The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-18
NEW YORK.
Boss Tweed.

NEW 1ORk, July li.-Ihe COnnll>-
sioners of Charities and Correction have
authorized IMPROVEMENTS made Bin the
prison quarters of VIM. VI. Tweed, owing
to the representations of his physicians,
and the warden Of the penitentiary will,
in q day or two. remove Tweed to a
larger room. This room is about lOx2O
feet in area, Oh the second yfooE. md has
three windows looking out frQin It on
the river. IT IS to be fitted up "wifh the
same furniture used in Tweed's former
room on the second floor front. This
furniture belongs to Tweed. There Is a
double bed lounge, hospital and arm
chairs, revolving chair and one or two
tables. Before Tweed can BE- removed
his new quarters will be rendered more
secure and the warden is now having
the from newly bolted ana
barred. At the present time, Tweed
Storms the duties of orderly in the hCspi-
Ia administering medicine, and assisting
doctors in cases that require orderlle-'
attention and turning out at night with
other orderlies. When he is required he
feeds on prison fare, except when he Is
peTInltttu oCChSloiIalIN w p'i
food. He is always within prison regu-
latiOns. y ~ ~ q ~ ss'
@ The Dockery Case -
A Havana letter says it is obvious to
any one familiar with the Spanish char
acter, that there has been quite an amount
ofSpanish intrigue at work in the case "t
+. II. Dockery, the American recently
sentenced ~ death. The Spanish otfic'ai''
after vain V seeking for some spccihc ac-
cusatiOn against Dockery, which would
hold water before the military tribunal,
they produced one which embraces all
manner of offenses, but first charging
him with being chief of the insurgents
then newspaper correspondent, then
a spv and then finally concluded
that he was still more important per
Sonage, secret enlisary OF the gofefh-
ment Of the United States, sent to,the
Island forinformatien tespecting thewn.
The following is the substance OF the tcS-
timony which the Spanish authorities are
using in this complicated case: y Cuban
named Varana was arrested at Mali
Emilia recently and declaration obtain
ed from him by Fiscal to. the effect that
he was present at the house ofthc United
States consular agent at ManzanlIIa on
the evening of Dockcry'S arrival there, III
January last. and that he then learned
that DOckcry was sent to Cuba by Tn"
United States govcrnment, to Obtaln. IN
formation about thewar; and he gays that
Dockery had lettersfreditiug him in s,lch
capacity, although he did net seetbdp!
Whether Nuranas declatatiOn Is II deilh-
crate invention it is impossible to say at
this time He has been imprisoned here
toforc as suspected, but in this case h"
figures as witness for the prosecution.
The Captain General has accepted the
statement of Yarana, and has ordered
Lantcn, the American consular agent. !"
quit the Island in twenty days the
mandate styling him the Nlce-ConSul
Of Germany, although he also represent
ed the consular interests of England and
the United States He sailed short
time ago and is now in Jamaica.
The Cubans have again shown them
selvc, in the neighborhOod of HaIqualn,
and one or two unlnportant ehcOlJltc
followed. The Cubans captured5 the
garrison of Ganvacalcs, carrying of all
the portable property rs we'll as nearly
all the families of the place
At Trinidad the CubanS are in force,
and have captured and hold possession
of the city of Trinidad. They arc about
to form two regiments Of guerrillas, paid,
byth planters'to protect their planta-
tions. In the envirOns Of Puerto Principe
the Cubans are in strong force, and on
last Friday week as sixty q"drtta c'rt,
the best soldiers the Spanish have, and
all picked men, were returning from one
df the smallontpostS where thry hAdgon"
to escort II convoy, they were attacked
bv BODY of Cubans within sight of tn"
forts surrounding the city, and all put 10
death. The SpaniaIds dar" not show
themselves outside of the Gordon of forts
c1ccpt i'm columns of from 800 to 1000