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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-07
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Their Meeting Place lsaldod and Damagln
Documents Discovered,

Their Meeting Place IIaIdod and Damaging
Documents Discovered.
HAMDuRot August 0.-The police Of
this city last night raided a beer cellar
much frequented by Socialists, while a
soClallstic meeting was being held there
in. The meeting was broken up, and the
cellar searched. The search revealed the
fact that the place was o rendezvous oI
Socialists Of the most extreme class.
Documents we're found showing the ex.
istenCe OF q secret society which had rami,
tiCations throughout Germany, Holland
and England, and one Of whose official
headquarters In Germany was the cellal
ratded Subscription lists, accounts and
letters were found, which, taken together
afford a clue 10 a-large proportion Of the
membership o. the organization. The
discoveries made were such as 10 warrant
the police Ia arreStlng eight OF The
Socialists, who were In tho cellar when the
officers made their descent.
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TIIE FUNERNL TODAY.
The BODY Embnlmed SuCCossfully-I'us
moss Suspended ut YOnkers.

Tho BODY Embalmed suCCesSfulIy-iusl.
ness Suspended ut YOnkers.
YoNKERs, N. Y, August 6.-The morn.
ing opened rainy and all is quiet at Grey
atone. The preparations for Mr.. Tilden'a
funeral tomorrow morning are aboutcom'
pIeted. The undertaken has had the white
draping removed from the cataialque,
which is to be removed to the drawing
room and draped in black, Men are at
work drsping the parlors and drawing
room with black cashmere.
The embalming OF the body was quite
successful. Mr.. Tilden's face looked nat.
ural and peaceful, and as he lies upon bis
bier In the stiffness Of death he looks as II
he were In a refreshing slumber.
Tho business men Of Yonkers have con.
cluded to close their Btores tomorrow
from 10 TO 12 o'clock, which will be the
time occupied by the funeral services aud
the solemn procession In going from Grey.
stone TO the Hudson river depot. The
Common Council OF Yonkers have adopted
resolutions OF coincidence and doprecate
the loss OF such worthy and upright
citizen. 1t Is proposed that the Mayor
and Common Council attend the funeral
| In a hnlv
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A WALL OF WATER,
DISASTROUS RAIN AND HAIL
In the Far west-A Hurricane in Illinois,
Eight Hundred Head ofSheep ars Carried
Away-The Storm Extends from Mon.
tana Into Kansas and Illinois.

CHICAGO, August GA special dispatch
from Ft. Keogh, Mont, says: Word hAl
been received from Simmons sheep corral
on the American Fork Of the Mussel
shoal, that a cloud burst occurred there
Monday evening which destroyed SOC
head Of sheep. The cloud exploded al
the head OF Dry Run creek, and came
pouring down in solid wall twenty-five
feet high, carrying of nearly the entire
herd, and almost drowning q herder,
The carcasses Of the animals are strewn
along the river for a distance Of sixteen
miles below the scene Of the disaster,
The upper Yellowstone Valley was
visited yesterday by terrible hail
storm, which rooted up and destroyed
every growing thing in strip Of country
six miles wide, Near Merrill occurred q
cloud hail burst. For half an hour the
hail was beyond description. There were
drifts Of hail fourteen inches deep in
some places, There was little rain &C.
companying the hail-simply one sheet Of
hail came pouring down.
A special dispatch from Decatur, ILL.,,
says: Last evening severe storm passed
over this section, which alarmed many
people so that they sought the security Of
the cellars, thinking cyclone was about
to devastate the town. The wind damaged
buildings and stripped trees Of their fruit,
while large trees and Cornaelds were laid
Hat in many places. 0ne building was
partly wrecked, and the west walls Of the
new English Lutheran Church blown iu.
One OF the electric light towers was bent
partly over. Much rain also fell. The
extent OF the storm In the surrounding
country has not yet been learned, but 1t Is
known that considerable hail fell.
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A dispatch from Washington, Pa, lss
evening, gays; The most bearish feature
in the field to-day is the Coast & Co, vel
on the W, w, Smith farm, Last night al
8 o'clock one bit was run in the sand
and oil showed from the word go. Az
unexpected flow was made. The forge
was still in the derrick, and only by q
miracle was the structure saved from be.
Ing burned, Another bit has been run
since, The well now makes flows Of ten
minutes duration, once an hour. II is
lmposslbls to save much OF the oil, and
consequently figures cannot be put on the
production. The well ia about quarter
Of mile in advance OF developments, and
near the supposed track OF the gas line
For this reason 1t has a great deal OF i'm.
portance Of its own, No drilling will be
done this afternoon as the boiler Is being
moved back and tankage Is going up.
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Cleveland Denounced.

WASHINGTON, D. O., August Cat the
Congressional Convention in Alexandria
Va, this morning, the only action taken
was to indorse the course Of the Commit.
tee on Resolutions condemning the course
OF President Cleveland. Several speeches
were made in which the administration
wis cut all to pieces. Democrats OF the
Eighth Virginia district do not propose tC
swallow any Mugwump medicine. They
want the spoils and want them badly.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-07

WASHINGTON, D. o., August 0.-The
Record OF the session Of Congress just
closed, so far as completed, fills s.O8S pages
not including index and and appendices
II contains about 1900 pages more OF de.
bates than has ever before been manufac'
tured by any preceding session Of Con,
gress. There are yet quite number ol
congressional speeches to be printed and
added which will probably swell the
Record Of the session to 5000 pages.
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NEw YoRK, August 8.-The North Ger.
man Lloyd steamship Vera, duel here
last Tuesday, had not been sighted last
night She left Bremen July ~ and
touched At Southampton the following
day. Since then nothing has been heard
Of her. The agent Of the line attributes
the delay 10 the breakage Of machinery,
Judge Joseph F. Daley with the body oI
bis vile who recently died abroad 10 4
passenger on the vessel. She has lV7
cabin and S47 stSStags passengers,
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OH E1Oltemo ont NJ wellsburg,

A letter from Wellsburg says; The oil
excitement is still getting worse around
here. Between here and Bethany the
"oil men" are pouring In thick and fast,
some even buying leases to get them, and
several read, begin operations In thirty
days." One we'll Is drilling on the Lewis
farm l t miles from here, and several
others are to be commenced Immediately.
A number Of wells here were sunk to the
depth Of 1900 TO 1900 feet for gas, and
finding little or none, were abandoned. A
tsw Of these have oil at the bottom. At
the escape pipe from one Of the gassers, a
bucket is occasionally set under aud In a
short time 1t Is filled with oil. These, with
others, are certainly good indications for
the fluid.
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SENATOR GoRMAN, 1t is reported, called
at the White House and tho President
sent word that he was too busy to sec any.
body. 1t was not thus when Mr.. Cleve.
land WAS trying to gain admission to the
White Hous,. In those days Of uncor-
talnty he would have endeavored to bal
anco himself on his head at the suggestion
Of German. ....
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-07

ST. LOUIS, August 8,.-rhs COmmerciO
Dtiraiie, published in this city, prints q
letter from itS correspondent In the City
Of Mexico, 10 the effect that the President
and ex.pfesldsnls Of the Central Amerl'
can Republics Of Salvador, Nicaragua
Honduras, Costa RlcA and Guatemala, are
now In that city arranging plan for the
Union Of those States In one Conledefa'
ton, with the ultimate vlswI Of Annexa
ton 10 the Mexican Republic,
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The Storm Iu Kansas.

TOPEKA, KAN, August GA telegram
was received here Last night stating that q
cyclone had struck the town Of Hartland
and had demolished twenty houses and
done great damage TO growing crops. Six
teen cars were blown from the AtChison,
Topeka & Santa Fe tracks aud telegraph
wires were prostrated for two miles west
Of the town. The extent Of the damage
has not yet been learned, but the dispatch
stated that no one, 30 lar as known, has
been seriously injured, The storm reach.
ed other towns In the vicinity OF Hartland.
The wires being down its effects cannot
be learned.
The storm came very suddenly from the
West, and seemed to follow the course oi
the Arkansas river. It spent It's greatest
fury in the vicinity ol the Atchison,
Topeka & santa Fe railroad, and train
Of sixteen freight cars was blown from
the track. Strange to say, however, none
Of the railroad employees we're hurt. 1t is
impossible at this time TO say how much
damage has been done. The wires are
all down,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-07
THE OIL EXCITEMENT,
The Wheeling Coupany's Tank Completed
The Flow YeatardnN

Ahu ANuN AthbuEauI
Mr. =, L. Rose, Of the Wheeling Oil
Company, came down from Wsshingtcn \
last evening, and will go back this mOrr.
ing, He reported that in the two hours
just prior to his departure from the Fair
Ground well II did 03 barrels. For q
time yesterday It only flowed 40 barrels
an hour, but in the afternoon It began to
do better again, It is believed that agita.
ton with the tools will increase the How
at least fifty percent.
The six hundred barrel tank was com.
pleted last evening, and the work OF con,
Meeting II with the pipeline was com.
menced at once. When this is completed
the work Of drilling deeper will be COM
menced.
No sales OF stock OF this company were
reliably reported yesterday. Stock was
offered at 5000, but no takers were found
here.
The well ia the best one in the field at
this date, Mr., Rose ran broom up on
her Thursday,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-07

New YoRK, August O.-Mlss Daisy Muir.
doch, the actress, died at nine o'clock last
night at her residence, No. 2l5 West
TWenty.tbird street, after an illneSs Ol
several months, With consumption. Miss
Murdoch was only II years Of age, and
had been for the past seven years q mem,
Der Of the dramatic profession.
[MiGs Murdoch 1fst visited Wheeling
In 1870 with HRyerly's Juvenile Plnaiors
Company. and has been here several
times since, Her numerous Wheeling
admirers will regret her death.
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Last Evenings lpaIhIagtOA Reporter.
Coast 4 Sons have erected tankage at
their No. on the W. w. Smith and this
morning resumed drilling, The produc.
ton was increased to 85 barrels per hour.
Taylor was drilled into the lower
pay streak yesterday, increasing the pro.
duction. This morning 1t Is doing 80 bar
rels per hour.
Hall 2 has done $50 barrels in the last
twenty.iour hours.
The Stewart Is being drilled this morn.
Ing, aud Ia doing 20 barrels per hour.
The Morgan orchard we'll Ia thirty feet
in the sand, without change.
1tisreported that tho MCGowan mystery
Is about through the fitty-foot sand, with
but slight show OF oil.
Gordon 2 was shot yesterday with sixty
quarts Of glycerine. She is badly bridged.
Hess l Is through the fifty foot, with
some gas.
Flfty.nine colored laborers passed
through town yesterday on their way 10
Taylorstown, where they will work on nthe
pipe line OF the West Virginia Gas Com.
pany. They: came from Charlottesville,
Va.
The McKeever Oil Company, on the
Judge Hart lease, have had q bad fishing
job on hand for sometime and It Is feared
the well must be abandoned. There will
be another attempt 10 clear the hole, but
the chances are that II will be unsuCcess.
ful.
Shrontz 2 Is casing to-day at GAO feet.
Thayer ! during the past "a hours pro.
duced 40 barrels; the No. z, $50. Thayer
8 Is drilling but % feet above the Gordon
sand, but several days' time will bs neCes.
sary to bring her In, owing to the Consid.
cradle quantity OF oil that finds It's way In
from the 50foot. This morning the cable
parted at the No. 5 and let the tools drop
down the hole, portion ofthe cable with
them.
The Shirts 8 Is drilling in the stray
above the Gordon sand and Is making
slow progress on account OF the frequent
fishing jobs caused by the sharp pebbles
thrown up by the gas, cutting the cable.
The well Is good gasser from tho Ganlz
and stray sands.
The Forrest, Fisher Brothers., was re.
ported this morning, spraying oil, but the
rumor was unfounded. The well Is getting
near the place, and can be looked for at
most any time.
The tools were left hanging In Barre
fol the purpose Of agitating 1t, and yester.
day the cable parted, letting thom drop to
the bottom, making fishing job.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-07

Mr.. CLEVELAND did pretty well to get
in llS vstoes, four more than the aggregate
Of all the yetoes Of all the Presidents from
Washington down. Mr.. Cleveland has
learned to say No, and he often says 1t
without strict regard to the merits oil the
,,,o,,;,,,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-07

RlDDLRDERdERs successor in the Senate
will, it is to be hoped, have decenCy
enough no. to appear in that body in a
maudIin condition. RiddIeberger seems
to have thought it necessary to keep tol'
Onbly we'll corned through the session.
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"DgMocaAr" writes as one having views,
Will the Register complain With tears in ita
voice that hc didn't seek q hearing
through newspaper Of his own party :
Or will it give its readers tho cold assur'
anCe that his article was written in the
cock.loit of the INTELLIaENcRR office
'Twere best to be dumb as any oyster
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BuESoS AYRES, August 0, VIA GALvB.
roS.-sarah Bernhard continues To re.
ceive great ovatlons from the public. The
theatre 10 crowded every night. The
French and Italian newspapers which
have been engaged In fiery dispute rela.
tive 10 the artistic methods ot Sarah Bern.
hAfdt, made some very uniavorable 70.
marks regarding their antagonlsts' abill.
ties. The result was q duel between
Ssnors Ceruti and Hustler, both Of whom
were wounded. II 10 reported that more
duhlA will follow,
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An indian IInnEo,l.

Fr. SAITH, ARK, August O.-Eit Ross,
a quarter breed Cherokee, was hanged
here to-day for tho murder Of Jonathan
Davis, a white man at Dechotean, Indian
Territory, the Goth OF last December. Ross
and Davis were on bad terms, and met at
q store OF Dechotean on the day Of the
killing. Ross, who was drunk, approach.
cd Davis and Converssd with him In a
friendly manner about the weather, there.
by quleting Davis aud fears Of harm, and
when Davis walked of Ross drew q pistol
and shot him through the body, inatCting
n mortal wound,
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A Clerical lIypperItlE.po.ed.

LONDON, August O.-A merchant named
oooksOn has been granted an absolute
divorce from his wife on the ground
Of adultery with The Rev Mr.. FlnlaySon,
Organizing Secretary Of the Colonial and
Continental Church Society. The court
also awarded the plaintiff 81 900 damaged
against the correspondent.
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Whitney advisea Manning not to be in
q hurry to get back to the Oabinet-nos
to return at all II ho doesn't think him.
self strong enough. Whitney would
rather have one cabinet officer from Nav
York than two, and he could readily
select the one.
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CONVENIENT, pleasant, and certain In
their results, are Aekets Dyspepsia Tab.
lets. Recommended by phy6IciAnB and
endorsed BY oil who have used them, The
beat remedy iof Dyspepsia, FlAtulenCy
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"Tms Congress-" remarks the Pitts
bursa Dbpatch, "has shown adeal OF rot
tennesl in It's corporate attachments and
its failure to investigate Payne" 1t may
be in place to say that the Di'paIch is moi
"a ranlinv Radical sheet"
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Special DispattA 70 the IalelIi0ear
BARSEsvILLE, ONO, August G.-Barnes'
vile in an eleven inning game by a score
OF . to5 defeated the Combination Club
to-day, brought here from Bellaire, Wheel
ing, Bridgeport, New Athens and st.
Clairaville. The home club batted Easton
hard and had II men left on bases.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-07

Another good gas well came in on the
George spirey farm, In Hancock county,
this State, Thursday. This gives an ample
supply for East Liverpool and Wellsyille,
and will warrant the Jefferson Gas Com.
pany In going on at Once with It's projected
pipe line from Gas Valley 10 New Cum.
berland and Toronto. The pipes for this
line are already delivered at the railroad
Atalinn.
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CHARLESTON, VIVA, August O.-JoSeph
Tibbs and Samuel Richardson, employed
as labOrers on short limo railroad being
built near Hawks Nest, in Fayette coun.
ty, while engaged In removing q leg yes.
terday, were caught beneath Il as II rolled
down hill, and were fatally injured.
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CHICAGO, AUGUST O.-The appellate court
this morning announced that II had al.
Armed the declSion OF Judge Rodgers in
which he sustained the will Of the lac
Wilbur +. Story, editor Of the Chicago
NmtI. Judge Rodgers held that the will
was valid and should be admitted To
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MAYOR GRACE has stirred up a hornets
nss! by his exposure OF the squire.FIynn
compact, and the doubled headed worm
is turning. II the Mayors own hands
are not clean there 10 trouble ahead for
him. II he can stand the storm he will
come out stronger than ever.
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Cut short by Rain.

LOUISVILLE, KY, August O.-The game
to-day between the Louisville and Metro
polltan clubs was brought to close by
rain after the first half OF the third In
ming, the score being 3 to o In favor oil the
home team. Browning played again, bat:
Ting aercely, making number Of good
n1aVa
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NEW YoRk, August O.-The rumors Of
warrants having been issued for the arrest
Of Rollln NJ. Squire and Maurice b. Flynn
were set at rest In Q measure late to-day,
when II became known that the Mayors
hearing had gone over for the day and
still there were no arrests made.
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WusS We get time we shall read through
the 5000 pages OF the Congressional Record
Of the past session, Some OF these days
We may take year of and buckle down
10 Il
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If oil were bringing a dollar what a
bonpnza the Wheeling Company's well
would be! But it is a good thing az 1t Is,
and everybody is glad OF it for the sake Of
tho good fellows who own 1t.
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NAsnvilLK, TRNN,, August 0.-leturns
from the State election show Democratic
gains everywhere. The Democratic State
ticket 10 elected by 5000 and probably
10000 majority,
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Tho ProsIdent Going.

WASHINGTON, D. c., August G.-The
President will leave Washington, this
evening, for Now York, to attend the
funeral OF Mr.. Tilden tomorrow. Acting
Secretary Fairchild and number oil other
officials will attend the funeral.
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ANOTHER MURDER
COMMITTED NEAR CAMBRIDGE
Under the Influence of Guernsey County
Whisky, as was another Recent HOmI.
eide near the Guernsey County Line.
A Son Kills his Father-Arrested.
speetaI Dl,pqleA 10 Ms Inl.lAqeuesr,

Special DipdtcA 10 Tie IHltIglqsaeer,
CAMBRIDGE, o., August G.-Another
murder has been committed in this re-
gion, not this time in Guernsey county,
but Just across the line in Brookasld town
ship, Noble county, not far from the town
Of Renrock, The murder was done, how
ever, under the influence Of Guernsey
county whisky obtained at Cumberland,
Thomas Rogers, farmer, residing
three miles southwest OF Cumbsrl nd, IN
Noble county, and his son, Jacob Rogers,
came to Cumberland Thursday after din
ner, and spent two or three hours about
town, getting gloriousIy, drunk at Murtha's
saloon. g.
They quarrelsd before they starssd 10
return home and were not In the best OF
humor when they set out for home about
ave o'clock. The son had threatened his
sire with an ugly pruning knife, but no,
body thought no would do him harm.
They reached home, near RsnroCk, before
the quarrel broke out Riresh. The son,
Jake, was growing dFunker each minute,
and more threatening, and finally made q
rush at his father with the pInning knife.
The old man was too much limbered
by bad whisky to defend himself success.
fully, and with savage thrusts hisdrunken
son completely dlsemb0weled him, nearly
severing his body. Death was delayed
an hour when the father expired In ter
rible agon. Young Rogers was arrested
and taken to Caldwell on the charge Of
murder. He ia now in jail.
George Gillogly in December of 1885,
1s Tn0G p AIpSSn1d KS s SSDSS sGG1 4S S9y GqS5pssy
Cumberland md whisky. GlIlogiy was at at
Cumberland during the day, filled up aud
took flask with him, then went over the
linn onI killa1 nnarann
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A MASSACHUSETTS woman has regained
her voice lost four years ago, and now
her husband says that man never
knows when he really is happy.
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Three 10 NotllnR,

AZ PhilAdelphiA--st. Louis none Phila.
delphlA 8. Earned runs, Philadelphia /.
First base hits, St. Louis 81 Philadelphia
4, Errors, 81, LouiB Z,
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MlihMl

At washington-Uhicago II, Washing.
ton 0. Earned runs, Chicago =. Fr9t
base hits, Chicago l3j Washington 4.
Errors, Chicago U Washington 0.
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At New York--New York 8; Kansas
City 4. Earned runs, EACH. Firgt base
hits, New York O; Kansas City 0. Errors,
New York 81 Kansas City ..
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SOME Cleveland workiugmen have Or
pspized and are drilling to the tune ot "on
10 Mexico" If the boys are wanted they
will be found,