The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-09
TELEGRAPH SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

The steam saw mill of Howard d
Sweet, at Attleboro, r. l., was burned
OH Saturday morning.
Bishop Potter, Friday evening, con
firmed twenty-five persons in st. Phil
lips colored Church, New York
The model for the statue of General
Lyon, intended to be put up at ST Louis
is now on private view in New York.
The steamer Shippan, plying between
Stamford, Conn, and New York, burned
Saturday night Loss $4,000 insured
for $4,000.
Jones, the murderer of man at Blair,
Neb., few DAYS since, was arrested a.
he was about leaving Omaha for the
West, on the train
\ rattle for ten thousand dollars
worth of diamonds and plate is to he
given in Brooklyn on the 30th Of June
for the Cuban cause
The Arion Singing Society have
bought two houses on St Mark place,
New York, on the site Of which they
will erect a large hall
The officers and soldiers of the vol
unteer army at 81. Louis, Mo, propose
decorating the graves of the soldiers III
that vicinity on the 30th inst.
Daniel Drew, OF New York, proposes
to give another million to the Drew
Theological Seminary, to establish a
Literary department and make it a
University
Josiah Fogg ha, disposed of his in
terest in the Planters House, St. Louis,
Mo, TO Colonel Kelly, of the Ameri-
can House, Columbus, Ohio, for $50
600
Two dwelling houses were destroyed
hy fire at Cold Spring, New York, on
Friday afternoon. An infant son OF
five months old, of Malcolm Evans, was
burned 10 death.
The factory of Richard Locke at
Smiths Falls, Canada. was destroyed
by the explosion of boiler on Friday.
4 man named Lancaster was killed
and another badly injured.
An accidental explosion Of nitro gly-
cerine occurred in the Midland Railway
tunnel near WeStboro, y. Y, on FRI
dav afternoon. \ workman named
Houm was blown 200 feet into the air
and torn TO pieces.
Proceedings were commenced before
Commissioner Osborn, New York, FRI
dav, with a view TO the extradition of
Thomas II. johnson, charged with the
murder of Edward Barris, aboard the
English bark Morning Light, when at
sea.
Colonel Thomas r. Roberts, former
inspector of spirits at Cincinnati, was
arrestedin that city on Saturday, charged
with having defrauded the Government
ont of from $4,000 TO $4,000 in 1867
and 1868. Roberts was released on
bail
W. W. Sampson, chief clerk in the
South Carolina State Treasury at Col
umba, was arrested for counterieiung
the State funding coupons III connec-
ton with l.. D. Metcalt, who did the
counterfeiting in Auburn, New York.
Sampson plead guilty. Metcalf was
arrested in New York.
Business at Memphis, Tennessee, was
generally suspended on Saturday, con-
sequent To the commemoration cere-
monies, which were attended 10y lO,ooo
people. An address was delivered 10y
General Bates. and the corner stone OF
a monument to the Confederate dead
laid with appropriate ceremonies.
The accounts of the Indian outrages
on the Kansas Pacific railroad and else
where in Colorado, recently published
bv the Eastern newspapers, are entirely
groundless. There has been no Indian
troubles in that Territory during the
mast year and Governor McCook is con-
fident that none need he expected within
the limits of Colorado.
4 suit was tried in the Hudson coun-
tv New Jersey Court, on Friday, before
Judge Bedle, in which the question of
the validity of gold contracts was IN
volved. Frederick Mas sued Christie
pher Asmus to recover the payment OF
a bond given by the defendant and an
other person, now deceased, in 1855.
The iurv were directed to render spe-
cial verdict, leaving the gold question
for future decision.
Early Saturday morning a fire broke
out in the basement Of the Southern
Hotel, Broadway, New York. Thir-
teen girls asleep in the immediate
vicinity of the fire got out in safety.
The kitchen and laundry were badly
damaged; loss not ascertained. Many