The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-23
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Neutrality-suspicious. "a.
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

atI371.
Hon. Richard Fletcher died in Boston,
Monday evening, aged 81.
Allen denies that the stake money has
been given up TO McCoOle.
General Sheridan reached Omaha,
Monday, en- rOute to Chicago.
The House Committee of Ways and
Means spent Sunday in Salt Lake City.
The steamships Westphalia and China
from Europe have arrived at New York.
The Iron Mountain railroad was open
ed yesterday from st. Louis to Freder-
icktown, los miles.
J. Mason Campbell, one of the most
distinguished Maryland lawyers, died at
Baltimore on Monday.
DR.. Josiah Atkinson, a well known
physician of Newburyport, Mass, sui
cided on Monday. Temporary insanity.
Rev. J. Mcclellan Holmes, of Hudson,
n. Y, has been elected pastor OF the
Second Reformed Church Of Philadel-
phia.
The storm interrupted the shooting at
the Schutzenfest in New York yesterday.
but indoor sports were thoroughly en-
joyed.
Brevet Major General Alexander S.
Webb, U. s. A., has been invited to as
sumo the Presidency Of the Columbia
College.
Isaac Briggs, an extensive manufac-
turer of carriage springs, Canada, has
absconded. Liabilities estimated at
$500, 900.
The members of the Cuban Junta,
who were arrested in New York on
Monday, have been admitted to bail ex-
cept Ryan.
Several more yellow fever patients
have been admitted to the Hospital at
New York from the Saratoga, and one
additional death has occurred.
The June meeting of the Narragansett
Park Association commenced at Provl-
dence, Rhode Island, yesterday. About
$3.50 in premiums are to be distrIbu-
ted.
1t is understood that Secretary Bout
well will to day appoint successor to
Assistant Treasurer Van Dyck, who
rendered his resignation some months
ago. .FH
A number of New York lotteries and
policy dealers have been arrested and
held for examination, charged with do
ing business without paying special
taxes.
Colonel Benton, commandant of the
United States armoTy, at Springfield,
Mass, is sending away lOO,OUO muskets
which our Government has sold TO the
Turkish Government.
The question of the right fstock bro
kers to sell customers stock when the
margins are exhausted, involving mil
lions of dellaTs, is on argument before
the Court of Appeals at Albany, n. Y.
An order has been entered in the New
York Superior Court directing the Trust
Company to pay alimony to Mrs. Forest
semi annually hereafter, which Obvlates
the necessity of special semi-annual Or
ders.
Rev. DR.. Greenleaf, rector of the
Church of Emanuel Brooklyn, died
suddenly in his chair in the yestry
room on Monday night. He was the
son of the late Judge Greenleat, OF
Harvard College.
At Baltimore yesterday, in the cases of
several persons indicted for acting as in.
surance agents without having State Ii
ceuses, Judge Gilmore decided that IL
ceuse was required and persons liable to
a penalty of $500.
The grand jury of Herkimer county,
n. Y, has indicted Mrs. Nancy Lyman
for the murder of her husband, Ephraim
Gardiner, in March last, Prof Porter, of
Albany, having discovered arsenic in
the remains of the deceased.
a Hong Kong letter of April 2Sth,
states that twenty-nine articles, en-
bodying important concessions, will be
added TO the text of the Burlingame
treaty. These are intended to afford
greater protection and commercial fa-
cilities to foreigners.
Yesterday morning, about six o'clock,
a girl named Ellen Stanton, in the em-
ploy of II. A. Angel, of Adrian, Michi-
gan, was badly burned while kindling
a fire with kerosene. The can ex-
ploded, setting fire to her clothes. She
will probably recover.
AcolumJus, o., dispatch says: A large
crowd OF delegates to the State Repub-
lican Conyeptiou which meets here to-
morrow have Glready arrived and been
busy caucusing this afternoon aud even
ing. Governor Hayes and Lieut.. Gov
ernor Lee viii! probably be renOminated.
A Fortress Monroe dispatch says The
aehoonGr Mary +. Femerick, from Ma
tapzas for Baltimore, arrived last night
at the lower quarantine ground with
the yellow fever on board. Captain
Dorman, the cook and q white man
died Yesterday. The second mate had
the fever but was cOuValescent.
A large number of people witnessed
the game of base ball at Philadelphia
Yesterday between the Red Stockings, of
Cincinnati, aud the Keystones, The
pIayipg of the Red Stockings was not
so good as yesterday. The batting of
the Keystsnes was very heavy. Seven
innings were played and the Cincinnati
won by a score Of 45 to 80.
The following is the result of the elec.
tion fer the officers of the Buffalo and
Erie railroad held at Buffalo yesterday :
Directors-William Williams, of Butfa-
10: A. Robinson, of New York; Horace +.
Clark, Of New York; Augustus Schell, of
New York; Charles II. Lee, of Silver
Creek; Gibson l.. Williams, of Buffalo;
WIN. T. Scott, of Erie; p. Milton Court
right, of Erie; Charles NJ Ried, of Erie;
II. L. Lansing, of Buffalo; John NJ.
Hutchinson, of Buffalo; James c. Har-
rison, of Buffalo, and George II. Chase,
OF Buffalo President-William Will
Gams; Vice President-Charles H. Lee;
Secretary and Treasurer-GeOrge IL.
Chase.
At Chicago few days since, Bishop
NhttehouSe appointed Rev. George F.
Cushuan, Rev. Richard A. Sweet and
Judge L. b. Otis to examine the case of
Rev. Charles f. Cheney. That COM