The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-06-05
NEW YORK CITY.
Proposed Consolidation of the City
Debt.

New YORK, June 3.
The project to have consolidated the
debt o. the city taken up by foreign bank.
Grs has been under consideration for some
years among New York officials. The
plan appears TO be on the eve of COnsum.
nation The Frankfort branch Of tho
house of ltothsChllls has proposed TO take
this debt, taking the securities issued md
pay the old loans as they fall due. The
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund were
considering the proposition yesterday, but
no important decision was reached. Com.
missioner Connolly says the arrangement
will be consummated If the ROtllschilds
will agree to proper terms, as he thinks
they will. If It Is done at all 1t will be
In six per cent gold bonds to run about %
years.
The coroners jury in the case of Mrs.
Maria Devine, held for killing her hus-
band, Barnard DeVine, have rendered n
verdict Of justihable homicide. The
prisoner was discharged from custody.
Yesterday afternoon the iiue OF tho fur.
mace fell on the steam supply pipe In
VIM. WOOdward's machine shop, at 513
and $40 West Twenty.fltth street, and IL
terrific explosion followed. The supply
pipe burst, and scattered fire In every dl.
reCtiOn. Almost instantly flames burst
out In several places. The property was
damaged TO the amount Of about $50 900
Insured.
A CONDEMNED MURDERER APPEALS TO
.. THE PUBLIC
Foster publishes an appeal to the pub.
lie, asking that they consider his Case dis.
passiOnately. lie says he is confident the
same feeling, which on impulse secured
conviction, will, when cool and deliberate,
do even him proper justice, and that he Is
doomed To die because Of wicked freak
resulting In tho death Of man whom he
no more intended harm seriously than he
would his own child.
Arrived, the steamship Algeria from
Liverpool
/, The story that the Rothschilds were to
take the debt Of this city is denied to-day.
VIM. II. Bradford and ]. Randall, sea
men on board the American brig Nevada,
George Lume, Captain, appeared before q
Commission today and made affidavit
that they shipped ut Bombay for II voy.
age here. Tho Captain put the crew on
short allowance, and when they made a
demand for more food he put them, with
others, on shore on the barren island of
Chumac without food. The pilot COM
1lunicated the facts TO the American Con.
sui at Zanzibar, who sent vessel to take
them of and then sent them here, where
an investigation Of the affair takes place.
s." New YoRK, June 4.
The outstanding risks OF the late Com.
mOnwealilI Fire Insurance Company, Of
this city, have been rcinsnred by the DC.
CdCnMl Insurance Company, of San
Francisco, Tor 100000, the latter assum.
ing all losses subsequent to May I'd, one
$1,000 loss having already occurred. It
Is stated that the affairs Of the Common.
wealth growworse the more thoroughly
they are examined.
A plaster cast equestrian statue Of Gen.
Winfield Scott has Just been completed
by Henry L. Browne, Newbury sCulp.
tor, and will be removed TO Philadelphia
in few days, where the statue will be
cast In bronze Of cannon captured by
Scott in Mexico. President Grant will
visit the statue this week.
Charles FeChter, the actor, and Miss
LIE Clerq sailed for Europe yesterday.
The New York Yacht Club has elected
the Grand Duke Alexis of Prussia an
honorary member.
This evening John Gillespie, a police
man, while intoxicated, assaulted Isaac
Watson and Albert Orowell, beating them
severely. Policeman VIM. Leroy, tried to
arrest Gillespie, when the latter drew
revolver and wounded Leroy three times
in the lett thigh. Gillespie was after
wards arrested, ......