The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-24
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WHEELING REGISTER.
Associated Press Report. by Western
Union Line, Office Northwest cor.
of Main and 18th SITS.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Alleged EmbezlIement-Bnse Bali.

Alleged EmbezlIement-Bns Ball.
CINCINNATI, July 23.-Chas. Derham.
a bookeeper in the employ of William
Glenny " Co, was brought before Il
magistrate yesterday, charged with en-
bezzling some $1,000.
The projectors of the Cincinnati base
ball club have secured the following
named professionals: Radcliffe, Snyder,
and Fields, of Philadelphia; Dorcher of
Washington; Albertson, Camden and
Erect, of Reading The other three will
probably be secured in few days.
SI2, 100000 OF Counterfeit Foreign
Bank Notes.
NEW YORK, July 23.-Secretary Fish
has informed Mayor Wickham that an
association of counterieiters, with head
quarters at Barcelona, are preparing to
issue in this city Sl2,0O0,000 of counter.
felt notes OF the Bank of England and
the Bank of France.
Fearful and Fatal Explosion.
Iowa CITY, IA.-At nine o'clock last
night, one Of the cooking tanks in Close
" Sons paper mills, exploded, causing
the explosion of four others, and utterly
destroying the stock in the stock rooms,
and blowing the engines more than half
mile. fthe men at work In the mill,
five were killed, as follows Chipa, the
fireman, Gilmore the foreman, Smaller
and Tierney, luborers, and Herman
Bechtel, workman in flour mill
near by, had stepped into the paper mill
about moment before the explosion
and was instantly killed. The bodies Of
Cnpa, Bechtel and Gilmore were blown
five hundred ieet. Their bodies were re-
covered Tierney and Smaller were
either buried in the ruins or blown into
the river.
The mill was worth $250,00O and was
turning out six tons Of brown paper per
day, running day and night. Gilmorcs
wife, who is on the eve Of confinement, Is
not expected to rally from the shock, and
Bechtels mother is thought to be dying.
Desperate Indian Anray.
ST.. LOUIS, July 23.-The Giobe Demo
crat has brief account of desperate
atfray between the political factions Of
the Cherokee Indian nation at Skin
Bayou, twelve miles from Fort Smith,
Arkansas, on the 18th inst, in which
three men were killed. Seven men
emptied double barrelled shot guns into
Coody. AZ last accounts the rival fac
tions, numbering about thirty-one on
each side had gathered at the scene of
the difficulty and some fighting had
taken place, but with what result is not
known.
LITTLE Rock, July 25.-Not n day
passes but reports are received Of mur-
ders from the Ch rJkee Eation, growing
out of the contest forthc principal chef
of the nation, which occurs on the first
Monday in August.
Impeached Auditor Clinton GETS II
Character from Kellogg.
New ORLEANS, July 23.-State Aud
itor Clinton has sent in his resignation to
Governor Kellogg, to take eject Decem-
Der Is, 1875. He says: ~ fix upon that
date for the reason that, an earlier resig-
nation would compel you under article !
OF the Constitution to order new clcc-
tion to III the vacancy, and this would
involve large expense to the State, which
! know you desire to avoid He states
that he had long desired to resign, but
waited till his character had been vindl-
Gated, which had been done by the report
o: the experts and evidence adduced at
the recent trials. He assigns rs a reason
for retiring the inability to get along
harmoniously with the State Treasurer.
Governor Kellogg, in accepting the res
ignation, says: "Though i'll the dis
charge of my official duty | ordered an
Investigation Of your accounts, and di-
rected the law officers of the state to
prosecute the charges preferred against
you, have never, for one moment,
believed you to have been
guilty of dishonesty
in the administration OF your
office. Before the experts made
their report, | had examined into many
of the charges urged against you and
found them to be groundlcss.' lie says,
Subsequent conversations with the eN-
perts, one of whom WAS President of the
Cotton Exchange, and whose testimony
was adduced here, only confirmed MIN
in that opinion
Suppressiug Mexican Maraudcrs.
WAsHINGTON, d. e., July 23.-Thc
has purchased at New Or
leans the steamer Planter. She will be
armed and manned, and sent to
the Rio Grande to prevent the McXicans
crossing into Texas and running of cat
tle The Planter has been ordered to
Mobile, and acknowledgements ID.
G.. Kels has been detached from the
ironclad Cononicus and sent to that city
to take command. 1t is said that one or
two other steamers OF similar character
will be purchased and fitted out to act
with the Planter in the suppression of
the Mexican deprcdations.
Another Bank Robbery.
WINTHROP, Me-, July 23.-Thc rob-
bing of the Winthrop National bank &c.
CURED about three o'clock this morning.
The bank is on the second tloor of brick
building. The safe was blown open by
nitro glycerine. There were three dis
tinct explosions, all heard by several pco-
pie. The robbers left in ten minutes
after the last explosion which blew out
all the windows in the front part of the
bank, and caused general smash up in
side. The contents Of the main safe were
SO badly mutilated and SO many trag-
ments were left behind that 1t is thought
the amount secured by the robbers could
not have been large. The standing of
the bank, the directors say, will not be
impaired. Four men have been arrested
on suspicion of being the robbers.
Champion swimm ng Match-COyIe
all Right.
PHILADELPHIA, July 23.-Coyle the
American swimmer in the race with
Johnson, remained unconscious until
his morning. He then slept and awoke
all right. lie says he was druggcd by
.he brandy which he took few
minutes before he became exhausted.
He was feeling splendidly and felt posi-
i've that he could reach Gloucester
He says If he could have gone twenty
minutes longer he would have won the
-aca .s IOhps,n WAS a mile 81 and