The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

Sick & Co, of New York, is incorrect.
The report of the coinage of counter
felt five cont pieces proves An exaggera-
ton.
A number of discharged mechanics
are TO be reiuststed in the New forK
navy yard.
A cable telegram announces the theft
at London Of 10000 pounds in the Bank
of England not,s.
Petrie & Co., of New York, importers
OF dry goods, it is reported have sus-
pesded payment.
A passenger train on the Dayton &
Michigan railroad, Saturday night, fell
through the trSstle work at Troy, Ohio.
The Spring Hotel and harness shop
at Cobden, ILL.,, were burned Friday
night last. Loss $50 900; insurance Sl2,
900.
There was an explosion Saturday
morning in the chemical works of Plzer
g. Co., Brooklyn, doing considerable
damage and injuring two men fatally.
The post of the most eminent COM
mander of the Grand Army of the Con
stitution is to be offered to General
Mcclellan, General Hancock being Sec
Ond choice.
An Iowa gentleman says the farmers
in that State are compelled to borrow
money at 90 per cent. TO meet their OBJ
legations. The pressure Of hard times
is very severe.
The committee of the New York gold
board reported to recommend that van
Sam & Co. refrain from business IN the
room until the charges against them
are decided by the Courts, which was
adopted.
The people of Long Island are greatly
exercised over the subject of Mormopism
and the enemies to and friends of the
faith meet frequently in villages to lis
ten to nti.mormon and pro.mormon
discOurses.
The men who participated in the riot
on the steamer Dubuque last summer
on the Mississippi river, between Rock
Island and Clinton, by which five or
six colored men were killed, are on
trial at Rock Island.
The failure of Halstead, Stiles & Co,
importers of wooden goods, is an.
nounced. Their liabilities are reported
at $3.50, 600, and assets probably at $780,
900. 1t is said the members of the firm
own sufficient real estate to make an
amicable settlement.
About noon Saturday q clerk employ
ed by MessTs. Manning, Rowland II Co.
Boston, was knocked down, chOked
aad robbed Of S2700 in the entry of the
First National Bank, State street. The
robber was captured by a teamster and
all the money recovered.
The ruling of the Secretary of the In-
terror that all land grants for railroads
must be located in air lines, unless the
National carriers intervention has
changed the Northern Pacific pro-
gramme materially, orders have gone
forward to stop the surveys until further
orders.
Superintendent Kennedy, of New
York, is still engaged in collecting evil
dence in the case of the Prince Arthur
assassination hoax. 1t is understood
that he acquits representatives of the
press of any intention to misrepresent
the case, and has evidence that the
story originated with the police.
Another free.love tragedy has oe-
Cured at Brooklyn, New York. join
Goulding, a well known politician, was
discovered on intimate relations with
the wife of Joseph Sinnett, seaman,
residing at No. 81 Coychoff street.. He
fled from the wrath of Sinnett, and the
erring wife at once cut her throat with
her husbands razor.
A proclamation appeared in Satur
days Off ,ial Gazette, Montreal, aeclar
ing that on and after the the 18th OF
April next, American silver shall pass
current at rates determined by Govern.
ment, as follows: so cent pieces at 4C
cents; p cent pieces at 90 cents; II
cent pieces at cents; cent pieces at
cents.
The Winnepig Nep Nation, of January
y, is received. 1t says the Red River
Convention met Winnepeg on the 2Stb,
and after three days session decided ia
draw up list of rights demanded BY
the people and submit it to the Canadian
Government through Donald Smith, the
Canadian commissioner, as basis oi
their becoming part of the dominion
of Canada.
The breach of promise case taken
from the Superior Court of Chicago tc
the Circuit Court of Lake county, Ills
brought by the notorious Samantha
Proctor, alias Madame Cora James
against Ira Y. Muun, one of the most
wealthy and respected men of Chicago
which has been on trial for several day:
past at Wankegan resulted, Saturday
10 verdict in favor Of Mum, the de
fendant.
Petitions signed by between 300 snG
400 residents and property owners il
l29th street, New York, protesting
against the Fisk concrete pavement
now going down on that street, wa
sent to the Board of Health on Friday
The petitioners aak the Board to inter
tere and stop the work, as many of the
residents of the neighborhood are now
dangerously i'll from the exbalation Of
the composite matter. The Board took
prompt action on the subject.
snit was entered in the Circuit
Court at ST. Louis on Saturday by Lucy
!. Sanford against Benjamin c. Sanford
Tor $4,000 damages. The plaintiff
states that she was married to Sanford
IN July, 1865, and lived with him unit
May, 1869, when she discovered that ht
was married man at the time he mar
RED her and had family in st. Louis
that he represented himself to her as .
single man, having q large property
&c. She has also fled petition for .
divorce and asks the custody of hel
ehlld, two years old, and $4,000 per an
mum alimony. Sanford is a grandson
ot Plerre Choutam, deceased; is con
neeted with some Of the frst families
and has large property.