The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-18
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

savannah, leaving large liabilities De-
hind him.
A locomotive boiLr on the, COney Isl
anl railroad exploded on Sunday, bad
ly scalding the engineer.
4 boat was capsized in o sQuall, near
He'll Gate, on Sunday. J. Flaherty, one
ofthree men in the boat, was drowned.
J.&D. McBuruey, large produce mer-
chants in Montreal, Canada, suspended
yesterday morning. Liabilities Sl25,-
600.
The New York Times hints that the
ideas of Grants inaugural are not being
carried ont or gold would not be advanc-
ing.
Orders from Salt Lake City for bacon
were received at st. Louis yesterday
aud the shipment made by all rail
route.
The barrel factory of Pennybaker Il
Sibley, Wilson street, Philadelphia,
was burned yesterday morning. Loss
$4,000.
The wooden mills of John DalesOG, at
the Falls of the Schuylkill, were burned
Yesterday. Loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000,
The bodies of Bent, Adams and Mil
ler, drowned OIL q pleasure boat near
Memphis, over week ago, have been
recovered.
The German banking firm of Schcp-
eler & Co., of New York, have failed to
the extent of several millions. Cause,
speculations in gold
The building occupied by Hercht 4
Frank, hide and leather dealers, ~ Ciih
street, New York, was destroyed by fire
yesterday morning. Loss $4,000.
The new town hall at Gloucester,
Massachusetts,, just completed at a cost
of 500, 900, was totally destroyed by
fire on Sunday morning. Insurance
$4,000.
A dispatch from Allentown, Pa, states
that the magazine at KOhrs quarries,
near White Hall, containing forty tons
ofblastiug powder, exploded yesterday
morning, killing a German.
Four men engaged in freeing jam OF
logs in st. Francis river, near Drum
mOudville, Ont, yesterday, were carried
over a rapid fall of Is or 20 feet. Their
boat was upset and all drowned.
Fred Hawley, of Rochester, n. Y,
made the best velOcipede time on record
at the Cleveland rink on Saturday,
riding fifty miles in three hours, four
teen minutes aud thirty-nine seconds.
At St. Pauls Protestant Episcopal
Church, Brooklyn, on Sunday, Bishop
LittleiOhn, who was present 10 admin
lister confirmation, said he felt compel
led 10y what he saw around hIm to utter
a few powerful but kindly words against
ritualizing and Romaniziug.
Reports from Iowa say that the wheat
crop never looked so we'll as ii does now.
The extent of the growing crop Is very
large, ranging from twenty-five to one
hundred per cent. broader than last sea
son, and many farmers Will even har-
vest ten acres where they did one last
year. Corn planting has also been very
general.
ALittle Rock special to the Memphis
4ppenI saws the Leni Leoti, towing 200
tons Government freight from Little
Rock to New Orleans, struck snag at
McNeaps Landing and sunk in ID foot of
water. The boat and cargo are total
loss. The boat belonged to the Mem
phis and Arkansas River Packet Com
pany and was valued at SD 600.
Petitions were in circulation along the
line of the Southern Pacific railroad
asking Congress TO uullify the land sub
sidies along the road and throw them
open to pre- emptiOn. A corps of engl-
neers of the Central Pacific Railroad
Company had surveyed a line for road
from stockton, through Tulare valley,
to Visclo. and report favorable route.
Whitmonday was celebrated by the
German citizens of New York enthusi-
astically, the feature Of the day being a
grand concert Of the Northeastern
Spngerbuud in theUuiOn Park, in which
eight hundred voices and over thirty
societies participated, and which was
attended by nearly twenty thousand
people; they also had gymnastic sports
ut Jones Wood.
The delegation representing the st.
Louis Grain Association returned from
New Orleans on Sunday. They speak in
high terms of praise of their treatment
at New Orleans and say that a genuine
interest was excited in the grain move
ment via tie Mississippi river and eX'
press the confident belief that the mer
chants there will CO operate with the
Association at st. Louis. d.
On Saturday afternoon, ut Cleveland,
Emma, aged five, John, aged four, chill
Ev,f Nl
three, son Of VIM. Pigeon, were buried
by sliding sand bank TO the depth of
several feet The children had been
missed and search was made through
the eity, but il was not suspected until
Sunday evening that they had been
overwhelmed by the slip. Ihe bodies
were recovered after being buried
twenty-eight hours.
In suit against the city of Richmond
IN make her redeem her small notes tC
che amount of SlOO,00 issued during
the war, Chief Justice Chase has decld
ed that, having been issued to aid tn,
rebellion, they cannot be redeemed
The Legislature which authorized thell
issue was de toctO legislature and had
power to grant such authority, and had
the notes been isSued for any legal pur.
pose aud not for the subverSion of the
Government, they would be liable to re,
demption.
A San Francisco dispatch, dated 10th
inst, says the English guuboat Spar
row Hawk, had arrived at Victoria frem
Barclay Sound with six Indian prisoners,
supposed to be the murderers of the
crew of the wrecked vessel John Bright.
An Investigation established the fact
that the unfortunate men were m2sSa-
cred by savages. One Indian acknOwl-
edged that the captain and his wife had
been shot through the head as they
landed on the beach, The ships papers
we're recovered
Advices from Mexico, ria San Fran.
cisco, say that vigorous campaign is
carried on by citizens against robbers
and kidnapperS in the States Of Julisco
and MeShoalan. Numerous engagements
had taken place, in which the robbers
were arrested and many killed, The
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