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Show JAY GOt LU (LOOKED. Mitjor nic I over li urges Hi m Uiih itittlut: u Ntock 1 0111-binuilou. 0111-binuilou. New York, 2. Jay Gould was this morning accosted by Major A, Selovcr, a friend of Jim Keeno, the Califor-nian, Califor-nian, while passing through exchange pliiee. Words were exchanged, when Seluvor struck Gould one i r two blows on tho side of the bead, and then picking him up threw him down an area way a distance, of eight feet. Gould wii.4 reseiied by some friends, and was found uninjured witn the exception ot a few slight bruises. The trouble is said to have originated from Gould having betrayed a combination to put up the price of Lake Shore stock, in which Keene and Selover were interested with Gould. There was considerable excitement on the stock exchange lor a few minutes, us it was rumored that Gould had been 1 seriously injured. Alter the fight Western Union advanced ad-vanced to 744, but oh the rise, the Post says, was on purchases of brokers, not only not identified with either ol the parlies, but understood to be not on good terms with either ol them, the advance is deprived of the significance signifi-cance which would otherwise bo attached at-tached to it. Sulover says: "I helped Gould at one time out of the tightest place he was ever in, and I told him if ever I found him deceiving me I would thrash him, and I have done it. He tried to make me sell Btock when be was buying, and in so doing tried to overreach me." |