The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-01
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

at 1348.
The steamship Bremen got off Roman
Shoals in safety. ,.
The California Republican Conven
ton will meet at Sacramento,
There was heavy hail storm in Hen
derson county, KY, Thursday.
The steamship Bremen went ashore
near Sandy Hook on Thursday.
The steamship Liberia, from Liver
pool. reached New York yesterday
The steamship Denmark, from Liver.
pool, reached New York yesterday.
Governor Stevenson, of Kentucky, has
respited the condemned DCgio Conley.
The loss nv the burning of the Ska
ting Rink in Philadelphia will reach
$4,000.
The next meeting of the National
Sunday School Convention Will be held
at Indianapolis.
On Thursday Secretary Boutwell, Wis
tied the New York Stock Exchange and
made brief speech. g.
A large building in Philadelphia used
for skating rink, was destroyed by
fire on Thursday night.
Rufus Nash, one of the condemned
counterfeiters who escaped from jail in
Albany, has been reeaptursd.
James Miller attempted to commit
suicide at Evansville yesterday by
taking laudanum. He is recovering.
The chair factory of John Buchener g.
Co., at Evansville, Ind, was destroyed
by fire yesterday. Loss $4,000; insured.
Keller's hardware store, at Evansville,
Ind, was entered by burglars Thursday
night and S32 900 worth of revOlvers
and fine cutlery taken.
Two locomotives passed Poughkeepsie
last night en- route to California. They
will be the first ones to go over the
complete length of the Pacific railroad
The Great Western railway freight
house at Chatham, Ontario, was totally
destroyed by fire yesterday, withan i'm
mense amount of freight. Loss 800, 900.
Incendiary.
Governor Stevenson, of Kentucky, re-
prieved the negro John Conley, who
was to have been hung in Louisville
yesterday. No further clemency will
be shown.
A Savannah dispatch of yesterday
stated that the ship Sussex from Mobile
for Liverpool had been towed to Savan-
nah with her cargo on fire. Steam
pumps were sent her.
In the case of Ellen Carloch of Ho-
bokeu, who died from malpractice, the
coroner's jury found a verdict against
two New York physicians, Drs. Blauch-
ard and Voelker, who have been COM
mitted to Jail.
Local inspectors at Cincinnati last
nj light took $50 barrels of bsnzine off the
steamer Louisville for New Orleans. If
the case is properly reported the ben
zine will be forfeited and the boat suf.
fer pecuniary penalty.
In the L. S. Court, at Covington, KY,
Oh Thursday, Judge Ballard rendered
judgment for $1,000 in favor Of the u. S.
aud against James Ledge and his sure
ties, fer returning manufactured tobacco
lower than its real value.
John Russell Young has entered suit |
in the L $. Circuit Court, at Philadel- |
phia, against FOrney's Press and the
Ercning BuUtin for publishing the al
legged libelous articles from the New
York Sun. Damages 100000.
The District Attorney at Hudson
states that Josephine Brown, who re.
Gently pretended that her husband had
left confession of the murder of the
little girl, Angie Brown, instead of pro-
ceeding to Hartford to obtain the pre-
tended confession, remains in that vi !
cinity carrying on a love correspondence |
with negro.
DR.. Blanchard, one of the physicians
charged with causing the death of the
girl Ellen Carloch, in New York, was
found in his cell, in Hudson county, \.
Y, jail yesterday morning, with his
throat cut -Four wounds were also
found on his wrists and a long cash |
across his stomach. The wounds were |
all made with razOn, but neither of
them is Of a serious nature.
In the United States Court at Gov
ington, yesterday, Judge Bullard on the
bench, a Judgment was rendered against
w. w. Darliug, of CarraltOn, Ky, for
$500, 900 in favor Of the United States.
The suit was to recover the tax on
whisky shipped from Carralton, con-
signed to Henry Gratenkemper, of Gin
ciuuat. This whisky, instead Of going
as consigned, was taken TO another
house and sold as free whisky.
At meeting of the stockholders of.
the East Pennsylvania Railroad, at
Reading, Pa, yesterday, the directors
were authorized to declare dividend of
100 per cent, clear of all taxes, payable
to stockholders ON the 18th of May, and
Slso to lease the road for % years to the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company. At subsequent meeting of
the directors the proper steps were taken
SO cary the action of the stockholders
into effect. The Reading road will en-
ter into possession of the East Pcnnsyl-
vania road May lst.