Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-22
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
1t is reported that President Romano is
making arrangements to liberate all polit-
zeal prisoners in Peru.
Negotiations have reached a satisfactory
stage for the consolidation of all the COM
pressed air companies in this country.
The directors CT the American Bell Tele-
phone Company yesterday declared the reg
ular quarterly dividend of So per share,
payable April 16.
Ex-Governor Oates, of Alabama, has
withdrawn from the race for United States
Senator, leaving the ontest to Senator
Morgan and Governor Johnston.
AT Dover, Del, yesterday, the regular
Republican State convention elected dele
gates to the National convention. The
Addlcks faction will meet at Dover, April 3.
Beginning next month seventy-three adj
ditional postoffices will adopt the system Of
registering letters by carriers. The new
system will then be in operation in S07
cities.
Emperor William yesterday entertained
at luncheon the minister of foreign affairs,
Count Won Buelow; the ambassadors and
their wives and the naval and military at
tacheS.
AT Lincoln. Neb, yesterday evening, the
Supreme Court overruled the demurrer of
the Standard Oil Company to the suit
Drought against II, ana ndmeQ ADr1I L.,
next, as the date,for trial.
The British steamer Pawnee arrived at
New York yesterday from Mediterranean
ports, via Bermuda, and was detained at
Quarantine, owing to the presence on
board OF three cases of smallpox.
The London foreign office says there is
no truth in the story emanating from Ber-
lin in regard to an alleged joint naval DEM
onstration should China persist in refusing
to put a stop to the hostilities against
Christians in that country.
A bill favorably passed upon yesterday
by the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
ions authorizes the President to invite
the International Congress of Navigation
to meet in Washington in 1901. The Con-
gress meets this year in Paris.
j. F. Allen, of New Orleans, who recent
~ bought one million admission tickets
ton, arrived in Chicago yesterday, on his
way to Paris. The face value of the tick
cts is $4,000, but Allen got them at half
price.
Col. Henry s, Bunker. a prominent at
torney and military man of Toledo, was
found dead in his office yesterday, with a
bullet wound in the back of his neck. A
revolver lay on the floor near him, and
It IS not known whether 1t was murder or
suicide.
At Harrington, Neb., j. C. Harris, editor
of the Belden News, was acquitted on the
charge of numbering John Blinkiron. Har-
RS established a case of self defense.
a street duel-the outcome of a political
quarrel.
Arrangements have been made to send an
additional detachment of medical officers
to San Francisco with a view to their
transportation to Manila for the relief of
q similar number of medical officers in the
Philippines DESTROYS of returning to the
United States.
AS a result of the recent increase of
wages, granted the Massillon miners, the
ton has decided to raise the price of coal
70 cents per ton. The increase in the wages
of the miners, it is stated, amounted to
twenty per cent. The advance in the price
OF coal is to take effect April LIST.
Representative Little, of Arkansas, yes
terday introduced a bill apropriating $780,
600 for a soldiers hospital at Hot Springs,
Ark, at which shall be admitted soldiers
of all the wars of the United States, .nclud-
of the peculiar diseases for which the wa
tiers Of the springs are efficacious.
The court room at Hastings. Neb., was
crowded yesterday when the trial of Viola
Horlocker, the stenographer, charged with
sending poisoned candy to Mrs. Morey, the
wife OF her employer, was resumed. AT IL
o'clock the last of the twelve men was ac-
cepted and the jury sworn. 1t is believed
insanity will be part Of the defense.
Former President Grover Cleveland re-
u Iltl ~ 1I4ILEGlOl 1ESlGIudN dIlHTAGOI
from his two weeks hunting and fishing
excursion to Florida. Mr.. Cleveland APP
peared to be in very good health. His step
was elastic and he walked with more APP
parent ease than when he left Princeton.
Mrs. Cleveland met hin at the railway sta
ton.
The commander and officers of the Ar
gentine warship Presidente Sarmiento, now
enormous crowd which had gathered at the
thusiastic welcome yesterday from the
station to greet them on their arrival. They
We're given an audience by the Queen Re-
gent at the palace at 2 o'clock in the af-
ernOon.
The monthly Statement of the collections
of internal revenue shows that for the
month of February, 1900, the total receipts
from all sources We're $2O, 500, 665. an increase
as compared with the same month in 1899
of SI,l60,659. During the last eight months
the total receipts were $685. COS, 500, an in
crease over the corresponding period of last
year of si6,s25,1S4
An English syndicate of coal dealers is
said TO have closed a deal by which two
million tons of Alabama coal are to be
delivered at the port Of New Orleans for
expectation within two years time. This
purchase price agreed upon in the contract
is said to be rs cents a ton at the mouth
of the coal pits. Fifty cents a ton is 10
be allowed for transportation to New Or
leans.
A police raid on the San Francisco High
DlnderS last nlght resulted IN the arrest OF
six of the most notorious members of the
Suey Sing Tong. Each of the men in Gus
tody is accused of at least one murder,
and several are suspected of having as
sassinated two or more member OF rival
tons. The supposed leader of the gang
is Su Ho Nun. He is charged by the police
with four murders. Su Ho Nun attempted
TO draw his revolver when the officers at
tempted to arrest him, but was disarmed.
Other arrests will follow, but the police adj
nit that convicting evidence will be hard
to secure in all the cases.