Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-08
Miscellaneous Dispatches.


SAN Francisco, April Elm the trial of Mrs.
Fair, for the murder of A. Z. Crittenden, Mrs.
Fair testified all day yesterday in her own be-
half She admitted having been married four
times-once since her adultrous connection With
Crttenden. Two of her husbands committed
suicide, from one she obtained divorce, land one
was living undiyorced when she married the last
two She avowed the most advanced flee-love
sentiments declaring herself Crittenden's true
wife in the sight of God, though his wife, to
whom he had been married thirty.two years, and
the mother of his children, was still living. She
said ner recent marriage with Sydner did not
make her his wife because she did not love him.
Two women who appauded her yesterday were
fined S25 each for contempt of court.
VIM. Willis of Virginia City, Nevada, an in
cendiary, has been sentenced to twenty-one
years in the state prison.
Capt. Fowler, and his mate, Turner, of the
bark Madawaska, were fined $1,000 each at Port
land, Oregon, for severely beating seaman.
THE COAL TROUBLES.
HARRISBURG, April 6.-The senate judiciary
committee, yesterday, made a final report of
their investigation into the coal troubles. Only
the Lackawanna and Bloomsbury company has
exceeded the legal tariff. Inquiry whether the
action of the companies amounted TO abuses OF
their chartered privileges can only be made by
quo lCdTTdntO of the law officers of the state.
The committee close by recommending arbitra-
ton between the miners and the railroads. The
legislature ordered the report printed. Mr..
Bowen president of the Reading railroad, has
submitted a proposition for compromise with
the miners, which will be voted upon by the
members of the woTkingmen's benevolent as
ISOLATION. Its principal points are: First, work
ingmen to agree to abandon all control over sal
aries and all interference with employment or
discharge of men; second, operators to agree not
TO discharge any one simply on account of his
belonging to the workingmens benevolent asso-
citation; third, their work TO be resumed at once
upon the $3.50 basis; fourth, on or before the
22d of April a board of arbitration and c0ncilia-
ton TO meet, composed of the six delegates
from the workingmen's benevolent association
and six delegates from the anthracite board of
trade, the twelve chosen to select an umpire,
and then fix the rate of wages to be paid for the
balance of the year after April, and this board
shall from time to time settle and adjust all the
differences between the parties, and in case of
their being unable TO agree the decision of the
umpire shall be final; fifth, simultaneously with
a general resumption of work upon these terms
the charges upon the Reading railroad are to be
reduced.
ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.
New YORK, April Con the evening of Sat
urday, Jan. %, between the hours Of six and
nine, the store of Churchill, Gilman & Co., deal
ers in gloves, &c. at5) Chauncey street, Boston,
was entered by burglars and 300 dozen pairs of
gloves worth $4,000, and sixteen pieces of silk,
worth S44S0 were stolen. The detectives sus-
pected George Hall, notorious burglar, then in
Boston, and watched him. Hall had previously
served fifteen years in prison for various crimes,
and at the time of the robbery had only been re-
leased two months. AT last he was traced to
the house of Dr. Hogee on Oxford street, which
is near private alley leading out of Oxford
place. Here Mrs. Hogee told the officers that
Hall had hired rooms two months before, and
that she had overheard him and his partner plan
the burglary. Hall brought the goods TO his
room, where Mrs. HOgee saw them, and pro-
I. i.
the packages. These she gave up. From this
place Hall was traced to Pleasant street, where
he was living with woman of bad character.
He was arrested on information received from
Mrs. Hogee.
Detective Wood went to Providence, where he
arrested Peter Mcguire, with one hundred and
fifty dozen of the stolen gloves in his possession.
John Fowler, keeper of the house where Hall
was captured, was found to he an accomplice
and was arrested. The rest of the goods could
not be found. On Wednesday last Mr.. Church
hill came to this city to make his spring pur-
chases. Among Others who called upon him
was Simon Selgman of 10 Franklin street. This
merchant informed him that a day or two before
he had purchased tiftyseven dozen gloves of a
responsible party, but that from certain marks
on them he concluded that they were part of
those stolen in Boston. This proved to be the
case, and Detective Field was detailed to find
the receiver. Yesterday he arrested Rudolph
Luttosch of Hoboken, and the evidence being
almost conclusive against him he was commit
ted by Justice Hogan to-day. 1t is supposed
that the rest of the stolen goods came to this
city.
The meeting of the union republican central
committee, Greeley branch, tonight was a
stormy one. The committee declined to accede
to the request Of the state central committee
that they combine with the Murphy faction, and
resolutions were adopted rejecting severely upon
Gen. Grants action in the Summer and San Do
mingo matters, and in the removal of Grinnell
and Palmer from the custom house. Horace
Greeley presided
inc American Bible society, yesterday, elected
Rev. E. w. Gilman corresponding secretary, and
appointed Rev. Dr.. Storrs, of Brooklyn a dele
gate to attend the anniversary of the British
and foreign Bible society in London next month.
The receipts for the year ending April / were
$730,O0O, and 951 900 Bibles and Testaments
were issued
RIOT AMONG THE SCRANTON MINERS.
SCRANTON, April IA large body of miners
and boys from other mines congregated at
Trips Slope yesterday afternoon, and as
saulted with clubs end stones the men at work
in the place and stopping the work. 1t is re-
ported this morning that four or five hundred
miners had been driven out of Connects mine,
and the mine worked by Morris & Weeks. AT
the latter place they blew up the mouth of the
slope with powder taken from the mine, tore up
the railroad track, and committed other depre-
datous. Three men were killed and several
wounded at Trips Slope this morning.