The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-21
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NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

Accounts from Canada say that recent
rains have flooded the country.
The steamer City of Antwerp has just
reached New York from Europe
A fire in Mitchell, Canada, on sunday
destroyed property TO the amount u
$50, 900.
Al Worcester, Mass, on Sunday even,
inc Thomas keenan, killed hlcnalu
Laffiin in quarrel.
The Indians captured the horses OF q
WAGON train near Laramie last Friday'
Soldiers have gone IN pursal1'
The damage By the hail storm at ST.
Louis on Monday afternoon IS Variousi5 nO5
estimated at from so, ,OOO to SlOO'OOO'
Tammany Society elected officers on
Monday night. w. NJ. Tweed was maze
GraLd Sachem, vice Governor HOFFMAN,
Generals Stoneman and SaxtOn left
Omaha Yesterday for San WanelsSa.
Their commands win follow IN a lew
days.
A terrible storm of rain prevailed at
Whitehall, Canada, Monday night, Inc
country is covered with water. UreaV
damage done.
A charge of qusckery has been lodged
in the Mayors office, New YORK, against
Dr.J. Walter Scott, Principal New lofK
Medical University.
The Newark, n. j., carpenters, Dy
striking, have secured $40 per DAY
The Orange, n. j., carpenters a!e on
strike for a per day
The Central Pacific railroad reaches
Monument Point to-day. The Union
Pacific are laying from two TO three
miles of track per day.
The body of an old man who had
fallen down an embankment near MAD
ison, Ind, some three weeks ago and
killed, was found last evening.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
last evening passed resolutions IN favor
of bill now before the Ohio Leglsla-
ture favoring free trade in money.
The notorious butcher cart thief, Steve
Boyle, also renowned as the murderer OF
a Michigan Sheriff, lately sent from
New York to the States Prison, has
escaped.
Mcclure Branham, formerly Superln-
tendent of the Madison division oil tne
I'M. &I.R.R., died at his residence IN
North Madison ut five o'clock yesterday
morning.
William II. Nelson, clerk for the
Equitable Life Insurance Company, has
been arrested on charge of embezzllnS
six or eight thousand dollars from his
employers.
The report that twenty Government
vessels are to be made ready for service !
in Cuban waters is denied. The only
vessel preparing for sea Is the practice
ship Saline.
There was a terrible storm at Indian
apolis about 9 o'clock on Monday night.
An immense amount of property was de-
stroyed, one man killed and several
others injured.
The laburcrs in New York have for
several weeks been working hard IN aid
of their brother revOlutiOuists. They |
arc sending to Cuba, men, rsoney ana
munitions of war.
Fires are becoming epidemic. -Four,
teen houses at the fall of the Schuylklli
river near Manayunk, Pa, were burned
yesterday. They were the homes Oh
railroad operatives.
The Illinois State Asylum for the
Blind at Jacksonville was burned TO the
ground yesterday morning. No lNes
lost. The furniture, &c, was saved.
Loss $4,000 No insurance.
The President of the Irish Republican
Association has sent dispatch of
thanks to Senator Chandler for his
speech on the Alabama Claims. This Is
carrying Goals to Newcastle. Giving
gas for gas.
A dispatch from Dubuque says that
city was visited on Monday afternoon,
by the most destructive storm ever
witnessed there. The loss of property
was immense. One man was killed and
number injured
The latest intelligence from the burn
ing mines in California states that the
Crown Point and Kentucky shafts have
been opened, The water had risen In
them to tho height of five hundred feet.
Otherwise very little damage had been
done.
A train on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western railroad went over an embank
ment between Decatur and Springfield,
ILL.,, yesterday. The accident was caused
by heavy rains washing away the en-
bankment. 1t is not known yet wheth
er any one was killed.
A Newark, New Jersey, dispatch says
that the dead body of Christian Streu-
ton, a German who disappeared from
that city three weeks ago, was found
on Sunday floating in Newark bay. The
body bore marks violence. Blessman,
who was with the deceased when last
seen alive, has been arrested.
There was a large meeting in Boston
last night to establish Reform League.
MANY prominent commercial men were
present. Speeches were made by VIM.
LLOYD Garrison, Edward Atkinson, John
W. Chandler, n. q. Nash, A. Durfee and
others. Resolutions endorsing the OBJ
jects of the League were adopted.
A Madison, Indiana, dispatch, dated
yesterday, says: Three weeks ago an
old gentleman named Austin, from Ken
lucky, passed through this city, going
10 North Madison. His horse was found
wandering on the hill the next day, and
thlS morning the body OF the old gentIe'
man was found in the hollow below the
hill. He had fallen over the embank-
ment and been lying dead there for
three weeks. He was intoxicated at the
time.
In the case of Kimberly against But
Ter, IN the United States Court yesterday,
Ch'ci Justice Chase presiding, the same
queStloss were at issue as those before
the Superior Court of Baltimore city,
namely the freedom from arrest of a
member of Congress, and whether a
W.T., M!' IN civil suit amounts to an arrest.
nm. Lh's poIht TINS morning was argued on
the demurrer to the plea in abatement
AT the conclusion of the argument the
Court reserved its decision until to.mor.
row morning, but iutimated that the
case could go on. A plea of limitation
under an act of Congress of 1S62 +Lot