Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-28

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30. PRICE &c ,
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.
The United States Golfers Justin and
Iris arrived at Callao, Peru, yesterday
morning.
Tuesdays statement of the condition of
the treasury shows. Available cash bal
ance, S29a 1885, 14S; gold reserve. s24i, 1871 4Ss.
The steamer Teche. plying in the La
F'ourche trade, fifty miles above New Or
leans. was burned yesterday. No lives
We're lost.
| Six prisoners escaped from the Michigan
House of Correction before daylight yes
terday morning: -Four We're in for bur-
giary and two for larceny.
Advices from Bolivia say that the aspect
OF affairs there is serious. Young men
belonging, TO the best society are Joining
either side, the banks have lost nearly
al their clerks, and civil war is newt
able.
Ihere We're burt three members OF the
war nvestigating commission at its
offices yesterday, and after short infor
mai discussion the regular session was de-
ferred until to-day. No witnesses nave
been summoned.
The North Cornwall iron furnace at
Cornwall. Pa, operated by the Lacka-
| wanna Iron & Steel Company of Scran-
ton, was badly wrecked by an explosion.
Several men had narrow escapes The
damage is estimated at $4,000.
John p Cochran, Ex-Governor Of Della
ware, died yesterday at his home in Mid
dletown, aged 50 years. He was elected
governor in November 1874. on the DEM
ocratic ticket. AIT the expiration of his
| term he retired to private life.
Grover, aged IL. Lucy. aged s. and Pearl.
aged years, children of Dewitt Geary,
a Delaware, Lackawanna & Western rail-
road engineer, broke through the ice and
We're drowned in the Morris canal at Port
| Golden, near Washington Del, yesterday
afternoon.
At New York, yesterday w A. T..
Moore, convicted of robbing Martin Ma
hon by the badger game, was sentenced
to nineteen years in the penitentlary-
and his wife Fayne Moore, is now await
ing a second trial.
Mrs. w H. White of Lewiston, Me,
has received a telegram from her father,
Senator Frye. at Washington, directing
her to present ST. Geo to the General Maine
General Hospital Lewiston, as "a peace
offering and Christmas gift, in memory
of Jimmie Frye, his daughter.
The dry goods store of Henry Eessel,
at Hamburg and Charles streets, Balti-
more. was entered by burglars Monday
night and robbed of money and checks
aggregating 5000. The valuables were
taken from the safe, which was opened by
dynamite. OF the sum stolen $500 was in
| bills and specie.
The United States transport Port Victor
arrived yesterday at New York from San
tiago de Cuba, Ponce and San Juan,
Porto Rico: There We're four bodies of
soldiers killed at Santiago on board.
Among the officers on board was Lieut..
r. Q. Cook, Sixteenth Pennsylvania vol
| unteer, from San Juan.
Chief Justice Judd, at Honolulu, has de-
| cided that Chinese who secured permits
| previous 10 annexation, may land at that
| the Supreme Court on a writ of habeas
corpus. The petitioners We're recently re-
| fused landing by Special Agent Brown,
| of the Treasury Department.
| A special to the Louisville Evening Post
| from Litchfeld: Kans., says: This town
| i've. fire this year. Eight stores. three
| residences the postoffice and the Deposit
Bank We're destroyed, and the court house
and two other stores badly damaged. Loss
| 500, 900; insurance about &c., coo. he origin
OF the fire is unknown
| The French Premier. NJ. Dupuy, the
| minister. of war, M. De Freycinet, and
| the president of the court ofcassation, NJ.
| Loew, have finally agreed upon the con-
| ditionS under which the secret documents
| in the Dreyfus case are to be submitted
| to the court of cessation. They are to be
taken there by Captain Cuignet every
morning II the court applies for them,
and they are to be returned the same
night.
Secretary Day yesterday received visits
from some of the members and officers of
the Paris Peace Commission. Mr.. John
Bassett Moore upon whom as secretary.
deVoVed some of the most delicate and
weighty work required of the commits
sion. is now engaged settling up with the
department the records of the proceedings
and winding up it's existence. He will re
turn to New York and resume his duties
as professor of International law at Col
umbian University.
The report of the proceedings and con-
illusions of the court of inquiry appointed
to fix the responsibility of the striking of
the battleship Massachusetts recently in
New York harbor, has reached the Navy
Department and is now in the hands of
Captain Lemly Judge Advocate General,
for preliminary examination and endorse
ment. 1t is believed in the absence Of
official statements on the point. that no
blame is attached to the commander of
the ship
Mrs. J. w. Eller was so badly burned
at Omaha, Sunday Afternoon. by the ex-
plosion OF boiling turpentine on a stove
that she died last night from the effects
of her injuries. Her husband and two
sons, Wayne and Hartley, were also
slightly burned. The family are Chris
tan Scientists, and refused medical as
sistance Great reticence has been OBJ
served. and only members of the Chris
tian Science faith were admitted to the
residence.
Admiral Dewey is now the senior officer
of the American navy. having reached
that position without congressional action
through the retirement Sunday last of
Admiral Bunce. He will continue to hold
that distinction until the 18th OF Decem-
ber next year. when he will go upon the
retired list. unless Congress excerpts him
from the operation of the law, and after
making him admiral of the navy provides
that he may hold that office in active ser
vice without age limit.
Fire broke out in the rear Of the third
floor Of the historis Pacific Bank building
in Broadway yesterday. The upper
floors are occupied by r. Goldman manu-
facturer of spring top uniform caps.
The first floor and basement ave occupied
by the Pacific Bank. The fire spread with
great rapidity and cut off all means of
exit Two men were taken ont By the
hook and ladder company. The water
tower somewhat checked the flames. but
the third and fourth floors were Quilted