The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-18
NEW YORK.
News Items.

of the late Charles Astor Bristed. 'Carl
Benson" who died st Washipgtoa on
the 14th Of last month. was yesterday
admitted to probate The amount de-
vised was about $5oO.0OO.. q
Johnson, who, after shooting . man
in Hobokep, Sunday evening, was BE-
verely beaten by the crowd, died last
night Of his injuries.
The Superintendent OF buildings left
tor Philadelphia last evening, to exam.
| inc into the csse of the brewery which
recently tell there and cost 30 many
lives. There are number OF large
buildings iu this city erected on simi-
lar plan.
The trial OF James w. freeman
charged with the murder Of his mother
at their house iu Hoboken few weeks
ago, was called up to-day in the Hud.
son county, NJ, Court Of Oyer and
Terminer and postponed until March
9th.
The Superintendent OF the Blooming
dale Luuatic Assylun ia inquiring the
mental condition oil Freeman and
makes affidavit that be will not be able
to reach q conclusion before six weeks
Witnesses are also wanted from Wiz
consin.
A White Plain dispatch says thattbe
loss BY the FIRE at Sing Sing 10 already
two hundred thousand dollars. Two
newspaper offices, Register and Repub-
Gedn, and number Of stores and dwell.
lipge, were burned.
The Stock Exchange was informed
by letters to-day OF the new issue OF ten
million dollars worth Of stock in the
Toledo, Wabash & Weston Railroad,
J and nine millions in the Western Unio1
Telegraph Company. The effect was
Q decline of ! to St per cent and great
depression 10 the entire list. The LETT
ters proved to be forgerles.
AGisantir Fraud.
A great fraud was perpetrated on the
Stock exchange to-day. the creates.
in the history of the institution. Alter
the second call an individual banded to
one OF the pages OF the board letter
addressed to Moses II. Wheelack. Vice
President which the page delivered to
the gentleman named and he read the
same to the board, which was as fol-
lows:
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Co.,
New YORK. February II.
fMoses Fl Wheelaek, Esq. Vice President
Ne,o York Stock Exchange:
"As required by the rules OF the
New York Stock Exchange. you are
hereby informed that the directors OF
this cnmpan after mature deliberatlon,
and acting as they believe 10 accord
auee with the ultimate and best inter-
es,s of the company. have decided TO
| increase the capital stock OF
this company from $4l O'3.4lO
TO $5OOOOO00. The proceeds OF the
sale OF additional stock together with
the proceeds OF the sales of 81 295 ,235
worth of stock lately in the possession
OF the Compau will be expended in
the repair and improvement OF the
present lines and their extension to
nearly all the post Offices in the Uoited
Slater, and Tor the establishment
Of q line to Ca ifornia aud Mexico The
directors beg to state that while the
establishment OF new lines may delay
for a little while the expected divideuds
to stock holders, they express confdept
hope that by thus taking possession
of the whole field the ultimate value OF
the stock will be in no way diminished,
and resouabIe dividends can be paid a;
no defiant day
| Yours truly,
| rSirred1 "WN ORION,
president"
Hardly had the reading OF this let
ter been flushed, when one OF the pages
i OF the Board was banded another let
| ter addressed to the Vice Precedent,
which was read by that gentleman as
follows:
TOLEDO, WABAsH & WESTERN R. R
NEW YORK, February II.
To the Vice President Of the Nep York
Stock Exchange
"In accordance with the rules o the
New York Stock Exchange, you are
hereby notified that at the expiration
O, thirty days. this company will issue
! 100 600 shares additional capital stock,
increasing the common stock OF the
company from SIS. 100000 to $25 OOO,'
J 600. The proceeds OF such addition.
al shares will be used
tor the purchase Of new
rolling stock. for engines, and for re-
airs OF the present rolling stock. for
constructing new bridges, for building
additional double track, for the pur-
chase OF steel rails. ior obtaining i'm
proved terminal facilities and for other
similar purposes oil the company.
Very respectfully,
The reading OF these letters caused
great excitement on Change and imme.
. distely there was q general stampede
to cali stocks especially the Western
. Union and Wabash. amid general cons
: fusion. Some OF the members OF the
t board bad the good sense to examine
} the letters and, hcing familiar With the
= signatures OF Messrs. Orion aud Cox,
I pronounced the same forgeries.
The officers OF the Exchange
Immediately sent letters to the officers
OF the Western Union Telegraph Com
psny apd to the Wabash Railroad
Conpany, The Wabash letter was re-
turned with the following note at the
loot:
THE aboye ia not genuine. Mr.. Coz
4 is in Toledo, and there has been nc
meeting, neither 10 thia Mr.. Coxs sig
n " VI nr,c,,