New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-13
NETWORK CITY.

| tarum.
Workmen who were digging a sewer at One
hundred-and- fourth-st. and Lexlngton-aye. yester
| day found human skeleton. The place where the
| bones were found was once buTying ground.
1t was reported at the CoroneTs office yesterday
| that William johnson, age hIty,hye had dIeG SUD
| denly at his residence No. Marion-st. johnson
| became Ill while at work and went home. lie dled
| soon after reaching the house.
II. K Miller has been appointed a. delegate from
| the Broad of Trade and Transportation TO the an
| nual meeting of the Farmers Alliance, which Will
meet az Syracuse, n. Y, on August 20. One OF the
most important subjects TO be discussed VIII De
| that on railroad transportation ana DISCRIMINATION
| of freight rates.
The following Is a comparative statement OF cases
of contagious diseases reported for the two weeks
ending August o, 1879: o...,..
Typhoid sS s7sP sP@ mains Measles P 5a sP Po1
$ $$s g.: e q 3 $ il /
The clgar-makers in the employ of Brown &
Earle of Nos oil and 213 WooSter-st., have been
on strike for several days. Their demand that the
| firm should discharge Its foreman was refused,
hence the strike. The firm is determined to I'LL the
places of the strikers with new workmen, and the
strikers are looking for work elsewhere.
The members Of the Produce Exchange met yes
terdav afternoon and passed resolutions respecting
| the death Of James Henry. on Saturday last.
| President Hncken made very impressive address
on the life and character of MIR. Henry. and others
five was appointed to attend the funeral to-day, at
| No. 49, Greene-ave Brooklyn.
| The Inman Line steamship City of Chester. with
| the passengers of the City of Richmond, which put
| back from Queenstown because of the bursting of
one of the steam-pipes, arrived yesterday having
| made the passage from Liverpool IN a little more
than eight days. and beating the steamship Scythla,
1 which arrived last night about thirty hours. She
| had 90 cabin. and 549 steerage passengers.
| Mayor Cooper yesterday received from the Rapid
| Transit Commissioners copy of letter from Will
lam r. Garrison. of the Metropolitan Elevated Rail-
| way Company, declining to change its connections
from Fifty-thrd-st to Flfty-ninth-st, between the
| atsHk fpfh Aypu cd Pan
tracks Mr.. Garrison says that under the conditions
and requirements imposed for the change, the com
pany abandOns all right to operate under It,
The steamship Rhynand, of the Red Star Line
| running between this port and Antwerp, arrived
here on Monday, having made the fastest trip from
| mort 10 port on record. The actual time consumed
| was eleven days hour and fOrty-seveu minutes
and this time would have been lessened by SIX hours
if the vessel had not encountered dense togs in the
English Channel and on the banks OF NeWfound-
| land.
Bertha Levy, an unmarried German woman of
thirty committed suicide early yesterday morning
| ot No 1OI6 Second-ave. She had been suffering
| for several years from tumOr which had been
pronounced by physicians to be incurable. On sew
eral occasions she had threatened to take her life
and yesterday morning she was found IN her room
dead. bottle which had contained mixture of
Paris green lay beside her bed.
The main feature the second day Of the German
Volksfest. at the Harlem River Park, was an alle-
gorica procession in four divisions representing the
different phases of the National history Of the fa-
therland ancient and modern. The festival
grounds
Visitors entertained by great variety of so
cial games, and dancing on the large platform was
continued until late hour.
At No IA Wall-st the Office Of Edwin w. Slough
ton late if not STILL United States Minister 10 Rus
STA it was said yesterday that he had gone to New
port. and would not return to the ety. probably,
arrived home he met on the steamship by
TRIBUNE reporter, to whom he lntlmated that 1t
was very doubtful whether he should return to his
post, although his diplomatic experience in Russia
had been pleasant.
Verdlcts of accidental death were rendered yes
terday in the cases of John Walter Jenkins forty
three years old, of No. 341 West Sixteenth-st, the
diver who was suffOcated by the bursting of the
air-pipe attached to his diving suit while he was
graphing for a lost anchor Oft the Battery on July
81 /; Matthew Weis. age thirty, of Hudson City, n.
j., who killed by the falling OF an elevator at
No. 1913 West Slxteenth-st, on July 30, and Alex
ander Scott, age forty. of No 90 Canast, who fell
into the hold of the steamship Columbia, at the foot
of Houston-st. on July g.
The Executive Council of the National Cotton
Exchange will meet in the Board of Managers room
of the Cotton Exchange at 10 a. IN. to-day. Henry
g. Hester. the secretary, arrived at the st. James
Hotel Yesterday. The annual convention VIII meet
at noon in the Board room of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society. Among the questions to be dis
cussed will be that in relation to tare. bill TO
establish tare before the last session of the
Legislature. but defeated in its passage.
tare that would affect one State alone would be
deprecated by the entire cotton trade, and would
work great injury ppooK1vN
Albert Sutton, of East New-York who received
compound fracture of the skull by being struck
with Broadway motor on July 81, died yesterday
at the Eastern District Hospital.
The new Newtown Creek bridge. connecting
Brooklyn and Long Island City, tested yester-
day in the presence of the Bridge Committee of the
Board of Supervisors of Kings and Queens COun-
ties A weight of twenty tons was put upon 1T.
A policy shop at No. 2S1 Flfth-st. was visited by
the police of the Fifth Precinct yesterday and Will
proprietor, together with Philip Wlrschng, of No.
81 Skllman-st. and Patrick Smith, of No. Al jack
son-st., who were found there, was arrested.
The Charities Commissioners met yesterday to
cut down the salaries of their employees TO the
amount allowed by the Board of Estimate-S75,0 900
for the ensuing fiscal year, beginning August l.
The amount OF salaries now paid Is $4,000. The
reduction of $4,000 is made by dischargng two
clerks and reducing the pay OF Others
man representing himself as II. Warner. inspec-
or, Of No. IA Sands-st, called yesterday upon Mrs.
| Chapman, at No. $40 MonToe-st., and informed her
that there was quantity OF goods for her at dock
in New-York, which had been forwarded by her son,
| who is now in Europe The duty on them he said,
| was 50. Mrs. Chapman gave him 49, all the money
she had with her, and he gave receipt, promising
to send the goods. Mrs. Chapman IS still looking
| for them.
Application was made to Judge Moore in the
Court OF Sessions yesterday, for the appointment of
| commission IN lunacy to 1uqmre lutO the mental
| condition of the prisoner Gilbert iost, alias John
Wilbur, who is believed TO have lost his reason In
| the Raymond Street jail, The Dstrct-Attorney
made no opposition, and Judge Moore appointed
| Drs Young and Shepard to make the examination,
and to report on August 10. If Yost is insane he
Will be sent to the State Lunatic Asylum at Au-
| burn. - -
seven-year-old son of j. Findley, of West Side
| ave. jersey City Heights, is seriously i'll with lock-
Jaw caused by running piece of rusty wire in his
| loot.
The taking Of the census of children between the
ages Of i've and eighteen years has been completed.
Tie result shows net decrease from last year of
| ,OO2, the present number being 39,202.
| Officer Bowe of the First Precinct, arrested two
more tramps at daylight yesterday. They gave