The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-21
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AT Jersey City the grand Jury have found
ono hundred and ten indictments, most ofwhIcl
are against the ringlteS Of that city and IN the
county for peculation for public funds. ....
AT Scranton, o'Conner, the Delaware 4
LackawannA Railroad embez2ler, has been Jailed
being unableto give bond. Nor, |ftt.
Dispatches from Batavia report that heavy
gales prevailed throughout the island Of Java
The Glove crop has been destroyed.
Emperor William, OF Germany, Is suffering
fEom lndlspolitlon and passed restless night
Monday night Quecn Elizabeth, now Il years
old, Is also III, Fears of serious result Ia enter.
tained. .4ts..s .l. H..l
-ItlssAld In London that General Sherman
will go from Naples tn Egypt, and after making
a trip through that country return to the United
States.
The House Committee on Appropriations
has agreed to to appropriate three hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars for West Point
About one hundred and ninety thousand Is to bS
appropriated as prize money for the seamen and
officers OF the Kearsage, destroyer Of the Ala.
bama l7 'a'
-TheJudlciAry Committee OF the Minnesota
House has reported q bill for the fnal adjustment
OF the Minnesota State Railroad bonds.
Alexis and suit len New Orleans by special
train Monday night for Pensacola via Mobile
The engine house Of the St. Paul & Sioux
City Railroad at ShAkopee, was destroyed by fire
Monday night, together with fix locomotives.
"A destructive fire occurred at Worthngton,
Ind, Monday might, Eleven of the business
houses on Main street were entirely destroyed.
Most Of the goods were saved Loss $4,000,
with very little insurance.
An apparent swindle underthe head Of INA
tional Enginecrs GIFT Enterprise" has been ven
tIlated by the press At Milwaukee for few days,
and the President, Charles D. Smith, falling TO
make satisfactory explanation as to tho dispos
tion OF the funds, q number Of citizens whose
names have been used as references have pub.
llshed cards dlsclaIming any connection with the
concern.
"A Boston dispatch says Dr.. TourIee has al.
ready received applications from over 5000 sing.
era for the grand jubilee chorus, the Handca
Hayden soolcty heading the list. r.
The Health Commissioner of Baltimore re.
ports the smallpox as IN epidemic there and
learfully Increasing.
1t is understood that the Comml ssIoner OF
Internal Revenue will not suspend the tar on
canned fruits and syrups until Congress adIourns.
-EutAepb EoEtet llhb Oteu Hulllilhteu AbsOclhLe
Justice Of Arizona.
An ottowa letter TO the. New York Express
states that there Is not a word of truth In the
statement that secret treaty has been made be.
tween England and the Dominion. Be-
The nail aud spike manufacturers OF New
England, who have been In consultation at New
York for several days, adjourned after adyan cling
prices twenty-five cents per keg.
-Thos. BenSinger, o German resident Of Terre
Haute, was found Tuesday morning In the woods
near that city sitting upright on log, with a
bullet hole through his head, having apparently
been dead about week. He Is supposed th have
been murdered. gs H
The injury Hon. George Il. Pendleton sns-
taInGd by fall last week, 1t has been ascertaIned
Is not SO severe as at flrst supposed He will be
able to be ont in short time.
AN association has been formed at Rockport,
Ind, for the erection OF suitable monument
over the grave of the mother of the late PresI-
dent Lincoln. Her grave Is at that place.
Last Friday night negro named John Port,
confined In jail at Smithland, KY, for stabbIng
another negro, hung himself in his cell with a
rope. When discovered life was extinct. II Is
not known how he got the rope.
There Is considerable excitement at Cars.
Vile, Ky, over the discovery Of rich deposits OF
lead and other ores by Memphis company,
which recently purchased mining land at that
place, .... .-. ..-fr'