The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
By TELEGRARH.

The Congressional Committee on
Ways and Means are visiting the cities
of Oregon and Port Pugets Sound, and
return 10 San Francisco next week.
WIN. n. Seward and party sailed
for Sitka from San Francisco, Wednes-
day (13th), on the steamer Active.
j. Sanford. the oldest passenger
conductor on the Erie q Plttsburg Rail.
road, while looking from the platform
OF car at GreenYiile, about IL O'Clock
yesterday, was struck on the head by a
switch target and knocked off the train,
breaking his skull and right ley in two
PLACES. His injuries are probably
fatal:
Fulton, Of the Paris crew, won the
scull race to-day, beating Morris with
nearly four minutes TO spare. Distance
four miles. ....
Mrs. Cox. of Nashville, Indiana,
aged SO years, died yesterday morning,
from the effects of injuries received
while getting of one of the trains In
the Union Depot, the previous night.
The accident was the result Of gross
reckIessnes on the part OF the engineer.
The bark Onward has arrived at
Portland, Oregon, from Hong Kong,
with about three hundred Cinnamon.
Small pox broke out on the voyage and
the vessel quarrentined.
The hotel at Point Clear, near Mo-
bile, burned Tuesday night. The main
building was entirely consumed with
the furniture. Many boalders lost all
their baggage. No lives lost.
"A disease appeared among the silk
worms Of the Sacramento valley; two
Of the largest dealeES lost their first
lion, by death.
-Bsnj. w. Foster, of Springfield,
Mass. was tried and sentenced Taes-
day, to the State prison for life, for
rape on girl IL years of age.
The communion service of Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn, was stolen
Monday evening by sneak thieves.
While attending to queries from a
conferate, thief quietly walked of
with the box of the cashier OF the Soa-
mans' Bankiof New York, Monday at
ternoon, and both thieves escaped.
Subsequently the box was found In an
entry with $25, 900 in bonds not nego-
table, while $4,000 in governments
and available bonds were gone. No
arrests.
The Womans' Convention at Sara
toga, yesterday, adopted a constitution
similar to the National Suffrage Asso-
citation, and the platform submitted the
day before. Addresses were delivered
by Mrs. Wilbur, Miss Anthony and
others, and it then adjourned.
"A new Express company has been
organized at San Francisco, to do busi-
ness in all parts Of the world. Capital
S. 600 600.
Joseph J. Bates, convicted in the
the United States District Court, at Bos-
ton, of manufacturing stills without
paying tax, has been sentenced to one
years imprisonment and fine of one
thousand dollars. Bates sold only old
stills for Illicit distiliiug, and then In
formed on the distillers, making money
both ways.
An adjourned meeting of the Amer
lean Tract Society, Of Boston, after q
lengthy discussion Of propositions to
dissolve the Society; dividing the assets
among three denominations interested,
to reunite with any branch, or sustain
its present independent character,
finally tabled all propositions and ad.
journed.
The German Citizens' Rights So
ciety, OF Boston, has petitioned Cover
nor Claflin to stay the enforcement of
the prohibition liquor law until the
vote of the people is taken.
RY MAIL.