The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-10-11
GENERAL NEWS.

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t CoInmhus Kv Saturday evening, Itap.
ncnrs fye men who Ind had a difficulty
a fortnight ago met in the town and pro-
Ceeted 70 settle matters by Il free fight,
with the following result Smith Gibson,
stabbed twice, died instantly; Geo. Glib.
son, stabbed, dangerously wounded; Aus.
lin had his skull fractured Uy o club, will
probably die; Conrad was shot and but
| little h0pes Of his recovery; BrockmRn
", 3 stabbed and terribly beaten, but was
taken To his home in the country, and the
probable rcsultol his Injuries Is unknown.
The desperate mature ol tue encounter u
shown by the l"ct that all lhOsG ehgagetcl
were h0rsc dc c0m6dt lntllreo minutes nj
ter the commencement o. ule allalr'
Considerable anxiety begins to be felt
in consequence Of the absence Of lntelll'
gence from the German steamer Herman,
which was the first OF the line 10 resume
trips from New York Interrupted ny the
war, and which llns now been out tour.
teen days, or three days over inc time o.
an ordinary trlp 70 , frIssiH, "a. ~ y su
'Osed, however; sue V"OS OIL Iut ,ho SoTI Fsonc,
assasG III ~ y[II y III, IL ,;or GT IL csco @ 1sS sSo
CFHiscts, MlI IL "ILs I'Dss' y ~. 'HO ~
VIII require tw"oF tn'co uA'o 'O"set :"
reach port
.-MuUor W, +. Oiliey, deputy pOstInt!S. !.
ter and Associated tEcsS agent ~ oaiL
Lake City, Sunday evening %nilc drunk
entered the editorial room Of inc ASTatq,
locked the door anu !rleu 70 siooE H. -
Sloan, Que OF the edltoTs OF lne Ae5aHt' .1..
for criliclSIng his dispatches ana coh"4GI w.
through .ne ., columns u 'n"' l'ap't' A'
was "'EUs'e"'
Another tire occurred among tAe Zen
tral Pacific Railroad snow sheds EFlua(y'
west Of Cisco. About q quarter OF nlle
was destroyed. They wlII DC lmmeul9'c' ,OssaI
ly rebuilt. a strong iorcc Is empl9yW,
AT Baxter, Kansas, on tho 9Th, while
Max Saluta, u clothing merchant, and his
clerk Max Horr, were engaged in rlnpack-
inr goods, double barrClgun, which was
hanging over their heads, icll to the tloorri
both barrels were discharged ana Oolh
men were shot through the head anu IN,
stantIy killed. .
AT Peoria, Illinois, Saturday, A. l.,
Wilcox, travelling agent for the Christian
Union, from the house Of ]. B. Ford y
Co, Of New York, while convGrsing with
several ladies and gentlemen, IN a privaiie
of a mnn he once knew, and pulling out
his revolver 10 illustrate his story, placed
Il AGAINST his head, when Il suddcnly went
oG and Wilcox rolled from his chair to
t%e Amor md almost instantly expired.
Wis folks live at LitChaeld, Connecticut.
4, prnrcl, Micbiron Saturday after.
~. r ''tIt "a! EIJrjJSc with ! his step.
1uon ~ IHnISr SoroT while cross.
HuusuSCs, ;I.onj !" ,ros s,rTSk Lv nasscn.
lns wy a"i!iT ,.;ii,.1. EIIp;,,%o instantly and
~ u"I G ;s'IHsS,,r tho donghtrrs Roth
SeIIous.y .nn5 Eldridge Vas sixty
a.unsc a.usscH o;T III nrT "niic deaf Hc probably
yG9ts "''I, n',U ~ o,,CST" bcll which was
e.n,,. u.u H"s " ~, I'm timc Eldridrc was a
srScE % md Ind lately bought iarn, and
was W. moving on to it. H{
"A man bv the name Of Moore, resid-
inv IN Hamilton. Ohio, was so seriously
jNS,rcl an Saturday. at Carlisle station,
tTnt Il il feared he viii not recover.
Ho ~ ~, iron V was @ stopped as soon as possible,
1nS ~ hc wns tNfen aboard and taken
Nome @
: to...T Horny Ward Bcecher's church was
Ruoj IN mora Than tho usual suiTocatiOn
ins, ," SnnIov N morning. Il having been
.''Ss ,so,I I%St bo would take new depar.
run t".,1G I, ~ occ"n,ric theology. Tho audience
SyaS yu'S not NJ dissrpointcd. Taking Matthew
XII and 8Olh verse at his text, he pro-
cecded 10 pull the plug ont Of the bottom,
and talk Of fire and birthstone. The
Bible, he said, was full Of fiction. AS ex:
amples ho mentioned the future life and
tic new Jerusalem. Every man, he de-
clared, was his own heaven maker His re;
mOrl,s were numerous In the eXtr0ue, and