The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-03
TERsE TEIEdRAMs.

The South Platte river, In colorado.
Is the highest in six years, and IS
three fourths Of mile wide.
Charles H. DItrich was nominated for
governor of Nebraska. yesterday. by
reclamation. by the Republicans.
Lazard Frcrcs viii ship $1,6OO,OOO gold,
and HeIdelbnch tckelheimer & Com
pany 100000 to Europe to-day, from
New York.
Captain A. II. MnttoX. press repre-
sentative of the United States commits
sion to the Paris exposition, sailed for
Paris yesterday.
The Two Thousand Guineas stakes.
run at New Market, England. yester--
day. was won by the Prince of Wales
Diamond Jubilee.
In the United States district court
yesterday, at Pittsburgh, Edward Her
bert Clarke, of Washington, Pa, was
discharged from bankruptcy.
Reports received from the tea dis
tricts near Calcutta, show the pros
poets are generally unfavorable. Hail
and rain storms have done mitch dam
age to the crops.
Judge CantrIn yesterday ordered a
change of venue to Scott county. Ken
lucky, for the trial OF Powers. Davis,
Youtsey and others, charged with com
plicity in the GOebel murder.
-Four Italians, while charging a hole
with dynamite on section II of the
Rainy River railroad, of Ontario, yes
terday. were blown to atoms by the pre-
mature explosion Of the dynamite.
Representatives of fourteen firms In
Pittsburgh signed the timers scale OF
the Amalgamated Association of sheet
and metal workers Wednesday, and the
men resumed work at the advance OF
twenty-five cents demanded.
A terrific explosion yesterday at p.
M, in Chicago, wrecked the third and
fourth floors of the Dale & Sempil drug
store, in the heart of the business dis
trict, and seriously injured three men.
The explosion was due to escaping
gas.
About two hundred linemen and In
strument settlers of the Bell Telephone
Company have struck at Buffalo. Tho
linemen ask for 50 so a day for ten
hours, and the instrument settlers want
their working hours reduced from ten
to eight hours.
There was general exodus Wednes-
day. Of the delegates and visitors TO the
brought to n close last night. Many
of the missionaries who came from far
countries have gone TO visit friends be-
fore departing for their posts.
During street fight early Wednes-
day, at Philadelphia. Hugh Callahan.
aged twenty-nine years, was shot In
the forehead by David McGovern. aged
thirty-one years. He died at n hospit-
al an hour after his admission. Nc
Govern was arrested and committed
for trial.
The second days session Of the Penn
sylvania Photographers convention, at
Pittsburgh, was taken up principally
with practical demonstrations, conduct
ed by II. p. Fell, Of Chicago. who dem
nnstrated the methods OF handling the
forms Of platinum paper used ut the
convention.
The general conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal church wh'nh
meets at Columbus Ohio, next Mon
day, will elect bishop who Will mv1
charge Of the church In the far east,
with his episcopal residence In Manila:
Four new bishops will be elected and
three viii be assigned to new districts
In this country.
The annual meeting OF the stockhold-
ers OF the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railroad company was held az
Cleveland yesterday. The report of the
directors Of the company for the year
ending December ~. 1899, shows the
gross earnings to have been $28,6lS,0+8,
an Increase Of $2,SGO, 2G3. or 1878 per
cent over the preceding year.
Word has been received by personal
friends Of Charles a. Boutelle. repre-
sentative from the Fourth Maine dis
trlct, that he Is falling so rapidly In
health that unless there Is quick
change for the better II will be cruel to
permit him to be n candidate for re-
election next fall His physicians as
sert that he is In grave danger OF death
Andrew Carnegie, who refused to
contribute to the Dewey arch fund In
New York. has given $1,000 to the fund
for the widow Of Sergeant Douglas, who
was killed at Croton Dam during the
recent strike. In sending the check.
Mr.. Carnegie wrote: Sergeant
Douglas fought not for foreign con-
quest. but for peace and order at
home"
After farewell visits to Ministers
Plerson and De Beaufort, ut the
Hague. the BOar delegates started yes
terday after noon. for Rotterdam, on
their way TO the bnlleu SulteH' ~
great crowd at the station bid them
farewell. Floral tributes reached the
delegates from all parts Of the country.
A committee OF the South African un-
ion presented the delegates with n
silver palm as an emblem Of pence.
Hymns were sung by the school chill
dren gathered at the station, and
Mossrs Fischer and W0lmeraHs made
short speeches. thanking the populacc
for the kindly reception extended to
them by "a people united to them by