New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-26
NEW-YORK CITY

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| found at Pier No. 30. North River yesterday.
THE hero OF TIr sEAwANHAKA DISASTER.
| "H." SENDS TO THE TRIBUSt 80, the amount OF
| a subscription raised in Glen Cove for John Bnsh'
| tie hero Of the Seawanhaka who resides Ill ohe
| hundred-and-eleventll-st near Second-aVe'
| ALMOST A CENTENARIAN.
| The death of Alice Dillon. an lrsh woman, AT
Berran-ave. and I,aac-sl was reported yesterday
| at the Buread of Vital Statistics. She was ninety
| seven years, four months and fifteen days Ola.
DRowNED AT NORTH RIVER PIER.
| Francis O'Rourke, age twenty-sX clerk on the
gram elevator Liverpool, fell into tue North RIVER
| nj PIER No 80 Yesterday, and was drowned
| ORourke lived at Columbia and lrvIng-st., BROOK
Ign.
All the members Of the Sinking Fund Commission
were pres INT AT Yesterdays meeting. BY resolution
tue lot on Soonest. between Whitehall and broad
| sts on which Primary School No. 10 Is standing
| was sold TO the Produce Exchange for $2O,oOO.
4 LIBEL SUIT.
| Justice Beach yesterday granted WITT OF haDeas
| corpus on the petition of James L. keegan, VINO
was arrested on charge OF llDel mace by Ch'pie5
III. " infield a wyer of Jersey CITY, The accused
man was discharged later IN the day from the
| IOnbs Police Court.
| POISONED by A THORN-APPLE.
| The death Of Albert HussOng ace two wears. from
| POISONING was reported Yesterday to the Board OF
Health. The chllds home Is at No. l.6I1 Ihlrd-aVe.
| On August q il strayed into lot the house
| aud there found aud ate the seeds OF tull-groWu
thorn-apple IT slckened and died yesterday ID coh
| vulsions.
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The first meeting of thus years session of tho New
York Academy of the Usefu Arts took place IN
room "a of Cooper Union last night. James a.
| Whitney, Ii. De- the president OF the society," mado
| a long address the Chinese question. lie De,
lieyed that the immigration OF the Chinese was 1uii
| of danger 10 the country.
NOT CASE OF MURDER.
Peter FranchI, a young Italian. was run over by
man pushing hand-cart on August II while he lay
asleepa the loot OF West Sixty iith-st lie ded IRON
| his Injuries Several men were arrested charged
Nytf IA ~ ITauqnp5 death. Yesterday
acquitted by Coroner's jury, which held that the
| killing was purely accidental.
AWARDS OF GOVERNMENT BONDS.
The Treasury Department received offers of bonds
| for the sinking fund, yesterday, amounting 10
| S7122. $50 and made awards amounting to
| - 500. 900 O. the awards the off'r of the First
| accented the other 100000 being IN amounts
ranging from %, 900 TO Sl0S.OOO
| DISCHARGED FOR WANT or EVIDENCE.
Justice Wandel III the Essex Market Police
| Court Yesterday, discharged Mrs. Schneider. An
gusta Wohlrath and DR.. Beuz, who were arrested
for burning the stubborn child of Mrs; scheider
| There was no evidence against them Ihe.n0tber
| of the infant acknowledged that she placed the
body in oven, but asserted that 1t wasdead
NEWS THAT CAME An HOUR TOO LATE.
| The dead body of William Roberts, stoker on
| the steamer Scythla, was found Yesterday in the
| North River Roberts was drowned while swim
ming on Sunday. lie sprang from the per bead
| foremost and did not come to the surface again. An
| hour after his death cable dispatch came from
| London with the that he had inherited f3, 900
| The Coroner took charge OF the body yesterday.
CHARGED WITH SELLING LOTTERY TICKETS.
| Al the Tombs Police Court yesterday, before
Justice Smith, Detective Hagan, OF the First Pre-
! cInct, charged Jacob Clute with dealing in tho
Detective Oats OF the same precinct, charged Will
] Iam A. Jackson. with selling tickets OF the Ken
lucky State Lottery at No. 81 Nassau-st. and they
each required to procure bonds III $ooo 10 an
| swer.
| NOT TO BE THRILLED WITH.
| QuOnq Chun Lung the owner OF Z laundry at NO.
| hoH of ION law
| by two women. Thomas Waters, who was in the
| laundry at the time of the robbery. and insisted
| upon getting a shirt which another person had
already taken away took hold OF the Chinaman and
prevented his running after the robbers. For TINS
Waters was arrested and was held for examination
| Yesterday by Justice Flammer, IN the lorkville
| Police Court.
| THIRTY-rwO TRAMPs IN COURT.
A squad of policeman, commanded by Captain
Cherry Of the Cion Market poof t g,t fat t69
Seventh-st., East River, aud arrested thirty-two
tramps who we're sleeping among the lumber. he
visit was owing 10 the frequent complaints of a.
| entine Constantine. Each of the prisoners was
fined so and sent to Black wells Island for three
months by Justice Wandeil, IN the Essex Market
Police Court.
UNDFHTAKERS AT VARIANCE.
| The investigation made by the Board of Health
| into The circumstances attending the burial of
| James f. Dunn babe, whose parents live at No.
| ~ Henry-st.. developed the suspicion yesterday
! that an uuderlakeI's quarrel was at The bottom oil
| tho confusion of burial permits and the alleged
| forgery
| nal certificate. When the responsibility Tor this
Justification Of the records has been fixed he Board
OF Health Will prosecu'e the guilty man Tor vloa-
| ton of the Health Law.
TIIE CLERK OF ST. LUKE's HOSPITAL.
Henry 5. Young, tho clerk of IT. uke's Hospital,
| who was arrested on Monday on charge of steal
ing from the hospital sale 500, was arra,gned Tor
| examination yesterday in tho lorkville Police
Court. He waived further inquiry into the case,
aud gave bail IN S2, 900 to appear before the Grand
jury. He claims that the statement made by the
| ti,nl knowledge
of the contents OF the safe was not the truth All
the money placed in the safe was receipted for BY
bun. Young Is the brother of clergyman ana has
always borne a good reputation.
TIE DEATH OF OFFICER CROWLEY.
Coroner Knox requested yesterday to take in
hanu the case of Ohicer James Crowley. OF the
Iwenty-ninth Precinct, who was killed by fall
from Thud-avc. car The accIdent occurred on
Thursday. Dr. John Doran, of No. 200 East Eighty
second-st., who attended bim on Friday morning,
writes 10 the Coroner that the patient was dong
well until Sunday, when surgeon called and, in
his absence tore up the bandages he hal pu on ana
put on another and very bad one Officer Crowley
grew worse and died i'll the Presbyterian Hospital.
lie was fifty years old. and had been policeman
seventeen years
FAILING To PROVIDE FOR HIS FAMILY
Anthony Slayin whose family lives at No. 1873
East irtv-fourth-st., was held for examination
Yesterday IN lie Yorllville Police Court. charge
preferred by the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty 10 Children of failing to provide for the
support of his five children. Since rho deaf III of
their mother, two weeks ago the children have
been supported BY the neighbors, vii e the father
spent III he earned in liquor stores Oticcr Wilson,
who represented the society, said that the mothers
death was the result OF ovcrwOrk and trouble of
mind because of her husband abandonment OF her
| and his family.
BROOKLYN.
| The Coroner's jury i'll the of john Emmons,
| of Cravescnd decided that the primary cause of
death was fatty degeneration of the kidneys.
| The 'longshoremen from New-Y0rk engaged in
unoalng the Camochan Castle, at Martins stores,
Yesterday. were under the protection OF the police,
and 10 trouble occurred. The ground for the action
| of the brooklyn men on Tuesday, in driving away
| the men furnished by the NewYork stevedOrc was
| TINT the latter were non-uniOn men.
Tho Rev Samupl Il UaIsey pastor of the Frank