The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

ALabor Convention was held atNew
Haven, Conn, yesterday.
On Tuesday night twenty-eight stu
dents graduated at the Cincinnati La"
School.
Yesterday the Grand Trunk Railway
was entirely under water between bul
fRlo and BrantfOrd.
The steamers Helvetia and Dacian
from Europe and South America
reached New York yesterday.
Hon. John L. Ketcham, of Indian
apolis. died on Tuesday night, from the
effects of fall through hatchway.
On Tuesday Justice Bowling. of New
York, commenced the examination OF
the late forgeries upon Jay Cooke " TO-
A Cincinnati butcher named Merkel
sent a man to bank on Tuesday with a
check for $1,000 The latter drew the
money and decamped.
A Brooklyn dispatch says Senator
Fentun will sue the Commercial ddrer-
tiser and the EreRiRg Post for libel, lay
ing the damage at half a million.
A party of burglars were surprised
while at work yesterday morning at
tempting to break into a bank at Lima,
n. Y They were fired upon but es-
capped.
In st. Louis, yesterday morning,
three men, a wagon and team, engaged
in removing rubbish, were preclpitated
into a cellar, one man being killed and
another badly hurt.
They are having the worst freshet III
Montpelier, VT, kaown there for the
last twenty years. The cellars are full of
water, streets OvertOwed and bridges
carried away. The damage will be i'm
mense.
A Tribunes special from Montreal
says that the question of annexation to
the United States is attracting consid-
erable attention in Canada. Sumner 5
speech on the Alabama treaty was gem
orally discussed.
A party of capitalists from Fort
Wayne, Indiana, went 10 Henry, Hi
nois, on Tuesday, to attend a railroad
meeting called to consider the propriety
of building new road from Fort Wayne
to Muscatine, Iowa.
A run-off occurred on the Nashville
and North Western railroad yesterday
morning, killing two men and lnJurlng
several others. About the same time a
train ran off the Mobile aud Ohio road,
killing three persons.
On yesterday Gustaye Kendt, an EN-
plOye, Eugene Kendt and Abraham
Vandewager were arrested for robbing
Wheeler, Parsons & Co.'s watch case
manufaetory, in New York, of $4,000
worth of property in December last.
Cincinnati was visited by a heavy /
rain storm on Tuesday morning, The |
same storm blew down the new Wabash !
bridge at Vincennes, Indiana. At Fort !
Wayne bridges and culverts on the
Wabash railroad were threatened by
the freshet.
A Worcester (Mass.) dispatch of the
2lst inst. says that the Convention of
the Knights of st. CriSPin, of the United
States aud Canada, was largely at
tended yesterday. The proceedings
were secret, but 1t is said they looked
10 unity of action of the various orders.
Great damage has been doue at Port |
Henry, n. Y, and the adjacent country |
by the freshet. At Well6rook the |
bridges, dams, barns, &c, are carried f!
away by the food. At Mariah Centre, |
the post office, stores aud many dwell |
ings are gone. The loss is estimated at
SljO,OUO.
The Herald of yesterday has a special
saying that the Spanish Minister mad
asked of Secretary Fish an anti-tilibus-
tering proclamation and been refused.
In relation to the Spanish Outrages upon
the American flag, the Secretary stated
that unless reparatiOn were made war
would ensue.
Iu the L. S. Circuit Court at Balti- |
moro yesterday the answer in the case
of Kimberly against Burton, Chief JUS
tice Chase sustained the demurrer of
plaintiffs TO the defendants plea in
abatement of privilege from arrest as
q member of Congress, and held that
the word arrest as used in the Constitu-
tiOn means an arrest or detention by
force with view to Imprisonment, and
does not extend to process of summons
in civil suit. The argument on the
other pleas was continued.
The L. s. Indian Commissioners in
New York were on yesterday informed |
of the arrival of their agent at Medicine |
Creek, Washita Mountains, with garden |
seeds, hoes, &c, and his hearty wei |
come by the military and Indians, his |
putting the plow in motion and seleC.
tion of the site for a mission school.
One hundred and fifty lodges of Chey-
ennes and ArrapahOe Indians were ex-
Pected to arrive daily. The Indians
take great interest IN what is being
done for them, but funds are wanted rs
the Indian Appropriation has failed.
Myriads of graSshopPers have appeared
on the plains. A later dispatch states
that Roman Nose, Little plymouth,
Yellow Bear and Old Stem with six hun
dred Arrapahoes have come in ready to
go to their reservation and they are
willing to be taught to follow the ways
of white men.