The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-28
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
New York Grand Jury Investigating
the Late Bear Raid.
CROSSED THE OCEAN TO MARRY.
VIM. &. Whitney's Partner Goes to
South Africa to Fight the Beers.
The journal says SuIzer will
Try To Investigate Gage.

NEW YORK. Dec. -Special.-Section
As OF the Penal Code reads as follows:
"A person who with intent TO affect the
market price of the public funds. &c, or
Of the stocks, bonds or other evidences OF
debt OF a corporation or association q .
knowingly circulates any false statement,
rumOr or Intelligence is punishable by a
fine Of not more than 5000. or by i'm
prisonmeni for not more than three years,
or both"
10 IS under this provision that the grand
jury is now investigating the methods
employed in Wall Street to beat down the
value Of stocks. The investigation VIII
be had with special reference to the war
on Brooklyn Rapid Transit and it IS
said that the object Of those at the head
Of the movement is to punish James r..
Keene, who IS said TO have made $500 90
out OF the recent bear raid on this stock.
|, Mr.. Keene and his associates do not
seem to be al all disturbed.
TO FIGHT THE BOERs
The following interesting announcement
Is made in one Of the local papers
Mr. Sidney Paset. who Is the racing
partner OF Mr. William e. Whitney, and
a brother OF Mr. Almeric Pact. Mr..
Whitney's son-in-law, Is booked TO SAL
for Liverpool this morning by the steam
or Toutonlc He will proceed at once
20 London for the purpose Of joining the
body Of cavalry which is being raised by
Lord Woyerton for service in South Al
rica against the Beers. and which g. is
intended. shall be similar in organization
to the American Rough Riders, who
served during the Spanish-Amcrcan war.
Cake walks at the north seem to be
about as riotous as cake walks al the
South. There was a cake walk the other
night at Morrisania. which was attended
by large crowd of colored folks. Forty
seven of them boarded street car after
the frolic was over and started for home.
A slight remark was made about one Of
the women which brought on a general
row. one man was shot fatally. another
was shot seriously in the back. stiii an
other In the jaw, and one OF them was
also cut with a razor
Charles o Brien and Fannie o Brien, Of
Liverpool. Eng. crossed the ocean and
came to New York in order that they
might be lawfully welded. They are
hrother-in-law and sister-in-law. and the
laws in England prohibit such marriages
Therefore they came to free America, and
were lawfully joined. They Will return
to England on the same steamer that
brought them over.
10 INVESTIGATE MIR. GAGE.
The New York Journal. which says
that Secretary Gage has entered into a
combination with Mr.. Rockefeller to make
the National City Bank an institution
Ike the Bank OF England. this morning
prints story TO the effect that Congress
man sulzer. Of New York. win introduce
In the House the following resolution;
Resolved. by the House OF Represen-
tatives OF the United States In Congress
assc mbled, that the Secretary OF the
Treasury be. and nc hereby Is, directed.
with all convenient speed, TO furnish the
House OF Representatives. with the fol-
lowing documents and information:
al All letters, agreements papers or
documents between the Treasury Depart
ment and the National City Bank and
the Hanover National Bank OF the City
OF New York. or clthe- OF them. since the
ith day OF March. 1887. relating 10 tina
depos:ting Of public funds In said hs1E
or banks, or the bonds or revenue OF lie