninth street rod mill, at
Pittsburg, went on a strike on account of
a refusal on the part of the company to adj
vance wages. 1t is stated that the strikers
places were filed at once
Louis Ashenbreuer was working in New
York in a loft over hOokrack, from which
was suspended quantity CT meat He
slipped and fell through the hatchway and
was caught by a hook, which penetrated
his abdomen and ripped it open.
1t is reported to the government that the
police have discovered among the pilgrims
who are gathering at Cadiz, Valencia az |
Barcelona, preparatory to starting for
Rome on April IA, several anarchists well
known in France, Belgium and Italy
A meeting of the Wholesale dealers in
tea in London resolved to ask the Cana
dian high commissioner to receive a depu-
tatiOn to protest against the proposed i'm
position of duty of 10 per cent on tea to
be imported into Canada from London in
bond.
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