The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-23
THELATEST NEWS.


Professor Marsh, on Wednesday evening, q
hs lecture In the shCnleld School At New Haven
while describing his tour tot the West last sum
mer, said that he found In Kansas fosSils OF 81
gantic sourians and winged reptiles. in tht
HAsAluc regions he found vast quantities O.
thrce.toed fossil horses.
The spoke factory Of BrInell d Co., and al
adjoining dwelling, at 81. Mary, Ohio, are report
ed as having been burned on Wednesday. Th'
loss IL estimated at $50 900, with no insurance OF
the factory.
The tobacco drying establlahEfgnt OF N. j
Barker, at COyington, KY, was destroyed BY
fire on Wednesday evening. Total loss 5000
Tnly insured.
John Mengel, Of Freedom, Pa, was run ovcl
aud killed by train OF cars on the Fort Wayn,
Railroad, at that station, on Wedn esday.
The Kentucky Methodist Episcopal Confer
snce is now In session at CoVington.
The Wisconsin Assembly, after long debate
has modified the bill cnactlng the Ohio temper
anCe law by striking out the clause making The
owner of the building responsible, and ordered
The bill to third reading by vote of65 to SS.
The Radical leaders at Madrd=sre deliber
atIng as to what attitude they will assume 10
ward the new minister. A meeting was TO bC
held last night, at which It was expected decI
sYe action would he taken.
Continued fair weather iS indicated for thIl
region to-day.
"A destructive fire occurred at Arkadelphia
Arkansas, on Sunday night, by which the store
Of Stuart 4 Greene, G. G. Slot & Co, r. Z
Reams, r. u. Parks. A. A. Anderson, the Spen
GER Hotel, and the law office Of Gov. FlanagIn
were totally destroyed.
1T is officially announced at Berlin that AZ
lpOthecary from Posen, q Pole, was arrested
Thursday on suspicion of contemplating the as,
s4ssInAtiOn Of Bismarck. The man Is fanatic
catholic aud formerly in the Papal Zouayes. He
threatened to takO the lie Of tho Prince upon
his arrival A pistol was found on the prisoner
Two soldiers, McCarSue and McKanaugh
inmates Of the National Asylum at Milwaukee
were found frozen to death In ravine In The
woods back of the Asylum barns Wednesday.
The tobacco manufacturers of St. Louis have
adopted resolution protesting against the de
cIsIOn of the Committee Of Ways and Means In
recommending tax Of sixteen cents on smoking
and twenty.iour cents on chewing tobacco, ant
urge a uniform tax on all manufactured tobacco
"A decree has been Issued By the FrenCl
Government suspeudIng the publication OF III
GdalOis newspaper
The Internal Revenue office has commenced
sending ont blanks for the income lax for 1871.
John Travis was executed at Toronto yester
day for the murder Of one johnson some months
since
Tom SCOTS lease of the Memphis & Charles
ton Railroad was ratified yesterday by the stock
holders
Anumbcr of IrIsh.AmerIcan citizens proposG
tOgiye public dinner In honor OF Horace Gree
ley next St. Patrlck's day.
"A cOnsstory OF Cardinals Is called by The
Pope to meet at the Vatican to-day (Friday) tC
nominate Bishops for the Catholic Church In
Russia.
-General Sherman has gone from Rome tC
Nsples.
"A soldiers reunion at Topeka, KS, came o
yesterday. About 400 cx.sOllers, and At least
900 persons were present