New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-18

| storm. and set on fire. It's contents were damaged
| $3.50, uDon which there Is no insurance NO one
| was injured.
Amatch between Webb and BOyton seems proba-
! BILE James Gordon Bennett has offered prlze OF
! 81 900, and the match is likely to take place az
| Newport one day towards the end OF the present
| week The proposition is that BOyton is TO cover
twenty-five miles with the aid OF his suit aud pad
! dies while Wcbb svms twenty miles.
BROOKLYN.
A burglar, named John Connolly, age nineteen,
cscapcd from the officers of the Sixth Precinct, ut
the Stagg Street Police Station Saturday morning,
| while being taken 10 his cell. He ran from between
| two officers aud through a doorway, gaming the
| s+recf Ills speed exceeded that OF his pursuers,
| and he made good his escape.
The son of DR.. Hamilton, oGNo. 437 Classon-aye,
age eleven, and another boy of the same age. son
| of Thomas Fisher, a merchant nc No. 1917 QUINCY
| st., Brooklyn, ran away from home on SATURDAY,
! after putting on their best clothing and taking -
ont OF toy bank. They went to jersey City, ana
were arrested in the Pennsylvania Railroad station
while purchasing tickets for Baltimore
| w H. Roberts, age nineteen, with two other mon
entered the residence Of e. Z. Robins. No. lOl Car
roll-st.. late Saturday afternoon and carried OH
| jeweIy and silyerware valued at $3.50. They opened
| the front door with key. Mrs Robins was sitting
| by the front basement window and saw the men
going down the steps. She went up stairs and found
| the above mentioned articles missing ana hurried
out into the street. AT ClintOn-st. she saw the men
| and gave the alarm. The thieves separated, and
Officer Brattgan, Of the Third Precinct, started IN
pursuit. After hard chase he captured Roberts.
| who refused 70 give his residence
| JERSEY CITY.
| Ernest Newhouse bartender at the liquor saloon
| OF Thomas Booth, No. $40 Summt-aye., Jersey CITY
Hel ghts, found dead IN an clubhouse yesterday.
Death was probably caused by heart disease.
| A German, who gave his name as Richard Millla,
os arrested on Jersey City Heights Saturday after
noon and held q charge of being an escaped con-
| Wet. He was dressed IN coarse black and white
striped suit, such is usually worn in penal instl-
buttons, but he denied that he was an escaped prs-
Oner.
| A large number Of horses has been stolen from
| farms along the line OF the New-lOrk, Lake Erie
and Western Railroad in New-Jersey and New-York.
| withina year. week ago a valuable mare, with q
colt was stolen from the stock farm Of III. ~ Chit
tenden, of this city, at " The Notch, near Mont
clair. They were traced on Saturday to the freight
| depot of the New-YOrk, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad at Paterson where it was ascerained that
six horses. the maze and hercolt had been shipped
| TO Jessup, Iowa. message sent 70 Chief of
| Police ODOnnell at Chicago and the horses. and a
man with a wooden leg who had chargeof then are
detained there.
NEWARK
A letter has been received from Memphis Tenn,
| announcing the death by yellow lever Of III. L. H.
| BOdeuius of Newark.
The Board of Excise held another meeting on Sat
urday and granted a number of licenses to persons
| whose applications had been previously rejected.
Philip Kiefer of No. 10 Livingston-st. his daugh-
| ter and his two sons have died within the past
three weeks from TYPHOID fever, the last death oe-
| curing Oh Saturday. The mother lies dangerously
| Ill with the same disease.
| Franklin Waters living with his widowed
mother, at No. 1913 Clinton ave, on Saturday
! evening of last week swallowed some laudanum and
stry chnine, but did not die. About two years ago
| Franklin inherited $4,000, which he has spent.
About year ago an older brother, named Matthew,
| committed suicide by poison.
! The clerks in COnovers drug store at Broad and
Mqrket-sts. for the last few months, have been con-
| sciOus of almost daily losses from the money
| drawers, for which it was impossible to account.
Officer MOSsbacher was placed on duty in the store
| on Friday night, and at O'Clock on Saturday morn
| ing William Robinson, the colOred jantor of the
building entered the store from the cellar. At Pc
| ice Headquarters he admitted that he had robbed
the store for a long time and had affected an en-
trance through a trap door in the vault cover.
The house of s. S. Battin, in Prospect-ave., on
Thursday night entered by burglars and robbed
OF clothing. On Friday night the residence of Ger
| shOm Lockwood, in the same avenue was rtied OF
sllyerware. On the same night the residence OF
| General Joseph Plume, in SecOnd-aye,, was entered
| probably by the same persons An alarm was
sounded by the opening of hall door and the burg
lar, lled, but not until General Plume had fired
| three shots at them. No arrests were made. and the
three successive shots at did not attract the
! attention Of the police.
The honesty of members of the Police Department
! is seriously compromised by two incidents which
| have just come to light A former member of the
| department left his watch at the sergeanPs desk
! at the. First Precinct Station, TO be sold, aud on
| Monday night IL mysteriOusly disappeared III the
temporary absence of the sergeant, who was visit
| ing the cells. A day OF two before quantity of
chldren's clothes, found in the street, brought
TO the station and Instead of being turned to
the sergeant 10 be entered on the record and de-
posted In the property ROOM they were secreted in
| closet, where they were found after search OF
several days.
NEW-JERsEY.
ORANGE.-The services at Christ Episcopal Church
yesterday a. m. were III part memorial Oh the late
| Bishop Odenheimer.
| HOBoKES.-As Dennis Coppers was placing his
! loaded gun under tic side Of bis boat, near the
beach opposite East MorIches. on Thursday, it
discharged and the entire load entered his abdo-
men, INJECTING a terrible wound. from the effects OF
which he died before reaching the land. The fune-
| raj took place yesterday at HObokcn.
| PATERsON.-A strike took place on Saturday
| among the mOulders OF the Danforth Locomotive
and Machine Works, and fOrty-ive of them refused
| TO 90 to work unless their daily wages We're in
creased from ~ 10 20 ~. The officers of the COM
| pany refused the demand. If these men DE- ot re-
| turn to work nearly 100 employees will be thrown
| out OF empl0ymenI
STATEN ISLAND.
| MIpDLETOwN.-T Board of Excise has issued
circulars notifying hquoT.deale that they must
| renew their licenses at the next meeting OF the
Board or that their places OF business will be closed
| by the police.
| CAsTLEToN.-The Town Board has accepted the
resignation OF Supervisor Herpick, who states that
| if the people wished him to serve they should re-
| move The stigma put upon MN by the Indictment
of the Board of Supervisors Tor approprlatng money
! for decorating the soldiers graves
| sTAPLETON.-The body of an unknown man. ap-
! paTenty sailor, was washed up yesterday on the
| South Beach OF Staten Island. The body was five
| feet ten inches IN height, was dressed in dark
trousers blue shirt and only one shoe and stocking
Fastened to piece Of cord around the neck was u
| heavy non spike The body was removed W tho
| Morgue at StaDetOu.
| RCHNoND.-Dr T.. +. Armour, a member Of the
| Richmond Medical Society, was indicted several
months ago for perjury In having swOrn as alleged,
| TO n fraudulent Jill against he county. The Medi-
cal Society, some time ago, concluded to investigate
the charge and appointed committee for that pun
pose The committee accordingly applied to the
| Board OF Supervisors for certified copy OF Dr.
| Arnouxs bill, and Clerk Wnant was ordered to
| furnish the copy. Wnant reported 10 the Board
that he could hud 10 trace of 10, and that IL had