The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-19
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SntHrday,---.--.--....June IS'
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterday
at 1863.
Several deaths from sunstrOke arc
reported in New York.
The banking house of John f. Darby
4 Co., St. Louis, suspended yesterday
morning.
Henry ]. Raymond, of the New York
Times, died suddenly yesterday morning
at five OclOck.
Miss Minnie Warren was married on
Thursday at West Haven, Connecticut,
10 Commodore Mutt.
Freighted railroad cars were trassfer-
red across the river at st. Louis on
Thursday for the first time.
The Williamsburg, n. Y, Dime Saw
mos Bank was robbed yesterday morn
ing by sneak thieves of nearly S6OOO.
The lawmakers, of Troy, N. Y, beat
the champions, the Mutuals, of New
York, yesterday, by score OF 23 TO -
The West Point graduates of 1867
had a banquet at Delmonico'son Thurs
day night, all of the class but four beng
present.
President Grant passed the day quiet
" in New York yesterday, taking ride
in the Central Park in the afternoon.
Few callers saw him.
The Swedenborgian Convention yes
terday tabled the subject of the intro.
duction of the words parish" aud
diocese" into their organization.
The Ciucinnatis beat the IrvingtOnS,
at IrvingtOn, yesterday, 20 to a, IN =
game of seven innings, the lrvingtons
playing their best game this season.
On Thursday afternoon, Lewis Sett
of Cincinnati, aged sixty, was killed by
a hogshead of tobacco rolling over hin
while it was being uRloaded FROM
dray.
In New York, yesterday mornin.
John DOnahuo was badly beaten arC
stabbed in several different places il
the body by unknown parties in tht
East River Park. The injured man was
removed to the 23d Precinct Station
House.
A New York dispatch says that An
drew J. Rogers, an ex-COlonel of the
Confederate army and native Ot
Charleston, S. c., has been arrested on
charge of obtaining money from par
ties in Rhode Island on false representa-
tiOns.
A St. Louis dispatch says that Sher'
man ThurstOn, Billy Carroll, b. Riley,
Jas Stewart and other buffers have pre-
pared atfidavits cOntradicting the sworn
statement of Val Mckinney, that he
was offered money TO decide the fight in
favor of Allen.
The eleventh annual regatta of the
jersey City Yachting Club took place
on Thursday, first class slOops sailing
twenty miles, second class sixteen. Six
first class and five second class were
entered FiTst prize of first class was
won in three hours and two minutes by
the Eclipse, owned by j. McKlnstry.
Second class was won by the Comet,
owned by 5. e. ketchum.
The Coliseum yesterday was filled to
its utmost capacity. The programme
was strictly classical and musical and
critics unite in pronOuucing the whole
performance a success in every respect.
During the iutermissiOu George Pea
body was introduced by the Mayor,
made brief address and was heartily
cheersd. The grand chorus was dis
missed with appropriate recognition Of
their servic 5. To-day there will be a
grand concert of the children Of the
public schools.
Six thousand persons witnessed the
trotting al Mystic Park, near Boston,
on Thursday. In the race for 2:l0 horses,
Philip Dauver's bay won three straight
heats in 2;33, 2:33t and 2:2S. General
Wayne was second aud DOb,o'S Dot third.
The prizes were $1,000, 500 and 5000.
In the second race for 2:3O horses seven
started. The first two heats were won
by Maynard's Darkness; the last three
10y Maces Confidence, who won Sl700.
Darkness $1,000 and Hayes Emperor
$500 Tmo-2:3l, 2:33f, $3.50 and 2::}2.
At the Charlestown city regetta, on
Thursday afternoon, the single sCull
race of two miles was won by Walter
Brown, in seventeen minutes and four
teen seconds, Thomas Doyle, ir., being
second, in seventeen minutes and thirty
eight seconds The four-Oared race was
won by the Harvard international crew,
without cox vain, in twenty-eight min
utcS and twenty-five seconds, the
Roach crew, which defeated them on
tuesday in Charles river, being second,
ia twenty nine minutes and four sec
Onds