The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-21
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW YORK, October 1o.-Chief OF Po.
lice McWilliams, OF Jersey City, has been
released on bail.
II Is stated by parties conversant with
the character Of the last indictment
against Tweed, that that perGonageis fully
aware Of its ability to convict him, and
that he has taken steps to avoid arrest
His flight from the country, II 1t has not
actually taken place, Is so arranged that
II will speedily occur, and In such manner
as TO elude the officers Of the law.
Mayor Hall last evening stated that he
had heard nothing Of any new indictments
against him, and that he had given bail
was therefore false.
Mark Flanagan was to-day sentenced to
imprisonment Tor life for numbering his
wife.
Tweed has not yet put in appearance
with his bail. Asi Is not probable any
Supreme Court Judge could be found on
the bench today, he will stay at Green.
wich, Conn.,, where be Is supposed to be,
till Monday.
The failure Of Caldwell, Walker s Go.
Is announced.
South American advices have no news
Of any Importance. In riot at Santiago,
Chill, between artillerymen and the DO.
lice, one person was killed and many
wounded. The riugleaders were arrested.
The attitude Of Costa Rico toward Nj
caragua on the boundary question Is not
considered conCilatory In Costa Rico.
The plot to overthrow Guardias govern.
ment during his absence was discovered
and defeated by Peuto, the acting Presi-
dent. The chief Of the plot Is said to be
Valsvar, ex.Minister OF Duenos, and a
refugee from Salvatore. He has been
expelled from the country.
NEW YORK, Oct 26-Wm. Cullen
Bryant will deliver an Grafton ut the un.
yelling Of the Walter Scott monument in
Central Park, on Saturday next.
The Consul OF Sweden and Norway
invites subjects residing in this city and
neighborhood 10 record the oath Of al
legiance to King Oscar, II.
Supreme Court, and Prince Higaski, Tus.
imi, lgemi, Japanese and others are pass.
engers in the steamer Baltic from Liver.
pool.
By the breaking Of a gangway yester.
day, tlfly.four seamen oil, the United
States steamer Hartford were precipitat-
ed into the water, at the Navy Yard. All
were rescued, some severely bruised.
Admiral Dupreane de Saint Andre, Of
the French war steamer, Minerve visited
the Navy Yard yesterday and invited the
officers Of the station to o reception on
the steamer on Monday.
At the Senatorial investigation Of the
frauds in the construction Of the Harlem
Court House, evidence has been given that
the material for the Court House was
carted direct from q barge to Senator
Genits house, then constructing.
Senor Msyorga pronounces false the
claim of Col. Ryan that he has authority
from Ramon, Cespedes and Mayorga to
organize an expedition for the benefit Of
Cuba.
At the first regatta Of the New York
Canoe Club yesterday, the ten mile race
was won by the Gretchen in hour, IA
minutes and 10 seconds.
Mary Ann Cotton, who has been com
mitted for trial on the charge of having
poisoned her husband and four children
at West Auckland, is now implicated in
series Of other charges which, if verri-
fled, will prove her to have been a syste-
matte poisoner from her youth. Cotton,
who died in Sept was her fourth husband.
The first two had their lives insured at
her instance, and when they died, oil
what was medically certified 10 be gastric
tevnr, she promptly realized her widows
consolation. During the first marriage
seven children died, the third was fatal 10
six more, and the fourth, at West Auck.
land, had reached It's fifth victim, when
this horrible career OF crime was stop
ped. 1t Is now remembered that
COtton's own mother died under mystic.
rious circumstances, similar to others
noted. In all these cases and with hers
there will be twenty cases.
The United States Marshal this morn.
ing boarded the steamer Hermann, from
Bremen, and arrested Ludwig Julius Au.
gust Krebs, upon warrant issued on ap.
plication Of VIM. Zach, Consul OF the
German Empire. Krebs is charged with
forgery committed in Bremen. He was
committed to the Ludlow Street Jail.
The clothing cutters ot this city, at O
meeting to-day, passed resolutions that
they would support the strike of the cut.
ters In BaliimOre.