The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

bs formally opened TO the public to-day
Mr. Cox, Republican, was reelected
Mayor of Camden, n. by sixty-nlne
majority.
The Grand Jury, now in session u
Chicago, will investigate the late BLONDE
riot on Wabash avenue.
The Mechanics Bank Of st. Louis re-
spmed specie payment yesterday. II
has about $50, 900 in circulation
The principal officers of Cincinnati
ara on a visit at Philadelphia to exam:
inc the workings OF the public schooi
system.
Ebenezer Lane, one of the founders OF
the Lane theological Seminary ln Cln-
cinnsti, died at Oxford, Ohio, Tuesday,
at the age Off years.
Living & Chaplin, shoe msnufac-
turers, have sued Anthony Kessler,
tanner, st. Louis, for $500 for selling
worthless leather to them.
The Rhode Island Republican State
Committee net yesterday at Providence,
and the present State officers were Ie-
nominated by acclamation.
The recent rumors that the negotia-
tions pending between the Pacific Cen
tral & Kentucky Central, looking to
the transfer of the latter 10 the former,
is Rot true.
NH. Traubel, of Philadelphia, lith-
oCrapber, has been arrested, charged
with engraving counterfeit brewers S
stamps. $4,000 worth of plates and
stamps were captured.
Charles Morrison alias s. oughton who
dangerously stabbed the policeman
who sought to arrest him few days
ago, was sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary yester-
day morning, by Cincinnati court.
The Ohio Senate yesterday passed
the House bill providing penalties for
frauds committed at primary elections
of political parties. The bill to estaO'
lish an Agricultural College passed the
House by woe of 30 yeas TO ~ nays
A concurrent resolution was intro
duced in the Missouri House Wednes
day, asking their representatives IN
Congress to favor the passage of a bill
providing for the reduction IN the price
Of raillold lands to two dollars and a
half an acre to actual settlers.
Logs of ships which arrived at New
York Wednesday show that during the
last two months navigation has been
attended with unusual p=rils. The
heavy gales at this season have been
without precedent. 1t is feared many
disasters must have occurred not yet
reported.
Samuel n. Pike. of New York, has pro
posed 10 build grand hotel and opera
house in Cincinnati on the square upon
which the great Davidson fountain Is
to be erected, on conditions publlsned
ia the evening papers. He suggests
the buildings to cost two and half
millions.
The Grand Jury of Hamilton county,
Ohio, have found an indictment for
shooting with intent to kill against
Christopher w. Wilson, the Oxford,
Mississippi, editor, who short time
ago fred upon a Cincinnati policeman
who undertook to arrest him.
Mary Tesdale, of Brooklyn, has at
tackled the property of John e. Foster,
the Ieputed author of the Twelve Temp
tations, now on Fisk's Opera House,
New York, to secure the payment OF
claim she has against him for board and
money lent. JSdge Daley, of the Court
Of Common Pleas, Wednesday denied a
motion to vacate the attachment.
At Elkhorn, Wisconsin, yesterday, DR..
Duva ], charged with killing his wife,
was found guilty of murder i'll the first
degree. A motion was made for an ar
rest of Judgment on account of the in
sufficiency of the indictment. Theques.
ton was sent to the Supreme Court and
the sentence Of the prisoner reserved
until decision is given by that tri-
bunsl.
The habeas corpus in the case of the
GARDENERS of New Orleans, who were
accused of poisoning and rObbing Capt.
John Alexander at their boarding house
on l25th street, in March, 1869, was be-
fore Judge Ingrsham, in the Court of
Oyer and Terminer, New York, We'd
nesday, and the GARDENERS were held to
await the result of the corOner's in
quest.
The steam tug Jeanis Sutton, on her
way to take the place of the Nettie
Johns, which was sunk by the Great
Republic last Monday, was run into
on Wednesday night by the steamer
Gallatin, about forty miles above Mem
phis, and sunk; no lives lost. The tug
Is o total loss. She was owned Brown g.
Jones, coal dealers, Memphis.
John Devlin, well known from his
connection with whisky cases, and
having served term in the State
Prison, but psrdoned out by ex-Presi-
dent johnson, on Wednesday obtained
a verdict for s., 1904 against George D.
Crary, Ethen D. Watson and Henry
Pike, of New York, to whom he sold 2e
barrels of alcohol in September, 1867
but which, up the present time. they
had not paid.
The condition of Mr.. J. P. Meehan, OF
New York, editor of the Irish american,
who was shot on the night of February
18th by DR.. Kienan, is becoming more
critical every day. No one is permitted
TO see him and none are allowed to men-
tlon the circumstances Of the shooting
IN his presence. He is perfectly con.
scious, but suffers pain when moving
nis mead, and it is not thought safe to
attempt to remove the ball from his
neck.
meetings have been held in most
every town in Montana Territory dur.
nt s ;at Tue iast few weeks for the purpose
oa.;ag ;sng into consideration the recent
oos eaon OF Colonel Baker in his endesv-
80. Us 10 suppress the depr edatious com
n ea oy Indians in Montana Territory.
tn every instance Bakers action has
Deen iully endorsed. Full statistics OF
1ne depredati0ns by Indians in that
territory will shortly be reported and
s.is mhieh viii show good cause for the late