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Show ,M,H YORK. A ff iiril Poliliclmi Killed .tloro Failiiren. The Tweed Rdig Want lo muico KcMHulioii. AH (he TiWon-.MoulIoii Suits Thrown Over. New York, 23. Thonuia H. Ftrris whs probiiUy fatnlly Btiot hint night by Edward H.iggerly in front of the' Filth avenue hotel, during a quiirrel yrowiug out of a content for the elate senate, between John Morritcy and John Fox. Ferris and lli.gerty are well known local politicians. ( Among the failures yesterday out-, side of Btock speculators was that of Joachim Davia, lumber merchant, ' and Warren fc Wyman, dealers in ; books. E. Butterick & Co., dealers in fashion plates, who suspended a few days ago, have arranged with their! creditors to continue the business and have snupended the publication of their magazine. Harvey M. Soule, ' Lieurge H. rioi.le and JJaniel E. Soule j ' have made an insolvent assignment ' to D'lvid M. Proctor, and state their'' liabilities at $fi3,2i2, and their real ' asnels at $10,290. The failure of Hofl'man k Co., dry goods, was announced yealfrdaj-. LiabilitieH $200,000; assets not yet known. The Stock Exch;inue failures fail-ures wore those of CumhrHanri ti. White, Charles H. Ward, R. F. Fuller Ful-ler and Howard Evins, minor specu lalors, who g(jt on the hear side of a bull market and were squeezed. ! Dan Barlow it Co.'s mercantile agency circular says that the trade of j the country is in a lair if not hopeful 1 condition, and that while, the people' confine themselves to legitimate bus- ' inrss and avoid speculation there is every prospect of a continued im-, provement. I The order of nolle prvsrijui in the indictments against TilUm and Moulton for slander in connection j with the Beecher case was made and granted because no public interest is likely to he reached by the revival of thu scandal, as no new evidence of consequence is obtainable. Judge Neilson cordiallyapproved the motion. 1 It looks now as if Tweed and his i i-onfcderaten are disposed to make a heavy pecuniary restitui ion to the ! city in the aettlenieut of the pending civil suits, but nothing is yet accepted : by the authorities. i |
