The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York Saturday
.i 1909.
Thirty indictments for elec ion frauds
have been found by the Grand Jury in
Brooklyn
Havana letter says strong effort
i beipr made there to revive the Atrl-
can slave trade.
Tn, nomination of Judge Withey, for
the Skin District, gives general salts
t,rtlon in Michigan
Edward Haley, aged 70,was sentenced,
~ B,,ren. Saturday, TO the State prison
Sr life for the murder of his wife.
C5l. Gordon Lufand, ST., an aged and
pfTbry esteemed citizen of Cambridge,
one, aud comm sssoner for Ohio of the
Ge,tysburg Cemetery, died Friday
night. after lingering illness
pembine advices of the 9th report
that McDoagall is enlistiDg body of
White. and Indians, equal, 10 march on
Far, Garry at once. The rebels have
foor hundred men to defend their posi-
tlDH.
Tgs hermitage Mills, occupied by
David ard John Jackson, manufacturers
of drrgs and chemicals, on the Railway
river. few miles from Elizabeth, n. j.,
caught ire early Friday morning and
va, entirely destroyed. Loss $4,000.
Hon. Hugh II. Henry, President of the
Vermont Valley railroad and United
State, Marshal for the District of Yer
mont died at his residence at Chester,
Vermont, Saturday night. Mr.. Henry
was widely known among business men
throughout the country.
At meeting of prominent citizens OF
Portland, Maine, Friday night, relative
10 the reception of the remaines OF
George Peabody, committee was ap-
pointed to conf, T with the State authori-
ties and such other persons as deemed
proper. Governor Chamberlain will
order out the State militia.
Ga Thursday nigh, ut Davenport,
Iowa. two men, named John and
Thomas KiliiOu, while in an intoxicated
condition, assaulted Christian Knewel,
when rnr after drew a revolver and
shot John Killon dead and wounded
Thomas. kuewel was arrested, but
after inv CATION was discharged.
An Important test case was brought
before Judge Biatchford, of New York,
on Saturday, which involved the right
OF merchant to recover books aud
paIe-s which have been seized by Gus
tom House Collectors. The Law of 1867
provides that n Judge of the United
SAFE, Court may deliver up such books
after the necessary examination has
beea made.
A Nashville dispatch Of Saturday
says The election TO day for members
toihe Constitutional Convention passed
of quietly. The utmost indifference
was manifested. Voters absented them
selves from the polls because they were
not certain that the action of the Con
yrut,on would bs conservative. The
opponents Of thc COnveution did not
vote Under the law authorizing the
Convention = majority of the votes cast
pr.sal'. aud the Convention will be held
uoH.h tia vote be light. The apathy
o!Nlshvjilc doss not generally prevail
~ iae State.
On saturday night well known thief
0'm d Edward Grey, stole from the
fr1nt # the clothing house of Swerth.
ont, Kent & Co, No. rs Randolph street,
Chicago, wire skeleton on which
clothing is cxVosed for sale. He was
seen to take the article by Robert 5.
Wilcox, a clerk in the establishment,
who pursued and finally uabbed him.
A, le did 20 the thief drew a revolver
aud discharged il twice at Wilcox, the
last ole taking effect in his side, DO
tween the hip bone and ribs, producing
what is believed to be a fatal wound.
The fllow was finally captured, after
wouDdng three Others by discharges
from his revolver, and is now in Jail.
The funeral of e1-Secretary Of the
State Of Ohio Russell on Saturday after
noon, ., Urbana, was attended by a
large concourse of citizens of Cham
page county, tOErt 90 with Governor
hayc-, Secretary Cf State Sherwood
aud thirty other St2:c officials of Colum-
bn'. The Knights "emplar conducted
thr services. Mr.. l. sells pastor read
asSetch of his religions and public life.
lie was followed by an address of
isrmer clasSnate at college and after
wards hy 'he pastor. Governor Hayes
closed with some affecting remarks e1
reNSlve Of the great loss of the State in
Ar. RuSsells death. An election to fill
tAe vacancy in the Senate has been or
GeTed to take place December %. The
District Is strongly Republican.
Ihe New York Times says: In the
matter of conspiracy said TO be afloat
against the Spanish notilla, we learn
from some, considering with the move
uent, that a plan to capture and de-
'troy them has been matured and is
even now in course of development. 1t
ssppears that George Abbott, who left
New York on Thursday with fifty men
ior the South, sent thirty Of them to a
point on the coast near the mouth of
Inc Potomac, where vessel is ready
10 receive them, and in which they will
Cnt to sea and cruise in the track of the
Notllla. Abbott returned to New York
friday morning with the remaining
,m,'o'y men, who he succeeded in get
brStnhsted on board of the gunboats
oH1alG,1uug the suspicion of the Spanish
rnIi,, With regard to the first lot of
Ar, 'yyN imeu. His object is to cooper
armsS STe W Long, who commanded the
todestrons.,. South when he attempted
Ae Notilla.