The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-12-14
NEW YORK CITY.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel Fire Inves.
tigatiOn.

VI AAAN AAS AuN G5AlEuAlVll vi lLll
Filth Avenue Hotel fire, continued yes.
tCrday, Mary Graves testified that on thC
night OF the fire she went 10 bed OF hal
past O'clock; ab0u! II o'clock she wa.
awakened By fire in her room; phc ihcr
ran out and gave the alarm on the fool
below where the girls lay asleep. llcI
testimony went 10 show that the girIs
could have been saved II steps had been
taken to arouse them on the approach oi
danger.
Samuel Tcnncck, Of Salt Lake City,
testified; lie guessed that no alarm was
given when he first discovered the fire
The Superintendent OF Buildings, Nc
Gregor, in an interview yesterday, said
he was sure the girls could have been
saved had they been aroused.
The testimony Of one or two others,
who we're watchmen, contained nothing
new, Eight bodies still remain at the
MOrgue, Of whom four are not as yet
identified. In the event Of the remaining
Corpscs not being removed before Sun
day, they are to be inferred by some
temperance and religious societies in CAL
vary cemetery.
The inlimation that number of people
had been killed and wounded, was first
sent TO the hospital by DR. Rupp4ncr, the
house surgeon OF the hotel, who was I'M
renilting in his excrtiOns to alleviate the
suHcrings OF the wounded. His conduct
is highly praised by the hospital officers.
The funeral Of one OF the victims, Mary
McCAbe, took place yesterday, being 1t
the expense Of her only relative, sister
Tho lost steamship ST. Louis vas valued
At $l50,00O and filly insured by the
owners, Cromwell Il Co, in the Atlantic,
Mercantile and other companies The
cargo consisted ui l,2il bales ui cotton,
1,6il barrels Of mOlassrs, $50 barrels OF
oil, 50 barrels Of rice. There was also
$ 800 in sncciG un board. The St. Louis
VA, eighteen years old and built at Dun
barton. Scotland, and originally known
as the EprniI.
Tine Coroncr's jury in the case oil
Maule Murrill, shot and killed by her
uncle, Robert Bleakiey, returned verdict
against the prisoner, who was committed
to the tumbs
The project Of introducing salt water
into the City Of New York, for cxtinguish.
Ing fire, was under consideration in the
Aldcrmanic Committee TO day.
In the Jumrl case to-day the Gepnsi.
tons ot Mary Armsby and Samuel An.
gel, both 0vcr 00ycar5 & age, were read
in the corporation Of the testimony to the
OF Betsy Bowen with Mail.
anne Jumrl, and Daniel Hull, aged 81,
identified the plaintiff, whom he had
known from infancy, As the son OF Betsy
Bowen
Paul Bcrtrlm WAS arrested to-day on
board the steamship CtiahriI, upon II icle.
graph from RIlrn ChIrginS him with
killing woman and Toy a. lhlt place on
the 2!l Ot November, and held to answer
by the United States Commissioner.
Tue funeral Of the late L Twin Forrest
will take place in Philadelphia, Monday
next.
Prof Stowe, husblnd0r lIs-rict Beech.
CT Stowe, is seriously i'll.
y movement has been made in Brook.
lyn Tor establishing system O! cheap eat
ing houses for the working clas Is oIbOlh
sexes.
The German Consul General here ap.
pe&ls for aid for the people in the Blllic
provinces suffering from the recent iuun.
dHlion OF that country.
Arrived, the steamship City Of Ant.
wc!p, from Liverpool.
Geo. Price, whom nobody seems to
know and who is believed tO have sailed
for Europe, has made mortgage and
decd Of property he did not own, in Hud.
son county, New jersey, to the UmO0nt OF
$500, 600, aGd caused them 10 be recorded
tor these mythical securities. Price got
possession orhoascs, lots, yachts, yewcIry
and other tangible property, which he
quickly lransicrrcdtO other parties. Vic.
tins think some 0l these p rites were in
the CCtidCnCC Oi Price and suits have been
commenced to recover the property.
The testimony in the Anderson poison.
Ing case to-day, embraced u startling dis
closure. Andrew jackson. formerly
clerk in DR.. lrish's store, testified that ten
days before AndcrsOn's death, Irish and
Mrs Anderson came into the store, and ut
he Doctors request the witness put up
three draChms OF white arsenic, with
which it was said Mrs. Anderson wanted
10 kill cats. -Four or five days ancr, the
Doctor order the witness to put mp u dol
dollars worth Of Arsenic Which was done;
also u dollars worth Of Paris green, On
The l2th OI Mty, DR. Irish sill 10 the
witnls, that since hc might be- sujpcOr:p
in this case, hC would like 10 know il their
evidence COuticted. The Doctor asked
him about putting up some hi Clrh)nat
Of soda, and il he remembered it
The witness replied that he did
not sec him get it, Hnd would moi perjurr
himself for the city OF Brooklyn The
Doctor said he could get out nl the city,
Sing Sing or my other place. 4 new
clerk was obtained, and the Doctor gave
witness $50 and he left for Bitialn, where
he has since remained. Mrs. Anderson
wrote letter TO Irish telling him ho had
better not let witness go, as the other side
might get hold OF him and he might lCs-
tify in regard 10 getting arsenic for the
Fats,
Counsel for tho BInli OF British Amcri.
~ state that SauvillC, arrested ycSt, rdny,
had no connection with the institution,
but was n partner in the firm Oi James
Austin Il Co, which recently failed In
and which is debtor TO the
hank for comparatively small amount
Tho charge against Suvillc is altering
the amounts Ul some OF the acCcptanCCs
At meeting ot the New England So.
cicty to night, Elliott G. Cowdon was re.
elected President and committee M.
pointed tn draft appropriate resolutions
IN the death Of Horace Greeley, thirty
years IL member Ct the society. The an
nual meeting takes place III The 18Th inst.
when, lis reported the Prcsilcn, and
Generals Sherman and Sheridan will bC
present
Tho Directors Of the Crystal Palace
Exhibition Company met this evening
and discussed the advantages OF the pro.
posed enterprise. Richard SChcll Is to