The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-20
NEW YORK.
Railroad Strike Ended.

Railroad Strike Enned.
New YORK. February l9.-The strike
on the New jersey Southern Railroad,
begun five weeks ago, is at an end.
The business of the road is started in
accordance with the bill OF the New
jersey Legislature which provides TOR
the appointment of a receiver TO run q
road that has ceased ten days, and
which guarantees that the employees oI
this road shall receive two months,
back pay, to be taken from their first
earnings
A valuable letter mailed from this
city for Liveroool twenty-five years ago.
was reclaimed at the dead letter bureau
Of the postoffice yesterday. The letter
was addressed in the care OF the United
State. Consul at Liverpool, and is sup.
posed 10 have been recently discovered
among old papers in the Consulate,
The Forged Letters to the Stock
Exchange.
A. D. C. cMKay, a specula'or in
stocks, who is reported to have made
$50 900 owing 10 the forged letter sent
to the Stock Exchanged on Tuesday,
but who says he only made seven thou
sand, has appeared before the governing
committee. He Gays that two months
ago be was advised by an anonymous
correspondent 10 have his cash ready
for operatione at O moments notice,
whereby be might realize heavily, and
that on the morning OF the day on
which the forged letters were sent into
the Exchange he received two letters
asking him to call at the
St. Nicholas Bank without delay.
He called and met a young man
who informed him OF the proposed
increase of the stock OF the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and the
Toledo, Wabash and North Western
rosds, saying he had seen letters o.
the Presidents o. those companies ad-
dressed to Wheelock. Mckay hurried
to the Exchange and gave small
order to his broker and when lie saw
the letters handed in he gave several
other orders, making about S7,OOO
He is now sssisting the governing COM
mittee 10 detect the forcers.
Cuban Victories.
Capt. Morton, OF the steamship Nc
70 Castle, from Havana, reports that
in an engagement about February LET,
q column of Spanish troops, 1900
strong were utterly defeated by the in
surgents, incurring loss in killed,
wounded and prisoners OF 600 men. In
telllgeuce that the Captain OF the
Moro received, and regarded by him az
Trustworthy, represented that the Span
ish were worsted in every engagement.
Railroad Strike.
Another strike occurred on the New
York Midland railroad to-day, owing
to . failure Of the hands to realize anys
thing from the scrip with which they
were paid few weeks ago. Swl,chs
es are spiked at Summit and no trains
are allowed to pass,
A Strike,
The Philadelphia Dispatch save that
FIVE hundred menln Porter d Dickeys
cotton works at Kensington, have
struck for an advance OF fifteen per
cent over the rates adopted during the
panic. and that troubles in the shoe
trade are expected.
Senten ed.
John E. Simmons, convicted Of the
murder OF Nicholas Buryld, has been
sentenced to i'm prisonment N the State
prison, with hard labor, for three years
apd six months
The Dicia,Or.
A dispatch from Florida Bay yes
terday says the Brooklyn aud Wachus
aette would leave to day to search Tor
the missing iron.clad Dictator, aud that
measures were being taken to cruise
along the coast TO find her.
The same dispatch says that the
steamer Dispatch, which LETT for Ha-
vsna on Tuesday, on account OF reports
that CousuI-G Geueral Hall had been
obliged 10 fly from Spanish mob in
Havana and take refuge on board a
British iron clad, has not returned.