The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-12-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Vice President OF Honduras is il
New York on q Government mission.
Mr.. Thomas Hutchinson, Chief Of the
pay office, Marine Corps, dropped dead in
Washington.
Many bills that were killed in commit.
tee last year are being resurrected at this
session Of Congress.
The Crocker chair factory at sheboyan,
Wis, burned early Saturday morning,
causing loss Of 5000
Lieutenant Josiah Chance, Of the Seven.
teenth U. S. Infantry, died suddenly oil
heart disease at Fremont, o., Saturday.
The quarantine established at Niagara
Falls on account OF the prevalence OF
smallpox in Canada was discontinued on
Friday and the inspectors Of trains were
Withdrawn. r ..
VIM. Reynolds, an aged and one,armed
man living at Clarksburg, o., became in,
volved in quarrel with his son, who
fatally stabbed him. The parties were
under the influence Of liquor.
James Murphy, the expressman who at
tempted to murder his wife and then shot
himself, at their residence in Brooklyn,
Friday afternoon, died at st. Catherine's q
Hospital Saturday morning. His vile will
recover.
A colored woman OF Chsdbourne, N. O.,
went TO prayer meeting, leaving her two
children in the house. When she re.
turned the house was on fire and the
children were inaide begging their mother
10 relieve them. But she could not, and
they were burned to death. !. u
The joint commission TO consider the
present organisation of the scientific
bureaus OF the Government held q meet.
ing in Washington and examined Lieu.
tenant Glassfotd, Of the Signal Corps.
Several other officers oithe corps were in
attendance, bpt were not examined.
A report was current on Wall street
Saturday that the New York and New
England railroad would soon be leasad by
the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Company, since w. II. Vanderbilt's long.
standing prejudice against the scheme
could no longer be effective, with the
millionaire dead. an''.
Mr.. Henry Hoyt, ofthe firm OF Hart
Bros, q well.known citizen. oi Chicago,
was instantly killed near that city Satur.
day evening by train which struck him
In the back. He was picked up fully 10
from where he stood when the engine
struck him. Both legs were had been
smashed, his head bruised and hiR spine
broken,
The steamer oento has been wrecked of
Charity Island, Lake Michigan. Passeng.
ers and crew, As in number, after q des-
psrate struggle, succeeded in reaching the
island, where they were at last accounts,
with enough to eat for for few days. Re,
lief will be sent to them as coon 40 pos
ible. aeSen Of the crew left the island
in small boat, and have not since been
heard from.
Capt. Couen says the cattlemeu are not
all driven of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
reservations by any means. There are
thousands Of cattle in the Oklahoma coun'
try. The cattlemen, in obedience to the
PreGident'a proclamation and order, obey
ed In this extent. They removed from
the reservation their fat cattle and shipped
them to market. Their young cattle and
cows, pretty much, all remain there.
At an early hour Saturday morning,
Nathan whlteslde, watahmRn In Godfrey
Keeblerb bakery, on North TWenty.Second
street, Philadelphia, was oVerpowered and
beaten until he was unconscious by three
men who called him to the door AnG
rushed in past him. After they had thu
disposed oi the watchman they broke thu
safe In the bakery and secured $500 II
cash, several checks aud pair Of operi
glasses and escaped.
A scheme to get an ex.member Of thl
Indiana Legislature out Of jail at Logans
port was detected and frustrated. Oh
Wednesday WA. Kearney was convictet
As the ringleader Of q gang Of horse thieve
and sentenced to two years. His relative
smuagled saws TO him in loaveS Of bread
and the break Waa Get for Saturday night
His carriage was found housed near th
'ljail, and but for womanIa Rsrrulity b
and four other prisoners would have q
caped,