The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-10-24
st. LOUIS.
Suit DlSmISsed-TlIe Hannibal &
Ht. Joe Railroad,


Sr. LOUIS, October 2S.-The suit pend
ing in the United States Court here v,
John Henderson, OF New Orleans, 70
connection with the whisky ring has bee
dismissed by District Attorney BIiss I'm
der directions from Washington, Hen
dersOn was tried and convicted at Ne,
Orleans and after serving part Of hi
sentence in prison wAs pardOned b
President Grant. He was indicted her
for the same oilenBe as was committed i
New Orleans, and the present action O
the government seems TO lave been take
under the decisions which relieved Nc
Kee, Mcdonald and Joyce from fur the
prosecution.
Col. K, S. Stevens, general manager oI
the Hannibal 4 81. Joe Railroad, In al
interview last evening said all the troubl
OF that road had been produced by out
side parties, aud that other roads, nj
doubt, have had finger in the pie. II i
monstrous, he said, that a receiver shoult
be appointed for the road, and especially
as the road is not in default for dollar;
that moi one Of its obligations has ever
been protested, and that the interest OF
its bonds has never been passed, but al
ways paid in full. He further says tha
the company Is now In the possession ol
independent assets Of over three million
Of d0llars, subject to the control Of III,
Board, for the payment Of whatever in
debtedness may be against it, and for the
Improvement OF the rOad.hCd, LAYING stee
rails, &c.
A special from Jefferson City to The
Globe Democrat says: The maIttf OF the
appointment Of receiver for the Han
nlbal & st. Joe railroad was laid before
the Supreme Court to-day in the shape oI
an application by the attorneys OF the
railroad company for an appeal from the
decree Of Judge Broadcrs, Of the Circuit
Court, and for supersedeas suspending
the appointment Of a receiver and stay.
ing execution Of his orders by the court
After brief speech by the Counsul on
the different sides the court granted till
Thursday for filing the objections to
granting an appeal.
The cOmpAny's Counsel arc Ex-Gov.
Willard, 2. Hall, James Carr, George W
Farley, Of Missouri, and Henry Craw.
ford, Of Chicago.
The New York attorneys for the CON-
plainants asking the appointment Of re,
ceiver are Willis Hendershott, Of New
York; Samuel F. Glover, OF st. Louis; and
A. S. Harris, OF Chillicothe. The com.
pany are also represented by Mr.. Bliss,
J. NJ. HartshOrn, II. II. Cook and A. W.
Greenleaf, Of the New York stockholders.
The following telegram was sent from
Jefferson City, late tonight, with tile re.
quest that the Associated Press Agent
put it in his dispatches
Noticing Mr.. GriawoId's card 10 the
New York World, and Mr.. Hartshorne's
interview with reporter OF the st.
Louis Times, wherein the statement is
made in the intererest Of Jay Gould and
the Wabash Railroad, deem it my
duty to say that neither the Chicago,
Burlington 4 Quincy K. R., the Wabash,
nor any other corporation nor Jay
Gould, has nor ever has had any interest
in the suit with the plaintiff either di-
reCtly or indirectly. Ifurther state that
the application was in behalf OF M honest
administration of the affairs Of the road,
in the interest Of the people Of the State
Of Missouri and all others interested in
m honest management.
(SigneI WILLS HENDERsHoTr