Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-18
Miscellaneous Dispatches,



New YORK, Jan. 1.-THE steamer Buenos
Ayres, for Falmouth, while going down the bay
last evening, ran into an unknown schooner
The steamer had her fore yard carried away
and the schooner had her bowsprit carried away
and her bulwark stove. The steamer returned
and anchored off Staten island.
Eugene Smith, a resident of Tompkinsville, S
| l., son of cx-Consul Smith, a passenger on the
brig G, II, Troop, for Kingston, Jamaica, fell
overheard yesterday and was drowned, The
body was recovered.
The advocates of the collegiate education fol
women met last night in Rutgers college. They
wish to dissolve the joint stock company who
| own Rutgers College, and make 1t selfdircCtEn
and independent. One hundred Thousand dol
lars was needed Immediately, and 100000 in q
short time. The special object OF the meeting
was to raise funds, The result was uusatsfac
tory. Peter Cooper, chancellor of Pruyn uni.
versity in the state of New York; D. Beckman
| president Of the New York college; DR.. H. II.
| Van Dick; DR.. Pivel, president of Rutgers col.
lege, and DR.. A. R. Thompson, made addresses
on the necessity of higher standard of educa-
ton for women.
There are conflicting reports as to the fate of
the Hornet expedition, but the mass of evidence
seems to indicate that Ryan and his men met
with disaster after landing, though the vessel
escaped to sea without injury, and though con-
fnlng themselves wholly to the assertions the
Cuban agents here are positive Of the safety of
the expedition.
Neither Judge Cardozo nor any of the Nathan
family know anything about the last report of
the discovery of the Nathan murderer.
Three hundred shOemakers, all Crispns, are
on strike at New Brunswick, N. j., because
the bosses announced their intention to employ
whom they liked, be he Crispin or not
The San Domingo commissioners, with at
tendants, went on board the Tennessee at eleven
O'Clock this morning and expect to clear the
harbOr before evening.
Al
Z. $. Stokes, charged with defrauding the
Brooklyn Gil refinery company of S27 900, on
the ground that the company, though in the
form of a corporation, must be treated as a CO.
partnership, land that under this view the case of
Stokes was not within the terms of the statute
relative to embezzlement
SNOW STORM in CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-The first great snow
storm of the season, which prevailed forty-eight
hours terminated lrst night The snow this
morning is from 20 to q inches deep on level,
and is badly drifted Many of the streets are
almost impossible. The railroad trains have
been but little interrupted, as the storm extend
cd only few miles out of the city. A conductor
of freight train named Look, and a brakeman
named Williams, on the Michigan Southern
railroad, while engaged IN shoveling snow from
in front of their train near Englewood last eve
ming, were run over by locomotive coming in
an opposite direction, and instantly killed.
ARREST OF FILKINs.
SARATOGA, N. Y, Jan. 17.-Filkins, the sus-
pected Albany express robber and attempted as
sassn, was caught last night at Schroon. He
acknowledged that he was Filkins, but denied
that he committed the crime, and asserts that
he can prove his innocence He declares that
he left Albany on account of the suspicious
against him. He. will be taken to Albany to-
night.
oUTLAwRY IN NORTH CAROLINA.
New YORK, Jan. 1.-THE Heralds special
from Goldsboro, N. c., says there is a gang of
outlaws in Robson county, who keep the cit
zens continually in a state of terror. On Satur-
day a man named Taylor was shot and killed by
a squad of these, while a company of federal
troops were only two hundred yards distant
The murders escaped. Not long since the out
laws captured one of the United States soldiers
who was on duty as a sentinel, who has not
since been heard from Besides murder, arson
and robbery, this gang frequently outrage
women, cut off the ears of their victims and
commit the most daring Outrages and barbara
ties under the very noses Of a company of Unit
ed States troops sent there months since to pro-
tect the citizens, and, if possible, capture the
gang; but in both they have signally failed
Lowry and his blood thirsty gang still go at
large, and no citizens within range of their
travels know when they retire TO their couches
at night but what they may be sacrificed before
the next mornings sun may rise.