The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-04

The Peabody fund has upward oi
nine hundred subscribers and is still
increasing. sar~as re-
.Iohn G. Fremont it is said obtained
a loan in Europe for his proposed South
.ru Pacific railroad.
Scarlet fever is prevailing SO badly at
Morava, Illinois, that the public schools
have been closed.
Prince Seedamano and suite from
Japan will reach Chicago, ria the Pa
ci6c road, on Sunday.
sc. Dowdy, an aged New York bro
ker. was found dead in his bead at the
New York Hotel, yesterday morning.
limited States troops assisted the OH.
Ger, Yesterday morning in the seizure OF
anumber of Illicit stills in Brooklyn.
The stores of T. NJ. Vardey and R. S.
Ambrose, Lewiston, Me-, were burned
Yesterday. A man named NJ. ID. Chap
lin was burned 10 death.
William A. Murray, of the firm OF
Marrav Il Watson, Chicago, has been
highwines, contrary to law.
Burglars robbed the house of +. II.
Ballet HolyOke, Mass, on Thursday
night of $4,000 in Government bonds.
Three men were arrested on suspicion.
Is is stated that the Fenians are pre-.
pairing for new movement on Canada.
They are said to have plenty of rifles,
bat need money to purchase ammuni.
ton.
The First National Bank building
dry goods store OF Williams 4 Smith
Franklin Telegraph office, &c, were
burned at Meriden, Conn yesterday
Loss $4,000.
Philip Flanagan was found guilty OF
murder in the second degree for killing
Col. Seibert at Philadelphia in Septem-
her last. The jury had been ont since
Wednesday.
General Sheridan, who has been Sc
verely in of typhoid fever, at Chicago,
isimprovng. IS General Hartsutfhas had
charge Of Headquarters during Sheri-
dams illness.
Navor Chadwick, the Republican
nominee for Mayor of Boston, declines
A citizens meeting was called for last
night in Fanuril Hall, said TO be IN
fsyOr of Mayor ShurtlifTs reelection.
Yesterday afternoon Thomas Hastin,
residing on Shines street, Philadelphia,
struck his wife in the head with a
bat.het aud then cut his own throat,
while l,horing nader temporary tit OF
insanity. ilastin is in critical condi-
ton.
meeting of the citizens of vii,
llamsburg, New York, Thursday even
lng District Attorney Morris made an
address, stating that immense frauds
Nerr rerprtrated ~ the last election,
that he bed proofs and the perpetrators
""H.t he brought TO punishment.
The residence OF Sheridan Shook,
Ne Yord, MS entered Thursday even.
i'.. while The family were at dinner,
aDH the dressing room of Mrs. Shook
Ess robbed If $1,000 worth Of jewels.
To- Ia>ca.s in their haste overlook ed
aiacsaC" Of $4,000 in United States
bonds
The Kansas City JOUrnal says q con
siderable number of Mormops from Salt
Lake have come to Jackson county, Mo.
and settled near Independence, where
they formerly resided. They have re.
covered some Of their old property, in
c1dins the Temple ground, on which
H'e they propose to erect another place
Of worship. These Mormons repudiatt
Foysamy.
riot, the impelling causes of which
were politics and liquor, occurred il
the liquor sore Of Thomas DInehue, ii
Second avenue, New York, yesterday
~ which Florence Seaupel, a noted pol
i'clan and candidate for alderman, wa
no7ially wounded. George JORnsor
SlSal>o fatally shot aud Joseph Martir
aod Thomas Donchuo badly injured
olt wi. recover. Seanneps brother
John, is supposed to have shot johnson
ara Donehue is supposed to have sho
SeAnnel. All present and unwoundet
are under arrest.
ihe Albany & Susquehsnna Railroad
su't Is progressing slowly. Some hal
1oIrn witnesses have been examined
.e'"'ve to the proceedings at the elec
Son ior Directors in Albany in Septem
os'' The characters of the men who sp
psNed with the stock certificates anC
'o,ed, and the doings of the inspector,
- managing men of the rival parties
- Ramsey and Fisk, have
zen zen subjects of critical inquiry by the
fOluseI. The indications are that tn,
,II,estigstlOn as to the transactions O
e HvaI claimants for the Contra
.usFuehana railroad will be therougl
aad exhaustive.
vsoe steamer d. c. Hoskin, Captair
4"ard "akeman, hence Noveuber X
..tSund to San Francisco, foundered IL
W. gulf stream, about 400 miles fror
ppeW p York. November Il at half mast I,
VI The captain. first assistant an
o.S er.se5 and 10 men left tho steamer !,
GOAT and were picked up bv m
taks,sf Frasmere November 70 ani
the c,T ~ Bermuda. Getting alongsid
suddaniosoner one of the men steppe
capsizaS On one side of the boat an
drownss and three of the II wer
seamon The steward. a passenoer an
five person. agIother az boat with four G
boat coutaiD;sta coutaiTata is missing as is ais
The Meupbi, ''ne more.
special SAYS: Se'' ndPpsors Little Roc
Cbsnceyy ConrSS uqlse Yaucey. of th
officials of the % mas released all tn
to obev b,,'gu : @ LOT Contempt irOau; in ass,s;a %s
the THs process, on the the ~ IeiuslnI
tien Sbodge badg who had issued ground ,t tina
o1s,,ia au no authority to issno ,ue lnJunc
not Ol t"n SS 70 which Board isI IT. Ih'
B,irs r. the Supreme Cont Tt'l be decided
annJina.;y, anJinity, of the old Board [[1esiden
- 10 ttscallon tSa Il to have the cssa - ma mas mad
.,ksI k'5e Federal Court, aIe %5iota tt[ansterrs,
voivaa' 10 dispose of all the sraea oc will b
.paieo. fea. The officers W. VIII questions in
"'e arrest. board for damages If, 70