The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-09-30
NEW YORK CITY.

Haven dispatch says that the Merridar
Britannia works at Meridian are In flames
The whole Of the extensive building will
probably be destroyed.
Major Ward alias Warren Keller, was
imprisoned on defanlt Of bail for extensive
swindling operations. y,
The police In making o recent arrest Of
a party known as the Silver Thief Gang,
have discovered among them the persons
who murdered Panorma, in Brooklyn,
In January last. One Of tho party Is ID
Michigan. The detectives are now on his
trail. s.t
The Colonel Of tho third regiment Of
militia has requested the disbandment of
the two companies who fought among
themselves on Harlem Roads, on WedneS
day.
A Washington dispatch says that Arch
Bishop Dogleys installation and the re-.
eeption Of Pallium will take place in the
Cathedral.
The cruel murder Of Professor Panor.
ma, ot Brooklyn, teacher OF music, in
the public streets OF that city, January
last, will be remembered. A man named
Higgins has, 1t appears, turned informer,
and according to his story the crime was
committed by four thieves; an English.
man named Kane alias Cockney and three
others, Cassidy, Scotty and Michael
O'Brien all of New York. Disappointed
in an intended burglery and resolved not
to return empty handed. they laid for
somebody TO rob. Seeing Panorma an.
preaching, one Of the four said, lets 90 for
this man coming up and see what he has
got about him. One Of them grabbed
him by the collar and said, In rough
voice, what have yon got about you,
come pony up, at the same time shaking
Panorms, as soon as he felt he was grasp.
ed he cried out or attempted to cry out
for help, and another of the four pulled
out pistol, jobbed him in the neck
with the muzzle and said, damn
your dirty soul il you yell out
again I'll blow your brains out, feel.
ing the muzzle OF the pistol at his
neck, Panorma stopped, and the third
man proceeded to go through him, and
was just on the point Of taking his gold
watch, when the man who pulled the pis.
tol on him, thinking Panorma would not
dare cry out, replaced the pistol in his
pocket. Seeing the pistol disposed of,
Panorma again cried out for help: and
that cry cost him his life, for, with a ter.
rible oath, O'Brien struck him on the
temple with club, and as the unrortu.
nate victim was reeling backward from
the effects ol the blow, he again struck
him, the club hitting him over the lett
eye and fat along the face TO the upper
lip. And this blow was the one which
made the terrible wound which was 80
fully described at the time. ONLY two
blows were struck, and the man who was
robbing him Of his watch grabbed it, and
seeing him telled and bleeding they all
ran oil, and reached New York in differ
ent directions.
The committee appointed to investigate
the management ol the Wards Island
Lunatic Asylum visited that institution
yesterday. DR.. Reid, chief physician in
charge, testified that in the past two wears
three patients had escaped and been
drowned in attempting to get away, and
one accidentally drowned. Sometimes
the patients are i'll treated by attendants,
Some three months ago nurse had badly
abused one Of the patients and threw him
down steep flight OF stairs, and that
nurse is still in the employ of the asylum.
The doctor said the Institution suffered
because Of conflict of authority between
himself and the warden. The warden
was called to the stand, and contradicted
much of the doctors testimony. Much
feeling was exhibited by both the doctor
and the warden. 1t seemed as II they
had been engaged in series of aIterca.
tions, rather than as colaborers in a good
cause.
Mr.. Curtin in his speech at Bellefonte
last night did not foreshadOw his policy
with regard TO the Presidential contest.
The st. George cricket club defeated
the Philadelphia eleven yesterday in one
inning.
In the case Of Micheal J. Weldon, sent
to penitentiary for stufllng ballot boxes
during the late election in BROOKLYN. a
new trial is moved for on an affidavit i'm.
plicating Ex-Deputy Auditor Patrick
Keenan, and Alderman James Dunn as
guilty parties. Decision reserved.
Patrick Quinn, a laborer in the navy
yard was found dead this morning In a
yard tenement house on NAVY street
Brooklyn. His skull was fractured and
marks ol violence were found on his face
and other parts Of his body, and his
pockets turned inside out, from which it
is inferred that he was robbed and mur.
dered.
Rev. Francis Voutor, professor of com.
mon law in the general Theological Sem.
mary of the P E. Church, and assistant
minister Of Trinity Parish, died after a
lingering illness this afternoon at his resi-.
dence at Brooklyn Heights,