The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-18
NEWS IN BRlEF

The Western Crockery Company, Mil.
waukee, ls In receivers hands.
DR.. Thomas W. Keen, a Virginia legis,
lator, fell dead after addressing the House,
Thousands OF cattle are reported frozen
TO death in Indian Territory by the late
blizzard,
Three thousand negroes have emigrated
from North Carolina within short time,
10 the West.
Fire at Nos. 2S, % and 27 South Fourth
street, St, Louis, caused loss to building
and stock Of $4,000.
The J. +. shumate Company, Cincinnati
booksellers, assigned. Assets, $4,000;
liabilities about $25,000.
H. ]. Cruning, cigar manufacturer,
Quincy, Ills, in trouble with the Revenue
Department, killed himself.
The Gray National Telephone Company,
Of Chicago, the incorporation Elisha Gray
and Others, has been licensed.
The total value Of imports at the port OF
New York during the past week was
1920, 1881 Of dry goods g 903, ,GO5.
Ex-Governor Hoadly was banqueted by
friends and members Of the Cincinnati
bar at the Gibson House Saturday night.
The National Convention OF journeymen
bakers resolved to boycott ali proprletors
who refuse 10 reduce the hours Of labor to
twelve per day. ~,... e.
Mr.. and MIS-. Daniel Bennett were struck
by train, near Elmira, N. Y. The for.
mer was instantly killed and the latter
will probably die.
The Puritan Shirt factory at Province.
town, Mass, was totally destroyed by fire
last evening. Sixty operators are thrown
out Of employment.
Charles. Bohem, q miller OF Monroe.
vile, o., has suddenly disappeared and q
number Of creditors are anxious to asCer-
tain his whereabouts.
Colonel @. s. Golfer, late superintend-
ent Of laborers at the Ohio State House,
was found decd at the Hotel Gardner,
Columbus, Saturday.
School Superintendent Miller, at Nanti.
coke, Pa, locked tardy boys out during
the recent cold spell. The legs Of one boy
may have TO be amputated.
Natural gas was struck at TiGin, o., Sat
day night at depth Of 1906 feet. The
gas is equal to the best manufactured ar.
tiCle for Illuminating purposes.
James W. Murray, editor Of the Legal
Journal, and one Of the brightest young
lawyers at the Allegheny county bar died
In the Pittsburgh jaillastnight Of delerium
tr emens.
At the gas well being bored for the
Briggs Manufacturing Company, at Find.
lay, O., vein Of gas was struck which, 1t
10 estimated, will yield two million cubic
feet per day.
The committee 10 investigate the allepa.
tions Of bribery In the election OF Payne
will begin work upon the reassemblinG OF
the Legislature. The committee Is con.
sidered good one, and means business.
Strange stories Of the power Of prayer
come from jamestown, o., where one man
was cured Of paralysis and another was
stricken with foCkjaw and afterward re-
lieved through prayer Of religious revival.
A Boston dlapatch reports the RYAN.
sullivan iivht of. owing 10 the former he.
Ing unable TO raise lie necessary stake.
A later dispatch from Troy quotes Ryan
% knowing nothing about II, and ready TO
20 on with the match.
John Heeseman, a merchant for forty
yeara at Charleston, s. O., died recently,
and IL has since been discovered that ne
had forged notes for $4,000 on banks
there. He. was also short In his accounts
with Q number Of organizations. ~
by the explosion Of boiler In Morris
pfist and saw.mill, near Stepstone, Ky,
a voting relative OF the proprietof had
both eyes blown out, William BAKER loet
one eve and William Neason and Frsnf
Easksns tt,ara sasin,tsiV 6naidaj