The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-02

any further information win be sup
piled by the President himself eltheE
personally or by card. -
AS the German sugar trust starts op-
eratIons to-day the renneries nave
withdrawn hll their offers from the
markets. There will be no further aaleo
for twelve days, then the trust VIII uS
the prices for home trade.
The Savings Bank at sheldahl. Iowa
was blown up by four robbers Thur.
day at midnight They secured SLgVO
and escaped after holding htty moro
citizens at bay with rifles while theN
looted the wrecked vaults.
The international executive comml1'
sion Of the Pnn-AnerlcAn medical con.
gress announces that the ul-enheA
Meeting OF that body viii be held in
Havana, Cuba on the goth, Itth, %sIAS
and 2sth OF December, 1900.
The industrial commission has pre-
pared a programme OF hearings to DO
held this month when witnesses IN re-
gard to agriculture, horticulture, gener..
al labor conditions At the south ano
compulsory arbitration will appear.
The Congress- gold mine, sixty miles
north of Phoenix. Arizona, has been
sold for 1880, coo TO a New YORK syn- ~,
dicnte reported TO include Warner MIL
Ter and John Mackhy. II has been re-
garded the principal gold producer OF
Arizona.
Among the callers at the white houeO
yesterday were Rear Admiral Ahmed,
OF the Turkish navy, and AmpassaSo1r
CassinI. of Russia, who called TO pay nl9
respects to the President before leaVlIg
Washington for his summer Vacauoh Nd
Europe.
The cabinet meeting Friday Was uns
important and developed nothing OF
public interest. Appointments to DO
made in Porto Rico and Hawaii were
talked over and It is thought that tney
will be sent to the senate not later tnAu
tomorrow.
Advices from Honolulu per the Stea-
mer Mariposa, which arrived yestefaay
at San Francisco from AustEallen
ports state that the United State9Acon-
sulnte at Honolulu will be closed per-
manently after continuous exlsenc9
OF nearly sixty years.
Another conference OF the interests
bnck of the new sugar combinations
which Is TO include the National mol-
lenhauer and New York or DoeSeneE
rehneries Is being held in Jersey CITY.
when ali the legal formaitties necessary
to the company's incorporation prOp-
ably will be concluded.
The Times Company. of PHILADELPHIA
the recent purchasers OF the Times
newspaper formerly controlled by the
estate OF Frank Mclaughlin. Friday m
creased It's capitali stock from *l0OOO 70
500, 900. The head Of theanew company
is Charles +. Kindred. formerly gener.
al agent OF the Philadelphia & Reading
railway in Harrisburg.
For the first time in years large
steamer has been attacked on the Yang
Use river, near Ching King. by plrate9s
The American captain, named Fia9B'
drove them.Off. This indicates that the
''boxer" movement around Fekih
spreading south, but reflective people
realize that there is no danger for the
| community, because the "boXers are
not armed.
The comptroller OF the trensury mas
| decided that special taxes OF tobacco
dealers and manufacturers who were
engaged in such business during the
preceding fiscal year, shall be compu-
ted on the total sales in such preceulns
fiscal year without regard to whether
! the dealer or manufactures was en-
gagged in such business during tnS-
whole or only part OF said year
In a quarrel Friday morning, Irwin
Johnson, colored, OF Youngstown, Onloa
attempted TO murder Mrs, IDA Wels
come, a white woman, andAher seVen-
year-old son. He cut Mrs. Welcomes
throat with razor andNslashed the poy
badly across the face. The woman may
die. Thinking he had killed her, john
son then tried to commit sulcideaby cut
ting his own thront. He wllAprobaoIN
recover.
Assistant Secretary Taylor has
| awarded the contract for the interior
finish, heating and plumbing OF the
United States mint building at Phila-
delphia, to Charles McCRul. Of that
city. for $4,000. He has also awarueo
to Rasmussen and Strehlow, OF Oma-
ha and Buffalo the contract Tor eTect-
ing the United States government
building at the Pan-hmerican expost1
ton at Buffalo, at $l6s,OOO.
BY the Judgment of Justice Mathews,
in the queens bench division OF tho
high court Of justice. Friday, Insurance.
companies will have to pay their pol
Icies on gold reQuisltioned by the
Transvanl Just prior TO the outbreak ot
the war. Two claims, each for 8lVV,-
600 have been decided in favor OF tho
plaintiffs, mining companies, tho judge
holding that no state Of war existed ae
the time Of the seizure OF the gold
mines.
Beginning to-day with n Meeting OF
the American Academy OF Medicine, Ats
lantic City for the next eight days VIII
be the central point for medical men
from ali over the United States, as In
addition to the above there Will be
convocntion OF the health boards Of the
United States, Canada and Mexico,
convention of the national confedera-
tion Of state medical examining ana lie
censlng boards, and three days sess:
ion of the National American &edlcRl
Association.
Governor Poynter. of Nebraska, has
received a message from Washington,
stating that the Boer envoys would
visit Lincoln on their western trip. AZ
soon as the expected ARRIVAL was made
known, q citizens committee immeui-
ately set to work on arrangements toE
receiving the ENJOYS. tits understood
that the Beers are going TO Lincoln
solely for the purpose OF holding a
personal interview with w. ]. Bryan in
regard to Roer national AFFAIRS. They
wish TO ascertain from, Mr. Bryan what
his actions would be ns-regards the ma
tional policy toward the burglars
should he be elected president. air.
Bryan refuses TO discuss the expected
visit and conference.
Governor Thomas. Of Colorado, has
given his Endorsements to gigantic
proposition, having for Its object the
bringing OF the defeated Beers to the
valley OF the Platt, in Colorado. The
Union Pacific Land Company proposes
to give a million acres Of land, 10 ba
taken up under the Carey land act. on
the JulesburE and Wyoming divisions.
There is to be no charge for the gift
and the company will undertake to
,.nrvnort the Tancrs 10 Colorado bping