The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-03
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

There were IWtnby-slA hloS III S''
Louis last month.
The revolutionary party in Mexico IS
daily strengthening.
Maine is inquiring into the eIpedl-
eucy Of aboliShins capital punishment.
State Convention of colored men
will meet at Frankfort, KY, on the I'D
inst.
Glover, Republican, got the contested
sea, in the Ohio House of Representa-
tiyes.
4 severe fire occurred in Fayette,
Howard county. Mo-, Tuesday. Loss
not stated.
The Great W,stern Piano Factory, st.
Lpnis. No, was damaged by fire yester-
ttrdly mSrnIng.
The New Jersec Assembly, on Tues
d.y. rejected the Fifteenth Amendment
BY "a vote OF 3 to p.
The murders committed daily i'll New
York are becoming a prominent feature
Of the morning papers
Mr.. Csrhariue Welch, beaten by her
husband in Mulberry street, New York,
lies in a critical condition.
Backbout, the SleSpy Hollow mur.
Gerer, attempted 10 assas,inate his Jaller
and female prisoner on Monday.
Joseph Burchuader, of gang of row.
dies. attempted to kill John Fisher, In
Canal street, New York, Tuesday.
The livery stable of Candliff & Hutch
ison and two stores adjoining, at st.
Joseph, Mo, were burned on Tuesday.
At Kcukekee. yesterday morning, the
Smith Hotel, Eugert Il Sons grocery
and meat market we're burned; fully
insured.
Patrick Kelly, the keeper of whisky
shop in Front street, New York, was
stabbed in the abdomen by An unknown
rufllau On Tuesday.
Richard Lasdale was Instantly killed
Tuesday al tbs gas works in Peoria, HIS,
hy haviag a wagon tongue rnn COM
ulc;rly through him.
David Atwood, OF Madison, Wis, was
nominated, yesterday, by the Republi-
cans. for Congress. TO fiji the vacancy
oCCasOned by the death of Hopkins.
4 mob of about seventy five men took
two men, of Washington county, KY.
oat of the Springfield jail, Monday
night, and hung them. They were
charged with rape.
Tie Wynockie children were found
Yesterday morning under a shelving
ro.k, two miles from their homes, near
Paterson, y J. Their bodies were
partially eaten 10y crows.
E;ddlc. who shot the Russian, BIlsky,
short time ago, at their residence In
Blocker street, New York, gave bail
ut the Tombs Police Court, Tuesday,
in $500 and was discharged from Gus
toly.
Tle buildings Nos. liz and la WOOs.
ter street, y Y, owned by Bruuner *
Moore aud occupied by the Metropolitan
Paper Collar Company, were DESTROYED
hy i.e Yesterday morning. Loss $780,
GoJ - 5000, 900. Fully insured.
At Newton Station, Orange county,
Indiana, last Thursday, q desperate
tight, resulting from q family quarrel,
took place between two men named
Smith and Dembo, brothers.in-law.
Either party received serious if not fatal
wounds.
B.rgh, the President of the Society to
Prevent Cruelty to Animals, made de-
scent on cock pit in Brooklyn, n. T.,
Tuesday night, and arrested thirteen
spectators and seized eight full fledged
warriors. The prisoners were arraigned
yesterday.
At about 3 o'clock yesterday morning
the 0cherhausen Brothers great sugar
warehouse, Nos. ~, 81 and % Rose
street, New York, and several tenement
houses in Vsndametcr street, were de-
't.oyei by fire. The loss will probably
reach half million.
A Toronto dispatch ofyesterdsy says:
The Dominion Government has ordered
the construction of large number of
boats, to be thirty six feet long, six feet
wide and three feet deep, for the pur-
pose of sending men into the Winnepeg
settlement at the first opening of spring.
The steamship Santiago de Cuba from
iIavre, January 16, reports that on Feb
ruary lSt at 10 o'clock p. NJ, she collid-
New York for Philadelphia. The Bru-
nette sank in six minutes. All saved
except two firemen named George A.
COlemen aud James McCarty. The San
tiago is leaking badly.
The workmen on Barnard & McGow-
ans canal deepening contract, between
Chicago and Summit, struck for higher
wages yesterday morning. They have
been receiving 81 80 per day, and now
demand $500. The strikers number
about four hundred. The contractors,
tbs said, will not accede, as plenty of
men can be obtained at Sl.75.
On Tuesday night fire occurred in a
tenement house, No. 303 Thirty fifth
street, New York, occupied by several
idm'l es, caused by the explosion of a
He:osene lamp in E. Gaybor's rooms,
who was severely burned. The flames
spread with such rspidity that the po-
lice had great difficulty in rescuing sew
eral of the families from their apart
ments
The coroner held an inquest in New
l0lk, Tuesday morning, in the murder
case of Wm. Townsend aud the prisoner,
Heynold, was fully committed. Hewas
suilen at the examination and pretended
70 be stupid. He inquired with some
interest how many years he was likely
70 get Popular Indignation at the
ta'dy netting ont of justice is aroused
ana undoubtedly a vigilance committee
mas been organized. Their dehbera-
uons have been in secret, but the police
oncials have taken steps to guard
sgainst violation of the peace.