The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-11-04
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY,
Gold closed in New York, yesterday,


Telegraph Company.
Mrs. Taylor living on Taylor street
Cincinnati, was found dead yesterday
morning, in privy vault.
The United States Grand Jury a
New York has indicted several parties
Act unarrested, for fraudulent regtsira
ton.
An orter has been sent to the com
handing officer at New Orleans to use
force, if necessary, to carry out the
election law.
The President states that he does not
for the present propose TO publish any
correspondence in relation to the retire
ment Of Secretary Cox.
Senators Morton and Thayer had a
long conference with the President on
Wednesday, in relation to the impend-
ing election in New York.
George Strong, colored, for illegal
registration, was yesterday sentenced by
Judge Bowling, of New York, to six
months in the PeDitentiary.
Lady Young, wife OF the Governor
General OF Canada, with Mrs. Thorn
ton. wife of the British Minister, visit
ed the President and Mrs. Grant yes
terdav.
Hon. D. A. Wells has accepted an
invitation to deliver in Cincinnati an ad-
dress on the industrial and financial
condition OF the country The time is
not stated.
A tin box containing 100000 in
United States $40 registered bonds was
stolen from the safe OF William J. Hop
pin, lawyer, Wall street, New York,
yesterday.
Among the deaths at New York, yes
terdav, were Charles Peters, actor, aged
thirty-five, and Napholi Phillips, for
merIy editor of the National Adyocate,
aged ninety-eight.
Messrs. Mecker and several others,
of Greeley, Colorado, are being tried for
riot on account OF having destroyed the
stock Of whisky taken to that place by
al enterplising German.
A call has been issued for conven-
ton OF telegraph superintendent at
New York at the time of the Inaugural
ton of the Morse statue next spring,
for consultation upon topics connected
with telegraph labors.
1t is believed by gentlemen intimate
with the President that he has deter
mined to appoint General Schenck as
Minister to Envland tits also asserted
that the position was offered by letter
to that gentleman on Wednesday.
The county court at st. Louis, yes
terlay, defeated the petition before it
from number of prominent citizens,
to submit the proposition to subscribe
81 900 900 stock TO the st. Louis and
Fort Scott railroad to vote of the pco-
pie.
jude Woodruff, Of New York, yes
terday stated that he may have mad
vertently appointed some unworthy
men a. supervisors under the election
law, but would dismiss all such as soon
"a their unftness was male known 10
him
Colonel CampJelIs bill relating to
change in the Sub.Treasury law of
Ohio, was before the Chamber Of Com
mcrce at Cincinnati Yesterday. 1t was
discussed at some length and with a
substitution offered it was finally recon-
mitted.
4 game Of base ball for the cham
pionship of Iowa and silver ball and
bat, was played at Des Moines, Wednes-
dav, between the Crescent, OF Des
Moines, and the MarshalltOwn club,
which resulted in victory to the latter
by 40 to II.
The mass meeting at Cincinnati on
the question of enjoiniDg further work
on the Newport and Cincinnati bridge,
has been postponed till tonight, on ac-
count of the non-arrival Of gentlemen
from abroad who were expected TO de
liver addresses.
The libel suit against the Cincinnati
Enquirer by the keeper OF the noted
Fourth Street Theatre Of that city, for
calling the proprietors blackgrards, has
been substantially settled The Court
ruled three times that the language was
not actionable.
In the United States Circuit Court at
New York, Yesterday morning, Judges
Woodruff and Blatchford, judgment was
rendered in the case Of Terrence Quinn,
for fraudulent registration, who was
sentenced to two years in the Albany
Penitentiary and to pay the costs Of the
prosecution.
The huge caison designed for the
eastern abutment of the Illinois and
st. Louis bridge, at st. Louis, was
launched at South St Louis Yesterday,
and will be put in position, opposite the
city, to-day Its extreme dimensions
are ST bv 70 feet and is now % feet
high. 1t contains $50 900 feet of tim
ber within nearly 1900 tons, and 300
tons Of iron.
At meeting OF the Commercial com
mittee of the Chicago Board Of Trade,
Wednesday evening, resolutions in favor
of reciprocity with Canada, opening Of
the St. Lawrence, the enlargement and
improvement of this road to the ocean
etc. were unanimously rejected, and
they were referred back to the Board o.
Directors, with the recommendation
that the Board take no action thereon
Dispatches from Frantort, Kentucky
state that most disastrous confagra
ton occurred there yesterday morning
1t began in Noel g. Barton's livery
stable, corner Of Ann and Broadwa!
streets, and swept the Broadway side O.
the block between Ann and Levi:
streets, and reached halfway up to St