The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-01
ae'IneIina Register.
Friday -'c'ooer .
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

Cold closed in New York yesterda!
atl99t
r,aning mill and 10000 feet of lum
br,onEing 10 Charles Ruter, al
%raha was burAed Tuesday night
Los, $4,000.
The dis,illery and Touring mill al
p',slI 4 Atwater. at Canton, Illinois
.L.rs burned on Tuesday. Loss 5000
Noiusurance.
collision on the Iron Mountain
-oiIroad in Missouri, Wednesday, re.
- in the death of one engineer and
tbe serious injury of another.
Tvo oil cars or the Hudson River
.,iiyav ran off the track in New York
civ on Wednesday evening, caught FIRE,
exploded and were burned. Loss, s5Ooo'
r,bn W. Moore, who killed Mrs. Nc
Iiams Of Greenville, Illinois, last July,
aft.r attempting to outrage her, has
bssr tried and sentenced to be hung on
tbe 22d of October.
The New York Express announces that
Nr Bipelow has resigned the editor
shin of the Times, and Frederick Hud-
son. late of the Herald, is to be man
sging editor. The other papers confirm
tIe resignation of Bigelow.
An Omaha dispatch says: The latest
renorr from Fort Buford says that Cen
eral McCowes troops are building stock
sfss and consider themselves safe
AGAINST the Indians. The fort has re-
Gently been fully supplied for winter.
special from Hays City, Kansas,
savs: A detachment of the Fifth Cav
.Iry from Fort Mcpherson, have been
attacked by Ivdians at some point north
of the former place, but nothing was
known of the affair, except that Ser
gsspt was separated from his command
and pursued twenty five miles.
Considerable excitement exists in the
soutbern part of Boston from the sud-
dep deaths of Mrs. Harrington, her lit.
lie child ar brother of Mrs. Harting
ton. Nus Dumphy, the wife of the
latter, aud Mr.. Harrington, are under
arrest 10 await the result of the cOrOn-
ers inquest on suspicion of poisoning
the deceased.
A citizens meeting was held at Pixies
Hall, Cincinnati, on Wednesday night,
10 take action for the relief of the or
phans and widows of soldiers. Speeches
were made by Geo. 81. P endleton, Job
E. Stevenson, Judge Leavitt and othsrs.
A letter from Governor Hayes was read,
and committee of four were appointed
to take the matter in charge with power
20 act.
The second days trotting at the Ma
tioDal Fair, at Mystic Park, Boston,
drew large crowd Wednesday. There
were two races on the programme-one
for 2:40 horses, which was won in three
straight heats by Eastern Queen. The
field numbered eight horses. The Sec
oud race was for 2:30 horses, and ten of
On entry. OF the fourteen that started,
the first heat was won by Surprise in
2:3lf, the second by the same horse
in 2:29s, and the third by Mcclellan, of
Boston, in 2:3O4. The race was then
postponed until Thursday morning in
consequence of darkness.
Mr.. Halls detailed report of his Arc
IlC tNntull lbu - pU'llNH''. ~ "Pp'"io
that there is no longer even a shadow
of hope that any one survives from
FrankIin's company. 1t is thought tnat
none of them reached even as far as
Montreal Island. and their bones lie
scattered along the coast of King Will
Nams Land, some in isolated graves
aud some in the camping places. where
theg died in companies. The melaa-
cho.y history has its crowning horror in
the buowledge that they died by starva-
ton through the base behavior of the
E,ouimanx, and that on learning their
fate Cl-, Hall was reduced to the awful
necessity Of taking the life of one of
Nts mujrous men. Mr.. Hall states that
The srv.r and Terror were abandoned.
One OF 'new cOnsumnated the great
northwest passage, having five men
aboard. Tie evidence of the exact
number is gyumstantial. Everything
aha1t 'a, northwest passage ship OF
NfJ..a Ialkln's expedition was in
complete order. Four boats were hang
ios high mp at the ships sides and one
was on the quarter deck. The ship was
~ o., winter housing of sail cloth.
Ih.s vessel was found by the natives
near OBrllly Island, latitude 6S +, 30 n;
longitude - +, & w, early in the spring
Of l-il it being frozen in the midst OF
q strong and unbroken flow of ice OF
Ur. y one winters formation.