The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-12-30
THE LATEST NEWS.

-Ine steamers Oceanic, Thuringia and
City Of New York, arrived az New York
from Liverpool Saturday.
-AsSociat Q Judge Strickland of U, s.
Court of U tab will soon resign.
-IsaHC Davis & Cos fur and hat s,orc
at indianapolis, was robbed Friday night
OF between four and five hundred dollars
worth Of fine furs.
Arnold s. Cos extensive print works,
at Adams, Mass, werc burned Friday
Loss, $l6O, 600; insurance, 100000. Two
hundred hands were thrown out Of en-.
ployment.
-Larne's sash factory, BROOKLYN. was
burned Friday night, with two tGnement
houses. Loss, $4,000. There was con-
siderable suffering by the occupants Of
the tenement houses who were turned
into the street, -
A dispatch from Ft. Gibson, Indian
Territory, says the epizootic has appear
ed there and nearly all the government
animals have got 1t. The weather Is ex.
trsmely cold. All the rivers In that sec.
tion are frozen six inches thick.
"A man named Theodore Jones, living
few miles from Indianapolis, killed his
wife bya blow with his fist, Friday night.
He was arrested.
1T Is reported that Count Certi, the
Italian Minister at Washington, has been
recalled. Iftrue, there will be q vacancy
IN the British American Claims Commits.
sion.
"A dispatch from Hong Kong says
she ship Benares, Captain Anderson,
which left that port on September 18th,
TOR San Francisco, went ashore on one Of
the Loo ChOo islands, and became a
wreck. All oil the crew were drowned
except five. Tho English gunboat Cur
lew went TO the spot to aid her.
-Incendary fire at Arlington, Knox
county, Ills, Friday night, burned the
dry goods store Of B. Bradbury, boot and
shoe store Of Marshall 6 Chipman, one
residence and two or three small sbons
Loss estimated at $4,000. Partially in
sured.
Theodore Brown, farmer living in
Hendricks county, Indiana, killed his
third wife on Thursday last, striking her
on the head with chair willie under the
influence OF liquor.
"A Boston special says that the mum.
Der OF lives lost by the sinking of the ship
Peruvian is twenty-five. Theship had a
cargo valued at nearly 81 900, 900, consist
ing Of costly products from the East
Indies. Insured for 100000.
The Adrian car shops at Adrian
Mich, with six new coaches, were burned
on Friday night. Loss $4,000. One
hundred men are thrown out Of employ.
ment The fire caught in the paint shop.
where man was cleaning brushes with
naptha. The shops will be rebuilt at
once.
1t is stated that two-thirds OF the
PttSburgh Commercial were sold, Sat.
urday, 10 r, W. Mackcy, State Treasurer.
for 100000 Russell Errett will be man.
aging editor,
-Pleuro pneumonia is epidemic in
the villages Of Prussia and Belgium, near
the line separating those two countries.
The burning Of Public School No, 8.
Jersey City, is ascribed 10 the fact that
the pipe or tunnel, which served the
double purpose Of heating and ventil.
lating, was made Of wood. 1t seems as
far back as August only two school
buildings in Jersey City were pronounced
safe, and the heating apparatus OF the
school just burned was especially con.
demned.
AT Pottsville, Pa, Saturday, Henry
Williams, employed in Thomaston Col.
llery, while cutting ice slipped and fell
six hundred feet down the slope, and was
instantly killed. His body wns terribly
mangled.
Fire Marshal MCspedon, Of New
York, reports forty-hve fires for the
week ending December 2S, at noon, The
estimated loss IS $1,157,6OO; insurance,
81, 10000. Eighteen Of the fires were
caused by carclessness.
The New Orleans Committee have
printed an address to the people OF the
United States relative to the Louisiana
troubles, accompanied with an appendape
quoting the laws in support Of their posi-
ton. Their memorial will be presented
TO Congress, and IN appeal made for the
appointment oil q committee 10 proceed to
New Orleans and ascertain tho facts in
the case.
-Tkssteamer James Adgcr arrived at
New York on Saturday with ten men for
the Albany Penitentiary, convicted oI
Ru. Klux odtrages. Among the prisoners
is the Rev. John Ezell, Baptist clergy.