The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-14
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Friday,.-----.--..----.-.,May' H.
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.


At Pittston, Penn, yesterday, sixteel
hundred men aud boys employed in tn
mines at that point suspended work.
The house and barn of Nathaniel
Morrill,, North LambortOn, N. H., wer
burned on Tuesday night. Loss $4,000
insurance $1,000.
Isaac Heisb, of Rondout, New York
was robbed of SIl50 in greenbacks
while getting on the cars At Poughkeep
sic, on Wednesday.
On Saturday last, little son of G
Decrant, telegraphic operator at BOyd's
station, Kentucky, fell into tub Oi
hot water and was scalded TO death.
The Connecticut House of Represent
atives yesterday ratified the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution by 10
to lU4. The Senate ratified il last week.
Buckley, one of the men who attempt
ed to steal an express wagon on the Sd
inst, was sentenced on Wednesday to
fifteen year Imprisonment at hard labor
w. G. Gatewood, President of the
San Diego Glla Southern Pacific rail-
road, arrived in st. Louis Wednesday
from California, en- route to the Memphis
Convention.
S. c. Goodwin, of the firm of Good
win 4 Co., Boston druggists, was found
dead IN Amity street, New York, We'd
nesday evening. He is supposed to
have died of apOplexy.
1t is stated that information has been
received at Montreal to the effect that
the Privy Council i'll England Is taking
into consideration the advisability OF
relinquishiDg all her colonies excepting
India.
AdviGes from Hayti state that Saluave
smuch depressed at the successes of the
revolutionists in st. Domingo; also the
revolution is gathering in strength and
Baez had been defeated in two engage
mentS.
By an explosion of fire damp yester-
day morning in the Mount Pleasant
mine, near Scranton, Pa, five men and
one boy were badly burned, one OF the
men, named Charles Stutter, probably
fatally.
On Wednesday night at Jackson,
Michigan, Charles d. Knapp, Charles
w. Cart and Charles Messerale. all be.
longing in jackson, while fishing in
Michigan Central Pond, were capsized
and all three drowned.
The st. Louis and Illinois Bridge
Company have commenced operations
=. l., e Ia,
has begun and will be continued until
rock is reached on which to lay the
foundation of the shOrs abutment.
The New York HerdlGs Key West
special says: In the Wren case Cush-
iug's counsel consented to the dissOlu-
tiOu of the attachment on the proceeds,
aud the Court ordered the funds to be
paid over to Lacido's attorneys in New
York.
The following are the names of the
lost on the brig Omaha, which was
wrecked on her passage to Pensacola {:
w. Drinkwater, mate; John Thompson,
cook: w. Scott and b. Benjamin, sea
men; John Toothackcr, the captains
son, ana a passenger, whose name IS
unknown.
At Harrisburg, Pa, yesterday, Judge
Pearson, sitting in the Court of Common
Pleas, decided two suits of general inter-
est. The cases were against the Della
ware, LaCkawanna and Western Rail
road Company aud the LaCkawaHna and
Bloomsbury Railroad Company. The
claim of the companies was that their
bonds on which tax was imposed were
mostly held by residents of New York
and other States, and that Pennsylvania
could not tax the property of citizens of
other States The Court decided that
if the property was protected by Penn
sylvaua it could be made to pay its
share of taxation. Judgment was rem
dered against the former company for
$4,000, and against the latter for S23,-
900.
A dispatch from Indianapolis, dated
Yesterday, says: All the Democratic
members Of the House, except two, re-
sigaed this morning, leaving the House
again without quorum. In the Senate
at roll call this afternoon thirty-seven
Uembers answered TO their names. The
doors were locked and the absentees
sent for. Pending this proceeding
the Constitutional Amendment WAS
called up and vote taken,
although the Democratic members
present announced that they had
sent their designations to Governor this
morning. The Lieutenant Governor
ruled that the Senate had no official no,
tice of their resignation and declared
the amendment ratified by vote of y
ayes to one nay; IL Senators present not
voting. 1t is thought the Republican
members OF the House will vote on the
amendment tomorrow morning aud
then adjourn.
Yesterday morning at two o'clock
Young man named Samuel ID. Talbot,
rejected 10 yer of Miss Crlbuer, residing
on corner of Montague Terrace snC
Montague street, Brooklyn, entered tn
bedroom of the young lady and endeaY
ored to administer chlorofOrm while sh
slept, it is supposed with the intention
of outra GiDg her person, and thus oh
tanning her consent To mar
riagc. She awOke, screamed ant
lied to the room of her sister Mrs
Flint. Talbot followed her there anC
fired two shots from a pistol at her
fortunately without serious effect. H,
then fled to his own room, being Wis
itor in the house, and there shot himSel
dead. The affair occurred in the mos
fashionable portion of Brooklyn and ha,
created intense excitement there and il
New York. Talbot was recently from
Boston and complained lately of tvou
ble in the brain.
The Tribune has another sensation
special from Atlanta that number o
Republicans from all parts of GeOrgia
are prevented from leaving that city by
lear OF assassination. 1t says further
that therS was desperate attempt al
aynes6oro, Burke county, on Sunday
last, 10 murder the Rev. j. s. Pitman
presiding elder of the Methodist Epis
coPal Church. He had preached there and
had induced number of colored people
to renounce allegiance to the Meth,
odist Church South and ioin another
church. A gang of Ku.Klux pIanned
his death and picketed the road fron,