The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-30
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

rel in New York city continues Intense.
Flags are at half mast on many hotels
at New York in respect to the memoFyi
of General Thomas.
All of ex-Collestor Bailey . snits
against the merG cha e in the sd New
York District hays fshed throhshs {,
The story aunouncel of tie death OF
Lieut. naDtl GeueI al Thomas caused a
profnnd sensation IN New IO:k, where
he had MA ayt warm friends. ID
Passenger train No. 3, Express, on
the Erie railroad, which left Jersey City
= at 1.S9 Mouday evening, was smashed
near Wa svilie, ChepGpgo county, New
York, yesterday morning. No particr-
lars. .s10DE suiI s'nsl. c.i
An suigrtut ship il suppose to have
fdnuaered IN Massachusetts bay In the
yale Saturday night, .Jguautities of
Sresksdi St IA 'fucftdins bed sacks,
pillows, &c,i itayipg been washed ashore
nUaPe Cod: '' -
, "a A meeti pg ~ Hf be- he d. at Nashville,
Tenn to-day to express public SORROW
fer The sdealh of GrnsTal George II.
Thomas Natioual IL Lgs at the Capt.
and Stacy Houss wese hung at Lalf-
mast in honor of the deceased.
At4P. NJ, yesterday, the thr-c spper
floors of II W brick shop Of A. Rec
II Co.'s seed aud ,cultivatorI mlHufac 4
tory, Akron, Ohio, 5fell through TO the
ground Miraculonsly, none of the
many work men 'wete seriously injured.
Las $4,000.
Owing to the suddeI. rise in the river
the embaukment a5 The lower lock Of
the Saoal at Keokuk, Iowa, gave way
on Saturday, ALd the entire Govern
ment works at that point were a5oded,
causing great damage. Work Will he
suspended until the river falls
A tetrbl. accident occurred a. the
coal mine of chard lieeG sher, near
Shenandoah City, Pa, yesterday morn
ing. While fouT men were desc ndIngl
shaft TO commence work, the rope
broke, precipitating them 10 the bot
tom ,;oser sixty feet, and all of them
were instantly killed.
The Ohio Senate yesterday adopted
resolutions of respect for General Thorn
as and adjonrne1. Iu the House an
effort was made to suspend the rules so
"a to introduce resolutions of respect
INT failed as the motion required two
thirds vote to carry. The Democrat.
voted against the motion.
The New York Tribune says there is
not a word of truth, it seems, in the
Washington rumor ascribing to the Vir
ginia Legislature desire TO withdraw
its ratification of the Fifteenth Amend
m,nt Prominent citizens of Virginia
give an emphatic contradiction TO the
whole matter. mischievously designed.
Notwithstanding the return Of most Of
the politicians to Albany, Sheriff O'Brien
avows his opposition 10 the Swee.
ney charter reintrOduced in the Assem-
bly, in nearly its, original shape on
Monday niaht, ard savs the Young De
mocracy will vote it down, while they
get MP new one in the interests of the
people. Albany dispatches, however,
say the charter is sure to pass.
The inquest in the case of the Don
nelly family. who were crushed to death
by the, falling of tenement building
iu New York during the gale of Sunday,
has heen postponed by the coroner un
iii Saturday. The funeral of the vic
tins win take placsto-day. Much ex-
citement continues in the neighborhooa
Of the ruins and public opinion holds
the Constructor of the fallen building
responsible for the calamity. -r'
A San Francisco dispatch of yester.
day says: The past few weeks General
Thomas has enjoyed unusually good
health. To day about half past one
O'Clock, while Mt bis Office headquarters
attending to business, he wss taken
with apoplsxy which resulted in his
death at 8 p. NJ. Gems. Odr and Whip
pie being absent at Arizona, the oom-
msud of the department temporarily
falls on Colonel Hough, Assistant I'D.
iutant General.
Tho directors of the Buffalo, New
York. Driving Park Association. have
decided to offer sac, 900 in premiums at
their summer meeting, commencing
August 9. The principal prizes are:
$4,000 for horses that never beat 2:3l;
$4,000 for horses that never beat s.27;
$4,000 for horses that never beat 2:25, aud
5000 free 10 all horses and large purses
for all horses that never beat 2:34, 2:40
and $50 for double team aud five mile
dssh. s.s3 -.,s-a. = &!
Collector OF Internal Revenue Pleas
anton, Of New York, took the oath of
Office yesterday. A letter received by
him. from Bsilev says his,detarmination
TO leave New York was made but half
an hour before he started aud he had no
time to put things iniorder. He con-
firms the results or the Investigation so
faras thsyshs gone; says none of bis
subordinstes but Deputy Collector
Childs knew anything of the matter,
aud that he, got mo personal benefit
from using the money, asserting that it
was used to ferret out frauds.
The Dea,ioR Ldn,driRa. q Havana
newspaper, says that the Insurgents of
Camsguay have under. control more
than two thousand leagues square of
territory. There are in the Island only
1904 mafatinie leagues square of terri
tory, so that there remains in possession
Of the Spanish Government only 1904
Leagues, from which, if the country held
by the rebels between the villas and
the Eastern Department be deducted, ,,
= the remainder would show that the
Cubsns held actually more than two
thirds of the whole territory. -s~
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Many Of the colorsd ladies of New
York, takisg the fashion from their