The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-27


the Illinois Central under leases. Fot
| the purchase of these lines and for i'm.
provements. an issue of $500, 900 3 pei
cent gold bonds, payable in 1851 and Sc.
cured by mortgage on the new lines
was authorized.
Two hundred men employed by the
| Page Boiler Company. OF Norwich
Conn.,, went out on II strike Wednesday.
when informed that voluntary In
crease of 10 Eer cent In wages, which
was granted In April of this year, no
longer could be paid. ~ sy4
1t is. stated upon reliable authority
| that the committee to which It was re-
ferred has reported upon the proposed
cNtraditlon treaty between the United
States and Peru. TritlIng alterations In
| the treaty are suggested, and these Will
be discussed this week.
The German steamer Herzog, from
! Lorenzo Marques. which sailed for Eau
rope yesterday. had among her passen-
| gers the Transvnal postmaster general.
Van Alphen; the assistant secretary of
state, Gt0b'er: the state treasurer.
Malherbe and large quantity Of bar
gold. -
I, News has been received Mt Drum
more. Scotland, Luce Bay OF hul.ri-
cane at Oxford. Iceland, September 20.
The wind, 1t Is said. blew 120 miles an
hour. Nearly all the i'shing snacks
were driven ashore; houses were RACED
and several persons were killed. There
was great destruction to property.
Rear Admiral Walker, president OF
the Nicaraguan canal commission;
Theodore c.. Search. president OF the
| manufacturers League of Philadel-
phia, visited President Mckinley yes
terdny. Admiral Walker went for n
conference on official matters. the ma
ture oil winch was not made public.
The body OF William Marsh Rice, the
New York millionaire. whose death last
Saturday, Is the occasion of unusual
| inquiry, official and otherwise, was ta-
ken to the crematory at Fresh Pond,
Wednesday, and incinerated. Prof. r.
a. Wilhaus. chemist. will analyze the
contents OF the organs taken from the
| body. ~. =
Among the passengers on board the
| steamer Furnessia, which arrived at
| New York, from Glasgow, was George
| Z. Hale, chief OF the Kansas City fire
| department, and thirteen OF his men,
1his is part Of the representation
which exhibited ut the Paris exposition
| ana won all the contests In which they
entered. = =
The navy department has ordered a
survey OF the cruiser Baltimore, which
was engaged with Dewey's fleet Mt Ma
Mia. and upon which Rear Admiral
watson returned TO the United States,
she has been In service for several
years and the survey probably viii dis
close the necessity for n thorough over
hauling and general repair OF the shin.
Two negroes passed through South
Pittsburgh. Tenn. Tuesday night, with
another colored man, whom they said
they were going to hang for an assault
on n woman. Officers heard of the ar
1air and followed. Wednesday thew
found portions Of the Negroes clothing
In the woods on the bank of n creek.
1t Is supposed the negro was thrown in
to the creek ~
No further news has been received
from the scene OF the cloud burst and
tornado late last night at Ferguson. Ia,
Or the four persons reported killed,
only two names are known-John Love
lady ana MS young child. 1t was ru-
morcd that almost the entire Village
had been wrecked. but the report lacks
confirmation. :,
Consul General McNally at Guatcma-
Ia, has notified the state department
mat the Guatemalan government has
accepted the proposition OF the Central
American Improvement Company TO
complete the Northern raIlway,.to the
city OF Guatemala without concessions
or subsidy OF any kind, save that Of a
Innd grant
The gun boat Vicksburg, which hos
been ordered to ut for the iAsIatic sta
ton yesterday sailed from Newport for
Boston. where she Will go Immediately
into dock. The small gun boats Alya.
RADIO and Sandoval, which were captur-
cd from Spain during the Spanish
american war, have been ordered 10
Annapolis. where they will be used as
exercise ships by the cadets. q. ~
G. T. Stevens, q Methodist missionary
At Oxford house, In the district or
kcewatin. Manitoba. In n letter dated
September 10, says that during tho into
winter and early spring Of this yenr no
tween twenty and thirty Indians OF thr
SaulteauN tribe residing around Andy
iake. died OF starvation. Rabbits and
deer became so scarce that the Indians
were compelled to subsIst on bark. :
a secret circular, addressed by joan
n'cfas The Metropolitan OF Ricff, TO nil
the Russian archbishops. virtually 'ex-
communicating TolstoI. the, Russian
novelist and Social rcformcr, Is pub.
itshed Mt Lausanne. Switzerland. If
declares that Tolstoi Is m nvowcd en-
envy OF the church and that therefore.
unless he rccnnts. the Holy Synod WIN
prohipit the celebration Of NIL divine
services and cxplatnry masses In the
event Of his death. - ~ -
A BOON TO travellers. Dr.. Fowlcrs