The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-22
rELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
An inquest was held at Staten Island
on Friday, on two moro of the crew of
the fever ship. James Foster, jr., who
had died at the steamers retreat. The
evidence revealed the old story, of ill
, treatment and showed in addition that
the two men left Liverpool strong and
hearty and were received in the retreat
so emaclated that their skin was
shrivelled up like parchment.
Charles Lockwood alias O'Neil, one
ofthe escaped Sing Sing convicts, was
SHOT and captured on Friday, in a barn
near Tarrytown, his wound being con-
sidercd mortal. Lockwood made a
statement of the origin of the revolt, and
said that the injuring OF the guards was
not a part of the plan. Lawden and
Mulvey were also recaptured the same
day. a jury investigating the death of
Craft, the keeper, have rendered yer.
dict charging Lock wood, Lawden and
Burns with being the principals, and
Mulvey and Decker accomplices in his
murder.
The western mail, which left New
York city on the 10th inst, was burned
the next day six miles cast of Mitllin,
Pa. The mail was very valuable one,
| consisting of 33 letter and 16O newSpa-
per bags. Four or five of the letter
bags containing the California mails
were saved, and sent forward; Many
of the letters were saved i'll damaged
condition and returned TO the New
York Office, whence they were again
forwarded to their destination.
The Erie Railway has renewed the
contracts with the express companies.
Gen. Samuel Fessenden died Satur-
|
yeurs. Senator FeSsenden was his cid
est son.
-Niemeir, Treasurer of S.. Paul's
Greman Evangelical Protestant Church
of Cincinnati, arrived there under ar
rest on Friday night from Detroit. He
| abscOnded on New Years with several
thousand dollars of church money.
| A ST. Johns telegram says: Cudley's
action in the New Bru nswick Legisla-
ture in moving a resolution for annex
alton to Canada, is unanimously con.
| de1nued. Itappears the House refused
to allow even Il notice of the resolution
! to appear on the Clerks book.
Navigation is open on the upper
part of the Bay of Funday.
The Masonic Hall, Cotfee's Cigar
Factory, Hawley's Stationery store.
Brewers Furnishing Store and Sewing
Machine Rooms, and Watson's Restnur'
ant at Rochester, were burned on Sat
urdav morning: Loss S3O. 0OO. IN
sured. 1t was all i'll one building.
Il! is stated that thirty deaths In
New York from Typhoid fever occurred
during the past two months, in single
block of filthy tcnements on Thirteenth
| street between Avenue A and First
| IIn0lfh OtfiPpF1 hAVa
commenced cleaning that locality.
AT meeting of the Cincinnati
Counsel on Saturday afternoon, the or
dinance compelling Commercial trav-
elers to pay license for selling GOOuS by
sample or otherwise was unCnnditiOn-
ally repealed.
In Il skirmish near Villa Clara,
Cuba, one of tho insurgents named
NIGGA was captured and subsequently
shot.
"A steamer arrived nt Havana, on
Saturday from Spain with thousand
soldiers.
The Denver NcWS of Saturday even
ing publishes telegram from Pnebla,
reporting u fight at Fort Lyons on
Thursday night. between the colored
and white troops, in which several men
The pedestrian Lyman. who is
walking from Chicago to Savannah
Georgia, for wager of So 900, while at
SEYMOUR, Ind, awaiting Il change in
the weather, was served with notice
by the Jackson county Vigilance Com
mittee to leave within "a limited time.
LYMAN obeyed the notice and left for
Louisville by rail 10 aVold tue pFoOao4e
lynching.
"A special from Omaha says that the
Missouri River is rising rapidly with a
prospect OF the opening of navigation
within few days. The weather is
mild. Heavy storms are reported at
Salt Lake and farther west.
Daniel McGuire' on trial at Buff
falo,. N. Y, for the murder or John
Ford, was convicted on Saturday night
of manslaughter in the third degree.
and was sentenced to four years lmprt-
sonment in the States prison. James
Reynolds, charged with stealing $4,000,
the property of the Golden Cheese Com
! pany, was found guilty. The Alden
rioters will be tried at Buffalo to- day.
Prince Louis, of Bourbon, was mar
ried at New York, Saturday evening, to
Emile Hamil, OF Cuba. The ceremony
was a civil one, the Catholic priests
declining to perform one OF religious
character.
About a million and a half OF dol
lars have been renltteu IEOn CuOa ~
nrivate banker in New York, the inter
, est on which is to be devoted to the sick
, and wounded of the patriot army.
The nitro.glycerine seized on Thurs
day at New York, appears to have been
consigned to an agent of the United
States government at Savannah.
The Waverly Hotel and stables on
: the grounds of the New Jersey State
, Agricultural Society, at Waverly Park
were burned Saturday night. Loss
$4,000.
A CHICAGO paper prints q statement
j, to the effect that ,half-witted boy mas
confessed to having murdered lion Ion
Murray Mcconnell, OF Illinois; Mr Ine
Mcconnell about Sll, and, becoming
enraSed, struck him on the head with
hammer. The boy is left-handed, anG
it is asserted that the blows wnlcL WI Gu