The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-14
THE LATEST NEWS.


Amboy Railroad struck Tuesday on account o
non.payment of wages. It Is undetstcod tina
money has arrived to pay the men.
In the investigation Of the printing frauds a
Albany, Montanye, member OF the Assembly
last year and chairman OF tho Printing Commit
tee, testified that State Printers Weed, Parsonl
q Co., gave HIM preScnts for lavors and Al ih(
close OF the session Parsons gave him $500
DennIson testified that Parsons paid him SS 900
Parsons was called uron 10 testify, hut he had
gone South. a III
-DArlIng's dry goods store and Kinds MmE
store at Hamilton, Canada, were burned Tuesday
Loss 81, 900; insured.
W. Il. Rittenhonsc. conductor on tho Bclle
Vile 4 Southern Illinois Railroad, WAS run ovel
and Killed at Belleyllle, III Tuesday. while As
histing In switching some freight cars al thai
place. His head was terribly crushed.
"A Washington dispatch says combination
10 forming 70 make Senator Scott candidate rol
Vice President 80 As to make u vacancy In ihG
Pennsylvania Senate for Forncy aud other ScnA
torial asplraIlts Of that state.
j Isaac Whitehead, who attempted 10 throw Q
train from tho track on the Ohio 4 Mississippi
Railroad, near WheatlAnd, Ind, by drawing thC
spikes and changing the switch, last November
was arrested Tuesday in Crawford comfy. The
prisoner says he made the attempt because lie
had aSpite against the section boss.
Tho Pittsburgh Conference of the N. Z
church commenced It's session In Allegheny City
Tuesday morning, Bishop Simpson presiding.
"A Richmond (Va) dispatch says the trouble
in that postofilCe is growing ont Of the tyrannl
cal disposition shown by the postmlstress there
one Mics Van Lew, 10 her subordinAtes
"A Quebec dispatch states that Colonel ". II
Brown, notary and hlgh.born Englishman. has
absconded with 800, 600 which he held In trust
for clients and relatives. ur
The last span oGthc great railroad aud wagon
bridge across ths Missouri River, at Leaven.
worth, was completed Wednesday afternoon
The track will be laid and traIns running over
the bridge within two weeks. Ie
"A telegram from Fort Laramie states that
Red Cloud, with SEQ warriors, came to that post
Tuesday and would hold council Wednesday.
Three hundred lodges camped on tho Rawhlde,
or near there.
AT II O'Clock Wednesday the Missouri River
bridge, Of the Union Pacific Railroad, at Omaha,
was tested. A train, consisting Of q locomotive
and ten Hat cars loaded with stone, was run
across the bridge and back. The lest wss per.
fecly satisfactory.
The testimony before the Custom House In.
vestigatlng Committee, yesterday, was unlm.
portAnt.
The schooner Adela Kelly went ashore Tues.
day night, near the Southwall fleet, OH the Massa.
chusetts coast. All the hands were lost except
one man.
sitting in bankruptcy at Montgomery, wednes.
dat NaH ii fn. L. a.
& Chattanooga Railroad.
in the II. 3. Conference at WArrenton,
Wednesday morning. resolutions were adopted
in favor Of the Nashville Book Concern; also
pledging the support Of the Conference In sup.
porting the St. Louis 0hriStIaR ,AduOcdtG.
Tho Paris crew, OF st. John, offer to row the
Blglins, OF New York; at Springfield, Massa.
chusctts, for $1,000 in gold.
in San Francisco recently an attorney, James
Newly, sued the Alta Californian for $50, 900 for
calling him "shyster." The Jury yesterday re-
turned verdict for the defendant grtfg
The U. 8. Circuit Court at Memphis ysster-
day awarded claim Of some 5000, 900 OF Brown
q Co. against that city for laying Nicholson
pavement. The case will bo appealed.
"A new paper entitled The RsgiSisr made It's
appearance yesterday at Memphs-edlted by j.
A. Tyler, late of the Appeal.
David T. Taggart, an employe, was run oNer
by car and killed Wednesday at the N. NJ. n. r.
depot, st. Louis. -ls= .stlG.. T. i-y-r
Tho lumber yards Of n. R. Deacons and Hun.
sicker, Patterson & Co., at Philadelphia. were
damaged by fire Tuesday Light to the amount OF
$4,000. Insured for $54,O 900.
-0n the 22d ulL o tremendous land slide occur.
red on the line OF the PaurolI Railroad, In Brazil
An inclined plane, miles in extent, moved IRON
It's foundation and buried the road for long dis.
lance under earth and rocks. Il was believed
that 1t would take two months to restore the
road to working order.
The Governor OF Kentucky, Wednesday, an.
his determination not to interfere with
the execution Of Matt ShAnnahAn. convicted OF
muder and sentenced to be hung on tho 26th Inst.
There were twenty.one deaths by smallpox
Of Chicago during the week and seyeaty.scVen
cases reported: g-sAsBss9s E FAs
The man who succeeded in throwing him self
under the train In New Albany on Monday was
identified to-day as A. i. Chase, well known
citizen OF Salem, Ind.
"A diminishing pressure on thS barometer,
with west to north winds with partly cloudy but
pleasant weather 10 promised the middle States
to-day, with cloudy and possibly threatening
weather for the Ohio Valley.