The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-25
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

lugn Lynn was uuugeu yesbStuuy Ut
Now Westminster, d. O.
Eight houses worc burned at Minorka,
near Scranton, Pa. loss $4,000.
Ernest Hassburger, Dundee tin plate
merchant, confosses to forgeries OF Sll2,-
900.
Peter Firstone, English miner, was
fatally hurt by striking Slave, at Mt.
Pleasant, Pa.
The Brazilian minister OF finance says
that Brazil does not Intend to float an
internal loan.
Alois Mehltretter, tailor. was fatally
shot at Buffalo by Carl Lower, q dis
charged employe.
Ex.Congressma John D. White, Dan
yille, KY; bolted the Republican ticket
and will run independent.
The President has recognized Olaf
Rye Wultsburg as vice consul Of Sweden
| and Norway at Sioux City. Iowa.
At Knoxville Deputy shoriT Creswell
and four others were acquitted OF tho
murder Of George Cant; self-dcfonse.
All tho coal minors in Ray county,
Va, arc again out on q strike, domand'
ing four cents per bushcl for mining.
Russia has rescindod tho prohibition
against the import Of Persian silver
coin in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
At Toronto, Ont, Hon. Christopher
F. Frazer, eS.commissioner OF public
works, died suddenly Of heart disease.
A fresh earthquake shock was expert
onced yesterday at Santa Calarinn,
Sicily. People fed in terror to tho
Gelds.
Anderson Boyd, alias jacob Hultz,
colored, 10 In Jail at Knoxville for mur.
dering Ed Uhl, in Marion county, Ohio.
ten years ago.
Stephen Howard has many aliases
and has killed many mon, but Deputy
Sheriff Parker, OF LAGRANGE, Texas. has
Stephen now in custody.
Adyices from Prctoria. dated August
I, cay that tho unexpected submission
Of Chief Malaboch has becn joytuliy re-
ceived throughout Transvaal.
Lindholm, latc assistant secretary Of
the state OF Michigan, who disappeared
from Ishpemiug in March last. mas
been arrested at Gothcnburg, swcden.
L W. schuermann, q pension attor-
ney OF Hudson, ILL.,, formerly OF Knox
vile, Tenn, was disbnrred for domand.
ing illegal fcos. He was indicted in
Tennessee.
Philip Pottus, colored, who murdered
his wife in April, 1893, because she rc-
fused TO live with him, was hanged in
tho Jail yard OF tho court house at
Helena, Ark.
The Swiss federal council has ap.
prcyed tho scheme submitted for Jnra-
Simplon railway tunnel through the
Simplon. Tho cost OF this work will bO
54,50O,OO0 francs.
William Swords, aged 90, was hound,
gagged and tortured with fire md then
robbed OF $3.50 by four masked men ut
KomptvilIc. Ont. He knows tho mon
but is afraid to tell.
stoppago of trains on the Columbus,
Hooking Valley & Toledo road has
ceased, owing. to tho yielding Of the
American Railway Union aud tho ap-
pointment OF q new grievance com.
mitteo.
Tho grand Jury at aIemphia has in
dicted twonty-four cotton firms for do
ing business without liccnso aud fail
ing 10 pay taxos. Their delinouenciSs
for tho past eight years aggregate S.
100000.
Tho Abandonment Of tho grand Rus
sion army manmuvers OF Smolonsk was
determined upon at tho wish Of tho i'm.
nerial physicians that tho car should
avoid fatigue, as his health Ia not salts
factory.
At Newark, N. j.. the Unitod stntea
| Credit System Company ia in tho hands
OF n rcceivor, eX.Stato Treasurer Gray.
The examiners reported that tho capital
had boon impaired to tho amount Of
nearly s200,O0o.
Tho conversion Of Abo Buzzard did
not hold. Twenty OF his torty-ono
yoars Of l!fo have boon spont in jail. lIo
Ia now on trial Mt Lancaster, Pa, for
folonious entry, with nineteen moro In.
dic.mcnts 10 be hoard from.
Tho commitleOs Of conforcnce on
amalgamNtion Of tho International
TyporrnphIcaI Union and the lnLoraa-
tionaI Printing Pressmon's Union have
settled tho liGcrOncos oi tho two orGani-
zations. Thoy will rounitc.
Robert Tucker, whose son was killed.
rccontIy noar Lexington, Ky, and Scott
Van Motor thought Andy Martin. color
cd. agod G5, know about tho murder,
and buried him aitvo TO oxtort con-
iossion. He was rescued. but will dic.
They are In Jail.
United statcs Labor Commissioner
Carroll y. Wright, chairman Of the
special labor commission appointed by
| President Cleveland TO investigate the
Pullman strike, admits that he 10 in the
habit Of using a Pullman pass, given