The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed iu New York Saturday
stl9?!. ..
Alderman Sesnnal, shot in drunken
noIitical riot Friday, died Saturday at
noon.
On Saturday the Erie canal was
froyen over at Utica, New York. Their
mometer 10 degrees above zero.
The old Mansion House aud Davis
RIock. al Kennebunk, Maine, were
burnrd Friday night. Loss $4,000.
s. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Jer-
,sv Civ, the oldest church in the city,
vas burned Saturday morning. Loss
$4,000,
Frederick W. Pratt has been detected
IN embezzliug the funds of horse rail-
xay company in Chicago. He confesses
70 have taken $4,000.
The Boston Republican Convention
endorsed the citizens nomination Of
Nayor Shurtleff, for reelection, of
which there is little doubt.
sGeut!eman named Greig and his
wife were fatally injured Friday night
by their carriage being demolished Ivy
passing train near Kinderhook. \. y.
On Friday night the Citizens Ma
ti.ral Bank at Middleton, Delaware,
was entered and robbed of a large
amount in Government and Pacific
giroai bonds. No particulars given.
There are seven companies of troops
DOg in winter quarters at Sherman Bar
racks Omaha. Ne serious trouble with
the MoImo.s is appTehended, and no
troops have yet been ordered in the di-
rrcliou of Utah.
L. VI. Station, cashier OF the dry goods
honse of Farwell & Co., Chicago, has
been detected in the crime of pilfering
from his employers. The aggregate
amount taken is abOut $4,000. He re-
stored s2500 and was let off
B N. Mordyke, who was injured at
Coon Point, Iowa, at the disaster on the
Chicago, Rock Island x Pacific railroad
on Tuesday, died Thursday evening.
Thi. makes three deaths from the dis
aster. Morayke is highly respectable
and wealthy farmer.
dispatch from Franklin, Mass,
states that the last obsequies of the late
Albert d. Richardson, took place in the
C0UErcg gatonal Church, Saturday after
noon. About three hundred persons,
including the widow mother and broth
eT Of the deceased, were present.
Several prominent cOlored men of st.
Louis have published a call for a Mass
Convention to be held at Jefferson City,
January llth, to consider and put into
effect tue best means of promoting the
education of the colored people of Mis-
'our They desire some notifications
Of the State law for the establishment
Of normal schools, &c.
Alexander Mcdonald, President OF the
AOcr's Association of Great Britain,
Nao IS upon tour through this cOun.
ny Observing the labor element, ad-
dressed the Working Mems Union in
Ne" JoIk, Friday night, in regard TO
|a1 Chimes" on the Pacific slope. He
san '-u7 further Importation should be
oppose, s]t was the importation of a
s.a'" element worse, in some respects
"'H Tue old negro system that brought
a'Dat oar var.
ne H'Gd on commenting upon the
Increasing shipments of wheat and flour
G'"" TIE Mississippi river to New
V'iesh', for shipment to England, says,
against the southern wafer line of the
A''''sPpi the only way for the north
western grain trade that will pay in
,ls east will be the water line of the
;" Lawrence down to the sea. Hence
NE annexation of the New Dominion
4o"n 10 the sea is more and more be.
coming necessity to the great grain
growing regions of the northwest.
Ioe Junction City (Kansas) Union
"Es: Charles Brown. who has been a
sPllye thee years among the Chinese
.l''ans and who has jnst escaped, states
.I'I there are in the several bands Of
.Ia' Tribe more thRu twenty white boys
o-u Gir.s, captives, among them Hen.
..s''A Floyd, sixt'"H years old, daugh-
OF William y Floyd, furniture
S.,e5 tg",e5 IN Boston. This girl was VISITING g
lends IN Texas with her brother when
sue indians captured them, killing her
''O'NeF and carrying her into captivity