The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-17
NEWS ~ pR1EF.

10 H e.
The Massachusetts, Democratic conyen-
ton meets at Worcester October !.
A patty Of ministers from the States
doing Canada on bicycles spent Sunday al
Toronto, IL
Alarge delegation from France headed
by Father La Belle reached Halifax yes,
terday and will traverse Canada.
Miss Adelaide Rudolph, aniece Of Mrs.
Garfield, has been chosen Professor ol
Latin in the Kansas State University.
Superintendent Selden, of the B. & 0.
Telegraph Company. states that the re-
cent telegraph agitation was all stock
jobbipg affair.
Miss Brinckle, released from a Harris
burg asylum Friday after twenty.seven
years, says her relatives kept her there to
enjoy her wealth.
Undertaken Merritt refuses to give the
canopy placed over General Grants body
in City Hall, New York, to the Smith
sonian Institution.
There was small attendance and q
heavy track at the Saratoga races on Sat.
urday. Mamie Hunt, Watlilower, Bierson
and Morogram were the winners.
The soldiers reunion at Caldwell, Ohio,
closed Saturday, after most successful
meeting. Judge Foraker and other emf.
nent speakers addressed the veterans.
The steamer Polynesia, from Hamburg
to New York, encountered Cyclone
August 10, in mid:ocean. and wss badly
damaged. No lives were lost, however.
At a preliminary trial at Lexington
Ky, Levi Hart was held, without bail, tc
appear before the Circuit Court, charged
with the murder Of Charles Waller, a
Athens, on election day. ~
James Dennis, who was to have beer
hanged at Charlottesville, Ind, September
8, has been reprieved by the Governor
until October l6, to give the Supreme
Court time TO review his case.
The Internal Revenue Bureau isin re
ceipt of information that certain Western
iistillers stain the inside OF casks with
burnt sugar and prune juice to give the
spirits the appearance oil age.
The Roman Catholic Church In Union
vile, Conn caught fire about midnight
Saturday in the yestry room and was en-
tirely destroyed. The church cost from
S25, 600 to SCI, 1000. Insured for SIS, 600.
Typhoid fever has made;its appearance
in the New Jersey Asylum for the Insane
at Morris Plains, and q dozen persons are
prostrated with the disease, which Is sup
posed 10 have originated in bad drainage
New York and pitRburgh capitalists art
now figuring on the establishment q
earthenware works, at the head OF Twen
ty.fourth street, southside, Pittsburgh
tie clay in that region having been found
suitable for thst purpose.
Maggie Walker, daughter ot James
Walker, Treasurer Of the South Cleveland
Banking Company, Of Cleveland, o., died
in jackson, Mich, insgiyins birth to q
child. She had always borne agood rep
utation, and her seduoer Is unknown.
Aschedule OF liabilities and assets II
the John Roach assignment case was tilet
IN New York on Saturday. They show
that the assets are sufficiently large u
Justify Mr.. Roach original statement tha
the assignees world DO ehle to pay two
dollars for every one Of indebt btedness,
Saturday was Essentially q ball DAY ii
Wall street stocks, and prices were hrme
and sales more active. Gould securitiel
alone stood out against the general rise
AT Chicago trading in grain was yer,
heavy, American markets depressed
cables dull, provisions steady, and thety
Twas slight depression 81 tie close.
Under q contract with the Goyernnaen
since 1919, the Adams Express Gompan,
was obligated TO transfer al coin from ON
Treasury 10 another TheScbnpany vii
bring suit for breach Of contract in th
transfer ot 1000 900 from New orlean
TO Washington by water. Their charge
for the service would have been owe
v 500 900.