The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-05-14
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night for Connecticut.
The operation OF the bank act at VI
emma has been suspended.
Madam Pere Hyacinthe has giVel
birth 10 boy.
Legal tenders outstanding are 1857,
O24,855.
Tho Ohio Constitutional Convention
yesterday elected Hon. n. R. Waite, o
Toledo, President, and Dudley N. Rhodes
OF Delaware county, Secretary.
European dispatches were more reas
surlng yesterday, there being an improved
feeling all over the continent.
The Gsyaso Gas Company OF Mem
phis was sold out yesterday for the benefit
OF a mortgage, and was purchased by T.
G. Gaylord, Of Cincinnati, for $1OS,00
"A Halifax dispatch says an explo,
sion occurred yesterday In Drummond
colliery, Plcton county, Ms. At last &C.
counts i0rty.0ne men were ia the pit, the
slope was on fire, and there were no
means-Ot cgress.
The sixth annual session of the
American Railroad Master Mechanics
Association began yesterday at Baltimore.
Representatives were present from all the
most important railroads In the United
States and Canada.
The steamer Remand struck rock
in Lachine Rapids, in the st. Lawrence
river, Monday evening. Ono hundred
passengers were on board, all Of whom
were landed safely.
john Watson, q Chicago grain opera.
tor, suspended to-day, with liabilities
amounting. to $150,00O.
AT Patssi, Wis, Monday, John Mat
tiers, young man, attempted to rape
Rosa Smith, a respectable young lady,
but his attempt was foiled by her screams,
which brought friendly assistance. The
william fled and is still at large.
Tho Catholic State Temperance
Union Of Ohio assembled in Cleveland
yesterday. Resolutions were adopted
tending toward the promotion Of the
cause Of temperance and Catholic unity.
AT Cedar Rapids, Monday night,
some unknown person entered the sleep
ing apartment ol family named Mar
shall, and shot and killed Mrs Marshall
an old woman Of fifty years, and mother
Of six children. Marshall is strongly
suspected as the murderer though still at
large.
In the attic OF an old unoccupied
house at LeavenwOrth, Kas., last oc.
cupied by negroes, human bones, teeth
and finger.nails with flesh attached, and
evident marks Ol burning have been dis
covered. The authorities arc investi.
eating.
Information has been received by the
Secretary Of State that tho body Of the
late Judge Orr, Minister TO ST. Peters
burg, has been sent 10 this country by
way Of Hamburg, in chsrge Of his son.
"A fire Monday, at Calvert, Texas,
destroyed a halfblOck with tho exception
oi one wsro house. The loss is estimated
at from 500. 900 to $4,000.
Tho Texas State fair will open at
Houston on Tuesday. The exhibition
promises 10 be fine and tho attendance
very large.
-Lusinganis, sentenced to be hanged,
Thursday next at Morristown, N. J., has
given up the hope Of escaping the gal.
lows by starving himself 10 death, and
now eats ravenously. He Is as prorAne
as ever and continues to sing light songs.
Daniel Pratt, the pioneer manufao.
turer Of Alabama, died at his home in
Prathville, Tuesday, aged 7S.
The President has appointed jackson
8. Schultz, OF New York, u Commissioner
TO represent the United States at the Vien-
ma Exposition, vice General Van Buren
suspended.
General Sherman has received q dis
patch from General Schoaeld announcing
the arrival at San Francisco Of the re.
mains oil General Candy, and stating that
the funeral ceremonies will take place on
Wednesday, and the body will be sent
East Thursday.