The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-07
NEW YORK CITY.
EXCITEMENT OVER THE sTRIKEs-vIo.
LENCR FEARED.

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EXCITEMENT OVER THE sTRIKEs-vIo
LENCE FEARED.
New YORK June 0.-There Is consId.
cradle excitement In the city o.day rela,
tive TO the strikes, and Il Is feared a
collision between the men at work and
the strikers will occur. A carpenter
named Brownell was shot In the head this
morning while working on 89th street, by
striker who was arrested. A gang q
strikers threatened to drive the workmen
from the new Masonic Temple on 23d
street this morning, but the police drove
the mob away.
Three burglars were captured in the
vault Of the National Bank, Jertey City,
named Charles j. Proctor, Joseph Foley
and Frank Denning.
The Brewers Congress to-day adopted
resolutions asking for amended laws by
Congress relative TO the brewery interest
namely: The repeal Of the duty on barley
and corn; that simpler modes or collecting
the duty should be introduced; that stamps
hereafter be used, and no more bonds be
hereafter required Of brewers. The reso.
lutions went on to denounce temperance
mon as q pack of blind fanatics, who
could not distinguish malt from spirituous
liquors, and recommend the appointment
ot committee TO devise the best means
OF counteracting the uniounded assertions
OF these ianatical agitators, and conclude
by condemning any political party which
nominates any candidates who has shown
himself tool of the temperance faction.
Considerable anxiety existed in the es.
adjustments where tho workingmen are
out on q strike, and police reserve was
held in readiness for any emergency from
Q A NJ. yesterday, and men were constant.
ly detailed from various precincts TO the
places menaced by the strikers. A col.
lision was at one time imminent al the
Broadway and University Place car depot.
During the confusion which occurred on
the proposition for the drivers to strike,
one driver became violent and was ar.
rested.
At meeting Of the Board OF Police
Commissioners yesterday, a communica.
tion was received from the Eight Hour
League stating that the members intended
TO parade on the 10th inst, and asking for
polite escort.
The case Of Edward Morton and others
against Sheridan Slack, late United States
Revenue Collector, was commenced to.
day. The former are bankers, and claim
that the taxes paid by them were illegal,
they having q right under the license as
bankers to make sales as brokers without
hotnr onacfollxy foynd nm o,nl, roIn. H..
Reverdy johnson, ]. P. Doolittle and
Gen. Stanbury are counsel for Morton
and others. The case being test case,
on which depends seventy.seven cases,
involving an aggregate oi nearly half
million dollars, the case will occupy sew
eral days.
The police were compelled to interfere
to protect the workingmen to-day from
the strikers at the new buildings, corner
Hester street and Bowery; corner 18th
street and Third avenue, and on 10Th
street and Seventh avenue. Threats are
also made against the workmen on the
public sewer at 10th street, but those at
work say they will kill any one interfering
with them.
The rock blasters who struck were at
work on the public sewer at East 93d
street. They threaten TO destroy the
steam drill and drive off the few men at
work with it The coachmakers are also
threatening the men at work at the fac.
tories, and 1t is feared the striking work.
men will attack the gas works. All the
of platoons Of police are kept at the sta.
ton houses, ready for service, and the
officers Of the force believe there will be
considerable trouble within day or two.
o. Wellberg, striking cabinetmaker,
was held to bail in $1,000 to-day, for
threatening the turnkeys in the factory
basement who had not struck.
The Congress OF Brewers held their
final session to-day. Cleveland, Ohio, was
fixed on as the place Of meeting for 1868,
and the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Henry Clausen, Presi-
dent; Frederick Scheler, Treasurer, and
Richard KatzeHmayer, Secretary.
The Republicans here fired one hun.
dred guns in the City Hall Park on the
announcement Of the denomination ol
President Grant.
Dispatches have been received from
many of the principal cities stating that
the Republicans had fred guns in honor OF
the nomination Of Grant and Wilson TO-
day. There is great enthusiasm.
At meeting Of the Orthodox Quakers
to-day, committee reported on the ques.
tion Of womens' rights in their denomina-
ton, that 1t be referred to the quarterly
meetings. The report was accepted.
The United States Indian Commission.
ers give o public reception at Cooper's
Institute tomorrow night to Red Cloud
and other Indians. Peter Cooper will
preside.
The band OF the Garde Republique are
quartered at the Astor House this after.
noon. The commander and officers of the
steamer Laurent, the French Consul aud
many French and American residents
visited them, at at four o'clock they were
escorted by them and the GGrdb Lafayette,
under the marshalship Of Colonel Howe,
to the Fall River boat.
Arrived, the Queen, from Liverpool.
E. H. Fox was elected Grand Master OF
the Free Masons Of this State to-day,
Strike of Railroad Employees In
Texas.