The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-09
INTERNATIONAL LAW
INVOLVED IN A CELEBRATED CASE
To b. Tried ia Juds. Kelly. Court at ST. claIr,.
rllls-HOrtIeaItural As.tiug at GAINESVILLE.
Another Girl Burnsd TO DsAth-The
Late CrsmAtIOn-OLhsr News.

Yesterday morning Gilbert Vanderpool and
Edwin E. Jones, the "hay.fork" men, were
brought into Court at St. Claifsville and ar.
raigued on the charge OF forgery-torging the
name OF Jacob Bratton to a judgement note
for $500. When asked to plead guilty" OF
mot guilty" they stood silent, and the Court
held that that was equivalent TO mot guilty"
March Goth was set for the day OF trial. In
the meanwhile application has been made to
President, Arthur through the British minis
ter for their release. The defendants attor.
neys claim that Us Vanderpool and Jones were
extradited from Canada to be tried in Butler
county they cannot be tried elsewhere for
any other offsnse. The defendants are repre-
sented by MSjor W. y, Kennon aud James n.
Reps, Z q.
Theie are eight indictments pending
against the prisOners. As q question of IN.
terpational law Is involved the proba.
bility is that the question will be determined
OF Washington, and MeSsrs. kennon aud
Reese propose TO have these questions fully
determined on the part OF their clients.
The probabilities are that Vandsrpool
and Jones will be remanded N the peniten.
tlary TO fill their unexp PRED terms. Judge D.
d T. Cowen will assist Prosecuting Attorney
A. H. Mitchell.
The Wheeling Creek Coal Company have
recently purchased the Pike Run mines Of
Ohio.
Sharon township, Noble county, Ohio, Is in
trouble Recent examinations show that two
ex.TreasurerS are short $3.50 In their settle
ments.
A report Is current in Morgantown, 10 the
effect that Rev. J. K. Thompson, late preSi
dent OF the U diversity. has received call
from Church in Brooklya, at salary Of
$500.
President Wilson, OF the State University,
at Morgantown, has Offered prize OF $780, TO
be contested for by the Parthenon and Col.
umbian societies. The members OF both are
working hard in hopes OF winning the gen.
erous presidents prize.
Mary B. Guseman, a girl OF u years OF ago,
who resided with her parents a short distance
from Carmichaels, Pa, was SO horribly burn
ed Tuesday that she has since died. Her
clothing caught fire from an iron with which
she was ironing clothes.
Mr.. @. N Ganmer, late editor OF the st..
Clairsville Gazette, and chairman OF the Dem
ocralic County Executive Committee OF Bel.
mont county, as his last official act before
leaving the county called the Democratic
conventions for g.. Clairsrille borough snd
Richlsnd township, which are to meet at the
court house on March "a.
1t is z nerally believed in Monongelia
county tnAt arrangements are bring rapidly
perfected TO begin the extension OF tho
Wsynesburg & Washington narrow gauge
r, I'D from Way nssburg to Biacksville, during
the coming summer. On Saturday last a
meeting was held AZ BiRcksyilie and all the
money asked by the company but 20. QUO was
subscribed. Blscksville wants q road even II
the rest OF Monorgalia county does not.
About twenty Hnngarians left the Green's
burg, Pa, coke regions Tuesday and will soon
sail for Hungary. IL Is generally believed
that there are hundreds more In the coke
region Just as anxious to leave America as
others are 10 have them do so. The postmas-
ter at Mt. Pleasant says there are at least two
hundred foreigners less, principally HungA-
rams, now receiving mail there than three
months ago, which is conclusive evidence
that the people OF this nationality are slowly
but surely leaving the country which hiss
proclaimed against them.
DR.. Samuel Walton, OF Barnesyille, has in
his possession an old watch that Is said to
have belonged, at one time, 10 Napoleon
Bonaparte The Doctor has owned the watch
upwards OF forty years. having purchased Il
ct one time from an old Philadelphia dentist,
by tho name OF Joseph Gillisms, who was
one OF the five founders OF the Academy Of
Natural Sciences Of the city. MIR. Gilliams
obtained the watch from Joseph Bonaparte,
brother OF Napoleon, who lived for some
time near Burlington, New Jersey. As a
timekeeper the watch 10 not success, but
as relic tits valuable.