The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-24
CONDENSED TEBRGRAMS.

w. X. Ridout's sash factory at Elana
Junction, Wis, burned Saturday night.
The President has signed the forti-
tication and army appropriation bills.
Hog cholera has broken out in the
vicinity of Washington @. H., Ohio.
Over 700 have died within short
time.
A man named Mcqueen, foreman in
one OF the departments at Pullman, ILL.,,
and well known there, hung himself.
No cause is assigned.
The date for the unveiling of the Sc
ward statue at Auburn, N. Y, has been
fixed for October 25. United States
Senator Evarts has consented to deliver
the address.
Two cases Of smallpox have been dis
covered in Toronto. The patients have
been removed to the smallpox hospital
and every precaution has been taken to
prevent the spread Of the disease.
The Standing Rock and Cheyenne
Agency delegates to'the Lower Brule
Council are opposed to the proposed
treaty. When White Buffalo was told
that Bowed Head was the first to sign
the treaty at Grow Creek be Significantly
remarked: "He will die"
Patrick Kelly, the seaman who stab
bed to death two OF his shipmates, John
Chapman and John Parry, on the M
tional line steamer Erin, while on the
voyage from London for New York, and
who was taken back to England for
trial, was Saturday convicted. He was
sentenced to be hanged.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, |. o, o.
F., held its final session at Los Angeles
Saturday. The newly elected officers
were installed in the afternoon. Grand
Sire Underwood made the following mp
pointments: Grand Marshal, John II.
Albn; Grand Guardian, G. c. Pearce;
Grand Messenger, W. H. Frazier.
Calvin DuBinson and wife, who live
in settlement called Cattamount, in
Kent county, N. b., went to call on Il
neighbor, Friday evening, leaving their
three children in the house. They bad
gone but short distance when they
noticed the house in flames, but arrived
too late to save the children, all OF whom
perished in the flames.
Meyer Goldstein, 20 years old, n clerk
for Morris Greenebaum, a New York
auctioneer, was arrested and held for
trial Saturday on the charge Of swind-
ling his employer out OF $4,000 by
forged checks. 1t is said he confessed
his guilt, and surrendered property
worth $9,0O0 in the hope OF immunity
from punishment.
The United States Consul at Saltillo,
Mex, has informed the State Denart.
ment by telegraph OF the release OF G.
D. Wood, Of Colorado, freight conduc-
tor on the Mexican Central Railroad,
who was arrested in April last and i'm.
prisoned at ViesCa, Mex, on n charge
OF murder, he having been in Charge OF
moving freight train from which a
woman jumped to her death.
A terrible prairie fire burned over the
entire southern portion OF Campbell
county, Dakota, Thursday, and the wind,
being in the southeast all day, brought
the flames into the vicinity Of La Grace,
the county seat. Nearly every resident
was out all day lighting the flames, and
but for extreme effort the damage would
have been immense. Several lives are
reported lost.
1t was stated Saturday in shipping cir
cles that the Cunarder Etruria had
eclipsed the best record for an ocean
voyage. She was reported at Fire Island
at s:35 a. m. Saturday, and It is reckoned
she made the incoming trip in six days,
one hour and thirty.five minutes, a gain
OF thirty minutes over her own, the best
previous record, made last June. She
carried GOO cabin passengers.
James L. Bedell, who embezzled over
S266, 600 from his employers, shipman,
Barlow, Larocque & Choate, 'ol New
York, was taken to the Tombs Court
Saturday by Police Captain Mclaughlin,
but his examination was postponed until
Thursday. Emerson & Co.'s, with whom
Bedell claims to have lost Sl27 900 at
policy, furnished bail in 5000 each TO
answer charges against them.