Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-22

A boy named Ernest Cost died on Friday at
East New York, from having been run over by
"a horse car the driver Of which obliged the boy
to jump off while under way, declining to stop
when asked.
Frederick fireman, aged thirty-eight, died at
Belleville hospital yesterday, in consequence of
having been run over by a car on the Third ave-
nue. line, on the 10Th inst. He was for some
reason kicked off the front platform of the car
by the conductor. His hat fell off, and as he
stopped to pick it up he fell on the track and the
wheel passed over his leg. The car was then
driven off and no assistance rendered. The con-
ductor is known and the coroner has ordered his
arrest.
The eleven jurors drawn in the Foster murder
case are living high at the Astor house, guarded
hy four armed officers of the supreme court.
They are permitted to see and converse with
their relatives or friends in the presence and
within the hearing ofan officer, but they are not
permitted to go to any part of the hotel unless
accompanied. They are permitted to read pa
pers, which they purchase themselves, each
sending for such as he desires. Their meals are
served in their rooms-breakfast, dinner and
supper-but malt and spurious liquors and
wines are strictly prohibited. The county, how
ever, furnishes them with cigars. BY order OF
Judge Cardozo the lsraeltes were permitted to
attend their synagogues yesterday, if they so de-
sired, Of course attended by officers, and those
who wished to attend divine service to-day were
allowed to do so.
Henry C. Justus who testified against Rad.
cliffe the great diamond smuggler, under prom
Use of exemption from the law, was yesterday
committed for trial as an accomplice The
judge decided that one Whitley, detective,
was unauthorized to give such promises to
criminals.
A meeting was held in the Twenty-second
street church this evening to form an American
Palestine exploration society. Rev. Drs. Cros-
by, Hitchcock and THOMPSON are active in the
mr. d1uilI oIJ
Owing to the prevalence of incendary fires in
West HobOken, Union and Weehawken, N. j.,
the citizens of these places have voted to form
vigilance committees. Within a short time
over $4,000 worth Of property have been burned
there.
Jack Enright, list ward murderer of this
city, has been sentenced to ten years IN prison
in New Jersey for highway robbery.
A man named Roberts has been arrested for
selling counterfeit tickets on the Erie railway
Five hundred dollars worth were found on him,
aud So 900 worth at his house. Nearly all the
rOughs who attended the Mace-Cobum fizzle
were supplied with these counterfets. The
road has been swindled lately some $50 900 by
these bogus tickets.
Edward Nevins, who was arrested on a charge
of selling counterfeit tickets over Erie and
other roads TO large amount. has been com.
mitted FOR trial in default of So, 900 bail.
Steamboat racing has again commenced on
the Hudson river. The steamers Sedgwick and
Adelphi, of opposition lines, were racing up the
Hudson Friday evening, and when nearing
Yonkers each boat endeavored to outstrip the
other, determined to reach the dock first, and
there was much excitement on the boats. A
small boat was run down in the contest and
two men in it were obliged to leap into the wa
ter and swim ashore.
Steamships Main for Bremen, Anglia and City
Of Paris for Liverpool, and the Lafayette fol
Havre, sailed to-day, taking an aggregate of ovel
thousand passengers. Among them were Vic
tor Place, French consul-general, and NJ de Jar
din, chancellor of the French legation.
The papers in the case of Mrs. Clahin, mother
of the female brokers of Broad street, against
DR.. James Harvey Blood, the husband of Mrs
Victoria Woodruff, and the company in the firm
of Woodruff, Clahin, & Co, were called up yes
terday afternoon at Essex Market police court
There was large and eager crowd of spectators
IN the court. The charge was that Blood had
threatened the complainant's life. Judge Led.
with decided that the prisoner was discharged
A controversy between Morgan & Sons and j
L. Iapscott, both claiming possession of ship
| VIM. Iapscott, is assuming serious dim, nsionS
| Saturday, under orders Of the United State;
commissioner, body of United States marshals
with platoon of marines from the navy yard
took forcible possession of the ship at her wharf
to be turned to the navy yard to await the &C
ton Of the United States courts.
Judge McCue has decided, in the action o
| Cole 4 Murphy against the Central bank, Brook
| Ign, for $4,000, the amount of their deposi
when the bank failed, that the directors are ii
able for the losses sustained by the depositors
This morning, carpenter shop and vitrio
factory, owned by Mayor KalbdeisCh Brooklyn
were completely destroyed by fire. Damage
$4,000; no insurance. The origin of the fire il
unknown.