The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-29
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The Name Legislature VIII p'VOOeu
in a body TO Portland to-day and assist
in the ceremony of receiving the re-
mains If Mr. Peabody.
The curling tournament at Detroit
ended Yesterday after close contest.
Rnffalo defeats Milwaukee and takes
the Gordon melal.
Ready, the blacksmith of notOriety,
WAS agsia arrested Thursday and com
mitted for insulting people in the streets
of New York while drunk.
The marriage certificate Of Mr.. Rich
srdson aud Mrs. Mcfarland on file, has
been lost or stolen. A duplicate has
been obtained from Mr, Beecher and
placed on file.
An extensive fire occurred in New
York citv, on Thursday night, by which
buildings No. l5S, 100, l62 and l64, West
Seventh street, were destroyed, ana
loss eutailed of $4,000.
FL Judge Hsarle, OF the Marine Court,
and Mr jesse o. VahderpOrt, of the
Surrogste's Office, both well known gem
tlemen in local political circles, died In
New York on Thursday.
The Clark -Beninger case came on for
argument Thursday morning before
Judge McCuun. of New York. He said
that he was not prepared To decide the
questions involved in the matter.
A letter from Athens says 10 dead
and 40 wounded men hare been taken
from the ruins Of the town of Janta
Maura, on one of the German Isles, and
destroyed by an earthquake.
Orders were received at the navy yard
AZ Portsmouth, n. H., to suspend work
in the construction and steam engineer
Inydepartments, appropriations having
run out. This order will cause the dis
charge Of 600 workmen.
Two eastward bouud freight trains
came into collision at Passiac Bridge
on the Erie rsilIo I'd Thursday morning,
which Il damaged one Of the cars and de-
hyCd travel for an boar and q half
Nobody irjur,d
Pc. Kingnau. late treasurer of the
sou street Congregational Church,
Chicago, has been arrested, charged
with being q def4ulter to the church in
the sum Of $4,000. The defalcation is
covered by false entries.
Reports describe the storm on the
prairie as the most fearful ever eHpe-
Tieuced. Seven men were frozen dead
between Pembine and Fort Ambercrom-
bic on Sunday On the 1Gth the ther.
mometer was 30 degrees below zero.
Mr.. Snyder introduced resolution in
the Illinois Constitutional Convention
Yesterday to remove the Convention to
Chicago He thought that the bad
whisky of Springfield would kill all the
Democrats and The bad water slay all
the Republicans.
The programme is announced of the
funeral eOrtege for the removal OF Mr.
P,abOdy's remains to the cars on Tues
day next. TAe procession will be very
imp, sing. The pail bearers will con-
sst of e1- Mayors aud ex-PresideRts of
the Portland Board of Trade. United
States troops will accompany the funeral
traio.
The Cincinnati Meat Inspector, under
direction of the Board Of Health, yester-
DAY seized lot of one hundred and
twenty-five hogs, brought from Ken
tncky to one of the slaughtering houses.
The cause Of the seizure is that they
wers affected with hog cholera or some
other disease.
A special TO the Chicago Tribune from
-. Cloud says: a passenger from Fort
AbrTcTombie reports that Messrs. Gun
bingham, of the Toronto Globe, and
Robertson, of the Toronto Telegraph,
were arrested on their arrival at Fort
Garry on the evening of the 18th and
lodged in Jail
The attempt to flood New York with
spurious fifty cent currency has Just
been frustrated, and a clue obtained
that may result in the detection of a
number of counterfeiters. Charles Du-
mond, notorious shave" has already
been arrested as Que of the principal
parties in the movement.
man named Eersman, while going
10 bis home from Washington, Illinois,
TO Deer Greek, on Tuesday night last,
froIe to death. He was going home in
wagon with his wife,. somewhat in
toIicated, and the woman drove while
he took nap in the bottom of the
wagon. When they reached home he
was stiff and cold in death.
A new disease, q stranger heretofore
in this country, has broken out in New
York city. IL is called the Velapeius
fever, aud has been quite common in
Europe. Though the fever is very VIC.
lent in its symptoms, it i. not attended
with great mortality. Several cases
have been detected in the hospitals.
The st. Louis Times publishes an ac,
Lount of an outrage committed upon
Colonel William A. Trevis, formerly
Colonel of the ll5th Illinois regiment
a: Calvey, franklin county, in thst
State, by the members of the GranC
Army of the Republic of the post at tha
place. Of which Mr.. Trevis was also {
member.
Joseph Pultizer, a member Of th,
Lower House of the Missouri Legislator,
from ST. Louis, shot and wounded in thI
leg Edward Augustine, Supervisor o
Registration Of the st, Louis District
4 The affair grew cut of charges made
against Augustine by Pulitzer in hi
correspondence to the Westiliche Post
he being a correspondent of that paper
On the 18th inst, an expedition
against certain tribes Of Indians, wht
have been stealing stock and murderiRI
the whites for the past several months
left Fort Smith, under command O
Colonel Baker, and comprises four com
panies Of the ID Cavalry and one com
psny Of the 18th Infantry. An Indiar
arrived at Fort Benton and reports tha
early on the morning Of the 23d Colone
Baker surprised Bear Chiefs camps .
over thirty lodges, and killed meu
women and children. No quarter wa
gwen. The surprise was complete an,
Srnly siI or eight men escaped. Bea
aief was among the slain. He
ooWn TO have murdered several white.