The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-04-10
NEW YORK CITY.
The SIrikcs..The Gas Strikers At
tack tho Manhattan WOHkS..COns
lIct with the Police

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police came into conflict last evening, ant
after q short and sharp tussle the police
men were victorious. The strikers mad'
q demonstration on the Manhattan Ga
Works on the Tenth avenue side, but thu
attacking party was repulsed with littlI
damage. A Arallying rush was then madC
for the Seventeenth street entrance, bu
the police quickly appearing there th'
strikers were oVerawed and retreated L
q safe distance, where they had a consul
tation and, the police say, obtained arms
Subsequently the whole force Of the strik
ers was mRssed and rush made that tht
police might be taken by surprise and al
entrance gained. The police were on the
alert, however, and routed the gasmen
many OF whom had bloody heads and well
belGbored bodies. No pistols were used
on either side. The attacks were made
that the valve room might be gained
and the gas shut of so that tho citizens
generally might be inconvenienced and
made TO sympathize with the strikers.
During tho conflict outside Of the works,
thero was great excitement inside, the
men were armed and expressed o deter
mination to protect themselves. The
strikers now number nearly 400, and
bsVe sent a delegation to Albany to ask
tie Legislature 10 appoint commissioners
to assess the property Of the different gas
companies, preparatory to the purchase
by the city; and the enforcement oI the 8
hour law.
The Jersey city printers struck yester.
day, Tor an advance Of fifty cents per day.
Only three employers resisted the de-
mand, and their men remain out. The
others resumed work at the new rates.
Brooklyn printers are going for reduc.
tiOn of hours OF labor and wages, Ten
hours and SO so per day Is the present
time and pays hours and $9 is to be de-
manded.
TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION DEMANDED.
The East Methodist Conference yester.
day adopted a resolution iavoring the
passage by the Legislature of local
option, aud demanding the enactment OF
a civil damages bill similar 10 the one
now in force in Illinois.
ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH FARMERS.
Ono hundred English farmers bound for
arrived here yesterday. Geo.
Rogers, OF Somersetshire, is president Of
the colony, which will settle on tract
twenty-fOur by twelve miles, and situat-
ed, according to tho President, twelve
miles east Of Glyndon, twenty miles east
Of Morehead, eighty west of BranNrd and
two hundred and thirty miles from Du-
luth. Two thousand farmers are expect.
ed the present year in the same section.
BANK OFFICERS INDICTED.
The grand juryhave found four indict-
ments against VIM. II. Merritt, Assistant
Cashier, and three against James J. Peck,
Receiving Teller, OF the Bulls Head
Bank. The former arc Tor forgery and
and the latter for grand
larceny and embezzIement. Both have
filed bonds for trial. The defalCation Is
said to be $4,000.
The Produce Exchange will adjourn
over Good Friday.
THE BEACH PNEUMATIC TUBE RAILROAD.
ALBANY, April 0.-The Governor has
signed the Beach Pneumatic Tube Rail.
road bill for q New York Company, haV-
ing consented to the suggestion of the
governor for the insertion Of clause
restricting the rates Of passage for the en-
tire length of the road.
NEW YORK, April 9.-Jacob Young,
one OF the three persons stabbed by row.
dies in a Third avenue store on St. Pat
rick's Day, died last night. No arrests.
GOVERNMENT BOND PURCHAsE.
There we're ten offers OF bonds to-day
amounting to $2,42s,05O, at 11449 to
115 90. The government bought half o
million at 1144 10 11497.
Michael Dupins was killed this morn.
ing, and David Geary fatally injured, by
a premature explosion In the underground
railroad at 92d street.
John Hawley, the boy saved from the
wreck Of the Atlantic, declines TO join 8
show, and remains with his
friends in Newark, n. j., receiving con-
tributions from bis admirers.
The statue of Gen. Lyons, intended for
St. Louis, is now on exhibition In this
city.
The Senate to-day rejected the motion
for the retention Of Comptroller Green, OF
New York, till the end Of his term, and
determined there should be an election In
November next, and every four years
thereafter. The term Of the incumbent
commences January 1st
Tho Italians employed by tho New
York Gas Company have all left and Ger
mans have supplied their places. Every.
thing has been quiet today around the
Gas works. The strikers have given up
all hopes that the employees Of the Man
haitian Company will join them.
The car drivers on the Belt Line will
strike tomorrow for $975 per day. At
present they only get $2.
Helena Knowles, a doctoress, was ar.
rested to-day, on the charge ol Mrs.
Arlington, who claims to be the wife oil
Fred. W. Arlington, Of having procured
an abortion on her. Mrs. Arlington was
found lying on the sidewalk, Monday,
suffering intensely, and, she is now at
Long Island College Hospital, where 1t Is
now stated that she cannot survive.
Judge Tsppan decided to-day, that
Mrs. Myers, witness in the Goodrich case,
should be discharged on her own reCog-
izance and surety 'oi $1,000.
The Supreme Court has cut down the
claim OF Charles Graded, the street paw
ing contractor, from $8l ,532 TO $4,000.
The Erie Railroad authorities announce
all the distractions the road at Port JGr-
Wis will be removed.
The United States Senate Committee
heard, to-day, tho continuation OF the ar.
gumcnls in reference 10 the postal car
question. President Hinckley, OF the
Philadelphia & Baltimore road, read ex-
tracts from the annual reports, showing
small profits resulting TO the company
from the earning Of carrying mails. Pres.
iden Harris, Of the Connecticut Valley
road, stated that his company received
$l9,0 900 from express per year, and II they
were paid accordingly for mails they
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