The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-16
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NEWS SUMMARY.
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$4,000 IN 'P'''0 - -.
p,.s,d.ut Colfax and party
vice san Francisco Friday night.
~, .,.smer Golden City arrived at
ne T-.ncisco. from Panama, Friday.
,..,,o son Of John J. Perkins, of Des
AU'' Tnwa. was drowned IN the Des
Wines river on Saturday. his ago
Uss seven years.
,.;- rsrorted that a privateer left q
.[srn mort of the United States
;,hts since, destined for the ser
Sis. % of the Cubans.
Frank Webb has been arrested IN
Work. charged with implication In
w. Cn,tom House frauds alleged
assipst General Egan.
p.,.idsnt Grant Passed through Bing-
'',on. \. Y, Friday evening. de
No" Tsce,yed by great crowd OF clti-
'.ns INIT no speeches were made.
Tho North and East river and bay are
.,roIl,d nightly by tug boats from
tbeN w Yard in order to pre- 'ent inc
SspaEtufss of expeditions for Cuoa.
saD Francisco the Court dismissed
the habeas corpus case OF WIN. arleS'
alias Reddy, the blacksmith. Inc ON
GERS started for New York with MIN Oh
Friday afternoon.
Tho steamer Mol ticello, lying at the
,.ion,;c d0ck. New York, ostensibly
Song TO New FOundland, Is being
sSar9ly watched by a revenue cutter
On snspicion of being a tlllbustering
craft.
dispatch from Atchison, Kansas,
,o~s tbs steamer Nets, laden with ma
- for the Leaveuworth and Atcbi-
son railroad sunk, on Friday, seven
miles below that city.
The Joint Committee ut the Common
Copn,il of New York Oh the new Post
ofSc. meet again to-day, at which time
IL il expected plans and pacitications
EHI W. submitted to them and change
Of site effected.
In the case Of 223 bankers doing brsi.
rs.. in New York. but living 10 BROOK
IyD. charged with failing to make their
montbIy return 10 the internal revenue
assessor. ,xcrptioss to the jurisdiction
nj the civil court for the eastern district
we're taken Friday. The question will
be settled when the cases come for trial.
4 ire saturday morning in Union
Block. Canton, o., destroyed all Oulld,
mo below the post office. Principal
losrrs the Plain Dealer office, l.. Cald-
well & Co, A. J. Gage, Henry Smith,
and K. p. Benton; many other smaller
losers Total loss SO, 200. Mr.. Smith,
whose loss is SD 600, IL not insured; the
others partially.
Governor McCiurg, of Missouri, has
sppo;Gted a. delegates 10 the Mississippi
Valley Commercial Convention TO be
held at KcoLak, September Il, Lieut..
Governor f.. O. stanard, of ST. Louis,
and J ID. Williams of Kansas City, to
represrut the State at large ana tue.
present members of Congress TO repre-
s-ut the Congressional Districts.
Mrs. veiIaud. whose proceeding
against her hu, hand for abandonment
has been before tie Courts for some
time, attempted To commit sniclde IN
New York Friday night by taking ar.
senlc hut proper remedies being applied
in time her life WAS saved. lt is sald
she vas induced 10 commit the rash act
through poverty and disappointment at
the termination OF her trial
The Evansville and Cairo packet
Cumberland, exploded her boilers year
Shawneetown, Illinois, at four O'Clock
Saturday morning. Eighteen or twenty
lives were lost. The boats books were
blown over board aud the names Of the
missing cannot be asseTtaIned. The
boat Is n total loss. portion of the
cargo, consisting principally Of wheat
aud corn, will be saved. The boat was
insured for $1,000
The Liabilities of Bowers, Beekman Il
Co, New York, are ascertained 10 be
about two millions of dollars and the
assets OF the firm one million. Mr.. Bow
ers, the senior partner, offers To surran-
der his private property to creditors,
and other parlners, II is said, will do
the same TO the amount of about half
million more. Il is said to be the in
teurion of the firm To IccUmmeuce busi-
ness az soon as the preseBt difficulties
are arranged.
The United States, represented by
Joseph A. Glover, United States Dis
trict Attorney, on Friday evening filed
a bill seeking to declare unconsrltu-
tioual and void the act of the last Leg
islature Of Illinois, donating the Lake
front to certain railroad COMPANIES for
q depot. The bill proceeds on two
grounds TO grant Interrogation OF the
rights of the United States rs owners of
fee in trust for public uses and the in
reference with navigation, which, by
the Constitution of the United States, is
subject to the sole jurisdiction of Con-
gTess.
Heavy rains, causing floods in small
streams, carrying away culverts, fences
and other property occurred near Ken
uekukj Mo, Thursday. AT Waterville
and beyond simi ar storms prevailed
doing considerable damage The resi-
deuce of James W. Pierce, two miles
south of Waterville, was struck by
lightning, one side torn off and not a
board that belonged to it can be fouhd.
Four ladies in the house were severely
porch and struck insensible. None
were seriously injured however.
Senior Jose Manuel Macais has been
commissioned an agent of the Cuban
Government to treat with the Spanish
authorities in reference TO acknowledg
ing the independence of Cuba. Senol
Aacais left New York for Europe Satur.
day week, and expects to meet General
PrIm at some point in France, and at
once enter into negotiations concerning
the object OF his mission, in accordance
with a promise made by General Prim
to the Cubans some fourteen months
Hnee. The Cubans furnished the Span
ish revolutionary Junta with Sl.5OO, ,OOC
IN gold to aid in overthrowing Isabella
IN ret9rD for which Cuba was to be
made independent.
Several days ago some suspicious
characters offered to sell Wall street
broker Sl25 900 of the bonds stolen some
uuie II ago from Mr. Bennehoff, of Pit
TS' Tole' Pa, for Sl06,00O in greenbacks
aS uS Police were informed of the fact
S"r I'day detectives were sent to Hud'
Th Tu city, NJ, to coRclude uegot iations
JnS parties met At Rosh's Hotel, and