The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-23
CONDENSED TBLEGRAMs,

CONDENSED TELEGRAAS,
A negro policeman ut Texarkana was
killed Saturday for arresting q white
man for disorderly conduct.
John S. Delano, arrested at Carthage,
ILL.,, for bigamy, has seven wives, one Of
whom he married ut Norwich, o.
James Russell Lowell, WHO sailed for
England Saturday, denies that he is to
have Minister Phelps place, provided
the latter is appointed Chief Justice.
In the case of JameS Hodges against
the Baltimore Sun for 900 damages
for calling him reporter" last fall, the
jury rendered verdict for the defend
ant.
The funeral of the late John R. G.
Hassard, well known journalist, for
many years on the editorial staff OF the
New York Tribune, took place Saturday
from st. AIMS Church.
A series Of battles have been fought in
the last few days between the Jones and
Green families in Hancock county,
Tenn, and several are reported wound
ed, two very seriously.
After bitter struggle of more than
years duration the lockout of the Bos-
ton granite cutters has been declared at
an end, the manufacturers having agreed
to pay the same bill OF prices they were
paying previous to the lockout.
Thomas Dugan and @. A. Bird, promi-
nent hotel proprietors ut Springfield, o.,
were Saturday fined $50 and costs each,
and sentenced to ten days in Jail, for
using oleomargarine on their tables
without posting notice in the dining
room.
Samuel Mcdowell, who pleaded guilty
to shooting James Watson, n mine boss
Mt Pittstont in December last, was satur-
day sentenced to three years separate
and solitary confinement in the State
Penitentiary. Mcdowell is nearly 60
years OF age.
Samuel Phillips, the 11-year-old son
Of prominent merchant Of East Sagi-
nav, while playing on some logs in the
bay fell in. Englehart Beidlinger, aged
"a, jumped in to save the boy, but the
little fellow clung to his neck and both
| MSIG iIONuCh'
lIAs five section men were passing the
Gerlings White Sand Company's works
in n hand-Car, on the st. Louis, Kansas
City and Colorado road, near Labadie,
Mo-, blast exploded, blowing an i'm
mense rock upon the hand-car. All OF
the men were fatally hurt.
A meeting Of the Ways and Means
Committee OF the House has been called
for this morning. 1t is the intention OF
the Democratic members to carry out ut
that time the direction OF the last caucus,
to consult with their Republican col
leagues as to the time to be allowed for
debate in the House on the tariff bill.
The steam ferry Belle OF Ashland ex-
ploded her boilers at Ashland, KY, Sat
urday afternoon. Capt. j. L. Kouns had
two broken ribs and was severely bruised
and burned about the head. Abram
Moore will die: lie has an eye blown out
and his head cut. Two or three others
were seriously hurt.
The verdict in the Fotheringham case,
awarding him 10000 damages for false
imprisonment, is believed to be n death
blow to the Pinkerton system in Mis-
souri,. Attorney johnson said he
thought the Adams Express Company
would not appeal, as the verdict was too
small to so to that expense.
The House Committee on Elections
Saturday resolved to report in favor Of
the claims OF William Vandever to seat
in the House as representative OF the
Sixth California district. The vote was
unanimous with the exception OF one
Democratic member, who refrained from
voting,
The Secretary OF the Tresury has in
formed customs officers that department
regulations for collecting duties on mer-
chandise arriving by parcels post from
Jamaica, Barbados and Bahama have
been amended SO as to cover similar
merchandise from Honduras, in accord
ance with the terms Of postal conven-
ton recently concluded with that coun-
try.
Captain William P. Spaulding, Of Sault
Ste. Marie, who has Just returned from
the mining country north OF Lake Super
ior, said to Chicago reporter that the
finds OF precious metals made in the in
terror recently have been so numerous
and rich that there will probably be a
rush OF people into the country as soon
as the season opens.
The remains Of Hon. Roscoe Conkling
were inferred at Utica, N. Y, Saturday,
with appropriate and solemn cere-
monies. The funeral was largely at
tended. The pail bearers were: VIM.
IT TnmSlnOk NVm II Wotqnn E.oy,o;S
Herman, Henry D. Pixler, Theodore
Pomeroy, William Blaikie, Publius v.
Rogers, L. Prentiss Bailey and Chas. NJ.
Dennison.
Chester A. Faulkner, OF Indiana, Chief
OF the Division Of Records OF the PEN
sion Office, has, at the request of secre-
tary Villas, rendered his resignation. Mr..
Faulkners removal grows out OF an
offensive letter which he is said to have
written to the Superintendent Of the
Railway Mail Service, after the latter
! had declined to transfer Faulkner's son.
/ in-law, a railway mail clerk, to a route
, in IndMna.
The town OF Medford, Mass, is excited
: over the death OF Mrs. Lottie A. James
and her new born child on Friday morn.
ing. Mrs ConRoF, the mother Of Mrs,
' James, practices the cure Of diseases by
: prayer or by the method OF q Christian
: scientist. The husband OF the dead
woman is away from home on business
: and it appears that no midwife or physi
, clan other than Mrs. Conner was called
7 till both mother and child were dead.