The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-03
WARM wAvE1ETs.


The chamber of deputies of Italy yes
terday reelected Signor Colombo presI-
dent of the house.
No disposition is manifested in the
senate to disturb the war revenue taxes
during the present session Of Con-
gress.
A strike was inaugurated at the
works of the New York Air Brake
Company, in Watertown, N. Y. Mon
day. Four hundred men are out. NO
trouble has occurred.
With the blowing of the whistles in
the machine shops of Chicago for the
beginning OF work Monday, thousands
Of machlnists resumed the work inter-
rupted some weeks ago by n strike.
The strike Of the building trades and
a few other trades went into erect IN
New York and vicinity Monday. II mas
not as yet assumed great proportions
and the men out are perfectly orderly.
The new scale for the mining of BIZ
luminous coal went into effect In the
Altoona region Monday and from now
on the 600 miners in that section will
receive the highest wages IN thirty
years
The revolutionary general, Herman
deZ, of Venezuela, has been Obliged TO
retreat to the banks of, the Orinoca,
having suffered a new and decisive
overthrow sixteen miles from Ciudad'
Bolivar.
The monthly statement OF the gov
ernment receipts and expenditures duT7
ing the month of March shows the total
receipts TO have been $IS.726.SI and the
expenditures $32, ,1SS,27l, which leaves
surplus for the month of Successes.
!. b. Thompson, chief city detective
of Tacoma, and a. j, Hoshor, his ne
phew, were arrested last night by SSher-
Iff Van Devanter and two deputies OF
Seattle, on a charge OF embezztfng $2V,-
900 from H. G. Torrence, Kondiker.
A British steam launch was captured
by pirates Monday near the Check
Houng-Shan district, China. The pilot
OF the boat was murdered and the
launch and a lighter which Il had in tow
were looted. The super-cargo was made
prisoner.
Frank Henry and his wife lived in a
small house In the woods five miles
from Delhi, Ny. On Sunday morn
ing their son, who went TO pay his par
ents n visit, found The house burned
and the bones OF Henry and his wife
in the ruins.
Carsten L. Borchgrevink, the leader
OF the South Polar expedition, fitted out
in 1898 by Sir George Newnes, Of Lon
don, telegraphs that the object of the
expedition has been fully attained and
that the position OF the south magnetic
pole has been located.
Because he was suspected Of being \
spy OF n rival company, Choy Fook, Il
Chinese fisherman ut Point San Pedro,
California, was tied by five members
of the various companies to q beacon
stake on a barren rock in Richardson's
bay, and there left for two days with
out food or water
Miss ELY Coghlnn, sister of Rose
Coghlan, the actress, and herself well
known on the stage, was taken TO
Bellevue hospital, In New York, Mon
day, apparently insane She has been
III several days and yesterday she be-
came so violent that her physicians de
rected that she be sent to Bellevue.
JourneyInen plumbers to the num-
Der OF about three hunderd went on n
strike In Cleveland yesterday for higher
wages The Journeymen are at present
receiving 81 per day, while the junior
plumbers get 50 % They demand 50 60
and 50 so respectively, all men who have
served HFe years OF IRoFF 10 pe tI4Lltltu
to the maximum pay,
VIM. +. Miller, of $50 per cent. Frank.
lin syndicate fame, was placed on trial
in Brooklyn Monday. OF the twenty
ono Indictments pending against him he
was tried on the one charging him with
grand larceny In the first and second
degrees. It is alleged that he committed
theft In taking money from investors in
the Franklin syndicate.
The monthly statement OF the public
debt issued yesterday, shows that at
the close OF business March n, 1900. the
debt, less cash In the treasury, amount
ed to SLIP. 2663Ss, u decrease for the
month OF fG,62g7O1. This decrease is ac-
counted for by corresponding increase
In the cash on hand The net cash ball
anCc on hand, Including the reserve
fund, Is 5000 1925 9aj.
About 1900 wOrkmon OF the building
trades Of Pittsburgh VIII be benefited
by wage scale which became effective
yesterday and on May 1. The scales
are mostly settled on an eight hour
basis. among which are the hrlcklaycrs,
carpenters and riastcrcrF The tarpen-
ters on May I VIII obtain an advance 10
% cents per hour aud cight hours as n
work day The painters scale has bee
come operative on n nine hour basis,
with an advance OF 10 per cent.