The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.


Tho friends of female suffrage had
gathering at Worcester, Mass, yester-
day.
Hon Henry NJ. Waite, formerly Chief
Jp,rice of Connecticut, died yesterday
AZ Lynne, Conn.
The crews of the Spanish gun6oats,
Of Nav York, are ordered to be on board
this morning.
The Indiana Republican State Cen
,ral Committee, issued n call for a
Convention on the 22d of February.
General Henry B. Darlington has been
detailed as a military professor at Wa
ba,h College, Crowdsyille, Indiana.
The detectives have not yet discOv-
ared the whereabouts of Grey and Pratt,
the New York State bounty bond swim
dleTs.
There was a destructive fire at Point
Levi. Canada, Monday night. A large
botrl and TIVE other buildings were
destroyed,
Neil Mclaughlin, who was on trial for
completely in the Brooks assassination
case at Philadelphia was yesterday
found guilty.
The Spanish man ofwar Isabel has
sailed from Havana for New York, TAX
ing with her crews for twelve of the
Spanish gunboats just completed.
ey.A.H. Tebbe, of the st. Pbilomen
Catholic Church sf Cincinnati, received
from Rome on Monday credentials as
Bishop of the Diocese of Covington.
The Wyoming Legislature Adjourned
sine die on a!uiday. Governor camp
bell signed the Woman's Suffrage bill,
and Is now law of that Territory.
The moro eco factory Cf C. c. Per-
kius, in Charleston, Mass, including
the machinery and portion of the
stock, was destroyed by fire on Monday
night. Loss 1000; partially insured.
The sentence of Benjamin Teachout,
c0uy.Crcl of murder in having poisoned
his wife in Wyoming county, n. y, has
been cCmmuted to imprisonment fer life.
The Boston EreniHg Journal mentions
the rumorcd defalcation of some 500, 1000
at the Howard National Bank. The
loss will not affect the capital of the
bank.
An OK Jlosion of Naptha, yesterday at
II Hlwley street, Boston, severely burn
edit Drake, manufacturer ofpOrtable
gas machines, and slightly injured sew
SHal wOrkmen.
Peter Geldeich, the supposed mur-
dercr of his wife and child near Trey,
Ind, in November, acquitted after
three days trial, has since his acqut'al
become rayIng maniac.
Cornelius {. Douohue, OF Titusville,
Pa, yesterday obtained a verdict IN the
Supreme Court against the Erie Rail
roII company OF $50, 900 for damages
s',..urd at ihc Mast Hope disaster.
On. Haytien steamer Triumph, for
G-r.. IN, rrb ! raS Atlanta, broke the
De-. late of her condenser while going
doau the Delaware river, and was tow
ed back - Chester, where she is repair
ing.
The Grisweu building. occupied by
the First National Bank of Aurora, Ind,
was burned to the ground on Monday
evening, with the livery stable of Mr..
G. Riggs adjacent. Griswell building
loss 5000.
Arrangements for the reunion of the
ARMY of tie Cumberland, which will
meet at Ind auapolis, Ind, are complete.
The indications are thai very large
number of officers aud soldiers will be
in attendance.
There are about sixty Ohio County
Auditors in session at Columbus. Mr..
La Rue, of HamIlt I county, Is Chair
man. The object ~ the Convention is
to consider the qnrsri N relating to the
assessment Of real late and personal
property.
1t is claimed at ! ankfort, KY, that
Stevenson got near'y his full strength
yesterday in the contest for the Seua.
be supported by large majority of those
Numbered among the scattering vote.
WInter,mith was nominated in the
House, but he was withdrawn at his
own request.
+. Daniels, the champion of Massa
chusetts, and Melvin Foster, played
two games of billiards Monday evening
~ Boston; the first was French carom
game of l5O points, and was won by
Daniels, $50 to III. The second was
80 points on carom table, won by
Foster; score 700 to 6i3. Fosters high
e>t run 426; Danels' highest I02
4 Santiago (Cuba) dispatch to the
New York Herald states that Haytien
steamer was seized on the coast and
taken II that place on suspicion OF bav-
ing landed arms for the Cubans. The
same dispatch says that seven hundred
men OF the Nalmaseda battalion have
arrlved there. Fighting at Magote still
continues and some of the Spanish
Wounded are coming in. The cholera is
decreasing.
Oac ballot was had for United States
,,saatOr, at Frankfort, Kentucky, YES
,,0ay, ~, without choice. In the Sen
"s !, Stevenson l3, McCresry -, Turner
"Tone , Finley, Rep, ?, Rice ?, Beck
~ 2, ~ The House, Stevenson "a, McCree-
3. RI R., tlsraer II, Finley 6, Ring 3, Rice
elected :. NcCreery will probably be
NAY, as the majority of the
bin. votes are known TO be for
ger, C.aI Jr,, wl,s ss'1ss, sr., and Conrad Fat.
sloner Bet.s ootsCGght before Commis-
charged with f',S;v Hev York, yesterday,
aNing plates for iors;nn piiutios, anu
vOIn'eltelt wer, reyenne S s,snID ana pi19ung,
Sof SSfe found upon the Irps. nra,, Checks
SSsIysGants' SsTd,,,' at No. PIG EW;ij@ses WjIes OF the
wa,o e|reeI rs Presses, on which h+ul ,gl street.
deferS.rnsa U'nsa on Were also se;zod 'as cneCks SS
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