The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-12-24
BY TELEGRAPH
TO THE
WHEELING REGISTER.
Associated Press Report. by Western
Union Line, Office Northwest cor.
.-. Of Main and 18th Sts.
DOMESTIC NEWS.

DOMESIIC NEWS.
Serious Charges Againsta Chief Fire
! Engineer.
CLEVELAND, December 23.-At q spe-
cial meeting of the Board of Fire Com
missioners of this city, held last evening,
the charges preferred against Chief En-
gineer Hill, were read. They charge
him with wilful neglect of his duty, in
certifying to the correctness of bills,
when such was not the case; mlsapplying
and appropriating city funds to his own
use; mutilsting the books of the Depart
ment for the purpose of concealing the
amounts received for the sale of
| city goods; in testifying falsely before
the Investigating Committee; permitting
wooden buildings to be erecting within
the FIRE limits, and receiving cornpen-
sstion for it. Mr.. Hill had prepared no
answer to the charges, but asked that the
plaintiff put in his proof, when he Hill,)
would endesvor to disprove the charges.
The Board then went into secret session,
during which, the First Assistant Chief,
Bennett, and Third Assistant Chief, Bah
cock, were honorably acquitted of the
| charges preferred against them, and II
resolution was adopted, requesting Chief
Engineer Hill to resign, the resignation
to take place Wednesday, December %,
at II o'clock NJ.
Chief Engineer Hill Discharged.
The Board of Fire Commissioners held
special meeting this afternoon. a COM
munication from Chief Engineer Hill
was read, in which he states that, not be-
ing aware of any testimony being offered
! to sustain the charges brought against
him, he could not offer any testimony to
! disprove them, and therefore declined to
to resign, as requested by the Board AT
the meeting last evening. A resolution
was then adopted discharging Chief En-
gineer Hill for incompetcncy, and pIac-
ing the Department in charge of First
Assistant Engineer Bennett. 1t is thought
that the Chief will refuse to abide by the
decision of the Board, and will carry the
matter into the courts.
Convicted OF Manslaughter.
CINCINNATI, December 23.-The jury
in the Daniels murder case, after being
out forty-eight hours, returned verdict
of manslaughter, and the prisoner was
sentenced to the .penItentiary for ten
years.
Gambling Houses "PulIed."
The police, last night, raidcd eight
gambling house, captured number OF
prisoners and large lot of gambling i'm
plementS.
Petition for the Pardon ola fOrger.
New YORK, December 23.-The pc
tition to the Governor of Massachusetts,
for the pardon of Spencer Peters, the
forger, has been signed by the Presidents
of the Stock Exchange, Erie railroad,
Western Union Telegraph company,
New York Central railroad, Chicago and
| Northwestern railroad, the Fourth Ma
tional Bank and by nearly all the bank
ers in Wall street, as well rs the officers
| of many banking corporations in Boston.
| The signers represent about S4oO, ,OOOoO0.
| Peters has made some astounding dis
| closures, and they are to bc made public
! after his case is decided.
Reported Intruders in the Black
Hills.
OMAHA, December 2S.-Thc following
dispatch. was received from Colonel
Bradley:
yesterday an Indian came into Spot
ted Tail camp, and reported that twelve
davs ago he met party of Il white men
and 6 teams, on Elk Creek. at the eastern
part of Black Hills. They came from
Missouri and are going into the Hills"
The following is his reply:
":Send acompany..of cavalry from Camp
Sheridan or Robinson, as you think best,
to overhaul the party in the Black Hills,
and To expel it from Indian territory,
under the instructions OF September s.
from the headquarters of the milltray
division. Furnish them with good sup
ply of tents stoves and blankets. he
command will start when the weather
permits.
CoIored Robbers Arrested.
MEMPHIS. December 23.-Last week
w Kinrsbury, Jordan Joy, Van Hatfield,
Henry Wood, Carey Young and Vincent
Petty, all colored, were arrested at
West Point, Mississippi, for syste-
matte robbery of freight cars on the
Mobile and Ohio railroad. All of them
are prominent colored men, Petty being
comfy treasurer and JOY an alderman.
Their mode of operations was for one or
two of the gang to force al entrance INT"
the cars while stopping at West foint
and To shut themselves in the car untI
the train got under way, then to thro"
off cotton, merchandise, etc, when was
gathered up BY the others and taken 10
low or Petty's stores, where the marks
were DESTROYED and the goods or cotton
| we're sold. They have been operating
for long time and 1t is supposed ineir
robberies amount to many thousands ol
dollars. On being arrested klngsbnry
made confession which led to the arreSt
of the others, several Of whom made iuli
confessions on being arrested. fe'ty was
arrested as an accessory, two oS'eS o'
stolen cotton being found IN ms store
Ne gave bond in the sum of sSoo to
answer before the grand jury.
Freedman's savings Bank;
UIsuISGroS, December 2S.-kepre-
ssr,atives of three thousand colored men
Of Richmond arrived to-day, with petl-
tom asking Congress to take earl y meas
n,as 70 have a dividend declared to the
Janos;tors in the Freedmans Savings
Bank. The representatives had al inter-
view with President Grant, who express
"a much sympathy for the petitioners
who had misplaced their confidence IN
that institution.
That Bill ofPnrtieuiars.
Nru York. December 23.-ln the
1 IL Ind tya