The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-03-03
Brief TELEGRAMS.

G. @. Huaaey, OF the firm OF Hussey,
Howe u Co., Pittsburgh, is dead.
The South Bend wagon works, at Mish.
awaEa, Ind, were totally destroyed by FIRE
Saturday.
One million and twenty.seven thousand
dollars in gold ard Sl72, 900 in tiver were
shipped to Europe Saturday by the steam.
er Adria,ic.
The Postmaster Of Hot Springs. Arkan-
sas, telegrapls to the Associated Press dc.
nying the recent reports OF ou,lagry yaid to
have existed there. = 81,
It is thought the destruction Of the stock
OF Powers 4 WeightmRn, OF Philadelphia,
will have the effect Of raising the price OF
quinine, opium and morphine.
The stockmen's convention, at Sweet
Water, Texas, passed resolution in favor
of Il division Of the State Of Texas, with
Fl Worth as the capital Of the new State.
D. W. Pratt, who, till about four weeks
ago, was general agent at St. Louis OF the
Mccormick Harvester Machine Co., Chi
caao, was arrested Saturday, charged with
enbezzling 81 900 from the company.
The cattle men Of Texas, regard the
pleuro. pneumonia bill as it passed the
House OF Representatives, with general die.
favor. They agree that it can be OF no ben.
eft to the cattle interest Of the State.
Two negroes, on Thursday, camped near
the depot OF New Btaniord, Fla, Saturday
morning both were discovered dead in
camp, one shot through tho head, and the
other terribly mutilated, half OF his head
being chopped of. = '7
". J. Mahoney shot and killed William
Hale yesterday evening in the Commercial
Hotel Ibar room, San Frsnciaco. They
quarreled over q poker game. Mahoney
VIA Jailed. lie claimed the shooting was
done in self defense. @ass" ~
The Kennedy prohibition bill, the same
aA the Demon bill with the exception OF
one word, passed the Iowa House Of Rep.
resen!atives by a vote OF 52 to Al. All Re.
pablicaaa and Joh1s,n, Democrat, voted
Tor it. The Democrats and Grsenbackers
voted againstit.
The fist section OF No. ~ east bound
freight and the first section OF No. 4S west
hound freight colided near Bowerstown,
Ohio, on tho Panhandle Friday night,
wreckins both engines aud several cars.
About one'half car Of sheep were killed.
The train men escaped uninj jurtd.
VIM. II. johnson, OF Pittsburgh, Satur.
day, entered suit against the Western
Union Telegraph Company 10 recove,
$4,000 for injuries sustained by being
knocked of car by defendants wiret
wilhelm pursuit Of his duties as brakeman
on the Pittsburgh 4 Western Railroad Com
pany. NJ m
The public debt statement shows de
crease in thepublc debt during February o
S2,5S2 5s7. Decrease since June 80. 1883. $B7,
100000. Cash in the Treasury $500, ,o93, ASP
gold certificates Sll0, 1877 ,Sol; certificates o
deposit SlS,2l5,000; reminding seriiHcateI
s305, 500; legal ,eodars s346, ,6sl 0lo; frac
tional currency SG0s4,S07; cash balanc,
available March l, 1854, Sl45 1854 ,2Sl. ,
The railroad coal trades tribunal OF Pitts
hureh, will meet on Monday, March TO- L
fix the rate Of mining for the summer run
or from April TO October. The miner
, representatives met Saturday afternoo,
: and decided to demand ! cents per bushel
an advance OF cent over the present rate
The operators, It Is said, will insist on re
: duction. tffF* 81 5fH