The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-04-10
GENERAL NEWS NOTES

Ex.President Diaz, OF Mexico, took il
the sights OF Boston yesterday. rr
/ President Arthur is on his way to Gard
ner's Island, where he proposes to cam
fora week. ~ aA =. -As--2 = :. -
OF one hundred and ninety.six deaths il
New Orleans last week, eighty.six wer
from smallpox. W.TlEj 9'E g.,
The Atlantic Milling Company, OF 81
Louis, has temporarily suspended. 1t i
said to be perfectly solvent.
The Canadian Government rejected til,
latest proposition made with reference I,
the admission oil American whisky.
The barn Of H. b. Monaghan, at Gary
Dakota, burned yesterday morning. Hi
wife attempted to save the stock and was
burned to death. 80 ( ,Ys'..sfg
A bill has been inuoducedin the New
York Legislature submitting TO the voter
OF the State proposition abolishing con
vict labor in State prisons.
The, buckle andSbutton house Sof Wells
ton, Knight & Co, No. "A and 10 Wortt
street, New York, made an assignment yes
terday. The firm Is rated as having /
capital Of 100000. 3,j.ij h,.4 GGa
Fire yesterday afternoon destroyed siS
buildings on the main street Of Hamilton
Mo-, including the Hamilton Savings Bank
and the Western House. Loss about TWEEN
ty.seven thousand dollars. .....'
Michael, Hoffman, an old batchelor
living short distance from Hillsboro Mo.
set his house and barn on fire about /:
o'clock Saturday night, and then killed
himself with Winchester rifle. He was
considered insane. ~ '''
An old Indian woman over so years o.
age, known aa. widow Jim," living 4
lonely lie near Orange, Kansas, was muir
dered two or three days ago, and her cabin
cred 10 conceal the crime. Money was the
object OF the murder as the old woman
was known 10 have several hundred dollars
Private dispatches from New Orleans say
the city Is liable to be inundated II any o
the front levee gives way. The river Il
now on level with the crown Of the leyel
along the city 'front.' The crevasse a
Gouidsboro on the right bank OF the rivei
directly opposite New Orleans, will bt
closed by this evening.
A Murphysboro, ILL.,, special says: Thu
Logan House, the oldest hotel In the city
owned by Mrs. Rogers, sister, OF Genera
Logan, burned last hight, and Nrs. Roger.
and two girls narrowly escaped with theil
lives. I w. Swope, q traveller for Adams &
Watkins, OF St. Louis who Is q Cnicagc
man, was burned TO death. a
The Ffrmenich's Grape Sugar Works, Of
Buffalo, NJ ". closed down yesterday
Three hundred and fifty hands are thrown
out oi employment The officers state as &
reason that they prefer to run the works ir
the West for the present, where water car
be had for merely pumping. These works
recently consolidated with the Hamlin sys
TEN Of grape sugar manufacturing.
+ A certificate Of Incorporation for q rail
way telephone company was filed yester
day in the county clerks office, New York
The object isto construct lines OF telegraph
Ithrouahout the United States and adjacen
countries, 10 convey telephone message
for railway purposes. The capital stock !
fixed at s, ,500, 600, and may be increaset
70 8, 100000. IL -, / y Y ''l.s! .
ID the New, England Conference Of tn
.M. El Church Yesterday the report Of tth
| Committee contemporaries was read. Th
firm purpose OF the members to. -oppos
Ethe It0dof- traticianl tie causes that lea,
Ito intempefauce was reiterated, and regre
expresSgd that the Governor had not cor
siIiered ithe subject 6f temperance suhl
Iciently important TO merit o notice 10 hi
annual message, II was recommends
THAT The advocacy Of temperance be keF
from entaHgling alliances with the woma'
suffrage or other subjects,