Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-10
Our New York Dispatches.
The Customs EnVestigatiOn-Ncw Rail-
road Wharf.-The Fisk Inquest, etc.

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 The congressional com
mittee continued ts session to-day in the hotel.
An illustrated paper took sketches OF the mem
bers to-lay. They received a telegram from
Washington notifying them that a resolution
had passed the senate authorizing them to sit
during the session. II. A. Garrison, a cartman,
was examined relative to custom house cart
age.
James Elliott, laborer, now unemployed, for
merry worked for the United States weighmas-
ter, testified to seeing last month one hundI ed
casks of bleaching powder landed from the shin
NeSta aud the English weighmarks copied on
the books, without the casks being weighed at
all. He also testified to helping carry the cleo
ton in ward primary, unaer the direction of
the foreman-all their party being armed with
clubs; was assessed dollar a week, which he
understood was given 10 the harbor master to
send ships to the pier on which he was en-
| ployed.
The committee of seventy have issued circu-
lar inviting the citizens having knowledge of
any fraudulent movements of the city admins
| tration, to communicate such information to
| them.
William Tatton, seventeen years of age, was
killed yesterday by barber named VALID who
was firing toy cannon from his door as salute
10 target company, believing it contained only
powder. piece OF cotton rod which had been
used as Il hammer was in the cannon and struck
Tatton in the stomach in the same pace as
Flsk's wound, and went clear through him.
railway war has broken out in Hemstcad,
Long Island. The BROOKLYN trust company
yesterday took steps to forecose a mortgage on
the Hampstead branch railroad, on behalf of
the bOndholders, who have not received the
overdue coupons. The agent Of the trust COM
pany took possession of train last night, and
caused the arrest of the conductor for refusing
| to turn over the money he had collected This
morning an attempt was made tie seize another
tram, in which two shots were fired, taking
effect in the locomotive. The dispute was set
lied by the passengers, who took the train
through to the junction of the South Side road;
but the tight between tho employees OF the two
parties continued half an hour, and quite a
number are said TO have been wounded The
trust men were eventually driven off and the
road remains in possession Of the original en-
poyes.
The counse; of the board of police has been
requested to give an opinion as TO whether
pigeon matches contrayene any statute, and
what are The relations Of the police towards the
claims of Henry BCrgh in regard to the arrest of
persons who engage in such sport
Three persons, indicted Tor violation of the
election law, were acquitted TODAY
Recorder Hackelt declined to admit Charles
Moore, emigrant swindler, to bail.
Judge Barbour has postponed the sale of the
property of the New York printing company,
on motion Of the counsel for the Ocean bank,
until after the argument which will begin Sat
urday.
The run on the Third avenue savings bank
continues. One million three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars have thus far been paid ont.
The Post SAYS that many depostors have sold
their bank books at the rate OF seventy-tive per
cent
Eleven deaths from small pox to-day.
Marcus A. Wilkes, journalist, a native of
Hartford, died in Brooklyn to-day, of brain
fever lorty -three years old.
The FISK inquest was resumed this afternoon
DIR, Tripler testified that the wounds of Fisk.
necessarily fatal l1r March I .,
suit of the post norton, and produced the ball
lie also thought the wounds necessarily fatal
counsellor Graham protested that it was a bur
lesqUe OF justice TO give the case to the Jury
without allowing it 10 be proved that Fisk was
armed and as prepared to take lie as Stokes.
but the coroner declined 10 take any exceptions
and lett the case to the jury, with the evidence
that life had been taken by shooting. The
jury retired at five o'clock.
The jury submitted the following verdict:
THE jury find, from the testimony submitted
in this inquest that the deceased, James Fisk, Jr,
came to bis death, at the Grand Central hotel,
in the city of New York, on the 18th day of Janu,
airy, 1872, at or about ten minutes before eleven
4. NJ, IN consequence OF wound or wounds in.
tlctcd by ball or balls from a pistol i'm fine
hands of Edward S. Stokes, discharged by him
IN deliberate manner at the person OF said
FISK, at the Grand Central hotel aforesaid ON
ire 9Th day Of january, 1872, at about four
o'clock =. NJ"
iHS NoipHNI COMMITTED OtOkeS 10 the tOmDs
to await the action Of the grand Jury.
His counsel urged the coroner not TO send the
case before either Of the grand iuries now in
session, on account of the present excited state
of the public, and said he would be Justified Inv
the act which says the papers shall be sent to
tue next term of the grand Jury. The dis
trict attorney said that by the "next term" was
understood any part of the then current term,
The coroner reserved his opinion. Ii is un.
derstood that DE-, Marsh has discovered witnesses
prepared to swear positively that Fisk never
carried concealed arms in his life, and that he
had personal knowledge that he was unarmed
when he lett home last Saturday
Miss Mansfeld's house is Gle sely guarded nv
officers, under orders OF the coroner, 10 prevent
her leaving IL without his special permission,
At meeting Of the committee of seventy, to.
night, President Havemeyer delivered an adj
dess, urging continued cXertion in the work of
reform until all the city Offices, executive and in.
diclal, are purified and the few rotten thinkers
yet left be entirely removed and DESTROYED.
John Wheeler, Henry Clews, jackson 5. Schultz.
q l. Detwold and Joseph Blumenthal were m.
pointed committee 10 urge legislation AZ Alba-
ny, in behalf Of the people Of New York
The pews IN Beecher's church, Brooklyn
were rented for q year by auction te,s Ge0niI,g
a. prices twenty per Gent eas ihan last gear,
me whole aW9qnt realized was about 100000.
Rain is falling nearly all the time in Cali.
fornia N',f IT = SNt'i