The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-29
Af'heeliug geglster
Tuesday,---..-.-...June 20
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterda!
at 1877.
The Ocean National Bank, New York
was burglarized last night of $4,000 II
Government bOnds, also large amount
of securities, No arrests.
The official gazette of Ottawa con-
taiDs proclamation setting apart the
first of July, Dominion Day, as a public
holiday for the present and subsequent
years.
An Ottawa dispatch says g. G. -Reif-
fenstein, Chief Clerk in the Receiver
Generals Department has been arrested
charged with apprOPriating public
money.
In Baltimore on Sunday, the remains
of John Wilkes Booth were inferred in
the family lot, in the presence Of the
members of his family and 8 number of
friends.
An Albany dispatch says two locomo-
tives and three cattle cars, from CiDcin-
natl, were smashed Oy collision on the
Susquehlnna Railroad, Sunday. No
lives lost.
The annual spring regatta of the
Yale College clubs occurred Saturday.
The University crew won in l9 minutes
and 45 seconds. Distance three miles
ard 400 feet.
Bogart, the absconding paymaster's
clerk. who carried away thirty thousand
dollars of Government funds from the
navy yard at Brooklyn, has been arrest
cd in Texas.
A tornado at Philadelphia on Sunday
partly destroyed the South street depot,
demolished two brick houses and badly
injured Chase's shoe works. Several
other houses were unroofed. No lives
lost.
The game of base ball yesterday af-
ternoon at Washington, between the
Cincinnatis and Olympics, resulted in
victory for the former, the score being
10 to 3. The Cincinnatis left last night
for Wheeling.
The champion base ball match at
New York, yesterday afternoon, be-
tween the Mutual and Atlantic clubs,
resulted, at the end of the seventh in
ming, in favor of the Atlantics by a
score of to |.
Up to Saturday the returns of the
vote on Lay Delegation, as received at
the office of the New York Methodist
were as follows: Total vote, 3s,45S.
For Lay Delegation, % ,5S7. Against
1851. Majority for Lay Delegation,
1916
The Tribune says that the steamer
Catherine Whiting, which cleared for
Galveston on Friday, was seized Oh
Saturday night as she was about leav-
ing the harbOr, on suspicion of being
Cuban revolutionary transport. She
was partly laden with hay and provi
sOns.
A dispatch from Waterloo, Canada,
says the heavy rains yesterday gave rise
to another great freshet equal to that
early in the spring. Five mill dams
that stood fast then have yielded to the
present fresbet. A large number of
bridges and fences have also been car
red away. The damage to farm prop |
srty is very considerable.
General Candy has written a reply to
the letter of B. w. Gillis, of the Rich
mOnd State journal, containing an argu-
msnt TO Sustain his position in requiring
menbers of the Legislature to take the
"iron. clad oath" He contends that
the reconstruction acts require it, and
be is acting in conformity with all pre-
cedents in enforcing it.
At the annual meeting of stOckhOld-
ers of the Michigan Central x. K. at De
troit, Michigan, yesterday, the follow
ing gentlemen were elected directors:
James T. JOY, John W. Brooks, Nathan
iel Thayer, John NJ. Forbes, Sidney
Bartlett, Boston; Edward Jones, Geo.
Tallman. Moses Taylor, New York,
Erastns Corning, Albany.
A New Orleans dispatch says that the
Board of Flour Inspectors appointed by
the Governor under an act of the late
Legislature, having eDjoined the old
Inspectors, were tested as to qualit-
cation on Friday by committee of the
Chamber of Commerce on sixty barrels
of -four. The lowest nImber of errors
was -, the highest 80, resulting in the
discharge of the new inspectors and the
reappointment of the old board.