The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-09-26
The Latest News,
GENERAL NEWS.

"A curious insurance case has arisen at
Washington City between The heirs Of a
French Count, who shot himself 4 few
days after ParadOl committed suicide, and
an insurance company. It seems thatn
short time before the Count shot himself
he insured his lie, in G, G,compRny.here, that
resists payment, because they, say. that a
letter was written BY him weeks before
the insurance was effected, In which h9
expressed an intention to commit suicide.
The heirs of the Count threaten suit to
enforce payment 1t Is alleged that he
asked the insurance people at the time
whether the money would be paid his
wife in case he committed suicide at any
time, and was told that il he should be.
come crazy and put an end to his life. the
money would be paid the same as II he
should die from natural causes
Two companies ol the United States
soldiers sent from Washington City to aid
Colonel Kinks forces in North Carolina
previous to thellate election siIa that State
have Iieen ordered sbacE and arc expected
to'artiye this evening. The Losses during
the campaign were one man shot in the
leg by a soldier Of Kinks command.
"A Washington telegram, says u late
paragraph for the benefit otEsoldie dietslap-: !:
plying for pensions was IN error. sE0ibill
was passed at the late session extending
the time for such applications, but the
time for filing claims for additional bounty
was extended TO next December. By law
all who served two years are entitled to
$50, and those who served three to 800.
Those who were disabled from wounds
received in the line Of duty are entitled TO
the full bounty without regard to time.
Hon. John Young, Governor General
OF Canada, has been made a Peer with
the title Of Baron Lisgar.
Saturday morning a small building
belonging to the American Flask and Cap
Company, used as a Powder Mandatory,
was blown up, killing two men and injur.
ing a number Of Others. The powder
building. was demolished and q large
stove factory belonging to the company,
and the buildings OF the Waterbury Brass
Company were damaged. ~.
Tho Treasury D Department. has 'orders
ed the 2diSmassal often orftWelve internal
revenue gaugers and storekeepers in the
Chicago District in order to reduce OK
penses.
The Russian Minister Is now visiting
tho Eastern States, The Russian Prince
Imperial contemplates visit 10 the Uni
ted States next spring.
The Ohio Agriculture, College, has.
been nallyilocated on tile Neil. farm two
miles north Of Columbus;
Knoxville, Tenn, Is rapidly acquir-
ing Importance as manufacturing centre.
The Mississippi Lunatic Asylum Is
crowded with patients. ~ t,s t"!il3i t"!lSi..I 81.
in the Black Sea ports cholera Is
raging with extreme violence e.'"''S !''H ''
in Salem, Ohio, on Thursday evening,
man named Judson Callahan, employed
at the Salem Planning Mill and Sash Fac
tory, was engaged in shining the belt on
the main shaft, and was using q stick to
move the belt on the pulley, when the
stick was struck by, the arm Of the pulley
md thrust into his heart, killing him in.
stantly., ,4a.-iiGG 4.IE tEE NglI ~ 4, az
The Hon. Eli Perry was nomi.
mated for Congress by, the Democrats Of
the Albany district, Saturday. -.
The steamer Hermann started to
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