The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-22
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Gold closed IN New \ ork Yesterday
at ll3.
The Gulf House, at Pleasanton, Kan.
sas, was burned on Thursday night
The number of deaths in New Or
leans, Thursday, from yellow fever were
twelve.
The California Medical Society at its
recent session refused to admit ladies as
members of the Society.
The National Labor Retormers have
called a meeting at st. Louis, Mo, to
nominate county ticket.
A dispatch from Columbia South
Carolina, states that the Republicans
carried that State by thirty thousand
majority.
The number Of youth ia Columbus,
Ohio, between the ages of five and
twenty-one, is nine thousand, five hun
dred and eighteen.
A committee Of the Council of the city
OF Philadelphia visited New York city
yesterday for the purpose OF examining
the workings of the fire department.
The First National Gold Bank of
San Francisco has been organized by
the election of fifteen directors, and
capitol Of million. 1t will commence
business on the first Of January next.
A jubilee was held on Thursday by
the Association Of Congregational
Churches now in session at st. Louis,
Missouri, the occasion being the two
hundred and fitieth year since the
landing Of pilgrim fathers.
Information was received at Wash |
ington, Yesterday, that Senator Cameron
was stricken with paralysis at his hotel,
in Baltimore, and that he would he sent
home in a special car. 1t is said his
right arm and side are affected.
Major Heury Ashbury, United States
Army, died at late hour on Wednes-
day night at the Dunlap House, Jack
sonville, Illinois, after few hours
illness. His disease was paralysis of
the brain His parents reside at Quincy. |
1t is authoritatively stated by leading
members of the Crispin Association
that they intend to petition the next
Massachusetts Legislature for aid in
starting a cooperative mandatory on
the principle the State has followed |
heretofore in regard to railroads.
A fire on Fremont street, San Fran
cisco, Thursday night, destroyed three
large mills and nine other buildings |
Two hundred men have been thrown
out of employment Three persons are
supposed to have been burned to death. |
Loss over a quarter of million.
The story about an arrangement or
secret understanding between the French
Government and the United States Gov
ernment, by which the future sale OF
the French West Indies to the United |
States is provided for is all bosh. There
has been no such understanding norany |
talk about it, nor any prospect of such |
a thing.
All the saw mills on the St. Anthony |
side of the Mississippi, near Minneapo-
lis, Minnesota, were burned Thursday !
evening, the fire commencing at six
o'clock. The fire ori gnated from the
explosion of fluid lamps. The mills
were capable Of saving one hundred
and forty thousand feet Of lumber per
day. Loss one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars. No insurance. Three
hundred men are thrown ont OF en-
ployment.
At College Grove, Douglas county,
Illinois, there have been living two
men named O. p. Greenwood and !
George Mussett. There has been bad |
blood between them for some time. On
Monday last, as Mussett was riding
along the road in wagon, Greenwood
concealed himself in tree and fired on
Mussett The ball entered the lower
part of the abdomen and came out at the
backbone. He lived about twenty-four
hours. Greenwood admitted the crime
and declared that should Mussett re-
cover he would shoot him again.
Greenwood was placed in jail to await
his trial.
The steamship Mississippi reports
that on the 18th inst, she took Cap
tain Doan and three of his crew from
the wreck of the bark William Rath-
bone, eleven miles north of Hillsboro
Inlet. The Rathbone left New York,
September 10Th, with an assorted cargo
for New Orleans, and went ashore on
the llth of October. Captain Doan re.
ports that he picked up plank marked
'rMariposa leaking. 1t is believed
that the Mariposa, Captain Willet,
which left New Orleans for New York,
on the 5th inst, with 1872 bales of cot
ton, was lost. There were no passen.
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