The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New YORK yesterday "'
l20.
The last of the Spanish gunboats
sailed from New York for Havana yes
terday morning.
On Tuesday the mill of John Naxson
& SON, at Manyunk, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Loss S9o'oVo; insured
Iobp Remmes, leading Odd Fellow,
died suddenly in Odd Fellows Hall,
Proyidence, Rhode Island, on Tuesday
night.
General Hovey, Minister to Peru, and
Charles +. Perry, Consul at AsplnwaiI'
sailed from New York yesterday In the
Arizona.
The sale of pc IS in Beecher's Church,
Tuesday evening, realized fifty seven
thousand dollars, q considerable IN
crease over last year.
The New York CIoton Department
received during 1869, for Croton water
rents and penalties, 81 ,337 1896, being
an increase of Sl7,7l5.7O.
William Naghten, President of the
Columbus, Ohio, City Council, was run
over by locomotive yesterday and ter
riblv injured. His arm and leg were
amputated and he will probably die.
Lieutenant A. p. Colby, U. S. army,
committed suicide at Jefferson, Texas,
on the 3lst nit. by shooting himself
through the head with q revolver. He
was a sou of S. c. Colby, of the Treas
ury Department.
At New Haven, Connecticut, Tuesday
night, a match game of billiards be-
tween Matt Hewins, of Hartford, and
George Stone, of Norwich, Freach car
oms, 300 points, for $500 side, resulted
in favor of Stone by SO peints.
In Houston street, New York, yester-
day morning, Irene Logan, familiarly
known in connection with the myster-
ious Twelfth street murder as Irene
Logan No. =, was shot through the
heart by Jerry Dunn alias Hawkswortb,
a notorious Iuffian.
The preliminary steps toward laying
the foundation of the Pr00klyn pier
for the Eost river bridge, between
New York and Brooklyn, were taken
Fulton Ferry. IL is intended to have
the bed clear for the reception of the
caissen by the middle of March.
The Ohio State Agricultural Conven
tion, composed Of the Presidents OF
County Agricultural Societies, were in
session in the Senate Chamber, Column
bus, Ohio Yesterday. Fifty two coun-
ties we're represented. In the morn
ing Professor ewbury, President OF
the Geological Survey, delivered lee
ture on Geology, and Mr.. Harr OF
Lorain, read a paper on the mauufactOry
of cheese. The afternoon was consumed
by a discussion IN the Agricultural
College.
Mr.. Dwyer, Supervisor Of the Internal
Revenue, has caused the arrest of the
Everagims, proprietors of distillery
and rectifers at WeaverS Corners,
Huroa county, Ohio, and also Govern
ment store keeper assigned to duty
there for numerous violations OF the
revenue laws. An examination will be
held before Commissioner White to-
dav, Mr. Dwyer is making thorough
work in his department in bringing up
deliuquents who have eludcd payment
Of Government taxes heretofore.
A New York disp.tch says that on
Tuesday the grave closed over one of the
victims Of the Elizabeth street tragedy.
Coroner's inquest was held in the
morning. The sister of Mrs. AllemegO,
Mis-. Beck, the keeper of the assignation
den and the police officer who broke in
the door Of the fatal chamber, were ex-
amined but no new Developments fur
ther than the public now have were
elected. The verdict of the iury was in
accordance with the facts. The body of
Mrs. Allemego was delivered to her rel
atives for interment and that of the
murderer and suicide lies rottiug in the
Morgue, no one having come forward to
claim it,