The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-05-21
LATEST NEWS.

The relief fund for tie widows and
orphans by the Drummond Colliery dis
aster amounts to $2,094
Among the Insurance companies thai
lose by the burning of the Wabash eleva
ter at Toledo, the franklin, Of Wheeling
comes In for $500.
In the latest intelligence from Perm,
there Is briet statement TO the effect
that Of the 9,084 Coolies shipped from
MscaStS. Peru, during the past twelve
years, 3yaa7 perIshed from being ship
wrecked, and per cent Of the whole from
suicide or sickness.
The jury have Just given Il verdict In
the case OF Charles Lane, respected
merchant Of Boston, who was shot at his
residence in Dorchester on the evening OF
October l4th, 1872, and declare that be
was shot by some person 10 them un-
known. .
-ExJudge Edwards PierrepOlnt VIII @
has declined the mission 10 Russia Is men
toned by Washington special as tho
probable succession OfChief Justice Chase.
"A great struggle Is said TO be prevail.
ing In ShSmoken, Pa, iOr the possession
over 10000 acres in the Anthracite Coal
regions, valued at SEQ. 100000. One party
has burned three houses, which the other
side erected and retaliation il now threat.
ened. D. H. Wheeler, Of N. Y, repre-.
sents one side and the Reading Railroad
the other.
Albert Gsrnier has already challeng.
ed Maurice DAILY to play a match game
oil billiards for the championship aud
diamond cue.
The session Of the PtuOsIan Diet
closed Tuesday. The speech from the
throne was read by General Won Room,
President Of the Ministry.
The Illinois Homeopathic Medical
Association began their 10Th annual con-
venlion In Chicago Tuesday morning, DR..
H. Pearce, President ol the Association,
In the chair. Abont 40 members were
In attendance.
The American Society Of Civil EngI-
nees meets at Louisville today.
The Governor and Council Of Ma1Sa.
chuSetts have appointed the last Friday
of June for the execution Of Smith, the
murderer ofMr. sackett, ct Westheld.
The political situation at Little Rock
Is quiet. The militia Of th6 stGts. House
have been diSbandoned, The Governor not
apprehending any further present need Of
them.
Lyman Utter, a merchant OF Litch.
field, Montgomery county, Ills, left his
home few weeks ago, TO go 10 Cincin-
natl with q considerable amount OF money
on his person. He has not been heard
from since. ItiS believed he has been
murdered. 20 .. rs-.
The first locomotive crossed the
Missouri river over the new iron bridge
at St. Joseph, Gu Friday.
The State Medical Association, Of
Ills, met in an annual session at Bloom
ington to day. About seventy.tive mem.
bers Of the medical profession from VArI.
Gus parts OF Illinois were present.
-HarveyS OIL Cloth Factory at Brook.
lyn was burned Tuesday morning
Twelve workmen were discharged yes
terdsy.
AT Evansville, Ind, the graves Of the
Union and Confederate soldiers are to be
decorated alike.
The Prospect Mil u Halifax, Eng.
land was burned on the 9th inst, throw,
Ing four hundred people out Of employ
mGnt. Loss $275,000. Insurance $l75,
900.
S-Yesterday afternoon the superintSn-
dent ol the Pennsylvania Railroad turned
over to the Pittsburgh & ConnellSVillI
Railroad the entire control Of the Noun
Pleasant & Bradford road, RS ordered BY
the decision Of the Supreme Court grant
Ing a preliminary injunction to the latte
company. Employees Of the Pittsburgh
& COnnellviIle Company proceeded with
o1t opposition 70 restore the track ant
bridges lately destroyO by the opposition