The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-30
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY

The Bank of England has cut the
rate of interest down to .! per cent.
General Banks has received the Labor
Reform nomination for reelection to
Congress from the Sixth District of
Massachusetts.
On Wednesday the oil charters at
New York were bark to London wi VI
24O0 barrels of petroleum at A.. cd; also
a brig to Naples with 1900 barrels Of
petroleum. M
Daniel E. Parks, of Sandy Hilk
Washington County, New York
charged with a pension fraud, was
taken to Albany, yesterday, in custody
of an officer who arrested him in Ohio
Captain Cleves, of the bark Herbert,
from Liverpool, died at Galveston,
Texas, Wednesday, Of yellow fever, the
first case there this season. 1t is be-
lieved to have originated there.
4 tremendous rain storm commenced
early Yesterday morning at Greenwood
Depot, Virginia, and still continued
last night with unabated violence. All
modes of travel in that section, and as
far as heard from in the State, are in
terrupted
The annual ticket agent convention
commenced lis session at the fremont
House, Chicago, Wednesday evening,
and it continued through yesterday,
President Burns presiding. Sixty-four
delegates are present. Savannah, Ga,
was designated as the place for holding
the next convention.
In the Womans Suffrage Convention,
at Boston, they adopted a resolution not
to support any candidate ior Office un-
pledged to the cause and to call Con
vention for the nomination OF State
ticket in case the Republican and Dem
ocratic Conventions refuse to endorse
Womans Suffrage
Andrew Thompson, tried at Concord,
y. H., few weeks since, for the muir
der OF Mrs. Haggerty and her children,
near McGregor, ILL.,, has made a dread
full confession Of the crime. lie smoth-
cred them with the feather bed, and
then took their bodies to the river and
threw them uuder the ice.
James Wilson, the murderer of War
den Willard, Of the Connecticut State
Prison, pleaded not guilty in the Super
ior Court Of Hartford, Wednesday.
He said he desired to conduct his own
defense, but Judge Minor assigned A.
P. Hyde and $. Calhoun as MS counsel.
His trial will take place next We'd
nesday.
The United States war steamer Guer-
riere, from Portsmouth for New York,
with the remains of the late Admiral
Farragut, went ashore on Great Point,
Nantucket, yesterday morning. As
siStance was sent to the trlgate from
Boston, and the remains of the late
Admiral were landed at Hyarnes and
forwarded to New York bst night by
boat from Fall river.
The annual regatta of the Brooklyn
Yacht club and the annual Union re-
satta came off Yesterday, thirty-six
Yachts competing for the various prizes.
The Sappho won the citizens prize,
beating the Madeline and Alice, max
ing a run OF fifty miles in five hours and
thirty-fve minutes. The other prizes
were won by the Alice, Addie ", Mys-
terry, Carleton, Sophie, Jeanette and
Aquatic.
The written statements of Little Ra-
ven and Yellow Bear, Chiefs Of the Ar,
rapahoes, has been received at Wash
ington. They complain that the stipu,
lation Of their treaty with the United
States Government has not been carried
out, and ask a change of agency and seed
and farming utensils which had been
promised them. The Statements were
made to oGeneral Pope.
Today will be almost holiday il
business circles in New York, owing tC
the general disposition to pay last
tribute of respect to the memory Of Ad
miral Farragut. The institutions ofth'
citv will be closed, with one exception
The managers OF the Produce Exchang'
announce that their doJrs vii
be open. but no business will be trans
acted The bylaws require the build
ing to be open every business day ofth
wear. and a small minority has tn
right to demand the enforcement of thi
rnle Tomorrow will not be lega
holiday. and a minority at the E,
change have demanded that the builc
ing be kept open.