The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-04-09
NEW YORK.
Western Union Telegraph.

western Union Telegraph.
New YORK, April7.-President Orton
Of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, said to reporter inquiring about
the prospective cutting Of rates that hi
company was not public benefit society
1t proposed doing fair, legitimate busi.
ness. Monday next rates will be reduced
to meet the reduction Of the Atlantic anJ
Pacific.
After some comments on the pub ished
reports Of the competing line, Mr., Orion
said 1t is at present losing 81 900 day.
Western Union prices are put down only
to competing points, and the loses con.
sequent on these are considerable. The
reductions he estimated TO be about
twenty-five per cent Of those Of the At.
lRntio and Pacific Company.
ALoosE CORPORATION.
The Commissioner Of Accounts, who
has been endeavoring to investigate the
financial affairs Of ST. Johns Guild, re.
ports that 40 books have been kept Tor
three years, and the moneys received
have been deposited TO the private bank
account OF one otthe managers.
AN OLD SCANDAL.
The Children's Fold Scandal has been
revived by the attempt Of deposed Man.
ager CoWler to force himself back into
the institution by u coup d'etat.
ANOTHER BAD INSTITUTION.
The State Board OF Charities reports
the management OF the New York Ju-
venile Guardian Society to be utterly
untrustworthy.
DEATH OLA US. CONSUL.
News has been received Of the death Of
Philip Clayton, U. S. Consul at Callao,
Peru. Clayton was appointed about three
years ago.
MYSTERIOUS DIsAPpBAR4AHcEs.
During January, February and March,
sixty.four persons we're reported missing
in this city, and forty.one in Brooklyn,
making total in the two cities Of lO5
OF this number thirty.iour were found
through the agency Of officers and detec.
tiyes, thirty returned to their homes and
gave explanations Of their ab-ence. One,
A. okey Hall, has reappeared in England,
eleven were found dead, having commit.
ted suicide, or been murdered, and thirty
are still missing.
vASDERBrLT's WILL.
The settlement between the heirs Of
Cornelius Vanderbilt has again been
brought up on account OF difference
between William II. and Cornelius J.
Vanderbilt All the heirs with the ex.
ception Of Cornelius, had agreed 10 ac.
cept 100000, and William II. had
agreed to settlement on this basis. Cor.
nelius ] however, made a claim Of 81
600, 900, and his sister, Mrs. LaFitte, Re.
fused 10 make any settlement until Cor.
nelius ). was satisfied. Meanwhile the
will was admitted TO probate.
A TURKISH FRAUD.
Another Bey, purporting to be an agent
Of the Turkish Government, has been
the rounds Of several large mercantile
houses here and in the neighboring cities.
About two weeks ago the newspap pers
announced that the agent referred to
wanted proposals from manufacturers at
Paterson for fifty locomotives for his
Government. About the same time the
market reports bad it that fifty ton. ui
buffalo hair had been sold TO make coarse
army blankets, as supposed, Tor Turkey
Meanwhile the bogus agent WAS busy IN
Philadelphia, where he invited proposal.
Tor 100000 pairs Of shoes and 100000
saber bayonets; also tents, knap.acks and
other military stores, AS part Of The
dodge. The party went around in New
York among the shipping houses, u
charter q steamer for Constanlinuple,
and some persons were so far impo.ed
upon as to go TO much trouble Oh his
account. AT last suspicion became
aroused, when the so.called agent at
tempted, without SUCCESS, to borrow one
hundred dollars from bayonet man 10
Philadelphia. Moreover, it was re.
marked by others in the trade, that his
blankets could not be made in compe.
tition with the wool.lelt blankets u.ed
by the Turkish army, which are the
cheapest known. The Turkish Minister
at Washington, also the Turkish Consul
and others, knew nothing Of the ageut,
and pronounced him an unmitiGated
fraud. 1t is believed some victims lost
money,
TWEED.
II is stated that the only difficulty now
in the way Of Tweed's release is his un-
willingness to divulge the names OF the
legislators and others who received
bribes from him in connection with the
city charter hilla