The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-03
UnderclOthing
M. GUTMAN & cos.
New York Items.

Npw YORK, December 2.-Fort La
fayette was almost entirely destroyed
last evening, by the explosion of a lot
Of shells in the centre of the fort No
one was hurt. The fire is still burning.
The fort has recently been garrisoned
only by sergeant-guard from Fort
Hamilton.
A note dated Port Jervis, December
l, from James Fisk, states that he left
New York early on Monday morning, to
settle up some affairs relative to the
rolling mill of the Erie company, and
for no other purpose. The money of
the Erie company, he says, is not, nor
has it been, in his charge, but in the
treasury of the company, and the rival
receivers can get at it now as we'll as
when he was in tie city.
Justice Balloon, of Birmingham, sit
ting at special term of the Supreme
Court in that city, yesterday granted an
order on the application of the Attor-
ney General of the State, eDjoining the
Erie Railroad Company, by its directors,
from delivering or transporting any
property to receiver or other person
other than the receiver to be appointed
by the court, and naming Hon. Giles w.
Hotchkiss of this city, as referee, to take
testimony of all matters. transactions,
&C., of that company, and to file his re-
port with the evidence taken by him
with this court. This action sustains the
directors of the road against all per-
sons.
William A. Shaw and c. Smith were
arrested, last night, while attempting
to break through the party wall of an
adjoining building to reach the vaults
of the East River National Bank ut GAO
Broadway.
A dispatch from Clyde, Ohio, of the
1st inst, states that the three children
of the murdered woman, Smith, of
Kingstown, have beeu found there.
A can of powder exploded yesterday
on the grounds of the Dean Ore Mining
Company, at Fort Montgomery, on Hud-
son river, killing Thos. Hustled, John
Read and VIM. Trevailen and w"unding
one other fatally and three others slight
ly. The explosion was the result OF
carelessness.
The jury at White Plains, yesterday,
rendered a verdict in favor of the claims
of Mrs. Catherine Taylor and children
to their portion of the property left by
VIM. Taylor, they deciding she was his
lawful widow.
Amovement is on foot for the removal
of the Union College from Schenectady
to Albany.
1t is stated that Captain +. W. Meade,
United States Navy, has been five weeks
| in the lunatic asylum because lie op-
posed the marriage of his daughter,
and that efforts are being made legally
to obtain his release.
Seventeen Democrats and four Re-
publican assistant aldermen were elect
cd yesterday. The school commissioners
and trustees chosen are all Democrats.
Rev. DR.. Littlejohn has accepted the
call of the Episcopals of Long Island.
Mrs. Gatewood, who committed sui
eide yesterday in consequence Of being
detected in pilfering, was native OF
st. Louis and related to some of the
most respectable families of that city
and New Orleans. A few years ago her
husband died, leaving her and son in
INDECENT circumstances. Since then
she has been in constant reception OF
remittances from a wealthy aunt in
New Orleans and nephew in Paris.
Since the loss of her child she has been
a victim of kleptOmania.