The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
NEWS IN a NUTSHELL.


Items OF Interest Gathered From All Parta
of the world.
A gold strike is reported near ottumwa,
The Patriarchs, ball at DelmOnico,s
Monday night was the most brilliant yet
E. H. Myers, merchant of Oak Harbor
O., suicided by shooting. Temporary in.
Christian Scientists at Springfield, O..
to vaccination.
A Lutheran minister of Oshkosh, Wis.
has barred out of his church all members
of labor unions
Father McGlynn lectured at Nashville
Monday night on the subject, Politics of
the Lords Prayer
Colonel A. L. Conger has sold his inter
est IN the Elwood plateglass works to w.
B. Leeds of Richmond. Ind.
The Democratic members of the senate
committee on finance have decided to grant
no hearings on the tariff bill
Disappearing of George Cullin's con-
duct, eight masked men took him out and
logged him, near GAINESVILLE, o.
Charles Drake shot and killed Harry
reeves at Lawrence, Kan, and blew
out his own brains. Wife caused it.
Ot@'AiSS massey VI &Al4laucep w., Tried TO
force Miss Mabel Yant to marry him at
the point of a revolver. He was crazy.
Leon Lozier, who narrowly escaped
hanging for assault at Council Bluffs, La.
was ordered released by the grand jury.
AT meeting of Chicago Baptist min
listers a resolution asking congress to in
crease the tax on whisky was defeated.
From member of ex-President Harli-
sons family it was learned that there is no
foundation whatever for the rumor that he
is to marry Mrs. Leland Stanford
The body of Charles Mall, musician of
Battery l., who disappeared some weeks
ago, was found in the Kaw river at Fort
Riley, Kan. 1t is believed he met with
foul play.
Berlin newspapers are bitterly denounc-
ing the cruelties of Governor Liest in deal
ing with the natives in Germany's African
possessions-among other things the fog
ging of women.
President GreeHhut of the whisky trust
says that the increase in the whisky tax
will not hurt the distillers, but, on the
other hand, they will profit Immediately
in increased orders.
One thousand employees at the big River
side steel works at Benwood, w. Va, went
to work at a reduction of 10 per cent, max
ing cut in wages from IS to IS per cent
since September, 1893
In the suit of G. Lane Taneyhill against
Theodore p. Haughey and Hannah G..
Haughey, Judge Baker of the United
States court gave the plaintiff a iudg-
ment against Hannah G.. Haughey for 81
900.
A camgaign against the rebellious Yauui
Indians of Northern Mexico is being or.
ganized by General Luis E. Torres, which
it ls hoped, will be effectual in completely
breaking the power of that troublesome
tribe.
A meeting Of prominent citizens of Bos-
ton was held Monday to promote the es-
Enlistment of international bimetallism,
and representative committee was Sc
lected to push forward the work. Presi-
dent Andrews of Brown university WINS
elected chairman.
Mrs. Smith, wife of the secretary of the
interior. gave an elegantly appointed lunch
con Monday in honor of Mrs Cleveland
a company of As women, all southerners
except the ladies of the cabinet and Miss
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland and Mrs. Per
rine, sat at small tables arranged in the
three reception rooms.
Mrs. Celia iIivers has been convicted of
bigamy by the Simpson county court at
Franklin, Ky. She is but IS years old, and
has been married to the fourth husband
within the past two years; without having
secured a divorce from any. She was
given two years sentence, but her last
husband Divers has secured new trial
ivE- iASI.