The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEG GRAPH.

rbs National Labor Congress assem-
Mod in Philadelphia yesterday.
Cor,m;ssioner Osborne, of New York,
has dIscharged Pratt for want OF evi-
dence.
The work on the Spanish gunboats Is
no,ng on rapidly and without govern
1-Dt interference.
P.v DR.. Patton, of Chicago, is officia-
,;ng AZ Plymouth church during the ao-
s.nce of Mr.. Beecher.
The iourneymen horse shoers OF
praoklTn are preparing for movement
for an advance In wages.
Tho New Yerk tailor's strike is OFF,
.;oIiy declared ut an end, excepting as
70 man employ ed by SIX Trims.
Cbow and Sing Man, the Chinese mer-
obsnts. visited Mr.. Lelant's country
Mace at New Rochelle, Sunday.
Apnmber of French residents of New
Work celebrated the centenary OF the
b;rtb of Napoleon the First, on S1tur-
day last.
The trot between Lady Thorne and
Mountain Boy was postponed until To-
dac on account of the storm OF Sunday
The track is very heavy.
The printers' strike at Kansas City,
No has been satisfactorily arranged,
+bs ,roDristors of the Bulletin yielding
"a rb, demand of the printers.
The Southern base ball club OF New
Orleans played the Atlantics of st.
Ioai, Saturday, beating them 10 to q.
The AtlantIcs were whitewashrd SIX
time, and the Southerns six. ar-.-
train ON the Southsids railroad was
thrown off the track twelve miles from
Petersburg, Va, yesterday, instantly
tilljng X HobsOn, the conductor, and
P,y ". Melers, a colOred preacher.
match game of base ball between
rb. champion Ec6for aud the Red
Stockings, at Cincinnati, was witnessed
by an immense assembly. The gams
was won 10y the Red Stockings by
score of ~ 10 IL.
FIRE at New Brighton yesterday
morning destroyed Demphry's stable
and about dozen frame houses IN tht
vicinity occupied as stores and dwell
lings. Loss $4,000; partly insured.
james f. Warshaw, brother of j. j.
Warsbaw, of Memphis and lately from
Chicago, was seized with apoplcxN
while entering the Planter House, ST.
Lonis on Sunday, and died almost IN
stantly.
Colonel William J. Nagle, formerly
Of the Irish Brigade. one Of the few who
wore released some time ago from the
EarE.h prison, was killed on Sunday
bya fall from a window at his residence
-. Madison street, New York.
An extensive shovel mapufactory con-
nrcred with tine works of the old Colony
Iron Company, Taunton, Mass, burned
on Sunday, including four hundred doz
en- ,hovels, &c Loss 100000; insur-
ancc $4,000
George K. Ritter, President of the
Fust National Bank, of Memphis, Tenn,
mas been arrested IN New York. He IL
charged with embrZZhng six hundred
thousand dollars of the school fund OF
Tennessee.
Owing TO the long continued dry
weather, the Schuylklli Tlyer has dwin-
died 10 a small stream, and causes great
scarcity OF water in Philadelphia. Over
two hundred canal boats are stuck in
the mud between there and Morristown.
Judge Barnard has issued an iniunc-
tlun directed 10 The collector of internal
revenue OF the New York 32d district,
euJolnlug him from collecting tax for
about twenty thousand dollars which
had been assessed against Clark, Dodge
Co, bankers, of Wall street.
4 little daughter of Mr. Manning
went - get on the Loveland Accommo-
datIUu train on the Marietta road, as il
backed ont of the depot yesterday af-
ternOOn, fell and was run over and in
Stantly killed.
DR.. +. J. Keeville, of Waukegan, H.,
vas drowned, Sunday, while fishing in
the lake. 10 pulling in his anchor he
fell overheard. and never rose to the
surface. His body was recovered after
being in the water SIX hours.
The steamer Havana, of the Nashville
Packet Company, was burned to The
waters edge at Parlor Grove, twelve
miles below Cincinnati, yesterday
where she had Just landed a picnic
party. No one Was hurt. The total lost
ISIS, 900; insured for $4,000 in CinCin
natl companies.
Henry Highlander, lately from Wash
ington City, fell from the balcony of hi.
boarding house, 46 Sherman street, Chi
cago, yesterday morning about five
O'Clock, and killed. He was quite drunk
fhe evening previous, and instead o.
going To bed, lay down on the balcony
which had no railing, and rolled off
He died in an honr.
The buildings of tho Boston Dessi
Gated Goldfish Company, corner Sixth
street and Columbia avenue, Philadel
phia, were totally destroyed by fire yes
terday morning. Loss 1000. Th,
buildings were also occupied in part b,
Hundiugton corn starch msnufactory
and Bahew & Conway, steel umbrella
spring factors. Latter loss Sls,OUO.
The New York Sun prints an inter
view ut Fort Schuyler with Pratt, th
alleged Texas srurderer and rioter. Th
prisoner gives minute account of hi
life, and deuies he was present whe
the riot occurred at Jefferson and Z
W. Smith aud two negroes were killed
He gave list Of Texans now in New
York as knowing his whereabouts a
the time. The reporter unhesitatingl.
expressed belief in Pratt's innocence.
The Treasurer of the United State
yesterday received another $40 green
back of tNe 23d series, letter g, whisl
~ us distinctive features vary mater
a!iy from any other specimens ye
printed. The engrsvings are quite
coarse and does not attempt to lmitat q
tue genuine plare at all closely. Th
lgnette OF Lincoln is very Indifferent
engraved and the scroll work aroun'
Tue medallion poorly initiated.
.., a Philadelphia dispatch of yesterda,
w. SSi 9e ex blockade runner Hornet
I;vSrnt .n 1eit here Saturday osrensibly fo
liverpool, via Havana has been can
W;am; I,eu IN the bay by the revenue cutie
yarS :, ~Tu brought back to the nav,
csrrIi ~ oe'hg supposed she intepde;