The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

BENJAMIN j. Waters has been nomin-
a.ed Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Idaho.
The bill for the removal of the Wis
consin Capital TO Milwaukee was de-
fsated Tuesday night by vote of so to
80.
General Quesada paid his respects 10
the President yesterday morning. The
interview lasted only about ten min
utes.
The murderers, Rohnner and Boden-
burg, were executed at Huntingdon, Pa,
Yesterday. Their necks were broken by
the fall, and there was no struggle.
The Ancient Accepted Scotch Rite Ma
sons are now holding their 18th annual
reunion in Cincinnati. Delegates are
there from nearly all the Northern
States.
At the Camden, New Jersey, election
on Tuesday, the Republicans elected
their Mayor and every other officer, ex.
cept two Councilmen in the Middle
Ward.
Sam Collyer has written letter ex-
planning the cause of his late defeat by
Billy Edwards, which he attributes 10
the fact that his jaw was broken in the
third round.
The Governor of Minnesota has vetoed
the woman's suffrage bill for the reason
that it was TO be submitted to women
who were not legal vSters and that pub
ii on11al Cor -
General Breckenridge, in a criminal
argument at Lexington, KY, denounced
the men who belonged to the Kuklux as
either idiots or villains, and asserted he
was free from any fear of them, and
would readily report to a summons from
the sheriff as one of posse to arrest
and bring them to justice.
A difficulty in Forest City, Arkansas,
on Tuesday, between two merchants,
named J. Pruitt and w. Ellisbury, who
were partners, resulted in the shooting
and instant death of the former. Ellis
bury surrendered himself to the author
tiles and was committed to Jail for trial.
SAN Tate, President of the Mississip-
pi Central Railroad, publishes q card
denying the statement of Simonton D..
Settle and Others in reference TO the
recent disaster on that road, which he
says was an unfortunate accident, aud re-
suited from no carelessness on the part
of the road officials.
James Taylors two factories and
dwelling house three miles from the
railroad station, near Otlsville, New
York, was burned Tuesday night. The
factories were employed in the manu-
facture of knit jackets, shirts, drawers
and horse blankets. Loss from $50, 600
to SAC, 900; small insurances.
1t is now thought that the defIlca-
tion of the Treasurer of Butler county,
Ohio, will be about one hundred thou
sand dollars. The County Commission
ers decline to accept his resignation IN
less his surities will obligate themselves
net to claim the release of liabilities on
such account.
The President spent several hours in
the Presidential room at the Capitol
yesterday in conversation with the SEN
stors. This is the first time that any
President has visited the Capitol aud
occupied the room set apart fol him, ex-
cept during the closing hours of Con-
gress.
REPRESENTATIVES from sixteen States
attended the annual session of the Su-
preme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias
in New York, Tuesday. The session
adjourned yesterday, pending the con-
alteration of resolution to appoint o
committee 10 prepare two new higher
degrees for the order.
The Senate Financial committee were
equally divided yesterday on the House
resolution extending the time for the
withdrawal of spirits in bond to three
years from the date of entry, with a
charge Of one cent gallon per month
after the first year. Three of the COM
mittee reported simply against it's pas
sage and the other three reported that
two years time should be given with
a charge of half cent q gallon per
month after the first year.
A. ]. Fletcher, Secretary of State,
having called upon General Lowell,
commanding at Nashville, Tenn, to
furnish him with military escort
home, fearing the Kuklux, the citizens
of Nashville have called a meeting to
appoint delegates to take the place of
the soldiers. Mr.. Fletcher asserts that
the trains between Nashville and Chat
tanooga have been searched, and for
this reason he asked for an escort.
A resolution was adopted by the Ohio
Senate by vote nearly unanimous, re-
questing Congress to adjust the tariff
to favor the agricultural interests, or at
least not to discriminate against them.
The House spent the day on the Agri-
cultural College bill. 1t provides for a
commission of 10, who shall locate
and build a college, and have entire
control of the fund provided by Con-
gress. The votes taken yesterday indi-
cate that the bill will pass.
A st. Louis dispatch of yesterday
says: After three night sessions for de-
bate on the proposition to submit to the
people the Constitutional Amendment
extending to women the right of suf.
frage, the whole matter was last night
indefinitely postponed by vote of 63
to 81. The Constitutional Amendment,
abolishing the double liability clause,
was adopted; that abolishiDg the oath
OF loyalty was defeated, and the propo-
sltion to prevent the appropriation of
public money TO any sectarian institu.
ton was referred to the committee on
the constitutional Amendment.
Inc Treasurer of Butler county, Ohio,
Sonn Z. Fendley, is supposed to be q
ae1auIter to the amount of sixty thou
SAND dollrrs. Charles Reemelin, of Gin
olnnati, has been investigating the
matter under special commission from
auditor Goldman. Nothing up to Tues
Gay evening was discovered to indicate
where the missing money had gone.
he claims that he gave q check to the
First National Bank Of that city some
time ago, which was to be returned
next day, but which was held against
MIN, and that it now owes him that
amount.