The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-11
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WHEELING REGISTER.
Associated Press Report. by Western
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of Main and l2th SITS.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Prominent Merchants Indicted for
Fraud.

NEW YORK, June l0.-The grand
Jury of the [. ;. Bourt to-day found in
dictments against Horace b. Clahin, OF
the dry goods house of II. b, Clailin u
Co, aud VIM. IL. Pulwilt, silk buyer OF
the firm, for completely in the recent
silk smuggling frauds.
In addition to the indictment against
II. b. Clafu X Co.. the United States
Grand Jury have presented further m
dictments against Charles w. FrHd,
Aaron Field. John }. Morris and VIII
liam d. Ferres for receiving and conceal
ing upwards of 100000 worth Of snug
gled silks during the year 1874.
Trial of the Memphis Express Rob-
bcrs.
MEMPHIS, June l0.-The examination
of the witnesses in the case Of the E&-
press robbers was commenced to-day.
Messenger Beverly Identified the whole
party Us persons who beat and robbed
him.
steamer Sunk by Floating Ice.
New YORK, June l0.-The steamer
NicliSburg, from Quebec, was, on the lst
June, lost ut sea. The following is the
statement of the disaster as told by James
Crowley, one of the rescued men:
We left Quebec on Thursday morning
May 10Th, with ships crew, sixty men
all told, and eight saloon passen-
gers, five gentlemen and three ladies,
and about twenty in steerage, OF
whom four were females. The weather
was fine until 9 . clock Sunday evening,
May 30th, when we fell in with field Of
ice and were soon surrounded by it. The
ship was chopped until day light when
We proceeded again with but little Ice in
sight. At $50 P. NJ, Monday, all hands
were called to shorten sail. The ship
was stopped amongst heavy ice and
headed to the south, when We proceeded
at full speed 20 get clear of the ice. At
twelve o'clock, at half speed, we struck
the ice. The engines were Immediately
reversed, and the ship struck heavily ait
on the port quarter carrying away
the blades of the propeller, and hole
was Knocked through the plates on that
quarter through which the ship made II
great deal of water. The crew got sail
over the hole and stopped it up so that
but little water came in. Allhands were
then employed in heaving the cargo
overheard. The second officer and my
self were taken from the cargo to clear
away the boats This was about six A. NJ.
on Tuesday, June lSt, The Captain
ordered the forward wells to be sounded,
and six inches OF water was found, the
after -,ceragc then being full of water.
The main hold wells We're also sounded
and five trct aud half of water found.
The captain called me on TO the bridge
and told HE not to mind the boats, and
then called everybody of and told them
to have no fears, as he could take the
ship to 81. Johns, New Foundland. 1t
was then discovered that the fires in the
engine room were drowned out. The
captain then gave orders to launch the
boats with their respective crews, and
told them To- mind that the distance from
81. Johns was one hundred and twenty
miles northwest. l proceeded to "launch
No. !, which was my boat, and it was
capsiZcd in lowering, losing the chron-
omether watch, charts rudder and part
Of the provisions. She was
full Of water. O Brien and baled her
out, when Grogan, Wilkinson and Will
inms Jumped in. We could not hang on
to the ship owing to the ice about.
o Bricn saw the captain on the bridge
bcckoning the boat back, We having drift
ed about one hundred and fifty yards
from the ship. We saw the second Off
GERS boat lowered all clear with nine
hands and himself in her. She came
around the bow and pulled to midward
about sixty yards The ship sank about
ten o'clock floating boat number from
her chocks with the chief officer and
about thirty in her She got clear and
pulled to windward. o. Bricn, after the
ship went down saw the captain and
some persons floating on a bale of hay.
We Done all We Could TO Pick Them
Up,
but owing to the boat being half
lull of water and Ice we were not able OF
do so. We shipped our mast and kept
company with the other boats for about
two hours and then lost sight of them to
the westward. We decided then to steer
south to get clear of the ice. We hove
our boat TO with an oar and bucket as a
drag until daylight. On Wednesday
morning we had in the boat about three
gallons Of water, forty pounds of raw
beet, fourteen pounds of bread wet with
salt water and Il compass which did not
fail ont when the boat capsizcd. Again
we put sal. OH the boat and Stcered south
the wind blowing from northwards and
weStwardS ail throughout the scene and
bitterly cold. About four o'clock in the
afternoon we headed the boats head to
the northeast till Thursday morning,
then tackled to the westward till about
three O'Clock in the afternoon and again
lay to with drag till nine o'clock in the
evening. when we took in the drag and
made sail and stood to the northeast till
Friday morning at daylight, tackled to
the southwest till midday, tackled again
to the northeast till morning, when about
hut past ter o'clodk we sighted your
slip. and we got out our oars and pulled
away dead to windward till you picked
us up. | think that forty odd people
with the captain went down with the
ship. We had blankets in our boat for
the three ladies and the stewardrcss
which were lost when the boat capsized.
We saw no ladies in the chief or second
officers boat.
Stove Manufacturers.
ST. LOUIS, June l0.-The Stove Man.
utacturcrS held another session to-day, at
which the Committee on Business made
a report, recommending that the prices
on stoves be advanced on abount of
the increased cost ofproduction, and that
u decrease be made in the expenditures on
patterns. These subjects and others, re-
ferring diractly to the interests of the
trade. were discussed in executive session
but the result has not transpired.
John 5. Perry, of Albany, New York,
made a speech in which he gave the rea-
sons why the price in stoves should be
advanced, and the expense in mounting
patterns reduced