Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-09
Miscellaneous Dispatches.

ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.

ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.
New YORK, Feb. S.-Henry Steinway, found
er of the well known piano Arm of Stenway &
Sons, died at his residence, in this city, yester
day.
Dispatches report anxiety at Washington for
the safety of the Tennessee, in which the San
Domingo commission sailed. She has been out
for three weeks, though nine or ten days usually
sutfices for a voyage. The weather since her
departure has been very rough, and though this
fact cannot be looked upon as wholly encour-
aging, it may account for the length of the
voyage. 1t has been expected at Washington
that her arrival at SANTANA would be announced
by telegraph from Havana, but il is not certain
perhaps not even probable, that vessel was
found ready at SANTANA to carry the news to
Havana.
The pocket book containing S25, 900 in bonds
and notes, stolen Saturday from the messenger
of the Chatham national bank, has been re-
turned TO the bank.
Louis Pearow, a Nova Scotian, was arrested
in this city yesterday, and sent back to Massa-
chusetts, for stealing horse and wagon from
L. L. Copeland, OF Milton, Mass.
Judge Brady, in a suit brought to foreclOse
the mortgage on a lot in Greenwood cemetery
Yesterday decided that tratiitking the sanctuary
Of the dead was illegal, except on an absolute
conveyance of the title.
George w. WittenbeTg, of Jersey City, COM
mtted suicide, this morning, at 1865 Greene
street, house of ill-fame. C0nsequence-rum
and jealousy,
George r. Thompson, a young Wall street
lawyer, who was among the lost in the Hudson
river railroad accident, was a graduate of Yer
mont university, son of the late Judge d. P.
Thompson, of Montpelier, VT, and brother of
Daniel q. Thompson, a teacher in the SPRING
field Mass, high school.
A brother of Bierstadt, the artist, was severely
burned, Monday night, by an explosion in
StndiO building, on Eighth street.
Win rioI and
vctcd at the December term of the general ses-
siOls in this ci,y before Recorder Hackett, on
the charge of grand larceny, he having stolen
eleven thousand dollars in bonds from the may
or OF Bangor, Me hung himself last night at
the tombS prison, and was found dead this morn
ing in his cell. The suicide was accomplished
with sheet fastened to the door of the cell.
Stevens was about fifty years of age. The fol-
lowing letter, directed to the warden, was found
on his bed:
"Mr. rden Scacom; Before another morn
lnE daWnS | shall have gone on that Journey
from whence no Traveller returns that we have
any authentic account of. My brain for the
last ten days has been under fearful excitement,
and came TO the resolve to put an end to an
existence which has become the most miserable
for having been convicted on false charge by
Andrew Hayford, mayor of Belfast Maine;
George W. Buchanan of the same city, and
MOnsOn Young OF Ellsworth, Me-"
He concludes by declaring his innocence and
stignatizng the evidence against him as false.
1t is rumored that for several days past Off
GERS and the principal directors Of large west
ern railroad company have been travelling over
the entire route Of the Erie railway with view
Of making an offer for itS purchase or lease.
THE COAL QUESTION.
READING, Pa, Feb. THE board of trade
this afternoon appointed L committee from vari
GUS regions in the STATE in which the manufac
turing interests are subjected to disadvantages
! by the coal striker. These committees are au
| thorlzgd TO call state convention if they deem
| 1t cXpcdicnt, and to lly before it any PROPOSE
! tons they may m lturc looking to an absolut
| suppression Of the existing system of suspen
! slons. TIe business interests of this city arr
beginning 20 sufit seriously, aud manufacturer
are very decided in their demands for change