The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-27
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Unconlrmed rumors are current that
tho Comic dc Paris is dying.
Tho Chamberlain OF tho Vatican Gd-
mjts that tho Pope is very III.
Tho Altoona bank. closed some timc
ago, has been found sl50,00o short
AZ ia cooking main in Cornana. Mex,
fivo mon wero killed In general fight.
o'Donovnn Roasa, tho dynamite asI-
tntor, has returned to Now York from
Europe.
Florence II. McAulia was killed at
Pittsburgh by chr OF tho Birmingham
traction line.
Aman known only by tho frat name
Michael was killed on the Pennsylvania
railroad near Braddock.
Alexander Carr shot and deliberately
killed Fl. o. King, on q street In Allan
to, and then surrendered.
Frederick Gerling, aged six, and John
Toner, aged ton, woro drowned in tho
Allegheny river at tho Sixteenth street
bridge, at Pittsburgh.
milwaukee, printers have strike on
their hands. The ErEnin1 WiscOnstn
will be boycottcd because Of reduction
Of 10 per cont In wages.
Tho family OF fivc persons Of Adam A.
Parrott, ex.county commissioner at
Portsmouth, O., were drowned whilc
attempting to ford tho scioto river.
Benjamin Kershaw and Robert Thorn.
as, two middlc.agod mon, and John
Kershaw, agcd ton, were drowned at
Waltham, Mass., by tho overturning Of
q canoe.
Al Orange, N. j., q motorman lost
control Of an electric car on stcop
down rrado, and It was overturned, sor-
iously but not fatally iniuring eleven
persons.
Miss Clara Virginia Cramer, q nioco
Of General U. s. Grant, and daughter
Of Rev. DR.. NJ. J. Cralncr, died Mt tho
residence Of hor parcnts, East Orange,
n. J. sho was twonty.six yoars old.
A strike OF 5000 glassworkers is
threatened in tho Elwood, Ind, dis
triot, owing 10 proposed reduction Of
thirty por cont In waEos, though tho
workers conccdo that largo reductions
arc absolutely necessary under tho Cor
man bill.
Cases Of loprosy having recently boon
reported from aoveral parts of Prussia,
a 1pocial investigation has boon opened
undor tho direction OF Dr. Nath, and as
n result It has beon discovered that
thoro arc quito number Of lopcrs in
eastern Prussia.
Tho postofIice department haa under
consideration proposition TO abandon
tho custom Of advertising in tho news.
nEpors tho list OF lettors which rcmuiu
uncalled for. Tho substitute plan Is to
place this list on bulletin boards In tho
main ofllco aud Bub.stations, whore such
exist,
Tho Quoon on Saturday prorogucd
uarliamcnt. Iior speech was purely
formal. Sho lamonts tho necessity Of
increasing tho burden oi taxation, but
savs Il had become Indispensable for tho
spcurity Of tho ompiro TO incronsc tho
naval atrcngth.
William Ecclos, IT,, agent for tho OK
ccutor Of John Dubois, nllcGcH groBs
frauds in charging costs Of q commits
sion 10 scttlO suit of Mr.. Dubois
nuninHt tho Brooklyn bridge. Ho
claims an nvcrcharEo Of ss,42j. Tho
ynattnr 10 in tho UnitOt States court NJ
Philadelphia.
Tho Dayton t0.) Times. MI original
meulber of tho United preas, has nhan-
tlnned that organization and signed q
0O.yoar contract with Tho Associated
pr9es, Tho Dayton ErMiHg Ntirs has
also ioinod tho Associated Prcss, ond
will focciVo ita leased wlro report bo-
ginning to-day.