The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-11
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, great damage 10 the crops, fences and
other property in the vicinity.
"a fire at Ellsworth, Kansas, Sunday
burned thirty. y.fve buildings, including III
postOftlce, Episcopal church and seYeral
stores. Loss about $4,000. Insurance
not known. u
The grasshoppers have literally de-
voured everything In Northern and South.
western Kansas and Nebraska: The
damage inflicted on vegetation Is far
greater than In 1866. The corn crop
through oil this region Is totally destroyed.
The past four days have been tho
hottest known in the memory of the oldesl
inhabitant. Yesterday the temperature
stood at 105 degrees and to-day at 104.
The air from the south has the appearance
Of being driven by furnace.
The body OF Charles Esgan was
found in the CuyAhoga River at Cleveland
Monday morning. Deceased was EN-.
ployed in the postofice Of that city, and
had been missing from home since last
Friday, t.. -lI-T =,
John Mooshepks, o Bohemian who
was imprisoned In the police station ct
Cleveland for abusing his family, com.
mitted suicide Monday morning by Jump.
Ing from the gallery Of the third tier Of
cells 10 the stone floor twenty feet below.
"A London letter received in New
York says there are ugly rumors buzzIpR
about the military service clubs to the
effect that official news from the gold
coast Is Of such character that another
expedition TO Ashantee is more than prob
able.
The Atchison, Kansas, Daily Cham.
pton says It Is authorized to announce
that Charles q. Kaester, who was nom
mated for State Treasurer by the Kansas
Independents OF their late Convention.
positively declines to accept the nomina-
ton. Kaester Is o firm and consistent
Republican.
Sunday during service at the Metho.
dist Church in Edinboro county, Pa, Miss
Sally Goodwin was observed 10 faint. She
was carried into the Vestibule, where she
Immediately expired. So far as known
she was in good health up TO tho moment
Of her death. ...... -.
The hrst class yachts Cuthbert, OF Can.
berg, Ontario, and Cora, Of Detroit, sailed
on Lake St. Clair TO day for the Goodwin
cup. The race was 10 miles to Windward
and return. Tho wind was variable. The
Cuthbert won in 8 hours and 40 minutes.
The Cora came In 1S minutes and 80 sec.
onds later. sL L ,FsI fI
About 20 members Of the Michigan
Legislsture, together with several Of the
State officers, are going on an excursion
to the Lake superior country. They will
rendezvous at Chicago tomorrow, leav-
ing there Wednesday morning, making
short stops at Milwaukee and Green Bay.
They will be gone ten or twelve days.
1t has been arranged that the trial 10
beat Goldsmith Maids time OF 2:l5t will
take place in the free for all race at
Rochester, on Wednesday, If q good day
and good track. The purse for that race
has been increased to $4,000, and the
horses entered are Goldsmith Maid, Judge
Fullerton, American Girl and Henry.
Mrs. Burke, OF Allegheny City, was
detained at Dayton, Monday, by officers
who suspected that the little boy Of five
years of age that accompanied her was
Charley Ross A dispatch from her home
removed oil suspicion and she was per-
mitted 10 proceed 10 Wheeling, where abe
was going.
-Reports are in circulation on tho
streets of Memphis that the negroes have
threatened to burn Austin, Mias., some 60
miles below here, because DR.. Smith, who
killed negro there some weeks since.
was released on bond but it is not be-
lieVed that any serious disturbance will
result, though Tor some time persons have
left there fearing trouble.
Information from Fort Laramie saws
that Sioux Indians report that the ARA.
pahoes and Cheyennes are getting ready
for war. Many Sioux will go with them
should this be true. The military arc
very active, but movements are kept as
quiet as possible that the Indians may
not be informed thereof through renegade
whites and half breeds. General King
and the NinthIrfantry departed for Fort
Laramie yesterday.
"A Chicago Tribune special says Geo
W. MCCrary, nominated for Congress BY
the Republicans OF the Fourth District Of
Iowa, has written letter declining the
nomination. He says, in explanation, he
was induced 10 change his first intention
OF not becoming candidate by repre-
sentations made by his friends that his
acceptance would harmonizs all the dis
cordant elements Of the Convention, but
this has not been the case. On the con-
trRry, he finds 1t has tended 10 widen the
gap between the factions, and he con-
siders 1t his duty to withdraw his accept.
ance Of the nomination. I'D
"A Troy special dispatch from Benning.
ton, VT, announces the arrest OF q woman
who has child In charge that answers
the description Of Charley Ross. The
child was taken TO the telegraph Office and
questions were asked dictated from Phila.
delphia. He answered number Of these
correctly, and at the conclusion came a
telegram from Philadelphia instructing
tho Chief Of Police 10 detain the woman
and child. The uncle Of Charley Roas
will be here Tomorrow 10 identity tho
child. The boy says he has two nameB-
Charley Ross and Charles Augustus Ham
ilton. I. h. = -.
COMMITTEES Of steamboat men and
business men from Pittsburgh and Cincin.
natl to-day met Col. W. s. MerrelL Col.
Simpson, and Major Gutter, United States
Military Engineers, and discussed and
viewed the site chosen BY the Southern
Railroad Trustees for q railroad bridge
across the Ohio River near the mouth Of
Mil Greek, Cincinnati: The site was
examined In boat, and a protracted In
formal consultation and discussion had
between the parties. The conference WIN
be continued tomorrow, aud the result be
reported 10 the Secretary OF War.
The Peoples County Convention me-
at Turner'S Hall, 5k Louis, on Monday.
Adolphus Meier was elected Freshmen
and Judge Charles Speck Vice President