The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.

CT, rickard &Co., jewellers, Montreal,
have failed.
Employees Of the Derby Silver Company,
at Birmingham, Conn, have struck.
The strike on the Illinois Central rail
way is apparently entirely thing OF the
past.
Indian Commissioner Atkins does not
anticipate any trouble with the Oklahoma
"boomers."
Ex.Congressman Franklin, oil Kansas,
has been offered the Consulship at Hong
Kong, China.
A stock company has been organized at
Middletown, OHIO, for the purpose OF bor-
ing for natural gas.
/ 10 hisforthcoming message, among other
things, the President will Discus the evils
Of private legislation.
Mellen, charged with conspiracy 10 mur-
der women in Boston, is believed to be
concealed in Baltimore.
The will Of Griswold Warner, OF Pitts
burgh, who died in 1873, is undergoing
contest BY his grandchildren.
Fortyseven Senators and thirty Repre-.
seutatives have already secured quarters
in Washington for the winter.
Lizzie D. Pole, aged twelve, was caught
by the hair by the shafting in Philadel.
phia mill and daahed to doath.
Nettie Bayer, aged thirteen, and q
youngster OF her own age, named Colby,
have eloped from Waltham, Mass.
A young molder, named Mack, has been
arrested for the shooting Of Attorney Cof-
fee, at Cleveland, o., Friday night.
A general strike OF the shoe lAsters, Il ge
thousand men, is probable, owing 10 the
scale Of the manufacturers just posted.
FIVE conyictS have escaped from the
Ohio Penitentisry in the past three weeks,
and none ofthem have since been heard Of.
A number Of New York fnancierJ have
been invited by Baron dc LONE to con-
slider the construction OF railroads in
China.
Edward Gray, OF Catawbs, o., while
under the influence Of liquor, stabbed
himself in the breast nineteen times. His
condition is critical. ha
There have been 1886 deaths from small-
pex in Montreal and adjoining municipal.
Ities for the week ending last night, and
90+ for tho previous week.
Frank Knowles, in jail at Richmond,
Iud., awaiting trial on charge Of larceny,
was fouud dead in his cell, having hanged
himself with piece OF wire,
Gilardo, Azz uo and sylveAri, the three
Italians who committed the celebrated
Chicayo trunk murder" were hanged
Saturday from the same scaaold.
Commodore Walker is Of the opinion
that there ia no danger to United States
interests In csse Of trouble in Central
America, which is now threatened.
A freight train on the Bee Line was
wrecked between Quincy and Degraff o.,
Friday night twenty-five cars being de.
rallied, two otwhich rolled into the Miami
river.
The correspondence Of ex.Chiof Justice
William A. Vincent, Of New Mexico, and
the President has been given to the pub
lie, which shows Vincent In q favorable
light.
The arguments In the Bell telephone
case, at Washington, D. c., were contin'
upd on Saturday, and 1t is expected thai
Arguments will no! be concluded until
next Wednesday.
Hon. T. @. Snyder, who sued the city o
Canton, o., for $4,000 damages for inju
RIGS received by the upsetting Of his buggy
by sand pile, one night about two yealI
ago, received Q verdict for 5000.
The trouble b,tween the coal miners o
the Coalton, Jackson and Wellston, Ohio
districts and the operators has been set
tied, the advance Of ten cents per toE
asked by the miners being granted.
Ina football contest between the Prince
ton and Wesleyan College teams, at Prince
ton, the former scored 10 10 the latter
nothing, Princeton's being the larges
score ever made in a championship game
At Chssteryillc, Ind, an old family trou
bic between Joseph Chance aud Charlie
Cadle was revived on the highway. Chanc,
received wound on the neck from q pia
tol ball, and Cadle was shot in the head
dying instantly.
Colonel Joseph Bruf, OF Damascus, o
well known as a soldier, politician and dis
tinguished citissn, was found dead in tS
cenetery on the grave OF his son, hayin
committed suicide by shooting himself II
the head. Business complications are SUI
posed TO have been the cause OF the act.
Tho barn and sheds Of Grail Cnmmeanl
at Lilly Chapel, o., waa burned by an in
cendiary, Saturday night. His brother
David Gommeans, lost two saloons by fit
this summer, and his son had a bar
burned last week. These and other inceI
diary Ares have caused great excitemeI
In that neighboThood,