The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-28
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

Hon. Rufus Prince died at Lewiston
Me-, yesterday.
Yesterday being Good Friday, all th
downtown Exchanges in New Yor
we're closed.
Charles Arbuckle, the millionair
coffee merchant, Is dead. His remain
will be cremated in Pittsburgh.
Adyices from Rome are that the BAN
OF Leghorn has suspended with liabili
ties amounting to 100000 lire.
Dr.. William Gentry, OF Chicsgo; claim
to have captured microbe OF la grippe
the first ever captured or heard Of.
A boiler exploded in a brick yard o
HazelWood, near Pittsburgh, and in
stantly killed John Jones, a marrieC
man.
Masked robbers raided q saloon at But
te, Mont, and forced the barkeeper Y
hand over 81, 100 from q safe. There il
no clue.
schaeffer says he will accept Oarter'l
challenge 10 play him for the billiarc
championship. The game will be s0C
points up.
Frederick Hanson, captain OF sane
scow, was drowned In New York harbol
by the capsizing Of his boat. His wife
escaped by jumping to pier.
Bishop Ryan, OF the Catholic church
is lying quite Ill at hospital in Wash.
ingtou. Friends from Buffalo, alarmed
at his condition, are at his side.
The Illinois Senate has passed a bill
TO prevent unjust discrimination by
insurance companies, but notice OF a
motion to reconsider the vote has been
given.
Secretary Proctor spent yesterday in
speCting Forts Davis, Hancock and Bliss
in Texas. His reported retirement from
the Cabinet July !, he said was pure
gossip.
The Governor OF Indiana has received
from the Secretary OF the Treasury 500. (.
LA, being the amount Of the direct tax
money returned to the State under an
act Of the last Congress.
George Harris, Of Newberne, No.,
who achieved some notoriety by 8
thirty.three days fast in January aud
February, has been adjudged insane
and placed in an asylum.
John Brennan, who killed Minnie
Martleson last December, and whose
trial has been in pTogress at Chicago, was
found guilty and sentenced to twenty.
Eve years in the penitentiary.
Joe Tanssy, OF Memphis, was defeated
in a prize fight by Joe Wickert,
Peoria pugilist. The mill was an es.
pecially brutal one; Tausey was
knocked outin thetwenty.second round.
John Haviland, and Joseph, his son,
were fatally injured, while crossing
railroad tracks in Chicago. The
wagon they were riding in was struck
by a Grand Trunk engine, running at
high speed.
A final settlement OF the long dispute
between the boss carpenters and the
joutneymen Of Chicago, has been reached,
the agrcements signed on Saturday last
by the joint conference committee hav'
ing been ratified.
The extensive saw mill, planning mill,
foundry and agricultural implement
works belonging to O. Russon & Co., at
Beamsville, Ont, were almost completely
destroyed by FIRE yesterday. Loss over
$50, 0,0C0, with light insurance.
The Russian government has warned
the Hebrew journal, WaIhkod, for the
third time, and prohibited the issue Of
the paper for six months. The govern.
ment has withdrawn the prohibition oil
the sale Of the Gopoe HremyG.
P.J. Mcclure, Secretary OF the Broth.
erhood Of Carpenters and Painters, has
gone to indianapolis, and gives out,
after conference, that an amiCable ad.
iustmept OF labor troubles in that city
will be reached in o few days.
The Boston Car Spring Company,
Of springs, valves, rods,
vulcanized India rubber goods, etc.,
with q factory at Roxbury, has gone into
insolvency. The company is Massa.
corporation with a capital Of
$4,000.
The United States District Court sit
ting at Boston, has granted Judge Mel.
son, counsel for the Government in the
Gaze against the American Bell Tele.
phone Co, three months extension OF
lime in which 10 introduce testimony
before the examiner.
The Court Of Appeals sitting at Tcron.
to, Can, has dismissed the appeal OF the
Canadian Pacific railway from the, ver'
dict rendered against 1t for $3.50, 900 in
favor OF Contractors Connee and Nc.
Lennon, who constructed the Lake Su'
perior region Of that road.
George Zugler has purchased for
S75O,O0O, the property and franchises Of
the Bedford & Bridgeport Railroad Com
pany, owning about fifty miles OF track
In Bedford county, Pa, connecting with
the lines OF the Pennsylvania Railroad.
They we're disposed Of at trustees sale
under mortgage OF May, 1872.
Millie Capece, aged sixteen, committed
suicide in Foundryville, Pa, by shoot
ing herself through the heart with q re-
yelger. The girls parents wanted her
to marry an sged suitor, and Millie, who
was in love with young man, took the
matter 80 much to heart that, In desper-
alton, she took her life.
Frank Allison died at st. Louis yes
terday from the effects Of q fractured
skull received the evening before at the
hands Of William Johnson, IN saloon.
The two had got into 6ght over game
OF poker, and johnson, becoming en-.
ragged, had struck his opponent over the
head with billiard cue. johnson is
under arrest,
The Lake Seamsn's Benevolent Asso.
citation, Of Chicago, has unanimously
voted in favor Of demanding % o day
from the opening Of navigation till the
end Of the fair weather season, the rate
to be arranged later on for the last
months Of the season, in which better
wages are usually paid. owing to the
dangerous nature OF the work.