The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-01-18
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WHEELING REGISTER.
Associated Press Report. by Western
Union Line, Office Northwest cor.
of Main and 12th SITS.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
wendell Phillips and Friends DIS
turb the Indignation Meeting In
ROStOn.

lips who, by the invitation of the chair
man of the meeting, made his way tc the
platform amid tumult of applause,
shouts and Kisses. He made somewhat
long address, although frequently inter
rupted. asserting that President Grant
and General De Trobriand had COM
piled with every requisition Of the
constitution and law. As citizen of
Boston he protested against the adoption
of the resolutions. My anxiety is not for
the administration, but for the oppressed
people of the South. Should you pass
these resolutions the blood of 100 black
men and 100 white men would be your
skirts. Five millions Of negroes were
called into freedom to save the nation,
and now YOU refuse to allow the Presi-
dent to protect those persons who were
brought into this condition of danger by
the very act of the nation.
Escape OF n Convict.
SUNBURY, Pa, January 16.-John
Flynn, convicted u few days ago of muir
der in the second degree, escaped from
Jail last night with another convict,
whom he forced to burn hole through
the cell door and then picked the lock,
Flynn keeping guard with revolver.
Cotton Mill Burned.
BosToN, January l6.-An old mill,
at Pawtucket, occupied for manufactu--
ring cotton by Stafford & Pierce burned
to-day. Loss on stock and machinery,
about $4,000; insured S24, GAO; loss on
building, $4,000.
Serious Railroad Accident.
CINCINNATI, January 16.-The pas
senger train east on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago railroad was thrown
from the track near Arcola, Ind, this
morning, by broken rail, and totally
wrecked Two persons are reported
killed, and n large number seriously in
jured.
Bank Statement.
NEW YORK, January l6.-Loans, de-
crease, So, 1876, 200; specie increase, $260,
800; legal tenders increase, 81, 450, 800;
deposits, increase, 5283, 700; circulation
decrease, SllS,70O reserve increase, S3,-
39S,375.
Unsafe Reservoirs and Dams.
Boston, January 16.-The report of
the Reservoir Commission, of Massachu-
sets, shows that ~ unsafe reservoirs and
dams exist in the State, and that the loss
bv the breaking away of these structures
last year, foots up Sl,250000, in Hamp-
shire county, and $4,000 in Hamden.
The Boston and Albany railroad lost
100000.
A Noted Desperate Escapes.
The attempt of Bill Rodifer, the noted
desperate, to escape yesterday morning
from the State prison, proved successful.
As telegraphed yesterday, it was sup
posed he had gone into the sewers, but
search proved otherwise. Other convicts
were his accomplices, who removed the
bolts in the lock of the cell, and furnished
hIm with steel saw, with which he
freed himself from his ball and chain.
| He then climbed two inch water pipe
perpendicular fifty feet to the water tank
on top of the building, passed through
trap door within thirty feet of the watch,
and lowered himself down into the main
guard room, where he secured the keys,
unlocked the doors, and passed out. The
Warden, Colonel Shuler, offers $500 re-
ward for his capture.
A ynIainous Ohio Outrage-The
Scoundrel Lynched.
| CLEVELAND, O., January 17.-Last
Tuesday afternoon, while a little girl
nine wears old, the daughter of j. b.
Morgan, of Urbana, was returning home
| from school, she was enticed into the
woods by man, who outraged her per-
son in the most horrible manner. The
villain then commenced building fire,
for the purpose, it is believed, of killing
and burning the child, when hunter
came up and asked what he was doing
there. He made Il reply which satisfied
the hunter, who went his way. The
wretch then told the girl that as a man
had seen him, he would have to take her
home. He went part of the distance
with her and left. She arrived home in
the evening, in such condition as to be
unable to give an account Of the affair
! Next morning she gave the authorities n
! description of the author of the crime, and
| kilograms were sent in all directions to
arrest him. The Council offered 500
reward for his capture. Or Wednesday
man answering to his description
was arrested at Maryville, Ohio, and
was brought to Urbana and was identif.
ed He made full confession, giving
his name, G. w. Willing of Buchanon,
Michigan. After an examination dis
position was shown BY the crowd to
hang the prisoner at once and the au-
thorities had considerable difficulty in
getting him in Jail Thursday night. An
effort was made to take him out Of Jail
but was prevented by the guards.
This morning at an early hour band of
masked men, numbering forty, went to
the Jail, captured and bound the guards,
battered down the door, took the prisoner
out, gave him few moments to pray
hung him to tree in front of the court
house. A large crowd gathered, but the
lynchers had posted guards and the fee
bic efforts to interfere with them were
unsuccessful. After all signs of life had
ceased in the suspended body, the lynch
ers quietly left.
Nitro-GIycerine Explosion.
New YORK, January 16.-This after
noon small ntro-glycerine factory sit
uated on small artificial Island in North
river, Il short distance below Communi-
paw, blew up and four men were killed.
the bodies of three of them, James LAYER
ty, Alfred Hopkins, and George Brown,
were recovered. They were terribly dis
figured, The body of the other man who
is known as Long Law, has not been re-
covered Shortly after the explosion an
other workman was seen leaving the Is
land in a boat which sunk. His fate is
not known.
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