The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-09-22
NEW YORK.
Union Pacific siuL;uo Eund

Ohion FacIhc Sinking Fund.
NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-Director Wilson of the
Union racine Railroad, is endeavoring to come
to some agreement with the Secretary of the
Interior, to be submitted to Congress, for the
establishment of sinking fund to reimburse
the interest and principal of the bonds euarau-
teed by the government.
Tweed Makes Further DiscIosures.
At the examination of William M, Tweed
to1ay before the investigating committee of
aldermen, It was rumored that John Kelly and
John Fox were in the building. bnt thew did
not enter the committee room. Tweed stated
IN reply 10 tne corporation counsel Cole that
he was director of the Erie Railway in 1860
Gould and Fisk called upon him about the in.
junction they wanted against Vanderbilt Ha
called on Judge Barnard who granted the in
junction as matter of friendship to him. For
TINS they made witness a stockho in 1890
After this he lobbied for bills for the Erie
20. at Albany as their agent. but cannot recol-
lect w1aG olils. witness attended 10 the Sem
ate and Barber to the Assembly. He received
money from Fisk and Gould to influence The
legislature. Some 100000 was spent on the
legislature to carry the 1872 tax levy. He paid
the folloWlrg members of the. Senate to vote
I9r IL: Nm. d. Graham, Messrs Harpending,
MOTIFS Wlnslow, Wood and Bowen. Money
was also paid for railroad bills that wear.
Inc transcript newspaper association was COM
posed of Cornelius Corson, Peter B. Sweeney
and himself. They were in the New York
ffin1ng Company, and some Is per cent. was
added to their bills. Their capital was $40, 900
each, and their dividends rang ed from $4,000
to S1O0, 900 each. There was fraud connected
with the casing Of most of the drill rooms.
Witness named some in particular. Too much
rent was paid and money paid to members of
the board OF supervisors to get leases. Witness
got his share of anything he knew going on.
bis testimony before the legislative committee
was false. He refused to testify before the
Senate committee last spring. He now testified
because he thought the committee could compel
him.
Alderman Corning then notified witness to
De ready to testify about Tammauy Hall before
the general committee
Z Adjourned to neyt Friday.
HSuit for Damages.
Henry Spaulding, formerly merchant of
Plttsburg and now of this city, has brought a
suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa-
ny and lays damages at $4,000. Mr. Spauld-
ing alleges that when travelling between Mon
mouta, N. j., and this city, and when between
Newark and Elizabeth the conductor took his
ticket at Jersey City. The conductor, as aleg-
ed, demanded thirty cents for the ride from
Elizabeth. This MIR. Spaulding was willing to
pay, but the conductor wrote receipt for sixty
one cents which Mr.. SpauldiDg was unwilling
to pay, and he was locked up in Jersey over
night. Hence the suit, which has been remov-
ed to the U. S. Circuit Court
Railroad Accident.
ROME, Sept. 21.-The western bound express
train on the New York Central Railroad, due
In Rome at s. Is this afternoon, was thrown into
collision with a picked up freight train by a
misplaced switch, mile east of the Rome de-
pot. Several persons injured, none seriously.
The switchman, who has been on duty ten years,
saw the misplaced switch too late to correct it
and swung red flag. An inquest and investi-
cation will be held.
Various Matters.
Henry A. Smalley was appointed by Judge
Westbrook receiver of the Claremont Savings
Bank this afternoon.
The contest by Mary A. LeBau to the pro-
bate of the will of the late Commodore VAN
derbilt, was up for argument before Surrogate
Calvin this afternoon. The counsel for the con-
testants asked for ad iournment on the ground
OF the absence of the senior counsel and four
material witnesses Surrogate set the case for
November II.
Andrew Mount. a well known auctioneer.
died this week at Redbank, N j., aged II.