The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-11-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
ry TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York Saturday
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f,lo. :. $. Nicholas, Of Louisville,
t,TmrTiy Chancellor, died in that city
saturday morning
Large numbers of movers are con-
,,aptIy going into Arkansas, principally
from Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri and
Illinois.
IN SATURDAY the the Pittsburgh Dis
match newspaper discharged all Union
printcrs and put or new force or non
Union men.
.Iohu l.. Barton, custom house
hrokrr, in New York, was arrested on
saturday for bribery. Committed in
default of $1,000 bail.
A petition TO Congress TO recognize
the belligerent rights OF the Republic
If Cuba has received $4,000 signatures
in three days in Philadelphia.
wThe warehouse Of Little G. Baird,
Tbolesa,e groccrs Of Pittsburgh, was
brrned Yesterday morning. Loss about
100000. Insured in Pittsburgh con-
pauIes.
Long & Brothers chair factory. of
Louisville, was damaged by fire on Fri
Aay night TO the extent of $4,000; fully
,nsnred. One hundred persons are
thrown out Of employment.
appears that the discharge Of the
JlUwsrkmen in the Trenton, New Jer-
sew. rolling mills arises from the COM
plcations of the Erie Railroad Com
pauy. who own the property.
Peter Tufle & Son, Of Whitehall,
Illinois, failed Thursday and absconded
Liabilities estimated at $50, 900; mostly
10 small farmers, from W whOm they pur'
chased wheat. No assets known :C
exist.
Solomon X. BiesenthaPs jewelry store
ON Market street, near First, Louisville,
XIV. was robbed yesterday morning OF
gnId and silver watches, diamond rings
and pins To the amount of six to eight
,housand dollars. No clue TO the rob.
hers.
The proraller Calumet, from Milwau-
kee 10 Montreal with a cargo of 5000
bu.hrrs of wheat and 1900 bblS of flour,
sprnnr leak on Lake Huron aud sunk
twenty-five miles this side the Straits of
Nackiuaw. The propeller aud cargo a
total loss. Crew all saved.
4 terrible atfray took place in John
son county, Arkansas, last week. A
planter named johnson had an alterca-
SION with three hands in u cotton field
who attacked him with knives. john
sou drew a kuifeTo defend himself, kill
ing ;vO of them instantly and mOrtally
vouud0g the third. Johnson received
more than twenty wounds but will TO.
cover. lie bears the reputation of being
gsoa, quiet citizen.
The Choctsw Legislature has passed
the following:
R5'o'rci, That we protest, in the name
Of the ChOctaw people, against the
scheme involving the investing of the
pnO,g moneys OF the Choctsw nation
w,'a 'an,- of the Cherokee, Greek and
Seminole cations tor the purchase aud
construction af railroads, thus subject
inE The United States tor years to the
necessity of JesOrting 10 taxation for
'be 'npurrf of our Government and
Pam'- our funds in tine hands Of spec
nla'"rs and ont Of our own control.
10 'le suit Of the Rogers Locomotive
Works. of Patterson. New Jersey, against
the Ene Railroad Company, involving
the question of violation of the charter
of the road from the Legislature of that
State, the cOmplainants pray that the
Erie managers be compelled TO show up
The whole details of management in
order to prove the legality of many
Questionable transactions. The defend
ants are cited to answer before Chancel-
lor Eabraski, and show cause why the
prayer and complaint should not be
granted which was filed on the 2lst oI
August. The New York Herald says
that the Pdssaic county grand jury ha:
also indicted James Fisk, Jr,, and Jay
Gould, and upon their being caught
upon jersey soil they will be arrested
aud arraigned forthwith. They are
,harged by the indictEent with fraud
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