New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-28
NETWORK CITY.


fireworks confagration recently, is beng torn down.
PM. H. has sent 50 TO THE TRIBUNE to be gwen
In Charles L. Brace. of the Children's AID society
in order that some SICK children may nave "No"'
ing. n,o
william Cooke has sent to THE TRIBUNE $40 Tor
the fund for the chldren's excursions. 1t VIII Dc
given TO William II. Gulon, treasurer OF the fioa'-
ing Hospital of st. Johns Guild.
Mrs J. +. N, of Water Mills, l.. l., sends DO TOT
the Seaside Sanltarium Mrs. A. James Chipman' Oh
Washington. sends So and h: A. X. SENDS Sl l OF
some poor sick child" This last gift Will also go 10
the Sanitarlum.
TOWING A DISABLED STEAMER INTO PORT.
The steamer Colon, which broke the crank pm or
her 10 wer pressure engine nc o. IN. on July IL, was
tOwed into port Yesterday Dy tue sUeameh h'"P"'''
OF the Pacific Mail Line.
CARFLEssLY LIFT WHERE HE COULD GIT 1T.
William Robert Senter, u child OF TWO years
whose parents live at No 437 West tltty,thlrHts.'
found bottle of laudauum on the nantei on Mou-
day. drank its contents, and died from Tue ehects
of the poison
FREE DRAwING-RooM CAR.
The Fall River Line il now running Tree draw
ing-room ear between Fall River and Lower DIV
way of the Northern Division OF the Oid EOiony
Railroad in connection with the steamers Dfls'oi
and Providence
INVITING THE SALE or BONDS
The Snb- Treasurer was instructed yesterday by
the Secretary of the Treasury 10 invite proposals
today for the sale to the department Of bonds Tor
the sinking fund The last purchase OF DOhdS was
made on June 80.
POISONED BY BAD AIR.
Dr. Strickland, OF East Broadway. reported yes
terday TO the Board OF Health that Bridget SWett,
age sixfy-six had died at No. 80 James-st from
blood poisoning, caused by the poisoned ar OF her
dwelling. The matter VIII receive Investigations
sCHOoNERs N COLLISION
The schooners Lydia Middleton, bound for Vir-
gna and T.. II. Williams, for Alexandria, which
came into collision on Sunday oil Long Branch re-
turned Monday for repairs. The first lost her JIb,
BOOM and the second had her main gait carried
away.
HORSE TAKES A SWIM.
A
Greenwlch-st., became unmanageable yesterday on
pier No. 30 North River 1t plunged into the river
and swan to anotherpier. where 1t was rescued WIN
difficulty. .Jurgens was thrown out OF the wagon
and severely injured.
ALARMING DEATH RATE IN PRIVATE HOUSE
The Registrar OF Vital Statistics reported to the
persons had died at No. % Cornelia-st. which was
represented to be private house. An inyesiiga-
tOn ascertain the character OF the house and the
causes of this mortality was ordered.
TWO IMMIGRANTS ENCOUNTER A swINDLER.
Thomas Fahn, a Dane, and f. Albertz, German,
have made an affidavit, which was presented to the
Emigration Commissioners yesterday stat
ing that they had been swnded by man named
Larson, of No. II Greenwich-9t. They applied to
him for work, which he said he would secure for
them on payment of $50 each. He was given ~
and obtained work for them at Coney Island, where
they received 40 cents day. After the AFFIDAVIT
had been made Larson paid the money back.
BROOKLYN.
The body of female child, few honrs old, was
ave- and Lynch-st. 1t was removed to the Morgue.
The Commissioners of Charities met at the Aims
house IN Flatbush yesterday and opened bids Tor
the supplies TO be furnished to the county buildings
for the year. beginning August l. The awards Will
not be made Tor several days.
Officer Flood. of the Eleventh Precinct, was
knocked down and injured on Monday night while
attempting to dispense some men at Hamilton:ave.
and Nelson-st. William Fenton, age twenty-four,
was arrested ahd held Tor the assault.
The arrangements for the semi-annual convention
of the York Division of the Grand Army of the
Republic In Brooklyn were completed yesterday.
Some of the visiting delegates were entertained last
evening by Rankin Post, at Everett Hall.
The police of the Sixth Precinct arrested Pauline
Rheme aged thrty-hve. of No. $40 HumbOldt-st..
yesterday afternoon, upon warrant issued by JUS
tlce KIehl, charging her with stealing brown mare
and n business wagon from Frederic Held. or NO.
100 Canalst.. NewYork.
The coroner's Jury In the case of John Sullivan,
who was run over and killed BY q train on the
Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad on July
10 at Eleyenth-ave. and Twentletll-st., Brooklyn,
has found a verdict of death by accident and exon
Grated the engineer OF the train.
Commissioner French has replied to the letter Of
Mayor Howell relative to the number of water
meters in the possession of the Department OF City
Works. He shows that the unused ones on hand
useless and that the new ones purchased by bIm
are needed IN stables and other places. He claims
to have reduced the daily consumption OF water
from 49, OO0, 900 gallons TO 80, 100000, but does
not advocate the use of meters in dwellings.
An effort is making to raise the necessary money
terian Church, which is advertised to be sold on
Friday to satisfy mortgage held by its founder.
Alexander Earle. The church is in debt $4,000
If IS, 900 can be secured the remainder can remain
on mortgage. 1t is thought that If So, 800 can be
raised BY the congregation the additional amount
of 81, 800 can be secured outside The Rev. William
j. Bridges is pastor of the church, which has not a
large congregation.
JERSEY CITY.
Mrs Richard Farrell the wife liquor dealer at
Ocean and Mvrtle-aves., was beaten In a terrible
,latx .rht har1 cb.1 lat
was arrested and placed under $1,000 bonds to
await the result of her injuries.
Mrs. Cstharine johnson, the woman who was
charged with stealing n dress from the bouse of
Mrs Pedro as the latter lay dead IN the room could
not produce the woman who she claimed gave the
dress to her. and she was sent to jail yesterday to
await trial. 1900 -
COLLEGE POINT.-The clam diggers of College
Point and vicinity recently found an immense bed
of hard clans near the steamboat pier, from which
each of them has obtained six or more bushels u
day for two weeks
STATEN ISLAND.
SILVER LAKE.-A stump of a tree marks the spot
where Edward Reinhardt, the condemned murderer.
buried his wife in barrel at Silver Lake. On the
stump has been carved q large cross. The murdered
woman was a Roman Catholic.
Four CORNERS.-ln accordance with an order of
the Richmond County Board of Supervisors, the in
sane patients. who have been for some time in the
County Amshouse, st Four Corners were removed
yesterday to the ASYLUM at POughkeepsle For the
past few years the Supervisors have been able to
pay promptly the claims of some of the State inst
tutions Some of the claims were those which Hugh
MeRoberts. the defaulting County Treasurer
neglected to settle. number of the institutions
threaten to sue the County for their claims.
HUDSON RIVER TOWNS.
CRoToN.-A German about fifty years old resi-
dent of Croton. while returning home from Osca-
wana Island, where he had been with party of his
cOuntrymen. was struck and instantly killed by q
railroad train Coroner Ackorman held the IN
quest.
WEST Mourn VERNoN.-Coroner Nordqust was
called yesterday to hold inquest at the Harlem
Railroad depot. at West Mount Vernon upon the
body of an unknown man, supposed to have been o