New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-04
NETWORK CITY.

Fashionable dTpsSmakerS are cuItlllp tIlcii
| dresses with the Old-iashlOned fOuhd "ain', 'H0
| skirt being perfectly pam.
The assignment for the benefit Of creditors OF
| Thomas Concaunon to Patrick J: Hamburg was
| filed Yesterday; preferences, S9,olS.
Chickering q Sons will close their warerooms IN
| this city and Boston tomorrow as Wen as to-uaS )
also their large mandatory IN Boston,
william A. Boyd, Corporation Attorney. Paid to
the Controller Tuesday S171 %, penalties coccleu
during June for violation of city ordinances
John Collins ago seven years, Of No 492 First.
ave. fell into the river yesterday at the 1907 3l
| twenty -seventh-st., and was drowned Ills pouS
was not recovered
Fashionable ladies who are anxious 10 possess the
| very newest styles and designs in costumes. rum
mage the garrett for the Oldest fashon-piates, and
! have their dresses made after Them
| An automatic fire alarm button in the basement
of # b. Clahn & Co.'s store was literally overcome
by the heat" last night and recorded an alarm that
| quickly brought the tremen to the spot
| The United States flagship POwhatan and train
| inq-ship Minnesota, and the the two French war
| vessels which have been in this port for several
weeks. will sail for Newport on Tuesday.
| Small NANTES for midsummer wear are OF India
mill bordered with wide DucheSse or Nalenclennes
| lace Fichus are made of embroidered or hguied
lace and finished with pleated Breton or French
| lace.
Samuel B. Edwards, chief operator in the Allan Lar
| tic and Pacific Telegraph COmp1nys Office in thls
| city, died suddenly OF heart disease yesterday
morning. He went home yesterday In his usual
| health
| The Snpcial Committee or the Board OF lTduc
and Transportation appointed TO consider the qes-
ton of a uniform and equitable bankrupt law, has
| invited the several trade organizations To appoint
| conference committees.
| A fashionable bonnet IN a Broadway window Is
| composed almost entirely of dropping sprays OF
| hliet-of-the-valley. The crown and hrim are
mass Of these flowers, and the face trimming Is OF
| soft pleated lace combined with them.
| The tram on the Harlem Railroad which left
| the Grand Central Depot at IL a. m. yesterday
| killed an unknown man IN the cut between Mott
| ave. and Cromwelfs creek ne was Hp9uU loiCS I
years old, short and stout, with dark hair ana
| mustache
lady informed Superintendent Walling .yester-,
| dav that she had been swlndlcd by man who sald
| that he was clerk in the Custom Honse. ana de-
mauded 80 for the delivery of a package which he
SAID was held for herhere. She paid the money, but
| no package came.
At meeting of the sewing-sIlk and twist trade
| on July 2 a resolution was unanimously ADOPTED
recommending that, since the price of raw SILK mad
advanced 30 To 40 per cent, general advance OF -
per cent on all manufactured goods should take eL-
| feet Immediately.
| The new George Washington Post Of the Grand
| Army OF the Republic, whose officers were installed
! on tuesday, has been numbered l03, because thls
! is the 1884 anniversary of National Independence.
| The annual state eucampment of the Grand Army
has been ordered for July 20, at Ithaca.
| James Kearney struck felOw-workman named
| AnGrnv, Mummy over the head with pistol at No.
G52 Water-St. on Monday night, and Tuesday he
was committed 10y police justice, who was informed
that Mmphy's skull had been fractured Murphy,
| 4, a
willingness to break kearney's head at their next
| meeting.
Among the many Fourth of July symptoms OBJ
| scrVabe yesterday |as an AFTERNOON scene III INC
| Bowery Three fat Teutons in three sccond-stoTy
| windows were endeavoring with WateTlng-potS,
dppers and other utensils TO stay slow fire which
had already eaten large hole IN the awning, whie
| a crowd of men aud boys invited them to run Tor
| an engine"
At the closing exercises of the COlored Grammar
School No. West SGyenteeathIstii tnis week, an
| formed conspicuous part of the programme. This
is the first p-aUauce of the Kitchen Garden In the
| public schools of the city Tho school authorities
| have lately paid some attention TO TINS method Oh
| instruction.
p. Meyers. peler, of No. 1913 Cana-st., came to
the CoroucIs office yesterday and SAID that his VIE
was dangerously III from the effects Of heating III
aicted by a nei ghhOI, MIS-. Schemberg. lie wished
| the Coroner t. have ms wfcs assallant arrested.
Meyers was told that the attending physician must
give n certificate that the woman was III danger be-
| fore the Coroner could interfere.
lydia Keys girl twelve years old. on Wednes-
! dav night, while playing on sandbank in Onc-hun-
drcd -aud-tcnth-st.. near LeXrncton-avc' was sud
| denly buried beneath the sand She was eXtrl-
| Gated and a doctor summoned. All efforts to
save her lite proved unavaailing aud she died yes
| frrday morning The childs parents live at No.
| 1913 Fast ne-hundred-and-tenth-st
| Iouis Fetterer. Henry Meyers and Henry SchOll,
| three of the boys who were tomenting a drunken
man III Second-t. on Monday evening, were arrested
| and brought before Coroner Flanagan yesterday.
| The man, whose name has not been learned fell in
rhe street and received injuries which caused ms
death. The boys were committed TO the hoaSe OF
Detention To await the result OF ah inquest, which
! will be held tomorrow.
Al the Castle Garden Labor Exchange during
June SCI persons were provided with employ
| mcnt 1903 men and 553 women OF the mon, l.,
| OF were employed as farm labOrers at an average
| rate of wages of Sll 30 per month. The superiu-
| tendrnt reports that the demand for farm labor
ers far exceeds the supply Most OF the women
found work IN the city as servants. Their average
rate of wages $40 90 per month.
The Committee on Trade of the Produce Ex-
change, to which was referred the question Of a
| dofe for adopting the "Ccntalp system, recon-
mended yesterday that the different trades arrange
so that all articles that are or may be dealt in on
the Exchange, aud insurance thereon, shall, on and
after October |, he exclusively on the basis of
weight the unit of transactions to be the pound
ayoirirIpos, aud the multiple thereof 10 be the
''centalo or 100 pounds ayolrdupois.
Mrs Haxteen. the benefactress of the Poor Chill
dren's Summer Home at Bath, l.. l., celebrated her
birthday Yesterday. About $50 Of the children
met her and escorted her to the "Haxtecn Pa
whom where she was greeted with SONGS flowers
and addresses. Mrs. HaXteen turned to the
Childrens Aid Society the sum of $40 as Il nucleus
for a future fund for the purchase of the summer
Home. This gift the result of "a dramatic en-
tertainment prepared by Frederic Robinson, all
expenses being paid by Mrs. Haxteen.
A bcggar named William Wolfe asked for aid at
the house of superintendent WallinG, at No. 81
East Nincteenth-st, on Wednesday evening" and
because he did not get what be wanted, he abused
the scry. nts and made of some very foul Ian
guage lie repeated ms Ut olhcr houses further on
in the street When Informed OF the rutliHs con-
duct Mr. Wallng followed and arrested him. In
the YorkyIc Police Court Yesterday he appcated
against Wolfe who was sent by Justice Kilbrcth to
the Island for six months.
John T. Lynch, the diamond broker. of Broadway
| who was arrested on n charge of cOuspring 10 de-
fraud Messrs Fay and Rogers OF 50 OOD the transac-
tion involving certain diamonds which Mr.. Lynch
held in pawn, was released OF - 900 bail yesterday
| by Justice Morgan az the Jefferson Market Police
| Court. After leaving the Police Court Mr.. Lynch
| NppufE-EnprJts to bp
| >herih's office and required H. give new bail in "A
civil suit pending IN the ease il having been