Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-24
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

There is a case of smallpox at Columbia
University.
There are many cases of diphtheria at
~Lawrenceville, N. j.
A new counterfeit ten dollar bill has ap-
peared at Scranton, Pa.
Frank Bundy. city chamberlain of Elmi-
ra, n. Y, is short from $751; 600 to 10000
The President has nominated Walter H.
Chamberlin, of Chicago, to be assistant
commissioner of patents.
Ice foes in the Exploits river. New
Foundland. have swept away the railway
bridge, which cost 100000.
James l. Yall. acting British. consul at
Ciuxdad, Venezuela, was fatally stabbed
while leaving the consulate.
The Senate yesterday confirmed the nom
nation of Joseph F. Monaghan, OF Rhode
many.
lHorsebreeders, Dealers and Exhibitors
Association, opened at the Grand Pacific
Hotel, Chicago, yesterday
The Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie rail-
way company was incorporated at Rich.
mond yesterday. The purpose is a short
line from Cincinnati to Chicago.
Meyersdale, Pa, coal miners will not ac-
cept the advance of ten cents per ton OF
fered by operators April LIST. If the ad-
vance is not increased 10 fifteen cents l6,VUV
men viii go out.
Mrs. Mckinley has been confined to her
room for three days by an attack OF grip.
Former Consul Macrum is in WaShlng-
ton, and will testify before the committee
early next week.
The week of fasting or abstinence or
prayer of the Methodist Episcopal church
will extend from March % to April LIST, in
elusive. Each person makes his own inter-
probation of abstinence.
A convention of the Irish people Is to
be summoned, including representatives
of the clergy, all public bodies and the
Nationalist organization. 1t will probaDly
be held in Dublin at Whitsuntide.
At a cabinet council held at the Elysee
palace, Paris, yesterday, the minister OF
foreign affairs, NJ. Delcasse, announced
the signature of the protocol delaying the
ratification of the Franco-Amerlcan treaty
until March a. 1901.
Charles A. Towne, chairman of the Sill
yer Republican national committee, UNDER
went a~-painful but not dangerous opera
ton at St. Luke's hospital, Duluth, tive
days age He is now doing very we'll and
will be out in about two weeks.
The detailed wage scale for the Pitts
burg mining district was agreed to. and
signed yesterday, to be effective April LIST.
The basis in the main is a horizontal ad-
vance of 2l.21 per cent over present rates.
Twenty thousand men are affected.
The reports of the Colombian govern
ment to the effect that the rebellion has
been crushed are contradicted by CABLE
and mail adv:ces received in New YORK
yesterday by DIR. A Diaz Guerra, which
tell of insurgent victories at several places.
Senator Ross, from the Committee on
Civil Service, yesterday, reported back the
bill extending the civil service to the de,
pendencis of the Unitd States. The bill
permits the removal of persons employed,
but requires that the. reasons be stated In
writing when practicable to do So"
Secretary Hay has been advised by coun-
sci for the claimants in the Delagoa Bay,
arbitration proceedings that the award OF
| course of the next few days. The dispatch
came from Berne. There is no doubt that
the award is favofs Die TO the claimants.
The only Questio4s involved is 10 the
amount.
A serious riot occurred at the works of
the Dominion Iron and Steel Company, at
sydney, c. B.. yesterday, among a number
of Italian employees who were brought from
New York ana Boston. Jas. Brohan, a
newly appointed chief of police, was fatal
ly stabbed, and one of his subordinates,
named Schurman, who went to MS assist
ance, was shot and may die.
A national civil service retirement asso-
citation has been organized at washington;
Its object is to secure the passage OF a bill
by Congress, providing for the retirement
of employees of the government who are
under civil service regulations, by paying
them al annuity when they have reached
a certain age, and have been a certain
number of years in the service. This is 10
| be done without expense to the govern
ment.
Kuskanook, a little town at the terminus
of the Crowsnest Pass and Nelson q Bell
ington lines of railway, has been destroyed
by fire. Its population was over LOO and
most of these people are now homeless.
The blaze swept up the mountain side from
the shores of Kootenai Lake and the viii
layers fled for their lives, leavinti every
thing behlnd The wants of the destitute
people are being supplied by citizens OF
~neiphhoring towns.