Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-11-25
nominated Oakley Hall for Mayor and
Richard Shea for Council.

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nominated Oakley Hall for Mayor and
| Richard Shea for Council.
E. - sCIsizens' NIeetIng.1 -
There was an adjourned meeting of citi-
| zens' at the Fifth Avenue Hotel hast night,
at which Greeley and Raymond are said
| to have been present. 1t was decided in
expedient to run an independent candidate
| for Mayor. =. ,.-. 81.
-s'9 J1r WOrkfngwOmen. sas.e .se
A well attended meeting of the Work
lingwomen's Association took place last
evening. Committees were appointed to
report upon the work AMI wages Of women
in different pursuits, and addresses were de-
livered by several ladies. 5as pr .ssF
Tf' Bonds.
Mr.. McCulloch has written to Mr.. Van
Dyke that he shall not sell any more bonds
during his administration. sY.s.E
~ ia o-'-a- 5- Fire. -sf'- "a
On Sunday morning the stables of the
American House, Trenton, N. j., and the
stables of Ivans and Mount, with nine
horses, seventeen new sleighs and an .ims'
mense quantity of harness, hay, &C., were
sentirely destroyed by fire. Little insur-
iance. '0Ac1' 2 a To 2 re-
The Fire on Broadway.
The loss by fire in the Triuity building,
No. III Broadway. is greater than at first
reported. Hatch and Co., lithographers
occupied the fifth and top floor. This floor,
with the contents, was entirely destroyed.
They had one million pounds of Telegraph
stores destroyed, making a loss of over
$500, 600. Their presses, and $4,000 copies
tOt Demorest's monthly, containing colOred
fashion plates were also destroyed. The
/, loss OF the firm is about $250,000, of which
| there is an insurance of 1000 in city
icompanies.c The fire was confined to the
upper floor, but the building to the base
iment was saturated with water, causing an
iestimated loss of $350,000. The building
lis Insured to the amount of $100,000.r 1t
twas owned by the Trinity Church corpo-
iration and fully insured. Among the suf-
Sferers is General E. B. Viel, who loses
many valuable maps and engineering
works, among them his elaborate original
tplans for the Central Park and Prospect
Bank Of Brooklyn. The occupants below
the fifth floor have sustained losses bv wa
ter varying from $500 or$300up to $4,000.
ao5,2ioy ie J713} Erie. {s7t elohssi
| Henry B. Whelpley. a citizen of New
fJersey, yesterday preferred bill of com-
,plaint before udge Bla,chford, Of the Uni
ited States Court, asking inquiry, into the
validity of the issue of the 100000 shares OF
/ Erie stock in, exchange for convertible
bonds, under a resolution passed by the
Board OF Directors; on the 10Th of February
last, and if it should be adjudged illegal
that they be compelled to make good to
the holders the amount thereof; that mean
while an Injunction be placed oa the Com
pany, preventing their parting with the
property, and "a receiver be- appointed
and the Company directed to transfer
enough property d to him to meet the
claims of the plaintiff anda others.
On this complaint Judge Blatchford
issued the Injunction and appointed Jay
Gould receiver of the road to the extent
above mentioned, with snfetfes IN one mil
money and securities be placed in, his
hands, subject to public order, this court
to protect the plaintiffs and others. Mr..
4oald,s bnndl was then filed, Henry M.
Smith, James Fisk jr., w. M. Tweed
and II. .Bs'Smith being the sureties. BsyTnfs
Two new suits have been begun by the
Erie Company, one against Belmont and
others, and the second against Richard
5chell, Daniel Drew and Frank Work. In
the first the Company claim one million
dollars against the defendants for hamper
! ing them in Che course of their business by
/; means of suits last spring, and those re-
Gently begun on the other. Damages to
] the extent offeur hundred and ninety-tive
thousand dollars are claimed for alleged
corruption of the defendants, while acting
as directors in June last, said amount hav-
! ing, been paid cut of the, ,funds5of the Chm
! pany by Messrs. Eldridge, Drew and
Thompson to settle the first named suits,
! and out of which said Work received $780,
600 and alsobdught from friends ofG Schell
] for the Company five millions of its own
stock, for which he paid one million more
thanIits actual value. Gould also alleges
! that offers have been made to agents of the
Company to settle the recent Belmont suit
| III the Company would pay them a large
| amount OF money. o. .5ahs rit-ut - 80
| Judge Barnard to-day issued an order
vacatfhg the orders granted by Judge
Sutherland yesterday subsequently Judge
| Sutherland issued an order requiring the
I defendants to show cause why the order OF
Judge Barnard should not be vacated. 1t
will be argued to morrow Fisk and Gould
| are interested in the Erie railroad depot at
the footof Chambers street. No person is
| permitted to approach who cannot prove
/ himself a friend and brother, and even then
| there1are more keys to turn and bolts to
unbar than at the Tombs. There are some
[ deputy Sheriffs inside the building,9 on
| what business they refuse to tel.S Essz
| t~-,., General HITLER. sssv T...,
A dispatch from Lowell says Gen. Butler
| is quite well. 'di-io2 2aiEs 'sA tesH OF g. 1