The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

George Houser was instantly killed in q
coal bank near llnesville, 0.
Michael Gohn, aged IS ypars, German
laborer, hanged himself at Xenis, o.
George Anderson and two OF his horses
were killed by Lightning at Rushvtlle, Ind.
A convention Of believers in divine
healing and cure by faith and prayer is in
progress at Buffalo, n. Y.
The body OF James Lancaster was ex.
humed at Lexington, KY, on suspicion
that he had been poisoned.
A. c. Story, council for Mayor Harri-
son, OF Chicago, has at last filed the long
delayed answer in the contested election
case.
The discovery oil valuable medicinal
springs in the country southeast oil Hills
boro, O., ia creating considerable interest
among invalids.
The order Of President Cleveland, shut
ting the oiIice-seekers out from his pres
ence, has dismayed great many Demo.
crats al Washington.
The outlook in the Old Dominion is
that the Republicans will be able to elect
the Legislature in spite Of all the frauds
the Democrats can commit.
A man whose name was ascertained to
be Ferritur, fell from his chair while tax
ing dinner at the Casey House, Lima, o.,
and died without speaking word.
w. R Davis, OF Chicago has been debGr.
red from practice as an attorney before the
Interior Department upon evidence that
ho exsorted illegal fees in Pension cases.
The Synod OF Georgia has passed upon
DR.. Woodrow, tho Presbyterian evolu-
ZIONIST, and disapproved Of his removal
from Columbia Seminary professoBhip.
A. l.. Meller, OF Baltimore, accused OF
completely in the alleged conspiracy to
murder his daughter.in-law, characterlzes
the whole story as absurd, and the work
Of a crank.
Boston Buck and the members Of his
notorious gang OF counterfeiters were SEN
fenced TO the Penitentiary, in the United
States Court at Pittsburgh, Buck receiy.
ing seven years.
A mass meeting oI miners, with three
hundred present was held at NelsonVille,
in the Hooking Valley, 10 consider q pro-
position TO demand an advance ol ten
cents per ton for mining.
Rsy, storer L. Zimmerman, the minis.
ter who wss on trial in the Sullivan lind.
Circuit Court for burning a church, was
acquitted Of the charge, aud allowed 70 re.
turn to his home in Robinson, Ill.
G. w. Israel, G. W. Archibald and T.
T. Archibald, President, cashier and as
sistspt cashier Of the banking firm Of O.
W. Israel 4 Co., were arrested at Wichita
Falls, Texas, charged with swindling.
Carey, o., has for the past few dsyE
been In q high stage oil excitement over
Ihe sudden death ol Charles Shuman, sup
posed 10 have been caused by an over
dose Of morphine, prepared by q phySi'
clan.
The mail stage from San Angelo tc
Abiline, Tex, was stopped yesterday By
two masked men and robbed OF all tht
registered mail. This is the same stag
that was halted and robbed q few week
ago by a IS year old boy.
Harry Shafer, the Sixteenth ward Demo
crat, Cincinnati, who was sent TO tn
| Workhouse by Judge Fitzgerald for viola
tion OF election laws, Is out on the street
again, through the connivauee and chica
merry Of the Democratic police.
The Chief Of the Bureau OF Statistics n
ports that 27,s0l immigrants arrived !
country exclusive Of Canada aud MexiC
during September, sgIinst 1896 in Sci
tem6er 1881, and 26s,S3B for the first min
months Of this year against $3.50, ,fl9 for h
corresponding period Of last year, q d
crease Of 65.gl3, OF which 10 38S Is the d
crease in the immigration from German
and 24,O4sln that rom Ireland,