The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-24
TOLD IN FEW WORDS.

The United States transport Sumner
has arrived at Port Said, Egypt.
Additional rains have added gravity
to the Hood situation in the Mississippi
Valley.
Dr. Rene de Poyen- -BellIsle. professor
OF French at the University OF Chicago.
was found dead yesterday. In his apart
ments.
Latest reports from the scene Of the
bush fires near the Minnesota bound
ury line show that there has been no
loss OF life.
John Horton. n negro his Wifi and
five children were drowned In the back
water Of Beard river. AlIsssissippi,
while trying to escape from the flood.
Members Of the boxers society, Sat
urday massacred many Chinese Cath
ollcs near Poa Ting. Flu. in the province
Of Pc Chi il. southwest OF Tien Tsin.
The supreme court yesterday refused
to grant Il writ Of certlorari In the case
OF Oberlln K. Carter, convicted Of court
martial for irregularities while In
charge OF engineering works In Geor-
sla,
At meeting Of leading fnaDciers and
manufacturers Monday In Berlin, under
the presidency OF DR.. KOCH president
of the Imperial bank, Il was decided to
raise n fund for the relief OF the fam
Inc sufferers IN India, and those pres
ent subscribed 100000.
The capture Of Bocas del Terro and
the threatened attack on Colon. may
compel forclble Intervention by the gov
ernment OF the United States to pre-
serve the perfect neutrality" OF the
isthmus, guaranteed by the United
States In the treaty Of lSA6
An electric passenger car on the Lake
Shore line Colllded Monday south Of MI
Clemens. Mich. with some flat cars
which were being pushed by n motor
car. In the shock the passenger mo-
tor was forced upon n fiat car. Seven
persons were seriously injured.
Admiral Dewey and Rear Admiral
HlciIborn yesterday, to the house COM
mitteo on naval afIairs, expressed APP
prOval Of the Holland type Of submarine
boats, particularly for coast defense
purposes and the moral effect such n
mysterious engine OF warfare would ex-
ert.
Fire hns been raging since Sunday
night In the Tllden mine. ut Besscmer
Mich, several hundred feet below the
surface. II II known TO be near No
G. shaft. where tho powder magazine Is
located. All men have been ordered
out Of the mine, in anticipation OF an
explosion.
The Bank OF Nova Scotia, OF Chicago
has brought suit in the superior court
against Count Toulous de Lautre, who
was arrested nj the Auditorium annex
Sunday, charged with having sold
forged bonds in Canada, for the recov-
cry OF 81 800 alleged TO be due the bank,
Count dc Lautre iF also named In the
papers filed as NJ Cnstano.
Operations werr suspended Monday
at the three rod mills OF the Illinois
Steel Company. In Joliet. Between 800
and 200 men were thrown out OF cm-
ployncnt. II is rumorpd that the en-
tlrr Illinois steel plant here. which is
controlled by the Federal steel Com
pany, vii shortly close down. The ru-
NOR lacks official confirmation, how
uycr.
The latest official reports from the
famine districts In india say that the
misery existing there Ia lndescrlbabla
and unparalleled. and that the present
relief ls entirely inadequate, They udd
thnt tho mortality among the Cattle "a
also so severe TINT the authorities ara
trying to nddpt farm implements So
that human power can replace that of
bullocks.