New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-14
NETWORK CITY.

fishing a minimum rate of commission.
Sergeant Gaf, of the Central Park Police. reports
that last Sunday over 40 600 people passed into
the park through the foot passenger gates. This Is
the largest number of visitors on single day this
season.
The seat in the Cotton Exchange of William
Birnie, of the firm of Williams, Brine q Co.. who
recently failed will be sold on August % and the
proceeds Will be divided pro rata among the cred
itors of the firm, according to the bylaws.
John Moran, the alleged river thief. who was
shot by Captain Somers, of the schooner William
III. Van Name, on the morning OF July ~, Whlle az
nptng to force an entrance TO the cabin of the
vessel died at the st. Francis Hospital last evening
Theodore Paschke, age thirty-fve, of High Bridge.
was riding IN an Elghth-ave car last night, with
his right arm hanging out of the car-wlndow.
When at e-hundred-and-forty -ninth-st. he was
struck by derrick, causing compound fracture
OF the arm.
The action-makers employed on upright pianos in
HaIe's piano mandatory in West Thirty
are on strike 10 resist reduction of 10 per cent In
their wages which is proposed by the contractor IN
whose employ they are. They are not directly en-
plOyed by the firm.
In the matter of the assignment of William A.
Ross TO Daniel G. Hood, schedule was led yester-
day in the clerks Office of the Court OF Common
Pleas IN which the liabilities were placed at P21,-
1876 o6; nominal assets, S2G094 IL ana real
assets, S607 %,
Michael Hurley, thirty-fve years old, residence
unknown, While at work on the Elevated Railroad
AT NIneteentb-st. and Ninth-aye. Yesterday, fell
from he structure TO the street and was severely
injured. He was taken to the New-York Hospital,
where he died last night.
Elizabeth Goodwin, the woman found sick in the
streets on Tuesday by the police, who claimed that
she had lett the Charity Hospital on BlackwelP5
Island on account of lll-tTeatment, died at the
Niuety-ninth Street Hospital last night from
haustlon and want of proper nourishment
An unknown man. about forty-fve years OF age,
with black whIskers and mustache, and dressed IN
a black coat and trousers, white waiStcoat, white
shirt and gaiter shoes died suddenly last night at
Eiftpeut h. and Ihird-aV from "A lpmOrrnpQp of
the lungs. The body was taken TO the MOrgue.
The forty-eighth annual exhibition of the Amer
lcan Institute IS to be opened September H. The
prospects are encouraging for a fine display, az a
large number of applications have been made for
space. Exhibitors can obtain information by apply
ny to the general superintendent, New-YOrk City.
The steamship Agiers, which arrived from Gal
weston yesterday, reports that of Alligator Rect
she passed ship-Of-war with a hull OF a vessel in
tow. This was probably the United States steamer
POwhattan, with the sectional dry dock for the
Pensacola Navy Yard in tow. ana which left Ches-
ter Penn, last week.
The wheat market was more active yesterday
than for several days past and Winter wheat sold
at an advance of a half-cent a bushe over the
prices of Tuesday Western quotations were higher
Corn was active and advanced from y 70 a cents
Oushel, with an upward tendency. Provisions were
fairly active and higher.
Chief Engineer Greene. OF the Dock Department.
reported at its meeting yesterday that in dredging
the slip at ne-hundred-and-siXth-st, North River
more than 100 cubic feet of refuse from some
brewery was raised. The Department of Public
Works has been requested to have the practice of
running refuse grain III the sewers discontinued.
The steamship Saratoga arrived from Havana
yesterday with the schooner Grace Bradley, from
Savannah for Boston, In tow. The schooner
couutered a northeast gale off Hatteras lasting six
hours, during " hich she was thrown on her beam
ends. and $4,000 feet of lumber were washed
overheard. Large quantities of water washed over
the decks filling the cabin and destroying furni-
ture, clothing, etc.
Among the steerage passengers Of the steamship
City Of Chester who were landed at Castle Garden
Yesterday, were Mr.. and Mrs. Roebuck whose
with disease of the spine that she was carried on
board the steamer at Liverpool She was barely
kept alive by the close attendance of DR.. Dore
until at Tuesday morning, OFT Fire Island. she died.
Her body was brought ashore and buried Yesterday
The parents went to Philadelphia last night
Ex-Alderman George w. Plunkett, who is at pres
ent inspector IN the employ of tho Street Clean
lug Bureau, standing at Beecker-st. and the
BOwery about 10 o'clock on Tuesday night when he
was requested by PatroIman Michael W. Wiley, of
the Fifteen tn Precinct, TO move On.D He refused
to obey the officer, who thereupOn arrested him for
disorderly conduct At the police station Mr.
Punkett was discharged "a soon as he showed that
he an Inspector. Sergeant King, who dis
charged HIM, SAID that he would not have been ar
rested had he made himself known to the officer,
st. and the Bowery free from crowds.
BROOKLYN.
Martin Douns, age seventy, was found wandering
upon the railroad track in East New-YOrk Tuesday
evening. Ills showed his NINA to be affected
and he is held at tue station awaiting his friends
care.
Letters of administration were taken out yester-
day by the widow of the late Fire Commissioner
David Williams upon her husbands estate. This
consists of $1,000 of personal property and house
and lot
Mrs Hannah Erickson, an inmate of the Kings
County Lunatic Asylum, III Flatbush died suddenly
Tuesday evening. She mad been very violently in
sane A post-rnortem examination showed that
heart disease was the cause of death.
Two men. Peter Yerger, age thirty-fve, of No. 252
FlOyd-st;, and Louis Berk, age forty-eight, OF No.
North Ninth-st., near FOurth-st., yesterday, and
received severe injuries. John Sherman, age fftv-
three, of No. 212 MOntroseave, fell from the same
building Oh the previous evening, and fractured his
hip bone. He will probably not recover All were
cared for at ST. GATHERINGS Hospital.
JERSEY CITY.
The free excursion for the poor women and chill
dren OF the city will take place to-day.
Richard Quinn, of Tonnene-ave., Jersey City
Heights, died yesterday from injuries received bg
being over by "A loaded truck on Tuesday night
The house of Charles Speelman No. 40 Pasade-
ave-, Jersey City Heights. entered by burglars
Tuesday morning, aud robbed of sllVerwaTe aud
wearing apparel valued at 5000.
The father of Thomas Jay, one of the South Bos-
ton boys who were arrested "a few days ago. reached
Jersey City yesterday, and took his son home lie
told Chief of Police Murphy that the parents of
Charles Huck. the other runaway, had refused TO
pay the boys passage back.
The Board of Aldermen has ordered the Street
Commissioner to remove all squatters whose shan
ties encroach on the public streets. he Board re-
fused Tuesday night TO revoke the license granted
two weeks ago to Thomas Harrington, the propri-
etor OF the Mercedes Grove picnic grounds.
suit was brought yesterday in the Second Dis
trict Court by Miss Martha Berger against Miss
Anna Kendall to recover debt of $500 Miss
Berger was the travelling companion OF Miss Hen
dali She alleged that she frequently pawned her
own clothing and loaned the money thus received
TO Miss Kendall. MISS Berger was nopsuited hnt
she will bring a new suit in the County Courts TO
recover the amount named.
NEWARK.
Nina Hildebrandt. charged with taking the lifa of
her babe, was found guilty yesterday, by n Coro-