Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-10-16
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR.
This Afternoons Dispatches.
.lss0etafed Press Reports.
New York Notes.
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New York Notes.
THE sTEMkR PKuNIpESUE DISABLED
NEw NoEK. oct. l6.-rhe steamer Provi-
dence. of the Fall river line, MAS disabled by
collision with a government scow in He'll Gate
last night.
NOT BIT OF UsR.
The liberal republican national committee
have issued an address reviewing the late cleo
tions, and urging the voters to renewed vigor in
the campaign.
A BRAND Nkw WITNESS IN The FIsK-sroKEs
MURDKR CASE.
Augustus st. Clair, formerly q new Hamp
shire reporter, in deposition before Judge
was shot by Stokes at the Grand Central Hotel
ne saw pistol in Fisk's hands. lie also say
this Information on the trial,
TIE MAYoRALTY.
A meeting of the German reform association
last night endorsed the nomination OF O'Bnen
for Mayor.
DISASTROUS FIRE.
Yesterday afternoon q fire in Cooper, Hewitt
& Co.'S rolling mill at Trenton, y. J., damaged
property TO the amount OF $40, 900. Some siN
hundred men were employed in the workshops,
who are now without work. The FIRE Is though
TO have been caused by the friction OF the ma
chinery. There was no insurance.
HORACE GREELEY
has been obliged 10 declined an invita- alton II
wife.
THE CoLoRED NAVAL CADET.
Washington dispatch says that the assault
upon the colored cadet At the naval academy
all concerned therein; that the President is in
flexible in his purpose 70 this end.
NOT BELIEVED.
No credence is given to the assertion OF one
Stellar, an alleged reporter, that he saw Fisk
with pistol in bis hand At the time Stokes muir
dered the latter.
SHOT DEAp.
John REILLY was shot dead this morning by a
rough named Barney in a l9th ward rum shop.
The latter was arrested.
TIE LONG ISLAND BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
met yesterday at Babylon. Considerable dis
cusSion took place on the question of close com
munion and the recent acton OF Rev. DIR. Pen
frost in baptiZing Miss Smiley, the QuskeresS.
The association, which comprises representa-
tives from all the Baptist churches In Brooklyn
and Long Island, appeared to be about evenly
divided yesterday, but the debate was al iOurned
till to-day, and a vote upon athe subject will
doubtless be reached this p. IN. The association
can only vote a. An association, its action not
binding any society unless said society shall en-
dorse its action by vote.
OFFERS PoR U. s. BONDS.
There were eight offers OF bonds to-day,
amounting TO about ssh, eco, at from Il 70
ll3L. The amount advertised for purcu ase
was one million. The Government only takes
$4,000 at from ll2S TO ll24.
The National Hoard Of Trade.
NEW YORK, Oct. l6.-The national board of
trade, together with the delegation from Cana
da, reassembled this morning in the city hall,
President Frsley in the chair. Mr.. Opdyke, Of
New York, presented memorial from Samuel
A. Ruggles on return to specie payment, aud
one from VIM. q. Msddell on uniform interna-
uonal rates of postage and on the transportation
OF products of the Atlantic states to the sea
board; which were referred to the executive
committee. resolution offered by MIR. Fisk,
Of ST. Louis, advocating opening mp and utiliZ-
ing for agriculture and commerce the territory
new occupied by the Indians, and a paper read
by MIR. Barwell, Of New Orleans, on reciprocal
reduction Of import and export duties by the
United States and other countries, were also
referred to the executive committee. On
recommendation of the executive com
mittee, resolution was passed con-
demning the practice OF the issue OF
scrip dividends, watering of stock, and the
issue of stock without a full money equivalent,
by incorporated companies. Mr.. Rowland, OF
Cincinnati, submitted aresolution tn at the eNecu-
tive committee memorabilia the different states
where such laws do not exist for the passing of
laws that will punish the issue OF spurious ware
house receipts and protect holders of warehouse
receipts, and make them negotiable like other
commercial paper. After some discussion the
resolution was agreed TO. Mr.. McLane called
up the resolution of the Newark board of trade
condemning the 20 per cent. duty on Canadian
lumber as raising the price on consumers and
leading to the destruction of our own forests
He showed that at the rate of cutting of 1893 IN
the great lumber producing state of Michigan,
In less than seventeen years the state would be
dcnuded. The reduction TO two dollars in gold
made by Congress was insufficient. The subject
was referred TO the committee appointed to CON
fer with the Canadian delegates.