The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-11-29
NEW YORK.


Ingersoll and Harrington Sentenced.
New YORK, Nov. 2S-Ths morning ,Jame,,
f. 1ngersoll, convicted of forging end altering
warrant for fictitious claim on the county
Tor $l5, l3S. no. was sentenced to five wears hard
labor in Sing Sing, and his tool, John ID. Far
rington, to eighteen months.
Work mt the Navy Yard.
Work was continued to-day by 28O0 men en-
ployed at the Brooklyn maynard and there is no
decrease in the activity of the preparations on
war ships There is large force on the Col
orado and her cables were taken on TODAY. In
creased activity is noticeable on the ships Min
nesota, Florida and Swatara. and the engineer
ing department began this morning the work
of retubing the boilers of the monitor Dictator.
Many mechanics are working to-day on the
Roanoke.
The Thieves.
Ingersoll having been convicted, it is report-
ed that Cowan, Norton and Genet the other
three Court House Commissioners will he
brought up for trial next term, which begins on
Monday, when it is probable Judge Ingraham
that the district attorneys office means to take
up the latest Indictment against Genet, on
which it is positive that he took lumber charg-
ed to the county for his own house.
Judge Davis will tomorrow consider the con-
tempt case of Graham, Fullerton, Root and
Bartlett, Tweed's counsel.
Verdict i'm the Boiler Explosion Case.
The jury in the Harlem boiler explosion case
tonight rendered a verdict One of the Jurors
find that Beeman and Coyne, the contractors,
and John Barnum, engineer,arr guilty of GRIM
inal neglect, while four jurors simply charge
them with careessness and neglect. The en-
tire jury, however, censure John Balmore, who
rented the boiler to Beemer & Coyne, and A.
S. Cameron, who manufactured the boiler for
having sold it without having it previously
tested. The Harlem railroad is censured for
want of care for the lives of their employees and
others.
Various Matters.
An extensive potato rot is reported on Long
Island.
The Liberal Republican State Committee
have issued an address in which they estimate
the sum total of Liberal strength in this State
last November, 81 ,577- votes.
Tweed was visited by bis family and personal
friends yesterday. He is reported to have en-
ployed Gen. Butler among other counsel The
Tweed family took Thanksgiving dinner in the
Toombs.
A. McCue, city judge of Brooklyn, has
commenced an action against the Tribune for
alleged libel, laying damages at $4,000.
The steamer Adger from Chareston, which
arrived tonight reports passed November 9th,
10 a. m., twelve miles south of Hatteras a man
of-war towing a minitor.
Two members of the Stock Exchange were
to-day suspended for thirty days for disorderly
I conduct on the floor of the exchange.
An application was made to-day for the ap-
pontment of trustees for the Ingerso,l estate on
the ground that he is debtor imprisoned for
crime. Judge Fancher refused for the present
on the ground that the law requires actual i'm
prlsoument
The receiver of the Midland Railroad was to
day authorized to sell Its property in this city.
The authors of the Internal machine sent to
Comptroller Green have not yet been discover
ed.
Several members of the Plasterers' Union to-
day entered building in Brooklyn where nom
society men were working. tore down the stag
ing on which the men were standing and beat
them severely. One man is believed to be ia
tally injured No arrests.
The sheriff to-day stated thdt Tweed would
be shortly taken to the penteutiary at Black
wells Island.
A Model Railroad War.
KINGSTON, Nov. 2S.-Wednesday. E. M.
Brigham, who was appointed receiver of the
New York. Kingston 4 Syracuse Railroad by
the Farmers Loan aud Trust Co., in behalf of
office and property of the road. VIM B. Ltch-
field, formerly lessee of the road, asked for
time, and subsequently refused to allow Brig
ham to enter the office Yesterday the directors
directed Litchtield to deliver up the property,
and he was so ordered by the President of the
road. Litchfeld promised to do so this morn .
ing. but upon the arrival of Brigham refused
with his two brothers, II. P. Breed, Superinten
dent VIM. BONES, Paymaster and others in his
empty He entrenched himself in the upper
rooms, winch were IurnlSneQ with axes, fish
plates, Hammers, &c. He and Breed carried
revolvers. When the receivers party attempt
ed to enter the building they were met at the
head of the satirs by Breedland party of men.
Breed fred three or four shots, it is reported by
| some, at Brigham but by others it is said thew
were fired aimlessly. Ladders were then placed
20 enter the upper windows but were pushed
away by Breeds party. In the melee Breed
was hit on the head by stone and severely cut.
| After some further strife the building was en-
tered by the receivers party. The road is now
| in possession of the receivers and trains are
| running regularly