The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Navigation is now open to st. Plal
MINI.
The New Orleans Crescent has beel
merged in the Times.
Dana declines the position OF Ap
praiser of the port of New York.
CAPTAIN George A. Doty, of the L. )
Navy, died at New York on Saturday.
The last rail has been laid on the Lou
isville, Lexington and Cincinnati rail
road.
Rev. John ]. Owen, President of the
College of the City of New York, died on
Sunday.
John Lawler, proprietor Of the Phila-
delphla Sunday Dispatch, died on sun
day night.
Riders machine shop, Newmarket, ~
H., was burned yesterday morning
Loss $4,000.
The great storm of Sunday is said to
have been the ssverest felt in Chicago
for long time.
A fire at Winnebago, ILL.,, on Sunday
morning, destroyed property to the
amount of $4,000.
Joseph Hersar, of Rochester n. Y,
has been sentenced to be hanged, June
4th, for wife-murder.
Wm. II. Stafford, a Canadian, has
been arrested at Buffalo, for smuggling
morphine, aud held to bail.
VIII Rice, of Quincy, Illinois, died
of apoplexy at the st. James hotel in
Cincinnati on Sunday night.
Rev. DR.. Ogle, one of the James Fos-
ter passengers, died in New York on
Saturday from typhoid fever contracted
on the voyage.
In the International cricket match at
San Francisco, the CalifOrnians were
victorious, the score standing Califor-
mans, l57; Victorians, 146.
A Tribune special from Atlanta says
DR.. Biug Aver, one of the Georgia dele
CATION to Washington, was murdered by
the Ku. Klux on Thursday night.
On Sunday a man named Darcy, in
Rochester, n. Y, beat woman named
Bridget Carroll with poker, so badly
shat she died the same night. Darcy
fed.
A Herald special from Washington
says the Government is preparing for
war Oh the Cuban question but the Irt-
buRe special says strict neutrality Will
be maintained.
Burglars entered the jewelry estab-
lishment of j. Copellee, st. Louis, on
Sunday morning and distracted $4,000
worth of watches and jewelry. They
entered by the sky-light.
The Yellow Jacket mine was opened
again on Sunday, and the fire found to
be still burning. The Kentucky and
Crown Point shafts are yet closed, with
no indications Of fire in either.
Accounts from New Orleans state that
a formidable Cuban expedition is being
organized in that city. Harry HazeD |
was rendered the command but de- |
clined. Steadman is named for the
leadership. The Government officials |
are said to be winkiDg at the proceed |
ing.
A dispatch dated Boston April 10th,
says \ meeting will be held tomorrow
evening To initiate a reform league,
having in view, first, to secure mod
crate and effective tariff which may be
collected at the least cost and interfer-
encc with the industrial pursuits of
the country; second, to oppose all spe-
cial legislation intended TO foster prl'
vate or class interests; third, to secure
some annual payment of the principal
of the national debt and the removal of
some of the more onerOus taxes; fourth,
To promote treaties of reciprocity with
all the North American States; five, to.
promote reform in the civil service and
the appointment of Government officers
on the sole ground of fitness and ability,
and sixth, to secure the return of a spe-
Gle standard of values as soon as posi-
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