The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-03
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Chappaqua, Horace GreeIeys farm, is to
be sold at auction.
zululand is in state OF anarchy. Get
awayo has asked for British protection.
State Attorney LouCks, Of Peoria, ILL.,, is a
fugitive. He is short $4,000 in his &C.
counts.
In fight in Ashantee between King
KoHee and Mepsah, sixty of the latter's
men were killed.
Twcnty.seven thousand three hundred
and eighteen deaths have occurred from
cholera since its outbreak in Egypt.
Two men have been arrested at Glasgow
charged with being connected with at
tempts 10 destroy property with dynamite.
The German RsiChstag has been closed.
One OF its last acts was TO pass the treaty
oicommerce between Germany and Spain.
Two hundred and fifty colored people
left Virginia on Friday for Iowa, where
they expect to SECURE homes. Others will
follow them,
The boiler OF ar engine driving thresh-
ing machine exploded near Frankfort,
Dakota, killing four men and badly injur-
ing Ave othes.
Ex Governor Sprague has threatened to
kill Stephen Harris, the pew president of
the Quidneck company, il he attempts to
take possession OF Ills property.
Mary Anderson made her debut in Lon.
don Saturday evening, in 'lngomar." She
had many recalls ana made good impress
sion. The house was crowded,
Henry Willard aud his guests have
reached Minneapolis. Saturday evening
they were entertained by General Wash
burn at his handsome suburban residence.
An arrangement for billiard match for
the championship OF the world between
Jacob Suhaeler, Of Chicago, and Maurice
Vignaux, OF Paris, has been completed in
New York.
A circular has been sent 10 British sea-
ports by the Executive Committee Of tho
International Fisheries Exhibition, recon-.
meDding the American method ot catching
mackerel and herring.
A rate war has begun between the Louis-
vile and Nashville and Ohio and MisSis-
sippi roads on passenger business between
Cincinnati and St Louis. The L. & N. has
got tickets down to 81 So
Traders on the Alaska coast protest
against the giving Of rifles to the ST. Law
renee Bay Indians in recognition OF their
kind treatment Of the crew Of the Rodgers.
They say the rides will be traded to the
saysyes Of Norton Sound who will make
trouble with them,
News has just reached the Indian Terri.
tory from Camp Supply, Of murder com.
mitted on Wolf Greek last evening, Il. O.
smith, Of Oxford, Ala, boss OF the Domin.
ion Cattle Company's outfit, being shot
and instantly killed by A. L. Shurmand,
foreman OF the Jackson Cattle Company,
in dispute about ranges.
A long suffering farmers wife, near Ham
ilton, o., who was supposed TO be on her
diving bed, and had bid adleu to her fami.
". was informed by the buxom girl, who
had been presiding in the kitchen during
her illness, that at the end Of proper in.
teryal alter her death she (the girll was to
become mistress OF the household. The
sick lady disapproved Of the arrangement
and resolved 10 defeat Il. This she did by
getting well and changing girls.
The Ohio crop report for September esti'
mates the wheat yield at 94,0O0,QOO bush.
eIs which 10 but little more than half q
crop. OF oats there will be 29.0OO,0OC
bushels against 10,00O,0OO last year. The
present condition Of other crops, compar
ed with last year at the same date, is a.
ltollows: Corn, 50 per cent; potatoes liz
tobacco 49,. sorghum 81; clover for seed
IS; apples, 20; peaches, SO; grapes, 72
The hay crop was very large, and pasture
excellent till within two weeks, but the!
j. are now drying up.