The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-04
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW YORK, June 3.-CNHord B. Full.
ton, was yesterday committed by Justice
Ledwith, charged with passing q forged
check for $500 on the National Shoe
and Leather Bank.
Ajanitor OF the warehouses Of Phelps,
Dodge s. Co., and Abraham Nelson, q
merchant in good standing, doing business
on Pearl street, was committed In de.
faulted Of $4,000 bailIyesterday, charged
with burglary, Of which each confessed.
Nelson for some time has been engaged,
by means Of false keys To the safes,
through Collinson, the 1anitor in obtain.
ing the correspondence Of Phelps, Dodge
s. Co., and full information in regard TO
their business, using It to bis own advan-
tage.
The workmen employed by the recent.
ly bankrupt Lodi paint works have all
been discharged and work suspended.
In consequence Of q reduction In esti.
mates by the Board, the Apportionate Po.
lice Commissioners state that they will be
obliged to reduce the police force ten per
cent in order to keep within the appro-
priation.
The excitement among the working.
men rather increases than diminishes.
The fresco painters held meeting yes.
terdGy and resolved tostrike to. day unless
their demands are acceeded 10. The
wheelwrights and blaclsmiths have de-
termined - strike on Wednesday, and the
German Typographical Union also held
meeting yesterday witha view Of moving
for increased pay.
George Lavery, convicted of murder
in the second degree for killing officer
Lawbrecht, was sentenced this morning
to the State Prison for lie.
DR.. Irish and Mrs. Anderson, charged
with poisoning her late husband, the
latter plead not guilty this morning at
Brooklyn, and they were remanded with
out bail.
The case OF Stokes came up before
Judge Ingraham this morning on the
settlement Of interrogatiyes he put to Dor
man B. Eaton and w. @. Stanley, now in
England. The commissions were issued
to George A. Sedgwick and United States
Consul Read to take this testimony.
Admiral Nelson, father of the Nelson
implicated In the conspiracy against
Phelps, Dodge & Co., was arrested at his
place OF business, No. 295 Pearl street,
where young Nelson was questioned as to
the contents OF his fathers safe. He de-
MED any knowledge then, but when
searched by Capt. Wood a number of
Phelps, Dodge & Co.'s letters were found,
and also large number OF black checks.
The japanese Ambassadors accept the
Republican banquet with the Chamber of
Commerce.
A general synod OF the Reformed
churches in America will hold an annual
meeting on Wednesday in the little
Reformed Church in Brooklyn.
Judges Woodruff and Blatchford, TO-
day, announced that both concurred in
the opinion that the motions to quash the
indictments against the whisky ring must
be denied.
The Board OF Aldermen adopted reso-
lutions mourning the loss Of James
Gordan Bennett, to attend the funeral in
a body, and that the flags on the public
buildings be placed at half mast on the
day Of the obsequies.
The bosses Of the coach painters, and
others employing painters, have given
notice that hereafter they will expect
them to work on the eight hour system.
Several piano manufacturers including
Haines, have conceded to the eight hour
system. Ten Ioofers and cornice manufac-
turers are expected to all follow to.mor-
row or Wednesday in the eight hour
system. All the clothing houses have
adopted the new system. Several stage
and car lines have yielded. The cabinet
makers and upholSterers report the con-
cession OF four additional! firms. Mr..
Steck, the piano manufacturer, was
this afternoon charged by Conrad Borisch,
a workman for false imprisonment. Bo-
risch was arrested at Steck's instigatlon
for interfering with the workmen Of the
latter. Bail was given.
The ship St. Olof, from Hamburg, re-
ports 8 deaths; on the bark Ever6ard,
from Bremen, ten deaths, and on the
Harsburg, from Bremen, six deaths.
The score of the game of base ball be.
tween the Mutua.s, Of this city, and the
Mansfelds, of Middletown, stood as fol.
lows: Mutuals 9; Mansfelds 4.