The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
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AZ ll2s.
Tibet. 5 nag ship Colorado put to
s.a.u Thursday.
The committee OH Ways and Means
have not yet COu.e to conclusion on
tie funding bill.
The K. y. Rice, from ID, troit, was the
pioneer boat Of the season. She arrived
Al Cleveland Yesterday.
Inns Hncourt, Il caualboat captain,
committed suicide at Day ton, o., Thurs
dav by shooting himself.
The rolored citizens celebrated the
Fifteenth Amendment by procession
fen thousand strong, i'll New York, yes
terday.
Major Gordon, with a company of
limited States cavalry from Fort
Br,deer, is en- rOu:e for South Pass City.
He is expected there TO day.
A fire at Meredith Bridge, N. H,
Thursday, destroyed Smith & Foss'
block ana the finishing building of
Wankarrau, Neill & Co. Loss $40. 600;
hall IusuIed.
The only vessel of war in commission
AZ present in the waters Of New York is
the Suauish irou-clad frigate Victoria,
winch rs cpaling preparatory to her de-
paF;u'c tor Spain.
Arizona adyices OF March 29th say the
smIlI pox il raging fearfully in Pima
county, averaging five deaths daily;
terrible mortality considering popula-
flOI. Indian raids continue.
Sylvester b. C.. n. alias Jack Rey-
AolGs. the murderer of William Town.
send, was hanged yesterday morning in
the Tombs prison yard, New York.
The crime was committed on the 2Ith
OF January asst.
Templar lodge of Odd Fellows of San
Franc SEQ, Thursday night. voted twelve
hundred dollars to assist in introducing
Odd Fe loHship in Europe lG Is
thought orh.r lodges will increase the
amount to $4,000.
TIE Atlantic base ball club of Brook
Ism made their first appearance this
season in practice game Thursday.
The tirst nine played field of twelve,
and in full game were successful by
. TO :. The Atlantics will play their
first match game on tie 18th with the
Unions of Murrisania.
The memorial services in honor of the
late General Thomas drew an immense
crowd to Farwell Hall, Chicago, last
night. The services were of n solemn
and impressive character, and consisted
OF q dirse, memorial hymn, prayer by
the Right Rev. Bishop Whitelaw, and
an address 10y Governor Palmer.
jim Ei.k, Jr., of the Ninth r, gimeut,
met his brave companions in arms at
the armory in New York on Thursday
evening and delivered a speech, in which
he announced that three hundred men
stood ready TO join the regiment, aEd
that all new recruits would be furnished
with uniforms free ofexpeDse.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
on Thursday adopted resolutions pray
iug Congress To fund tae national debt,
aud TO call in its present bonds and re-
place them with Others bearing inter
est at 800. They also prayed that the
law authorizing the revenue officers TO
seize mrtchants books may be repealed.
Reports of suffering Of the laboring
people in San Francisco are greatly ex-
aggerated. Between 20 and 80 millions
OF dollars are deposited in the Savings
Bagks of that city. Cartmen on city
work refused to labor for less that So 80
a day. The wOrkmen on the Patrero
railroad, receiving about $40 msnth
aud board, struck few days since for
al increase OF wages.
An immense turnout of negroes cell
e6rated the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment in Louisville yesterday.
The procession was three-quarters of
an hour passing a given point. Ban
ners and transparencie5 with notices
was feature of the procession. AT
sunrise one hundred guns were fired.
Good order prevailed in the line of the
procession.
The north wall CT the mammoth iron
building, Nos 740 :nd 742 Broadway,
owned by WaId Brothers, and used as a
carriage warehouse, fell with a tremend-
Gus crash at 2 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Nobody was hurt. The damage
will probably be $4,000. The building
had been erected somewhat hurriedly,
and il is supposed the recent heavy
rains had undermined the foundation.
The rear coach of q mail train on the
Indianapolis and Cincinnati railroad was
thrown from the track about midnight
Thursday night, sixteen miles west of
Cincinnati. Though there were dozen
passengers in the car, no one received
any injuries more serious than slight
scratches. The second coach was off
TIE track, but remained upright. The
cause was broken rail.
Yesterday noon two men entered the
Savings and Loan Association Bank, at
Cleveland, Ohio, and while one en-
ployed the cashier in conversation, the
other quietly went to the vault and
took therefrom 100000 cash. Both es-
capped and are at large yet.
The two robbers who stole O,OoO
from the Savings Bank Of Cleveland
yesterday, have been caught and the
money secured.