The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-30
GheQmteliqetrrer:
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

at 134N.
There was another marked advanc
In Government bonds in New Yorl
yesterday. Ten forties sold up t
lOS2z; tive-twenties OF '62, 1925; anC
the new issues 1l6I. These are th
highest prices ever attained.
The Spanish Commander In Cub
has issued an order for the execution
his residence, and for the burning of al
houses not displaying a white flag.
President Grant visited Mt. Vernon
yesterday.
-Edington Fulton, new surveyor o
the port of Baltimore, has appointed
VIM. II. Taylor, colored, subordinate
in his Office, the first appointment OF {
| cOlOred man by a federal officer II
Maryland. A committee of colored cit
izens waited on Mr.. Fulton Thursday
morning and thanked him.
-Linn's blind factory at Elizabeth, N
sio.oo0. sii Sof"sa wednesday night Loss
General Sherman presented the di-
pIomas to the graduating class of Artil.
lerists at Fortress Monroe on Tuesday
then visited the navy yard and returned
10 Washington via. Richmond.
The old freight depot of the Ger
mantown & Philadelphia Railroad was
burned Wednesday, night. Loss heavy
on cars and freight. The surrounding
| buildings were much damaged. = The
loss is $40 900; insured for $4,000. The
| loss is mostly on cars and freight. The
depot building is of small value.
Tho Missouri Publishers Annual
Convention will be held AT st. Louis on
the l0.h OF May.
The Southern Railroad bill author
lz1ng the city of Cincinnati to borrow
money 10 build the road South, was
passed in the Ohio House of Represen-
tatives Thursday, and is now law.
The United States grand jury at
Cincinnati have found ffty-two indict-
ments, mostly against whisky dealers
for defrauding the revenue. The par
ties generally live there and at Dayton.
There are some big fish in the net. One
of the whisky ring made a confession.
No nanes are published as yet.
AT Walkers station, on the Marietta
& Cincinnati Railroad, about o'clock
Wednesday evening, there was de-
structive tornado. The depot was de.
molished and several houses were
blown down and unroofed and forests
blown down. The tornado lasted about
twenty minutes. .rsr.F
In the National Sunday School Con-
vention, at Newark, N. J., yesterday
AOrenoon, Mrs. Jeanette Heath, OF Kan
sas, was added 10 the list of Vice Presi-
dents. Rev. Fl. w. Beecher opened the
discussion on the Sunday School mis-
sion work, and was followed by Rev.
D. II. Tying, Jr., DR.. Peck, of the Meth.
odist Episcopal Church, and others.
Both houses OF the Ohio Legislature
have passed a bill, giving the city of
Cincinnati authority to use SlO,O0O,0OO
for the purpose OF building a short
line Railroad through Kentucky, to
connect with the Southern system of
Railroads at Chattanooga. The work
will be undertaken at once and pushed
forward vigorously.
An auxiliary boiler in the rolling
mills at Hamilton, c. W., burst Wed
nesday night, carrying away the roofs
ard side OF the shed in which it was
situated. A man named Burns who
was attending the boiler was killed
and twenty. five others were injured
but not seriously. Among the in
Iured is a stranger named Duncan Nc.
Nabe, from Trenton, ILL.,, who had just
gone in to see the mill and the others
are employees. The main building sus-
tained very little injury and the work
will be stopped only Il few days.
There is now no longer doubt
that the reported disaster on board the
Steamer Urilda on the Missouri river
some thirtya miles above Sioux city,
was pure fiction so far as the explo-
sion OF the boiler and the loss of life
was concerned. The boat struck a
snag and sunk and that is all there is
about 1t; not single life WAS lost.
The white woman Martha Sprague,
and the black man Alex. Cornell, ar
rested Mt Peekskill, New York, on sus-
picion of having jointly murdered an
infant belonging to tho former, have
been discharged, the Coroner's jury NOT
having found sufficient evidence to hold
them.
Hon. C. W. Walton was re-appolnt-
ed Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Georgia Thursday. he has
already served seven years.
"A passenger car on the Rennsselear r
and Saratoga railroad, ran off the track
near Waterford, New York, Thursday
night, and was upset. Several persons
were bruised butn seriously.
BY MAIL.
1T is reported that Gen. Butler is
preparing q reply to MIR. Sumuet'a AL
ALBANIA speech.
Its said that the House Committee
-, Eorai0n Relations will visit San