The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-09-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The town ball at Chardon, Q.e was de:
stroycd by lightning. r.'
Tobacco has been nipped by frost in
several parts OF Kentucky.
The wire manufacturers advanced the
price OF wire ten to fifteen per cent.
W. H. Sloan was acquitted Of assault
with intent to murder ~ yincennes, Ind.
The Knoxville Tenn trade display
was opened with procession two miles
In length.
Henry NJ. Kerp, a crank has notified
the President and members Of his Cabi-
net TO resign.
James HoGheimer was arrested at Gin.
cinnati on the charge Of having forged
several checks.
Washington is still on limited supply
Of water, and large portions Of the city
are without drop.
The old dry goods Arm Of +. S. Forgy 4
Co., Dayton, Ohio, sold out. Stock, A0,-
600; liabilities, $4,000.
Mrs. Henry Spreen was criminally as
saulted by Bruno PHaum, one OF her
boarders, at Cincinnati,
William Wise, farmer boy, near Cam
ton, Ohio, was struck by the wheel Of a
wagon and instantly killed.
Snow fell to depth OF three inches at
Derby Line, Vermont, and severe frosts
werereported from Lexington,
The ballot.box manipulators at Camden,
n, j., were arrested at the instance Of the
Law and Order Society OF that city.
George Balls trial, at Stanford, KY, for
the killing OF his father, resulted in &C.
quittai, on the ground OF seli.deienSs.
The schedules in the assignment Of
Kossuth, Marx & Co., jewelers., New York,
show liabilities $623. .9i6, nominal assets
$557,77O.
A. O. Ervins, OF Mississippi, has heen
appointed Chief Of DiYlslen'ot the Fourth
Auditors office, vice Brown, reduced to
the 81, 800 grade.
The report Of the order Of Sons OF Tenn
perance shows membership OF 2,240,000
persops, and the raising Of SS,45O,OO0 for
temperance purposes,
The Prohibitionists at Jackson, o., ad.
vertised meeting with DR.. Leonard and
Hon. Mills Gardner as speakers, but
neither OF them came.
The people at Findlay, O., are much eS-
cited shd Groussd oyer the remarkable in
crease in the flow Of oil from the well In
the west part Of the city.
Unsatisfactory food and quarters are re.
ported at Fort Myer, and the members Of
The Signal Service class have refused to
exhonorate the commander.
Mrs. Charles F. Hall, the wife OF a high
ly respectable chemist, died at her hpgr
band's residence, at Youngstown, O., from
the Effects oi an overdose Of chloral.
R.y. E. McColgan, Vicar General of the
Archdiocese oi Baltmare, wqs inYestad
with the purple raChet aud mantilla Of a
Monsignor in the Catholic Church.
Tho reduction Of the public debt under
Democratic National Administration is
almost at stand still, and the ten million
sweeps under Republican rule are no
more.
A meeting Of the stockholders Of the
South Pennsylvania railway was held in
New York for the purpose q hSrmoniEing
the conflicting interests which are known
10 exist.
Mr.. Wharton, the law Office Of the State
Department at Washington, TO whom was
referred the matter Of the expenditures Of
the Court OF Alabama Claims, has rem.
dered decision upholdiug in the main
Ehs opinion Of Fint Comptroller Dqrh9m.
The Postmaster General has decided To
continue the steamboat mail service be
tween louisville, Kentucky, and Evaus-