New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-09
NETWORK CITY.

NETWORK CITY.
The capmakers, employed in large numbers IN
this city and Williamsburg, have started move
ment to obtain higher wages.
John Walsh age nineteen years. OF No. 311 Fifth
| ST. was injured by the bursting of soda water
bottle yesterday in a factory near bis home.
| Jacob Warner age twenty-six years, sun
| stprfcI, Yesterday ut No. 149 Baxter-st. He
taken to his honc at FOrtyeighth-St. and flrstaYe
Joseph A. Blair. OF Montclair. N j., who killed
Armstrong his coachman, has resumed ms duties as
| paving teller OF inc Mecuahlcs NdllohdI Damn Vi
| this city.
/ Frederick Hustler age fourteen, has been missing
from his home at No. 80 Pitt-st., since July - HIS
parents have sought the aid OF the police Ill search
| ing for him.
William T. Gov. age seventeen years, of No. $40
| South FIrst-st., Brooklyn, was drowned yesterday
waie bathing IN the Harlem River, near Hlgh
| Bridge. His body was not recovered
Al thc annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Metropolitan Elevated Railroad Company aud the
| New-York Loan and Improvement Company yester-
day the former officers were reelected.
! loan exhibition for the benefit of the Heating
hospital of ST. Johns Guild, will be open for private
| Gibbons Art Gallery No. 11G0 Broadway
The two French men.of-war, which have been
| living of the Battery for three weeks, Will leave
| New-York to-day. Admiral Peyron who COM
manded the squadron. will 90 to Newport thence to
! Halifax, and probably TO Quebec.
| The Pilot Commissioners sent report TO the Po-
| lice Commits yesterday, stating that the en-
| poyGs of Inc Street Department are III the habit
of throwing of the garbage and ashes from the
| scOws before reaching buoy No. 10.
| The Police Commissioners yesterday dismissed
| from the force PatrOman James Brown, OF the
Twcnty-ninth Precinct who on trial recently for
arresting Dr. James Il. Wood, of West seventeenth
ST. without cause. and tor being asleep 0nlls post.
Ina fiqhtin the bar room at No. 104 West Twenty
siyth-St Yesterday, Thomas G. Lehman struck Elias
Iindhcim IN the eve with walaing-stick. The IN
iured man taken to the Newton Hospital and
his assaant was arrested. The physicians say the
stick penetrated the brain.
Ameeiing will be held at the Germsnia Assembly
Rooms to-day TO urge that the Sunday law either
shall he completely enforced. In Newark, n. j.. so
that all traffic shall be suspended or that IL be not
enforced at ALL and that the law he regarded simply
as a dead letter on the statute book.
The Board of Aldermen yesterday unanimously
passed resolution authorizing the requirement. OF
The streets by contract, in accordance with the
recommendation Of the Commissioner of Public
Works II is now so late in the season that little
work can be done. the Commissioner says.
The following additional contributions in aid of
the Seaside Sanitarum for Destitute Sick Children
have been received Geo. 5. LOrlllard. 500; > IS
Mosrrove. 500; Mary $. Kemochan, 1885, Mrs. j.
w NJ $50; Stern Brothers, Sl5 VIM. III. ROome
$40; Almerall & Co, $40; other sources, Sl7 90.
James Hughes pleaded guilty, in General Sessions
Yesterday, to an indictment charging him with
burglary. On June % he entered the dwelling OF
Edward Hunt, No. 81 DesbrOsses St, and stole S32
i'm cash aud some articles of jewelry. Judge Cow
ing sentenced him 10 State Prison for two years and
"a half.
The following is comparative statement of cases
of contagious diseases reported for the two weeks
ended July o. 1879 c.-o,,o
ws Ts2 S ssqse pn Measles. P F5sn, s% Paa
5 j"%s IS: ? q z 8 e e
Alfred Jolly Young pupil of the Wilett Street
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School distinguished
himself at a recent picnic at iudsons Grove on the
| Sound. Walter Brown. age thirteen, was bathing
| Jolly, without waiting to dlyest himself OF his
clothing jumped IN and brought him to the shore.
There is now on exhibition at No. 652 Broadway
q specimen of one of Cafornias big trees. 1t grew
near the Tule River Tuare County, about seventy
five miles from Visalia. The piece on exhibition
was cut off twelve feet from the ground, and is
about fifteen feet in height. 1t is seventy five feet
in circumference aud nearly twenty-five feet III
diameter.
Postmaster James, statement for the quarter
ended June 80 has been completed. Ii shows that
the receipts from all were 1922 4S1 1G; the
expenditures, $204,22j 80. The balance carried to
the order of the United States Government was
S51S 80 90 The revenue was made up principally
from the sale of postage stamps, envelopes and
postal cards.
The certificate of incorporation of the Masonic
Child and Mutual Benefit Association was filed in
the County Clerks Office yesterday. The twelve
managers are Charles Roome James W.. Hustled,
Robert NJ. G. Graham, Albert G.. Goodall, James +.
Morrison, jesse h. Anthony, Robert ii, Waterman,
Robert Black John W. Simmons, Daniel Sickeis.
Townsend Fondy and Seymour .. Bunce.
The wheat market was unsettled yesterday, prices
advancing from to cents shell, with business
places the market in great measure above shippers
limits. Corn advanced a OF "a cent and was fairly
active. Flour advanced from 10 to 20 cents bar
rel, with business largely IN medium and low
grades "spop and nearby" lots were about
steady.
The Board of Estimate and Apportionment yes
terGay appropriated $4,000, IN accordance with
an act of the Legislature. for CrOtOn water mains
$50 BAG to pay for opening lnwOOd-st. from Kings
bridge road TO the Hudson River; 81, O66 from the
Excise fund for the support of children committed
Inv notice magistrates ; $3S, 50S for the new 9TH
Regiment Armory $4,000 for inspection of tene-
meut houses and $4,000 Tor the new pubic Dath at
the foot OF Seyeneenth-st.
Austin Nolan, fortv-two years old, of No. River
ST. Boston. found in Spring-st. on Sunday night,
by the police of the Fourteenth Precinct, suffering
from Commissions in the abdomen. He SAID that he
had been kicked IN a bar-room in Prnce-st. by an
unknown man. Nchael Ford, Of No. IS Spring-st.,
was arrested on Monday afternoon being suspected
of tGe crime. and was identified by Nolan his
assaIlant. Nolan died yesterday.
Loose scaffolds all hung under the elevated rail-
road track IN the lower Bowery for the of the
worIInen engaged in the construction of the new
track. Yesterday afternoon Charles Brown, a
naintrr of No. 1871 GOld-st., jersey City, was at
work on one Of these. when the Ihlrd-ave. motor
Lilly passed under IT on its trip down town. Its
smoke-Stack struck against board projecting
downward from the scaiiOld, and Brown Was
knocked into the street. He was severely injured
on the head by the tall.
Friends of Henry Donnelly a resident of Boston,
were in this city yesterday looking for him. He
had been i'll several months, and had boarded at n
small hotel in this city, but disappeared two weeks
ago leaving his trunk and clothing ut the hotel.
Ills friends visited Police Headquarters and the
Morgue Yesterday, and examined the photographs
of bodies which have lain at the latter place unrec
ognized. photograph of the man who shot him
sell in Central Park last week bore some reSem-
blancc to Mr. DOnuely, but his friends could not
recognize bis features in the picture.
Doorman Nee, of the Fifty ninh street Police Sta
ton was summoned to the Yorkye Police Court
by Justice Kbreth yesterday. to explain a charge
| made against him by couple who had been arrested
| in the Central Park for dlsorderly conduct. The
persons alleged that having been locked up in the
station-hOusc they rec rested the doOTman to send
| a dispatch to their friends in Mott-st. They gave