The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
Ry TELEGRAPH

Gold closed IN Ne" hoiA 90''o'
ul2la
r,onr is forty-two dollars per barrel
At Prescott, Arizona.
10, believed that the late fires at
ra,, Hare we're caused by incendiaries.
The indians on the Upper Missouri
,,s preparing for a united attack in a
short time.
Roadway Park Hotel, corner of goth
,,rs.t, New York, was burned yesterday
naming. Loss $4,000.
IN Cincinnati on Wednesday German
,.ms1 william Ulmer, aged 76, COM
mit,ed suicide by taking arsenic.
r,rge droves of Texas cattle are ar
.;ring on the Pacific coast. Stock
r-o,rsrs express fears OF the cattle
plague.
The amount Of sugar under seizure in
Nav York by the Treasury agent is
1000 hogsheads, 100000 boxes and
100000 bags
Baltimore dispatch says William B.
pb,rlips late postmaster at Cambridge,
MARYLAND, has been sentenced to Elk
months Imprisonment and fine OF
s3iDO. for embezZlement.
Major Gilpin, Superintendent of In
d,an affairs at the Grand river agency,
died November %. Suspicious are en-
tertsned that he has been poisoned, but
no definite conclusion has been arrived
at.
The free traders of Detroit held a
meeting Yesterday and perfected an or
ganizati0n Of league and adopted a
declaration of principles similar to that
of the American Free Trade League.
DR.. Oliver, an Englishman of promin-
euce, was shot and killed yesterday
morning at Charlottesville, Virginia, by
George Dyers, of Fauquier, who charged
hin Nth having seduced his daughter
while visiting his house some months
ago.
The German physicians of Cincin-
natl have telegraphed Governor Geary,
requesting him TO grant new trial to
DR.. Paul SchOeppe, on the ground that
be was convicted of murder upon in.
sufficient evidence.
In the case of Seymour f. Smith,
bankrupt, Jadge Hall, Of the United
States District Court of Buffalo, We'd
nesday, decided that the making OF
general assignment without preferences
to the insolyeHt debtor was an act of
bankruptcy.
The Judges of the Court of the
Queens bench, Qusbec, have refused to
hear an appeal in the Caldwell extradi-
ton Cas,, thTco out of the five consider
iDg they have no jurisdiction in the
matter, the prisoner being confined IN
Montreal jail.
Edwin Bryant, aged about 80 years.
jumped from the third story of Will
iati's Hotel. Louisville, yesterday
morning and was crushed to death. Bry
ant lad made two trips across to Cali
toInia in T. and 10 and had written a
book Of his exploits. He had been in
temperate for the past two months.
4. B. Knight, Postmaster at Edgar
'''..f 'AlNf duu w IOOSSy OuO VI hiS
snretle' was brought to Cleveland,
charged with embezzlement of the
money order funds of the Postoftice De-
pafimtut. Special Agent Baldwin re.
poT'sa deficiency Of five or six hundred
dollars. Both were held to S2500 bail.
The Spanish Hotilla was expected TO
leave New York harbor yesterday. A
hn'N "a, fNV tba Nastrpntinn Of tha nnn.
boats Ivy torpedOes was frustrated by
t1yl. sldden removal to an anchorage
IN the stream on Monday. 1t was re-
ported yesterday that au attempt will
be made by the Cubans to burn some of
Ile vessels before their departure.
About 3 2. N. yesterday the people of
Ntusvlll', Pa, were startled by tre-
meudous shock, caused by the exploding
OF glycerine magazine, owned by the
Roberts Torpedo Company, containing
about half ton Of nitro glycerlne. The
cause of the explosion is not known.
7 II. Brophy, one o' the agents, who
vas the onIy man krOwn to have been
hear the magazine It the time, was in
SANITY Killed. Considerable damage
was done to bulldogs throughout the
city The magazine was situated abont
QUE m'ls from the city.
In the Petroleum Convention at Gin
c'nnatl, on Wednesday, committee
was appointed to procure accurate in
'uuments for testing oils and declaring
such Instruments to be standard tests
!ot the trade. A warm debate followed
ca the proposition of the Pittsburgh
association TO sell oil hereafter by
weight only and not by measure. This
met with much opposition from New
lofk and Cleveland, and it was finally
postponed, when the convention ad-
lourned sine die
Inc following Arizona items are re.
Ce'yed at Denver, California: A band
VI Indians made a raid on the settle
Isnt OF Chino Valley, stealing eleven
lead of horses and mules. The ami
uais we're taken ont of the corral, the
saoIe doors of which were found closed
a1a fastened next morning. None of
,1e stock has been recovered. One day
,S'i week, while Messrs. Bsggs aud
ssl'hannan were enroute from Big Bug
t,oNen Agufra, they were fired upon
few W. 20 Indians lying in an ambush
cansS cSS itom the road. The boys es.
bronsS.a banned, and returning the fire,
c,ptSTss sEown one of the Indians and
pbies w Saarps rifle and other tro-
presented = a Iarge scalp, which was
uovernor Sanford.
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