The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-19
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s~ Market Reports on Third Page.
TELEGRAPH SUMMARY.

Eliakim Littell, founder of LiheH S
Liring Age, died Yesterday, aged IS,
Joseph Little won the championship
and silver cue at San Francisco, Cal,
Yesterday.
The Atlantics beat the Haymakers,
% to Is, in the base ball game at Troy,
y. Y, yesterday.
Further arrests in connection with
the diamond smuggling case are ex-
pected to be made in New York.
The Western Institute of Home
opathy will hold its annual session in
Chicago today and tomorrow.
The early failure of the Pacific and
Atlantic telegraph company is fore
shadowed They have not made enough
money the past six months to pay a
dividend.
The stockholders of the Utica, She
mango and Susquehanna Railroad Com
pany yesterday ratified the lease of the
road TO the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Company.
The Illinois Central railroad depot
and freight house, the principal bust
ness block of the town and grain ele-
vator at Winona, Illinois, burned on
Tuesday night Loss not stated
The ST. Louis Erenng Tribune an
nounces, on authority, that private ad-
vices have been received from Washing,
ION that the President has decided to
remove Governor Pile, of New Mexico.
A New York dispatch of yesterday
SAYS the motion to set aside decree of
divorce obtained here because the par
lies were previously legally divorced in
Indiana, was denied in the Superior
Court
A general order from the War De-
partment directs that labor requisite for
the erection of sheltered store houses,
&c, for the use of troops, when practi-
cable, be furnished by the enlisted force
Of the army.
The leak through which the Ameri-
can News Association have secured the
reports of the Western and New York
Associated Press, when their own failed,
has been discovered and, it is said, will
be stopped.
Samuel P. BroadwelI shot his wife,
probably fatally, in boarding house in
Pearl street, New York, Yesterday,
cause unknown. He was arrested
They have been married a number of
wears and have several children.
Captain General De Rodas, of Cuba,
has revoked his late order compelling
persons going to the United States to
givea security of 5000 that they will
not engage in the conspiracy against
the Spanish Government in Cuba.
The splendid new hospital of the
National Soldiers Home will be formal
" opened at two o'clock this afternoon
at DAYTON, Ohio. 1t furnishes complete
accommodation for three hundred pa
tients. and is one Of the best appointed
hospitals in the country.
General orders from the War Depart
ment direct the commanding generals
of departments to furnish the United
States marshals with military aid In
tak'n, the census, upon the written ap-
plication of the marshals, provided they
have the troops to spare.
In the case of Rev. j. D. Clark, on
trial before the Ohio Plesbytery Of the
United Presbyterian Church, at Pitts
burgh, Pa, the breach of promise OF
marriage with young lady Of his con-
grsgation was sustained and the Pres
terv administered the rebuke.
The Toronto Daily Telegraph OF this
morning saws: We are pleased to an
nounce that the Washington Govern
ment has issued instructions that our
ships shall be allowed to pass through
the Sault ST. Marie canal with all their
cargoes except munitions of war
The. Touring nil! of A. S. Howe d
Co, the planning mill of Welch, Jen-
kin- n Co, and the lumber yard OF
Knapp. Fowler d Co, at Oshkosh,
Wisconsin, were burned Tuesday after
noon. Loss on planning mill $4,000;
insured for 5000; and on lumber yarl
$1,000; no insurance.
After an exciting contest Tuesday, the
election for new Board of Directors OF
the Mercantile Library Association OF
New York resulted in the success of the
regular over the reform tickets by an
average majority of 800. There was a
fight around the ballot box when the
polls closed, but the inspectors saved
the sacred urn from demolition. About
one hundred votes were unpolled.
An Eight Hour League Convention
was held in Boston, Massachusetts
Yesterday. Wendell Phillips presented
resolutions in favor of shortening the
hours of labor. A letter was read from