Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-29
NEW YORK.
Election Frauds Greeley Meeting on
MOnday-Sehurz and other PrOmi-
Bent Speakers-POlitical
SpeculatiOns.
WOrkingmen's Riot in Jersey City
Three Men WOunded-POliee Called
Out-W0rkingmen Moving.

New YORK. May 2S.-The Brook
lyn Committees Of Seventy-five, in
their report say they have vel
dcnce that eleven thousand fraudulent
votes were east at the late election.
The World publishes a statement that
a member of the Liberal Republican
Committee asserts chat the committee
have received information that Carl
Schurz Is tospeak at the Greeley
next Monday. Senator Upton, of Ne
hraska; Hamilton, of Texas, and Gratz
Brown will also be among the speakers.
Also, thatif Greeley should be Endorsed
at Baltimore, he would, if elected,
make Horatio Seymour, Secretary of
State. This gentleman further asserted
that Greeley promises TO support the
Democratic nominee for Govern or of the
State. The report which was adopted at
the closing Of the meeting of the commit
tee last night, appeals to the people for
continued support, promising a contin-
Uance in any further necessary refOrma-
tory work
During the evening" a sensation was
caused by the presentation Of figures,
with a view Of duplicating ex-Mayor
Hoffman in signing fraudulent warrants.
The report is, for the present, withheld
from publication.
The steamer Hanover arrived from
Bremen, and the Wesphalia from Ham
burg.
Christian Trefz, a baker, stabbed his
wife four times with a dirk, to-day. He
also stabbed Franz Linderman, with
whom his wife was living, and then
stabbed himself. 1t is thought all three
Will die.
Edward Keeler, who beat Officer Tully
almost to death on the night that Officer
Lambrecht was killed by the gang to
which Keeler belonged, was convicted
to-day in the Court Of General Sessions
and sent TO the State-prison for ten
years hard labor.
As near as can be ascertained, some
thirty persons We're more OF less injured
10y the explosion of the steam-tug Epsi-
Ion yesterday. Just previous to the eX-
plOsiOn, Captain HOllenbeck remarked,
that he had the best boat in the harbOr;
that she could carry a hundred pounds
Of steam without starting a bolt or open
ing a valve, and that he could not get
up steam enough in the boiler to burst
1t. Men are engaged in graphing for
bodies this morning.
Lyman Tremaine, John ID. Townsend |
ana heIFl Dailyy Jr, nave Deen re-
tanned as StOkes's counsel, in place of
Graham, Geary and Bartlett
Ii is estimated that forty thousand /
men are engaged in strikes.
The bids for supplies for the Indian
Department were opened to-day. The /
bids for twenty-seven million pounds of
beef on the hOOf, delivered at the differ /
ent agencies during the year, ranged /
from one dollar and eighty-four cents |
10 four dollars per hundred pounds. |
Awards viii be made at from one dollar |
and eighty-foUT cents TO two dollars and /
sixty cents per hundred pounds. The
bids for seven million five hundred |
thousand pounds Of -four, delivered at
the agencies, range from two dollars and |
cents per hundred pounds.
\ riot occurred in Jersey City this
evening between a large body Of men
who had struck for eight hours a day,
and the men who were hired to fill their
places. Three men were wounded. The
not was broken up by the interference
Of the police.
The workingmen in the furniture
trade i'm Brooklyn held a meeting to-
night in Brooklyn.