The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-22
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NEW YORK.


NEW YORK, August 21.-John Ken
peday was executed at Canton, New
York, yesterday for the murder OF
Thos. Hand in February, 1867. He
met death with apparent indifference.
He was condemned to be hung in No
vember last, but on ths morning of the
day a stay of proceedings was served on
the Sheriff and he was further respited.
Hand, who was murdered, lived for
many years in dread of a death by
violence, and admitted no one to even
an mountaineering, except Kennedy.
He had sum of money in his possess
ion, but lived in a misery manner, in
order to avoid giving any one an in.
ducement to murder him.
Yard, while under the river in a diving
bell yesterday were sufocated, the air
valve becoming choked. One of them
is dead but the other may possibly re-
cover.
The Yacht Challenge, OF this city,
was lost on reef near Para, South
America, July 2S. Her crew were pick
schooner Mississippi yesterday.
Peter Hausan, a German Sailor, died
this morning of Asiatic cholera, at Belle
vue hospital.
Yellow fever is again reported at
quarantine.
BLK III 10AOOh-
lyn, was robbed yesterday OF two thou
sand dollars worth of property.
The New York State Fine Cut TObac-
CO Manufacturers Association yester-
day adopted the following resolutions ::
Resolved, That the prices OF the four
grades of chewing tobacco should not
be less than at the following rates re-
spectively: 81 20, 81, 90 cts and so cents.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
Convention no tobacco that was man
nfactured before or after the goth of July
can be sold other than in original pack
ages and properly inspected, except by
retailers TO consumers.
Only twelve bags of ofnewspapers were
injured by the fire on the New Jersey
Central Railroad. No letters were de.
stroyed. Most of the papers injured
will be redirected and sent to their des-
tination by the postoflice authorities.
Eighteen infected cattle reached this
city yesterday by the Harlem Railway.
Their whereabouts is not yet ascer-
tanned. Four of the same drove died
at Millerton, N. Y, and % are in quar-
entine there, while still others are at
Coaque. Ali came from Albany. Deaths
of western cattle have occurred at Chap
paque and Sing Sing. The Newark
Courier reports new cattle disease In
Union county, Nd, which terminates
fatally in short time. The disease Is
manly COnuneO TO Lue uebu duu l5 pro-
nounced by some to be brain fever. A
large number of cattle are sick, and at
least a dozen deaths have occurred.
Elliott, the great portrait painter, is
reported lying at the point of death at
Albany.
The printing establishment connected
with DIR. Brandreth's pill factory, at
Sing Sing, was burned last night. The
main building was saved. Fully in
sured.
A death from cholera occurred in the
Bellevue Hospital to-day. The patient
was picked up in the street and died in
half an hour.
The Hartford Live Stock Insurance
Company has been suspended, having
lost $41O,OOO within the last twenty-five
months. The treasurer of the company
held S1OO, 600, which he used for paying
losses, &c. The Superintendent OF the
Insurance Department at Albany has
notified the agents in this State to take
no more policies.
Two females named Poer, mother and
daughter, are under arrest, charged
with swindling Messerole IL Libby,
paper collar manufacturers, in whose
employ they had been as fOremen, out
of from $40, 600 to $4,000.
1t Is stated that the First National
Bank of Jersey City, the National City
Bank OF Lynn, Mass, and others, have,
within the past three years, lost Sl7 900
by abstraction of the bills from the
Comptroller's office, at Washington.