The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-04-22
NEW YORK CITY.

New YoRK, April 2l.-The liabiliLie
OF the suspended firm of Barton d Allel
are estimated at $S00,000. The asset
are not stated, but are supposed to be con
siderable.
Butch. Barclay, the propy tor Of I
gambling house in the Bowery, and An
drew Mcintyre and John Seller, DEALER
in beer;-wero arrested on the charge o
fatally beating Herschel Mendilbaum
who alter losing two hundred dollars, re-
fused to pay for one hundred dollars worth
OF checks, alleging us q reason that they
had played tho skin game" Mendil
baum belongs to reputed fence family
10 this city.
During Aght in Brooklyn last evening
between squad Of policemen and some
rOwdics, officer Spilman was knocked in
sensible by blow OF q cart ring. Three
OF the rioters were arrested
The French mail steamer Gambia was
wrecked March 25th, of the Brazilian
coast No lives lost.
Mary GaGney, while returning home
from funeral Sunday night, fell down
an embankment on Eighth street, and
becoming. so mired in mud that she could
not cxtrlcate herself, was in this manner
strangled TO death.
NEW York, April 21.-John Fitzzib.
bons; who hacked John o Hara to pieces
Christmas eye, plead guilty to man.
slaughter in the first degree today.
The Indian Peace Commissioners did
not meet today. Dir. Campbell, OF st.
Louis, is the only member in tho city. Mr.
Brunot, chairman, tclegraphs that he is
detained in Pittsburgh by the death OF his
mother
The Bulls Head Bank resumes bust
ness Wednesday next.
The receiver OF the Ocean National
Bank to-day, sold seven second mortgage
bonds of the Portage and Lake Superior
ship canal, 81, 900 each, Tor five per cent
OF the face value. Tho sale Of tho re-
mainder Of the bonds was postponed.
The suit of George B. Davis against
the New York Times, 10 recover So
900 for an alleged libel was tried today.
Davis was put on tho stand, when the
counsel for the plaintiff objected to his
testiiying on the grounds that he was L
convicted lelon, and tho Judge sustained
the objection, thus ending the trlal.
William W. Fliess, OF this city, hRs
been chosen President OF the Kansas e.
Nebraska Railroad Company.
The recovery of nearly quarter oI
million OF dollars in United States bonds,
which had been obtained by Mcdonald,
a!taS Bidwcll and associates, in the late
Bank of England lorgeries, was effected
today, the facts concerning which nre as
follows: On tho 9th of March last u
trunk, said to contain wearing apparel,
old and in use, was delivered at the office
Of the North Atlantic Express Company,
No. 4 Margatc street, London, by per-
son calling himself G. Losing, Of Lun-
bridge Wells, England, and addressed to
Maj. Geo. Matthews, OF New York, to be
kept in bond at the express office, No, II
Broadway, New York, until it was called
for. The trunk was duly forwarded, and
reached New York by the steamship
Cuba, which arrived on March 20lh and
was kept in bond by the Company, rs
per instructions, until Saturday last,
when woman calling herself Mrs. Geo.
Matthews, presented an order for its de.
livery at the express office, duly signed
Geo. Matthews In the meantime, the
counsel for the Bank of England had re-
Ceivcd some Information regarding the
trnnk which led TO its detention by the
Company until to-day, when 1t was taken
possession OF under an order of the
Supremh court by Nathaniel Jarvis, Esq
receiver.
In the Bank of England forgery case and
on being opened aud examined was found
TO contain quantity Of old wearing ap.
parel, two gold watches, several miscel.
canous articles and three packages OF U.
s. SEQ and 1910 bonds rolled up in soIlcd
linen, amounting in all to about $290,0j0
The bonds were found to be identical.
in class, mounts and numbers with those
advertised by the Bank of England to
have been obtained by the Bidwell Tor
geries, and in the trunk were lounl cards
and card plate, with tho name George
Bidwell. Avariety oil mcmoraudas,. bills,
&c, were found, showing conClusively
that it had been shipped by and belonged
to him. Out of the 100000 obtained
from the Bank of England by these for
geries, all but about $50, 900 has now been
recovered.
NEW YoRK, April 21.-Tho Tammany
society elected the following sachGms for
the ensuing year: John Kelly, John W.
Chandler, Samuel J. Tilden, John Fox,
Thomas Dunlap, Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr.,
Abraham 8. HGwcll, Abraham Il. Law.
renee, William G. Conner, Miles B. An
drews, Edward L. Donnelly, James g.
Nicholson and William II. Wickham.
A curbstone broker named Charles
Hampton was arrested to-day for hav-
ing in his possession $4,000 in Pennsyl-
vania & Western Railroad securities, said
TO have been stolen. Hampton was ar.
rested while offering a portion of the
bonds to Fitch, Otis Il Co, Pine street,
which we're stolen from Pittsburgh mer.
chant.
HAVANA.