The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

The reported escape of DR.. Sohoepp
from iail IS unfounded. a5
General Jas. w. Ripley, of the army,
died at Hartford, Connecticut, Tues
dsy night, aged 70.
steamer commenced regular trips
Tuesday between Detroit and Maiden
at the month Of tho river. 81
Tie Irish citizens Of Memphis, TenD.,
have made extensive preparations to
celebrate st. Patrick's day.
General Hooker has given the artist
Walker, a commission to paint "Tbe
Rattle Above the Clouds, the price TO
be sixteen thousand dollars.
The funeral services of the late Rob-
ert D. Holmes, Past Grand Master of the
Mssons of the State of New York, took
place Yesterday afternoon at New York,
ard was very imposing.
TIE steamer Sawana is now Fix days
overdue. She has an unusually large
number of passengers on board The
captain Of tie Cunarder, sailing 10 day,
has instructions to keep sharp Look
ont for the Samana'
A mass meeting of the cigar makers
of New York was held Monday evening
and DrovisioR made for the support of
members of the various Unions now on
strike. Resolutions were passed
d,mapdiug 40 increase of the duties OF
imported cigars.
AT meeting of the Society of Friends,
yesterday, at Poughkeepsie, New York,
John Wood, who has presided over the
Society for "a numEer of years, was ad-
Judged guilty of improper intimacy
with the opposite sex aud officially dis.
owuel.
TIE Reconstruction committee yester-
day morning heard some six colored
persons from Tennessee with reg trd TO
the oHtrages in various parts of that
State. Trey represent the condition of
affairs as very deploTable. They will
have another hearing tomorrow.
e w Fisher, canvassing agent for
Fields, OsgOod & Co. and other book
firms In circulating magazines, was ar
rested in Philadelphia and taken to
Boston, charged with applying funds
to his own USE The proceeds of the
swindle are said to amount to 1000.
An sffray occurred at station on the
Memphis and Charleston railroad on
Tuesday, between man named Martin
and Sam Tyler, colored, growing out of
politics, during which Martin stabbed
Sam-supposed mortally. Martin was
arrested and jailed.
On the night of the 18th, the Jail at
Diamond City, Montana, was forbibly
entered by vigilance committee and
". u. Patrick, who was confined for the
murder of John Benson, at Oregon
Gulch, on the 4th inst, was hung to a
beam in the jail The night was ex-
tremely cold aud the jailor did not sleep
in the Jail.
stage coach on the road to Helena,
Sunday evening, with ten passengers,
all Cinnamon, oapsized at Dry Creek,
2iO miles above Corinne, Utah. The
night was intensely cold. Two of the
Cinnamon were Immediately frozen to
Gelth. The remainder started afoOt for
BIZ Sand Hole Station; three of them
reached there badly frozen, four were
found dead on the road and the tenth
IS missing.
The Memphis Araldnche publishes the
affidavits of Conductor Adams and En-
giueer Kill of the illfated train on the
Mississippi Central railroad, which ran
through Buckser's trestle, setting forth
the fact that the train was not running
faster than the schedule time; that the
accident evidently was the result of
breaking an axle of the express car,
and that the bridge was not unsound,
rs had been reported. The latter is
Substantiatod by number of persons
connected with the road, including the
Section Master of that portion of the
road.
On Tuesday afternoon q man named
Tom Stewart went to the Nashville de-
pot at Louisville, Ky, and as he passed
there said Good bye" A man asked
him where he was going. He replied,
Next time you see me I'll be at the end
of rope" He then went to a machine
shop where his father. in law, Shaw, was
at work, and without saying worI be
fired revolver, the ball striking Shaw
on the back part Of the head, glanced
around tho skull and struck q man
named Mike Roach, an employe, in the
abdomen, causing death in about three
hours. Stewart was Immediately ar
rested, but upon representation of his
uncle, James Crow, policeman, he was
spirited away.
The Huntsville, Alabama, Independent
says that last Tuesday j. A. Dodge was
taaIhinn ,,afhn1 nf
and exhibiting an Indian near there.
He had some words with a drunken
man, who, after the lecture, which was
In a church, assaulted Dodge and the
latter knocked him down. The people
advised Dodge to leave in order to avoid
iurther trouble, aud accordingly he
started towards Tennessee with his
wife, child and Indian in an ambulance.
lie was followed by, the drunken man
and some six Others, who fired several
shots through the ambulance, but for
tunately without hitting any of the oc.
cupants. Dodge finally drove them off
ISy,openinga spirited fire from the am
bulauce.
About the FIRST of December the iron
elaq Atlanta left Philadelphia for Port.
su,fnnce: She had been purchased by
Salnave for the Government of Hayti
and was ofhce'ed by young men, neatly
al OF whom had formerly belonged to
the United States Navy. She had two
Haytian Senators on board, the wife of
the commanding officer and a crew of %
over one hundred men recrnited in
thiiadeiphia, in all one hundred ana
twenty Since the day she sailed not a
word has been heard from a sonI ~ on
oosfd OF ner. Some time since a report
wss p9oItshsd that she had been
wrecked OF Fortune Island, but il was
subsequently, denied, and the friends of
tnoss on board, in the absence of auy
inEhgence from her, have been reduced
safety.