The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-24


four laborers, engaged in demolishing
an old house on Lispanard street, were
buried under a falling portion of the
building. One of them was killed and
three severely injured.
Hon. Isaac n. Arnold, of Chicago,
will deliyar his lacture on the Personal
ReCOllections and Character of Lincoln,
at the Cooper Institute tomorrow even
ing.
The Dale Tick mill at Patterson has
been attached by the Government, the
owners having, revenue officials al
| lege, deirauded :the revenue of 6,O0C
by making false returns in 1861 and 80.
Tue mill, which is most extensive, is 10
be kept running in charge of an agent
ofthe Government.
The removal OF Collector Thomas E.
Smythe, of the Eighth District, is cur.
rently reported. The specific charge
| upon which the removal is said to have
been effected is, that in July SO3 barrels
of whisky were shipped from Dubuque
Iowa, consigned to the Collector of the
Eighth District. To cancel the bonds
| upon which this whisky was shipped
it was necessary for Smythe to certify
that the lot had entered a bonde l ware.
house in his District. This he did,
stating that it had been entered in the
bonded warehouse offs. C. Boehm Il Co,
on the night before that establishment
was destroyed by fire, on the 18th oil
July. The investigation showed, how
| ever, that the whisky had not time 10
reach this city from the date of ship
ment from Dubuque, and the identical
SOB barrels were traced to other places.
| Collector Smythe although held respon-
sible for this certitication, had no pecu.
mary interest in the transaction, but
was probably made the victim of col
| fusion.
The distillery of Flulay & Co., on 54th
street, was seized to-day for alleged
| fraudulent returns. The Express says
Mr.. Finlay is Secretary of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Distillers' AssOci.
alton, and in him the Secretary of the
Treasury reposed great confidence
giving him letters of recommendation
to travel over the States and organize
distillery associations everywhere, that
| the Government might be protected
Several minor seizures were made.
Typhoid fever is prevalent at New
| Haven. Many OF the Yalestudents are
sick; one named James s. Loomis, oil
Bridgeport, died, Monday.
The steamer Atlanta, from Bremen,
has arrived.
The Executive Committee OF the Ma.
| tionRl Union Republican Convention
met to- day at Fifth Avenue Hotel. The
following were present: Gov. Ward, n.
j., chairman; Hon. Samn A. Purvance
Pennsylvania; John B. Clark, New
Hampshire; Hon. II. 81. Stark weather,
Connecticut, and Hon. II. w. Hoffman
| Maryland.
After the transaction OF some private
business a full meeting of the National
Union Republican Committee was call.
ed to meet in Washington on the 18th
of December, to decide upon the time
and place for holding the National
Union Republican Convention.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-The Herald's
Panama letter says: The secret treaty
with Peru, made in August, 1866, has
been disapproved by the present
Columbian Government, and resolu'
lions were passed to return it to the
United States Government at Wash
ington.
The steamer Rays or r. R. Cuyler
which now lies in a Columbian port,
was watched closely by a Spani.
frigate, but it was abandoned by the
crew. A..
Bygota dates to the 18th of Septem
Der report all quiet.