The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-16
WIRE WHISPERS.

Cars are running regularly in st.
Louis on the Suburban Street Railway
Company's system, the strike having
been settled at yesterdays conference.
1t has been showing heavily at Leip-
sig since early Tuesday morning. The
thermometer registers S6h degrees.
There is also heavy snow fall at
ChemnitZ.
LllIuokalanI, ex-queen OF Hawaii. and
her retinue left Washington yesterday
for Honolulu. Her health Is much en-
feebled and 1t is not likely that she VIII
return to this country.
A deal has Just been completed,
whereby the Consolidated Electric
Company, OF Philadelphia, will secure
possession OF the electric light plants
In OIL City and Franklin, Pa. .itrtl
Street car strikers at Kansas City,
Mo-, continued to lose strength ana yes
terday there was hardly q semblance OF
q strike on the Metropolitan lines. All
lines are being operated without the
least friction.
Letters have been received here from
the bark Empire. which sailed from
San Francisco, for Adelaide, South Aus
tralia. These say the vessel called on
the way at Palmerston Island, midway
between Tahiti and Samoa, and found
the people starving,
John Wilson and Daniel Hunker, OF
near Pleasant City, Pa, were perhaps
fatally burned last night at HumphrIes,
by the explosion Of a can Of powder.
The men were engaged in shooting fire
squIbs when the powder in the can iB-
nited. Both are terribly burned.
All records In the broad jump have
been broken by Captain Kraenzlein, OF
the University Of Pennsylvania track
team. He cleared yesterday, in prac-
tIce, twenty-four feet eight and one
half inches. The jump cannot stand as
a record, as II was not made tn a con-
test.
Representatives Of third class cities
OF Pennsylvania met in convention at
York yesterday, for the purpose Of
forming municipal league, Mayor D.
w. Jeftries, Of Chester. was elected
permanent chairman, and Mayor Lea
der, OF Reading, was made permanent
secretary.
Terrible accounts are received OF the
distress which prevails In all the fam
tne districts Of India, despite the lavish
distribution Of funds. FIfty-eight lAcs
OF Rupees have already been expended
in purchasing cattle and seeds, while
the government has made further al
lotment Of seventy-fve laes Of rupees.
Mrs. Leland Stanford. on the ami
versary Of her deceased sons birth,
has delivered over to Bishop Grace the
deed 10 the old Stanford mansion,
which shall henceforth be known as
the stanford. .Lathrop Childrer's Home.
At the same time the $4,000 transfer
was made which 10 to serve as an en-
dowment fund for the institution.
Work on the Chicago postofflce build
ing is to be resumed Immediately, re-
gardless Of the demands Of Chicago Ia
Dor unions or Of tho existing labor trou-
bIes. Contractor John A. Pelrce, 30
Architect Henry Ives Cobb announces,
will employ any capable man, regard
less Of his Affiliations with labor or
CARNATIONS. The federal government
will be depended upon to protect such
workmen.
An article in the VoFland, THE organ
Of the Danish government In CopenhH-
zen, states that Denmark is consider
ing plan to put an end to the Danish
West India Islands muddle by placing
the islands in the hands OF q chartered
company, which will conduct their af-
fairs under the Danish flag, and there-
by cutting Off Germany, as well as the
United States from obtaining possass'
ion of the Islands.
Tho forty-sixth annual meeting OF
the Western Unitarian conference be-
gan at Chicago Tuesday and VIII con-
tinue until Thursday night The con
ference belongs to the American Uni
tartan Association. II includes the
churches IN the states Of Illinois, Min
nesota, Wisconsin. Michigan. Nebraska,
the Dakotas. Missouri, Ohio and Ken
lucky. numbering one hundred, and
with membership Of $4,000.
The London Express Of yesterday ad-
vocntes the ostraciSm OF Richard Cro-
lter In England In revenge for Tam
muny's attitude on the Boer war. II
says; ut has not escaped notice in
this country that an American welcome
to the BOer delegation has bean inspir.
ed and encouraged by Tammany ball.
which lB controlled by the notorious
boss, Richard Croker. The records OF
Tammany are already black enough
without the addition Of this new In
fanny. But what makes the action OF
Tammany peculiarly infamous now is
tho fact that Croker claims thiB hagplt-