New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-03
NETWORK CRY.

ave- of heart disease. on Friday at the age of 101
years.
" K stevenson reports the sale of eight lots on
Riverside Park. between One-hundred and-twelfth
and One edsnd-thirteenth-sts. together With
six lots In the rear adjoining for $4,000
John T. Meyer. of No. 90 Orcbard-st. who was
his mother-n-law remsined ~ the house. yesterday
tried TO commit suicide by Gu ting his throat and
shooting himself in the head ard chest. The wounds
probably Will not result fatally. He had been out
of employment for some time. LIS four children are
| dead
The steamships arriving fror Europe Yesterday
and on SATURDAY were all overdue by schedule Tine
owing To a severe east-Soutlcast cyclone forcing
them to heavc-to for several hours The heavy seas
broke over The decks forward ana ait swseplng
away everything movable; toe offceTs, ana crew
with great ficulty remained o. deck. The passen-
gers dared not venture from tbc cabins.
The Police Commissioners Saturday found
their funds insufficient to the force Tor Octo-
her, and were cOmpelledto leave The clerks at Head
quarters unpaid until the Board OF Apportionment
can meet. on Wednesday, ard set ASIDE the sum
necessary-S5. $50 81. Commissioner Wheelers
salary Tor October, $500 was got paid, MT Wheeler
refusing 10 vote upon MIR. MacLeans motion that IL
| be stricken from the rolls.
The Columbia College Fall races were rowed Sat
urday on the Harlem River course. The chief event
of the day the contest between the eight-oared
crews Of three classes. The boats of the Juniors
| and -nphomOres swept down the course nearly DOW
aud bow. AMI at tue finish The Juniors led by less
than length. The Freshmen were last. The time
| Of the winning crew was ON. lOi2s.
] The committee appointed by the State Board OF
| Charities TO investigate the affairs of The House OF
Refuge continues to hold daily sessions at No. "
Madlson-ave. Persons formerly connected with df-
| ferent departments of the institution are being
called before the committee and questioned The
! committee states that the preliminary work has
already taken up more time than was anticip ted;
On Wednesday or Thursday Oi this week lhey VIII
begin holding meetings at the House of Refuge.
Fredericl; w. Brewster clerk the office of the
/ Westchester Insurance Company. who committed
suicide at his bOardng-hOuse. No "a lrylng-p place.
RECENTLY by cutting his throat. SAID have been
] Qra1 m
/ shortly 10 be married; but who on learning that
her lover had once been an inmate OF an insane asy-
lum broke her engagement. lhls so upset ms rel-
! son for the third time that he committed the rash
| act.
A consn,racy 70 rob Fraser & Lee wholesale drug
| cists at No 20 Beekman-st., of opium, qunine ana
other valuable drugs has been frustrated by he de-
! lection and arrest of the criminals Three OF the
four persons arrested were clerks In the employ OF
| the firm: the other was recently an employe Of the
/ American News Company. Two of the clerks,
| Hardy Simmons and William Henderson, had been
| for many years in the service OF the firm. They
were arraiCned saturday at the rom6s Police Court
/ and pleaded guilty. simmons and Henderson are
| said 10 be we'll connected.
Andrew Wyre. well-known cigar manufactures
| at Nvack, committed suicide SATURDAY. morning by
/ shooting himself with pistol lie formerly lived
ia thus city, and for over quarter of century did
| bus ness iu BleeckeT-St, tie removed 10 Nyack
about SIX years ago, aud there continued the busl-
ness ui making cigars. Early on Saturday he went
| To mis- store. but he soon returned To his honse
shortly after pistol-shot was heard and Mr.. Wyre
! was found Immediately afterward dying from
| wound in the head. He lived nearly three hours
D. did not gam CONSCIOUSNESS. VIE ana h'e
children survive him.
Nearly year ago the Produce Exchange, q.
pointed commute ~ , 70 mn Is Europe, to OBJ
tam their views as 10 genera! adopllon OF the
GENITAL system, and the majority Oh tne replies were
in favor of II. Ii was resolved that the Produce
/ Exchange should put che system INTO practical
erect ON October l, bat the gram trade discovered
/ Tint 10 aoopt il before January !, 1880, would
result IN serious complications, and il was there
tore postponed ON saturday an informal meeting
ii the grain trade was held, when resolution was
! adOpte,., declaring that. as the system had been
gwen patient t1al 10y gram dealers and bad been
/ found intricate and difficult 10 understand without
! considerable mathematical calculation, II was
imnraciicahle 30 continue is operation until the
system became National In rs character 10y Congres
sional action. The Board OF Manners VIII probably
ie.cind the IesOiut making the system operative
| after January l.
BROOKLYN
Henry A. Bowen. nephew OF the publisher of
Tie IndepcadeHf, Henry {. Bowen, was arrested on
| saturday charged by James Croker with obtaining
ten dollars from hiuton false pretences.
\ gang OF nine colOr.d men found early yes
l tcrdaY morning 10 have taken possession OF va
cant house. No. ,Gs3 Atlantc-ave. The men were
! arrested wai PLAYING pokeT and locked up In the
| Twelfth Precinct station.
John Gormley. age tn rty-one, of No. GS North
Six hist, arrested early Yesterday morning for
throwing "a bccr-glass winch hit aud fractured the
sKulj # Francis Post. of No. 20 Hope-st. Gormley
was q, ked upn the Fifth Precinct Station.
William McGame age thirty-eight, living at No.
-
/ o'clock yesterday morning BY cutting his throat
with a razor he was removed to st. Gatherings
! Hospital, where he only lived an hour and half
1 No reason assigned for the act.
Tic Board OF City Works removed Michael Dady
Superintendent OF Sewers, on saturday. ostensl DIy
for ncgiecting duly oE attending 10 p"htlcs. +. .
| Flannerv, OF the Nineteenth Ward. Excise INSPECT
ogs, were also removed on saturday by the votes of
| Commissioners ~ DUrn ana Le!CH, VI Tue DoaIu OF
! Ponce and Excise.
OF the storekeepers in Bcdford-ave near Fulton
ST. forty were arTaigned before Justice Fisher on
| Saturday upon the charge If violating a Park ordl-
| nance in obstructmg the street and sidewalks with
boxes, barrels, wagons, etc. Bedford-ave is under
the control OF the Park Commissioners, who LAID the
! asphalt pavement on 1t which makes II a favOrlte
drive. Justice Fisher did not take the view OF the
Commissioners that extreme measures should be
| used and dismissed several of those accused who
| Lad removed the distractions. and adjourned the
| heanng for the others until November III.
John CoDroy, age sixty, Of No. 129 Pearl st.
| Brooklyn, was on bis way TO tins city Saturday
| evening at 81 o'clock. and was run over and Killed
| by car OF the Dekab Avenue Line, at Washing
ton and York-sts. He stopped at a cross ing OF the
| former street to allow car gong up the hill TO
| pass, and then went on, not noticing another car
ny down the hill al full speed The horses ofths
car, No. 50, knocked him down upon the rails and
the forward wheels passed over bis left leg and tine
lett side of bis body. The leg was crushed and
broken and uIs body horribly mangied. He was re-
moved TO the Long Island College Hospital where
he died at 945 yesterday, after great suffer
ing Mr.. COurOy leaves wife and children. The
driver aud conductor of the car were arrested but
the latter was not held. The driver, Martin Nal
10y, was admitted to bal bv Justice Walsh.
JERSEY CITY.
The University team of Pennsylvania and the
Yale College Club visited Jersey City on Saturday
and played their first match game Of football The
ST. Georges Cricket Club grounds. AT 5:25 p. H..
when time was called, the Yale boys had scored an
easy victory. making three goals and five touch
downs, ana mad Obliged their opponents TO touch
down tureee times for safety.
The testimony in the contest the will of Mrs.
| Ann j. Andrews Of Jersey CITY Heights, will soon
be submitted 10 Chant ellor RunyOn few days
before mel death in August, she went home to her
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