The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-12
sPARKs FRoM !THE WEES.


Gen. Joe Wheeler will not contest to
retain his seat In Congress.
The Democratic state convention
which met at Raleigh, n. c., yesterday
win nominate Charles B. Aycock Tor
governor.
James B. Kellogg. the head Of the
E. s. Dean Company, New York. was
yesterday sentenced 10 seven years and
six months in state prison.
Michael ]. Hennessy yesterday at Du-
buque. Iowa, filed q petition 20 have the
viii Of his brother. Archbishop Hennes-
sy, declared null and void.
Resolutions were adopted by the
North Carolina Democratic convention
declaring for white domination and de-
uounclng "RussellIsm" and Butler
ISM"
Contractors working on the Mer-
chants Loan & Trust building, Clark
and Adams streets. are preparing to
convert the new sky-scraper into a
huge fortress. -----.---.-s-azl-e.5--
The Chicago reception committee,
consisting OF W. B. Conkey and ]. u.
Glenn, had a final interview with Ad-
fnirai Dewey yesterday. No mention
was made OF politics.
George w. Hull. the reputed mllllon-
alre and mine owner OF Arizona who
was arrested yesterday IN telegram
from Providence. r. l., was again ar
raigned in New York.
Perico Pipin, who recently led n
small uprising against the government
Of Santo Domingo. has been sentenced
to twenty years imprisonment and TO
nav n fine OF $50 600 gold
Five hundred pounds OF plug cut to-
bacco have been seized in various
stores in San Francisco, by internal
revenue ngents. because the packages
were insuficiently stamped.
A cablegram announces the arrival at
Cape Town OF the transport Monterey.
with the Strathcoua Horse. All on board
were well. one hundred and sixty
three horses died on the voyage.
Representatives Of the National Iron
Founders Association and Of the In
ternationai Iron Molders Union, after
a two days conference at Cincinnati,
have disagreed on the wage scale.
The Populist state convention OF
Montana has selected ten delegates and
alternates to the national convention at
Sioux Falls. The delegates we're In
structed for Bryan for President.
william j. Holmes. aged sixty-two,
general superintendent OF the Western
Union Telegraph Company. on the line
OF the Erie railroad for forty years,
died nt his home in Paterson, y. j.,
yesterday.
Fire early Wednesday morning de-
struyed the transportation building OF
the Trans Mississippi exposition
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the largest structure OF the exposition
and the only one which had been left
standing.
William Writ Howe, chairman OF the
committee OF the American Bar Assoc
citation on John Marshall Day has an
nounced that the day win be celebrated
on the lth OF February. 1901. in the city
OF Washington, In co-operntiOn with the
bar association OF the District OF Col
umbla.
Rear Admiral Hichborn. chief naval
constructor has been informed that
eleven valuable models Of American
warships were seriously injured during
their transportation from New York To
Havre. on the converted cruiser Prnlr-
ie. All the models shipped are valued
at 500, 600.
The condition OF Richard Mansfield,
the actor. who has been III nt the Hol-
leuden hotel. at Cleveland. since his ar
rival here Sunday last, has improved
sufficiently to permit him TO appear at
the Euclid avcnue opera house last
night. Mr.. Mansfield has been suffer-
ing from acute laryngitls,
Stephen Monaghan. veteran OF the
civil war. since which time he has lived
at Shamoltin. Pa, IN an old shop where
he also cobbled shoes. died Wednesday.
and when his papers We're examined he
was found to have left an estate Of over
$4,000. principally in government bonds,
The whole west and southwest. In
cludng the states OF Colorado. Wyo-
ming. Nebraska, Kansas. Missouri. To-
wa. Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Is ex-
periencinE n series OF rain and
snow storms, accompanied by temper
aturcs ranging from ffteen to thirty
degrees below normal with heavy frosts
over a large section OF the heat belt.
Among the passengers who arrived at
New York Wednesday. on board the
steamer Oceanic from Liverpool. were
phlU Prnsiddhl. the Siamese minister
10 Great Britain: Godfrey Drage, NJ.
p. n student OF the labor question: the
Earl OF Wnrrick. Lord Herbert l.. II.
Vnue-Tempcst, and A. j. FOrbes-Lelth.
OF Chicago.
James Francis Smith, district mes
senEer boy 1884. sailed on the 81. Louis
wednesday from New York. with
message of sympathy to President
Kruger. signed by 2S,sSI school boys.
He was accompanied by a reporter of
the Philadelphia North American.
Smith was given an enthusiastic send
on by au Immense crowd