The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-17
: GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Ten business houses at Silver Lake, Ind,
were destroyed by fire yesterday. d"
The strikers at the Diamond mines,
Wilkesbsrre, Pa, have resumed work.
sAbusinessl block worth S22, 900 was des.
troyed BY fire at Hamburg, Ind, yesterday.
Insurance 81 500.
The twenty.third annual convention OF
the National Brewers Association Assem-.
bled yesterday in Detroit.
The General Synod Of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church OF the United States met
at Springfield, O., yesterday. About 200
delegates were present.
An engine and eighteen freight cars
were thrown down an embankment on the
Reading & Columbia Railroad, near
Ephrat, Pa, yesterday. George W. Hair,
master mechanic Of the road, was killed.
Buck Miller, agent OF the Chicago & Al
ton railroad ut Millwood, ILL.,, shot and
killed Charles B.ker yesterday afternoon
on account OF an old grudge. Miller was
fatally injured frotn.a beating on the head
with the butt OF revolver.
It is reported that Ex. Comptroller John
Kelly, OF New York, has sent his personal
check to the Mayor for $4,000, to REIN.
burse the city, the amount which 1t is said
Carroll swindled the city during his
(Kelly's) administration as Comptroller.
Mrs. Clinton WikselI, OF Warren, Ohio !,
insane, eluded her watchers yesterday, and
procuring small rope tied one end around
her neck and the other to railing near
the top flight OF the stairs and jumped and
broke her neck. She leaves four children.
Mike Cohen alias "sheeny Mike" and
F. Horton, Of New York, and J. G. Law
renee, of Cleveland, three noted burglars,
were arrested at the Seventh Avenue
Hotel, Pittsburgh, last night They bad in
their possession kit OF the finest burglar
tools ever seen in Pittsburgh. T.
At Ashland, No., last Friday, while a
man named Hull was quarrelling with his
wife about whipping one Of their children,
q lady neighbor interfered in the interest
OF peace, which 80 exasperated Hull that
he struck Eer on the head with brick,
killing her instantly. Hull fled.
Anthony X. Henderson, who died at
Erie, Pa, on Friday, leaves property valued
at S75, 900 in Lawrence county, Pa, for the
endowment OF an Industrial Home for
Poor and Homeless Youth, and Cleveland
lots, railroad stocks, etc, worth siao. .ooo tor
tne endowment OIL Simiiar INSTITUTION ~
Cleveland. 80. - J..
The twentieth annual meeting OF the
stockholders Of the Pittsburgh, IT. Wayne,
& Chicago, Railway Compauy, was held in
Pittsburgh yesterday. President L. II.
Meyers report shows the grcsI cam n 8 I r
the year 1882 10 be SIC, ,S94 800, and the ex.
penses 50 ,9i2. .Ss5. Increase Of earnings over
1851, sloS.SSo.
An exhibition was given yesterday
afternoon in New York OF . patent
separating machine, invented by Howard
Newlin and built by @. McDougall, for the
National Utilizing Company. It's purpose
is the separation Of unburnt coal, garbage,
rags, papers, bones, tin cans, ETC., from the
refuse gathered in the streets OF the city.
The Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany's attorney yesterday morning prom.
ised to pay, under protest, the municipal
tax Of one dollar per pole 10 the authorities
OF Wilmington, Del. The City Council had
directed the City Auditor to remove the
poles from the streets Il the company still
refused 10 pay the tax, which amounted to
$3.50.
, AZ Richmond, Va, Yesterday, Judge
.Rond in tbe U. s. Circuit Court In tie
Baltimore ( Ohio railroad case, granted
a preliminary Injunction 10 stop the sale OF
the company's property seized for State
taxes, said taxes having been rendered In
coupons and refused. Judge Hughes hav-
ingdecided against granting the injunction,
and the Court being divided the case will
be appealed.
u The Cherokee Council at its fra. session
or Monday Amounted a Committee 10 con.
o;dsr III whst disposition was 10 be made OF
the the $500 GOO for The lands west Of the
nihety.sixth principal meridian. After