The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
IN TELEGRAPH.

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ropr inches of snow fell Monday
pi.ht at st. Louis,
considerable snow i. reported along
40 line Of the Union Pacific railroad.
p,,sa Celtina, a noted contractor
l;.5 in New York, on Sunday, OF heart
disease.
The Lewis kidnapping case in New
YORK has been postponed until Wit
ra..es eau be obtained from Chicago.
Imn,rtant testimony was given in the
vsw York drawback fraud case AZ Mon
real on Monday, tending to impiicate
Caldwell.
TUo New York policemen, charged
rftb stealing $4,000 from Kentuckian
,,mqd Wells. were found guilty on
Saturday.
Cov-rpor Hoffman, Of New York, has
,,srpi a proc amstion offering $4,000 for
,be arm :, of tie murderer or murderers
ofDr. Andrew Mead, of Allegheny.
4. a.,emDt will be made to remove
the ,e,t of the local Legislature to Mon
,rs,l Canada, in the eyeat Of the MIN
i,trv pressing the vote of S5O,OOO Tor
public Iuildings.
AL5aisville dispatch of last night,
SAYS. 4 drencbiug rain extending over
tbe southwest, prevailed all day, serl-
cg,ly affecting the telegraph wires;
fears are entertained Of Hood.
The action of the New York Custom
House authorities in OBTAINING bonded
sugars for re sampling, IN order TO pre-
vent fraud, is fully indorsed by tho prin-
cipal importers of that city
David d. Eckerson, the murderer, was
sentenced on Monday III t6e Bergen
county, Now Jersey, CONT of Oyer and
Termiper TO twenty years Imprisonment
in the State Prison a. Trenton.
The Montana Territory CouEcil on
Monday rejected Governor Ashley-s ap
noin,ets for Territorial Auditor, Treas
nrer and superintendent Of Public In.
s,rnc,oa. who are Republicans.
Daniel Mcfarland was arraigned yes
trr3ay In tho Court of General Sessions,
New York, for the murder Of Albert D..
Richardson. The prisoner, through his
cour,a, plead not gully" No day
fixed for the tia.
The Brooklyn Equal Rights Associa-
ton held large meeting at the Brock
lyn Academy If Music, Monday even
ing. Addresses were mado by Rev.
Henry Ward Reecber, Mrs. Susan b.
Anthony ami others.
John Hickman, living near Chandler
vile. Illinois, murdered bis wife on
Sunday last by cutting her throat. This
is the second wife Hickman has killed.
He Was acquitted for the first murder
On Plea OF Insanity.
The Court of Common Pleas at To
yoHto, Canada, on Monday gave jUGg-
mrut against Albert J. Gould, brought
uD Dn9lrr q vii Of hdbeHs corpus. The
Jl'g.. sustained the decision of the
comfy colrt, and committed GeulI to
p.,Ja for extrldiiior.
Go.Ir.uorfs fgum Big HON Mouu-
tan, aye still acCumulatlng at Chey-
eg1.. vwch is now becoming crowded
with miners who are det, rmined TO
Nllt 'or there in the spring, nOtwith'
sttn0'uE the pCnding indian troubles.
Jean Jorde, an employe of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, fell
irom a window of the upper story of the
telegraph building at 81. Louis. yester-
day morning and was Instantly killed.
He fell distance Of six stories, about
eighty feet.
Reverend Morgan, of New York, in
RESPONSE to q proposition from the
brokers to purchase st. Pauls Church
and graveyard for the site Of the pro
posed new Stock Exchange, says the
venerable temple and bones Of the dead
sra not yet FOR sale and probably never
vii be.
\ dispatch from Lowell. Mass, SAYS
IN immense meetirs of factory opera
'oF' aud THAR frierl was held Monday
h'cht Addresses a, made and reso-
Ilton, Of svmpath. with the strikers,
aud demanding Il enactment Of the
'r' boar !aw were ssed.
Rio Janeilo lett, T, dated November
Ah, says; The Emperor of Bcazil has
Informed his ministers who demanded a
Cessation Of war with Paraguay that he
would not treat with Lopez, aud that
iAe war would not cease as long as the
'atter was free in Paraguay. The Bra
Iian army is still on scant ratiors.
Lopez clears the country as he retreats
10 New York yesterday morning, John
a. Nlmply, Congressman from the State
Et Georgia, published a card, claiming
th't IN his correspondence with Wogan
q Co, on the subject Of supplying
HeoIEla with counterfeit money, he was
only actuated by tho laudable desire to
ent?ap the roGues into some act by
winch they could be brought ts justice.