The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-22
: NEWS IN BRIEF.

The street car strike at Memphis is
over.
Maxwell, the murderer Of Preller, says
that the line Of his defense will be on
some medical theory.
Theodore Roosevelt Is going to Ohio TO
make a few speeches for Foraker and the
success Of the Republican State ticket.
The fifth annual conyentiongof the
shorthand writers OF the United States
and Canada is in session OF Buffalo, N. Y.
"A Gre in thewarehouse ofithe Standard
OIL Company's buildings at Sharpsbure,
Pa, caused q loss Of $4,000. Fully in
sured. ig
The Trades Assembly Of Cincinnati are
said to BIO opposed TO the renominated
candidate for Governor OF Ohio, Judge
Headly.
Wallace Lacy, Of Rushville, O., was
killed near Hadley Junction, by being
run over with coal train on the Ohio
Central railroad.
Joseph FeEbor, an employe Of Koons
Bros ,at Fremont, o., left for parts un-
known, alter collecting considerable money
belonging TO the firm. 4
Mrs. James Bradford, mother Of the
Bradford brothers, the famous life.savers
at Atlantic City, fell down stairs at Pitts
burgh, receiving fatal injuries.
One thousand dollars were abstracted
from trunks belonging TO Ex-Governor
Hanilton's family, on their way from the
White Sulphur Springs to Hagerstown,
Nd.
David Z. skeggy, Of Allen Township,
Drake county, o., was, on his own motion,
lodged in the Insane Asylum, as he was
afraid he would kill somebody in q
Spell"
Fire in the worsted mills OF Richard
Williamson & Co., located at Seventeenth
and dEederal streets, in Wrightsville, a su.
burb OF Camden, Pa, caused q loss Of
100000.
There was a successful reunion Of
veterans at Manchester, Ohio. Judge
Foraker delivered an address, and from
ten:to twelve thousand people were in at
tendance.
AIaddpx, Hobart & Co., Of Cincinnati,
compromised with tho Government on
tlieif whisky Irregularities, Of which they
profess themselves to have been Ignorant,
at s4,5oo.
The statement Of the Southern Pacific
Company's Atlantic system, for the first
six months Of the year, shows an increase
Of sSG7,247 in net earnings as compared
with 1884.
While officers at Delaware, Ohio, were
searching for burglars who had made a
5000 haul at Plain City, the residence oi
Rev. w. Bowers was entered and, $50 in
money stolen.
John Roach has sufficiently recovered
from the illness with which he has been
confined TO his home, to take a trip 10 the
mountains. He Is still suffering severely,
and walks feebiy.
John Gross, sr., one Of Claremontc tcounty's
(O.) best farmers, was arrested near Ba-
tavia, o., on requisition from the Gov.
erpor Of Arkansas for violating the fish
laws Of that State.
TheanthraciteS coal trade in New York
Is demoralized by over production, and
the Delaware & Hudson has in conse-
quence reduced their schedule from ten to
fifteen cents per ton.
us. District Attorney Dorsheimer has
purchased the New York STIR. twill berun
hereafter in the interest Of the Admins
tration, and Mr.. Dorsheimer isnegotiatinl
for o. Western editor.
1 On Tuesday, Hungafians and Poles, put
TO work about the mines OF Lents, Lilly 4
Co., at Shenandoah, Pa, were attacked
by strikers. Some twenty-five person.
Il were injured eribusly v, several Hungarian