The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-14
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John W. Mcfarland, manufacturer, oI
Alliance, O., has assigned. N
J. N. Hamburger, pictures. New York,
has failed. Liabilities, $4,000. -
In a quarrel at Shoals, Indiana, John
Lockart was fatally stabbed by Emerson
Lee. n. j,4FN ,er -
George Sloan, Of Chicago, put his head
out car window as it reached a bridge.
He is dead. i.tI &is at,H -
The si1 days go.as-you. please walk at
Chicago, was won by Panchot, who made
AGO miles. -..El.G.=
The National Convention Of the Prohi.
bition and Home. Protection party meets
in Pittsburgh on the ed inst.t e $50
The Court at Q1ebec denied the appli.
cation for the exuadition OF John O.-kno,
the New York bank President. = t{i- /,
Near shawhan Station, Ky, David Don
avan; colored, s We, caught in a thresher
and literally ground to atoms. IT,
At Millersburg, Ind, Jacob Fisher, an
aged and prominent citizen, who had been
in bad health, committed suicide. t''fss,
J dispatch from St. Johns, N. b., says
the steamer State of Maine, which struck
on ledge at Point Lspreau1, is fast break
ing up. s. M iIls - fi2s'.ga IL
A company while boring for natural gae,
twelve miles IRON Pittsburgh, Pa, struck
oil, causing intense excitement in that
neiehborhood. FL - .,f
James Griffith, farmer, living near
London, Ohio, was thrown in front OF a
moving machine and 20 severely injured
that he died in ehort time. T & Xxx X
The races at Monmouth Park, New, York,
opened rather inauspiciously, resulting in
the death Of two horses and the serious in.
jury Of two riders. Outside OF. this the
amusement Was fine. r y -. 60 g
Il The epringisld, o. DGily Republic has
been Purchased BY the Daily Gode Pub.
liahing Company. The Giols will hereafter
be known as the Globe, Republic, and will
issue morning and evening editions. ..-.1...,a. .-.1...s
William G. Holden, salesman in the EN-.
ploy OF tho babcock Extipgpisher Co., New
York, was arrested yesterday on a charge
of forging several orders OF goods and col.
lecting commission from the company.
A man, supposed to be William O.
Wheeler, travelling salesman ior CONNER.
cial house il Silac. Mexico, who had been
arrested at Springfield, o., on a,chRrRe oi
forgery, committed suicide in jail by tax
ing morphine. &. - i,,.5z
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, a widow, aged
fifty yeare. hgs brought suit in the Court Of
Common Pleas Of Champaign county, O.,
against John Hurd, eighty.slx years old,
ior $4,000 damages for breach Of promise oi
marriage. S7 r.. 81 ,i1st$' 5f'ftS5'
Hal.ted, Haines 4; Co., importers and
jobbers in dry goods, New York. failed
Saturday, with preferences Of $4l7, 900.
Tho liabilities, ii is thought, will reach
fully Sg.ou0,lGQ. By some merchants the
failure wss expeotsd, While others were
greatly surprised. AL n 'A
Senator Thurman received q most en-.
thuslsstic reception on bis return to 90.
lunbus. A great crowd escorted him To
bis home, where he thanked them in q
short speech, eaying he was mot disap.
pointed over the result OF the convention,
90 he bud not been candidate, and spoke
fsyorably OF the, nominees. aJ8 -
In an interview Mr.. Hendricks uatd tha,
not having been formally, notified OF hia
nomination he was not ready to talk on the
subject Of his acceptance. He thought the
convention was the greatest he ever at.
tended, or that he ever expected to see,
that Cleveland's nomination would grow
in popularity, and that TammAny would
support the ticket. 90
The commissioners appointed by the
Postmaster General to investigate the con,
dition q the Chicago poatoffice reported
recommending that several officers be dis
pensed With, but commend ng the post
master and his assistant. The Oommis
sioners sppointed to investigate the condi
recommending additions 10 the mailinI
forcet and dispensing Of several unneees
aary officers, {.iE, - SS$$}