The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-07-15
a'heeliug Regi5ter.
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TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

The successful landing OF another ex
petition in Cuba in aid of the patriots
is announced.
The President yesterday nominated
ex-senator Frelinghuysen, of New Jer-
sey, as Minister to England, vice Motley
recalled
On Tuesday negro ravished a white
girl at Sedala, Missouri. The citizens
of the place took him from the jail and
hung him.
The swindle un Ter the name OF the
Southwestern Printing and Publishing
Association, at Cincinnati, Ohio, has
been broken up,
A negro grossly insulted Mrs. Craw
iord, living four miles from Sedalla,
Missouri, during her husbands absence.
Mr. Crawford, with q bloodhound, went
on his trail
At Canandaigua, New York, yester-
day, the Fenians Starr and Thompson
were sentenced to two years, and Man
nix, who plead guilty, to one year in the
State Prison.
D. 8. Norton, United States Senator
from Minnesota, died at Washington
Yesterday morning at one o'clock, Of
consumption He has been confined to
his bed for the last three or four weeks
The report OF the death of Colonel
Griffin Halstead, father of Murat Hal
stead, OF the Cincinnati COmmeTcidt
which was published circumstantially,
Wednesday morning, proves to be I'M
true.
The New Orleans tiremcn Yesterday
were the recipients Of dinner from
the proprietors Of the Astor Hotel, in
New York, and tomorrow morning
they start for Cincinnati, via Elmira
and Niagara Falls
On Tuesday nine cars OF train No. 10,
freight and stock, were thrown from the
track OF the Erie railway, near Shoholo
Station, on the Delaware division.
Some injury was done to the stock, and
the cars were wrecked.
Treasurer F. II. Short, OF the Gin
cinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railroad
refused to pay, in gold, the interest on
the Dayton and Michigan Railroad,
guaranteed 10y the former road Prob
ably suit will be brought to compel
payment.
The latest news from France look,
rather war-like. The Government of
France Yesterday informed the Presi-
dent OF the Senate and Corps Legislatif
that communication would be sent in
before the close of the sitting 1t was
generally believed to he declaration
OF war.
On the Erie railroad a lew miles
above Port Jervis, Wednesday morn
ing, an extra freight train, eastward
bound ran into a coal train which was
standing on the westward bound track.
The engines and several freight cars
were mashed badly. Considerable
freight was destroyed, and both tracks
were blockaded
The following nominations were sent
10 the Senate yesterday; Charles f.
Dillong, of Nevada, Envoy Extraordi-
nary aud Minister Plenipotentiary to
Japan; Peter Neglar Assistant Treas
urer Of United States, at Baltimore !
Postmistress, Mrs. Berta F. Parshall,
OF Lebanon, Ohio; Postmaster, Daniel
r Benton, Of Oxford, Ohio.
At an early hour yesterday morning
the house occupied by Mrs. Phillips
and daughter, on Wight street, Detroit,
Mich, was discovered on fire When
the flames were extinguished the two
women were found dead The bodies
were horribly mangled. \ man named
Edward Hoag, who lived with the
women, was arrested on suspicion, but
denies the crime.
The directors OF the Industrial Expo
sition to be held in Cincinnati in Sep
tember, have determined to isSud a call
inviting the mechanics and manutac-
turers of the United States TO convene
on September 2Sth, 1870 one week
after the opening of the grand Indus
trial Exposition to consider the various
prominent subjects effecting the prednc-
tive interests of the country.
One of the most fearful storms that
ever visited Canada, swept over Mon
treal on Wednesday evening Ii actu-
ally leveled everything in its way, and
large number Of building were utterly
DESTROYED and hundreds severely dam
aged. There was no loss of life, how
ever 1t is reported that twenty-five
large freight sheds of the Grand Trunk
railway were prostrated; the loss IN
them alone is immense All telegraphic
communication with the city is stopped.
There are rumors of still greater dam
age at other points
On Tuesday a boy about fourteen
wears old, working with a team on the
grading of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad, about two miles from
Sedalia, No, was severely hogged by
one of the workmen. Cnhitching one
of his horses he rode away, but returned
in about an hour, armed with a shot
yum and revolver, and riding up to the
man who whipped him, shot him dead
The other men sprang forward to dis
arm him. when he fired the revolver,
mortally wounding one OF them, and
with pistol in hand hitched mp the
team and drove off unmolested.
John Johns, Jr., counsel for Pat.
Woods, moved in the City Court, Rich
mond, on Wednesday, that a noHf
prossqa; be entered in the indictment
pending against Woods, in view OF the
fact that Congress has punished him
Tor the assault on Representative Por-
ter. The Commonwealth's attorney,
with the consent of the Court, declined
10 enter a moNs proseq'6, SAYING that