The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-04-08

NEW YORK, April 6.--The agent Of tn
white Star Line has q full list by cabl
OF the Atlantic passengers, and i. read,
10 answerquestiona mys s...s,sss.
THE GAS MEN.
The gas mems strike still contiuuea IN,
enorts to fill places with Italians from
wards Island proving futile. Tho cit,
eelow urand stfeot is in total darkness
newspaper Offices ana business places hat
u resort to candles. No disturbances ba.
occurred in the vicinity Of the gus works
winch large number Of police guard will
reserves, in readiness. Those employed "a
Ill the places of the strikers seem total,
uhht for work, ard cannot speak Enrlisl
or understand what il required of them
Inc receiving tanks are level with tn,
ground and unless others than Italians
are substituted the strikers must win.
AT the Stadt theatre, where the porror.
nance had commenced, the audience was
left in total darkness.
1t is said the Brooklyn gas men are about
TO strike for eight hours.
Two off the Italians taken from Wards
Island to supply the places of the strikers
at tho New York Gas Company. preferred
death to that kind of industry and
drowned themselves. Others clamored ia
be returned to the Island to await less ex.
hausting employment.
Andrew Casey assaulted Robert Bloom
as the latter was going home from the Gas
works lust evening. lie was promtly ar.
rested.
The failure of the New York gas com
pany to supply with light its section Of
The ;iiy in which is centered the important
interests ofbanking, insurance and whole
sale trades, causes great and deserved in
dignation among business men. The vaults
OF banks and bankers with radius of n
quarter of mile of Wall street contain
millions upon millions of dollars worth of
securities and cash, and when it is remen :
bered that one. of the chief instrumental
ties in guarding these vaults at night is
gaslight, it will be seen what immense in
terests are jeopard2ed by the action of
the company, to say nothing about incon-
venience.
The Hudson river is navigable.
New York, April WALL street mar
kets to-day are free Of excitement, the
money pressure continuing the feature,
but securities, as q rule, remain firm for
some reason unknown to bulls and specu-
lators in gold, who practically control the
market, The upward movement has been
temporarily checked. The opening price
was ll9s, after which there was decline
to llS9, and advanced to Isl, with 1917
and l0Ss as nominal rates for prime
sterling, the business being at cOnces-
sion of /. Advices from London to-day
are favorable both for money and secur.
ties. In approved collateral have ranged
from l-lG to 3-l6 Of one per cent per day,
Specials to this city cay that the Her
AIDS correspondent, O.. Kelley, came into
MANILA from the insurrectionary dis
tricis with official documents. The court
of inquiry is still progressing. 1t is stated
that the Captain General had given or
ders for Kelley's expulsion.
Robert Mnier young man in Will
iamsburg, maddened by rum, attempted to
kill his father yesterday when the latter
nearly dubbed him to death in self de-
fence.
A. I. Stewart is reported better, though
visitors are still excluded.
THE KNIFE.
GALVESTON, April Last night at 10
O'Clock, a man calling himself James
Helm, drew knife and cut q boy whose
name is unkdowu, and in his attempt to
escape alta cked and cut three unoifendiDg
parties who happened to be in his way,
Officer Ferguson, in attempting to make
an arrest, was the next to receive the
knife, and died five minutes afterward,
Mr. W. Bennison an old and respectable
citizen, who was one of the uniortunates,
has sino, died, and it's thought that two
others will die. Henry Myers driver
for Engine Company No. 2 it is believed
will die the frehen swear vengeance
against Helm. Intense excitement prevails,
and its believed that ha will never be al
lowed by the mob to have o trial. Some
of the police force have already asserted
their ntion, if called on, to defend the
Jail. Helm gives his name rs James Ben
nett Helm of Floyd CoVa, and cousin to
the notorious Jack Helm of Texas.
New ORLEANS, April 7.--Wm. Merriman,
nged 10, and negro man killed each other
in an alteration Saturday night at Dryas
creek station, on the Mobile and Mont
gomery railroad,
The assassination of W. b. Mcdonald, o
Republican, at hotel in Vernon, Jackson
parish, is reported. lie was shot through
a window at night by an unknown party
with double-barrel shotgun.
Riotcus demonstrations on the part Of
the negroes in Grant parish are reported
Some whites were ordered to leave the
parish and obeyed. 1t is stated that their
residences were afterwards plundcrod.
WARRINGTON, April G.-Tbe second part
Of thespapere with iefcrenc to the foreign
relations of the United States which was
transmitted to Congress with the Presi-
dents annual message is volume of $40
pages, filed entirely with the proceedings
of the Geneva arbitration the arguments
of counsel, the award and the report of
the United States agent, &c. The report
of the counsel occupies only % printed
leaves, in which they express the hope
TINT the President will see in the final
award OF the tribunal, proof that they
were not wan ting to the important
trusts which he confdcd to them.
1t appears from late order issued BY
the Department of Agriculture that June
10 is the earliest time fixed for the pro-