The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-04-29
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Gold closed in New York yesterda,
at lll4.
A petition was filed in CINCINNATI yes
! terday, asking that the Cincinnati Lum
Der Company be declared bankrupt
A telegram from Secretary Belknap
received at Washington yesterday, state
that there are no hopes for the recover!
Of his child.
Nearly a whole block on Exchange
street, Genesee, Illinois, was burned
yesterday morning. The loss will reach
$4,000. The building was set on fire
The next conference of the Jewish
Rabbi, preachers and delegates Of the
congregations of the United States will
be held in Cincinnati Monday, June
5, 1871.
Patrick Reilly's stables and Henry
Kreman's house, at jersey City Heights
were burned yesterday morning. Four
horses were suffocated. Reilley's loss,
$500; insured. Kreman's loss, $4,000
insured.
DR.. T. W. Bigler, a well known
homeopathic physician, formerly OF
Harrisburg, Pa, died suddenly of apo
plexy in Cincinnati yesterday He has
resided there for the past twerty-one
years.
An indianapolis, Ind, dispatch says ::
The reports current in Washington and
New York that General II. Sturm,
who is spoken of as Inspector General
of Steamboats,, is seriously i'll, are en-.
tirely without foundation.
Governor Baldwin and the State
House Commissioners Of Michigan
were at Madison, Wisconsin, yesterday,
inspecting the State capitol, with view
to suggest and confer on a new one Of
their own.
The wind was blowing terrific gale
all day yesterday at Quincy, Illinois, 80
much so that steamboats, were forced to
lay up. The ferry had also stopped.
The wind had increased in violence,
and great damage is expected to be the
result.
There was considerable excitement
at Des Moines, Iowa, yesterday, caused
by voting the one per cent. tax to the
Des Molnes Wintersett d Southwestern
railroad. The prospects are favorable
for its adoption.
An Englishman named Peter Bates
has eloped from St. Paul, Minnesota,
with seamtress named Sarah
Goodman, leaving a wife in destitute
The destination of the
runaway was given as Boston, but it is
supposed they are Off for California.
Colonel Joseph Warner Scott, an
able member of the bar of New Jersey,
aged 90 years, died at his residence in
New Brunswick, n. J., Thursday night.
He was at one time at the head of his
nos;tion of Grand Mastcr - ' ;">
Of Free Masons, and WAS prominent !"
all public affairs.
mans bill authorizing Cincinnati to
issue 100000 Of improvement bonds,
at the rate of 7 per cent. interest, was
passed; also House bill leaving the
admission Of chronic insane into the
asylum discretionary with the trustees
of the asylum: also House bill to pro-
tect county commissioners from fraud
by contractors.
About eight o'clock Thursday even
ing, while Mrs. Gertrude Denmerer was
getting off a passenger train on the St.
Louis. g. Alton railroad, at the
Eighteenth street crossing, Chicago, she
fell between the cars, the wheels pass
ing over both her legs, so as to require
am putation. The woman is widow
with seven small helpless children.
J. Fl. McVickers, Of Chicago, has de-
termined upon rebuilding and recon
structing the present theater, complete
ly altering both the exterior appear
ance and the interior arrangement.
The building will be splendid marble
front, six stories in height. and fronting
on Madison street. AS estimated the
alterations are to cost 100000 The
work will be commenced about the lst
of June