Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-28
New York.

THE YELLOW FEVER SCARE AT AN END.
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-Dr Vanderpool saws
| all fears of the yellow fever are now dssipated
All the patients, with the exception of few of
the crew OF the ship Numanca at the West
Bank hospital, have recovered and returned TO
work
THE SACRED CONCERT QUESTION.
Inc board Of assistant aldermen have finally
voted to allow sacred concerts in Central Park
| on Sundays.
JUSTICES SALARIES.
Controller Green refuses to pay the increase
IN the salary ofjustices Of district courts, from
$4,000 to $4,000, on the ground that such in
crease was illegal. He won't pay but $4,000 an
nually, and suits for the remainder are to fol.
low,
THE VETERANS EXCURSION.
The excursion of the veterans of the war of
1917 to Staten Island yesterday was quite an ex-
tenslye affair Nearly three thousand persons
accompanied them.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dispatches received here this morning state
that forged drafts purportng to have been
drawn by hountze brothers, bankers of this
city, have been presented to various banks
throughout the country, especially at the west
Among the iorgeries was one draft for $780,
presented to the Real Estate bank at Allegheny
City, Pa, and one for $4,000 presented at the
Third national bank at Chicago. The forger's
named attached to the bogus drafts is james T.
Hill.
Daniel Dacy and James Mcdonald, two
roughs, were arrested while beating a barkeeper
named Joseph Ballard, in liquor saloon on
Houston street, this MORNING BoIlord win
die.
J. Glow was arrested in Forty.third street,
this morning, for fatally beating his wife last
night
A fracas took place in the Express editorial
room this morning, in which the messenger boy
OF the city editor, James Corrigan, shot the
hnN of
fatally
The committee of seventy ask for the appoint
ment of 1886 inspectors Of elections.
Guido Encke, custom house broker, has
been arrested, and held in $4,000 bail, on the
charge Of making false affldavits on damaged
goods to deiraud the custom house.
Sixteen hundred poor children enjoyed the
fifteenth free picnic yesterday.
The Fenian brotherhood held a secret conven-
ton last week in this city.
The Brazilian princes visited West Point YES
terday.
A locomotive and two freight cars laden with
wnskey was burned this morning at Jersey City
by a collision with another train. Loss S14, 900.
Inc tombS physician states that Stokes is
again Shamming sickness.
The New Jersey city police commissioners
nave determined 10 bring the question of the
legality of their appointment before the supreme
court, which meets November 6. The old com
missloners aud members of the police force have
received no pay since August /, and the mayor
refuses TO sign any more warrants for the pay
ment Of their claims.
Victoria Woodruff and her sister Tennie C.
Clafiln were examined to-day as Judgment
debtors in suit brought against them by Brin-
kcrhoff Myers, Both testified that they do not
own dollar S worth of property
Tugboat George Wood sunk at Commercial
wharf Brooklyn, early this morning. Richard
Ten Evck, the cook of the vessel, was burned.
Valued at $4,000.
The coroner's jury in the case of Mrs. Dykes,
to-day, rendered verdict that she came to her
death from blows aud kicks inflicted by her son,
accelerated by Brights disease. The prisoner
was committed.