The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-18
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
The Wellsnd canal opened yesterday
hn denied that Persia lays claim to
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It's denied that Persia lays claim 10
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No more bodies have been found in the
Southern Hotel ruins.
In the event of war. all Russians are TO
be expelled from Turkey.
A movement is on foot to erect another
bridge over the Ohio river ut Louisville.
There are no new developments in the
case of the South Carolina State officers.
French Journals assert that the rsla-
tions between France and Germany are
entirely pacific.
j, n. Price, of Chicago, committed
suicide at the Walnut Street House, Gin.
cinnati, yesterday.
The West Point graduating class this
year numbers seyenty-scven, the largest
class that ever graduated. j.. .F.
The parties '.i tied by Tweed's
confession have y published de-
mails OF any conn -, II the lrregularl-
lies mentioned. Of course.
Louisiana State bonds in the New
York market advanced nine per cent.
since Friday last, on the favorable pros
poets oil the Nichols government.
The proposed benefit fer the servant
girls made destitute by the S.. Louis fire,
promises to be q generous one. Two
tickets sold yesterday brought 500 each.
A. Z, Van Tine, postmaster at San
dusky, OhlJ, convicted in the United
States Court OF embezzlement, has been
sentenced to the penitentlary for one
year.
The friends OF the Imprisoned Itch
borne claimant, to the number OF one
hundred thousand, intend to march to
the House OF Commons in body and
petition for his release.
j. w. Murphy, aL,ss Samuel Mackey,
has been arrested in Baltimore, charged
with swindling by sending circulars
through the mails to various sections,
particularly the West.
The BODY of Samuel Covers, who was
drowned IN the Sciots river about three
weeks ago, was found yesterday near Co
iumbus. The fingers of the dead man
were eaten Oft by fish.
The village of Sioux Indians surren.
dered to General Crook numbered about
ore thousand persons. They turned over
10 the ~ ants Their arms and upwards OF
l,400 ponies and horses.
lmrortant arrests of counterfeiters
have been made at Green Point, Pa, st.
Louis and Wheeling. Among the par
thes arrested is Hon Thos. w. Marion,
ex-member of the Pennsylvania Legis-
laure.
The japanese Commission visiting
America tor the purpose OF purchasing
live stock, are at present rambling
through the kentucky blue grass region,
and have purchased several thorough
bred horses.
President Bsez, in his message to the
Santo Domingo Congress. says that Hsyti
has violated q treaty by giving assistance
to revolutionIsts on the northwestern
frontier. He wants the Congress to take
action in the matter.
The stables Of ex-Msyor johnson Of
Cincinnati, together with six horses, were
burned Monday night. Nagets wagon
shops adjoining we're also destroyed.
Total loss $4,000; insured IN Cincinnati
companies.
Boss Tweed has sent a proposition to
the authorities, proposing that in return
for his liberty he will give up all his
property and be faithful witness for the
public, and will make full disclosure OF
bis criminal companions.
The ten Lowndesville Is. C) mur-
derers (colored), sentenced to be hanged
next Friday, have been reprieved by
Governor Hampton for two weeks. 1t is
thought thai the sentences Of some OF
them will be commuted TO imprisonment
for lie.
At Mauch Chunk, Pa. yesterday, the
Jury in the case OF John Malloy, a Molly
Mcguire, charged with completely in the
murder of Morgan Powell, rendered Il
verdict of murder in the second degree.
Malloy is the sixth man convicted Of
completely IN this murder.
President MacMshon has instructed
NJ. Msrtel, Minister OF Justice AID Pub
lie Worship, to express to the Bishop OF
Nevers bss entire disapproval of the lat
ters letter asking intervention for the
Pope. and to state that the President sees
with regret the clergy meddling with in
ternal and even foreign politics.