The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

ne COuNlCtJ DIdhcy "uo Wao ono
during the revolt at Sing Sing, o.
Wednesday, died on Friday.
Small pox prevails in Albany, but no
to q serious extent. General vaccina
tion has been recommended by tn
Board of Health.
The petition of John +. Darby, of ST
Louis, in bankruptcy, has been fled
His assets amount to S64y y265, and hi
liabilities to S297 ,796.
The international base ball mattel
last Friday between the Niagara club o
Buffalo and the Independent of Dun
dees, was won by the Niagara by st
runs.
The Freshman Base Ball Club of Yale
and Brown Universities played match
game at New Haven on Friday, which
resulted in favor of Yale by a score OF
So to II.
John G. Bronner, tried in the United
States District Court of Massachusetts
for passing counterfeit fractional cur
rency, was convicted and sentenced to
jail for one year.
The st. Louis county bonds, protested
in New York, on Friday, were protested
for non payment in gold. The county
had plenty of currency to take them up
but gold was demanded.
The largest concsurse of people ever
assembled in st. Joseph, was present on
Saturday to witness the opening of the
first railroad bridge across the Missouri
river. 1t is estimated that 10000 per-
sons were present.
The drum fish has made destructive
raid Oh the oyster beds between Staten
Island and Keyport. The damage from
the destruction of oysters and other
shell fish is estimated at one hundred
thousand dollars.
Officer Campbell, while making an ar
rest, in Greenwich street, New York, was
set upon by Richard Long and others,
and in self defence he shot Long, who
died shortly afterwards, while being car
ried to the hospital.
Rosanna Ryan was committed to the
Cambridge, Massachusetts,, Jail, Friday,
in default of $4,000 bail, on a
charge of causing the death of her
son Stephen, six years old, by whip
ping. The parties live at Stow.
The Cuban fillibusters, held in Gus
tody at Rrooklyn Navy Yard, were re-
leased on Saturday evening to the num-
Der of l3S. Two of the ringleaders,
Senior Alfero ane Bossorn, were trans
ferred to the Ludlow street Jail to await
trial.
At meeting of the trustees of the
Peabody Educational Fund, held in
New York on Thursday, Geo. Peabody
added one million dollars in railroad
and other bonds, mostly Southern, to
the Peabody Educational Fund, So
called, and 1894 900 in Florida six per
cent. bonds and overdue coupons.
William II. Seward lett Sacramento
for San Francisco on Friday. A COM
mittee of the board of supervisors met
him at Benccia and escorted him to the
Occidental Hotel, where apartments,
servants, carriages, &c, provided by
the city tor his accommodation while a
guest OF the city.
Several San Francisco citizens, on
Friday, witnessed a private trial IN the
open air of model of the ariel steamer
Ayitor. The steamer rose in the air
about seventy five feet, the machinery
operating successfully, bearing Ap the
vessel aud driving it forward with con-
siderable speed. A public trial of the
Avitor will be made on Sunday next.
Especial to the Chicago Tribune, from
Des MOines, says that at Prairie City,
Yesterday morning, while hOnoring the
anniversary of our national independ-
ence, an anvil, which they were using
rs a substitute for a cannon, exploded,
killing two persons outright and fatally
wounding two others. Several other
persons were more or less injured, and q
team of horses were also killed.
A special TO the New York Herald
from London says: The Carlist riSings
reported in Spain were in NittOria. The
streets were filled with the revolution
arv mob. armed with Scythcs and re-
volvers, and shouting for Carlos and
Cabrera. They murdered the Alcade
and wounded thirty citizens, many OF
them mortally. Similar risings are also
reported in Carthagenia and Valencia
and troops have been despatched to sup
press them.
Havana is reported quiet and no
apprehension is entertained of any dis
turbaBce. Some account is given OF a
recent engagement between the Govern
ment troops and insurgents. The
brigade of Terrier, which left Neuvitas
on the 2Sth of May 10 reinforce Puerto
Patrie, returned in a pitable condition,
cholera having broken out among them.
They secured their object, the conveying
of the train from Puerto Patrie to Las:
truas, in the interior. They were har-
rassed and finally attacked at LabreuOs
The rebels were defeated with loss OF
eighty men; Spanish loss seventy six
killed and wounded. The insurgents
are given credit for bravery and retir-
ing in good order. There was report
of the intention on the part of those to
give up between Neuyitas and Principe
The Massachusetts State constables
are attempting TO enforce the new pro
hibitory liquor law throughout the
State. Trouble is still feared In some o.
the larger places. The penalties under
the law are heavy-single sale ten dol
lars and from twenty to thirty days
Imprisonment; for second violation
twenty dollars aud thirty to sixty days
IMPRISONMENT, and for auy subsequen,
violation fifty dollars and from three to
slA
ira month for each case when the fine is
not paid. The keeping with intent to
sell is punished by ten dollars fine aud
twenty days Imprisonment. The seller
is liable for all damage done by the
buyer and drinker while drunk, and
any person arrested for drunkenness can
escape prosecution by appearing as a
wltnCss against the man from whom he
purchased liquor. There are only afew
more important provisions.
A Cincinnati dispatch of yesterday
says; The construction train gong
hOt'h on the new Cincinnati 4 Louis
Mne short line railroad, met with an
G ScclGent at the bridge over Bank Lick
creeN, twelve miles from Covington;
a Iwo Killed and seventeen wounded.
rue bridge which broke was construct
ed OF IRON and wood, was 60 feet long,
NJ leet nigh and was built in Louisville.
The cause of the giving way is not
known. The train which broke through
consisted OF eight platform cars, two of
which were partially loaded with rail.
road iron Sayarol