The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-27
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NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

Gold CLOSED In Nc" ioiA !eSseA.
Of tl30t
About four inches Of snow fell at To
rontO yesterday /
ccoW commenced falling at Buffalo
uondsy night. The ground was GOV
cred,
The machiuisls in the employ of the
Erie Company, at Jersey City, strsct
again yesterday afternoon.
Admiral Farragut has so far improved
A. 70 be able to set up. He hopes to be
ont bv the first of next week.
Isaac Levi and John Clark, two Of
band of cOunterfeiters, were ar
rested at Osgood, Ind, yesterday.
Governor Palmer, Of Illinois, has is
srsd a proclamation naming Thursday
November 18th, as Thanksgiving day.
General Belknap, the new Secretary
of War, left Keokuk yesterday morn
inc. 10 assume the duties of his Office in
Washington.
In Central Iowa it has been severely
cold for nearly week past, with ice
thick enough for skating purposes, but
no snow has fallen.
The Investigation of the Washburn
3iaiculties in Paraguay was continued
LV the subcommittee Of the House on
Foreign Relations.
man calling himself Joseph Kirk
land was arrested in Kansas City, Sun
5sy, charged with having committed a
murder in Ohio last fall.
II is stated in New York that J. d.
Vermillyee and Mr.. FOlgerheim have
dsclipei Butterfeld's place. Fl. II. Van
Dyke has been rendered the position.
Nearly all of the operators of the
Franklin Telrgroph Company, in New
York CITY, are on strike for such in-
crease of salaries as will make them
eonal to those paid by other companies.
The iourneymen tailOrs Of Chicago,
having tried for two weeks past to get
an sdvarce on certain kinds of work
and having failed, yesterday morning
ordered strike through the lnterns-
tional Trades Union.
The freight house and depot Of the H.
linois Central railroad, and business
block. we're destrOeed by fire Monday
night. at MsuteOO, Illinois. Twenty
six business houses and eighteen fsmi-
lies were burned ont. Loss about $780,
OsJ.
The Grand Lo 'ge of the l. o. o. F., Of
Kentucky, met yesterday morning at
Louisville. The attendance of dele
yates was greater than it had ever been
in the history of the Lodge. The elec-
ton Of Grand Officers takes place to-
day. The session will be of unusual
importance.
Returns have been received from more
.LaD twO-thirds OF all the Presbyteries
B'Ifying the reunion Of the Presbyte-
ran Church by the required majority.
The two General Assemblies will meet
10 Pittsburgh, November 10, to count
votes and declare the result.
An Omaha dispatch says: The extern
Eve published statement that the Ne
b'a,ka Legislature ratified the Fif-
tLryDth Amendment last March is in
correct. That body adjourned without
action in February. Governor Butler
V.l probably call an extra session this
T.l'cr.
In addition TO Voorhees, and Crogan,
l..d 10y an explosion at the Robens-
Eood factory, Monday night, in Brook
.yn man named Teddy was blown
thirty feet into the air, and boy
aimed Feek was fatally injured. Both
Will die. The works had only COM
nepCed operations on Monday. The
building was totally burned. No in
suraDcc.
AT the st. Nicholas Hotel, New York,
on Monday, Dir. Duvall, Fleet Surgeon
VI N1e south Atlantic Squadron, testified
i wa, keN'AdmiTal Davis was grossly
n p'Ttlal towards Lopez. and guilty Of
| throwing obstacles in Washburn,s way.
ne Si'H Bliss and Masterman were
riere
New York dispatched the 25th saws:
1'' grand inTy yesterday examined Jay
Il ".-" al great length in relation to the
-" SG.d speculation. SubpGnas were
IS ,H'ei Tor Mr. Henry Clews and Colonel
.'luH Howe. II is asserted that their
.s'NAony is wanted to explain a joint
gpAu'acton IN gold made with General
I n,...,,l,1'h@Id in the office of Mr.. Clews.
Z .nam Beldeu and Henry +. Vail, Of
I -. Olna OF Commerce, and Mr.. Kimbsr,
~ ~, -.'o been subPenied. The latter,
.. i',H says, was in the gold pool, but
''.'ed ont at the last moment.
'-e celebrated cotton case of the
III --el States against V. K. Stevenson
n - -, Yesterday decided by Judge Nelson,
~ .-s lni'ed States Circuit Court, in
'.. ..' oi Stevenson, he holding that the
d .,a 10 question never belonged to the
Ri -e1eFate States, and instead of being
IL -'geG to New York in violation of the
Tn. Congress, it was shipped from q
sle'ate port to a foreign country
.o.a'lon of the blockade port Of
-AEton, but this fact could not
''.Ss the title of the property or work
III ..S'nTS Of the same to the United
'7' unless seized as a prize of war.