The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
By TELEGRAPH.

NOtu ClOsSu III No" AOiA
at 1871.
The New York Legislature sustaIne
large number of Governor Hoffman
Vetoes.
Colonels Warren and Costello, th
released Fenians, arrived In New lor'
on Sunday.
General Wheaton, with detachmen
of the 2Ist infantry, left Omaha Sunda.
night for tho Pacific.
A. Mensel, of Delaware, Ind, commit
ted suicide on Saturday evening a
Cincinnati, by taking hydrocyanic ACID
Martha ]. Dsnnes, who shot her Sc
dncer, Nicholas McCOmss, at JarrettS
Vile, Maryland, was acquitted yester
day.
An unknown man was run over and
killed on the Cincinnati and lndlanap
oils road, near Sedamsvlile, on oaturuaS
night.
The Captain General of Cuba has at
tempted to bribe leading insurgents 10
leave the Island His offers were re-
jected.
The Jewish Synagogue in Quincy, llil-
nois, and the pastors residence adJoln-
ing were nearly destroyed by fire sun
day night. Loss $1,000.
Thomas Owens, an old citizen Of Lou
isville, while engaged in fishing yester-
day, was forced into the water by the
bank caving in, and drowned.
Delegates to the National Encamp-
meut of the Grand Army of the Republic
at Cincinnati are expected to report at
headquarters at She Spencer House, to
be assigned lodgings
In Cincinnati OH Sunday night, X. NJ.
Bishop, jr., shot and seriously wounded
VIM. Kelly, labOrsr at a livery stable
The difficulty grew out of Bishops re-
turning late with buggy.
Rust, Brett and Jones, arrested in
New York for forging Hayti bank notes
have been released. An Admiral aud
two subordinates of the Haytieu Navy
are implicated by late developments.
A young woman named Margaret Muir,
ray, belonging to a Chicago nunnery,
attempted to drown herself by jumping
into the Chicago river on Sunday, but
was rescued. She is from DelphOs,
Ohio.
A strike has commenced among the
coal miners at Mauch Chunk, Pa, and
work has been suspended in the Lehlgh
aud Schuylkill Regions. The same state
of affairs is supposed to exist at Wilkes
barre.
On Sunday morning a house of ill
fame in Chicago was burned. Two OF
the inmates, Kessie Deer and Nettie
Boyd, narrowly escaped death by the
flames. The latter was burned so badly
that her life is despaired Of. On the
same morning the refrigerator factory
of Bent 4 Coward, in Chicago was
burned to the ground. Loss S35 900.
George McNeery quarrelled with Pc
ter Eliinger in New York on Sunday
evening aud stabbed him i'll the abdo-
men and side. Wounds probably fatal.
Lewis Bust, friend Of Eliinser, inter
ferrcd, aud McNeeTy stabbed him, cut
ting his heart in two and killing him
Instantly. NcNcery had not been ar
rested at last accounts.
The completion of the Pacific railroad
was celebrated in the principal Eastern
cities by firing salutes, displaying hsgs
and other demonstrations of enthu-
siasm. The bell of Independence Hall
at Philadelphia, was esp ecially brought
into use to commemorate the compile.
tion of the continental railroad, and the
scene there generally was more enthu-
siastic than any since Lees surrender.
A number of distinguished officers
wi ill attend the National Encampment,
G A. r., at Cincinnati on Wednesday.
General Logan will deliver the recep-
ion address on Wednesday night. On
Thursday night a banquet will be given
at the Speacer House. On Friday a
steamboat excursion will visit the tomb
of General Harrison at North Bend.
Headquarters will be at the Spencer
House.