The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-02
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NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.


Gold closed in New York yesterda
at I37.
Sickles had reception in New YORK
Wednesday night.
General Markbreit, u. s. Minister t.
Bolivia, arrived at Lima June 9Th.
s450. 900 worth of property was de
stroyed by fire ut Contago, Chill June
ID.
The California fuse factory, al Sai
Francisco, was burned Tuesday night
Loss $95, 900. .-
The Guatemala rebellion was sup
pressed by the recent defeat of the IN
surgeDts.
Hon. w. ii. Seward had warm well
como and q grand dinner ut Sacramento
on Wednesday.
The graves of the soldiers aud sailors
buried at Augusta, Maine, were deco
rated on Wednesday, June 81.
Hon. George Briggs, for seysral years
member of Congress from New York,
died at Saratoga on Wednesday.
A large meeting of Cuban sympa-
thizers at Lima, May 80, asked the Pc
ruyisn Government to cede monitor to
the Cubans.
The Chilian President has announced
to the Congress the acceptance of the
United States as mediator between
Chill and Spain.
The steamship Alaska, which left AS
piuwall June 23d, reports having hailed
the Quaker City on the 26th steering
southwest of Costa Rica.
The 10th Annual Commencement OF
the Polytechnic College of Pennsylva
MIA was held on Wednesday evening
There we're nine graduates.
Admiral Turner has assumed com
mand of the consolidated squadrons
the North and South Pacific. Admlra
Craven remains in command at Mar
Island.
Colonel Ryan with two hundred mel
of the Cuban expedition were not cap
tured by the authorities, they being oi
shore when the gun. boats caught th'
steamship.
Twenty thousand Fl ve hundred dollars
worth of Pottawatomie lands have beeT
sold to actual settlers in Kansas during
the past menth. One Thousand new
settlers 90 into the State daily.
A Boston dispatch says that the hotel
and bar-rooms generally were CLOSED
yesterday in obedience to Chief Con
stable Johns notification that the pro
hibitory law would be enforced.
An explosion took place at Dupont
powder works, Wilmington, Del, yes
terday morning. Two men named JOS
MALAY and Peter Mass were killed
The damage to property is not large.
Gettysburg was crowded to overflow
ing Yesterday with persons in attend.
ance upon the dedication. Among the
eminent personages were General Meade,
Governor Morton and Henry Ward
Beecher.
Captain Gelan, of the New York po-
lice, on Wednesday found upon his desk
what appeared to be ball of clay. On
attempting to open it, it exploded lacer-
ating his hand and intlicting slight
wound in his forehead.
A Baltimore dispatch says that duel
was fought at Cold Springs on the York
road Wednesday, between two young
men of that city, formerly officers in the
Confederate army. The difficulty orig
mated in disagreement as to the behav
iOr of certain Confederate troops during
the war. Two shets were fired. No
body hurt.
A New York dispatch says the reve
nuo cutter MahOning, yesterday after
noon, captured the last tillibuster tug
boat, the Chase, with 75 men aboard
and also the schOOners Fancy and Vino
ma, freighted with rifles, field pieces
sabres and ammunition. The schOonert
were seized near Milford, Conn. All the
vessels are now at Brooklyn Navy Yard
The President of the Irish Republican
Association of Pennsylvania gives no.
tice of scheme To pack the Irish Re
publican Convention at Chicago with
Irish Democrats from Pennsylvania and
other States. He says proper creden
tials will be demanded from all dele
gates and that the Convention is called
in tho interest of no ring, but to advanc,
universal suffrage and secure protection
to 1rishmen in both hemispheres.
A dispatch from Ellsworth, Kansas
says: Two thousand head of Texas cat
tie arried here yesterday. Drivers re
port 81, 900 head now north of Arkansa'
river, en- route TO this point for sale snC
and shipment. It is estimated that 20,
600 head will come here this season
There has been great destruction by {
freshet to the bridge and track of tn,
Kansas Pacific railroad from the Solo
mon RI yer to Manhatten, and a reported
loss of thirty lives. The Indians ar,
going to their reservations and submit
ting to the new policy of the Govern
ment.
Advices from Kansas in regard to the
late storm and freshets in that State say
that in the neishberhood of Junction
City and west of there the flood is re-
ported to be greater than any otheI
since the settlement of the State
Bridges have been carried away, house,
DESTROYED aud many lives lost. Th,
greatest disaster occurred at Chapman
creek, l3 miles west of Junction City
where several houses were washed ava,
and l3 persons were known to b,
drowned and it is supposed that mum
her of others had perished. The rise ii
the stream was SO sudden and unexpect
ed that bafore the residents in the val
leys were aware of the danger thel
dwelling we're surrounded with waite
and all chance OF escape cut on.
BY MAIL.