The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-10
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The British transport Idaho landed
about two hundred Boer prisoners ut
the Island Of st. Helena, yesterday.
John Patrick chrichton- stunrt. Mar
uuIs of Butte. died Tuesday morning at
Dunfries house, his seat In AYRSHIRE.
England. from paralysis.
Henry NJ. Flagler, the Standard oil
magnate, has formally announced his
citizenship in Florida. by registering to
vote In the coming election.
The fifteenth annual convention of the
Lithuanians OF the United States was
opened In Elizabeth. N. j., yesterday.
and will continue to-day and Thursday.
The annual report OF the Hooking
Valley railway for the year ending
June 20, compared with the previous
year, shows an increase In net earn
ings OF SsGl ,545, or "a per cent.
Hundreds OF Boers with their families
are fleeing from the country OF their
birth to begin life again in some other
country. Most Of these have America
as their ultimate destination.
The passenger steamer City Of Parry
Sound was totally destroyed by fire
while lying at her dock, at Colllnwcod,
Ont, yesterday. The flames started in
the boiler room. She was valued at
$4,000. 4
The twenty-flrst annual session OF the
Supreme Castle. Knights of the Golden
Eagle, began at Youngstown. Ohio, for
three days session. The city is taste
fully decorated In honor Of the visiting
knights.
No street cars are moving in Terre
I'D al ptrtn q 4. nr
power are In service, owing to a strike
OF the Terre Heute electrical railway
employees. The men demand shorter
hours and more pay. t5 4
James Fitzharris, the Phoenix Park
conspirator, known as "Skin-t the Goat"
who was re-arrcsted at Liverpool, Eng,
Monday evening, for failing to report
himself under the terms OF his prison
release license. was liberated yester-
day.
A silk hat box, purchased in London
about ten years ago, By Paul Kruger,
was sold at auction yesterday. There
was keen competition for possession of
the hat box, which finally realized f2J.
a pipe Mt one time used by Mr.. Kruger
brought GS los.
7. H. GilhooIy, counsel for the Eliza
bethport N. j.. banking company. an
nounced yesterday that William
Schricber. missing clerk Of the bank,
was defaulter to the amount Of $780,
600 and that the bank directors had
made good the shortage.
Walter Johnson md Charles Buchan-
an, two young miners on strike, who
went to Jamestown, Pa, from PIttston,
to get work In the bltuminous district,
were run down by train Monday
night, while walking on the railroad
track. and were instantly killed.
Twenty Cinnamon and Italians have
been arrested at FL Paso, Texas. charg-
ed with evading the immigration laws
OF the United States 1t is believed hun
drcds have made their way across the
Mexican border. AS fast MS captured
by the customs officers they are being
deported.
President Ebert H. Gary, Of the
Federal Steel Company, denies that
there was amy friction between his COM
pany and the Carnegie Steel Company
regarding steel rail rates and also said
that there is and has been no Disagree
ment between manufacturers of rails
concerning prices.
The United States torpedo boat Som
ers left the New York port Tuesday for
Philadelphia. by the outside route,
which 1t is hoped she will be able to
travel by huGglng close to the Jersey
coast. Much interest Is manifested In
the trip, as this Is the first she has
made since she was bought from the
German government and brought across
the Atlantic on the deck OF an ocean
liner. S. s4
The President and Mrs. Mckinley &C.
companled by Secretary Cortelyou and
the family servants, arrived at WASH
ington Ut T:45 Tuesday morning, from
Canton. The President ard Mrs. Nc
kinlcy were both In very goud health
and spirits. President Mckinley will
remain In Washington until about the
22d or 23rd of the month, when he will
again so to Canton to remain until af-
ter the election.
At cabinet council held at the
slysee palace, Paris. yesterday. Loubet
presiding. 1t was decided, on the re-as-
sembling OF the chambers, to proceed
with the discussion OF the budget, but
at the same time to ask the chamber OF
deputies to devote two sessions each
week to various reform projects, no.
tably bill dealing with the dissolution
OF Illegal religious associations.
Assistant Supreme Ranger Harper,
OF the Independent Order Of Foresters,
In which Miss Defenbuch, of Chicago,
was Insured, says that the orders
agents In Chicago were not certain that
Miss Defenbach Ind actually died. 1t
might yet turn out. he said, that the
case was one of substitution. and that
the body cremated was not that Of the
young woman upon whose life the pol
icy was originally taken.
Pensions Granted.