New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-23
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE QUESTION OF ELECTION INSPECTORS.
THREE DEMOCRATIC LISTS TO BE PRESENTED To-

THE QUESTION OF ELECTION INSPECTORS.
THREE DEMOCRATIC LISTS TO BE PRESENTED To-
THE POLICE BOARD.
The Police Commissioners. have made the rule
and poll clerks at the approaching election should
he filed at the Election Bureau on or besore August
tive political parties two inspectors and ONE poll
clerk each dis rict. the inspectors worhng I'VE
for The presentation of the lists expired on Satur;
day three were alre eiy filed and il was announced
handed 1 When ready The Republicans have one
list and Tammany. and the organization OF the
st re- come ne from the Irving Hall Democracy.
There will thus be three Democratic lists to one
Republican, and the scenes OF two years ago bid
fair to be repeated, unless compromise between
the three Democratic factions is arrived at on the
will receive the Irving Hall list although it comes
too late, and will, it is surmised deter action until
the Democratic State Convention has been held and
the status i'll the party of the three factions has
been fixed for the present campaign.
Nichols is Il Tammany man, and Mr.. Matthews, who
has Just recovered from his long illness, is indie
fammauy side. Besides the direct advantage of
having share III the supervision of TIE election.
in the contest Tor recogniton. There are G7s
election districts in the city, and it costs the county
FOO to b9Id an election IN each excnsiye of sta
nnaily to inspectors, poll clerks and landlords is
wssS 70 WRS Ths Clerks f in ot IT, sdn
Bureau at the present time busily copying the
names Of the candidates for appointment as inspec-
precincts for the scrutiny and report of the police
TO their character and qualifications.
LIKELY TO DIE FROM HIS WOUNDS.
John Lippold, the German laborer who
stabbed at Manhattanville Sunday evening still
alive yesterday but the doctors Mt the Nncty-ninth
Street Hospital said that he could not live more
than two or three days, peritontis will undoubt
four or five inches long and two inches deep the
thigh and cut four inches long the head are not
10 hos MT nraIt hon
kept under the influence OF opium, and has lost
little blood. The injured man made the following
statement to Coroner Ellinger late Sunday night:
had a quarrel with my neighbor, Charles Wnkelman,
about four weeks This evening met him in front
me and pushed him off Then he ran after me with
knife and cut had no weapon, and had no quar-
rel with him to-day.
Coroner Ellinger committed Winkelman to the
T Tor IE II Sun reporter saw him yesterday
forty-three years old, have been sixteen years i'll
this county and have worked It Tie%aps paint
dren. live on the top floor, and Lppold on the
second floor in the same house We had some angry
him, aud kept up stairs after getting through my
days work SO as to keep out of trouble On sun
came home went straight to my room. Afterward
/ came down in my stockings. AS came out
the stoop he hit me and got lnad and stabbed him
with my knife. did not mean to kill him. did
not say ANYTHING to provoke aim before he hit me.
was not much drunk, think, having drank only
four or live glasses of beer. never had any similar
trouble before"
EX-SECRETARY STUARTS CASE CLOSED.
The evidence in support of the charge of embez-
element against ex-Se"retary Stuart, OF the Brook
Ign Board of Education, who was arrested three
weeks ago, was concluded yesterday i'll the Second
District Court in Brooklyn. The first witness
Thomas II. Wilson, assistant secretary. lie testi-
fed that he, as we'll as Mr. Stuart. had keys the
safes in the Hall of Education. After the books
had been stolen he found 1850 in one of the safes
Tie knew nothing about the $2,6I5 afterward
found there. Mr. Wilson said that warrants were
usually drawn three days before the third Saturday
OF each month when they We're needed. After they
had been signed by the secretary or himself they
signature. All warrants together with money and
the audit books, were kept in the larger safe. Mr.
1871 and he thought he had an celent reputation.
Mr. Wernberg-Do you think he has day 7
MIR. Wilson, shall think so until the opposite is
Mr.. Wernberc-Yes and you have listened to all
this trial. agree with you exactly
The next witness was Deputy City Treasurer
C. ID. Wheelock, who testified as to the way in
which money was drawn by warrant from the
treasury.
The prosecution then rested. and Mr.. Weinberg
stated for the defence that he content to rest
the case Tor his client without offering any evidence
or argument. The case was adjourned until to-
morrow, when a decision is expected.
ODONOvAN, SURNAMED KOSSA, RETICENT.
When a TRIBUNE reporter G tered the office of
found i'll close conversation with holow-eyed man
with long hair, When his eyes rested upon the re-
porter the beatitic smile which had lighted up his
face fed and gave place to a threatening look.
49,. No, wont tell you anything more about it
business. see some of the morning papers have
published the proclamation made yesterday in the
secret convention. l wonder how they got 1T
What do you think will be done 10 you if you
put another internal machine ill the hold of Eng
sh vessel 2"
u shall say no more about it; you must await
developments"
If one should ask you in a business way if you
were not insane to talk about engage in any
scheme to blow up English ships, what would you
II positively refuse to talk further of the matern
and as he turned away the smile returned to his
face.
The agents of the steamship lines express them
selves as being in no concerned by the threats
OF the sO-called dynamite Council" and will paw
no heed to them. ~