The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ine llllnola Preshyter1an synod Is IN
session at Centralia, Ill.
The Walkup case has begun in the Dis.
trict Court, at Emporia, Kas.
The Fourth National Prison Congress ia
in sess on at Detroit, Michigan.
Elisha Steelmau, a prominent pioneer
citizen OF Springfield, O., was found dead
in his bed.
Bridget Conuell. a servant girl at Column
hia City, Ind, killed her own child to
hide her shame.
Mrs. John Lowell, Of Brantord, Conn,
charged her husband with the murder OF
his three-weeks.old child.
VIM. H. Graves, q prominent citizen OF
Syracuse, n. Y, committed suicide by
taking dose Of morphine.
Isaac Kyle, living in the northern gu
burbs Of Lancaster, Ohio, fatally shot a
tramp, who had entered his stable.
Another delsulting postolIicc clerk gone
to Canada: Decatur Wells, at Rsnoyo,
Pa. Stealings, thousands Of dollars.
Jabez Phillips aud wife, living near
Anoka, Ind, were poisoned, the former
dying, the latter being at deaths door.
The CID man who was brutally beaten
by the gang Of tramps, Saturday morning,
at Vincennes, Ind, died OF his wounds.
Churchill and Brooks, two farmers, near
Langley, Pike county, Ark, quarreied,
Churchill killing Brooks with rifle ball.
Thaddeus Gossam, OF Milton, KY, while
coon hunting near Madison, Ind, walked
over steep cliff and was instantly killed.
A number OF Cree Indians, refugees
from the British possessions, have crossed
the line into the reservation at Fort Belk-
nap.
M. Bartholdi, the sculptor Of the statue
OF Liberty, will sail for this country on
the 24th instant and spend several weeks
here.
At West Point, Tippecanoe county,
Ind, the Lafayette Sugar.refining estab.
lishment was burned by bolt Of light
ming.
William Becker, q citizen Of Ringtown,
Pa, was ground to pieces on the Cata-
wissa bridge Of the Reading railroad, by a
passing train.
There is family OF hermits at Cleve-
land, O., who have never been seen out
side ol their dwelling in daytime for the
past eight years.
William G. Glenn, a youth OF 20, was
lodged in the county jail OF Chicago on the
charge conducting swindling operations
through the mails.
Harriet Brown, q colored woman, has
brought suit against James Tompkins to
recover for services for the past fifteen
years, at Indianapolis, Ind.
A farmer by the name OF Lander lit his
pipe over a ten.pound can-of powder,
which exploded, killing his wife aud fatal.
ly injuring four others in the wagon.
The Republicans Of Ironton, o., are ter
ribly indignant over the frauds and out
rages committed by Mclean and his gang
at the election in Cincinnati and Colum-
bus.
The maugled remains Of William Thitt,
aged twenty-five years, Of Nortbfeld town
ship, were found near the Cleveland &
Pittsburgh railroad, a short distance from
Hudson, Ohio.
Col. John G. Kelton, Assistant Adjutant
General, has assumed charge ofIthe APP
pointment Commission and personal
branch Of the Adiutant Generals office,
War Department.
Millions OF squirrels arc emigrating from
the Mississippi side over to the Arkansas
shore, at point commencing about FIVE
miles below Memphis and extending down
for twenty miles.
A magnificent jewel Of rare colored
stones, the properly Of the wife OF son
OF Charles Hoter, Of Cincinnati, was lost
and afterwards recovered by the pointer
Of dream, at Youngstown, o.
The Eastern prcss Is almost unanimous
in denouncing the Democratic election
frauds in Cincinnati, and say their
punishment is almost n matter life and
death for the people Of Cincinnati.
BY the opening OF switch at Carlisle,
o., on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
road, eighteen cars Of freight train were
ditched, and tho engineer and fireman
were badly bruised, barely saving their
lives. ,.....
The colored people OF Lexington, KY,
held mass meeting, at which they
passed resolutions demanding bettel
school buildings for their children, and Q
call is now Issued for State convention
OF colored men.
The annual convention OF the National
Wholesale Druggists Association begun q
the Union LeaRue club, IN Philadelphia
yesterday afternoon. Nearly two hun
dred members, representing the prominen
wholesale drug and medicine houses o
the country, were present. The Nationa
Retail Drug Associations and the Amen
can Pharmaceutical Association were rep
resented by delegates from Pennsylvania
and other States. No business ot import
auee will be transacted till this afternoon