The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-18
,t'heeliua gegister.
s,,urday,. September 4 8.
NEWS SUMMARY.
nv TELEGRAPH.

csld closed in New York yesterday at
1867.
The Hartford Post denies that Mrs.
Stowe is SICK
r,dd's linseed oil works, Grand street,
Nav York, were burned Thursday night.
Loss $4,000
pxCoyernor Church, of Rochester,
W has decidedly improved, but is not
vet cut of danger.
era AT Syracuse, N. Y, yesterday,
,.n,aged Sperry's skate factory, and
T,n"Gon usn & Sperry's machine shop. Loss
nnwards of $50, 900; insured for $50, 900.
Tbs game of cricket between the ST.
c.n-1s of New York and the Philadel-
Ma Club, resulted in p victory for the
,tsr who scored 1l3 runs in two in
;a%s 20 O. for the st. George.
rbo cigar mandatory of Schultz &
c;as;Tsn' of Garlenyille, H., has been
S.;saJ for violation of the internal rev.
.Ons laws. About sixty thousand cigars
were seized with the factory.
1,mes Armstrong shot his mother-in-
,.w dead in North Bridgewater, Mass,
TL,rsdny evening. A shot intended
t,r his father-in law wounded James
Ws,cb, eighbor. The murderer ied.
In the case of James Baxter, who was
recently arrested at Rochester, n. Y,
for committing fraud, came before the
conrt At Kansas City yesterday, and he
was discharged for want of prosecution.
Ina fight at Hartford, Connecticut,
Thursday night, between tive negroes
and two white men, one OF the latter,
named Arthur Adams, was fatally stab
he'd, Three of the negroes were arrest
ed.
The ,hingle and box factory of Page
4 Kilburn, st. Louis, was burned yes
tOrlay morning. Loss, $50, 900. In
snrapce, $4,000. A lumber yard ad-
Joining wa. damaged to the amount of
5000
large portion of the wooden mill at
Ripton, Ulster county, n. T., was de-
stToyed bv fire yesterday. The loss is
heavy, but it is partially insured. One
busdrsd and fifty persons are thrown
out of employment.
4 telegram from Puebla says: Wild
Bill, a noted character who has tignred
a. hero of several sketches of life on
the border, got into a difficulty on cleo
tisD day and while being taken to the
Colorado City Jail, was fired upon from
the brush aud killed.
Libby and Pennybaker's -four mills
and Thomas regimental armory, Phila-
delphia, we're burned yesterday. Loss,
S3U,NJJ. The steel pen works, cabinet
shop and machine shop opposite, were
badly damaged. Loss, $4,000.
A dispatch from Denver says further
election returns confirm yesterdays re-
port Of the Republican majority. Where
the Democrats had a party nomination
they have generally been defeated. The
Legislature will have clear Repubh-
can majority.
A iTe yesterday morning at Toronto,
Canada, destroyed three frame houses
Oh Queen street Two children belong
iDgtoa man named Chalener persisted
iu tie DANES One fireman was killed
and another fatally injured by falling
chimney. The mother of the children
saved third child by throwing 1T out
Ofa window.
A difficulty has arisen in Philadelphia
between Maj. Calhoun, Pension Agent,
aud claim agents, which will delay the
payment to pensioners in the interior
for some time. Heretofore the pension
agent has paid all claims on proper
vouchers in greenbacks, but now refuses
to pay anything bat checks to the order
OF claimants, which agents and attor-
neys refuse to accept.
dispatch from Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
Yauia, says: Gov. Geary has appointed
Col. Scott, Gen. J. W. Cass. Gen. Moor
head, Hon. Richard J. Haldcman. Col.
Phillips, Henry Mccormick, Hon. G.,
Coleman, Hon. Stanley Woodward, Ed
ward +. Gay and Hon. Henarick B.
wright. delegates from Pennsylvania
To The southern Commercial Convention
10 Oe Reid in Louisville, Ky, the 18th of
me Grand Lodge of Good Templars,
"nlch nave been IN session at Jackson
NyiIIe, Illinois, for two days, after several
hours OF discussion of the matter, on
thursday indOrsed, by a decided ma
J'rity, the action of the National Tenn
Perence Convention recently held in
CAlcago in favor of q third political
OtganizatiOn, the distinct and most con-
'PIcnous principle of which shall be
prohibition.
Tsedo dispatch of yesterday says: ::
The twentieth State fair closed to-day,
snd has been the most successful in all
respects of any yet held. The number
oi admission tickets sold was $4,000.
against $4,000 at Dayton in 1867, the
highest Of any preceding year. The ag-
!regate receipts are $4,000 to $50, 600;
NE number of entries were 1900, about
1000 more than any former year. The
most gratifying degree of order, sobrie-
and good feeling distinguished the
SdCie fair, and everybody, officers of
tl' Board, exhibitors, visitors and citi-
ltenS, are delighted. AS an evidence of
.4o natural resources, dsv elopments and
alSancemont of the region of country
tributary TO Toledo, it was an occasion
~ which the people of this city will
'AAe pride and which W i'll do much to-
"I''t ',l''t attracting in this direction the
,m'os'ry, skill aud capital of the coun-