Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-23
Our New York Dispatches,
Tried for Mutiny-The BPickInyers'
strike-CIaims against the Staten island
Ferry COmpnny-BOId Burglars, etc.

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Tt is reported that
Capt. Rodan, of the steam tug StarbuCk, the
boiler of which exploded on Saturday, killing
George Williams, fireman, has given the widow
of the deceased $50 in full settlement of her
claims.
The order reducing the wages of the Erie rail-
way employees ten per cent was resisted by the
men unloading cars at Pavonia depot. The SUI
periutendent promised that the wages would
not be reduced
An Englishman named Richardson, recently
residing at Fort Wayne, Ind, returned TO this
city from Liverpool on Sunday, to prosecute the
proprietor of an exchange office on Liberty
street, for defrauding him Of oyer $4,000 in eX-
changing currency for English gold.
As the Long Branch steamer Plymouth Rock
was making her way out of the NarrowS, on her
regular afternoon trip to Sandy Hook, she was
very nearly struck with loaded bomb shell
which was discharged from the battery on Staten
Island, and which flanks Fort Wadsworth on
the right. At the time the shell came scream
ing through the air from the battery the Ply
mouth Rock was about one and a half miles
from the Staten Island shore, and was just en-
tering the lower bay. The shell passed almost
within hair breadth of the stern Of the steamer,
and struck the water some fifty yards from the
vessel, when it exploded with such NOISE as to
alarm all ON board. The shell exploded under
water, otherwise the fragments might have been
sent flying through the all, damaging the steamer,
and perhaps occasioning the loss of many lives.
As it was the water was thrown up in an i'm
mense column something like fifty or sixty feet.
The general committee of the capitalists par
tcipatng in the movement to compel the show
ing of the city accounts by Tammany officials,
met yesterday. Nearly all the members were
present, and there was protracted but harmo-
niOus discussion of the contemplated measures,
and further arrangements were made for a great
meeting to be held at Cooper Institute Septem-
Der 4. A subcommittee was also appointed to
draft resolutions and appoint speakers. The
movement is said TO be gaining strength, and in
cludeS men of all parties.
The jury empanneled to hold an inquest on
the body of Edward Hargroves, drowned in
Gloucester county, rendered a verdict yesterday
duplicating four persons in causing his death.
The latest actions arising out of the Westfield
disaster are commenced by MesSrs. Crook, Ber-
gen & Clement, who have served the company
with papers in the case of Mrs. Della L. Groom
of Flatbush, L. l., who was seriously injured,
and Mrs Nader OF Brooklyn, whose husband
was killed.
Commissioner Davenport began to-day the ex
animation of seamen Parker, Neville Long and
Waters of the American ship Nevada, accused
of mutiHy on the recent voyage from Boston to
Rio Janeiro. The second mate gave an account
of the affair substantially the same as that al
ready published, and on Friday the testimony
for the defense will be heard. The Nevada is
now on d voyage from Rio to Singapore, and
some time will elapse before her arrival in this
country.
The bricklayers' strike for $3.50 per day is
practically at an end, the employers conceding
the advance, though many non-society men
continue TO work at 81
Daniel Mahoney, Brooklyn, having been APP
pointed administrator on the estate of his two
sons killed by the Westfeld explosion has sued
the ferry company for $4,000 damages in each
case.
Six first class dwellings, on list street, be-
tween 4th and Lexington avenue, have been
plundered by burglars, some of them twice.
within the last few days, of large quantity
of clothing, jewelry and plate. In the residence
of Franklin Waterbury, Saturday night, the
family were all choroformed, and nearly $4,000
worth of plumber removed.