The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-17
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Home and Foreign Matters OF I'm.
p0rtnnee.

Pa, yesterday.
The fat stock show in Chicago begal
yesterday with fine exhibits.
E5O0,0O0 in gold will be shipped from
London for this country tomorrow.
N. Gerard has been appointed seconI
Secretary to the French Legation at Wash
ington.
A fire in Denver. COL, yesterday, dam
aged the Windsor Hotel TO the extent o
$4,000.
Two leading Nihilists organizers wer,
hanged at the foot OF st. Petersburg, at
A. NJ. yesterday.
The Morning Star, from Toledo to Buf
falo, with cargo OF 40, 400 bushels Of wheat
is reported lost.
The National Convention OF boot anc
shoe manufacturers opened at Philadel
phia yesterday.
The knitting mills Of Aiken & McLar
ems, at Troy, n. Y, were burned yester
day. Loss SS5, 900; insurance, $4,000.
The steamer Assyrfan Monarch, from
London, which was due last Thursday
has not yet been heard from.
The President appointed Henry L. Ath'
erton, OF New York. to be United States
Consul at Pernambuco.
Two violent shocks OF an earthquake oc
Cured at Agrsm at midnight, causing a
panic. The flight Of the inhabitants Is re-
newed.
Frank seacott, while eating supper a!
Lead City, Colorado, Sunday night,
checked to death trying TO swallow q piece
OF meat.
It Ia reported from Milwaukee th at the
schooner Darlington capsized twenty-five
miles southeast Of that port. All on board
were lost.
Reports on the French beet crop class
1t among the worst, as regards Inequality.
Advices from Germany and apart OF Aus
tria are better.
Tha election Of members OF the new
Great Council in Switzerland has resulted
in triumph for the ti.Catholics and e1-
treme radicals.
At Indianapolis, VIM. Smith, q painter,
was instantly killed yesterday by falling
from ladder while at work on the resi-.
dence Of Governor Porter.
The wife OF Samuel David, son Of H. J..
David, prominent lawyer Of New York,
was found murdered yesterday morning
on the porch OF her house.
A terrific snow and wind storm has
been raging throughout the Black Hills
the past two days. The cold Is intense;
thermometer A. below zero.
The arrival OF the French Monks at Ali.
cante and Barcelona, Spain, caused hos
tile popular demonstrations. They were
compelled to re.embark from the latter
place.
W. E. Sheridan opened an engagement
at Baldwin's theatre, San Francisco, last
evening in "Louis Eleventh" and scored
q pronounced success. He was recalled
after every act.
A proposition has been laid before the
trustees OF the Cincinnati Southern Rail.
road 10 ask the city OF Cincinnati Tor
s., $500 more to put the road in first
class working order.
A meeting OF the stockholders OF the
narrow guage railways of Ohio and In
diana, looking to the consolidation OF the
roads in these two States, is in session at
Cincinnati.
A dispatch from Paris says the Arch.
bishop OF Paris has written to the mem.
bers OF the. dispersed religious orders con-
soling them in their persecution, and en-.
joining patience and resignation.
There was a full attendance at the
Cabinet meeting at Washington yester.
day, each department being represented
by its head. The question OF appointing
~, - ntS Il II ItuHauaol hFt Fn
decision was reached.
Colonel Paris, commanding Paris bat.
talon OF Pompiers, has just published an
interesting work giving comparative fire
brigade stations OF New York, Chicago and
Paris, and calling for reform OF his ser.
vice on the American plan.
An inventory Of the estate OF the late
Mary Shields, Of Philadelphia, shows her
property to be valued 1854 900, nearly all
In personal effects. Eight hundred and
seventy.fve thousand dollars will go by
will to Pennsylvania charitable societies.
The fourth annual National Convention
OF the Coffin Makers Association assem-
bled at Indianapolis to-day. A large mum.
Der OF representatives were present. VIM.
Hamilton, OF Pittsburgh, was chosen Pres.
ident, and o. D. Bryan, OF Cincinnati, as
Secretary.
The full official returns from California
show that Henry Edgerton, Republican
elector, receives 507 votes more than
Judge Terry, the lowest on the Democratic
ticket, and Is elected. The other Demo-
cratic electors have majorities ranging
from 81 to 14S.
Thursday President.elect Garfield will
take tea with the pupils Of the Lake Ene
Female Seminary, at Painesyille, Ohio,
and on Friday he will celebrate his forty.
ninth birthday, as well as that ot his
uncle, Thomas. Garfield, bya visit TO the
latter at Cleveland.
A train on the Lehigh Valley railroad
was wrecked near Mill Greek, Pa, by q
broken rail. Fireman Sweeney was In.
stantly killed and engineer Murphy badly
burned. The locomotive and two pas
senger cara were destroyed by Gre. None
Of the passengers were hurt.
The Milwaukee Sentinel will to-day pub
lish the names and address oil $3.50 male
persons who claim they were not returned
BY the census enumerators. The most oil
these are believed 10 be voters, and 1t ID
claimed, according to the usual ratio, that
It would bring the population Of Milwau'
kee to 10000.
Absut O'Clock Yesterday evening fire
broke out in the northern part OF Newport
on the Iron Mountains, Arkansas. Under
the influence OF high wind the flames
spread rapidly, until two.thirds Of the
buildings In the town were destroyed.
Abouttw hundred families were rendered
homeless, and the distress Is very great
The loss is estimated at about two hun
dred thousand dollars.