The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-29
FROM THE METROPOLIS.
The Grand Jury.

National Associated Press to the Star.
New York, May 29-The Grand Jury
came into Court at the general session yes
terday and intimated to Recorder Hackett,
through their foreman, that they had ad
journed till Friday next. The Grand Jury
wished to adjourn over Decoration Day. but
could not separate until the indictment
against the Aldermen and Health Commits
sioners had been brought in.
Left their Tools.
The jewelry store of Frank Field & Co.,
on Eighth avenue, was broken into and,
robbed Monday night by burglars, who left
magnificent set of tools behind them in
their flight Large cases which contained
large quantities of silverware were emptied
of their contents.
The Produce Exchange.
The annual meeting of the Produce Ex
change took place yesterday afternoon and
was largely attended, nearly all the mem
bers of the Association being present Presi-
dent E. M. Cole read his report for the year,
in which he gave the New York report as
5000 900, 600, of which 5000, 100000 is pro-
duced. Mr. Cole called railroad discrimin-
alton against New York one of the greatest
evils of the day. New York, he said was
the only city Disseminated against on the
seaboard. The trade of this city is shifting
westward.
Bust of Wazini.
To-day the bust of Mazini will be unveiled
at Central Park. Both bust and pedestal are
gifts of the Italian residents of the United
States.
Incendiarism and Insurance.
The Sun says that before an Insurance
Mems Convention in Syracuse was read a
paper in which it was asserted that purely
accidental fires were very rare, and that
over half of all contiagrations are the result
of incendiarism. This startling assertion,
which is often repeated, was sustained by
other members of the Convention, who said
that half the amount paid out by insurance
companies was to men who had set their
property on fire. Of all crimes incendiar-
ism is one of the most difficult to prove.
Russians Around the City.
Another detachment. of Russian officers
arrived in town last evening from South
west Harbor. They consist of Commander
l.. Lomen, Lieutenant Clarknin, Sub-Lieu-
tenant Shulz and Midshipman Brauser, ac-
companied by Engineers Stavinsky, Couch
atoff, Paoloff Mustatin and Irenoff Com
mander Lomen commands one division of
ships crews now on board the Cimbria and
his presence in New York shows that the
time is drawing near when he will be in
possession of a cruiser. When asked where
they were going the Russians quietly
shrugged their shoulders and laughingly
protested ignorance. Judging from one or
two expressions that were dropped, how
ever, there is every reason to believe the
party will be found in few days at
Cramps Ship Yard, in Philadelphia. There
are now scarcely half of the officers who
came across the ocean in the Cimbria re-
manning on that vessel
.... An Aged Incendiary.
The sentence passed upon Catharine
Kriecheldorf yesterday of seven years in the
penitentiary is probably equivalent to
sentence for life, for she is sixty-two years
of age and infrm. She is the woman who
fired an Orchard-street tenement, wherein
sixteen families lived, that she might OBJ
tain the small amount for which her furni-
ture was insured.
A blind man in Americus, Ca, has in.