The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-18
GENERAL NEWS NOTES

Jefferson Davis is doing well and i'm
proving fast.
There was frost throughout northern
Ohio last night.
The funeral Of Ex-Governor Washburn
Of Maine, took place at Bangor, yesterday
In the billiard tournament in New York
yesterday, Wallace defeated Sexton by a
score Of 500 TO 4i5.
The Parrash Varnish Company's factory
at Bridgeport, Conn.,, was partially burned
yesterday morning. Loss about $4,000.
Supposed to be incendiary.
Tie convention OF brewers a. Detroit
yesterday passed resolutions declaring in
favor OF the personal liberty OF citizens
and condemnipg all prohibitory legislation.
Mr.. F. E. Waterman has resigned a
clerkship in the United States Navy De.
partment, to take effect in June, and has
accepted a position with Senator Camden,
Of West Virginia.
Harper's high license bill, providing a
license Of $3.50 for beer, and $500 for whisky
saloons, was ordered 10 third reading in
the Illinois House OF Representatives yes.
terday, after hard fight.
After long debate upon the oil tax bill
the Pennsylvania House o. Representa-.
tives adopted an amendment yesterday
taxing the franchises Of oil carrying corpo.
rations at the rate OF one mill per gallon.
While number Of workmen were
digging trench on Fayette street, Ale
gheny City, Pa, yesterday the ground
caved in, instantly killing John Smith and
seriously injuring Matthew Golding and
James Hughes.
James Franklin was found yesterday at
TT. Recovery, O., near Mrs. Girock's store,
with bullet hole through his body. Henry
Sieve, young blacksmith, ut that place,
was arrested last eyeAing on suspicion. No
cause for the deed is known.
AT semi,sale Of imported Jersey cattle,
belonging to T. s. Cooper, OF Coopersburg,
Pa, at New York, yesterday, there was
large attendance OF breeders and dealers
OF live stock. The COW "Distatf7' brought
ST, 500, and the COW "Daisy Of St. Peters, !"
81, 100.
P.B. Smith, alias +. w. Follis, who has
been flooding the Pennsylvania oil regions
with circulars offering 10 send five hundred
dollars for five dollars, was arrested at
Pittsburgh yesterday by U. S Special De.
tective Parkins, on charge OF using the
mails for fraudulent purposes. The accus.
ed was committed to Jail in default OF bail.
4 fire occurred in tenement house in
New York yesterday morning. The
damuge was nominal, but the inmates
were grealy excited. Mrs. Rita Schnickers,
aged 81, tried to reach the street by means
OF fire escape but fell. She was in a
delicate condition and it is thought her
injuries will prove fatal. Simon Cinkowich
also fell from fire escape and broke his
leg.
Judge Barrett yesterday in the Supreme
CoHrt Of New York decided a motion to
dismiss the complaint In the suit OF David
Stewart against @. P. Huntington, to re.
cover S70,0 600 damages alleged to be due
on certain stock transactions. The Court
said the plaintiff could not continue the
suit on two causes OF action, and directed
him to select which course he would pur-
sue.
Henry Fleming was hanged yesterday
at Pittsboro, Calhoun county, Miss, for u
murder committed two years ago. An i'm.
mense crowd witnessed the execution.
Flemingwas cool and seIi'possessed. When
at the gallows he attempted TO kill himself
with small pocket knife. He inflicted a
wound in tue throat, but 1t was not fatal.
His neck was broken by the TALL and the
death struggle lasted but an instant.
A Bozemau, Montana, dispatch says:
The Sheriff OF this county received tele'
gram Tuesday from GRllatin, stating that a
riot had occurred among the laborers ol
the Northern Pacific Railway, and that the
town was in the hands Of the mob. Sheriff
Beakeley and posse armed at once, and
arriving at Gallatin, surrounded It, com
pelling all to throw up their hands. The
leaders were arrested and thrown into the
! Bozemau jail,