The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-30

CINCGNHATI, July pa match game
of billiards between Harry Choote, of
this city and Jacob Garrett, champion of
Indiana was played here this evening;
French carom, 400 points for $500 Gar
rctt won, scoring 400 to Choote's 3O5.
The MOnongaheIa Rising Rapidly.
PITTSBURGH, July 29.-The Mononga-
hea is 10 feet 10 inches, and rising near
" inches an hour. The Ironsides and
Wild Duck will leave tomorrow with
heavy tows of coal, and it is thought that
the James Brown and Sam Brown, due
up tonight, will also get up on this
water. Weather cloudy and warm.
Troubles I'm the Dominion.
OTTAWA, July 29-Winnepeg, cor
respondent Of the Free Press telegraphs
as follows Reliable dispatches received
from the West state that the scene Of the
reported trouble is at st. Laurent, thirty
miles east of Carlton Plain. The hun
tiers have seized and coniiscatcd property
of the hunters who refuse To comply with
their regulation and under the leadership
of one Drumond they have set up a
government of their own, declaring
however, loyalty to the Queen.
1t Is understood here that Hon. Mr.
Laird will be First Lieutenant Governor
of the new province in the northwest.
Report of the Comptroller OF the
Currency.
WASHINGToN, July 29.-Thc Comp
troler of Currency has advised the Sec.
retary of the Treasury Of the issue Of ST.
280,5 additional national bank circula-
tion for the month ending July 2Sth, OF
eighty per cent, which is to be retired in
legal tender notes, making the whole
amount Of legal tender notes retired since
the passage Of the act of January II, 1875,
$7,2i2, 892; amount of legal tender notes
deposited since July lst by National banks
for retiring circulation, 81 ,S609l0; whole
amount of legal tender notes deposited
since June 20, 1874, S27, ,3S9,967; total
additional bank circulation issued since
June 20, 1874, is $l2,87l ,4S2; since Jan.
II, 1875, $3,056,ll5; total national bank
circulation outstanding January If, 1875,
$35l, SCI $50, and on July lS, 1915, $780,
5l2,j3S.
Important Discoveries Of Frauds on
the Indians.
OMAHA, July 29.-Thc Indian Com
missioners while here made several i'm
portant discoveries as to to the way sup
plies have been furnished the Indians.
One Miller testifes as to having put
up eighty-seven pounds of flour in
sacks that he knows were turned
in at one hundred pounds. y
beef contractor, lost by freezing, seven
hundred head of cattle, that the Indian
agent gave receipts for Inc people in
this section back Prof Marsh up; many
from personal knowledge. Weather
warm and damr; no rain for the past
three DAYS.
Suicide of a We'll known SpirituaIist
TOLEDO, July 29.-Dr. L. b. Ran
dolph, well known spiritualist com
mittcd suicide this morning, by shooting
himself through the head. Cause un-
known.
German Teachers Association.
TO.days session of the German Teach
ers' Convention was occupied principally
by the discussion OF the seminary ques-
tlon. The Convention report having
secured about $4,000 and the success OF
the enterprise is assured.
Interview of whisky Men with Com
missioner of Internal Revenue.
WAsHINGToN, July pa delegation
composed of Messrs. j. W. Gotf of Gin
cinnati; Thomas, Of Louisville; Freiburg,
of Cincinnati; Francis, of Peoria, and
Boyd and Moss, of New York, represent
ing the convention of dIstilIers which re-
Gently assembled at Cincinnati, to con-
slider the best interest of hon
est traders, were at the Treasury
to-day, and had II
lengthy interview with the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue. They all made
suggestions with regard to modification
of the regulations governing the tradein
spirits, and especially requested II more
stringent rule As to the transfer Of
gaugers and storckeepers, arguing thai
these officers should be trans
fcrred from one district to
another, and even from one State to an
other as often as once in thirty days in
stead of sixty days. The committee also
wanted a modification of the rule gov
erning the transportation of Old spirits,
showing the nature of "outs,' and the
matter of seizures upon technical grounds
was also discussed, the committee aver
ring that very often seizures were made
by government otlicersupon purely tech
nical grounds, and without proper
examination, thus putting distillers and
recttiers to much unnecessary annoy
ance, The Commissioner will give the
subjects discussed careful attention.
After an interview with Commissioner
Pratt the Commissioner paid his respects
to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mountain McadOw--Theory of the
Defence.
BEAVER, UTAH, July 29.-Spiccr oc-
cupied all the morning III addressing the
Jury for the defence. He stated the the
orv of the defence to be that cmgrants,
bv their own conduct, So cnragcd the
Greek Indians that they sent runners
ahead, gathering help from other tribes
at the meadows they murdered four or
five hundred people; that the whites did
sell supples 10 lhe tu''S ANS
and treated them well; that
Lee had no military or Church office, but
was simply farmer to the Indians; that
on the grounds, he tried to protect the
emigrants and wept when the massacre
was proposed that not Lee but William
Bateman went with the flag of truce;
afterwards Lee went to the corral and
STAYED two hours. believing that the
treaty was b01a ddc; that
while in the emlgrants corral,
Haight. Higbee and Klinger Smith were
plotting to kill them; that what the
whites did was done through fear Of
death at the hand: of the Indians, who
threatened if they did not help TO kill
the emisrants, they would kill them.
Samuel Pollock sworn-He said that
Ezra Curtis, Lieutenant Of the militia,
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