The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-11-19
MIDNIGHT BRIEFS.

Robert ]. Stell, secretary-treasurer OF
the Monadnock Loan & Investment
Company, Of Chicago. has disappeared.
1t is said his books show a shortage OF
$4,000.
There is considerable commotion in
Hong Kong according to the corres-
pondcnt of the London Dali Mall. In
consequence Of a report that Great Bri-
tain intends to send out flying squad
ron.
General Weyler denies the statement
published In Paris and cabled to the
United States that he told an interview
er that Il he had remained In Cuba he
would have ousted the Americans from
the island.
John P. Holland. inventor Of the sub
marine boat, to-day announced that he
had planned II number of sea voyages
for his boats now in process Of construc-
tion. These include a trip 10 Cuba and
another one to Europe. -
The approaching session of the Span
ish parliament promises to be u lively
one. Members of the opposition who
are now arriving. intimate their inten-
ton of attacking the political and eco
nomical programmes of the govern
ment. e..
By deal to be closed December 10.
$4,000 acres OF coal land in Johnstonc,
Floyd and Pike counties. Ky, Will pass
from the hands of central Kentucky
parties to coal syndicate which has
been formed In Pennsylvania by eastern
and English capitalists.
The Renwick block, occupied by tho
Davenport, Iowa. Furniture and Carpet
Company, and adjacent buildings occu-
pied by the Harold Peterson Wall Paper
Company, the Jarvis White ART Com
pany and the Perry Snoe House, were
burned Sunday afternoon. Loss $780,
600: insurance $4,000.
All is In readiness for the opening to-
day OF the sixteenth annual horse show
under the auspices of the National
Horse Show Association at Madison
Square Garden New York. All day
Saturday workmcn were engaged In
putting the finishing touches to the dec
oratlons aud other arrangements In the
big amphitheatre.
The Belgian steamer Waesland, OF the
International Navigation Company
which sailed from Philadelphia Satur-
day for Liverpool with passengers and
n full cargo. returned last night with q
ten-foot hole in her port bow. The
Waesland, while steaming down the
Delaware bay. was run into by the
schooner Elmira. bound from Boston tc
Philadelphia. The schooner also had
n hole In her bow.
Late Saturday night some vandal eN.
| ploded stick OF dynamite beneath q
shanty adjoining n large Italian tene-
ment house In North Scranton, Pa. de-
molishing the shanty and blowing in
the end of the tenement. Mr.. and Mrs
james Payne and their fourtecn-year-
old son, who were asleep In end apurt-
| ments, were thrown out OF bed and fair
ly buried beneath the debris. but out
side Of few cuts and bruises. escaped
| injury. .tH
The charred remains of Mrs Mary
| Van Lieu. colored, and her two-year-old
| daughter were found Sunday morning
In the ruins OF their home at Trenton
| Junction. n. j., which was destroyed BY
| fire Saturday night. Robert Henson
also coorcd. was lodged In the Merce,
county jail last night and committed tc
| await hearing on the charge of tho
murder OF Mrs. Van Lieu and heI
daughter and the burning of their home
The escaped convicts, Cravens ant
| Estclle, from Leavenworth, kas., were
surrounded In the hills Il mile from
Brighton. Kansas, Sunday. having es.
| capped from the barn burned by the pos
Sc. The place Is rough and well adapt.
| ed to screen the corvicts. and rs thcy
are we'll armed the posse viii probably
starve them out and not try TO force q
surrender. The officers are sure thai
one OF the men Is severely wounded as
n result OF the first days fusillnde.