The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-24
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4 Frame ela9ty Ill LaoV p'' AOa =,
bprn.d Saturday night, and Anna turner
p.ri,heL in the hImes.
The Maine Legislature vo,ed to attend
"a funeral of George Peabody on the
arrival of the remains at Portland
DR. Lands, of Philadelphia, has been
-or,anoed 10 one years imprisonment
and , fine OF s30O for publishing obscene
b ,OSS.
Latter from Shsboygan, Wis, says:
WiIl,am Dohmier, mate of the schooner
L-v Highly, suflocated in the CABIN oy
coal fumes.
Charles Leifrlud was arrested in st.
Loui. on Friday for the murder OF
Charles G'eesiug, near BelleVlle, ltis''
last September.
4 Havana ls&er of the llth PROCESSES
t,r rroborats the report Of the Cuban
vjctnrv ever General Pueblo with loes
70 the latter of 1900 men.
General Gilmore sailed on the Lafay-
,,rep. SltuIday, on two months leave
of ahs,uc. in Europe 10 make certain
engineering invest cations for the Gov
eminent.
EIfsB. Pitcher, n prominent citizen
ofPfovidence, Rhode Island, committed
suicide on Friday night in consequence
Of the failure Of firm for whom he had
endorsed largely.
DR.. Harris, Sanitary Superintendent
ofNrw York, says that the small Fox is
being rapidly got under control by the
Health Onicer. Every case discovered
is at once sent to the hospital.
The casa of Adam Van Allen, cashier
Of the First National Bank Of Albany,
New York, which has been before the
United States Circuit Court for some
tirse past, has been unanimously dis
missed By the Grand Jury of the present
Court
Billy Edwards went into training on
Friday for his fight with Sam Collyer
for the light weight championship.
D,oney Harris is Edwards trainer. The
fght is to come of on the I'd of March,
and within fur hundred miles of New
York.
The Jury in the libel suit of Eliza P.
Racklcy against the ST. Louis Repabh-
can, for So 600, after being out slnce
Thursday evening, returned a verdict
on Saturday afternoon giving the plain
tf 5000 damages.
A private meeting of the creditors of
FLcLer, Ascending sheriff of Cook
county, HIS, was held on Saturday.
It's d6bt, foot up S2l 900. His property
is valued at $4,000, and has been levied
on. His bond creditors are secured.
The friends Of the Executive commit
,e, Oh Indian Affairs have been in ses-
sion in Philadelphia for the past three
days in conference with superintendent
Euoch Hcag, of the Central Superin-
tendency, and left on Friday night for
Washington. Their proceedings have
been important and practical.
II is now claimed by responsible par
lrS that there is not any truth IN the
alli ayits in regard TO the extensive
whisky frauds alleged to have been
committed during 1866 and 1867 at the
di,,llcry in West Eighteenth street,
NV York. 1t is said that all the per-
sous accused will voluntarily surrender
ID mselves.
CAPTAIN Carleton A. Goodwin, for
merry of the llth cavalry and Ex.Ireas-
ur,r of Terre Haute, committed suicide
bv shooting himself in the head with
revolver, in The loft of his stable in
south EigC.h street, Sunday morning.
Cause incompetence aud pecuniary
troubles. Deceased leaves wife and
several children.
George Denuis1n Prentice, whose
death was announced on Saturday,
started the Louisville Journal In 1885.
Tie was famous as poet, aud an editor
of uneQualled power. His remains Will
lay in state at the Masonic Temple, in
Louisville, until to day, when they will
be inferred in Cave Hill Cemetery. lie
Vas sixty eight yeats of age.
William H. SOmmers alias Riolas
Courtney, notorious confidence opera
tor, picA pocket auS burglar, of New
York city, was arrested Friday night
for swiudIng Martin Lynch, labOrlng
man from Ohio, out of 500 in green
backs. LyLch was about embarking for
Queenstown to bring out his family
when lie was accosted by the swindler.
William Douglas, owner of the yacht
Sappho, has published challenge to
any schooner yacht in Great Britain or
Ireland to sail against his craft from
Cape Clear to Sandy Hook in the month
OF July, 1870. He also expresses his
wi lingness to enter a race from Nab
light TO Cherbourg breakwater and
back in the fir.t week of June.
Information has been received at
military headquarters at st. Louis that
party of wild Indians made a-descent
on camp of friendly Arrapahoes and
Cheyennes, in the ludian Territory
sixty miles south of the Arkansas river
some days ago, and drove Oft herd Of
2IO head of cattle. A detachment o.
troops were sent in pursuit. Depreda
tiDns are being frequently made OF
white settlers in the territories, anC
some apprehensions are felt that there
Will be trouble,
The Erie railroad strikers were in {
despondent mosd on Friday. Nothing
from their co-laborers along the linI
was received up to eleven o'clock OF
Friday night. Many rumors were afloa
concerning the action Of the workmer
IN Buffalo. Susquehsnna and Port Jer
Wis, but none had the plausibility o
official announcement. Some had it tha
the men al Port Jervis had unanimously
left of work, while Others maintsiuet
that all refused to strike, as they deem
ed the action OF their brethren in Jerse,
City premature. Friday night the Gus
tomary meeting was held. There was
small attendance and nothing of import
ance occurred. A few men were at worl
IN the saops Friday, but noRe of tn
strikers. About twenty new hand
ea@e over from New York, but tn
strikers who were on the qai rice inter