Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-05
NEW YORK;, Dec. 4.

NEW York, Dec. 4.
A meeting was held at the Church OF
the Holy Trinity for the purpose of dis.
Gu s>ing measures for the alienation OF
the poor during the Winter.
The last official communication OF
the late Mayor Havemeyer was a let.
ter to James Bowen. President of the
Commissioners of Cha rites and Cor.
r%ectionS, stating that he was informed
that unusual and scandalous privi-
EGGS had been allowed William NJ.
Tweed at Blackwell's Island, AMI call
ing for a report oil the matter.
Mayor Vance to-day seconded the
request. and added that ifthose reports
were true they were sufficient grounds
10 warrant, the Commissioners einov
al from office. This WAS followed by
the resignation Of that officer this after
oon
The only proceeding in the libel case
of Miss Proctor against Moulton to-
day WAS the subpuenaing of "a large
number Of witnesses.
Booths Tieater was sold TODAY nv
order of the Supreme Court. The
property was bought bv Oliver Ames.
OF Boston. for SIS, COO, subject to a
mortgage OF $40. 600.
The long impending strike in the
potteries of Trenton, New Jersey, be
gan yesterday. The establishments of
Yates, Benedict 4 Allen and J.. Moss
are closed. The employers guaranteed
work for the Winter at "a reduction of
10 per cent. in wages, but the en-
ployes refused, with the above result.
The movement Of the employees seem
only individual and not part Of a con-
certed action.
a Scranton dispatch says: A man
named Lugwig. his wife and infant
child We're found in bed. yesterday.
the parents diving from poison. The
wife died within a hour without re-
turning To consciousness, the husband
recovered long enough to say that he
had been given something to drink,
but refused or was unable to tell by
whom. The child is still living, but
suffering.
a meeting of the International Code
Committee for America a held last
night, ex-Gov. Wa>hburnc presiding.
About 30 persons We're present, among
them Chancellor Pruin, of Albany.
President Barnard, of Columbia Col
lege, President Dent Chaplin. of Beloit
College, David dudley Field. Judge
Charles Peabody, s. James, Ii. Miles,
and President Wool>ey, Of Yale.
These gentlemen. with WIN. +. Dodge.
Eliliu Burrelt and Edward Toby, were
appointed an Executive Committee and
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the Government to take part in the APP
preaching conference. TO be held at the
suggestion Of the Russian and German
Governments.
1t is stated that James Low, of Low.
Hagerman IL Co., has been rendered
the Presidency of the Pacific Mail
Company. 1t j. also stated that Rus
sell sage will retire from the PreSiden-
cy of h Panama Railroad Company.
Judge Durrell. who il now i'm this
city. was interviewed byaa Tiibnne re-
porter. by whom he is Represented as
ssying that he is a victim Of party ext
gency and that the head and front of
his offending is the liberal construc.
ton OF h enforcement act, a had law.
and known 70 him a. such. passed by
a Republican Congress-, seeking to per-
petuats the Republican PARTY. hut
which ne found in the statute book
and executed iinpartiaily. He gave in
detail his objections to the law aS
strong as at the worst could desire, and
said, when its unpopulari;y and its in
exlediency had been exposed, he was
deserted by those who passed it and
by them accused Of having overstep-
ped bis authority.
dispatch to the Herald says tina.
Walker fearn, who is appointed Dur