The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-30
As'heeliug gegister
Friday,-...---.- April SV'
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Liup's blind factory, in New York
was burned Wednesday night L"S
$4,000.
The river is clear between Montrea
and Quebec and steamers have resumed
their trips.
The receipts for season Ackets to tn
National Peace Jubilee at Boston I'M
first Gay amount to slO,OOO.
President Grant, family, relatives Sn'
portion Of his Cabinet passed the uaI
yesterday at Mount Vernon.
The reported explosion of the boiler o.
the steamer Urilda when sinking was
fine fiction. Not a life was lost.
Mary C. Miller, hotel thief, arrested IN
New York on Tuesday, duplicates sew
eral business houses as receivers.
The payment of the May interest on
5-2Os will begin at the sub treasury IN
New York to-day, without rebate.
A boiler in the Hamilton, Ontario,
rolling mills burst On Wednesday night,
killing one man and wounding five 9TH
ers.
A passenger car on the Rensselaer,
and Saratoga railroad ran off the track
near Waterford, on Wednesday night,
and several persons were seriously in
jured.
The old freight depot of the German
town g. Philadelphia RAILROAD, at Phil
adelphia, was burned on Wednesday
Loss $4,000, mostly op cars; lnsured toI
$1,000.
The bill authorizing the city of Gin
cinrati to borrow ten millions OF dollar
to build railroad to the South passed
the Ohio House of Representatives yes
terday and is now law.
A Fort Monroe dispatch says General
Sherman presented the diplomas TO the
graduating class of artillerlsts there on
Tuesday. visited the Navy Yard and
then returned to Washington.
A letter from Camp Wachita, to the
st. Louis Republican, states that the
friendly Indians are moving to their
reservation, but that the hostile tribes
are preparing for new depredations.
Ellen Corloch died in Hoboken on
Wednesday from malpractice. Louis
Wiesiwelter, her sedHcer, was commit
ted without bail, the judge remarking
that it was a clear case of manslaughter.
PleurO-pneumSnia has reappeared at
America, New York, on the farm of A.
P. Balls. 1t yields to the free use of
carbonic acid. Mr.. Balls has lost three
aft cd yrill ha hl lX
recover.
A terrible tornado passed over Walker
Station, on the Cincinnati and Marietta
railroad, on Wednesday night. The
depot and several houses were demol-
ished. The tornado lasted about twenty
minutes.
The United States Grand Jury, at
Cincinnati, have found iifCy-twO indict-
ments for deiraudIng revenue. One OF
the whisky ring" has made a cOnfes-
sion before the jury, and rich develop
mentS are expected.
At the COroner's inquest in the Long
Island railroad slaughter dlsgracetul
squabble about piece of ion rail oc-
Cured between the President of the
road and one of the jurymen. The IN
vestigation has been adjourned to May
5th.
The new Surveyor of the port of Bal
timOre, EdgiHgtOn Fulton, has appoint
ed a colored man to pace in his office.
This is the first appointment Of the kind
yet made in Maryland. A committee OF
colored men thanked Mr.. Fulton yester-
day.
The National Sunday School COnven-
tiOn, in session at Newark, New Jersey,
on yesterday added Mrs. Jeanette Heath
TO the list OF Vice Presidents. A discus
sion Sn Sunday schools was had by Revs.
II. W. Beecher, S. II. Tying, jr., and DR..
Peck.
The open Exchange Board ofNew York
elected officers for the ensuing year yes
terday, as fellows: President, K. w.
Martin, jr.; lst Vice President, George
Henriquez; ID Vice President, James
Mitchell; Treasurer, A. V. Is. Van Dycke;
Secretary, John Benjamin.
Martha Sprague, white, and Alex
Cornell, black, arrested at Peekskill on
suspicion of having murdered an in
fant child belonging to the womGn,
Sprague, were discharged from Custody
yesterday, the Coroner's jury not hav-
ing found sufficient evidence to hold
them.
The Herald states that the delay in
issuing the orders to the military com.
manders in the South for holding cleo
tions in the States remaining unrecon-
stTucted, is caused by want of agree
ment among the leading men of those
States as To when the elections should
be held. What is known as the con.
servative element is in favor of having
the elections take place at once. The
Radical leaders want it postponed until
after the planting season and some ar,
opposed TO holding it until in the fall
The President is consulting the leading
men South on the subject and as sooI
as the time is settled upon the order fo
holding the elections will be issued il
accordance with the Virginia, MisSiS
sippi and Texas reconstruction act.
A meeting was held in Philadelphia
yesterday, at the Board of Trade rooms
in favor of protection to American in
dustry. The meeting was called at thu
instance of the Pennsylvania Iudustria
League, Morton McMichael President
The report of the League was read
Resolutions were adopted which are tC
be presented to the Congressional com
mittee of Ways and Means. They re-
commend general tariff law embracing
the entire range of imported goods and
superceding all former tariff laws;
the duties TO be made specific so far as
conveniently possible and high enough
to afford fair wages aud reasonable
profits 20 such American workingmen
and employees as apply themselves with
assiduity, skill and intelligence to in
dus'les suited to our condition and re.
sources.
The st, L.uis Republican has a spe.
GiaL from New Orleans, which saws
The grain movement meeting last niSbt
was largely attended. 1t being aseer.
tanned that the laws of Louisiana do
not provide for the organization of spcb
an association as is contemplated. a
committee was appointed TO learn what
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