The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Baker d CLARK, New York, wholesale
erocers, assigned. Preferred liabilities
SlS5, 600,
William Hsden, Chicago, furniture and
desk manufacturer, assigned; assets and
Dana Conway, son Of Rev. Moncure D.
Conway, died at the family realdence al
Brooklyn yesterday, aged 81,
j, +, Phillips 4 Co., Milwaukee, dealers
In agricultural implements, assigned, Lila.
bilities S0,0OOi assets nominal.
At Mount sArmel, Pa, supt. Richard
Holland, Of the Enterprise Coal Company,
was run over by Q freight train and In
stautly killed,
A special from Randolph, Ala.,, says
John Davis, the negro who outraged a
white woman near that place q few days
ago, was lynChed last night,
The Feniau brotherhood has been hold,
ing secret meetings for several days In
New York, All information Ia refused as
to the object Of the session,
The schooner Annie B. HofIses, with
crew Of six men, left Mobile, Ala, IL days
ago, with lumber, She has not been
spoken since, and Is thought to have
folpdeTed,
"A dispatch from Darlington, N. g., aaya
that the British steamer sullua, Captain
Potter, from Antwerp, Noysmher 4, Tor
Boston, 70 ashore at Cape Sable, and will
be total wreck,
The Inman line steamer City OF Chester
which arrived at Llverpl lol November 90,
from New York, took fire while lying at
West Alexandra docks. Both the vessel
and cargo are badly damaged.
There is q good deal OF talk in financial
cirClesover the announcamen blythe Read,
ing railrosdrec 'ivers thatthsy will default
m the interest on the consolidated mort.
gage bonds due December lst.
Gov, Currier, OF New Hampshire, has
appointed Ex-Governor Chauucty, Of
Manchester, United States Senator, 10
dll the vacancy oCcasionsd hy the death
OF Austin F. Pike, Of Franklin.
a special from Little R1ck, Ark, says;
The Hot Springs, Bear Mountain l. Cfys-
tai Railroad O1Mpsny fled articles OF In.
With the Secretary otState yes.
terdsy. Capital stock S5O0.OOO.
Francis Palms, ons Of the oldest and
weslIhlest Citiz .ni OF D9tro,t, die d yester.
day morning. He leaves Rn estate worth
from fifteen to eighteen million dollars. II |
was his daughter Senator Jones wanted to
marry,
A Frankfort, Mich special says that
two bJhieR have wsphrd sshore from the
wreck Of tho Meme Kaiwee, so that the
Port Huron dispatch about the probability
Of the vessel still being safe 10 without
foundation.
The trial OF the Convepse brother, pub.
fishers Of the ChriIiiGn Advocate, at LouiR.
vlllG, for violating the ninth command.
ment, has been concluded by the Presby.
terry; the charges were not sustained, by |
q vote Of II to 10,
A special from Iron Mountain, Mo
says: A difficulty occurred at DANCE Lost
night In this plsCe, between Peter Holm |
snd Samuel 0'Neil, In which O'Neil re-.
Ce!ved four assh wounds and Holm was
shot through the heart and instantly
killed.
The brakeman on the Southern Pacific
railway Claim that when the great strike
in the Southwest was sottled certain |
agreements were made by the company,
which arc not being iulllled, and they
threaten to strike. Arbitration will BIO
resorted to.
]. franklin Accord, Of ST. Louis, cut
his throat last night attho Monroe House,
He resigned his position in a dry roodO
house to run for sheIiE, but was defeated
and returned 10 find work again. Hs was
unsuccessful and growing despondent
ended his lie. He was prominent Ma.
son, Knight Templar and Odd Fellow.
A dispatch from Marquette, Mich, says
the body oi John s. burroughs, a propi.
nent citizen Of that place, who had been
pisuing since Monday evening, was found
last night of an iron ore deck In twenty
feet Of water. Tho coroner's Jury rendered
q verdict oil accidental drowning, although
the theory Of suicide Is strongly supported
by the facts.
A verdict for the government. for $685..
T140l was yesterday rendered In tho
United States District Court against Hora.
ito G slCkel, the late Pension Agent Of
Philadelphis, and the surelies on bis bond,
10 make good the lo'scs sustained by the
issue oi false pension papers by Thomas
Lawrence and Walter s. Fries, clerks, dur,
ing Mr.. slCkles' administration. .
The Buffalo COmmercial prints sensa.
tional story Of conspiracy to steal grain |
out OF elevators there. The parties, v HON |
the paper says were indicted, arrested and |
bailed out, are Henry p. Enislie, connect.
ed in an executive Capseity with the Rich.
mond elevator, and John A. Campbell,
John Kennedy and Andrew A. Esosher,
members Of the Merchants Exchange 10
good standing,
There WIS much excitement In Hol.
yoke, Macs, over the death Of Peter
Carey, aged nine yeRrs, presumably from
the effects Of q whipping administered by
his father. The boy got hold Of some
whisky and vent home drunk. His
father punished him 80 severely with a
lsth that some OF the nsighborS inter.
fered. Tho boy was put TO bad and died
Monday. The medical exanineE 10 hold.
ing q post moTtem examination.
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RRIEFs PROM ABRoAp,
Merlstti, OF Paris, has now tasted 10 80
days. His general condition Ia good, but