The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-03-15
BRIEFS FROM THE WIRES.

Tho Nebraska senate has passed the
bill abolishing the death penalty.
Reports arc to the effect that Gov.
ernor Mnrvil, Of Delaware, had a re-.
lapse and is much worse.
Amos Gibson, colored. assaulted Mrs,
Martha Weller and Mss Hart at For.
sythe, Ga. He was lynched.
Ameat war Is on in San Francisco be-
tween Armour and Swift, the Chicago
packers, and the local butch ers.
Robert G. McKissen was nominated
by the Cleveland Republicans Wednos.
day night rs their candidate for mayor.
A meeting to organize new political
party as Pittsburgh. could no. decide on
suitable name aud adjourned until to-
day.
The bills to re-organize the police do
partment OF New York City were agreed
upon by the Lexow committee yester.
day.
Audrsw J.. Wright, president OF tho
Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance
Company, died at Springfield, Mass,
aged fitty.three years.
4 fire in Santc re, n. NJ. destroyed
the Franz hardware store. Cables IN
dortaking establishment and Calls jew
olry store. Loss. $4,000.
Capt. L. G. Shepard, chief Of tho rev.
enuo cutter service OF the United States
treasury department, died at Washing
ton, D. c., from pneumonia.
Tie state general. of Holland. has
passed credit OF 100000 guilders,
the money TO bo used in oquippinS the
army with Mannlichcr rifles.
Charles W. Sanford, ox-tax collector,
OF Concord, Mass, wns arrested Tor en-
bezzlement. 1t was found he was de-
faul,er TO the amount OF $4,000.
While engaged in tearing down the
old Merchants and Mechanics bank
building, one man lost his liie, and
three others we're injured at Pittsburgh.
Advices received from Moosh show
that two Kurds, who were being pur-
sued ior having abducted an Armenian
girl, werc ovcrtaken by their pursuers
and killed.
One OF the most disastrous fires in the
history OF Laramie. Wyo., destroyed tho
immense building OF the Trabing Com
mercial Company. The loss will prob
ably reach Sl50.o0l
Judge Kinney, OF Hawaii, has arrived
in San Francisco, en- route for Sandiago,
to institute proceedings against the yes-
sci, Wohlberg, that carried tho arms for
the Hawaiian rebels.
Aireight train on the Atlantic x Pa
cilic railway was wrecked III Truxon
Canon, near kingman. Arizona. EuUi-
neo. Sullivan and Brakeman Beatty
were instantly killed.
Tho Walter A. Wood Harvester Com
pany confessed judgment in the super
ior court, Chicago, for S26,253 in favor
OF tho National Bank OF tho Republic.
An execution wng issued.
Tho Now York assembly passed the
concurrent resolution submitting to 4
vote OF the people the question OF
womnn's suffrage by vote OF SO to 81.
The bill goes TO tho senate.
Tho death OF Captain Miflin Kcnnedy,
tho mu,i.millinnHiro OF Corpus Christi,
Texas, occurred yesterday OF heart dis.
case. llc was tho principal promoter
and builder OF tho San Antonio & Arau-
sas pass railway.
Tho Spanish government has issued
an order iorbidding the dcivnry OF pri-
vato telegram containing Cuban news
OF 4 character unfavorablo TO tho gov
ornmout. 1t has also ordered that no
cipher messages DO sent to Cuba.
Alois Foidl, IN Australian, killed him.
self on Logan avcuuc. Denver. yester-
day, by'cxplodinc dynamite cartridge
Mbout IN inch and half in diameter
and four inches long, Tho entire loft
sidco Of tho body was blown into frag-
men,s.
An order has boon issued By the
cour, directing that tho East End ,hoa-
tro. Of Fit,abufgh, be sold by the
assignee II an advantageous sale can
not be ELECTED by tho assignee tho cred.
iiors will organize stock company and
reopen tho house.
An unknown and peculiarly fatal dis
onsc has made Its appearance in the
town OF Glonmorc. Wis Cattle ut.
tackled show signs OF unstcGdiness on
lheir foot, soon falling down and dying
in fOw minutes. The disease Is evi-
IDENTIFY contagious.