The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-03-21
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NEW YORK..
A Police Captain Defies his Supporters.

A Police Captain Defies his Supporters.
NEW YORK, March 2O.-Although ordered by
the Police Commissioner to furnish all infor-
nation relative to certain bad houses in the
neighborhood of school houses in the eighth
ward, the captain of the police refused to give
the information to. the Board of Education yes
terday, defied the board and stated that one OF
its members owned several houses in the Ward
which he let to prostitutes.
Eric Railroad Affairs.
The Railroad Committee appointed to ex-
anime into the statements of Duncan late aud
itor of the Erie Railroad, charging that the
floating debt of the company amounts to 81,
100000, submitted their report this afternoon,
giving the following as the actual state of at
fairs March Is, 1874: Loans and bills payable
81, 09S, S66.51; loan received by collateral ST.
800 600; audited bills unpaid 1896, 1872 50; traffic
balances SIG 175, 50; unaudited bills and ac-
counts 1926, 20; balance of January pay
rolls $134, $3.50; total SO, 404, 388.45. These
items they consid er as constituting the floating
debt proper. If all the debt outside of funded
debt is to be regarded as floating then there are
the following items to ado to the above Feb
ruary payrolls due but not payable $549, 631 .07
Union Bank of London advances on unsold
bonds 1904 202.S7; interest and rentals to March
18th, not yet due, 494, 1898.
Various Matters.
Henry Clinton, concerned in $4,000 burg
larry in this city in 1868, since when he has
tTdNelleu Mexico anu soOuLl America,
was yesterday arrested ON Broadway.
Last night 300 freight laborers Of the Erie
road at Jersey City struck for an increase of
wages, and the strike to-day extended from
jersey City to New York. Now some 700 men
are in the STRIKE The freight tracks are near
ly full of unloaded cars.
Sir Lambton Lorraine did not arrive last night
on the steamer Carmina from Santiago de Cuba,
but will come oE the next trip, when the pro-
posed honors will be rendered him.
S. s. Barlow states that all the Erie employees
have been paid for December in January, and
a portion for February will be paid as soon as
the pay rolls can be arranged. He adds that
the company is preparing denial to the state
ments made in the Dunan pamphlet.
Judge Brady has decided adversely to the
motion to alter the commitment of Tweed from
Blackwell Island to the Tombs. The orgi-
nal Judgment on conviction being fully sus-
tanned.
At least one-tenth of the horses in the city
are suffering from the new disease.
Mckay, indicted for forging letters to the
New York Stock Exchange, stating that the
stock of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany had been Increased, was to-day bailed in
$4,000.
The United States District Attorney being
ready, the counsel for Sanborn, Hawley and
Van'lerwerken, charged with revenue frauds,
are now seeking to postpone the trial from the
25th.
The bears in Erie are said to have discovered
that the bonds being issued are illegal because
provision IF the companyS articles of assO-
citation for advertising its intention to create a
new mortgage has not been complied with.
At the Investigation into charges against
Police Commissioner Oliver Charick, of vio-
lation of the election law at the last fall cleo
ton, Judge Donahue granted an order on the
pear and sign his deposition or be punished for
CJntemDt of court