The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY Telegraph.


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A fire ct Catskill yesterday morning,
destroyed property to the amount OF
thirty thousand dollars.
Workmen commenced to break the
ground Yesterday for the new State
Department Building, Washington.
The hat factory Of Mooney Il Co.,
and the paper box factory of 5. A.
Brown, near Bloomfield, New York,
were burned Tuesday. Loss, lo,OVo'
General Burnside is considering the
propriety oil removing the headquarters
of the Grand Army of the Republic
from Washington to New York.
The jury yesterday morning, render
ed a verdict against Frizel and surlties,
in Cincinnati, deficit revenue collector,
favor of the Government for SIT, ,OO0
The funeral of DR.. Connolly and his
murdered children took place in New
York Yesterday from the Church Of st.
Vincent, Dr.. Paul Vests, 25d street.
near 9th avenue The services were
solemn and impressive.
Lieutenant Wm. II. Chase, OF the
United States Engineer Corps, died at
Germantown, Pa, at one o'clock yester-
day afternoon, aged twenty-eight years.
He graduated at West Point in the class
Of 81.
The number OF Internal Revenue AS
SCISSORS is decreasing at the rate OF about
fifty per week, for the purpose of the
further consolidation Of the force OF the
Bureau. The removal is not confined
to any particular section Of the country
The Treasury Department estimates
that the receipts from internal revenue
for the fiscal year in the State of New
York will be s2l, ,lOS,S0o, of which
$l0,370000 is expected from New York
and Brooklyn.
Another general raid on the policy
dealers OF New York was made by the
police yesterday afternoon. The ar.
rests comprise those dealers who escaped
the raid on Monday. The number
captured was large.
The jury in the McGeehan mnrdcr
case, at Lebanon, Ohio, failed to agree
and were discharged at & ?. NJ, after
being out thirty.six hours. The argu-
ment as to whether the prisoner can
be admitted to ball. will be held to-
morrow morning.
A notice has been served or Jay
Gould to the effect that in the United
States Circuit Court on Saturday next,
before Judge Blatchford, a motion will
be made calling upon Mr.. Gould to
show cause why he should not restore
the stock, inquired of before the Master
to the English shareholders, or make
good the loss.
1t is stated that Sir Edward Thorn
ton, the British Minister, has been
compelled to defer his visit 10 England
on account OF the instructions from the
home office not TO leave Washington
until further particulars have been re-
ceived concerning the Corean difficulty.
Similar instructions have also been re.
ceived by Baron Gerolt.
Further details OF the burning Of the
coolie ship Dolores Urgarte, off the
coast Of China, have been received. An
account given in an Anglo-Chinese
journal shows that no means of possible
escape had been provided and no at
tempt made at rescue, and that the
hapless coolies were liberated from the
hold ofthe burning ship only TO perish
in one writhing mass.
A New York reporter in an interview
with one of the leaders Of the Working
mems Society in this country, yesterday,
was informed that the Society is spread
ing rapidly. and that there are twelve
Sections in New York alone. They are
composed not only OF French, but also
of English, Irish, German, Swiss and
American workingmen. The leader
predicted the abolition of war and the
mastery OF the labor field 10y artisans.
Several New York papers published
the following: On Monday morning,
about ten o'clock, a driver Of canal
boat, while crossing the Seven Mile
Level, between New Village and Broad
way, in Morris county. New Jersey,
heard an unusual rumbling noise like
that Of muftled thunder, and noticed
that the waters of the canal were disap.
peariug rapidly, so that in short time
his boat was left high and dry on the
empty bed Of the canal. The water in
the canal for the distance OF a mile and
a half had disappeared in cavity forty
feet in depth bv fifty feet in width. No
outlet has been discovered. 1t will
probably cost the canal company ten
thousand dollars to deirav the expen-
ses Of this interruption Of their hnsi-
ncs,.