The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-06
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"a .,ospl in New York on Saturday
8, l57.,
,.. .cccunts Senator Fessender
~ .ra5uaNy sinking. No hopes arc
'""-tI,rIainsd "-I for his recovery
h Richardson, President of the
Jo', pa. :" National Bank of Iowa, dieC
N DrJham, Massachusetts, FRIDAY
~. Sarah Boyle and daughter were
i9a@Ty E% York. Fnday, starved to death.
r,. Union Fence ComPany's factory
i"e Ira ONO. was burned Saturday
Pa'nvs' Loss $50, 900. No insurance
rand display Of Aurora Borealis
\ Sa..-rd m New York city and IN
was na-t. ,,- a, the State Friday night.
,,..;o GRAY was arrested in New
". M FT,dly night for forging large
lO.H a.. of Philadelphia city warrants
,.o,aha dispatch says that Platte
y" .C Nebraska, has voted to donate
sOII,'' syI~Sr 10 the Columbus Il Sioux City
railroad.
,.u,roI sheridan has directed au ap-
,-;,tIop U of sixty thousand dollars TO
EC E.'t,s Rock. Arkansas, for the use OF the
paymas;er there
r,wss Otis. son of Harrison Gray
o". of Boston, and President of the
Va-,b American Insurance Company
5;sl @ in New York Friday night.
s,,ur5ay morning the Great Western
VI. NGs. l and =, at Petrolia, Pa,
.,.L ire. and everything above ground
Ta. DESTROYED. Loss $4,000.
boz containing $4,000 worth of
,,Irable papers was found ia q street In
w York, Friday night 1t had been
- ppt was useless 10 the thieves.
Richard Carter, a foreman of the stone
rs.ons employed at FairmOunt Park,
pST,ds,Dhia. was shot and killed by
To.gnb SNYDER, discharged workman.
IN consequence of the cold weather
of -ro mast week, four hotels at Long
R,arcb the Continental, United States,
Vstrcnoll,an and Stetson House, close
to-day.
TIE workingmen of New York ig-
more the action of the late Labor Con-
gr4., claiming that it WAS run in the
interest of politicians, and are soon TO
ho,l mass meeting on the subject.
ACuIzcns Association was formed in
BROOKLYN, Friday night, and an address
adopted urging citizens to join it, ire
.n-a,lrp Of party, 10 reform the munic-
lral government, and reduce taxation.
The steamship Hornet, suspected OF
bayig, munitions for the CubanS, was
searched Al Halifax last Wednesday,
bn- nothing found. She has since been
detained ior the purpose of more
inmate ,sIicE.
4 private letter from Paris says that
Hon. James A. Grimes, Of Iowa, has re-
>gurG his seat in the United States SEN
az. % iake effect on the lst of October
GvZ'. anl rLlt lie will not rethrn 10 this
caaa'y gutil next year. His health is
,1n,wll' improved, but moi sufficiently
50 % enable ham to resume his public
dates al the beginning of the next ses-
s.o.o. Congress. His term of Office ex-
P,,rS On the lth of March, 1871.
Saratoga dispatch of yesterday
sag- The President lett here on the
$50 tram this evening for Washington.
II" was 10 have left tomorrow morning
Tor Ir,ra With his family, 10 visit Hon.
Rr~cuc Gambling. lne character of the
dispatches received from Washington
to-day has induced the President to
write the following letter:
SARATOGA, Y. Y, Sept. >, ls69-To the
Hon. Roscoe Coukijng-Ny Dear Sir =
1t is with extreme regret that the CON
t'uuad aud dangerous illness of Secre-
fary Rawlins, whose relations with nc
have been SO intimate from the break
InE out of the rebellion 10 the present
day, compcis NE 70 tOregO the contem-
plated pleasure VI visit 10 YOUR CITY
tomorrow. / know ihl; Won and nv
other friends wi, appreciate the motive
winch calls NE from a pleasure trip to
tJe bedside af a C0mrada who has rem
d'i'd such ,Igndi service to his country,
tna whose death will cast gloom over
thchl'.on The most recent dispatches
scarcely leave a hope that | may see
'.m alive. Ian, very sincerely. yours,
L. S. GRANT.