The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterday
at 1873!
There is good slsighing at New York.
New York was visited by a heavy
snow storm, Monday night.
At Chelsea, Mass, Mayor Forsyth was
reelected without opposition.
A large dry goods jobbing house in
Philadelphia was reported failed yes
terday
The San Francisco city press gener-
srslly favOrably comment onthe Presi-
dents message. .....
W.R. Harding was eleSted Mayor of
Cambridge, Mass, on Monday, by 377
plurality over Welsh.
Beecber prints a card in the Tribune
defending his course in relation to
Richardson's marriage and funeral.
The Japanese Prince and suite leave
Chicago this afternoon for New Bruins
wick, n. J. They dress in American
costume.
The snow is about foot deep almost
throughout New England. There is
some delay on the railroads, but it will
be promatly overcome.
The Dew Common Council of Chicago
met Monday night, and elected John
Comi,ky President, Mayor Mason pre-
testing against the right IF the Council
10 do 50.
An Albany dispatch says the canal is
practically closed for the season. About
il5 boats are frozen in near West Troy,
one-haI of which ale loaded with
wheat, oats aud barley.
Doctor Marshall, who made post
mOrtem examination on the body OF
Dorothea VauderhOff, of Chicago, sup
posed to bave been poisoned, reports
that she died of lung disease.
Two small children Of Scandinavian
,migrant died Monday, of diptheria, on
the cars of the Michigan Central. An
other and the only remaining child is
at the point of death with the same dis
ease.
In the appeal of Daniel Walsh, mur-
derer, to the Supreme Court of Illinois,
for writ of error, the Court has decided
that it will not interfere. He will be
hanged on Friday. He killed girl to
whom be was attached.
The schooner Mary Alice went ashore
on Trunsis Reef, Maine, Saturday night.
The captain and two seamen were
drowned The remainder of the crew
were saved Sunday morning, after cling
ing TO the rigging all night.
The Milwaukee aud St. Paul Railroad
Company have just completed a pile
bridge across the Mississippi river at
Prairie du Chen, TO be used during the
winter season, whereby trains can pass
over direct from st. Paul without inter
IOpuUn.
In Chicago Monday night, an atfray
took place IN a saloon at No. 3l0 South
Canal street between Patrick Gala
CHAN, train master on the Chicago Il St.
Louis railroad and Bickler, barber,
10 which Callaghan was so badly stab.
brd That be will die.
4 rotary bieacher in the paper mill of
Back az Marseilles, Illinois, exploded
on Monday evening at four o'clock, en-
tr-.N demoijshing the building and
killing Mrs. Mcdonald and Mrs. Wilson,
dangerously iujnring Jas. c. Drather
and Mrs. Thompson, and slightly injGr
IDg several others.
4 letter received in New York Mon
fay ,,tnhf frA,p Havana thn do.
tails of barbarities praCtiCed on negroes
suspected in the conspiracy to burn
Plantations near Sagua. Some were
shot in the presence of all the negroes
ofeight estates. About a dozen were
whipped with from eight hundred to
one thousand lashes each. Arms for the
Cubans have been landed at Mayerits,
AROchcster dispatch dated Monday
says: The case of the Albany & Sus-
quehaDna railroad was resumed to dav.
Several witnesses on the Ramsey side
testified TO the bgh character Of the
men brought to A'hany to attend the
election on the 7,h f September, who
voted the Fisk and Gould ticket. The
case for Ramsey IL Co. then closed and
David Dudley Field opened his case for
the Fisk party.
The counties of McLennsn, Fort Ben
Ger, Walker, Bexer, Washington, Hill,
Colorado, Montgomery, Travis, Bowie
aud Cass, in Texas, give Davis an ag-
Eiiegato majority of 6s22. The counties
" Bell, Ellis, Falls, Congell. William.
son Hays and Caldwell give Hamilton
90 aggregate majority of204S. McLen-
nan county was before unofficially re-
ported as having gone for Hamilton.
The bridge over the rive; on the Port
.Anu d kennebec railroad, near Angus
Va Me, was burned last Wednesday. A
new bridge was Immediately COM
menced, and was to have been finished
Yesterday, but as the last bench was
beng raised it fell, carrying with il the
whole bridge, ten workmen ap9 the en-.
perlntendent of the road. Five of the
WoFSmen were injured, but none Sc.
uously. ~ 50