Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-02
Our New York Dispatches.
Various Criminal MntIcrs-LaIesI News
About the Explosion, etc.

New YORK, Aug. 1.
One hundred and fifty thousand baskets of
peaches arrived at Jersey City yesterday.
Amos Billings, formerly heavy operator in
the pork market and lately in stocks, died in
this city Sunday.
Benjamin f. Cooper, the produce merchant,
who cut his throat Saturday after attempting to
kill his wife, died last night.
George Sanders and Henry Kreps of Jersey
City were drowned in the Hackensack river,
Sunday afternoon, by the capsizng Of boat.
Dragging for bodies at the scene of the eX-
plosion was resumed at daybreak, but up to
this hour, II 80 A. NJ, no additional ones have
been found
The directors of the New York, West Shore
and Chicago railroad company yesterday elected
j. NJ. Courtney, president; w. NJ. Richards,
treasurer; L. NJ. Guthrie, secretary; and Charles
B. Stuart, engneer-in-chief
John b. Cornell, surviving partner of j. B.
and w. w. Cornell, has applied for a manda-
mus TO the supreme court to compel the pay
ment by the city to him, as survivor Of the firm,
4,725, value of the material furnished for the
new court house.
Albert S. Yeaton made application TO Judge
Cordozo yesterday to have the Tobacco manu-
facturers' association dissolved. The corpora
ton has capital of 900, the trustees of
which are Nathaniel Sands, Moses H. Grinnell,
Henry Holdseye, Courtlandt Palmer, Jr., E.
Winchester, and Samuel W Barnard, who are
all made parties defendant to the suit The
plaintiff was one of the trustees and secretary
of the association. The complaint charges the
defendants with evasion of the law, inasmuch
as they intended TO let out the capital, stock and
patents; and that they now propose to pledge
the stock for loan that they, at an irregular
meeting, removed him from the secretaryship of
the association, which he claims to be illegal.
The argument was postponed.
Ldtest.-The latest reports place the killed at
seventy-five, and the wounded at about $50.
Search for the bodies of victims near the scene
of disaster ceased late this afternoon none hav-
ing being been recovered since morning. The
Brooklyn cOrOners will begin an inquest on the
bodies of the dead from that city tomorrow,
which Investigation the New York authorities
have postponed for week. The Park theatre,
Brooklyn, announces that the proceeds of its
next Saturday afternoon performance will be
devoted to the relief OF the sufferers by the dis
aSter.
Measures have been taken to present testi-
monial to the Whitehall boatmen for their brave
and generous conduct in rescuing the passen-
gers of the Westfeld number of prominent
clergymen called on Mayor Hall yesterday, and
requested him to appoint day of PRAYER and
fasting, in recognition of the recent Affections
to which the city had been subjected. Only
two victims of the explosion remain at the
Centre street hospital, Patrick Buckley and a
girl of seven years. The latter was identified
this morning as a child of Jewish parents,
parents are among the wounded at Bellevue
hospital. Her sisters Anna and Lenoira were
killed. There are only slight hopes for the re-
coyery of Patrick Buckley.
All Of the papers publish lists of the killed
and wounded by the explosion of the ferry boat
Westield on Sunday. The Tribune states that
there are 81 dead and 1913 wounded. The World
gives the names of II dead, describes as I'M
known, and names of 100 wounded. The Times
names SO dead, unknown and 1876 wounded.
The Herald names 65 dead and describes % as
still unknown. The Standard states that there
are "a dead and over 200 wounded. Among the
killed is David Dow of Manchester, Vt.,who was
visiting a married daughter in Brooklyn. She
and her husband escaped with slight injuries.
Seventeen of the victims were residents of Brook
Ign. A Phillips family of six persons, of East
45th street, were sitting in carriage near the
boiler at the fatal moment. Three were killed
and two Others are still unconscious. Michael
Finley, who lost a wife and child by the explo-
sion, attempted suicide yesterday by jumping
into the East river. Col Meacc, former part
ner of Garibadi, is still in precarious c0ndi-
ton.