The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-03
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW YORK, February 2.-The Tribune
says that it is understood that Tweed,
Connolly and Garvey have recently had
conferences for the purpose of elfeCting a
compromise in the suits against them by
the Attorney General and that their
agents have ascertained that the State
would be willing to accept in settlement
ofthe Board Of Audit claims Of six mil
lions two.thnds Of that amount, but as
the criminals are not assured that other
prosecutions would not be commenced
against them no conclusion was reached.
There is reason 10 believe this report Is
unfounded.
]. B. Davidson, ring and safe manufac-
turer, was to have given States evidence
before the grand jury this week, but he
was tampered with and fled To the South.
In the investigation of printing
frauds in progress at Albany, Mr..
Parsons of the State Printers, tesii-
files to having given one Ed. Phelps$l0.-
600 for lobby services. Ithad been the
habit, he said, to give clerks q percentage
on work carried 10 the firm, and in this
way Terwilliger's percentage was paid,
regardless Of whether he read the proof
or not. The charge that Terwilliger had
altered bills was not substantiated.
At meeting of the Republican (Gree.
ley) General Committee, last evening, q
resolution was offered, but referred TO q
committee, requesting the Common Coun-
Gil to impeach Mayor Hall.
Mt Henry Coulter, Of Pittsburgh, &C.
ooV,to tho hollanra nf tha p;Hlt,, kso1i, n.,
Of this city, for thousand dollar boat
race in May on the Schuylkill river.
The New York Yacht Club has re.
elected James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Com.
mander.
Charles and N. E. Marksen were ar.
rested for smuggling Ia gold watches
and nearly 200 articles Of jewelry, on the
steamer CalabriA, valued at $4,000.
Several bankers, including Mr.. Bel.
mont, were examined to-day by the Grand
Jury, relative to the ring frauds.
Mr.. Tooker, who was assaulted by a
highwayman in Sacket street, Brooklyn
two nights ago, Is dying.
A young lady was assaulted yesterday
at noon, by robber in u Flatbush car
near Prospect Park. lie presenting q
revolver and bowie knife, threatening tC
kill her unless she gave him her purse
She jumped from the car, when the driver
and conductor, evidently in league with
the robber, drove furiously away.
Judge Barrett to-day decided thai
Judge Barnard being corporate member
Of the Tammany Society, had no iurlsdic.
ton, and his injunction against said Soci
ETY. was void. iti... sg.
n. L. Kennedy, A. 8. Barnes and S
Sheldon, were elected managers OF the
American Bible Society.
The revenue officers raided on several
illicit distilleries in the Filth Ward o.
Brooklyn, this afternoon, destroying sew
eral thousand dollars worth of whiskey
mash machines, &c. The officials vert
aided by the police of Brooklyn.
The Committee oil Fifty has been refus,
cd written statement Of the Court re
cords by Judge Walsh, but the latter in
vited them TO spend few weeks with hin
to see the workings of the Court fol
themselves.
1t Is rumored the Grand Jury found in
dictments against Harry Genet, Tom
Fields, A. ]. Miller, and other ringites, fol
frauds on the city. .-t.
A statement Of the condition ot The
Third Avenue Savings Bank, upon which
there has been a run for the past twt
months, upto the first oi January, is giyel
tonight, showing the total assets Of thu
bank TO have been $5,099,8l0 and thl
total liabilities Including the amount dut
depositors with interest, have beer
| $5,0sl 1926, leaving surplus Of 81 ,1s5.