The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-18
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water in several places.
The wind on Sunday damaged the
churches at Dayton and Mlanlsourg,
Ohio.
George A. Steder, of Rochester, New
York, was found dead in his workshop
Yesterday morniag. Heart disease.
A heavy storm of rain and hail, &C.
Commanded with wind, thunder, and
lightning, visited Cincinnati vest rday
morning, doing considerable damage.
John Pinkerton, door keeper of the
Chicago Board of Trade rooms, commit
ted suicide on Sunday afternoon by TAX
ing laudauum. He has been much un-
der the influence of liquor lately.
A Nashville dispatch, of yesterday,
saws: This section of country was Wis
tied last night by storm of wind and
rain. accompanied with thunder and
lightning. Considerable damage was
done.
Bids for the purchase of the Missouri
Pacific railroad stock owned by ST. Louis
were opened yesterday and stock award
ed TO Captain Joseph Brown and Will
liam Goussig of that city for $3.50, 900,
equal TO COZ; the highest price ever paid
for Pacific stock.
A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, yes
terday, says: The water in the Scioto is
higher than it has been for twenty
wears. Great damage has occurred. No
trains have reached here from Circin-
natl to-day on account of a bridge being
washed away.
Abiil was introduced in the House of
Representatives at Columbus, Ohio,
Yesterday afternoon, by Mr.. Wood, Of
The reform delegation from Cincinnati,
prohibiting the reading of the Bible or
singing hymrs and ps aims in the public
schools.
A terrific thunder, lightning, wind
and hail storm passed over st. Louis,
Mo. Sunday evening. The audience at
the Varieties theatre made Ihasty exit,
several getting hurt. at the Olympic
theatre, where religious services were
being held, the panic was intense, sew.
eIal women fainting aud number OF
persons bruis d.
A correspondent writes to the New
York Tribune, from Albany, that the re-
suits of the Iowa Senatorial election are
welcomed there by the political friends
generally, especially by some who are
most familiar with Nr. Persia, selected
for the long term as the successor of
Mr.. Grimes.
News has been received at Portland,
Maine, through cable dispatch from
Sir Edward Lamson, one of the 9xecu-
tors of the Peabody estate, informing
her that the fleet was at Madeira, Janu-
ary lst, and that George Peabody Rus
sell confirmed the report that three Of
the vessels would coal at Bermuda.
Yesterday morning, at Elkhart, Ind,
Edward Russell entered the office fthe
railroad blacksmith shop and shot W..
A. Williams, the foreman, killing him
almost instantly. Russell proceeded
Immediately TO a Justice of the Peace
and delivered himself up. Illicit inter
course between Williams aud RusselPs
wife was the cause OF the tragedy.
A New York dispatch of yesterday
saws: Russia, who was shot in Bleecker
street on Saturday night, is lying dan
gerously i'll at Bellevue Hospital. The
case has developed phase much like a
sensational feature of the Mcfarland
ease, as young woman dressed in
widows earb arrived at his bedside to
watch yesterday, and insists on his
marrying her.
Hon. Samuel Shellabarger, United
States Minister resident at Portugal,
and family, Bishop Cox, of Ohio, and
Captain G. J. G. McDougall, of the
Danish Navy, were passengers by Gu
nard steamship Cuba, which arrived in
New Yo.k on Saturday. Captain Nc.
Doupall is commissioned by his Gsv-
ernment to examine the navy and navy
yards Of the United States.
The fire which broke out in Morri-
sons opera hall, Indianapolis, about
O'Clock, last night, was still raging about
one o'clock this morning. Morrison's en-
tire block of buildings is destroyed,
and fears are entertained that the block
adjoining will also be burned. Alfred
Talobot & Co.'s wholesale grocery
dealers, Moore & Talbot, wholesale
druggists, and w. Copeland * Co..
wholesale milliners, aud II. g. West &
Co, Wholesale crockery stores, are en-
tirely destroyed.
Interesting ceremonies took place in
the Mormon temple, Brooklyn, Sunday.
A new elder, Edinburg, was installed
with novel and appropriate services.
The saints to the number of one hun.
dred and forty INDUCED in sacred sing.
ing and few prayers, and listened to
sermons from three Salt Lake elders.
POlygsmy was vigorously defended, and
the scurrilous Geutile press of New
York denounced. A dozology closed
the proceedings.
An excursion party, consisting ofrail
road and newspaper men, left Chi
cago yesterday morning for Omaha
via the Chicago, Burlington & Qaincy
railroad, and the Burlington & MissOur
River railroad, for the purpose of cele
brating the opening of this new route
to Omaha. The party occupied tn,
sleeping car May yfOwer, and the dining
car Cosmopolitan, of the Pullman Line
which, in connection with other car
of the same class, will run regularly
over the route from Chicago to Omaha
The party will be absent several day.
The Roman Catholic view of tn,
public school question was stated befor,
large audience in the hall of Coope
Institute. New York, on Tuesday even
ing. by Rev. Thomas s. Preston, paste
of st. AIMS church. Many Protestant
were present in the audience and on tn
platform. DR.. Preston claims that tn
Catholic religion requires sectarial
schools for the young of the church
aud while Catholics do not desire l.
interfere with the present common
school system, they ask an allowanc
isom the school fund proportioned t
me number Of children to educate, fo
sCS, sSS purpose Of establishing separat