The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-02
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News snd GOsSip on CuErenI Subjects
Wire.
The plague Is diminishing in Nedisl
but has appeared at Maraghsp, NorthsE
There are now twenty.seyen cases
smallpox at Milford, . small town !
Indiana.
The totalcoinage:of the U. s. Mints du
ing March was $lS.05S,l6l, Of whiC
$500, 900 was silver.
Geo, Mooney, the steubenyille boy wh
shot . companion last Saturday, has bee
bound over In $500 bonds.
Powers, Conservative member Of th
British House OF Commons for Wigan, ha
been unssatsd for bribery.
| At Akron, Ohio, the Ouyahoga Fall
Wire Mill was damaged by are last nigh
to the extent Of 81, 900, Insured.
Four thousand smigrants left Bremen
for the United States on Wednesday last
making 10000 since the first Of January
BeaconSheld's physicians say tina
though they have much TO contend will
the crisis Is past and there Is every hope
Of recovery,
Two hundred and seven thousand
pounds oi gold bullion was withdraw
from the London market yesterday foI
this country. I
The freight rates by rail from Chicago L
New York have been reduced 10 thirty
cents ON grain and thirty.ive cents on
provisions and live hogs. 7
The principal organs OF the press Of
Austria publish an article entirely un,
favorable to the scheme for international
entenb against political refugees.
In the House Of Commons Gladstone
said; cannot give positive information
as to whether England will bs represent
ed at the Monetary Conference,
A dispatch from Athens says Premie,
Commandarous will telegraph 10 tht
Greek agents In Europe that Greece car
not accept the Porte'S last proposal,
Pension Agent Brown, Of Cincinnati
who lost a leg during the war, ID 10 be ap
pointed Commissioner OF Pensions In the
place Of Bentley, the present incumbent,
At Columbus, Ohio, Jacob Michael, aged
72 years, committed suicide yesterday by
shooting himself. Old age and domestic
inCompalibllity were the causes Of the act,
Five hundred negroes have left Hunt.
ington, Tennessee, since Tuesday for Kan.
sas. About one thousand will emigrate 10
the same State in May from the same
locality.
A Washington special says Acting Com.
missioner Of Indian Affairs Michael, who
has been nominated Tor Commissioner
has asked the President to withdraw his
nomination on account Of Ill health.
The President has decided 10 appoint
Capt. Henry, Of Ohio, United States Mar.
shal for the District Of Columbia, In The
place Of Fred Douglass. Douglass will be
appointed to some other equally good
place.
The drain Of European gold by export
10 this country has been renewed. Within
twenty.tour hours the steamship Algeria,
from England, has brought $77S, ,425 10
gold. The steamship Maine, from Ger.
many, has brought $6l0,S94.
The new Wisconsin anti.tresting law
having gone into effect, is to be tested by
a made.up case. The managing editor Of
an evening newspaper was arrested on
complaint OF the city. editor, and the case
Will be contested on the plea Of the uncon.
stitutionality Of the act. tIfT
At LeadvilIe last night Lewis Bowie ebot
and killed ]. s. Ballard, while engaged In
Q quarrel. The trouble grew out oI Bal.
lard's marriage with Boyle's sister, under
suspicious circumstances. II Ia said that he
seduced her and was forced to marry, and
was intending to desert her.
Yesterdays session OF the Cabinet was
brief and confined to routine business
Messrs. Wiudom, MacVeagh and James
being absent their departments were not
represented, the President having decided,
1t is understood, not 10 increase the circle
oil confidential advisors by admitting sub.
ordinates. -
A memorial to Lord Harrington, signed
by LOO residents Of Manchester, declares
that II England does not send repre-.
sentative 70 the Monetary Conference she
should at least send one on behalf OF In.
dla. The Chambers OF Commerce at Blrm.
ingham and Liverpool demand that the
delegates be sent unpledged. I.''II
A mining company from Kentucky
which recently leased the Locke county
East Tennes6ee) Gold Mines, on Wolf
creek, has begun the construction OF build.
lngs and apparatus necessary for success.
fol gold digging. There 10 said to be no
question OF the presence oil gold in that
vicinity, but In what quantity experiment
alone can tell.
The detail ot officers for The Jeannette
search has been completed. Lieut. Barry
will be commander OF the expedition.
Master H. 8. Waring executive officer, and
navigator, Master W. F, Halsey; ensiens.
H. ], Hunt and g.. W. Strong; aSsistAnt
engineer, A. V. Zane; pay clerk, A. H.
Glider. Two medical officers will accom-.
pany the expedition.
A Newark, N. j., man owns pair Of
prairie dogs. Several month0 ago Mr.. H,
7. Osborne bought q pair Of praiFie doss In
Colorado, and took them 10 bis home at
SO Court street., Last December he had A
deep hole excavated In his garden, and
placing the dogs therein In boz, with a
piece OF carpetlor bedding, and Bhoveled In
the earth I'LL the box was buried sew.
eral feet On Tuesday the box was dug
Up, and the dogs were found close 10.
gether In q sound sleep. They were taken
into the house, land quickly fegained con.
BcioHsnees, played together and seemed
10 bs we'll and strong. "
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT