The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-10

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portnnee.
Toledo fears q coal famine.
The Ice in the Pennsylvania canals Il
now several inches thick, and navigation
Is closed again.
Vanderbilt is said to be buying Unior
Pacific stock in order 10 get free access to
the far west.
The tobacco factory Of Jones, Leigh &
Jones. at Richmond, burned last night
Loss $50, 900.
The billiard match between Viguaux
and Slosson, at Paris, has been postponed
till December 20.
s. E, Ellis and assistant arrived in Aus.
Tin, Texas, yesterday, with 1000 young
carp to be distributed in tho waters OF the
State.
NJ. Boissy d'Anglas, the French minis,
ter to Mexico, was cordially received Of
the City Of Mexico by President Diaz, No.
vember 20.
Itis understood that Judge swayne will
also resign from the Supreme Bench soon,
and that Stanley Mathews will be named
for place on 1t.
Mitchell, Of Oregon. in Washington,
says that the California Legislature will
undoubtedly elect General j. F. Miller 10
succeed Booth in the Senate. ...N
The celebrated English horse "Blue
Gown" belonging to James K. Keane, on
the way to this country, died on board the
delayed steamship Victoria.
Beaconsfeld has been in close converse.
ton with the Q1een, and the English
Liberals are wondering what political Gig.
ni6cance there may be In the fact.
General Garfield voted at the recent
special election held to elect his successor
In the House Of Representatives. He was
received at the polls with cheers by both
parties.
The sheriff OF San Franciaco attempted
to board Mexican vessel lying in that
harbor yesterday, to take man out on .
writ Of habeas corpus, but his authority
was denied.
Something OF q sensation was produced
in Frederick, Md, yesterday, by tho fnd-
ing Of newly.born white female babe
sealed up in glass jar and lying on the
banks OF Foundry race, near East Patrick
street.
A New York express train struck car
riage near Stamford, Conn, yesterday at-
ternoon, and Miss Hattie Davenport was
instantly killed, daughter OF Rev. ]. W.
Hyde fatally, and Theodore Davenport
seriously hurt.
Mrs. Glass,a German woman OF Mar.
quette Green, Lake county, Wis, in tit
Of temporary inssnsity yesterday killed
her babe by cutting It's head nearly of
and then cutting her own throat, dying
almost Immediately. r;
Thethre negroes, one woman and two
men, who murdered Mrs. Kennedy, In
Clarendon county, s. O., last Sunday, were
captured yesterday and hung on the
nearest tree TO the place OF the murder
that would hold them.
The will OF the late James E. Brown, OF
Kl:anning, Pa, bequeaths $25 TO every
widow in Kittanning, $25 to every vile
who shall become widow, this gift to be
made to include those Kittanning girls
who shall hereafter become wives.
At the Chicago stock.ysrds yesterday
morning the Thermometer stood six de-
grees below, while reports indicate even
lower at other points In the State. At
LasGlle 1t was IL below. The ice.keepers
are harvesting q great crop Of fine ice.
Wm. Terrill has been arrested in Mon.
roe, Connecticut, charged with the muir
der Of Frank Sears by striking him In the
breast with the handle OF pitchtork.
Sears was brought home a few days ago
by companions, who said he bad fallen
dead with heart disease.
The St. Louis General Passenger Agent
Association have adopted the following
special rates during the continuance oil
the "cut rates." To New York, sci, Bal.
timore and Washington, $40; Buffalo, SIS;
Parkersburg and Wheeling, $l5; Philadel.
phia, $40; Cleveland, Sl4.
Lieutenant Governor Weston, Of Me-
saChusetts, has given instructions to Msas
ager Gardner, OF the Troy and GTeenhe u
road, to try the experiment OF illuminating
the Hoosac tunnel by electricity, with the
view OF having snch illumination made
permanent should 1t prove successiul.
The Sanitary Council Of the MiSsissippi
Valley met al New Orleans yesterday.
The following was adopted: ResoIued, That
In our opinion the General Government
alone acting through It's constituted sani.
tary agents, should have direction and
control OF the national and maritime quar-
sntine.
Great excitement was caused yesterday
afternoon by an explosion at the Brook.
lyn oil refinery, Newton creek, L. |. The
surrounding neighborhood was greatly
shaken up and thousands were attracted
to the spot, Windows were broken at Q
lang distance, and pedestrians were lifted
from their feet by the force Of the shock
Fortunately no one was injured. The
damage TO property was very great.
The most disastrous Gre which has oc
CURED In Springfield, Mass, for years
took place yesterday afternoon, In th'
heart OF the small manufacturing businesl
Of the city. The f1meS ragged from ONT
o'clock I'LL halipast ave, and alter The Are
men loft broke out again, and more damaR
was done by the second ERE than the drst
Loss, 100000. The chief engineer AM
several Gremen were more or less injured