The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-10
NEW YORK City.

NEW YORK, May 9.-The condition
, y. Buchanan Read continues very critics
= bis physicians are doubtful Il he will r
cover. ''
! William Taggart, of Patterson, N.
committed suicide yesterday, by leapin
into the Passaic Falls. He Is supposed |
have been insane.
The Caisson laborers of the East Rive
Bridge are still on strike for an increas
OF pay and reduction of hours.
The Brooklyn carpenters, to the mum
Der oil 5000 are also on strike. TIL
employers refused 10 accede to the de
mands. The workmeil appointed a Com
mittee to confer with the employers, bu
they remain firm and claim to have par
TALLY succeeded.
The first case ot sun stroke for the sea
son occurred yesterday on the East rive
pier.
Recorder Hackett, in the Court of Ses
sions, yesterday, in alluding TO the bill
prohibiting the carrying Of concealed
weapons, regretted the passage of such
law as having the effect oi making reput
able men detenseless. He stated that h
always carried q pistol and deemed 1t {
duty ior every good citizen to do the same
Robert Gallagher died In the jersey
City Hospital yesterday from the wound!
inflicted by James Cooney last Sunday
Cooney has been arrested.
Edward P. Shedden, arrested yes
terday while on thepoint Of his departure
for Boston, charged with the forgery O
note for fifteen hundred dollars, was
held in default Of two thousand five hun
dred dollars bail. An uncle of the nc
cused, whose name he forged, was held ID
two thousand dollars bail to testify.
An attempt at incendiarism was dis
covered at 64 West Houston street, yes
terday, IN time TO prevent aconhagration
The Tribune this morning on the posi-.
tton OF the British Government in relation
to the indirect claims and the probable
failure OF the Washington treaty, says our
claims were clumsily presented and after.
wards the Overtures made to Withdraw
them were to the last degree undignitied
and maladrOit. That we arc not com.
pletely discredlted and dishonored in our
own eyes Is due, not so much to our State
Department, as to the stiff, persistent OBJ,
sttnacy Of the British Government. Il
they had accepted the humble overtures
we made in the sense in which they were
intended we should have had no means
oil escape from the trap into which wo
were walking, but the effort 10 gain still
more from US will probably end In fail.
ure Of the treaty, and this we can bear
with far greater equanimity than would
have been necessary to support the un.
conditional surrender in the face OF the
mere clustering Of all that we have
claimed for the lastten years.
At noon fire broke out in s. D.
Tompkins s. Cos warehouse, No. 90
West street, which had apparently been
burning all night The building contain.
ed 900 bales Of cotton, owned by r. B.
Foosyth, Thos. D. Benton, Inman, Swan
& Co., and r. T. MARYLAND 6 Co. The
fire is still burning, though confined to
the original location. Tobacco and other
merchandise, stored in an adjoining build.
ing, was considerably damaged by water.
Yesterday afternoon, twenty.one Nor.
mon missionaries sailed in tho Minnesota
Tor Europe, under the care Of Apostle
Albert Darlington.
The death OF Buchanan Read Is hourly
expected.
Herman Livingston, the we'll known
retired merchant, died at Katskill, to-day
in bis 70 year.
Judge Pierrepoint Isham, formerly Of
the Supreme Bench Of Vermont, died
yesterday, at Pierremont, New York, il
his 10th year.
The National American Womans
Suffrage Association held meet
ing to-day, which was addressed by Lucy
Stone Blackwell and husband, Rev. Jas
Freeman Clarke and others.
A resolution was adopted hostile to the
election Of Horace Greeley and admon,
ishing the Convention to be held al
Baltimore, that unless proper recognition Is
given to the women Of the land Con
vention by the National Women Associa
ton will be held and a Presidential ticket
placed in the field.
The laborers employed in the caisson
Of the Brooklyn bridge, who were on c
strike, resumed work this afternoon, upor
the terms offered by the company, being
two dollars and seventy.fve cents for touI
hours work.
The body Of Edward G. Anderson, late
Assistant q. s. Assessor, in BROOKLYN
was exhumed, and the stomach given tc
Professor Doremus for analyzation, the
father Of the deceased having deposed
to the belief that his son was poisoned
and that there was good cause TO suspect
improper intimacy between his wife and
a Doctor Irish.
Three hundred and fifty bales of cottor
were destroyed in the West street fire
and all the rest in the building was thor
oughly drenched, the loss thereon being
from 5 TO 40 per cent per bale. The cot
ton in question was owned by R. 3. For
sythe, D. Bennan, Inmsn, Swami s. Co.
and B. l., Morland &. Co., all being in
sured. s. d. Tompkins 6 Co. have only
insurance on general merchandise fol
$1,000. Besides the cotton was large
quantity Of grain, tobacco, &C., on the up
per floors, all Of which was damaged
considerably by the fire and water
The buildings owned by Beam are dam
aged about $4,000. The losses foot VI
as follows: On cotton, $4,000; ou build
ings, $4,000; on other goods in storage
$25,00O; other firms at 9l, 02 and 0;
West street, and 140 Cedar street, 81, 900
total, $l22,O00.
John Il. Howell, tor several years agen
of the Associated Press Of the State o
New York in this city, has resigned hi
position to assume the editorial manage
ment of the Minneapolis (Minn.) DAHL
Tribune.
The steamer Erin has arrived iron
Liverpool.