The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-12-08
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Charles A. Chesebrough, q million
are, Of New York, Is dead, aged seven.
ty-nine years.
me second supplementary estimate
OF sixteen millions issued Friday morn
ifs makes the total British army estl-
mates for the year s92,3O9, 15S.
The National Association of Manu-
| facturers Of Water Steam and Gas
Brass Goods, in convention at Column
bus, decided to hold their next meeting
In New York.
Charles Seavey, Of PORTLAND, Maine.
brakeman, was killed. and Alvin
Forbes. fireman. was seriously injured
In freight train wreck on the Boston
and Maine road Friday.
| Under the patronage OF the United
States Philippine commission an exper-
iment farm will be started about 200
miles from Manila, where the growth
Of seeds and plants from this country
will be tested.
Owing to the attempts of sympathl-
Ztrs to communicate with the Boer
prisoners at Greenpolnt camp, Maxim
guns have been placed in position on
the surrounding heights, In readiness
for i disturbance.
In response to Secretary Hays rep
resentations. through United States
Ambassador Choate, the foreign office
has replied that the authorities at
Hong Kong have been unable to dis
cover u Filipino junta there.
The British ships Drumburton,
Drummuir and Drumr0ck, and the
American bark Guy c. Goss have been
purchased by the Western Commercial
Company. and their home port will In
the future be San Francisco.
The minister Of the Netherlands to
Portugal and the Portuguese minister
at The Hague, have left their respective
posts. 1t Is believed that difference
has arisen on the subject of the exc
quatur to the Dutch consul at Lorenzo
Marques, which the Portuguese minis
ter has withdrawn.
The FIRST performance yesterday eve
ming at St. Petersburg OF an anti-Jew-
lsh play, called "The Contrabandists,"
led to an extraordinary demonstration.
A portion OF the audience ut first an
| grily protested. and then hurled all
kinds of missiles at the actors. Per-
| sonal conflicts followed. and the per-
formance had to be stopped.
William Boulton. said 10 be the son
OF well known Engllshman. dropped
dead at Vancouver last night on being
confronted by woman who claimed
to have been his wife, and who al
| leGes Boulton deserted her In England
for another woman. The interview
was 4 stormy one, and the physicians
who examined Boulton's body to-day
state that he died from fright.
Before the German budget committee
the imperial chancellor. Count Won
Buelow, asking for an indemnity for
the dispatch Of the expedition to China,
as well as the expenses thereof, de-
clared the troops sent TO China would
| certainly be disbanded as soon as the
work there Is accomplished. as legal
basis neither existed nor would be
created for their permanent embodl-
ment.
The President sent the following NOM
nations to the senate Friday: Col. ].
| +. Weston, assistant commisSary gen.
erll OF subsistence. to br commssary
general Of subsistence. with rank OF
briSadicr general: Capt. Frank B. Nc
Eenna. FOrty-seventh infantry. United
States Volunteers. Uirst lieutenant Fif-
tecnth infantry, United States Army.
10 be inspector general of volunteers.
with rank Of major.
John S. Silver, who claims that he
| carried on business in railway shares
and Investment securities, was held for
the New York grand Jury in $1,000 ball.
Tho complaint against him. which
| charged grand larceny. was made by
| Howard J. Barlow, Il former cmployc
| Barlow testified that he had deposited
| OF the Metropolitan Railway Company
| 500 as margin on stock quotations, but
had been unable to get an accounting
| from Silver.
The British steamer, LouisianIan.
| from Colon, reports that the British
| gunboat Pheasant arrived Mt Panama
recently and left that port without any
| important incident. The Pheasant was
sent 10 Investigate the seizure Of the
| British steamer TnbOga by the Colom-
| blan authorities. 1t Is believed the Ia
bogn matter will be settled by the pay
mcnt OF an indemnity TO the Pacific
Navigation Company
The North German Lloyd steamer
ErI.lrIch dor Crosse which arrived