The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-09-06
NEW YORK CITY.

| Una. tLc permanent GtDL OF iHt Clsl y ~
cfcasiGg with irghtiul rapidily, and ihs
|taNes and assessments, 10 enormous D
they ATE, are totally inadequate to meet th
charges against them. 1he receipts iron
tETes and incomes the past year Wer
t32 $4,000, and the amount expeDdet
was R52 300, 900. Il iS said the system @
book keeping in the COmpHolleF'a De
pGEtmeDt Is designed to conceal the ACtua
financial condition Of the city.
John Broderick, who was wounded Il
q quarrel in which his father killed James
another son, has escaped IRON BelleVu,
Hospital and fled the city, In Orde
to avoid testilying against his lAiher, VIII
has been indicted Tor murder in tho frs
degree.
The police have lal confined at head
quarters for somc days past, an unknown
man, accused Of being concerned In tht
counterfeit bond of ul the Buffalo, NcN
York; and Erie railroads The police re
fuse to give bis name for proofs Of the al
legged crime
a slight hrc occarfc! lsst nIgEi ~ 40
lg9. North street, MilHeTshurg, aud whet
the iiamss were eXiiDgui-hcd the body o
Margaret Hamil was found burned, and
piece OF bed cord tied around her neck,
The occupants have been arrested.
The Efprep learns by u private letter
from Washington, that the President has
accepted the resignation Of Gov Cook, ol
the District Of Columbia, and rendered
the office to a gentleman Of high charac-
ter and undoubied qualifications iOr the
post.
The majority Of the Board OF Directors
Of st. Joseph and Denver City and county
have resigned and Jose F, NaVSrrs, Geo
j. Forrest, Lawrence Mills, Thomas N.
Smith, Augustus +. Miller, Edward W..
Mealey and Henry II. Butterworth has
been elected 10 nil the vacancies. The
committee that hos been appointed will
make u thorough investigation into the NJ.
fairs OF the company, and TO confer with
lh3 bond holders. The officers oI the
company have rendered their resignAlions
to take effect on the election Of thcir sue
CcssOrs
Information has been received that the
mail steamship plying between Hong
Kong and NOkahamt has been bclChed
at Swn,Ow and will prove total loss.
The mails and passengers were saved.
Frank Russell and Frank Anderson Of
the brig AIsatoga Tell from loft this
morning and were killed.
The encouragement that the Stock EN-
change would adopt the English mode Of
settlement is premature. None Of the
notifications OF the rules have been con.
sIdcred by the Board, and 1t is doubtful
il they will ever be adopted,
II is now stated that the detectives be-
lieve that Mrs HAmil, whose body was
found burned and with card about her
neck in house on Ninth street, Brook
lyn, was murdered for her money. James
and Sarah MGrrigan, at whose house the
affair occurred, were arrested today.
Representatives Of the managers OF 10
corporate schools attached 70 the orphans
and other inslltutions IN this city, appear.
ed before committee Of the Board Ol Ed.
ucaiion this evening, 10 state the rea-
sons why they should not bo Gx--
cluded from further reception OF
grants from the school fund, In
accordance with the section torbidding
grants to denominational schools. The
attention OF tho Commissioners had been
called to the section in letter from the
Comptroller, and Committee was ap.
pointed TO enquire into the matter The
representatives of the Catholic Orphan
Asylum admitted that the object is 10 aid
destitute Catholic children and bring them
ub in that religion, but claimed the grant,
as there Is no religious teaching whatever
in the school house.
All the others admitted that the Scrip
lures are read, the Lords prayer recited,
and in some of them psalms are sung, but
nil affirmed that school teaching Is en-
,irrly undcnomInatiOnal The committee
will report to the Board.
The Tribune furnishes the following:
"Tho mystery US 10 where the money OF
the Dro0olyn Trust Company and City
Treasury Of Brooklyn went TO is rapidly
being solved. 1t will be remembered that
among the men who induced +. I. MINIS
to invest money in the New Haven, Aid
dletown Il Wiimaniic road was JOhnathn
A. White, OF 80 Broad strect,ia man whose
character was none OF the best, but who
did various and apparently prosperous
business, and who passed Tor a
wealthy man, although It is now sus'
pected he was a desperate speculator only,
and has been denounced as such II is
stated that White received vi, 900 ot the
bonds OF the road above named IS a DO
nus for loaning the company $l6OOOO on
its stock to the amount Of S2OO, ,OOOi when
il appears In fact that II was the money
Of t6e Trust Company which White had
advanced. Subsequently, 1t appears, he
raised a loan from the came Trust Com
rany on the bonds he had obtained Tor
making the loan TO the railroad company.
II now appears that White had also a
sewing machine company with n CAPT
tai OF i've hundred thousand dollars,
or at least protesting 10 have such capt.
tai he selected for and has published on
cards Of the company the following list Of
directors: Hon. Alex. McCue, Brooklyn;
f. +, Mills, President Of Brooklyn Trust
Company: G. A. Sprague, OF the firm oil
Mullord Il Sprague; NJ. 7. Rodman,
Secretary of the Brooklyn Trust Com,
many, and Jonathan a. White, OF 3G
Broad street, New York. II will be seen
thnt here is the old gang Of the Trust
Company come again, The factory OF the
Comnany was located at Frankfort, sub
urb Of Philadelphia, and about forty or
INV hands have been and are still en-
pioyed but they have not been paid loT
iour weeks past. The Trus! company had
M sooner failed than the Sewing Ma
chine c Company stopped the payment Of
its hands, Information had been obtain
ed however, from another Trustworthy
source that the concern was ring atiail,
and that il was total failure. The whole
Of the capital, which, Notwithstanding
,hc retiCencc Of SpraguG and Ropes, is
believed 10 have been taken from the
Trust Company, with only the bonds oI
the LatLrop Combination Sewing Ma
chine Company as collateral for the loan
-, t.. ,,,rly InfNFmaiiOn from