The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed In New 1ork yesterday
at l21i.
Henry w. Blodgett, the newly sp-
pointed Judge of the United States
district Court, was sworn in at Chicago
Yesterday, and took his seat on the
bench.
A proposition is now under considera-
ton by the House committee on Rail
roads aud CaDals, looking 10 the par
chase of tho ownership Of the Erie
Csnal.
Ayoung man named Fritz Werterman,
of Wauwautause. Wis, accidentally fell
into vat of boiling water at Weiner d
Co.'s distiuery, Milwaukee, on Monday,
and was scalded TO death
The Postmaster General has now
completed all arrangements connected
with carrying foreign mails. Contracts
have been made with oil new lines and
engaged for two years service.
d, cumeuts aud evidence wall be
shortly sent to Canada to be used
against K. B. Caldwell, the drawback
clDspiratsr, who was recently rear
rested and is now awaiting cxtradltion.
Fifteen new cases of smallpox
were reported at the offie of the Santa
ry peIintendent of New York, Tues
day, originating in the denselJ popula-
ted portions of the llth and 18th wards.
The Osterbein University Institution
under the auspices of the United Breth-
rem, located at Westerville, Franklin
county, Ohio, was entirely destroyed by
fire at O'clock yesterday morning; loss
S35,U00, insurance $4,000.
Prize fighter White, under the intiu.
ence of liquor, shot negro named
Emit, in New York, Tuesday night,
seriously ipjuriRg hip. The negro then
felled White to the ground With heavy
piece. Emit was arrested.
Leo Batesky, the Russian who was
shot by Daniel Diddle, in BECKER street.,
New York, has entirely recovered and
and left the hos spital. He is shortly to
be married to the mysterious lady, who
turus out to be Miss Corkendell, of
Middletowu, n J.
L. B. Phillips obtained u verdict at
Chicago yesterday of 100000 against
the lllinels CcntTal railroad for personal
injuries sustained by the explosion of
locomotive LeIonglng t. the company
in the Central Depot, in Chicago, In
December, 1867.
Circulars were claUdestinely issued
in Chicago Tuesday night calling a
meeting at the fremont House for the
purpose of forming Vigilant Commit
tee Popular Indignation is very justly
aroused against numerous gangs OF
scOukdrels who now infes5 Chicago.
Sixty workmen were discharged from
the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Tuesday
and one hundred on Monday, on the
strength of the recent Older to the
COmmaudant Admiral Garder directs
reduction of the numerical force as
soon as practicable with the interest Of
the public service.
In the Court of Judge Barnard, New
York, the suit Of the Erie railroad
against Commodore Vanderbilt, which
was set down for trial on Tuesday, was
postponed. This suit is to recover
S5,0J0,000 alleged to have been paid the
commodore on the settlement of the
Irrigation two years ago. The case was
finally set for the first Monday in
March.
On thc Erie railroad an extra freight
train ran into the regular eastward
bound freight train at l o'clock on
Tuesday morning, at Hawkins Station,
cast of Port Jervis, and fifteen cars,
loaded with butter, flour and other mer.
chaHdise, were completely wrecked.
The less was very great to the CON-
pauy. The train was detained six
hours by the accident.
1t is said that the riotipg among the
railroad strikers at Jersey City was in
stigated by the rum dealers Of the 9TH
ward of that city, inhabited almost ex-
clusively by Erie operatives and pro.
prietois of rum shops Of course lose
their custom if the places are to be
supplied by New Workers. The Jersey
City common council petition the Erie
Company to reinstate the strikers.
Haytiau advices state that besides the
Outlawlng of SalnIve, and the reward
of $4,000 in gold offered for his head, it
is also decreed that all the other insur-
gents who shall fail to give up their
arms aud submit voluntarily to the au.
tborities within forty-eight hours after
the publication of the edict, shall be
declared outlaws. The list of these in
cludes the name of Mr.. Tate, Salnave's
Minister to the United States.
Resolutions were presented in the
Board of Trade at Chicago yesterday
against granting subsidies to lines Of
ocean steamers. and also that q large
reduction ought TO be made in the ex-
penses of our national Government.
After discussion they were passed. A
resolution was also adopted that the plan
presented by the committe on Board
of Trade for establishing a central
agency for the registration of warehouse
receipts, is approved and the President
and Directors instructed to enforce a
compliance on the part of the ware
house men with this or some other plan
that will accomplish the desired object.