The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
EY TELEGRAPH.

tiOL met IN the opera riouoo'
Yesterday.
The Book Concern committee st tue
Nsthodist Episcopal Church bold daily
,Gs.ious and are sill esgag 1 on the
alleged frauds.
! FIRE broke out at one o'clock yester-
5,v morning in the store OF Guy Y.
Iedvard, Milwaukee; damage to stock,
5000, to building, $500.
The billiard match at Milwaukee:
Wednesday night, between kleser, OF
Mlwaukee, and Parker, of Chicago, re-
su,t,d in favor Of Parker.
Action was commenced yesterday IN
the Civil Court at Pittsburgh by DIR. ).
r Hall. against the Pittsburgh Gazette,
fo, libel, laying damages at s2O,OOO.
Tn, c,!ored people of Tennessee will
b,ld a convention az Nashville on the
lst inst, 10 compare notes relative TO
H.. condition of their race in the State.
Joh7 Stacom, warden of the New
York city prison, who was committed
by Judge McCunn for contempt OF court,
was discharged from custody on Wednes-
day.
In tie Hudson county, n. j., circuit
rourt. Wednesday, the trial of the suit
hronrht hy William w Wood against
the Eric Railway Company, was brought
II close by verdict in favor OF the
plaintiff
U.Lalle- and Fred Mohrmon publish
a card in 'he Chicago Tribune saying
.pey are the makers of the Cardiff Gil
ant. and are ready to make any number
10 order. They claim an interest in the
pre-eLt giant.
A number of prominent gentlemen OF
New York city organized into society.
fav or two ago, for the purpose of
p.,dlcinr a strong feeling among Amer
,cln, in behalf of Cuba. General Nc
Mahon is among its members,
Jas. Clark, cutter in the wholesale
rJtAing house of Moore, Loomis Il Co.,
Clicage, has b5en arrested for rooblng
hs employers Of goods to large
amount The value of the goods taken |
not known, hut four thousand dollars
N.uh have been recOveied. lie was
considered one of the best men In the
establishment.
The ro!itical contest in New Hamp'
SINE wakes warm. The Democratic
patty will not put any speakers IN the
fed. but will allow all disposed TO go
over ts the Labor Reform party. A
I,w secret organization called the La
lor League has been formed, and il is |
rlmored that it is to affect the Labor
T. fn-rn runypmpnt
There was a very large gathering of
TIE New York bar in the general term
ui the Supreme Court, Wednesday, to
witness the formal presentation of
McDona'd's bust of the late James I. |
Brady to the Law Institute of the city |
Of New York. Impressive and eloquent
addresses were made by ex.Judge Ed
mHuds and James A. Gerard, Esq.
Ne,,rs. Trimball, Sackleford, Letcher,
a Il others, have addressed letter TO
the leading Republicans throughout
I,aUts,ee inviting them TO come to
Nashville on TIE 10th inst. to counsel
together upon measures tor the prOtec-
tio1, defense and organization of the
Republican party. They hope dissen
sous will ne forgotten and all the
Union mon consolidated into compact
Republican party.
The statement of several seamon at
,aclrd TO the ship Neptune, Of cruel
Treatment upon them, is most emphat.
irJlly denied by Captain Peabody, and
the denial is most positively confirmed
by the first and second mates of the
vc,S.l The sailors, however, firmly
adhere to their statement. The whole
matter will doubtless undergo q rigid
Judicial examination, in which the facts
viii probably be developed.
Governor Hoffman, of New York, has
rendered decision in the case of Obe-
diah }. Green, Salmon Shaw and JOna
than S. Buell, commissioners of the
Niagara frontier police, finding them
guilty Of taking pa'rolmen for political
purposes, levying contributions and
taking it from the pay of the men and
licensing houses of prostitution as
drinking places under the excise power
granted to tho commissioners, and re-
moved them from Office.
For several weeks past negotiations
have been pending between the Bankers
and Brokers Telegraph company and
their employees with view to transfer |
ring the line to the latter. The negotia.
nons are almost completed and the con- |
tract is ready for signatures. Delay is
caused by the men themselves who are
awaiting the Issue of a new press con
tact shortly expected to be made.
Possibly, however, this work will 90 10
the nation line which is being rapidly
constructed.
The afternoon session of the Ohio
Woman's Suffrage Convention, in ses-
sion at Columbus. was largely attended
The committee on Resolutions reported
resolution asking the Ohio Legisla-
ture to take steps to submit the 0ues-
ton of female suffrage to the voters of
Ohio at the next fall election. The
resolution was discussed by Mr.. Sidney
Stewart and Mrs. Langley and adopt
ed. At the evening session speeches
We're made by Miss Bates, Mrs. NJ. NJ.
Cole aud others.
4 HOrld correspondent has interview
eI Senator Sumner, and obtained his
views on the topic of the recognition of
the Cuban belligerency. The Senator
isstrongly opposed to recognizing as the
case now stands, and gives as his reas.
9Gns, that 1t would instantly involve the
ohited States In war with Spain, and
Is consequence financial crash would
esSue that would shake the pillars of
We government to their very fouuda-
ton. Besides he is not sure as to which
would come out first in the event of a
contest between the United States and
CUBA; and Canada will be peaceably
annexed to the United States within
ten years, and that we shall also absorb
@@exico, the West Indies, and the whole
North American continent. We have a
moral right not only to this Continent,
Out to the whole Of the hemisphere and
We shall acquire both.