The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-10-19


Of that company for their arrest
Mining News.
The McHenry mine, in Parleyo canon,
has stopped work, having now l 800 or 2
600 tons of ore on hand.
The trouble is believed to have
been caused by failure in the payment Of
their new and expensive mill recently
erected. This season mining operat ions
in Utah have been more successful than
any previous year ~
A Murder Mystery.
The Territorial Acknowledgement re-
turned from Bountiful last evening,
where he has been conducting an inves-
tigation in the case of the murder of
Mrs. Adams. Her husband was arrested
on suspicion of the murder, but no evil
dence of his completely in the crime was
proven. 1t was at first supposed that she
was shot through the window from the
| outside, but it is now believed that she
was shot by some one inside of the house.
The affair is as much mystery as be-
fore.
Mormon Matters.
Geo Q. Cannon, an ex-Congrcssman,
has not yet been arrested, and it is
not positively proven outside of the of
fcers of the court and grand jury that an
indictment has not been found against
him.
n" decision has yet been given in the
Ann Eliza Alimony case.
Brigham YOungS health is reported as
very poor. and his life is believed to be of
short duration.
speech from Ex.President Johnson
MEMPHIS, Oct. 1.-THE Grcrnlaw
Opera House was densely packed to-
night, from pit to dome to hear
EY-President Andrew johnson on the
exciting topics of the day He was listen
cd to sttentively and frequently ap-
! plauded.
The Arkansas Election.
LITTLE Rock, October l7-AdditiOnal
returns of the election from about twenty
counties held up to the estimate hereto
fore made of TUESDAYS vote. Jefferson
county gives 100 majority against in
stead Of for the Constitution. Phillips
and Lincoln small majorties against.
These are the only counties that So far
have been heard from that give majori-
ties against the constitution The major
tiles will not, according TO the returns So
far received, fall short ofthc original cs-
! innate Of $4,000.
Improvement OF Navigation OH the
Upper Mississippi.
ST.. PAUL, October LITTLE first of
! the series of wing dams for the improve
ment of navigation on the upper Missis-
sippi, was completed to-day. 1t is To-
Gated at Pigs Eye bar, about four miles
below this city. 1t is one of the most
troublesome ob,tructions to navigation
on the upper Mississippi. The dam i.
about COO feet long, and has been con-
structed at comparatively small expense.
under the direction of j. H. Macomb. of
the U. S. engineer corps, by Capt. John
b. Davis, Of the government drcdge boat
Montana. The work was to-day viewed
BY party Of the influential business
men of this city, on invitation of Capt.
Davis, and mt the banquet given on the
Montana, the plan was endorsed by re-
marks made by Senator Ramsey, Capt.
Russell Blakely, one of the Oldest and
best steamboat men in the country, and
by others, and by set of resolutions
adopted unanimously. The remedial re-
suit of the work is already apparent.
! Officials Indicted.
NEW ORLEANS, October 1.-The Con
cordia parish grand jury, composed Of
two white men, the balance colored,
found true brief against Dane Young,
a colored member Of the legislature for
embezzling thirty thousand dollars be-
longing to the parish. Also found tru"
bill against Owen Stewart, sheriff, for
obtaining property under false pretcnccs.
Careful inquiry fails to confirm the report
that four members ofthe returning Board
have resigned. No one has Vet been ap-
pointed TO succeed Banzano us Umpire
of the Advisory Board.
Feud Among Radical Factions.
At Clinton, Louisiana, fcud between
the Breaux Weber and Gair Republican
factions, eliminated to-day in the Ht-
| tempted assassination between Bayou
Sara and Jackson, Of Louisiana, of Jno.
Gair, the Independent Republican condi-
udtc LOT the Echatc, uy Poiuce u'hno" "'
Gar was wounded, but not dangerously.
A Bold Murder.
TrRRr H,UTE. October l7.-This
evening, At 8. 30 o'clock Jerry Picard. II
well-known citizen, was walking with his
w;fe ON North sixth street When two
men rushed ON them. One held Mrs.
Picard while the otnor shot her husband
in the head, the ball entering the right
ear. The shot will prove fatal. The
murdcrcrs then ran of. The motive for
,Lc ac, is unknown. This occurred in "A
nuhIic mart of the city.
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