The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-15
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Saturday,-.--..-------.-may May I''
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterday
at 1899
The coal miuers IN the Scranton, Pa.
cDal region are on strike.
Mr.. Taylor, Que of Philadelphia's most
respected merchants, died yesterday
aged G2.
The brick makers of Poughkeepsie, n
Y, to the number of 325, have struck
for higher wages.
The baggage men and express messen-
gers of Philadelphia have formed an
insurance company.
General Lee arrived at Lexington
Saturday evening last, very much graf
itied with the result of his late trip
North.
The bark II. p Brodge, loaded with
oats, from Milwaukee, was sunk on the
18th, near Thunder bay, lake Huron, by
the propeller Colorado. No lives lost.
In consequence of the strike in the
coal regions, the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company have already withdrawn
six coal trains from their road, and the
men employed thereon have been dis
charged.
john Webster, formerly Postmaster at
Lincoln, Mo, has been found guilty, IN
the United States Caurt, of Iobbing the
mail. Application for a new trial has
been made, but it is not probable that
it will be granted.
The American Congregational Union
held its sixteenth annual session at
Brooklyn on Thursday. During the
past year the receipts were S52,S 500, and
the expenditures SJO,2OO. Rev. DR.. L.
Bacon was reelected President.
Christopher w. Buchardt, keeper of
low bawdy house at Chicago, was
stabbed and mortally wounded on
Wednesday night by some unknown
man whom be brought into his den.
Buchardt has since died from his
wounds Buchardt's wife has been ar
rested as a party to the crime.
A telegram from South Pass City says
that on the 9th inst, band of about
thirty Indians appeared suddenly in
Wind River Valley, and killed Frank
MOrehouse, William Rhoades, aud two
other men whose names are unknown.
They drove OFF about one hundred head
of cattle and horses. 1t is not known
whether they were Sioux or BannOcks.
John w. Pittock. proprietor, and
James Mills, editor, of the Pittsburgh
Leader, were yesterday held to bail to
answer a charge of libel preferred by
Mr. William Ford, member of the Penn
sylvania Legislature. The suit is based
on the charge of the Ledder that Mr..
FOrd's vote was in the market when he
was in Harrisburg.
Three thieves were detected in New
York yesterday stealing iron from the
Morris x Essex railroad dock, and four
shots fired At them. One of the thieves
was seen to fall into the water and sink
and the others escaped, but shortly re-
turned, probably to look for their com
pauions, when they were again fired
upon, when one was heard TO eXclaim,
"Im shot;" they again escaped.
A part of the walls of the bonded
whisky warehouse Of James S. French,
South Pittsburgh, fell in yesterday,
burying three men, Geo Gavin, Govern
ter, and John Robinson. foreman, in the
ruinS Steele ard Robinson were taken
out severely but not fatally injured.
Gavin has not yet been extricated but IS
alive aud able to converse. About 500
barrels of whisky were destroyed. Mr.
Gavin has since died.
dispatch from Louisville, dated the
l4th inst, says: Among the victims OF
the Ohio river steamboat disaster, last
December, was Mr.. SpieEelberg, II dep
uty sheriff of Jefferson county. What
was supposed to be his body WAS found,
brought TO this city and inferred with
imposing ceremonies by the MasOns.
This morning, however, the body of the
real Spiegclbrrg was found in the river
short distance from the scene of the
disaster, and identified by various pa
pcrs On bis person.
United States Marshal Barlow eX-
presses the opinion that no regularly
organized, armed and equipped eXpedi-
tlon has sailed from New York for Cuba
since the commencement OF the Cuban
troubles. He believes that many men
since the commencement of the insur-
TectjOu have taken passage from that
port for Cuba, perhaps TO assist the
rebels, and that much war material has
also been shipped to the island, but the
men all Went Ostensibly as passengers
and the war material ostensibly as
freight, regularly consigned that most
Of the men went singly or in small par
ties and the war material was sent in
small quantities by various vessels.