The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-11-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

The Convention Ol liquoi uSSAS
will convene in Chicago to-day.
Four dwellings at Dutch Kills, Staten
Island were burned Monday night.
Loss Sl5,OOO'
Rev. John P. Dean, pastor of the ST.
John Catholic Church, Philadelphia,
died yesterday.
A.C.M. Smith, a pioneer in the express
business, died at Greensport, Long
Island, yesterday.
Eleven persons died in New York last
week. of small. pox. Monday number
of cases were reported in the lower part
Of Broome street.
General Butler yesterday gave bail In
sl5 900 upon the charge of Miss Florence
of fmisappropriating the Twiggs swords
and certain plate. Richard ScheI and
G.. X. Garrison are his suretles.
District Attorney Pierrepont, of New
York, has rendered an opinion IN regard
10 the special tax concerning bankers,
in which he recommends the latter to
settle accounts with the Government.
Lieutenant-G General Sheridan is still
quite ill at his residence, being conhned
TO his bed. His ailment is in the shape
of a fever resulting from a cold which
he took while at Louisville. His physl-
clan thinks he will soon get better.
Four persoAs have been arrested in
Brooklyn, n. Y, for forging will pur--
porting to be that OF man named
Bourne who, died last August, dislnher,
iting his only daughter and leaving all
his property, valued at slOO,Ooo, TO an
other party
Edward Foster, said to have done
service in the State prison, is under ar
rest in Boston, charged with black
mailing Abraham Arthur French TO the
extent of $4,000, by threats of exposing
some imprOprieties which he alleges
against the latter.
Lockwood Il Co, have so far adjusted
their affairs that they announce re-
sumption of business in few days. On
Monday au amicable and mutually ad-
vantaCeous settlement was effected be-
tween them and the Lake Shore Rail
road Company.
Ouartermaster General Meigs, Of
Washington, who has been suffering
from a severe attack of erysipelas, at
the Planters House, st. Louis, Tor some
DAYS past is improving. He IS attended
by DR.. Mills, medical director OF the de-
partment of Missouri.
The body of fPeter Widerbaus was ts
ken from the Fifth street ruins IN st.
Louis late Monday night. Two or three
more bodies are believed to be IN the
ruins. The remains of John P. Bashore,
one of the victims of this calamity, was
TO be sent TO Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
At a private meeting of the sufferers
by the BOylston bank robbery, held at
Boston Yesterday, about half were
present, representing loss of $3.50 900.
Many depositors absent from the meet
ing had small amounts deposited, and it
is6eieved she total loss will not exceed
S50OOO.
A Young man named Barnett was
pnJllCly communicated from the
Walnut Street Presbyterian Church, in
st. Louis, on Last Sunday, for extract
ing money from the weekly collections.
He confessed to having purloined about
one thousand dollars since last Febru-
ary.
The steamer Nipsic has been detained
to go to Panama for the purpose OF as
sisting in the survey of the Darian ship
canal. The Government having Sc
cured the treaty giving it sole control
over the canal, is determined to push
the work, and will make rapid progress
during the coming winter in surveying
for the route.
In the case of Norman L. Smith VS..
New York Central railroad, tried be-
fore the Supreme Court at Utica, yester-
day morning, the jury brought in YER
dict for plaintiff of $4,000. Norman
Smith was injured over a year ago by a
collision of the special train bearing
Terrence, Priest and others with work
ing train near WhitestOwn. Smith was
pilot engineer on the special train at
the time.
District Attorney Pierrepont, Of New
York, is preparing writs of attachment
against the Spanish gu unboats, and they
arc to be libelled to-day, on the ground
that they are intended to be used
against Peru. 1t is said the vessels
may be ultimately released by the Span
ish Government through their Minister,
on the fileof bonds that they will not
be used against nation at peace with
the United States.
At Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday
morning, while some workmen at G. w.
Thomas & Co.'S pork house were en-
gagged in emptying slush from lard
tank into a vat of boiling water, an old
man named Edward Welch missed his
footing and fell istO the vat. Dennis
Quinler, in trying to rescue Welch, was
drawn in by him head foremost. Both
were horribly scalded. Quinler died
yesterday evening, and Welch cannot
recover.
Yesterday morning Deputy Collector
5. +. Blatchford, who is charged with
the perpetration of gross frauds in the
drawback department ef the New York
Custom House, presented verbal resip.
nation, through friend, to Mr.. Grinneil
who accepted. The whereabouts of Mr.
Blatchford has not as yet been ascer-
tanned by the Deputy Marshals who
have been in pursuit of him for several
days past but the presumption is that
he is concealed somewhere in New York
city.
a large aud enthusiastic meeting OF
merchants and bankers was held at New
iofk yesterday afternoon, at which
permanent organization was effected
~ carr! out the movement to raise q
saoouy monument fund. The monu-
w II WI DC erected in Central Park.
p,aiij. p II; N.cU,son Us was chosen permanent
arS 'IohC, Ioh 81; n anderhoff Secretary and
moroSo uur oohn "; b'GOdgood Treasurer. Ma.
and u "n p ice Presidents were chosen
sno;a.ioE SuI sH executive Committee. The as.
H PsaSoSv Is S TO be called the National
was ssOUey raSortaS Monument Association If
coo S' sISpcs;S rSpOrIea that there are alreadv y
'VO SUBSCRIBERS to the fund. AA'Sus