The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-08
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Gold closed in New York yesterday
at ll3f.

Gold closed in New York yesterda,
at ll3f.
The Jesuits are leaving Rome
Ashbury, of the yacht Cambria, gave
banquet to eighteen of his friends, al
Brevoort House, New York, Thursday
night.
A large force OF mounted Indians
appeared near BUou trading station,
forty-fve miles east of Denver, day or
two ago, but they showed no signs OF
hostilities.
Jackson Place Skating Rink, q
fire brick building corner Of Tenth and
North Market streets, st. Louis, was
burned on Thursday night. The work
Of an incendiary.
The Republican Congressional Cdn.
vention at Maysville, New York, yesttr-
day, split, one wing nominating W. F..
1 Sessions and the other Norman L. Al
len for Congress.
The fishing schooner Clara Friend, of
Gloucester, is reported as having been
seized by the British authorities and
taken to Charlestown, charged with
violating the fishery laws.
The great game of billiards for the
championship of America, between
Joseph Dion and A. P. Rudolph, came
off at New York yesterday. At $50
P. NJ. the score stood-Rudolph, 3l6;
Dion, 7S3.
C. Franks Sons. silk and fur deal
ers on Broome street, New York, report
that their store was plundered of $1,000
in Government bonds, and silks and bea-
yer silks worth S2O. 900, on Wednesday
night.
The Grand Jury of the Third dis
trict Court have indicted the editors
OF the Salt Lake Herald for libelling
Associate Justice Hawley The parties
appeared in court and were held to bail
on their own recognizance for $500
each.
A large block corner of William and
Ann streets, New York, owned and oc-
cupied by John C. Koch, Sons d Co,
blank book manufacturers, caught fire,
yesterday morning from leaky gas
pipe The entire three upper floors
were destroyed. Loss $4,000
At the exhibition Of the new fire ex-
tinguisher, belonging to the United
States Chemical Fire Engine Company,
of Chicago, given in New York city
Thursday, the building fell in, burying
in the ruins four men. Jas. Manning,
foreman of the Eureka company, of
Chicago, had his ears badly burned.
The French gunboat La Fauche Ire
vile returned to New York, Thursday,
having failed to intercept the steamer
Westphalia Captain Thasset, Of the
French gunboat, refuses to answer
questions in regard to the chase, but the
Captain-eof the pilet best-says the
Westphalia completely out sailed her
enemy.
The Boston Herald yesterday morn
ing stated that Gleason's Britannia ware
factory, in Dorchester, was completely
DESTROYED Thursday afternoon by the
explosion a boiler. VIM. Brainard,
workman, was killed. The explosion
occurred at the dinner hour or the loss
Of life would have been fearful nearly
two hundred workmen being employed.
The Postal Convention has been con-
cluded between the United States and
the Provinces Of Vancouver Island
and British Columbia, establishing and
regulating the exchange of correspond
ence with those colonies on the same
basis as that adopted in the Postal Con-
vention with the Dominion of Canada.
The Convention goes into immediate
operation.
The boiler of a saw mill exploded,
Thursday, near Richland, Indiana kill
ing and horribly mangling Andrew
Hufiam; Vim. Woodruff had his head
blown of, A. Spring had his skull
broken and will probably recover NJ.
Credall's leg was crushed and had to be
amputated. Pieces Of the bodies were
thrown 80 feet and pieces Of machinery
so to 100 yards.