The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-19
AF'heelmg geglstsr
Wednesday,--.--------.May 49,
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

mence at Jacksonville, Illinois, mex
Monday.
General Hancock arrived at st. Pau
on Monday to take command Of the De
partment of Dakotah. H
The library of the Colored Norma
School of Baltimore was formally open
ed on Monday evening.
The SD anniversary of the New York
Sunday School Union was celebrated
yesterday in - churches.
The Methodist clergy of Chicago have
protested against the decoration of the
soldiers graves on the Sabbath.
The distillery of Kline & Snyder,
Chicago, has been seized by the L. S.
Marshal for violating the revenue laws.
In Brooklyn, on Monday evening, a
party of rioters assaulted an officer. lie
shot one of them named Clark and dis
persed the others.
The Farmers Hotel at La Crosse was
burned Monday. AnsOn OllsoR was
burned to death while trying to save
some of his property.
4 man named Rollins. of the firm of
lockwood & Rollins, job printers, Bos-
ton, committed suicide yesterday morn
ING by cutting his throat.
James d. Gibson, grocer ofSt. LOuis,
receixed an invoice OF Japan tea yester-
day, via the Union Pacific railroad, only
thirty days from Yokohama.
On Monday morning Brigham Young
broke the first ground on the Utal
Central railroad, near Ogden city. lht
road will be completed by October,
Day, Jobson and Chase's planning mil
and lumber yard, at Springfield, Mass
were destroyed by fire yesterday morn
ing. Loss $4,000, partially insured.
The trial of Louis Lissing, at st. Pc
tiers, Mimi, for killing his stop-chilC
nearly three years ago, resulted Satur
day evening in his conviction for mur
der
The trial of the New Ulm, Minnesota
murderers has been again postponed
The crime with which they are charged
was committed more than two years
ago.
The Missouri State Publishers Asso
citation meets in St. Louis to-day. They
will have Banquet tonight and an eX'
cursiOn TO the Iron Mountain on Thurs
day.
Reports from various parts of Min
uesOta say that the wheat crop never
looked more promising. A much great
or breadth has been sOwn than ever
before.
A large number of Presbyterian oler-
gymen have gone from ST. Louis TO at
tend the General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church South at Nashville,
Tennessee.
Yesterday morning the steamer Gre
clan, of the Royal Mail Line, struck on
Split Rock, Cedar Rapids, near Mon
treal, and sunk in twenty feet of water.
No lives lost.
George Gibson, of California, died
suddenly in the BOwery, New York, on
Monday morning. His effects, amount
ing To $50, 600 cash, were taken posses
sion of by Coroner Flynn.
Professor Austin, of the Smithsonian
Institute, is at Springfield, Illinois, tax
ing observations for the purpose OF es-
tablishing a new meridian line as base
of observation of the August eclipse.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion of Chicago have resolved by vote
of 9 to 3 that women shall not be allow
ed TO become members. The President,
Brother Moody, gave the casting vote.
4 farm house near La Crosse, Wis,
owned by c. Olson, was undermined
by water and fell ON Saturday night, in
stantly killing little son and seriously
iujuring Mrs. OLSON; her recovery is
doubtful
OTiug to the extensive sale of Nir-
ginia lands in small portions to white
immigrants, negro lahorers are going
further south for employment. Three
hundred left Richmond recently, and q
hundred more are preparing to follow.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern miners at Hyde Park, the Pennsyl-
yania Coal COmpany's miners Mt Pitts
town, and the Delaware and Hudson
miners ut Oliphant, numbering alto
gethor more than five thousand, are
and have beeu steadily at work.
The Owl train from Albany, New
York, yesterday morning, collided near
Chester, Mass with a delayed freight
train. Geo. +. Porter, of CharleStOwn,
aud Mrs. +. l. Hedstrom, of Buffalo,
were the only persons seriously injured.
The wounded were taken to Springfield,
Mass.
Resolutions were introduced into the
Chicago Comman Council proposing To
test the couSttutiouality of the law
passed last winter by the General AS
sembly of Illinois conveying the lake
front to tho Illinois Central, Michigan
Central. and Chicago, Burlington u
Quincy railroads.
At the billiard tournament in Boston
on Monday, Williams beat Brooks by
800 to $40; Colby beat Flack by 500 tC
43i. In the evening two games wer,
plaved, Flack winning the first Owe
Williams. Wilmouth takes the cham
pion cue and $3.50. Flick and William
were to play yesterday for the secon'
prize, they having tied.
On Monday, William Halgren was in
stantly killed at Watertown, Mimi, un
der the following remarkable eircum
stances: He had been hunting anC
was leaning on his loaded rifle, with tht
muzzle of his gun against his breast
While in this position his horse kicked
at him and his hoof striking against the
cock caused q discharge of the gun, the
charge passing through his heart.
At the Paterson races yesterday the
hurdle race was won by Mr.. UpSoD''
bay gelding, beating Tycoon and max
ing two miles in 4:30; the mile dash
was won by Hira, beating Enchantress
and Morrissey; time l:50t. The mile
heat race was contests by Metairie and
X. b. Connolly; the first heat was won
by Connolly in l:5O; second and third
heats and the race by Metairie in l:50f
and l:5O.
The Fifty fifth Anniversary of the
American Baptist Missionary Union was
held at Boston yesterday, DR.. CasweII.
President OF Brown University, presid.
ing. The treasurers report shows the
receipts for the year to be nearly