Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-17
Miscellaneous Dispatches.
Domestic Notes.

ITEMS FROM NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-EX- Senator Wade and
Prof. White, of the San Domingo commission,
arrived at the Astor house this morning, accom-
panied by Secretary o. N. Burton and Assistant
Secretary Fred. Douglass, Jr Commissioner
Howe has not yet arrived, but is expected to-
day. Secretary Robson of the navy, General
Porter, the presidents secretary and Commo-
dore Alden, chief of navigation, are also here for
the purpose Of giving their personal attention to
the preparation of the Tennessee, which vessel,
under the command of Capt. Temple, will con-
vey the commission. 1t is possible that another
vessel will consort the Tennessee, as permission
has been given by the president to so many to
accompany the expedition that accommodations
cannot be provided for all on one war vessel.
Arrangements have been made on board the
Tennessee for three commissioners, two secre-
taries, two stenographers, and seven representa-
tives Of the press. Among the latter are Gen.
II. V. Boynton, representative of the New York
associated press and Cincinnati Gazette; Oscar
&. Sawyer, of the New York World; H. T..
Ramsdell, of the New York Tribune; c. C. Full
ton, of the Baltimore Americana Arthur R..
Shepard, Of the Washington Republican; Messrs,
Foley and Hills, stenographerS; Gen. Siegel aid
Fred. Douglass and Prof. f. F. Crane, of Cornell
university, goes as private secretary to President
White.
Superintendent Kelso places no confidence in
the pretended revelations of the Chicago detec-
tive, Felcker, respecting the Nathan murder,
and regards the affair as only another attempt
to obtain a share of the large reward offered by
the city and the Nathan family. The diamond
stud and locket of the murdered man, which
Felcker claims to have, were never exhibited to
him.
The police authorities of this city do not credit
Pinto's confession of the Rogers murder but
believe he has concocted the story to secure a
temporary release from Imprisonment.
Officer Bennett left last night for Syracuse,
AL, IL.
ly suspected Albany express robber who will
be brought to this city for trial for the forgery
OF draft for $1,000 on FOlger & Co., of New Or
leans.
The Long Island and Northside railroad direc.
tors have presented engineer Lochell with Sl0O,
and fireman Scbiner with $50, for recently saw
ing the train, at the risk of their own lives,
when the engine plunged into an open draw.
bridge
Doris Deekman was committed for trial at
Dutch Kills, l.. L., yesterday, for deliberately
starving to death his daughter, Anne, eleven
years of age. One of the witnesses testified that
she saw the mother knock Anne down only a
day or two before with a stick of wood while
she was begging for bread, and then kick her
down stairs, the child at the time not having
strength to arise AT another time she dragged
the girl around by her hair, tearing large
punches from her head, On the day of her
death she saw her standing by the stove with
her arm around it., entirely naked, begging for
something to eat, and the nhuman mother
dragged the child from its temporary warmth
and thrust it into a cold room, without any
thing for covering, without bed even of straw
10 lie upon, or even chair. A few hours later
the child was found there dead. The screams
OF the girl could be heard through the entire
neighborhood while the brutal mother and no
less brutal stepfatber were whipping it.
A number Of prominent citizens have united
IN formal protest to the legislature against the
illegal and arbitrary exercise of powers assumed
by the board of street openings, whose authori-
ty is unlimited and, the Lremonstrance claims,
often abused, the citizens being entirely without
appeal or redress.
Governor Hoffman has ordered thorough in
vestigation of the alleged illegal enlistment of
private Benjamin II. Yard of the list regiment.
and legal proceedings. General Craig Judge
advocate general representing the state, will be-
gin tomorrow. The interest in the controversy
extends throughout the entire militia the pri-
Yates siding with Yard, while the officers are
unanimous against him. If he is defeated each
of the three imprisoned officers will compel
him to pay indemnity for their arrest and de-
tention.
Rev DR.. r S. Storrs' church and society, in
Brooklyn, will hold q meeting this evening, at
which, il is understood, they will tender him a
years absence in Europe on the most liberal
terms, giving him an opportunity to recover his
| health, now seriously impaired.
The North German consulate sent last week
| $4,000 to Berlin in aid of the sufferers by the war
making S37 1915 in all.
THE SAGINAW WRECK.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15.--Wiiam Halford
the only survivor Of the boats crew which left
Ocean Island, Nov. IS, bound to Honolulu fol
relief for his shipwrecked comrades of the United
States steamer Saginaw, gives the following ac.
count of their adventures:
From the time of the wreck, nearly three
weeks, all hands were employed getting uE
tents, saving provisions and rigging, making
fresh water with apparatus, and decking oyel
and preparing the captains gig TO 90 to Homo
lulu. The launch was lost at the time the yesse