New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-14
NETWORK CITY.

goo Of Georgia and Gommsndsr Earl Enslis q s.
HotsCsir Percy johnson
NETWORK CITY.
| Broadway in Kingsbridge is to be improved.
THE TRIBUNE has RECEIVED &C. So for the Seaside
Deaths last week. 849 births, $50; marriages
1873. The police arrested ,205 persons
People in the annexed district complain that an
nexation has injured rather than aided its educa-
tiOnal interests.
VISITORS AT THE ART MUSEUM.
The number of visitors at the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art last week was in the aggregate 1882.
MAYOR GRACE's VACATION.
gone ten days. President Keenon Of the Board Of
absence The Democratic State COMMITTEES is ex-
pected to meet at Saratoga in the course Of the
Mayors stay.
SHOT BY NOIsELEss PISTOL.
Flora Appas, age eighteen, struck on the
head by a stray pistol bullet and painfully injured,
Wednesday night. No one heard the report of a
pistol, and the police have been unable TO find out
whence the ball came.
JUMPING ON HIS BROTHER
Francis, age fifteen, Of No ii Madison-st ,quarreed
165 Mott-st. Joseph had the worst of the fight
Francis knocked him down and jumped on him,
breaking several of his ribs and njuring him inter
nally.
THE CONTRACT SYSTEM TO BE USED.
Keys q Stickney, to whom the contract for the
management of the United States Public Stores
awarded will take possession next Monday The
professionals have received word from the Treasury
Department declining TO interfere with the course
decided on several weeks ago. Keys & Stlckncy's
contract price is $4,000.
HOTELKEEPERs CENsURED.
Patrick Harrison, age eighteen, was put in tenn
pOrary charge of the elevator in the New York Hotel
July Is, the regular attendant being ill. BY his
car. A cOroner's jury decided yesterday that he
himself was to blame, but affixed to its verdict
competent persons to run the elevator.
SHoEMAKERs DEMANDING MORE PAY.
About seventy, men employed IN the thanksgiving
struck for an advance of 10 per cent. The firm il
confident of filing thor places at the current rates
paid shoemakcrs. 1t was ascertained by a TRIBUNE
reporter that the men already earning more
the sT 9 rates PAID ana mat tine
men.
STEALING SAILORS PAY.
John Kelly, age i eighteen years. alias Bolivar,
with larceny from Richard J. Huggard, August 8.
1t is alleged that pccI textbook cont tanning 500 was
from Philadelphia, Monday last, in .Jarnes-slip Just
after he had received it from Beard 81 Howell coffee
ne ih !" pay on ms men ana tat Kelly was seen
an examination.
STATING TRUE POSITION.
j, Lichtenstein, the Grand-st. tra.leSInan whose
windows Were broken recently by cobbe stones be-
eved to be thrown by members of the Early Clos
ing Association has written a letter to TuE TRIB-
UNE i'll which he states that he agreed to close his
store ut ,. m. provided his neighbors did the
same. On closing his store, however, he learned
that another tradcsman was keeping OPEN and that
he had not pledged himself to close despite
ances to the contrary from representatives of the
| Early Clio ing Association.
HELD To ANSWER FOR TWO TIErTs.
| Richard Haley, eighteen years old, arraigned
Justice Power l. IL asserted that abnnt ,l,pre
oSs Of S1 ne F soe S Soh 53 w na from the
that SATURDAY. he took a gold watch and chain from
| the apartments of Mrs Mitchell No so West Wash
| lngton-squarc. The prisoner remluacd to await
| the appearance OF DR.. Ford ana Mrs. Mitchell.
| ARRANGING FALL MATCHES AT CRFEDMooR.
The Executive Committee of the National Rifle
| Governors Island There were present General
! Hancock, the chairman, +. j. Donaldson, William
| horn The matchc and prizes arranged for
| the fall meeting, which will begin NJ Crccdmoor
eighteen matches, two more matches than last
| year.
ASSERTING HIMSELF TO BE AN EMINENT PHYSICIAN.
OF inquiry from different parts OF the country
| corning NAN who appears to be travelling under
he is an eminent Ncw-York physician, and the pro-
| prictor OF II large intrmaIy III Unions quaIe. No
such ph{scian or inhrmafy Is known IN tbs city
| dressed TO that name are sent to the Dead Letter
Oiicc. The last inquiry concerning Inn cauc from
Freeport, Mich,
| ATTRACTING A CROWD AT DIR, CRosBY's HOUSE.
James smith jr., of No, ia Grand-st., Brooklyn,
WAS taken before Justice Morgan at the jefferson
Market Police Court yesterday, charged with
| Ernest H. Crosby n son of Dr. Howard Crosby. of
oncr with lettering around his fathers house Tor
some time, aud acting very strangely yelling
| and howing SO as TO attract a largo crowd He
added that In his opinion the prisoner was ms tne
Justice Morgan committed Smith to the care OF the
Commissioners of Charities and Correct on.
| SHOOTING BOYS WHO ANNOYED HIM.
| George 4. 1rlpp otherwise known : tie hermit y
who ives III a shanty al yh In st
and East River, was taken into the IL rien police
| court yesterday charged with shooting two BOYS
| Edward Meredith. o. No. $50 East One-hundrcd-
| snd-siXtll-s., and Thomas Mex cmua, OF No 2.O7I
Sccond-aVc. 1ripp told Justice Patterson that he
HAD been greatly ANNOYED of late by boys who sltr-
rounded ms cabin ana broke his wind and other
wise injured his property Friday he warned the
boys or, and when they refused TO 20 he shot at
| were III court, although suffering from slight flesh
| wounds. Trlpp was held for further eNainn alton,
BROOKLYN.
| Stray goats and geese nusances in South
| Brooklyn.
Permits for the erection of twenty -ive new build
| lngS were granted last week. Most of them are
| frame, Il few brown-stCne and fewer still brick.
| Mrs Caroline Nelson, of No. If Green-lane at
| tempted 10 light fire Friday evening by kerosene
he can exploded and she was burned severely
about the hands, face and body.
| Magnus Richter, age thirty-one, a German cigar
dealer, was arrested yesterday for stealing clothes
| worth $50 from his landlady Mrs. Catherine Casey
| OF No. no iori>-st. -
| Passengers the East River fcrryboats have
| had 10 ind other amusement than counting the
| floor beams the bridge structure II is nov nj
most impossible to count them from the river be-
low.
| Mrs. Ann Steele fell in fit in front of No 27S
| Myrtle-aVe yesterday afternoon, and was taken TO
her home ut Ryerson-st. and Paril-avc. in an am
buance.