The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-08-15
NEW YORK CITY.

Thomas Owens, who had his leg crush
cd by beng pushed OFT the second avenue
car at tho same time that John Diltour
received the fatal injuries, diel at Bell
vieue Hospital yesterday. ..,..
The Board OF Health passed Tesolll.
ton to-day that careful inquiry he made
to discover US far as possible the cause Of
the high death rate in this city from 2y-
motto diseases, levers, cholera inEantum,
diarrhea, consumption, &c, and Tor this
purpose tho Sanitary Commission has
been ordered tO present the Board of
Health with weekly statements on This
subject with q view TO effective measures
TO ascertain what are the local causes OF
these diseases, The sanitary condition of
the city eycites thegravest Gpprehensions
Some OF the streets are in learfully filthy
state, and the gathering Of foul matter Is
lett to accumulate so that In some Of muCL
frequented thoroughiares the stencil has
become absolutely unbearable, The warm
weather Of the past few days will, il con.
tinued, bG likely To cause local peStilence,
unless measures for sanitary reform eat
once taken. .,i I.r ..,T. ..r..r..r. a.
Arrived, the steamship City Of London,
from Liverpool. ..I u.r.. ul rr
TwobalCs of cotton ol this years crop
were sold ut auction this morning. The
first bale, from Alabama, sold Tor % cents,
and tie second, from Georgia, at "a cents,
Coroner keenan, resumed the investigR-
ton into the cause of the Westleld explO-
sion to-day. .. .... ..r IL.
A report 0l the professional GXam,
nation Of the wreck Of the WGstfell,
by Professor ThurstOn, of lIOboken, was
heard, The iron of tho boiler WINS Of good
quality, known as charcoal No. I. The
guagc was found practically correct, the
safely valve would retain steam at thirty.
one pounds, and the government valve
blew of at thirty.two pounds. lie found
no evidence Of Overheating IN the West.
field. which CxOnefaied the. engineer
from CarClcssnCss. Lines oi weakness
caused by cOrrOsiOn, seemed 10 exist in
the Westilelds boiler, and might have
been caused by carClCssneSs.
An engineer says two boiler inspectors
made IN inspection of his boiler SatlF.
day, and pronounced 1t safe. lie snbse.
quently found the boiler had u crack M
inch long. ........ .....
The following is list OF firms embraced
In the subscription: Jay Cooke, McCul.
lock & Co., to the new 3 per cent loan,
American Syndicate, Jay Cooke & Co.,
New York, Philadelphia and Washing.
ton. Fisk d Hatch, New York; Vermilya
& CO., New York; Henry Clews & Co,
New York; Leonard, Sheldon & Foster,
New York; Fourth National Bank, New
York; Fourth National Bank, Philadel
phla; First National Bank, Washington.
The American Syndicate Subscribes for
$l0O00,000 to the European Syndicate,
Jay Cooke, ,McCulloch & Co., of London;
r. Raphael & Sons, Blrthoffheim& Gold.
schmidt, Lewis Cohn Il Sons, G. Habecht
& Co., Seyer Bro, seleymRn Bros, Anglo
Hugaman Bank, p. Caseonave Il Co.,
Samuel Montague Il Sons, Foster Il
pFooLualt, BaIluI " aith y Co., Siiigman
& Stellhcim, L. Spoyer & Ellison, Of
Frankfort; LCppam, Rosenthai & Co.,
Of Amsterdam; L. Belmont, Of Hamburg;
Oppenheim, Errend 4 Co., Of Brussels;
s. Il. BlerChrorder, OF Berlin; Munro &
Co. and Andrew & Co., of Paris. The
foregoing list embraces the leading names,
but In addition there are quite a number
OF important houses where subscriptions
are received in tho aggregate by cable,
and the details will come forward by
mail Of the European Syndicate suhscrip.
tion for $150OO,OOO. '.' @
Martin Co.'S, Assistant Foreman of
Metropolitan engine No. %, was dis,
missed from the department in disgrace
this morning for stealing watch and
chain from the dead body Of n victim Of
the Westfeld explosion.
General Sherman has written the Scott
Centenary Committee letter regretting
his inability to be presect al the cclebra.
tion tomorrow. 54..'I'
In Brooklyn, theAthletics defeated the
Atlantics by score Of 8 TO @, to-day. "