The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-12-25
BRIEFLY TOLD.

All tho evidence IN the frenuergast
trial is in and arguments will begin to-
morrow.
A crank attempted to kill silas o.
Welbringe, of Rochester, N. Y, a
wealthy real estate dealer, in his office
Saturday.
Chicago's treasury is empty and it
will take careful financering to pull the
city through next year without impair
ing its credit
1. II. Marstelaer, a millionaire, COM
mitted suicide in flat in New York
Saturday. Grief on account OF the death
OF his wife was the cause.
Seven operator on the Lehigh road
have been arrested for causing the wreck
at White Haven during the strike. Five
OF them are Brotherhood men.
A daring but unsuccessful attempt
was made to rob the Farmers and
Traders Bank, of Green Ridge, No., at
about 11:40 Saturday morning.
It took only fifteen minutes for
Wayne McYeagh to decide that he
would accept the italian mission when
it was rendered him by telegraph.
An attsmpt was made late Saturday
night to wreck the west-bound passen-
ger train on the Northern Pacific, near
st. Paul, q pile OF ties having been
placed on the track.
Masked men entered the farm house
of Matthew Miner, near Utica, New
York, Saturday night, bound and
gagged Miner aud his daughter-in-law,
and secured 1900 in cash.
Thomas Malley and Thomas Brown,
miners, we're Killed by a premature
blast in the Florence company's mine
at Smithsville, Pa. Both men were
married and leave large families.
There is little possibility of a settle
ment OF the main differences OF the
wavs and means committee as to
whether to make the income tax an in
dividual or corporateinvestment tax.
Over forty New York politicians were
arrested Saturday for violations of the
election laws. twenty-five Inspectors
are on the list. Nearly all are released
on nbail, some giving as high as $4,000
bond.
Hundreds Of people were exposed to
the small pox in the Chicago postoilice
Saturday. A man brushed through the
crowds on his way to the Marine. hos
pital office where it was discovered that
he had the disease.
The total value of tho importations
for tho year 1892 were $355, ,SS9, ,4Ol, and
the duties received $l93,09S,474. The
estimated revenue under the Wilson
bill is Sl07, ,690,570, showing an estimat-
ed decrease of S65, ,40S,6OO.
The White House Christmas tree was
lighted Saturday afternoon. All the
cabinet babies and their mothers
who are in the city were pres
ent to see the grand illumination. The
tree was attended by four men, who as
sisted Mrs. Cleveland in distributing
the gifts.
President Gompers Of the American
Federation OF Labor estimates that
there are 100000 wage workers out OF
employment in the country, not count
ing those belonging to trades unions.
Bradstreets saws there are only SOL, 900,
upon whom 1,95600O are dependent for
support, making ., ,757 900 people in dis
tress.
Three clothing cutter unions-one
from New York, one from Newark, and
one from Brooklyn, numbering over 900
members have re nounced the Knights
of Labor and become members OF the
United Garment Workers OF America,
which organization is affiliated with the
American Federation OF Labor.
Within the past tweuty-tour hours
three deaths have occurred in Pittsburgh
and from starvation. Their names were
Anthony Dominick, an Austrian aged
sixty years. died in Pittsburgh at six
o'clock Saturday morning. Mary Weiss-
man, daughter OF Henry Welssman, Of
Allegheny, aged three years. Mrs.
Decca Arthur, a widow aged fifty years,
diad ak Homsakand