The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-09-11
CINCINNATI.
Large DefaIcatiOn.

CINCINNATI, September l0.-A special
to the Times and Chronicle this afternoon,
from Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio,
says large defalcation by the County
Treasurer has been discovered. The
Treasurer has disposed of all his prop
erty.
Arrival OF Excurstonfsts.
Excursionists from Davenport, Maline
and Rock Island, guests of the Indian.
apolis and Bloomington and Western
Railroad Companies, arrived to-day and
were formally received al the Board of
Trade. They will be received by the
Chamber OF Commerce tomorrow.
They will remain as guests Of the city
until Thursday night and will then 20
to Indianapolis and remain there till
Friday night.
The Keck-Johnson Difficulty.
CINCINNATI, September l0.-In con-
sequence Of the action of the Chamber
of Commerce yesterday, in refusing to
sustain the verdict OF its Board Of Of
fcers, finding guilty Of unmercantile
conduct Messrs. E. L. and T. L. John.
son, a meeting OF all the members who
sustain the Board was called to take
place this morning in the Chamber of
Commerce at ten o'clock. There were
about hundred members present, and
before adjournment the number was at
least doubled.
On motion, George F. Davis was
called to the chair, and n. S. Jones ap-
pointed Secretary.
The sense OF the meeting will be fully
understood by the following resolution
Resolved, That we disapprove of the
action of the Chamber in the case Of
Keck against f. L. & T. L johnson, and
under the ruling in the case we disdain
from holding any further membership
in sail body, and that committee Of
five be appointed by the Chair to pro-
cure a suitable room in which to hold
our meetings also. that committee OF
FIVE he appointed on membership.
1t was finally agreed that the resolu-
ton should be 30 amended that the res
olution be suspended for one week, ex-
cept that the committee on the hall
shall look out for q place of meeting.
Thus amended, it was adopted unaui-
mously.
At meeting of the Chamber at one
o'clock Mr.. Geo. F. Davis gave notice
that on Friday next he would call up
from the table the resolution Of the
Board Of Officers providing for the sus-
pension OF the Messrs. Johr son.
S. F. Covington was to-day elected
President of the Chamber Of Commerce E
for the coming year. beating R. n.
Bishop, the independent candidate, by
eleven votes.
Death OF Rev. Samuel Browne.
Rev. Samuel Browne who was under
$4,000 bonds to answer the charge Of
shooting and killing young Schickk, for
trespass, on tie 9th Of last July, diei
to-day in his eighty-fith year. He had
been a citizen Of Cincinnati for seventy.
five years and in 1904 published the
first number Of the Cincinnati
Gazette. Mr.. Browne was a soldier
of the war of 1872; he also took
part in some OF the Indian wars on our
northern boundary. He was at one
time General OF the Ohio militia. 1t
is estimated that he was worth fully
100000. His shooting of Schickk
caused great excitement among the
Germans at the time, and he would prob
ably have been lynched. had the mob
succeeded in finding him. His fences
and garden shrubbery were torn to
pieces by the mob, and his house only
escaped through the exertions of the
police, who guarded it for several days.
1t is said that this unfortunate event in
his otherwise blameless life, so preyed
upon the old gentleman's mind that it
doubtless hurried his decease.