The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
By Telegraph.

The funeral of E. H. Norton, brothe
of Senator Norton. took place in Ne'
York Sunday and was attended b
many political organizations.
Mr.. J. Gregory, a wholesale frul
dealer, of Sacramento, Cal, droppe'
dead in his store yesterday. Apoplex.
was the cause.
The match yesterday between tn
White Stockings, Of Chicago, and tn
Forest City club, Of Rockford, resulted
in a victory for the White Stockings b..
a score of Is to 6.
General Schenck, United State
Minister to Great Britain, and his TIVE
daughters, arrived in New York Sun
day. They depart tor England on Wed
nesday per steamer Cuba.
Dr.. Cloud, city editor Of the Colum
bus (Ohio) Statesman was attacked b!
apoplexy and also stricken with para
lysis in the right side two nights ago
He is not expected to live.
Dogs entered into the sheep-fold o
Mr.. Henry Converse, living neal
Springfield, Illinois on Saturday and
killed about half of his flock, valued a
about $4,000. HIS stock was imported
and very valuable.
The Postoffice Department is con
graduating itself on the increased pros
poets of making the postal service self
sustaining. 1t found that the revenue
thereof for the present fiscal year II
81 ,000, 900 more than last year.
The steamship Paraguay, from Lon
don to New York; has returned to Lon
don, having been disabled at sea by 6
collision with the screw steamer Wells
The latter foundered Immediately anc
thirteen lives were lost
The Associated Press dispatches
stating that Robert Bonner had accep
ted challenge of the San Francisco
horse, to trot in Chicago, in June, for q
purse of $4,000 is pronounced sheer
fabrication by that gentleman.
A carpenter shop and vitriol factory
connected with Kalbheisch a Sons
chemical works, on Morgan street
Brooklyn, n. Y, was damaged by fire
to the extent of $4,000, Sunday. The
origin of the fire is unknown. There
was no insurance.
The foreign procession in Chicago on
the great celebration Of the 29th will
be seven miles long. Windows, fence
posts, doorsteps, two feet square on the
house tops, in fact every inch Of sitting
or standing room on the line Of march
of the great Peace Jubilee is being
rented out at fabulous sums.
One John Mahoney was arrested in
Jersey City Sunday, on a supposition oI
having murdered and horribly mutilat
ed his brother three weeks ago. The dif
ficulty is supposed to have grown out Of
the murdered mans intention TO com,
pete with his brother in business.
A desperate named Bill Brown, liv.
ing at Morris, Mo, was shot and in,
stantly killed by his brother-in-aw,
named Haden, on Tuesday last. 1t ap,
pears that Brown was under the infu'
ence OF whisky and was attempting to
cut his wife's throat with large butch
er knife, when Haden drew a revolver
and shot him through the brain
A gentleman was walking with a
lady Sunday night in Chicago, when
some one passing stopped and addressed
her in familiar manner. Without
demanding an explanation the lady's
escort drew a revolver and shot the
intruder and then learned that it was
the young lady's brother The wound
is slight.
A new panel OF $50 jurors assembled
in New York yesterday to await exam
ination in regard to selecting one of
their number as the twelfth juryman in
the Foster-P Putnam murder trial. The
first man called was rejected, but the
second was accepted, thus completing
the required number. The balance OF
the panel were accordingly discharged
and the trial proceeded.
A German named Ziegermyer, who
was arrested in Europe and brought to
New York, charged with having mur-
dered and robbed William Gimbleton, a
friend of his, in Chicago, last Novem-
Der, Sunday evening started for that city
in company with a detective. He ad-
mits that he took charge Of his friend g
money and other effects, but denies
most positively that he was concered in
his death.
The New York Worlds Erie spe ,ial
saws there was great excitement there
Sunday. A prize fight came off on the
beach near the city, between Barney
McCulloch and Jack Flynn, Arthur
Conway acting as referee. The police
did not interfere, and twenty-four rounds
we're fought, lasting one hour and forty
minutes, when McCulloch threw up the
sponge, both being badly bruised up.
The affair originated in dispute about
a woman, which both wanted. After
three or four squabbles, which were in.
terrupted by the police, they decided to
fight it out according to the rules OF the
ring, and let the best man have her.
Secretary Boutwell, has given some
attention to the question OF paying the
interest on money advanced for war
purposes by the several States. The
subject has already been discussed in
Congress. The amount Of this interest
would, it is calculated, be about fifty
per cent. of the whole claim. Some
States-as for instance Indiana and
Minnesota-sold their bonds at large
discount in order to secure the needed
funds for equipping and sending for
| ward troons This discount is mode