The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-06-23
WHEELING WEST VA WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE %, 1869.
ST. LOUIS.
Trial of Capt. Donaldson OF the Great
Republic for the Murder of the
Negro Anderson.
ST. LOUIS, June 22'

ST. LOUIS, June %.
Capt. Barr, first clerk of the steamer
Great-Republic, testified in the Donald
son trial, yesterday, that he was not
present when Anderson was shot; was
asleep in his room; was In the baggage
| room, however, with Donaldson be-
tween II and 12H O'Clock; thought An
dersOn and Glover were sitting or lying
| on the trunks; didn't hear any con-
sultation between them: Donaldson had
been talking with him about business;
Donaldson was going up town; knew
nothing about $500 note of his father
in-lAW and Donaldson to pay for run
ming of Ray and Glover; Donaldson
never told me how much it cost him to
get Ray and Glover out OF the way.
DR.. Mckinley testified that while he
was in charge of the dispensary at DIR.
Pope's College, Glover applied for med
ical treatment, and in a conversation
aldson did not do the shooting on the
Republic, but was absent during the
fuss; next saw Glover on the 9th of
last month in Jail, and he turned
as white as corpse when he saw me.
Mr., William Livingston, ESQ, of the
steamer testified that he was on watch
from ~ to o'clock, he and Jackson
the watchman; setting on the steps;
when pistol was fired; had been there
about one hour before the shot was
heard; we could see the baggage room;
nobody came out of the baggage room;
no one could go into the room without
our seeing them; after hearing the pts-
toI, Sam Ray looked out and Jackson
asked him what was the matter; he
said oh nothing and shut the door; Geo.
Williams could not have been there;
l did not see him at all that night; he
was not standing at the steps at the
time the report WAS heard; the watch
man and myself were the only persons
awake on the boat; Ray did not go out
but opened the door and shut 1t again;
there was no other noise about the
boat while 1 was awake; 1 did not see
Barr nor Donaldson; saw nobody come
out OF the baggage room.
VIM. Thompson Caber, watchman,
swore that he was on duty all night;
heard them running for somebody on
the levee; don't know where Captain
Donaldson was then; it was between one
and two O'Clock that the man ran of:
Capt. Donaldson left long before that;
about two hours; heard no pistol shot;
did not know the man was killed until
the watch came aboard; didn't see Geo.
Williams that night; Williams told me
when he went of the boat to tell Sam.
Raw he would be back about O'Clock
the next day; Williams said to me, II
am very glad was not here, or would
have been in that trouble;" never told
Williams that followed Donaldson to
the baggage room about 2 O'Clock; 1t |
was after Barr went to bed that 1 heard |
the pistol shot; did not tell any body the |
negroes were raising hell; do not recol- |
lect of telling any one that Captain
Donaldson was in the baggage room |
raising hell; did not know anything
about the fuss until the policemen came |
on board; did not see Barr after he went
to bed about one O'Clock; left Sam.
Ray down in the Office in the cabin.
Alfred b. Paxett, second clerk of the |
boat, testified that he heard George |
Williams, the second porter, say he
was glad he was not on the boat as he
might have been mixed up in the fuss.
THE M'CooLE-ALLEN STAKES NOT
GIVEN UP.
At late hour last night Tom Allen |
denied that the stake money in his fight |
with McCoole had been given up, and
does not want persons who bet on the
fight TO gve up their money.
OPENING OF THE IRON MOUNTAIN RAIL |
ROAD.
The Iron Mountain Railroad will be
opened to~day TO Frodericktown, 1Oo
miles from st. Louis, This leaves only |
Il gap of twenty-five miles to be ironed |
between here and Belmont, which will
be finished in a few days. Mr.. Allen, |
the President of the road, will start for |
New York in a few days on business
in connection with the construction of
a road from Marley, Mo-, along the |
western bank of the Mississippi river |
to a point opposite Memphis. The
counties in this State through which |
the contemplated road will pass are
awake to the importance and necessity |
of the road. Already New Madrid |
county las voted to give eighty |
and the citizens here agreed to
take stock to the amount OF 500, 900
more, Scott county has agreed to do |
nate $1,000 acres of her swamp lands,
to be increased by the subscriptions OF
the citizens. Pemiscot county subs
scribed so, 600 acres, and 1t was agreed
that the claims 10 $4,000 acres of swamp
lands by the county against the gener~
al Government would likewise be given
to the road. The citizens will also sub
scribe money. The road will be located
about one mile from the river, thereby
forming q levee that will be of vast
benefit in reclaiming an immense tract |
of land from overflow. 1t is estimated |
that in Pemiscot county alone about
200 ,OGO acres of overtlowed lands will
be reclaimed by the proposed road. The
distance that it runs in this State Will
be u miles.-beyond the state line.
The Arkansas people are stirring in the
matter.
TIE PAYMENT OF THE MISSOURI INTER-
EsT-HoLD OR CURRENCY.
A special from Jefferson city to the
Democrat says, in reference to recent
statement tn the New York EUening
Post that Missouri will pay the inter
est on her bonds in gold; that $3.50, 600
in currency has been placed in New
York to pay the interest, but that no
attempts has been made nor have any
steps been contemplated to convert 1t
into gold for the purpose named. 1t is
stated, however, that the Attorney !
General has given an opinion that the
State is legally bound to pay the gold,
but in reply to a question by the Fund
Commissioner whether the Legislature
them to buy gold to pay
the interest, which he replied that it
had not, and there the matter rests.
Gen. Sheridan arrived at Omaha yes
terday, efs route to Chicago.
The House Committee on Ways and
Means spent last Sunday at Salt Lake
CITY, and reached PromontOry Point
yesterday on their, way to San Fran
cisco.