The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-22
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Tuesday,. June 22'
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterda!
at 1874.
Colfax spent Sunday in Springfield
Massachusetts.
After to day there will be no British
troops in New Brunswick.
President Grant and family left New
York yesterday morning for Washing
ton.
Gov. Clahin, of Massachusetts,, has
signed the prohibitory liquor law, to 20
into effect July first.
The Y. S. Frigates Savannah and
Macedonia left Fort Monroe yesterday
on their annual cruise.
The National Horse Fair at Lesyen-
worth Kansas, opens to-day. Many
famous horses are in attendance.
The Brazilian Government has acced.
sd to Minister Webb's demands, and
their affairs are amicably settled.
COMPANY E, of the 10th U. s. lnfsnt-
ry, passed through st. Louis on SaIur-
day, en- route for Brownsville, Texas
A dispatch from Troy, n. Y, says that
Beach's paper mill, near Sandy Hill, was
burned on Saturday night. Loss SZU'OVO'
Partly insured.
Charles Mcdonald, aged IL, employed
in the Republican Office at Frederick,
Md, committed suicide on Sunday by
taking laudanum.
The extensive carpet shop Of Stanton
& McGarvey, Philadelphia, with the
stables adjoining, was burned on oun-
day night. Loss heavy.
On Sunday afternoon, John Kinney,
of Newark, n. j., became involved III a
quarrel with his wife, seized an axe ana
inflicted a probably fatal wound.
Thos. Hyues, lately released from the
Auburn State Prison, stabbed Michael
Cochran, of Rochester, n. T., on Sunday
night. Cochran's life is despaired oi
and Hynes is in prison.
The continued cold, wet weather is
becoming a serious cause of alarm to the
Illinois farmers, and unless there Is a
change soon the corn crop in Northern
and Middle Illinois will come near prov
ing failure.
Fifty prominent business men OF st.
Louis have guaranteed the Merchants
Exchange or Grain Association against
loss in the experiment OF bringing an
ocean steamer from New York and load
ing her at ST. Louis with grain.
The boiler of an engine belonging to
the Reading railroad exploded at Ma
honing Plane, Schuylkill county, IA,
on Sunday evening, instantly killing
the engineer, George Wilson. The fire
man was badly hurt, but there is a pros
pect of his recovery.
Ten thousand persons witnessed the
supplementary Concert" at the Bos-
ton Coliseum on Saturday. No more
musical entertainments will be given
until next Saturday. The Boston
preachers on Sunday made favorable
illusions to the Jubilee.
The value of the property connected
with the Ullman distillery, near Baltl-
more, lately seized by the Government,
for violating the Revenue laws, exceeds
$500 600. IL is alleged that every sec
tion of the Revenue laws regulating
distilleTies has been violated by the pro
prietors, through the connivanoe of the
Revenue officers.
Judge Allen of Hartford, Ct, who
died lately in Paris, left $4,000 each TO
the Hartford Orphan Asylum, Hartford
Hospital, Hartford Charitable Society
aud the Young Mems Institute, $4,000 for
the erection OF piece of statuary on
the Hartford Park, and $500 each to
Hon. Gideon Welles and William Fax
son, his warm personal friends. The
balance of his money goes to his rela-
tiyes.
The first execution IN South Carolina
under the reconstructed State govern
meut took place Friday afternoon at
Arlington {. H., where negro named
Cyrus Cox was hanged for the murder
of Robert Suggest (whito) in January
!.,t. The execution passed off quietly,
the Sheriff and ministers who ofhciated,
as we'll as most of the spectators and
guards, being all negroes. Cox con
tessed his guilt.