The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-03-08
NEWS ~ HRIER.

Nounterlelt tHo"dollar bills oil the series
OF 1850, Letter d, are In circulation.
William Meats jumped from moving
train, near Millburg, o., and was instantly
killed.
Tho friends Of Tom Davis threaten that
Jim Holland shall not leave New York
alive. Holland laughs at the threat.
Captain Bogardus, in "a match at Jack.
sonville, Ills, with j. A, Slloe, won the
American field cup and $3.50. The score
was rinety.three to ninety.
Charles 0. MARBLE, florist living In
Gloucester, n. j., shot his daughter Friday
morning, mistaking her for burglar.
The wound Is very serious,
George Pate, Trustee OF Cass Township,
Ohio county, Ind, was robbed Of about
g 900 In cash, by highwaymen, while on
his way to attend a school meeting.
The recent Sunors about the seizure Of
the SRlman lnlands by Germany, 1t is as.
ceEtai1ed, arose from private contro.
versy between the German Consul and tho
local authorities.
A relative Of Alexander Stewart, claim.
Ing to be an heir Of A, 7. Stewart, the
New York millionaire, has instituted a
suit against Judge Hilton and Mrs. Stew.
art TO recover 100000,
Rey. j. Il. w. Sloane, Professor Of The.
oloey In the Reformed Presbyterian The.
illogical Seminary, at Allegheny CITY, Pa
was found dead In his bed Saturday morn,
ing from heart disease,
A negro named Samuel Johns,n brutal.
ly assaulted Mics Angelina Herbert ii
katontown, N. Jn and was the same night
taken from the lookup and ieaIf1lly
heatOn and then hanged:
FianCis o. Keefe, @ prominent and
wealthy farmer aud stock buyer, was ar.
rested a. Cottage Grove, Wis, on The
charge Of iIaudulently manipulating scales
while purchasing live stock, and thus de-
irauding sellers.
Samuel Newton, the Ohontaw wife mur.
derer, was executed in Gaines county
ChoCtow nation. He btutally murdered
his vile in October, 1884, by shooting her
as they were riding along lonly road on
hoSse6ack, and then concealed her body
m the woods.
Henry X. Arown, the sculptor, has been
adiudged insane by the court at NewburR,
N. Y, and his property put In charge ol
administrators. The recent death oil his
wife led To his mental arrangement. He
designed the Scott statue az Washington
and the equestrian figure Of Washington
in Union square New York.
The winter wheat crop still continues
generally In favorable condition, the usual
March freezing and thawing not having
developed az yet any widespread or heFi.
pug damage. Some spring wheatls R0wtl,
but the area 10 small. The cotton crop ID
still very largely in the hands Of the pro.
duCerB.
W.B. Howard, editor Of the Hunt county
ChrQaiCl, deliberately shot A. X. Rupseil
on the street Ia Kingston, Tex, Saturday,
Howard discharged both barrels Of a shot.
gun at Russsll. The stray bullets bill a
spectator named 0verholt and a hoynamed
Kirkpatrick. Russell, 0yeFholt and Kirk.
patrick are all fatally wounded and will
probably die.
1iighty.lVe Of the 100 retail sIoye and
tinwRre dealers Of II. LouiB organized an
Association and adopted the boycott az d
means oi protecting their business frCm
the ihCfoaChments oi the large neTcantiIe
houses whiEl ore besilnihg 10 include
stoves and tinwitp IN their large stocks,
and, j X olsttned, are In this way greatly
iDiuflBg the trade OF the exclusive stove
merchants,
Paddy ryan raised q 5000 Friday for q
fight wIlh Sullivan, but Lester, sullivan's
agent, refused 10 consider anything lees
...lan 5000 a aide. Cleary, iof Ryan,
thereupon sald $3.50 was the usual
amount, and accused the other side Of de.
mandinu more because they knew Ryan
could not raise II. lie declared That
Sullivan could not rightly hold the
championship by suCh means.
The Collector Of Customs Of DlRby, N.
g., has seized the American schooner L,
A. Horton upon her presentation for reg.
iaIfy AZ that port by Nova SOCotians who
had recently PURCHASED bet. In 1871 the
vessel was seized by the Govern ,ani
cruiser SweebBtake, for ah mfr. allan y
tho fishery laws, and take ,niS Gnvs
b.Soro, y. =. On the nishi oi October s
lesi, ~ her owne. stole her from the dock
.YOOeN so 6lOsshouse Of her sails ant
.ikging, and put 10 see. The Dominion
0iIl cials have failed until now in their at
ltempls 10 feCapture het