The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
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beck. N.as L.. --
Gorge w. Murray has been nomi:
rst.d for Mayor by the Republicans OF
Dayton, Ohio.
4 man named Haneke was killed in
With the soldiers at Fort Leaven-
wortb. Kansas Tuesday night. -Ft.
Tho LeAvenwoIth, Kansas, Coal Com
,,ny have reached, by shaft, an mex
b1n,,ible bed of coal, rot excelled by
apv west cf Pittsburgh.
The members of st. Crispin Society,
wLo have bsen on strike for several
months. at Worcester. Mass, have re-
turaed to work.
A daughter, four yeas old, of Scho-
hoIb. residing on Linn street, Clncln-
r,t,, fell on stove yesterday morning
and burned to death.
Hon. Walton Chance, OF Ohio, who
ba, teen appointed Consul at Nashua,
NP will leave New York for the Con
sl,ats in the steamship Missouri to-day.
Hon. w. D. Hill, of Defiance county,
Obi, was nominated for Congressman
frop the Tenth District by the Demo-
cratic Convention which assembled In
Toledo yesterday.
The drying house of Prewett. Speer
& Co.. manufacturers OF cedar ware, 10
Nashville, Tenn, burned yesterday
morning. A large lot OF valuable cedar
timber was destroyed.
The repair shops of the Milwaukee
4 Sc. Paul Railroad Company at Mil
waukee, were burned yesterday, inciud- :
ing fonr engines and six box cars. Total
loss 500 900; mostly insured:
L.fay ette Barnes, of SyracusA, and j.
W. Long. of Brur swick, both Post
masters, have been sentenced by the
United Stat $ District Court at Jetfer-
Son City, Mo, to ten years IN the penn
tertiary for taking moaey from letters.
The two-turretted iron clad Terror
sailed Yesterday for Hampton Roads,
the Frohc, flagship of Post Admiral
Stringbam, accompanying her as con-
voy. Having performed that duty. she
will return to her station at New ioTk.
The extensive stables Of the Louis
vile CITY Railway Company and several
frame buildings occupied as liquor sa
looms and boarding houses, in tho i'm
mediate neighborbood, were burned at
23J yesterday afternoon; loss heavy !;
fully insured.
The New jersey Conference of the NJ.
L. Church commenced its session in st.
Panl's Church, Newark, NJ J., yesterday.
The Conference numbers two hundred
members, The anniversary of the Bi
bic and Tract Societies and the Sunday
School Union was held last evening.
Generals Sheridan, PleasantOD, Gus
tar, Davies, Torbett and other cavalry
leaders are consummating plans for or
ganizipg a cavalry society. All caval-
~ etficers and privates are invited to
meet in convention, called for the 9Th
Of April, to be held in Philadelphia.
A train on the Connecticut and Pas
sumpsie River Railroad was thrown
from the track, above Grafton, yester-
day, by broken rail. Two cars went
down au embankment some seven feet,
and ten passengers slightly injured,
but none were killed.
The New York Sun of yesterday morn
ing says that proposition has. been
made TO a Senator opposed to the rati-
fcation Of the swindling st. Domingo
treaty that if such opposition be with
drawn the Executive will be in favor OF
recognizing the belligerency of the Gu
bans.
Superintendent Graves, of the Boston,
Hartford and Erie railroad, has received
instructions from Boston to hold prop
erty in the Western division Of the road
at all hazards as against the Dutchess
and Columbia Railroad Company.
Graves started mp the line yesterday
morning.
A fire on Tuesday night at Worcester,
Massachusetts,, destroyed the building
owned by Derranee Goddard. Loss
$4,000; insurance $4,000; Loring u
Blake lose Sl2, 900; irsnrance $4,000; Z.
o. Rogley & Co., $4,000; partially in.
sured A. p. Worcester & Co., $4,000; it
is supposed to be the work of an incen-
diary.
Numerous contracts for building in
Nashville, Tenn, have been suspended
on account of the proposed Congression.
al interference with the government of
the State. Governor Senter declares
that he is opposed to such intolerance,
and has called upon the President for
military aid merely to be prepared for
future emergencies.
By the arrival of the steamer Merri-
mac from Rio de Janeiro We have some
information about the dreadful condi-
tion of Paraguay. The country is one
vast ruin; towns are depopulated, and
the people are literally starving; there
are thousands living on roots and what.
ever they can find; 1000 widowed
women are hanging about Asuncion
vainly striving to procure passage tC
Buenos Ayres or Monteveido; gang o.
deserters are prowling through the
country, robbing and numbering; Lopez
is safe in the mountains, succored by In
dans, but the Brasilians hold posses
sion of the whole country, with thai
exception.
The Memphis Ardlanches Jackson
Miss, special says bills were introduced
in the Legislature on Monday as follows
To incorporate the Board of Public
Works; Incorporating the Grenada
Yszoo and Vioksburg Railroad; also the
Ship Island Railroad Navigation Co.
for French, introduced facility in the
construction of railroads, providing that
the counties voting appropriations shall
become stockholders; allowing the State
TO grant no subsidies except lands
also, requiring the President, before any
act Incorporating railroads shall take
effect, to execute bonds of 5000 witt
the Secretary of State; that no distinc
tion shall be made on account Of race
or color. A bill forbidding the forming
OF new Constitution without vote o.
the people, after o spirited debate, wa!
tabled: The other proceedings were ua
important.