The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| Death has claimed Judge j. 3. P0llett,
Of Portsmouth, o.
st. Paul is alarmed over prospects OF a
smallpox epidemic.
Ell. Miller, closhier, OF Gallon, o., has
made an assignment.
Hog cholera is depicting droves in
Champaign county, Ill.
@. W. Higgins elevator, with contents,
at Derby, o., was burned.
Ferdinand Ward has been put to work
at stove mounting at Sing Sing.
Benson's Touring mills, near SPRING
field, o., were burned to the ground.
Miss Emma Collins, OF Greensburg,
Ind, died suddenly Of heart disease.
Charles Knott died Budteniy from the
effects Of dissipation at Richmond, Ind.
James Myers, brakeman on the l., B.
4 W. Railroad, was killed by the cars at
Troy, o.
Rev. Mr.. Tennant is dead at Evansville,
Ark, aged lis. He had preached for
ninety years,
The strikers Of the New England Glass
Works, East Cambridge, Mass, have re-
LuTueu " WOIA.
A man, supposed to be Charles II. Hart
sock, OF Evansville, Ind, was killed by
cars at Seymour.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
assassnate the Republican Sheriff elect OF
franklin county, y.
Unlen Psci6c statement for September
shows decrease in earnings compared
with September, 1884.
The coal miners Of the Akron, O., dis.
trict have refused to work unless granted
ten cents per ton advance in wages.
At Polish dance in Chicago terrible
fight With knives occurred. One man will
probably die. Several we're badly cut.
Wood Mckee, q young man residing
nes. Cynthiana, KY, accidentally shot
himself, pro ably fatally, while hunting.
At West Milton, o., Horace Spetler was
fatally mangled by machinery at the
warehouse OF Jesse Campbell & Co, where
he was employed.
The census Of Kansas City, Just COM
pletsd, shows population OF l05, ,042. ex-
elusive OF suburbs. This is a gain OF about
fifty percent since 1880.
Henry Ullery, 8 prominent farmer Of
Cass county, lnd., eloped with Miss Mary
Dram, his sister-in.law. He left wiiO
and tlve young children destitute.
The thirty-eight fraternity men Of Ken
yon, o., College, imp Heated in the hazing
OF David KronaCker, havs been punished
lby tho imposition OF demerit marks.
Decided action will be taken in the mat
ter Of Northwestern timber cutting by the
Oregon Improvement Company and the
Northern Pacific railroad company.
In the Federal Court at indianapolis a
decision was rendered in the Evansville
bond cases, involving total OF about
s., 10000, holding the city liable for both
principal and interest.
Larry Reist, manager OF the Grand
Opera House, at Dayton. Ohio, and sew.
eral members Of the Thompson Opera
Company were arrested and fined for Civ.
ing performance on Sunday.
Several leading liquor and wine firms oI
Montreal aud charged with having been
secretly drawing liquor from casks in
bonded warehouses for years past, the
robbery Of tho revenues footing up $780,
900. nd
Jack Dempsey defeated Dave CampboA
the champion, OF Oregon, with hare
gloves, in three rounds, knocking him out
, Following this was seventy-two roun'
fight with bare knuCkles between Larr,
Sullivan, Of Scranton, Pa, and Tom Ward
OF Astoria. 1t was brutal, and Ward won
> Ex-Represantative Benjamin Brown
. field, OF Licking county, o., abandone!
5 his wife and family October Is, and hi
8 whereabouts is unknown. His wife ha
/ filed petition for alimony, and the or
. | pointnient OF receiver oI his large estate
i which has been left without proper mar
Rgement,