The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-06
TELEGRAPH, SUMMARY.
Gold closed in New York on Saturday

Gold closed in New York on Saturday
at l14!
The Red Stockings beat the Harvard
Club at Boston on Saturday by a score
of 46 to l5.
! The Red Stockings beat the Old Elms
at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on Friday
by a score of to in seven innings.
1t is regarded as impossible for Con-
gress to act at this session upon the
question Of the reconstruction of Ten
nessee.
Jas. Smith, who attempted to walk
100 miles in 20 hours, gave up the job
after making 55 miles ia l2 hours and
SO minutes.
A new match of billiards has been
arranded between Rudolphe and Dion,
for $500 up to $1,000 a side, to come
off June 18th.
The Workingmen Union propose to
establish in the fall daily paper in
New York, to be devoted to the inter-
ests of Unions throughout the country.
The delegates from British Columbia
now at Ottawa, have laid before the
Dominion Government propositions re-
specting the entrance Of that province
into the confederacy.
During the prevalence Of thunder
storm on Saturday, barn in the rear
of the residence of Rudolph Beyal, on
North avenue, Chicago, was struck by
lightning. Three men were instantly
killed. ......
The schooner Pioneer, Capt. Jack
Hame, sailed with ballast on Friday,
from Corinne, for the Stockton, Utah,
mines, where a cargo Of ore is awaiting
her arrival She will returd in about
week. Stockton is at the South end
of Great Salt Lake.
| 1t is announced that III the consolida-
ton of certain telegraph lines, the Union
and Central Pacific railroads are as
signed three millions each of the stock;
the Atlantic d Pacific three millions,
and the Franklin Line one million.
Hubbard, the postal telegraph man, is
spoken of a. the General Manager.
Another destructive fire is raging in
the woods in the neighborhood of
Trinity Bayou, Saguiny, Canada, and
still another some miles mp the river.
Others are reported at Point Aux Trem-
bles. Should the present drought con-
tinue, the ravages hv fire will be very
extensive
The heaviest spring storm Of snow
and rain ever experienced in Montana
Territory has subsided. Snow fell to
the depth of five and six feet in the
mountains, and an incessant rain pre-
vailed for five days throughout the
whole Territory The prospects for
placer mining could not be better, and
a large yield is anticipated this season.
In the case of District Attorney Nor
rison, Of Kings county, y. Y, charged
with misappropriatiOn Of public funds,
the investigation committee ofthe Board
OF Supervisors have reported that all the
accusations have been proved. They
recommend that the County Treasurer
be recommended to commence an action
against Judge Morrison for the money
said to be retained by him, and that the
charges and specifications be laid be-
fore Governor Hoffman for future ac-
ton.
Mrs. Kelly who was captured some
time ago by the Sioux, and whose ac-
count Of the most indecent and brutal
outrages upon her committed by the
savages so worked up our people, ar
rived at Washington on Friday to look
after her claims before Congress. 1t
appears the Indians now there were the
perpetrators Of the outrages. Notwith-
standing this Mrs. Kelly visited them.
Both parties seemed to he pleased with
the meeting and entered into lively
and apparently friendly chat.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
sent TO the Senate a report, as special
commissioner, proposing an appropria-
ton of $3.0O0,000 for the construction
of five new steamers for the revenue
service to supplant the five now in use
but Inefficient and the sale of six Of the
sailing vessels II is proposed to have
twenty steamers and hree sailing YES
sells for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,
three steamers and two schooners on
the Pacific coast and four steamers on
the lakes. Total officers, lS3, and crews,
S7S, and the annual expenditure, $14S,-
go
Justice Bustecd of the United States
District Court has committed REYNOLDS
Auditor of the State Of Alabama, to Jail
for five days for contempt of court in
refusing to obey an INDUCTION restraining
him from collecting the two per cent.
tax on the gross receipts of the Southern
Express Company, which is authorized
bv the State revenue law, but enjoined
by the District Court Reynolds was
also fined $1,000 and required to refund
the amount collected. Reynolds is a
leading Republican and an aspirant to
the Governorship. His friends called
an Indignation meeting which it is sup
posed will help on his claims.
The Israelite citizens of New York
are much disturbed 10y an uncontirmed
rumor of wholesale butcheries in Ro-
mania. kilograms sent to Sir Samuel
Montefore, in London, and NJ. Gre
mieux, President of the Jewish Society
in Paris, begging the fullest and latest
information, have not yet been an
swered. The Jewish Rabbis preached
on the subject on Saturday, one of
them expressing the hope that the re,
ports would prove to be incorrect, and
another stating as fact that instead OF
the Jews monopolizing the trade in