The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-17
SPARKS FROM THE WIRE.

King Oscar has left Stockholm on his
way to England.
Yesterdays rain and wind storm in
western Kansas appears TO have passed
of without having caused any loss OF
life.
Dankmar Adler, an architect of ma
tlonal reputation, died in Chicago Mon
day. Mr.. Adler designed the Chicago
Auditorium and several huge conven-
tIon halls.
The reports circulated OF conferences
between Count Won Buelow, the minis
ter OF foreign affairs. and the Boer del
egntes are seml-otilcially declared to be
pure invention.
Four persons are dead and two are
town of windber, near Johnstown, Pa,
as the result OF drunken row in n
dlsorderly house there, Sunday night.
Three OF the four plants OF the Amer
lean Steel & Wire Company, at Joliet.
ms, have suspended operations and
over 1000 men were made idle The
causes OF suspension and how long It
viii last are not known.
The cases involving the Kentucky
governorship were doCketed In the
United States supreme court Monday.
The supreme court has advanced the
case to be heard or the 30th inst, and
gave each side four hours for argu-
ment.
The Rev. William ]. Rutledge, Of
Jacksonville. Ills. died yesterday, aged
elghty-slX. He is credited with being
the first to suggest the idea OF the
Grand Army OF the Republic. which
was afterwards carried Into effect by
DR.. Ben F. Stevenson.
The supreme court yesterday decided
the cases involving the stamp tax, as 1t
applies to express packages the qucs-
tlon involved being whether the shipper
or the carrier shall pay the express
charges on packages. The opinion was
handed down by Justice White and was
favorable to the express companies.
In the Cripple Creek mining district
It has been showing almost constantly
for two weeks. Railroads are block
AIDED and mining operations seriously
hampured. Similar conditions prevail
In the Gilpln and Clear Creek county
mining districts. The snow is from two
to six feet deep on the eastern slope OF
the mountains.
Governor Roosevelt, Of New York,
yesterday signed the bill providing for
shorter hours OF the drug clerks in the
city of New York. and OF the inspection
OF drug stores by the local board OF
health. Under its provisions drug
clerks are prohibited from sleeping In
the stores or In apartments connected
with the stores.
The schedule meeting Of the Eastern
Buse Bail League, which was to have
been held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York, yesterday, has been post
poned until Wednesday next. President
Powers said to-day that the make-up OF
the circuit for the coming season and
the playing schedule would be made
public at the meeting.
By an explosion of molten metal
Monday morning, at the furnace OF the
Ohio plant OF the National Steel Com
pnny, at Youngstown, Ohio, James
Johnston, Wallace Alexander and
Prockett Smith were terribly burned,
the first two named probably fatally.
The explosion was caused by the hot
metal flowing into water trough.
Captain Dodd, with u squadron Of
the Third cavalry, recently surround
ed a village In Benguet province. and
surprised two hundred insurgents, liv-
Ing in barracks, apparently recruiting
center far the province, The enemy
lost flfty-three men killed. Our troops
also captured forty-fOur men and
burned the village. ono American was
wounded.
All thr carpenters on Staten Island
went on n strike Monday. The strikers
demand an eight-hour day for 1--WE days
Of the week and n four hour day on
Saturday md that no member Of the
union win be employed In any clrcum-
stances between IL and o'clock on Sat
urday. The minimum rate OF wages de-
mnndcd Is forty cents an hour, with
double pay Sundnys and holidays.
The delegates at large from New
York to the Republican national con-
ycntlOn, VIII, II Is Understood, be Thorn
as G. Platt Theodore Roosevelt,
Chnuncey NJ. Depew and B. u. Odell
The platform of the convention to-mor-
row viii endorse the administration Of
William Mckinley, ask for his re-nom-
nation and endorse the administration
Of Theodore Roosevelt and other Re-
publican state officers and call atten-
tion TO the low tnN rate.