The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-28
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THURSDAY. .-..oc'oDer go
NEWS SUMMARY.
Ry TELEGRAPH.


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snow storm and light wind pre-
led At O,wege, N. Y, Tuesday night.
THE SYNOD of Cincinnati, o. s., has
10, celebrated at Hamilton, Ohio, its
Tortieth Anniversary.
chick snow storm prev allied yester-
a,r morning at Martha's Vineyard and
sloug Cape Cod.
rv.Governor Clifford was reelected
p,asident of the Board OF Overseers OF
the Harvard College.
train on the Dayton and Michigan
.,ad ran over and killed q deaf man
named Cooper, on Tuesday.
The store of Rigter & Co., Cincinnati,
-. bnrglarized of $500 worth Of
cIofbjpg and goods Monday night.
csorpe W. Cooley, for several years
D;stricf Attorney of Suffolk county,
Mass, died in the insane asylum Tues
day.
Farmers through the Eastern part of
nacbess county, New York, report hav-
inc felt an earthquake shock on Tues
day.
Two buildings on Fulton street, New
Work and the old Dutch Church in that
r,,y we're burned yesterday morning.
Loss heavy.
Iohn Hopkins Of Hopkinsville, War
,.D county, Ohio, died last Friday even-
mo of lock Jaw, occasioned by slight
w6opd in the elbow from pitchfork.
The schooner Australia, laden with
harley from Toronto, went ashore Q
mile and a half below Oswegu, n. 7.
CARO- damaged; the vessel will proba-
bly, be gotten Off
The American Hotel and several
..or.s adjoining, in the village Of Char
10th, near Rochester, New York, were
burved yesterday morning. Loss, $4O,-
OOO mostly insured.
The Methodist Episcopal Oh urch in
Hamilton cousty, Ohio, has fifty eight
Sabbath Schools, ele ven hundred teach.
srs and nine thousand pupils, according
70 received reports.
The distillery owned by Gooderham
& Wsrtz, at Toronto, was partially de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday night. Loss
100000. Another fire at the same time
DESTROYED u houses at the corner of
Queen and Brock streets.
The schooner Acorn, with lumber,
from Port Hope, went ashore under
Fort Ontario and v i'll be a total wreck.
The schooner Iowa, with barley, from
Pert Nelson, is ashore high and dry,
about five miles above Oswego.
At meeting OF the striking machin-
ists, yesterday evening IN Jersey City,
written agreement was read from Jay
Gould, agreeing to pay the men on the
Erie road on the 18th Of each month.
This settles the question and the strike
Is Ssded. All hands are going to work.
The strike OF the Franklin Line Tele-
grsph operators in New York continues.
Tho company acceded to the demand of
the New York operators for an advance
f25 per cent, but refuses TO reinstste
the strikers at Boston and elsewhere,
but the operators there refuse to return
70 work until the others are reinstated.
The operators in the Philadelphia and
Baltimore offices have joined in the
strike.
The day express train of the Erie
railroad on arriving near Susquehanna,
Tuesday afternoon, was thrown from
the track while running at the rate of
thirty ST thr y.fve miles an hour. A
wheel broke in consequence of a broken |
hn hor
tered the wheel, and every car was
thrown off the track. There were five |
passenger cars, including the palace
car, The train was broken BY concus-
Non in three parts, but not passenger |
was killed or even fatally injured.
At the Social Science Association in |
New York on Tuesday paper was read |
written by II l.. Dawes, represen tative |
from Massachusetts,, on the mode of
procedure IN cases Of contested elec.
mons Mr.. Dawes, in the paper, after |
giving detailed history of the mode of
procedure IN this country, concluded by |
saying that an amendment to the Con-
S'tntIon was necessary to bring about a
radical reform. but some improvement
may be had by changing the manner of
appointing the committees and bringing
about such public sentiment as would
put an end TO party exactions. This
PuONc sentiment was necessary as num-
Oers now content themselves with SIM
Piy recording their names and leaving
lle discussion OF a case to the parties
directly interested. This is making an
engine Of political parties working out
Their ends and involving the institu
lions of the country in their purposes
ald fate.
New York dispatch Of yesterday
says: About three o'clock this morning
a IRE broke out in the clothing store of
Olnle Close, No. ll6 Fulton street, the
~iod blowing briskly, and in a short
Sme 1t had taken possession of the
oll.ding and also of that adjoining, ia.
Al iour o'clock the breeze carried the
aimes in the direction of the Old Dutch
IhuFch, the tower and roof of which
cAught fire. Bv the strenuous efforts of
'ae bremen, however, the flames were
prevented from entering into the main
portion Of the Church, although the
Tost part of the roof was considerably
tamaged Ivy the timbers falling from
,le tower. The buildings, ia and 1l6,
Tt Te'e completely gutted by the flames.
tuey were occupied by Baldwin Jones,
publisher, Walker, publisher and bind
u, and about forty or fifty small bust
15s3. 115sses. The loss will probably reach
t|yVVOV. In Walkers bindery the
sno,e reprint edition of the WestmiH-
'u hcr'sr, just ready to send out, every
.op! was destroyed. 1t is said that in
We" We" Of the damage to the Old Church,
.,s .,L quite likely that the edifice will be
AAea down.