The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-30

The New Pork Legislature passed q
law lately, transferring the licensing
and supervision Of theaters, intelligence
Offices, junk shops, carriages, &C., from
the Mayor and Council of the City Of
New York to the Police Commissioners
appointed by the State authorities. In
dignant at this interference with their
local affairs, the City Council repealed
all ordinances providing for licenses OF
the character referred to.
A young lady, daughter of J. B.
Beebe, committed suicide, in FishEll,
New York, by shooting herself with o
pistol. She had been engaged to be
married, but her father placed her in q
lunatic asylum to break up the match.
The officers of the asylum, finding she
was not insane, let her go home. Learn
ing of the marriage of the gentleman
to whom she had been engaged, she de-
liberately shot herself.
Some days ago there were two incen-
diary fires in Farmland, Randolph conn
ty, Ind, destroying large amount of
property, ,includiag several stores, which
were first robbed and then set on fire.
A negro named Fletcher was arrested,
anu, ".ic" threats of hanging, made a
confession, lmpllcaIing 0..L uester and
Joseph McNeese, white men. They nar.
been arrested, and some of the stOlep
property recovered. " <
Owing to the distance the chief occu-
patton of the delegate from sitka will
consist in travelling from Behring's
Straits to Washington to draw his mile
age and carrying the money back with
him. The number of radical politicians
who will shortly be on their way to
Behring's Straits in the hope Of getting
this office is expected to double the pop
ulatien of the territory.
At a recent ball in Roseburg, Oregon,
all went on in peace and quietness un-
til Sol. Colver, John Fitzhugh, Bob
Forbes, John Harmon and Abe Crow
came there, it is said, to break up the
ball. When they entered the ballroom
they had q few words, when George
Bennett struck Sol. Colver in the face
with revolver. Beranger then step
ped up to them for the purpose, it is
said, of stopping the fuss, when John
Fitzhugh drew deringer and shot him
through the heart, after which he never
spoke. Ash Clayton, who was fiddling
at the time, then drew a knife and
stabbed Sol. Colver in the small of the
back, under the right shoulder. Abe
Crow then rushed in and shot Clayton
through the thigh, and another ball
struck him in the forehead, the ball
not entering the skull, but glancing
over it under the skin and passing out
at the back of the head. Crow
then drew his knife and struck Clayton
across the head, inflicting a terrible
wound. Fitzhugh, after shooting Ber-
anger, rushed on to Tom Thompson,
when the latter shot him twice. Han
non then struck Thompson, when the
latter shot him in the stomach, the ball
passing through him. Bob Forbes then
rushed into the fight, when Thompson
shot him down also, the ball entering
the right side, ranging back, striking
the backbone and breaking his back,
then glanced to the right, going down
the hip. After the shooting was all
over Bob Woodruff went into the melee,
when some man struck him over the
head with revolver and laid him out
for dead. Sy Smith also came in flourish
ing a revolver, when Fitzhugh, who
was thought to be dead, or at least dy-
ing, raised himself and with his bowie
knife stabbed Sy Smith, inficting o
dangerous wound. Ont of the eleven
men who were engaged in the fight,
nine lay dead or mortally wounded on
the ballroom Hoor. s..a