The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-02
1ATE NEWS goLp BRIEELY.
Tuesday. the senate passed the Alas
kan code bill.

AlAAE VI kAAI W AaNeAARAAt
railroad.
NJ. Dppuy de LONE, the former Span
ish minister at Washington, has peen
appointed ambassador TO Italy.
The Lord Mayor OF London's Ottawa
relief fund has now reached 4ls,OOO' OK
which 10000 has been remitfed.
The board Of directors OF the Penn
sylvanIa Railroad Company have De
clared the regular semi-annuat dtVt@
dend Of 2ik per cent.
The number OF cases Of hubonic
plague officially reported thus Tar, at
sydney, n. S. W.. is lSS, Of which htty-
four have proved fatal
SIX hundred boiler men and moulders
struck at the Stirling boiler works at
Barberton. Ohio, Tuesday morning. Tor
an increase Of Is per cent.
General AdnR r. Chaffee has request
ed to be relieved as chief Of stan to the
governor general at Havana. He also
desires four months leave Of absence.
Amlral Dewey has decided not to
accept the Invitation extended him yes
terday by q delegation Of representa-
tive Canadians, to visit Canada in July.
The month Of April was record
breaker for the making OF coins Mt the
Philadelphia mint. The total number
of pieces Of money made was 1881, 100,
the value Of which is $l2,954,4sO'
Secretary Long will formally repri-
mand Captain F. +. Chadwick for his
recent criticisms Of Rear Admiral w. s.
Scfley. This will probably be the e&-
tent OF the departments action.
Commencing yesterday, the Journey
men plumbers, timers. skaters and car
penters employed at Youngstown, Will
receive an advance In wages OF from
twenty-five to fifty cents per day. tg}
President Dole has been selected aS
the first governor OF Hawaii. The for
mai announcement will be mnde when
the list Of Hawaiian officials to be APP
pointed by the President is complete.
An engine and seven empty cars Of
the Santa Fe road were thrown into
the bay from the new Santa Fe wharf
In San Francisco yesterday, by the
breaking of an apron. None was Killed
so far as known.
The Princess Of Wales arrived in
London Tuesday, from Copenhagen, ana
met with nn enthusiastic deEnonstlA-
tion at the railroad station and while
passing through the streets on her way
to Marlborough House.
The American Clay Manufacturing
Company, Of Akron, Ohio, has secured
control OF the plant Of the Bennett
Sewer Pipe Company. Of jackson,
Mich. This makes thirty plants now
operated by the combine.
BY an explosion OF molten metal at
the Carnegie blast furnace. Braddock,
Pa. yesterday, James Powers and MI
chael BrombI, caste-house men We're
probably fatally burned and three 9th
ers were slightly injured.
The joint resolution continuing the
present administrative officials in Porto
Rico in office until the appointments are
made under the civil government law,
was signed by the President at 2:3O
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon.
The monthly comparative statement
OF the government receipts and expep-
dltures shows that during April the
receipts aggregated $450s9, ,s26, and the
expenditures S40,9Os,997. leaving a sur
plus for the month OF S4,lS6,0OO.
A special to the Toledo Bee says that
the section men on the Tiftin division
Of the Big Four railroad have struck
for an increase in wages Of from 81 Is
to 81 % per day. The company has re-
fused to accede to the demand.
The East Side rolling mills at Toledo.
Ohio, which are part OF the Republic
Iron & Steel Company's system, have
shut down indefinitely. throwing three
hundred men out Of work. Lack OF Or
ders Is given as thecause OF the suspen-
sion.
At a meeting held at Cape Town last
night, Rn Irish association was formed.
Those present cheered all references to
the queen and the deputy mayor declar-
ed that the voice Of the IrIshmen IN
South Africa was for queen and coun-
try"
About 1000 bricklNyers and 900 hod
carriers struck yesterday at Pittsburgh,
for an increase in wages and shorter
hours. The scale of the brotherhood Of
Carpenters and JoIners was signed by
the Master Builders Association, and
all are at work,
A considerable portion Of the Toms
Creek coal mine in Wise county, Viz
ginla, has been on fire since last Sat-
urday evening. Four men are known
to have been caught in the mine and
suffocated. The amount OF damage
and the number OF lives lost cannot be
ascertained at present.
Contractors and employers generally,
at Kansas City, Mo-, refused demands
for Increased wages, and as a result
about 1000 workingmen struck. They
include timers, sheet metal workers,
hod carriers, plnstArers and quarry
workers It Is probable that the plum
bers and steam filters will also go out.
There has been very light business in
the wool market this week and the feel
ing among the dealers is that manufac-
turers are going to walt until the Lon
don auction sales, which open next
month. before buying, so that they
can govern their actions by the tone OF
the market there.
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation OF Labor. has ia
ken special pains to violate the tntunc-
tion Issued by Justice Freedman, OF the
supreme court, of New York, prohibits
mukers' international union from pay
Levy & Company.
More than one hundred carpenters
went out on q strike at Washington,
Pa, yesterday, Two weeks ago notice
was served on contractors, asking fora
advance in wages OF twenty-five cents,
to go into effect May /, for nine hour
working dny and eight hours on Sotur-
day. Carpenters now get 81 and Sc &c,
according to the kind OF work.
The Cleveland police were called up-
on to qurll riot in the Big Four yards
Tuesday afternoon, when twenty nom
union Iron workers were engaged in re-
pairing Il bridge. They were attacked
by about sixty members OF the struc-
turni iron workers union. The trouble