The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-04-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

General Spinola died at Washington,
D. O., at rs o'clock this morning.
Queen Victoria has decided to pro-
long her stay at Gfasse for another
week.
w. ]. Edbrooke, OF Chicago, has been
appointed Supervising Architect OF the
Treasury.
The Brooke woolen mill, at Pomeroy.
near Coatesville, Pa, was destroyed by
fire Sunday night. Loss, $4,000.
Rear Admiral Shefeldt, who has been
III at Washington, is reported to be bat.
ter, aud there Is now hope OF his recoV-
cry.
The Boston painters' strike for s. q
day, OF eight hours, was inaugurated
Yesterday, and It is said that over 500
men are out.
John Tarkal, OF Cedar Rapids, lows,
while temporarily insane from the
effects Of the grip, blew his head OF
with a shotgun.
General Alger, who has been confined
to his bed in Detroit silce q week ago,
is improving rapidly, and will bs about
again in 9 week.
Barry Sullivan, the we'll known actor,
is dying at London. Hs was born at
Birmingham in 1924, and made his tirSt
appearance at Cork, in 1910.
The medical faculty OF the University
OF Bonn, Germany. has abandoned the
use Of both Koch's aud Liebrich's
remedies" for tuberculosis.
Bsssie Moleski, OF Mt, Olrmsl, Pa,
a little girl Of four yeara, was frighItllly
cored by fierce bull while gathering
| flowers. She cannot recover.
A State convention has been called,
| for May 10, by the Fort Worth Chamber
Of Commercs, to take steps 70 have
Texas represented at the Worlds Fair
Thers were 154 deaths recorded at the
New York Bureau OF Vital Statistics
Yesterday. Out OF these there were
twenty deaths from grip complicated
with other diseases.
A dispatch sent from Sac FranCisco to
Denver, BY Joe Harris, withdraws his
offer to back Fitzlimmons, for the reason
that Hall has proved uureliable. Harris
is going to Australia
A crazy woman on Sunday night set
fire TO the Crenahaw county, Ala. poor
house, which burned to the gcound. An
old bsd.Iidden man, named johnson,
was burned to death.
While driving two.ycq,.old colt at
Lexington, KY, Daniel Brown was
thrown from cart, dragged about fur
long and killed. He was 6tty-tyo. years
old and one OF the leading trainers in the
west.
Willie and Martha Johnson, Ave and
asyen years old, were drowned In the
Arkanpas river, near Pontiac, neal
Wichita. The children were In pad
dock when attacked by Q bull and driven
into the river.
AZ Bessemer. Pa, Fred Douglass,
white man employed as a furnace toun'
drymRn, was attacked BY LEROY Smith
colored, with q bar OF iron. Douglass
shot aud killed. Smith. He was then
assaulted by four Of Smiths friends, bu
dlaElug two pistols repulsed them.
Cllttoa ", Tayleure, newspaper writer
dramatist aud theatrical manager is dead
He was IS yesrs old. IN the war he wa
I ths sditor Of newspaper in Richmond
Va. He also served In the Conlederat
. army. and gained the rank OF Colonel
: Later he wrote the play "ktt, th
. Arkansas Traveller ppd sold 1t I
Chantrsu.
The leading German musicians q On
caRo have called q meeting o. all u
German singing societies Of Chicago, :
make arrangements for Worlds Gel
/. man s@ueerlest in Chicago during "a
J. World's Fair. 1t was reported at th
o meeting that, from correspondence n
J. Gently had with leading German singer
r n tha various European capitals, u w
/. learned thai there was q universal Zee
ing in favor Of such movement.