The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-05
THE LATEST NEWS.

AuS huuhu VI representatives saturday SAT
only Tor the benefit OF the Globe. About dozen
members contributed speeches. N n 7 .a
The President and Vice President wsnt 10
Baltimore Saturday TO attend the Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Fair.
-RdVard Lee, colored, was hung a. Browns.
Vile, Tennessee, Friday for the murder Of Rlias
King last October.
The Northern Insane Asylum At Elgln, ILL.,,
was fOrmlay opened, Friday, by ICoy. Palmer
and largo number Of members Of the General
Assembly. n 1921 fif 11E}l
AT Chicago, Saturday, jeffrey eating, for the
murder OF James Townsend OH Archer avenue,
in December, was sentenced TO imprisonment for
life. ,. --.-,
-A6cranton special says the number killed
BY the Lehlgh Valley railroad accident was only
seven, and number wounded ninetOen, some Of
whom will die. SN az ENkB
General Crook has designated the 18th inst.
% tho day after which all Apachcs found of the
reservations 10 DO treated 90 hostile eneTniesand
sent runners to inform oil tribes TO that ofIect
The schooner Antecedcnt, with granite for
Willlamburg, was wrecked OH EastOn's Neck,
Long Island, Saturday morning. VIM. Nash,
the mate, OF Westerly, Rock Island was drowned,
and the Captain and Steward nearly pcrIshed,
being an hour In the ice. I..
"A Panama letter says the case OF unlawful
seizure on the American steamer MOntIgo Is
again before the public, the State Government re.
iuslng reparation for the insult aud injury com
mittCd by Insurgents wIthinits limits. tt th
In the Criminal Court Of Chicago, Friday,
Judge Tree ovciruled the motions for new trials
for Alderman Bush and Gx Alderman Mont.
gomery, and sentenced each to six moths i'm.
prisOnmGnt In the county jail and q lue OF
$1,000. a. ~ +.
"A farmer named Nicholas NealIer undertook
TO cross the Ohio on the ice, at Cincinnati, SAT-
urday, with market wagon and double team.
when approaching the Ohio side the ice broke,
letting the team and wagon into the stream. The
man chung TO cake OF Ice and was barely saved.
!. AT Cincinnati Antoine BOnte, Pearl street,
dry goods salesman. not appearing at his place
OF business at noon Saturday, his room was en-.
tered only to find bloody bed, and part of his
clothing saturated with blood 1t is a supposed
attempt at suicide, but all efforts 10 discover
him, alive or dead, had failed up to a late hour
Saturday night. rl.r.a.-I r.frt4..
Friday evening the Treasurer OF Santa Cruise
county, California, was turning of the gas in his
office, when he was seized by party OF masked
men, who had been concealed In the ONCE. He
was bound, gagged, aud threatened with instant
death unles he unlocked the vault, which he did,
when the robbers took ont $40, 600 in gold coin,
locked him In and left. No clue to the robbers
AT Washington City, Saturday, Rev. VIM.
Hamilton, for 80 years travelling minister OF
the n. g. Church, fell on the Ice and died shortly
thereafter.
-Chas. 8. Wallack, well known lawyer, died
n aaht nHtn los
The Union Pacific Railroad is still snow
blocked as badly as ever. @ss ssEafE
The Japanese Embassy arrived at Salt Lake
City yesterday.
"A large and brilliant reception was given to
Horace Grceleyin New York, Saturday evening,
on the occasion Of his 6Ist birthday.
The smallpox deaths In Philadelphia last
week were 15s, 4 decrease of 10 from the week be.
fore.
AT Memphis Saturday evening, nine OF the
Jury In the case OF Wynne Carnon, charged with
the murder OF Hod Morse, returned u verdict OF
not guilty.
Tho balance ol the coin subscriptions on &C
count Of the new loan have been ordered to be
withdrawn from depository banks. g35.
The internal revenue receipts Saturday, were
$GiG,s72 &C.
Major James q, Benton has been assigned TO
the duty OF experimenting the armament Of the
sea coast from Charleston, 8. c., to Mobile, Ala,
and Captain A. R. Burlington, ordnance depart
ment, has been ordered To duty as his assistant,
Tho Third Auditor, who Is investigating the
accounts Of Pension Agent Collins, Of Washing.
ton City Is Of opinion that the defalcation will
not amount TO $4,000, and says that tho irrcgu.
larities In his accounts seem To have been caused
solely by advances 10 needy Po!diers. st.l
Mr. Lynch's committee on Treasury expcndi.
lures arc making pretty thorough examination
Of the system OF keeping accounts at the Treasury
Department. Messrs. Lynch, Barnum and Hays,
oi the committee, were at the Treasury all day
Saturday, and were mainly employed in the cash
room. During their examination Of the books of
the TreasuEer's office they discovered asurplus OF
between $500, 900 to 5000 OOO which they were un.
able TO account for. They expect. however, TO
And II duly accounted for In some of the records
Of the Office not yet examined.
Ten inches of snow yesterday In Massachu,
Isetts. ~ .E
Hon. Hooking Il. Hunter, of Lancaster, Ohio,
died at Cincinnati yesterday from acute pharyn-
gifts, aged II years.
"A magnificent auroral display was witnessed
at Springfield, Mass, last evening, the Southern
heavens being for several hours, of a blood red
hue. -
The Rev. W. E. McLorcn, pastor of the West
minister Presbyterian Church Of Cincinnati, yes.
terday announced his intention TO unite with the
Protestant Episcopal ChuIch.
Two young ladies' named Mary and Kate
DAILY, while crossing the Ohio at Cincinnati last
evening, broke through the weakened Ice within
. few feet Of Ludlow street. and drowned. Z
Hon. Robert ]. Brent, one OF the most distin-
guIshed members Of the Maryland bar and ex.
Attorney General of Maryland, died at Baltimore
yesterday At the age OF 81 W r.ts-
Joseph League, on trial for the murder Of an
unknown woman at Chase's station, on the Phil
adelphla d Wilmington railroad, In May last, has
been found guilty OF mansaugher.
AT Pittsburgh, yesterday, Larry uaaen, OF
the Cincinnati detectives, apprehendcd another
ofthe robbers OF the Adams Express Company
on the Panhandle road. Some jewclry and cloth.
ingwere recovered. The prisoner will be taken
TO Cincinnati to-day.
New England was visited Saturday night
with the scverest snow storm Of the season. +
The U. s. steamer Guerriere, with the re-
mains Of Gen. Robert Anderson, arrived al New
York, yesterday, from Nice.
Henry Shawmongs employed In a stone
quarry at Massillon, Ohio, was crushed 10 death,
Saturday, by rolling stone, In the path orwhIch
he happened 10 hll. .i,.-,'. ..a
Notice is given that the Catholic National
Temperance Convention will be held at Balti,
moreon February %. Arrangements are com.
pletcd with the railroad companies TO bring del.
eGates at reduced rates.
Henry w. jackson, the book,keeperof of Proc.
tor & Gamble, Cincinnati, recently discharged,
resorted few days ago to the extraordinary ex.
pedIcnt Of taking possession OF the principal
ledger and bill book Of the lrm, and declined to
return them save upon the surrender Of note
held against him, and the payment Of 600 The
books were finally returned on the payment ol
$oOO, when 1t was discovered that as the book
keeper had previously stated, arrangements had