The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-13
pRIEF TEIEaRAMs.

Mrs. George d. Boxer, widow Of the
poet and ex-minlster to Russia, Is dead
at her home in Philadelphia.
The annual convention Of the Nations
al Independent Telephone Association
began at Cleveland Tuesday, with Q
very large attendance.
A powerful ChIlian aying SQUADRON
OF six vessels anchored of Africa Mon
day. They will remain for a week, and
then proceed southwark.
E. NJ. Blgelow, who was deposed from
the Office OF director Of public works b.
| the Pittsburgh council yesterday, hes
decided to quietly give up the struggle.
Charles Hitchcock, jr., 1903, of New
York City, has won the championship
in golf at Yale, defeating Thomas L.
Cheney, 1901, Of South Manchester,
Conn.
The board OF health OF San Francisco
has decided to raise the quarantine Of
Chinatown twenty days from the verih.
cation OF the last case Of plague, which
was on June 2.
The steamer China arrived Tuesday
at San Francisco from the Orient via
Honolulu. She carried 109 cabin pas
sengers, and "a Europeans and 556 Chi
nese in the steerage.
The Examiner asserts that Of band
Of thirty-two japanese immigrants who
were recently imported on the steamer
Thyra, at least four, and possibly twens
ty, are already back In California
One thousand master plumbers from
all parts of the United States are in
Baltimore. in attendance upon the
eighteenth annual convention OF the
Master Plumbers National AsSoctn-
ton.
The steamer Queen Adelaide, from the
| Orient, brings story that six weeks
ago Japan and Russia were close to
war over the land Of n Japanese trader,
whose removal was requested by Rus
sla at Masampo.
Madame Augusta Lehman, once a
singer Of international reputation g
dead in Santa Cruz, California, aged
| eighty years. She was u native OF
Germany, and came to this country
with PRrepa Rosa.
A combination entitled the United
Bleachers' Association Qlmited) has
been registered in London, with cap-
ital of R9,OOO.OOO. The most important
bleaching firms in the country have
tolned the new organization.
Representative Marion Devries, OF
California, has been appointed to fill the
vacancy on the board OF general ap-
praisers at New York, caused by the
failure OF the senate TO coDhrm the ap-
| pointment OF eX-Representative w. D.
Bynum. of Indiana.
Chaunccy NJ. Hawkins, a jeweler,
committed suicide by taking morphine,
after vainly trying to obtain employ
ment in San Francisco. His wife, who
| tn gnVg fhlt hA
was once wealthy, and formerly man-
aged jewelry establishment In New
York.
Governor Roosevelt has again reiter-
ated his former statement relative to
the vice presidential nomination on the
Republican ticket, which he hns nbso-
luteIy declined. II have nothing TO
add" said the governor, ITO what
have already said. My decision is ir-
revocable."
Captain George Wellington Streeter,
whose retainers recently took possess
sion of the 'District OF Lake Michigan,
and for several hours defled the whole
local police force to oust them, was yes
terday held to the criminal court,
charged with conspiracy before the fact
and assault
Former Governor Drake, Of Iowa. an
nounced yesterday at the commence
ment exercises Of the Drake University
that he had made the University Joint
heir with his five children to his prop
erty, valued at f30O0.0O0. The univer-
slty vii, therefore, receive 100000.
Governor Drake has already contribute
ed about 100000 to the institution.
over 300 brlcklayers employed by
the city Of Chicago In the construction
of the intercepting sewer syster, the
building OF electrical conduits ana other
improvements going on IN various parts
of the city were called out by their
union yesterday, the result being the
almost complete stoppHge OF the work
on public improvements, leaving mlleB
OF streets torn up for the sewer and con"
duIt systems. IN an almost impassaols
condition. The trouble is said to nave
arisen over the letting of minor con-
tract to n contractor who is persona
non grntR with the union.
Cambridge University Tuesday after
noon conferred the degree OF III" u. on
several distinguished persons. including
Mr.. Joseph Fl. Chonte, the United states
Ambassador 10 London, and Prof. John
Williams White, of Harvard. In pre-
senting the degree TO Mr. Choate, the
public orator, Or. Sundys, briefly touch.
cd on the many ties linking the United
states and Great Britain, adding that
when either country was nj war the
principles OF neutrality proved 20 ne
perfectly consistent with the feellnB OF
tnclt good WIN existing between the
lending statesmen OF the nations.