The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-04
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NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterday
at 1851.
There was heavy frost at Cincinnati
yesterday morning. Fruit unlnJufeu
James Hunnewell, an old and PToml
nent Boston merchant, died on ounuAS
Convention of Bishops of the M. T.
Church South will be held IN ST. LOUIS
this week.
The charge against Mumler, the spir'
itaal photographer, in New York, has
been dismissed.
The recall of Edward De Stoekl, Rus
sian Envoy to the United States, 10 oth-
oially announced.
The failure of large New York dry
goods house, with Southern trade con-
nections, is reported.
Sumner has been interviewed in reia-
ton to the Alabama question ana thinAs
it will not lead to war.
Advices from Hong Kong say that the
English have burned three villages ard
killed fifty.fve Cinnamon.
A VALPARAISO letter says the proposed
Convention at Washington to settle the
difficulties between Spain and Chill has
been accepted by the latter Govern
ment.
A freight train broke through bridge
near Secor, ILL.,, yesterday, killing the
engineer, G. s. Mason, and severely IN
juFing the fireman. Several cars were
smashed.
Prize fighting near Newport, KY, was
prevented by the arrest of the princl-
pals, Barbeck and Flaherty who were
matched for fight, and COrcoran and
Lyons for another.
C. S. Bushnell, of New York, DireO-
tor of the Pacific railroad, says the ad-
verse report of Director Swan was due
10 the cOmpany's refusal to give him
profitable coal contract.
Chris. Hogan, a U. S. detective, and
Fred. Miller, constable, were indicted
by the U. S. grand jary at Cincinnati
yesterday for causing to be forged
counterfeit metallic plate. to be used for
printing revenue stamps.
The Memphis appeal reports serious
riot near Brownsville, Tenn, on Satur-
day night. One white man and two ne
grOes were killed and several other per.
sons wounded, one mortally. The riot
was still in progress Saturday night.
The storm in New York on Sunday
was the heaviest known there for many
years. Buildings were blown down and
houses unroOfed by the high wiAd.
HOboken Flats were flooded and the in
habitants forced to escape by means OF
boats.
A bold attempt at robbery occurred
at the corner of Broadway and Pearl
streets, New York, yesterday. Two men
Jumped into one of the wagons of the
American Express company and knocked
down the messenger 10 charge but be-
fore they could drive off or break open
the safe they were arrested.
The Brooklyn Association will prOba-
bly, give race meeting, to be held
under the stewardship of the American
Jockey Club, to follow the Jerome Park
meeting. Entries close on the Goth inst.
The great trot between American Girl
and Lady Thorne, to come off yesterday,
was postponed on account Of the bad
track.
A Lima letter says the Americans in
Peru are anxiously awaiting Secretary
Fish's decision in the matter of their
claims for damages received from Balta's
troops during the revolution. Yellow
fever was raging in the cities upon the
Southern coast, forty persons dying
daily. Many persons had fled to health
ier regions.
An Omaha dispatch, dated Sunday,
says the Herald of that place publishes |
a statement in regard to Chauncey II. |
Snow, late Government Commissioner
of the Union Pacific railroad, in reply
to the report recently published in the
National Iutelligeacer that Snow was
drunk during the entire trip; that he
possessed a contract with the Union
Pacific railroad for the delivery of two
hundred tons OF coal daily for one year
at one dollar and half per ton more
than the company was paying, in con-
sideration of which he proposed to make
q favorable report, and that his reports
were for sale till the company refused
TO buy on any terms.