The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

The large tea warehouse Of Merritt &
p,nald,on, op Front street. New YORK,
Snrbed on Friday night. Loss S3O oOo;
insured.
Alien L. Cole, a boy of fifteen, resid-
;,g in Allegheny City, Pa, accidentally
hot himself with a pistol, dying on
Sunday.
Christmas was not as generally OBJ
,.,ved as heretofore at Pittsburg. Many
,stail sIores and business houses were
op,n rs usual.
fire. broke out on Fourth street
above Market, Philadelphia, few min
ntss before one O'clock yes' erdsy N orn-
inc and destroyed nearly 5000, 600 worth
Of ofproperty. Partially insured.
,tUpion Mills, Erie, Pa, on Saturday
q man named John FentOn made an at
t,mpt TO commit highway robbery on
Tbomas Wood and subsequently, stabbed
George H. Thomas in the right lung,
,ppposed mortally. Fenton is III jail.
At, , large special meeting of the
Union Club, New York, Saturday night,
" C. Bryant offered resolutions OF re-
spset 10 the late Hon. f. NJ. Stanton,
Which were unanimously adopted and 8
committee appointed TO attend the fu-
neral Of the deceased.
An Associated Press dispatch Of Sat-
urday slys: Sixteen disabled soldiers
were turned ont pepniless from the
Brooklyn poor LOuse, yesterday, be-
cause. as stated to them by the Super
intenden,, they were Republicans. They
are all cripples.
Mayor Brush, Of Pittsburgh, issues
proclamation calling a general meeting
of the citizens to take action on the
death of Hon. Z. NJ. Stanton, a fCrmer
member of the bar of thEt city. He re-
quests the business houses to be closed
and the city bells tOlled between II and
o'clock to-day.
A New York dispatch of Saturday
says: The weather was 'air 10 day aud
people generally enjoyed themselves.
1.-THE Episcopal and Catholic churches
were crowded 10 sutfOcatiOn. The holi-
day has b7en most happily spent, with
out anything to mar the festivities. A
rain storm set in tonight.
Aspecial - The Chicago Tribune from
st. Paul says The declaration of indie
pcIdcnce of the Provisional GOvers
ment Of Rupert's Land and the North
West Territory has been received from
Red river by mail 1t is signed by Jno.
Brace, President, and Louis Riell, Sec
retIry. 1t is quite voluminous.
A terrible murder was committed in
Detroit, Michigan, on Friday. An e1-
policeman named Kane was found on
the sidewalk with his threat cut from
ear to ear. His next door neighber,
Michael Costello, was arrested for the
murder. They had a slight quarrel
10 a saloon shortly before the murder.
Catharine Ryley, a widow aged thirty
years, and mother of two children, was
stabbed in the throat and killed Satur-
DAY afternoon by George Collins, rough
aged twenty. The murder took place in
Cross street, Boston, and grew out of a
Qrlrrel about five cents. Both parties
were under the influence of liquor. Col
I!Hs was arrested.
The Denver mail coach was stopped
/ fteen miles from Cheyenne, Saturday
night, by two armed men,. The stage
contained two men and the driver, all
uuarmed. The robbers, after firing
several shots, took the stage, team and
mail and drove off, leaving the passsn-
gers 10 walk to Cheyenne. Sixty cav
alrymeu went in pursuit yesterday.
General Ames has ordered the Missis-
.ppl Legislature to convene on the 1lth
ofJanuary. Tho following officers elect
at the late election are appointed pro-
ysIOnal officers until their installation:
James L. Alcorn, Governor; James
Lynch, colored, Secretary of State; Hen.
y MnSgrove, State Auditor; Joshua s.
Morris, Attorsey General. About one
NTH Of the Legislature elected GRE Con-
ssrvative.
Henry Seitz, a German boy sixteen
years OF age, visited the house of Mrs.
Me1owske, at Allegheny City, on Sat-
u'Gay, to solicit the company of a young
.asy to the skating park. She gave no
uec'oed answer, and he declared that il
sue Would not go he would shoot him
SET unnrshing pistol at the same
She' Shortly afterwards the boy was
aOHuu E shot III the forehead, and died in
William Aufer was arrested in New
tu.A on a charge of converting to hi.
OI use SloVVOO of bonds of the Mem
PLs, Z! faso and Pacific Railway, OF
pt..n pulsn ne was assistant Treasurer in
; ]'' lhe order Of arrest was in a
~ nH SUIT to recover the money. A mo.
r,Uu was made on Friday before the
SUult OF Common Pleas to vacate the
N"eE OF arrest on various technical
SOUNDS ana because the cause of the
-CuSn arose in Paris between two mon
Ieetuents, and that neither the hond. NO,
lneir proceeds were brought tc This
country. Decision reserved, ''
The difficulty between the Rsnrh,;
cans and Collector Casey, Of NJ 90. 0t
leans, has ended in comnrom;.a VT
aoleto the editor of the RspubT,oa L'
y'; MY attention has been caIIed - =
~e strctures in your paper regard;n'
~ onolsl conduct in the Disposition .
csc patronage of the Custom HonSD
S'9e !, NE Democrats have been and are TrSs ~
in,o. sue C0stom House, but as fast as IN
ri;. ,nte'e'ts OF the Government will NJ, w.
man. o "nG competent and trustwortb
and eau De found, shall remove ther
nIac0. appoint Republicans in the
Fran.; steamship China arrived at Ss
Eom' E"u''sSo yesterday morning from Hon
nnoug November 10Th and YoLobam
and 9SSenosr n ID. She brings heavy freiaI
; SuG and large number Of Nas.anIs! me
,ue.nding five hundred and twsSt nSseuSv, Ghi
Hn He.e and Japanese. General Vas s"S. Wy y = a. a
;stsgs tsg ana suite, late United States siSel M; l
Ams,iC.Jna 10 Japan; p Bishop Kingsley Of - ~ II
tober VSu SIl. u, Z; church, left Pekin, o. o.
the m;.a;o faSt, making an official visit +,
China 'ItTa ~. stations of his church
aoout the first of ~, AhoHg hon