The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

The Yale Club of Cincinnati held
reunion last night.
The track of the Hudson River rail-
road is washed away between StuyVes
ant and Schodeck.
On Wednesday night A. n. Drach
house, of Cincinnati, was thrown IRON
milk wagon and instastly killed
At CRANKY, Canada, eleven persons
were drowned in the flood. They were
standing on a bridge. which gave way
Accounts from Albany, New York
and Concord, n. H., note the occurrence
of the heaviest floods ever seen there
for years.
The African NJ. E. Conference of Ohio
now in session at Cincinnati, Will ao-
journ to-day. 1t win be held at AeDia
next year.
Four propellers belonging to the
Neathern Transportation Company are
afioat in the ice in the lake near Port
Colborn, c. w.
The st. Louis pork packers have sub
scribed $3.50 to be distributed in pre-
miums for the best hogs shown at the
next Missouri State Fair.
A delegation of Yirginians is now
in Baltimore, to lay before the citizens
the importance of extending the Viz
Einia Valley Railroad, and urge assist
anee.
Montreal advices say that the with
drawal of troops from Canada has been
suspended. A reported demand by the
United States nPOn Great Britain, for
an explanation of the Mary Lowell out
rage, creates seme excitement. The
annexation question is being actively
discussed.
The food at Troy, n. Y, is the high
est since 1867. Great damage has been
done, and railroad travel is entirely
suspended. Several storehOuses were
destroyed by fire, which originated from
the lime stored in one of them being
Stacked by the water. At Albany the
water is still rising.
A special meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce of San Francisco has been
called to consider the propriety of ex-
pOstulating against the removal of the
Already the mere apprehension of
closing the establishments has led to the
recall of loans and the depression of
business generally.
In the Kimberly Butler case, in Balti-
more yesterday, Chief Justice Chase de-
cided that the Constitution does not
shield member of Congress from the
process of summons in civil suit,
but the word arrest merely means for
chile detention, with a view TO impris.
onment; also that the money paid a
Provost Marshal, and not the defend !
ant, the latter could not be held ac-
countable for.
Yokohama advices to March 18th state
that seditious plscards had been posted |
during the night on the gOvernmentI
bulletin boards warning the'partles in
power that they would be murdered
unless their tyranuical acts were
abandoned. In view of the threatened
outbreak, troops have been placed
around the custom house and bonded
warehouses, and soldiers are kept pa
trolling the streets night and day. An
other rebellion against the MlkadO ap-
pears imminent.
Representatives of the Erie railroad |
conferred with the President and Direc |
tors of the G.. II. & ID. X. X. at Cincin
natl yesterday. A basis for the use of
the latter road by the Erie was agreed
upon, and now awaits ratification by
the Directors of the respective roads.
Rumors have respectable credence here
that the Ohio and Mississippi road will
make through passenger and freight ar
rangements from Cincinnati To st. Louis
with the Baltimore and Ohio road on
account Of the Pennsylvania Central
having secured control of the ludiaIap-
oils and Cincinnati.
A dispatch from Boston says that at a
meeting of stockholders of the Union !
Pacific railroad resolutions were adopt |
establishing, in conformity with act of
Congress, its general office in Boston,
approving the sale of its first mortgage
and land grant bonds and authorizing |
the procurement of new seal for the
oOmpany's use. Hon. James Brooks, as
one of the Government directors, made |
a speech showing in some detail the |
operations since the commencement of
the railroad to the present substantial
completion and saying that the work
and its excellence too, considering the
obstacles which it has surmounted, is
the most wonderful work of civilization
and despite a few unjust attacks at
home it challenges the admiration of
mankind.