The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-03
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS
The cotton crop OF Texas is estimated
at 1851, 1923 bales.
Emperor William has been appointed
an admiral in the Swedish navy.
Snyder & Kohlberg, carpet dealers,
Cincinnati, failed Saturday for $4,000.
Samuel Bliss, sugars and syrups, went
out OF business also. He owes SIPS, 900.
Representative Sowdcn, of Allen
town, has returned to Washington. He
says he has no thought OF becoming an
independent candidate for Congress.
Jay Gould has ordered the construc-
tion OF a new union depot at st. Louis to
cost $50OO00. Work Is to commence
within sixty days and the building fin
ished within two years.
Five cowboys were drowned nearPike's
Peak, Thursday night, by asudden rise
of water in Beaver creek, ON the banks
Of which they had pitched their camp,
caused by cloudbnst.
Within the next two weeks about nine
tenths Of the cigarmakers in Paris-about
750 in number-unless matters are ma
terially changed during that time, will
have gone out on strike.
The President has approved the joint
resolution providing for the expenses of
the Government and the act to accept
and ratify the agreement with the Sho-
shone and Bannock Indians.
Miss Mary Gary, IS years old, Brook
lyn, while on her way home Saturday
morning, was assaulted by Colored man
55 years old, who afterward fled and
made hisescape. The police are look
ing for him.
II is stated that the Russian Govern
ment has received formal assurance that
Prince Bismarck advised Premier Crispi
to use circumspection in the Massowah
difficulty in order to avoid conflict with
France.
Arthur White, the 10.year.old youth
who absconded with $lO,OO0 the prop
erty OF the banking firm OF Kittredgs 4
Co., OF Denver, has been arrested at
Victoria, B. G., and $500 been recov-
cred. An attempt to extradite him will
be made.
At Raleigh, N. c., George G. Denning
and his sister Abbie, both idiots, quar-
relied Thursday. Abbie got rope, tied
it around his neck, then put the other
end over joist OF the house and hanged
him. A neighbor reached the house in
time to see the unfortunate brother die.
Arrivals from Hot Springs, Ark, re-
port thirteen people, drowned during
the storm and flood Thursday night.
Nine bodies had been recovered, and in
quests had been held on four. Houses
all along the central street are badly
undermined, and those damaged will
have 10 be rebuilt.
A meeting OF winter wheat millers
was held at st. Louis. The object OF
the meeting was TO form closer alliance.
between the millers handling winter
wheat, TO establish minimum scale OF
prices and 10 make arrangements to CO.
operate and TO prevent ruinous COmpc-
tition.
A special officer OF Customs has seized
the American tug Gladiator on Georgian
Bay for having tOwed raft Of logs from
French River, Ontario, to Midland, and
not reporting or clearing at either place.
The vessel is in charge OF the sub.COl-
lector at Algoma Mills, pending de.
post OF S40O or release by the depart
ment.
Warrants have been sworn out at Chi
cagO for the arrest OF Louis NJ. KaPc, A.
T. Osgood and G. A.. Haslet, directors OF
the TranscOntinental Transportation
Company, for obtaining S32,5OO under
false pretenses from the Equitable Assets
Company, OF London, England. They
laugh at the idea OF a criminal prosecu-
ton.
A man giving the name OF Major Gen
eral Hovey, OF Washington, D. c., was
arrested at Milwaukee, on the charge Of
being pension shark. He represented
himself as pension examiner, and atI
tempted toprevail upon Mrs Gottbehua,
W. o. Jones and others, to allow him to
collect their pensions, Mt the same time
asking heavy fee.
The Chicago Committee OF the Cen
tral Traffic Association held meeting
Saturday for the purpose OF considering
a proposition to restore rates from Chi
cagO TO interior points in the East. Reso.
lutions 10 that effect were adopted, but
they will have to be submitted to the
General Managers for ratification before
becoming operative.
William J. Mccoy registered at the
Madison House, in MiddIetown, N. Y,
Friday night, from San Francisco. lie
took laudanum with s0icidal intent, but
took too much and threw II up. Satur.
day morning he shot himself with n
Colts revolver. The ball entered his
left breast, and the surgeons think lust
missed his heart. Letters found in tue
room show the act to have been pre-.
meditated.
Messrs. Jewell and Tingle, special oil.
GERS OF the Treasury Departments at Wash
ington, arrived at Ottawa Friday, and
spent portion Of the afternoon in pri.
vate consultation with the Commissioner
OF Customs. The objec. OF their visit is
unknown, and as the officers are reticcnt
as TO their business there is considerable
speculation as TO whether or not they
are bearers Of special messages from the
American Government.
There have been only three pleasant
days on Mount Washington during the
past three weeks. Last Monday night
there was n heavy thunder storm ac-
companied by huge hailstones. On
Tuesday the mercury fell several de.
grees below the freezingpoint, while the
|, wind blew at the rate Of over 100 miles
an hour. By Wednesday morning ico
nearly four inches thick covered the
/ western windows of the station. The
telegraph lines TO the summit were
broken down by the weight of ice and