The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-03-25
NEW YORK CITY.

movement for general strike among thC
workingmen for the maintenance OF thC
eight hour law Is gathering strength
Al meeting OF the German shoemakers
held yesterday, addresses, were mad'
favoring o strong organization so as L
participate in the coming strikes. ThC
Internationslst Association propose TAX
ing legal means against employees who re
Iuse to comply with the eight hour law
Members OF that body think that all sec
tions and trades would strike this year t
enforce that law. -TF....a
An Albany correspondent says that thG
money paid by the Erie Directors for ex
penses In connection With the removal oI
Gould and others, $4,000, was divided
among six members of the State Senate
1t Is reported that negotiations are now
in progress for the lease Of the Harlem
railroad TO the New York Central.
Some forged put and call privileges or
tho Cleveland, Columbus & Indiana Cen
trail Railroad were discovered In Wall
street this morning, amounting, as far as
asCertailed, 10 800 shares.
At the Erie investigation to-day, L. n,
Barlow, one Of the Erie Directors, and
counsel for the Company, testified that
when Mr.. Zane, ono OF the old directors,
called upon him respecting the proposed
change in the management, lie want.
ed Sl,50O,0OO. Ar. Barlow succeeded in
having the amount reduced, after commu-
nicatiDg with McHenry, to S3OU0O0. Be
sides this amount, there was paid O,0OO
to Mr.. OdoberLy. aud these, excepting
what was paid to SiCkles and to InisCella.
neous counsel, were all the sums he knew
Of having been paid 10 Sicllcs aud to
miscellaneous counsel. Mr.. Barlow de-
tailed at length the circumstances Of the
negotiations perfected with Bisha[lscheim
& Co., whereby the Erie Company was
saved from bankruptcy by that firm plac'
ing In the market 10000 900 OF Erie con-
solidated bonds. 8Ir. Barlow did not
know how much was paid Gen. SiCkles
for his personal services. In reference to
the $4,000 voted to the New York Cen.
trail Company, that was for Erie's share
In the expenses incurred by the New
York Central In connection with pro rate
bill, the directors Of that road having
stated that the bill cost them $l00, 900.
Did not know, however, whether the
money was paid for legislation.
Mr.. Dos Passos, counsel for Stokes,
made application to-day in the Court ol
Over and Tcrminer, for an order to show
cause why Judgment on the record in the
case should not be amended, on the
ground that It does not include the ma
terial facts. The Court took the papers.
At q meeting Of the Cotton Exchange,
to-day, the Board OF Managers were re-
quested to insert in the bylaws a clause
prohibiting the transaction Of any busi-
ness on change, except between the hours
Of 10 A. n. and 4 Pm.
The widow of Foster, who was hanged
on Friday last, Is utterly Frustrated, and
not expected to live. .-..
Arariah Boody has,brought suit against
Daniel Drew, Kenyon, Cox & Co. and
others in the Supreme Court. heplain:
tiff and most Of the defendants entered
into pool arrangement in the Toledo,
Wabash & Western Railroad, In which
the plaintiff was to take 12,500 shares,
with margin beyond thstnumber. Ken.
yon, Cox & Co. were brokers ior the
pool. At the close Of the pool the
brokers reported 1S5, 600 shares on hand,
aud the cost $8,767, ,G10, and called on the
plaintiff 10 take up l5,600 shares. On
that basis the plaintiff now insists that
the brokers used the pool stocks for
puts and calls and fer other purposes,
and demands full and complete accounts
from the brokers OF tho tFansactiOns,
making also other members Of the pool
party defendants. These defendants do
INJURED 10 the complaint, and motion
by the plaintiff for judgment on their de-
murrer, as frivilOus. was argued to-day be:
fore Justice Fancher, who has reserved
his decision. ....- ~
A London special says Right Rev. John
Van Sanford, Arch Deacon OF Coventry,
is dead. The deceased was author OF
"Vax Cordis''saud other religious works,
and in 1854 was appointed one Of Her
Maiesty's Commissioners for revising the
forms Of the clerical subscription.
The Erie investigation to-day, devel-
opes the fact that Gen. Sickles received
$75, 900 for his services in connection with
the change OF DirectorBhip.
The depositors OF the Bull's Head Bank
met to-day to try'and arrange matters BIZ.
tween the stockholders and deposiIors SO
that tho former would make good the de-
tlceucy and tho latter still continue to do
business with tho Bank. Wilets, the cash.
Ter; made a statement showing tho def
cheney to be $257, 900. Marshal Fiske has
deputized Charles A. Meigs, bank exami-
ner to take charge Of the property.
. Two Brooklyn detectives were in this
city to-day, and returned to Brooklyn
with b New York man, who has had bu-.I
siness relations with Charles Goodrich,
who was murdered there a few nights
ago. Tho Coroner, District Attorney,
detectives and tho stranger had several
consultations during the day. The off,
cials decline to make public the result Of
the consultations or say If the stranger Is
under arrest. District Attorney Britton,
this afternoon, said: II am pretty well
certain who committed this murder If we
can only get hold Of them" -.. N !
The Inquest in the Goodrich case was
to-day ad ourned till Friday next, owing |
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