The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-11-13
NEW YORK CITY.


new YORK, November 12.-There Il
considerable gossip circulating through
the streets on the subject Of double insu-
rance oil wooden ships in the Pacific Mail
Companies service. Ono oil tho officers
OF the Company had caused the ships to
be insured and ono Of the directors had
procured tho same insurance. As the
Company did not require a double insu.
rance there was dispute between the
officer and director as 10 which contract
should DO recognized, II being reported
that the latter had threatened to resign
unless the insurance effected by him
should be recognized.
ST. JOHNS GUILD AND TIE sTARvIEG
POOR.
The managers of 81. Johns Guild say
that at least 10000 men and women are
out OF employment in New York City,
and that whole families are without the
necesSaries oi life. Hundreds gather at
the Guild doors daily, clamoring for food,
and the treasury Of the Guild, even to its
reserve fund, is exhausted.
FIGHT WITH THE cuEYENNEs.
A dispatch from Fort Supply, Indian
Territory, dated November 2, tells the
story oil fight on Mcclellan creek on
the previous day between 2S mon of the
9Th Cavalry, under Capt. Fl. ]. Farms
worth, and 100 Chcyennes. The United
States troops lost killed and 4 wounded;
Indians loss, 10 killed.
GOLD AWARD.
Halt million dollNra OF government
gold was awarded to-day at from 1102S
TO 1103l.
DISTRIBUTION or MISSIONARY FuSDs.
Tho General Missionary Committee OF
the n. E. Church in session to-day voted
$?4 400 to Germany and Switzerland,
81 600 10 Denmark, $4,000 to Norway,
$4,000 10 Sweden, $500 to Bulgaria,
$4,000 to Italy, $ls,5OO to Mexico, s., 900
to Africa, and $l7,750 to Japan. Total
appropriations TOT foreign missions, $903,,
953. The appropriation for Arizona Is
$4,000, and for New Mexico $4,000.
SUSPENSION OF FOWLER BROS.
The suspension is announced of @. r
Fowler u Bros rice dealers. The amount
OF their liabilities are not yet ascertained,
but they are estimated at over 800 900.
MEETINd OF RAILROAD AAdNATEs.
It is reported that Commodore Wander.
oilt and Col. Scott, representing the New
York Central, Lake Shore and Pennsyl.
vania Railroads, have gone to Baltimore
to try and arrange with President Garrett,
Of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, a salts.
factory tariff OF through rates. The Balti.
more q Ohio Railroad recently refused TO
enter into q combination OF other trunk
lines.
THE JURY DON'T KNOW.
Tho Coroners Jury in the case ol John
McKenna, shot during a political iracas
on last election day, returned verdict
that Mckenns came TO his death BY o
pistol shot wound, at the hands OF some
peraon unknown.
BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.
At the billiard tournament to-day the
game between DAILY and Ubassy was won
by the former. Score, 800 10 104; win
ners average $3.50. The next game was
between SlossOn and Cyrille Dion. The
lead was won by tho latter who only
scored one in tho first inning. In
the second he made run Of
II, and was followed by Slosson
with Is in the third. In the next two in.
nings Slosson, who played remarkably
fine game, added 40 to his score. In the
sixth Dion made brilliant run Of 80, and
Slosson followed with s, leaving the score
at the end Of the inning 81 10 &c in his ia.
vor. In the fifteenth inning Dion made q
run Of 43, and Slosson in the next four In.
nings added 1870 to his score, while Dion
only scored 20. The game was closed in
the twenty-seventh inning by Sloeson,
Dion being 2S6. Tho winners average
was II 8 81.