Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-31

John ROurke died last night at the hospital
| from beating by the nineteenth ward rOughs a
| few davs since.
James Lamb also died at the hospital this
morning from stabS received in saloon fight on
| 18th street, yesterday.
Policeman BOlaustyn had an eve cut out by a
| drunken woman this morning.
Mrs. Pelton, residing on Yates avenue Brook
| Ign, was fatally burned, yesterday, by the ex-
| plosiOn of Il bottle Of gasoline.
There were only three stabbing cases in the
| city, yesterday, neither of which was fatal.
A mob of men and women in Williamsburg,
yesterday, nearly tore a policeman to pieces to
| prevent him taking a drunkard TO the station.
Reiniorcements from the station saved the Off
| GERS life and quelled the riot.
The additional subscriptions received by the
| committee of the preSbytery of New York for
the sufferers by the western fires, to October 2S,
reach $500. One thousand was appropriated
for Michigan and Wisconsin.
The ship William Tapscott reports that on the
4th instant she spoke the brig Cleo, from Lon
don for Newport, r. L., leaking badly. She
had thrown overheard about fifty tons of cargo,
and was making for st. Johns, n. f., to re-
pair.
Hinton r, Helper writes from Ruenos Ayres
Aug. 30, that there was a iriahtful prevalence Of
small poX Deaths from yellow fever during
the past summer amounted to 20 900 in BuenoS
Ayres, and 10000 in the province Of Correntes
Justice lngrahdm has issued an order for the
arrest of James Fisk, Jr., in the suit of Helen
Josephine Mansfield, to recover $500 alleged
TO have been obtained by him in fiduciary ca.
pacity, and retained
An order has been issued by Judge Pratt va.
eating his injunction regarding the Fisk Stokes
Mansfield correspondence, so far as relates to
Marsh and Wallace, two of the defendants. An
argument in the case Of the continuation of the
injunction against the other parties will be
heard next Monday.
a of 70 Ifc+ hi
preachers, to-day, agents were appointed to re,
Ceive aid for the Wisconsin and Michigan
sufferers; S17,1OO has been raised, including
$4,000 from Daniel Drew on condition that $780,
900 be raised,
In the national insurance convention a draft
of general insurance law was adopted, and a
committee was appointed 10 adjust the table of
mortality tor ages under ten, not already pro.
ylded for. The executive committee Of the per-
manent association was increased from five to
seven. The time of the annual meeting has
changed from May TO October, and the mem
bership confined TO state officers having charge
OF insurance, or deputies.
The following permanent officers were chosen
unanimously George Miller Albany, N. Y,
president; Lewellyn Breeze Madison, Wis
vicc-president; Henry S. Olcott, N. Y, secre-
tary. The following gentlemen were appointed
as an executive committee; G. W. Smith, S. II.
Rowe j. L. Clarke, j. Williams and j. f. Hart
rautt. The convention adjourned, sine die.
The nail manufacturers of the Atlantic states
have decided to advance the prices fifteen per
cent? in consequence of the loss of one hundred
thousand kegs'by the Chicago fire.
Jacob Rosenzweig, the abortonist, was taken
to Sing Sing to-day.
The suit of the owner of schooner Jesse
Jones, for the value of the vessel, sunk in col
lison with ship Hiberuia, was dismissed on the
ground OF negligence on the part Of the
schooner,