The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-08-21
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

Aa accident occurred 10 lrelghl Train
on the New Lebanon and Northern rail.
road, at Norwich, Connecticut, by which
ten cars were wrecked and one man,
named John Gilman, had his shoulder
broken, The accident was oCCasioned by
attempting 10 make flying switch with
an insufficient number oi brakemen.
The transactions in mining property
during the past week, al Salt Lake City,
were one million five hundred and TWEEN
ty.iouT thousand dollars. Arrangements
are making TO organize aStock Board pnh
Exchange.
Miss Tennie Dicas, girl Of Ii, Vas
burned to death at Clifton, Wayne Coun.
ty, Tennessee, -four days ago, by the eXplo.
sion of can Of coal oil.
The foot and mouth disease has broken
out among the cattle and hogs near Ok.
ford Furnace, Warren county, New York
Memphis voted on Saturday $9OO,-
600 to aid in tho construction OF the
Mississippi River Railroad.
Last evening at Hopkinwille, Chris.
tian county, Ky,a Colorcd mau named
David Walter, in STOPPING, let n pistol
fall from his pocket, and the hammer
striking on the hearthstOnc was dis
charged, the ball passing through his
heart and killing him instantly,
1t is unollcially reported at London
thai the President Of tho Swiss ConfGder.
alton has appointed NJ. Jacques Staemp.
pli, senior Federal Councillor, and for.
mcrly President of the Republic, as Arbi.
traitor on the pnrt OF Switzerland under
the Treaty Of Washington. -.
A correspondent Of lhr Prusslan
Cross Gazette, writing from Vienna, states
that the controversy between Prussia and
RoumAnia in regard to tho affairs Of the
Slrasbourg railway bonds Is progressing
to u peaceful solution
In compliance with IL request oi n
committee of citizens from Springfield,
Mass, Ben Butler will open the Massa.
Chusetls campaign in 0 speech to the peo
pie of that city on next Thursday evening
John Weglow, n stone mason nnd
stranger, died of sunslrOkG OE Saturday,
at Evansville, Indiana. Letters directed
to L. f. NcIghltt, Memphis, Tenn, and A,
G. Patterson, Htavia, Ills, were found In
his possession.
AT Avon, N. Y, Saturday morning, Il
well CaVed in and John DOnnelly was
buried twenty-five feet under tho earth. A
number Of men Immediately set to work
to dig him out, and ho was brought 10 the
surface with but few slight injuries.
Col. Douning has been elected Chief
Of the Cherokee nation.
"A London telegram yesterday, says
Garihaldi has almost wholly recovered
from his recent severe llluess.
"A fire at Mankato, Minnesota, ON the
17lh, burned Wisners liquor store IN
Front street, and four Other buildings
Loss not known
Some boys went ont yesterday, IOuE
miles from tho city to practice shooting
with pistols, one of them, Amos Lalevere
eleven years old, shot himself through the
breast in cooking the pistol, and died in.
stantly,
"A young farmer named Frederick
Barnard, residing near Dwight, Illinois
was choked TO death, Friday morning,
while drinking water, by its getting into
his wlndpipe.
AT Sterling, illinois, Saturday morn
ing, Benjamin Deli, lad Ol II years, fell
into II tub Of hot slop in Miller's distillery,
and was so badly scaldcd that he cannot
survive.
The dead body of negro named
johnson was found Saturday In n woods
near Mound City, Illinois, with bullet
in Ills brcast. He was seen in Mound
City early In the morning. When shot
he was only few yards from his home.
The cause Of the murder Is mystery.
There Is no clue to the perpetrators.
"A young man named Hugh Decker.
oil was run over by an engine near the
Milwaukee railroad Shops last evening,
and died from loss of blood before n sur
geOn could be summoned.