The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-03
THE LATEST NEWS.

dred majority for the appropriation Of
$l25,000 to tho Cincinnati, Rockport q
Southwestern Railway Company.
w. 3. Bertholf, about fifty years OF
age, agent for Cincinnati tobacco house,
wound up spree at Columbus, O., We'd
ncsday night, by falling dead on the
street.
Fourteenth annual New Years din.
tner TO news boys and boot blacks Of Pitts.
burgh, was given in City Hall, Wednesday
afternoon by Mr.. John W. Plttock Of
Erening Leader.
Lieut.. General Van Kamacke will
succeed Won Room as minister Of war, for
Prussia. The latter Is to be made Field
Marshal.
Madrid Journals deny that the insur.
gents in Cuba have met with success In
recent operations and assert that the Re.
bellion will soon be crushed.
-Thos. King, sentenced for 10 years In
1867 for Countertiting has been pGrdoned
by the President in consideration Of dis
closures made by him whereby counter.
fit plates were captured anda number Of
persons convicted.
The Arkansas reform state Conven-
ton convenes Saturday and Legislature
meets Monday. II is reported on the
streets that relormers mistake the setting
up ofn special state Government.
Certificates of all tho Presidential
electoral colleges have been filled.
Hundreds Of agricultural laborers out
Of employment are in London because the
farmers refuse to pay the wages they de.
mand, and arc preparing to emigrate to
Brazil.
The works Of the North Western Fer
talizing Co., at Ainsworth, Ills, were
burned Wednesday. Loss $170O00, in.
surance $4,000.
AT Cleveland, Wednesday night, 4
young woman named Mary Hilbut died
at the house Of Mrs. Swart, on
Third street, from wound on her head.
Suspicious Of foul play were raised, and
Mrs. Swart and three other persons we're
taken into custody TO await the result of
the coroner's inquest.
AT Albany, Wednesday night, a
woman named Mary Jane Wells shot
Thomas J. Corners while he was at.
tempting to force an entrance into her
house Conners' wound is a serious one.
The woman is in custody.
Passenger train East on the /. GIL.
Railroad ran into locomotive at London,
II miles from indianapolis, early Thurs.
day morning and killed Mike Harmon,
fireman.
-Easterly to Southerly wind, ,veering to
southcrly westerly, cloudy weather and
rain arc indicated for the Middle States
to-day.
"A rain storm began at Chicago mid
night Wednesday and continued till last
evening. Rain froze on telegraph wires
and prOstrated lines in all directions. At
midnight last night gale was blowing at
tue rate Of 10 miles.
The Czarowitch is better.
The Philadelphia Branch Civil SER
vice Association have letter from the
President ofthauks for their endorsement
Of his appointment Of the Philad elphia
Postmaster.
The Prohibition OF Sunday or after
midnight sales Of liquor in. Washington
city is to be enforced by new police
board.
"A rain at Poughkeepsie excltes fears
there of freshet in the Hudson.
The Michigan Legislature organized
Wednesday, electing Jas. 81. Stone pres
ident Of the Senate and Chas. N. Craswell
Speaker OF the House. The retiring
Governor Baldwin delivered lengthy
and the new Governor Bagley
an inaugural message, which Is described
as able and satisfactory.
in St. Louis, in 1879, the number of
fires was 234, losses $969, ,S00 insurance,
81, ,442, ,045, insurance losses, $944, ,2S2.
Seven victims ofthe Centre street fire
In New York, have been unearthed and
the search stopped.
"A Brooklyn lawyer named Morris,
yesterday blew out his brains with pis-.
tol for want of something better TO do.
Thursday after noon, seven convicts
dug out OF Auburn State prison and es.
capped.
The transport Orne Is soon to sail
rom France for New Caledonia, with
i've hundred and eighty banished Com.
nunists.
The epizootic is raging throughout
Colorado.
The Detroit Free Pres gave one hun
ired and fifty newsboys New Years
Inner. .s....
james L. Watson, native Of savan-
nah, Ga, and Benjamin Crowler, have
been imprisoned in Hungary for speaking
1iSrespectIully Of the Emperor Of Austria.
The steamer Commercial sunk yes
tcrday at Evansville, Indiana. Valued at
81 600. uninsured