Show BY tebe TELE TELEGRAPH GRAPH ap r u plit PF h ioa loa apil ArIl LINE al AX E it 11 C A N NEW york 20 26 the work of securing a jury for the trial of ferdinand ward was completed this afternoon district Attorn attorney ev martin opened the case lie he said ward had been indicted for larceny and he read the statutes cove cose covering coveris rim the crime while the district attorney was speaking james D fish with his custodians entered the court room ile he glanced at ward and was removed to a private room where lie he remained until wanted as a witness the district Attorn attorney ev said that ward oil on may mayo 5 1881 la in this city presented a check for to the I 1 marine bank drawn against a check for tor of the first national bank the was not honored oy the first national bank ban h and ward was guilty of grand larceny eliy eily elly by procuring f from noni the marine bank the jury must remember that ward was not on oil trial for ruining general grant and sending him broken brokenhearted hearte to the grave or for sending to the state prison for ten years ears a gentleman highly connected iu in banking circles u bul but t was merely on trial for gracd larceny james 1 D fish was the first witness ii st called ile he leaned over in his tits chair and glared savagely at ward who lowered his eyes wards counsel moved the jury be dismissed on account of the statement of the district attorney regarding general grant and mr fish the fhe the motion was denied mr 1 I am 06 66 years old and a convict at the auburn state prison to which I 1 was sentenced for ten years at hard ilanor I 1 saw the check handed to me on may ath it was nas handed to me by the paying paving teller I 1 directed it cert certified fled after I 1 went to the telephone and rang up ward 11 question guestion Is lis the prisoner here the ward you mean fish leaning over again 1 I would like ilke to see him yes that Is the man it contemptuously continuing the witness said 1 I maldover said sal dover doser over oven tiie tue telephone ward I 1 have your check here for certification for against an uncertified chec for 1 ward telephoned back it was all right and I 1 certified it witness then detailed the oft told story of the events leading to the break down of the marine 11 arine bank the witness brother Banjamin fish the paying teller of the marine bank corroborated the ex presidents testimony and the court then adjourned until tomorrow to morrow NEW YORK 27 the county court house was crowded this morning with people anxious to gain admittance to th thi court room where Feidi ferdinand nand naud ward was on trial triai benj eish fish saying paying teller was recalled to the stan stand and ward listened attentively as he read off the tile amount of deposits made by himself and the of grant ward ex president fish was next recalled and his bis cross examina examination tl od resumed by gen tracy 1 I do not know lie he said how many letters were received from ward on mayeth it is not true that my bank was in financial difficulty since january 18 8 i 1 and that ward kept helping in L to save it we pressed ward to return to us the money which he and his firm md had borrowed ward handed general tracy a number of letters to examine the witness upon mr fish was examined at length upon tile tiie meaning of the letters also upon the testimony given by hill him upon his own trial in the united states baates court mr fish continued conmay on may ath I 1 had no doubt that we could have gotten relief from the banks had bad government contracts been trudas true as I 1 bell beli believed eved them to be A refusal to certify grant and ward checks would have nave caused rumors which would have broken thern them up and then our bank would be forced down I 1 am now atay ta y ing at murray hill hotel and I 1 belie belle believe belleve e the district attorney cesmes resides thure there also we have had bad frequent talks together but not much about this case it was stated staled some ol 01 the deposits depo hits alts ran ranged ed I 1 ij hundreds of thousands general tracy demanded that certain books be produced rod a and L d they not belag at liand hand lle ile he asked fo for time rime to examine them 1 I dont propose to delay this tills case was the answer of the judge and you will have to get books the best you can in his testimony paying teller fish said un on april 81 grant ward had a balance of buoo and on the tile morning of may atay 2nd and the tile balance was un on may 2nd and ward was raising ral rai sing money for the tile bank and he managed d tile the deposits by consent of counsel I 1 the sheets f from rom which these statements were given by bv witness were admitted as evide evidence neg nep thereby excluding testamentary evidence in re regard ard to overdraft grant and wani want had two accounts one special and othar general ward had an individual account and drew against the three the sheets of accounts were also admitted as evidence ward had spoken to witness about the purpose of special account but the tile testimony on that point was ruled out upon objection and the witness was excused samuel D cornell bookkeeper book keeper of the first national bank next testified wards balance may rist fist ad ad at i otil itil ta and eth was VS there were no deposits deposit 4 made on any of thoe days wards account was op opened ned in june 81 three anecks drawn by ward came through tb the clearing house Y 3 en on the morning of may ath to the amount of albany N Y 27 Reports received from 10 counties in the stat stata this morning by the womans comans suffrage convention now in session in tills city announce that thai a large number of women will attempt to vote at the election next tuesday NEW YORK 27 the annual reunion and dinner dinnen of the society of the survivors of Steven sons california calif ornia expedition tion of 46 11 known as the first regiment of new york volunteers that served in california during the mexican carwar war was held at the residence of john 11 welsh last evening it being the thirty seventh anniversary of th the discharge bt the regiment r in california in all ail twenty gentlemen sat down to dinner eighteen I 1 of whom were comrades of welsh in the regiment gen john C fremont and major E C kemble fremonte Fr emonts battalion founder of the alta alto california in 1847 at san francisco Fratich were guests major francis D clark president of the society presided his annual report showed that seven deaths of comrades had occurred during the past twelve months while during the same period six comrades who were recorded under the title of whereabouts unknown had been heard f from rom and their names added to the roll of survivors of the sll who served with tile the regiment there are of whom live in california joseph evans secretary read letters received from many com coin jades on the pacific coast as Ls also some same on the western states commodore ralph chandler US U S navy sent seat his regrets as duty called him to washington Ing toll toil the aggregate wealth of the igo survivors is about ten million dollars the greater part of them are ure in good circumstances cum stances and engaged in active business joseph evans the secretary read letters received from many comrades of the pacific coast and also from some of the western states on the oth of september last cail cali california admission day col stevenson deposited the colors colori of the regiment with the society of california pioneers at san Franc francisco iaco lAco to remain in their custody for all time with the request that at ut his death the colors be placed upon his casket during aurim the burial service CINCIN cincinnati 27 the law and order league of this tilts city has begun its effort to compel the theatres theartres the atres to cease giving performances on sunday they sent notices to the thre managers last week but all the theartres theatres the atres were open last suu bunday sunday yesterday Yeste iday day they caused ot of four lour members of two companies which trave performances on sunday and today to day these pleaded guilty the of the peace at the request of the president of the league assessed them at the lowest penalty 5 and costs in each case some of the managers asay say they will be glad to close on afe sunday darif if the law is uniformly enforced J HALIFAX 27 A dispatch received today to day from st johns N F says A great storm raced razed off the coast of labrador on the lith dinst dollia immense damage among the fishing fleet eighty vessels were driven ashore or wrecked and at least 70 40 men from the crews ot of the vessels lost their lives tw two thousand persons are now ashore in a destitute condition the tho crews created a great excitement here steamers will be immediately dispatched to the scene of the disaster with provisions clothing and other comforts for the castaways casta ways BOSTON 17 A dispatch received here in to tiie tile storm on the labrador coast says it raged from I 1 he the lith to the lust just during which time about 20 vessels and over lives were lost no further details have been received owing to the lack of telegraphic facilities efforts are being made however to obtain inore more complete information but it is doubtful whether anything further will be learned tonight to night VICKSBURG 27 the inclined plane to connect the vicksburg and aud meridian and the vicksburg shreveport and pacific divisions of the queen and crescent railway system by transferring the tile passengers as and freight across the mississippi miss mins river wi without phout a c change ha uge of cars I 1 is now completed and ready for busine business ss the last named division connects with the texas pacific system the work has been one of great difficulty and its completion is ii of vast importance to travel and traffic on that and connecting lines the first train of four cars and add an engine were transferred this afternoon and everything was hound found to work perfectly BALTIs ionic 27 fhe the rhe jewish ministers association of america met this morning at the residence of dr benjamin szold dr M jastrow of philadelphia delp hla presided A resolution was adopted to hold a mendelssohn celebration on the ath of january 1886 addresses to be delivered on the life of mendelssohn in the synagogues on that day and tae tile following sabbath the children to be addressed on the subject demendez Dr Mendez introduced a resolution providing that the of october be observed annually as a montefiore Monten Monte flore fiore ore day considerable discussion was created and the resolution was finally laid ou on the table tabie among those who opposed the resolution was dr szold 0 of baltimore who said that he was not in favor of canonizing canon izing anybody that the practice had never been introduced and that it would be unjust to the illustrious men ruen who were so plentifully strewn through jewish history the meeting 11 then resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the sunday school question it was decided to form a jewish ministers asso association cla cia A committee is to be appointed to draw up the toe constitution for lor the union and to report the same at the next meeting of the tho ministers to be held next apri april probably in new york NEW YORK 27 2 L ex president fish f urther further tes testified ward came to see ine lne meat at my roy rooms over the bank three or four days after the failure and said he help it lie ile said I 1 had been his bis f friend I 1 told him that by his deception and treachery he hari had ruined me ruined my family ruined the bank bauk and had destroyed the reputation which I 1 had been twenty nive five years in build ing in in my indignation I 1 raised a chair and he crolic erotic crouched hed hea on the floor crying dont hurt me ine 0 I 1 told him it be he were not such a contemptible hypocritical sneak kill him lie crouched on the floor like a whipped cur I 1 told him he had bad better commit suicide himself drown himself nim self seif pol pois oll himself shoot himself or do it in auy way so that the world would be rid of ills his presence ward smiled sarcastically as fish described the scebe and the he examina examination tio U of the ex bank president then closed philadelphia 28 robert J cook treasurer of the press co was attacked early this morning by stephen macpherson colored janitor of the building and struck on the head with a ha hatchet tebet having his hid skull fractured the injured man who it is thought will die dle was removed to the hospital and lits his assailant was captured macpherson is a irge large muscular negro and had bad been censured by mr cook for allowing gas to escape ca e it is said that cook struck e macpherson 1 p pl ierson jerson first and that the latter used a hatchet the victim had a national reputation as an athlete having been captain of the famous crew of yale college and trainer of the college crews for several years ST Joi jol jonns JOHNS iNs 28 the iche hurricane that raged on the coast of labrador was unprecedented even in that inclement region over seventy vessels and three hundred lives were nvere lost particulars so far are in meagre there being no telegraphic communication following is a list of the vessels completely wrecked thomas ridley ll idley edley sherbrooke Sher broke adam averill peet debt peerless less gleaner hur sur surprise prise caleb excel euby ruby winifred scott sion sisters marv mary calpin mclean fanny grey aneila amelia emma atlanta beisle brisk elizabeth isabella mary juseph mary belle syringa verbena erbena lr A alice ice 31 snowdrop ap pp lawn dawn voyage lloy age lark harriet stars and ana stripes barber II 11 M curtis flora trixie truie saran sarah C U village belle verdant star sophie bron deth eazor razor release elease It earnist Jar nise honer hover 1 s bride phoebe jane mariaanna nari Mari tanna tanra british pride elisabeth elizabeth kenmore Ken more and augusta the bark nellie Yellie hah has just arrived with shipwrecked men women and children rescued from the disaster several women women died from exposure and others were drowned over bow persons are arp ane destitute angstrand and aud stranded on the coast fl fire elve five ie steamers hate have been dispatched to their assistance the worst is known WASHING washington tos Tov 23 the president today appointed henry F weld of massachusetts to be assayer ili in charge of the assay office at boise city idaho idah 0 mr weld was educated in tier cier germany maily mally and is a well known mining eng eDg engineer ineer washl washington NOTON 28 about half tue tile class ot of the signal service men undergoing a course of instruction at fort myer to 0 be completed in january are being beilig tried by court martial on oil the charge of insubordination the Th emell emeil men meu felt that they were being unjustly and harshly treated by their instructor frank green of the signal service and when he added to this gross profanity calling them names nov not to be repeated they resolved to make bli ali an effort for relief A meeting of the class was hald held which resulted ina lna in a petition to the chief signal officer setting forth their anae ange and appealing for relief the petition was answered by aarder for court of all the inen men who had signed the petit p petitions loni ioni on the t ground of insubordination general hazen said tonight to night the men were being court martl marti aled not for e expressing r their grievances but for I 1 holding ad ing a meeting and combining for that purpose which lie he said bald baid was almost equal to mutiny green has been reprimanded by gen geu yen haz haw hazen u for his conduct T the he class y s being defended by congressman butter Butler butterworth worth and henry wise garaett garnett Gar nett uett it is expected that the court will be over tomor to mor row and the findings be submitted to gen ff blazen azen the subject |