New-York tribune., 1881-09-13
NEW-YORK CITY.

Four deaths from sunstrole were reported at the
Bureau OF vital STATISTICS yesterday.
One thousand pupils entered the public
schools i'll the annexed district last week.
An unknown man, apparently laborer, fell dead
near Castle Garden, in the Battery Park yesterday.
DROWNED IN THE NORTH RIVER.
scow at the foot of West Ninety ty-sxthst yesterday
fell oyerboard and was drowned. His body was not
found.
PREPARING FOR STRIKE.
About $50 gilders held meeting last evening at
NO. az SecondIaye to form protective society in
Monday TOR an advance in wages of cents an hour
CALLED AFTER TUE PRESIDENT.
Twelve hats to be known as the g Garfield" fats,
as the name Ill gilt letters of them indicates
are being erected in Fifty-sxth-st. between Eighth
and Nlnth-ayes., by Herman Hoefer, roofer. The
FOUND DEAD IN THE EAST RIVER.
An unknown man was found drowned yesterday
morning in the Roosevelt Ferry slip. He was about
sixty years OF age The body of q strange woman,
flith-st. They were taken 10 the Morgue
SUITS AGAINST TWO DREssMAKERs.
Court yesterday against Miss Macdonald and Miss
Denim, two drcssmakers, TO from the former
5000, and from the latter ~ 800 duties and pen
altieS on goods improperly imported on the steam
ship Britannia.
AN EXTRA MAIL FOR CHINA AND JAPAN
An extra mail for China and Japan Will be made
up IN this city at 3 o'clock tomorrow morning The
sailing of the steamship Gallo, from San Francisco
Which was iixed for next Saturday, and the mails
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been postponed until next Tuesday.
FALLING THREE STORIES FROM LADDER.
Warren II; Lansing, age fifteen, of No. 2S6 West
33S Ienth-aye., fell from a ladder at No. 4f5 West
Sixtecnthst yesterday, from the fourth to the first
10 the New-fork hospital Maxwell received in
tcrnal injuries.
ELECTING A LIEUTENANT-COLoNEI
a meeting OF the commissioned officers of the list
Regiment was held last over ing at the Amory. at
Broadway and 1hirty-sixth-st. for The purpose of
eIIg eecting Lieutenant,Cooncl in place, of w. II.
sided Appleton ID. Palmer was unanimously
chosen to the office.
AN ABANDONED SCHOONER.
The steamship City of Atlanta, from Charleston
arrived yesterday with news of the loss of the
schooner NJ. W. Drew, of Belfast Me. On Satur-
day, when twenty-elght miles northeast of Frying
Pan LiGhtshp, the Drew seen in a waterogged
condition, and the crew taken off by the steamer
Seminole, from Baltimore for Savannah.
EXCURSION TICKETS FOR A FAIR
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has made
arrangements to furnish excursion tickets at
duced rates to Wayerley,. wherc the New-Jerscy
and ending September 23. These tickets will be
issued each day during the continuance of the fair
and will be good until September "a, inclusive.
MEETING OF BAPTIST PREACHERS.
vacation "reminiscences was the subject dis
G%ssfd y9ira m morYning q the meeting Of the
house drew attention To the fact that there are
thousands of sufferers from the Michigan fires,
many of them belonging to the Baptist churches
taken up next Sunday III all the churches repre-
sented. motion 10 that effect was carried.
HELD FOR CARRYING BRASS KNUCKLES.
Richard Lamb, Joseph Anderson and Daniel Des-
mond were arTalGncd before Justice Wandel in the
lorkvilIc Police Court yesterday by Policeman
Naloncy, of the Nineteenth Precinct, who arrested
them for acting in dsorlerly manner ut Forty
iourth-st. and Third ave, on sunday night. When
found III Lambs pocket. Lamb was commi ted
in default o $1,000 bail for trial at the Court OF
General Sessions, and Anderson and Desmond were
en- fined