The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-17
TnE NEws IN uaIgP.
Home and Foreign hnitcrs- OF I'm.
portancc.
Secretary Sherman ls slightly III.

Secretary Sherman is slightly III.
Mrs. Madeline Dunn, Of Brooklyn, died
! trom an overdose OF laudanum taken 10
relieve pain from cancer.
. John Cunningham, freight conductor
was run over and killed on the N. & q.
railroad near Nashville yesterday.
The steamer Wearmonth, with 4,750
bales Of cotton, from Charleston, s. O., for
sebastopol, is ashore on Charleston bar.
Chas. AInsworth. colored, has been ar
rested at Troy, n. Y, for treating several
persons with beer favored with Paris
green.
W. L, Beaze, a New York broker. and
Miss Mary Parsons, OF Columbus, Ohio,
q sister Of the Princess dc Lynar, were
married OF Columbus yesterday.
Frank T. Kinney, aged fifteen months,
died In New York yesterday from dose
ot morphine mixed with mercury, and ad.
ministered by bis mother by ms.ake.
During quarrel on the ice at Lambert
Vile, n. j., Yesterday, between John Pier
man, aged Is, and Theo. Parker, aged 10,
the latter was stabbed with penknife,
the blade penetrating his heart aud kill.
luR ulu lublhuL1.
At Gatineau Point, Canada, yesterday,
q notorious character named Garripie shot
and probably fatally wounded twelve
year old boy named LIE Fonlaine, mistak.
ing him in the darkness for a man with
whom he had previously had dispute.
It Is stated at Cumberland, Nd, that ".
Il. Harrison, assistant master Of marhin.
cry, Baltimore and Ohio railroad, who
resides at Cumberland, has been appoint.
ed master OF machinery Uf the tfaus Ohio
division, OF that road, and will shortly re.
move to Ohio.
Reports from the Connemsra colony, in
Minnesota, represent intense suffering
among the colonists. Some OF the chill.
dren are naked, and the people, having no
wood, have been using their scant supply
Of hay for fuel. Tho peasants are haggard
and worn, and say they were better OF in
Ireland.
The Portes latest note on the Greek
question proposes as basis OF negotia-
zion, the proposal made by the Porte in
it's note oi Octobor Sd, namely: That the
Cession Of territory should not include
Jania, Melzova and Laressa. This pro-
posal has been hitherto utterly secuted at
by Greece.
The Pope has issued an encyclical letter,
exhortiDg the Patriarchs, Arch Bishops
and Bishops, OF the Catholic world, 10
stimulate their llocks to pray, work and
contribute in aid OF the apostolic foreign
missions, as represented by the work Of
societies for the propagation Of the faith
and schools in the East.
George TiCknor Curtis, OF New York,
has written long letter TO Hugh J.
Jewett for publication, in reply TO the
recent letters ol Judge Jere Black, in
which Curtis denies the premises fudge
Black, and rejects his conclusions us TO
the rights oil States TO control roads
operated under State charters.
The Porte, in the note states that the
military preparations Of Greccs have been
pushed until the whole country is one
vast camp. The press intlAmes the peo-
pie by violent articles against Turkey, and
that brIgandsge is being carried OH on q
large scale, and that formidable bSndE
cross the frontier, but that tho Porte will
remain calm while taking precautions
against possible attacks.
Some scandal has been caused at Vienna
by the appointment Of a committee OF the
municipal government 10 investigate
rumor that the Grown Prince had put
chased his furniture aud outfit at Paris.
The committee found the rumor unIOund-
cd, but the impertineHce el the Council
80 offended the royal house that the EN-.
peror and Crown Prince refused banquet
rendered BY the city on the occasion OF
the PiinCe's coming marriage.