The Portland daily press., 1873-03-19
NEW YORK.


AN lnCluCnt Oh Sts Falf1ck'6 nay.
NEW YORK, March 1S.-The affray on 74th
street, yesterday afternoon, was one of outrage
GUS fiendishness. Three Irishmen, after having
drinks at Schmidts beer saloon, refused to pay.
Schmidt seized one of them, when all three
knocked him down, beating him and kicking
him terribly. His wife came to his assistance,
when they beat her and then fatally stabbed
her in three or four places. The brutes then
fell on Schmidt, biting one ear nearly oil, biting
one finger nearly off, and beat him over the
head with beer bottle. Mr.. Young, neigh
Dor, who went to Schmidt's assistance, was ia
ing the knife round, the same as Simmons did
when he stabbed Duryea. AS Young fell to the
floor, they beat and kicked his head into a
shapeless mass They then fled, and reaching
plank which crossed an excavation of rock,
between 74th and 10Th streets. met John Luby,
who was passing, into whom they plunged the
same knife with which they had stabbed their
other victims. Both Mr.. Young and Mrs.
Schmidt will die, and coroner has been noti-
fed to take their last statements, but Mr..
Schmidt. though in terrible condition, may
live, and Mr.. Luby will recover if inflammation
does not occur. The police have no clue to the
ruff1ans.
Another Outrage-Roughs Attack n Horse
Car-TwO Persons Injured
1t is reported that gang of roughs made an
attack on the passengers in a horse car on Third
avenue near 10Th street, at four o'clock this
morning. The passengers responded and a
general fight ensued, during which revolvers
were freely used. Finally the roughs were
driven off. Conductor Farley was shot in the
mouth and a passenger named Mcclure was
narrow escapes and there were none Of them
but had clothing badly torn off in the melee.
No arrests.
The Erie Revelations.
O'Doherty furnishes three columns more of
alleged Erie revelations, embracing among 9th
er things letter written by Jay Gould in De-
cember, 1871, to William Butler Duncan, pro-
posing to secure the resignation of the Erie
board and substituting Auguste Belmont, E.
d. Morgan, John j. Astor. Moses Tailor and
Others OsDoherty also publishes a copy of
receipt signed by D. E. Sckles, per S. L. M.
Barlow, acknowledging $4,000 received from
the Erie Railroad Company for the payment of
lawyers and others for wrestling the road from
the Gould management last spring
The Railroad Forgeries.
Oddie, of the firm of Oddie & Aus lin, is set
Ting the affairs of the firm and announces the
dissolution of the copartnership. The amount
of Austins defalcation is not yet known.
Incident of n st. Patrick's Day Banqaet
At banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Pat
rick last night, Lawrence KEENAN,, politician
OF this city, made response to toast, in the
course of which he said, every man in the
procession yesterday had been robbed Of his
birth"ight by the ruthless laws of a tyrant /"
Then Judge Rrady the chairman, fnterposed,
saying no politics, either foreign or social were
permitted, and said that representative of the
English st. Georges Society was present, where
upon KEENAN, declined to finish his speech
Various Matters.
At a special meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce to-day, a resolution recently passed in
favor of compelling the Sound and East River
steamers to land above Corlear's Hook, was re-
considered, and a resolution passed depreciat-
ing any legislation on the subject of preventing
the landing of steamers below Corlear's Hook,
as detrimental to the interests of the CITY,
The Irish laborers lately employed on the
Bouevarde, yesterday determined to clean out
the Italian laborers who replaced them at less
to where the Italians were working, but the pO-
lice drove them away. 1t is feared that there
will be trouble tomorrow.
In Brooklyn to-day, VIM. L. Hatch, detec-
tive, convicted of perjury, was sentenced to six
years and three months, and David Bowd and
Eugene Small (boy), fire bugs convicted of
arson, were sentenced to seven years each in
State prison.
The committee investigating the condition of
the building fronting on Centre street and the
erection OF an entirely new building
Another Attempt to Save Foster.
ALBANY, March 1S-The appeal of seven
jurors in the Foster case for a Communication of
his sentence, was to-day submitted to the Gov
ernor, who promises it a careful consideration
They swear that conviction could never have
been obtained but for the opinion which pre-
vailed among the jurors that their unanimous
recommendation to mercy would ensure a COM
mutation, and appeal to the Governor to pre-
vent man being put to death through an error
OF opinion on their part at the time of trial.