New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-03
the bridge can be ready for use next summer. Inc
trusses will be erected soon.

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lar the corridors Of the municipal building which
| are very wide and nearly block in length: were
crowded with taxpayers. who pushe1 anu yT noot
each other in their efforts TO reach the lax CoecT
| ors Office.
| The contract for the removal Of dead animals and
| 0ffa has been awarded by the Commissioners OF
s., 500 a year. The action Of the Commissioners
| i'll not giving the contract to Mr. Mahon, Wno piu
Sc, 900, is severely criticised. The Commlssi9ners
| say that discretionary power was given 10 tneln l
and they believed Berean could best hil the 'eIlhS
| OF the contract.
| The first large apartment house in BROOKLYN IS
nearly completed at Clinton-st; ana nnd OF 10
fee on Atantc-ave., and it is SIN stories ID helgh'
The ground floor is fitted for shops and on gdcn %
the other floors are forty suites OF rooms me cos
of the structure will be $500 600, and il is expected
that the expenses of running II Will I'VE TioVETTI
| year. The entire rental VIII De @loo,ouo' d,iS
| building will be named after Its owner, LOUIS
| FOugera.
car loaded with about three tons weight of floor
| beams fell from the roadway of the bridge between
| the Brooklyn tower and anchorage Yesterday aiei-
| noon into the yard used for bridge purposes III
| Front-st. No one III the yard and nothing was
damaged except the beams themselves eign In III
| number. which were somewhat bent. The brakes
| tailed TO hold the car, and II ran OF the uack;
| Thomas Fleming, who was on the car, jumped oh
| before il fell
| Supervisors RYDER McKane COlYer. Babcock and
/ Hodges appointed yesterday by supervisor
| Anderson president pro tenn OF the board com
MANAGEMENT of the Kings County Penitentiary,
made by the present Warden, John Green, agltisD
| his predecessor, eX-Warden Shevln Inc laItef
asked an invests CATION at the hands OF the Board Oh
| Supervisors, aud the resolution authorizing tnc
| committee was adopted several weeks ago
| mother, Ann Cole, age thirty-two, and her son
James ag9 The nns were ere TRarsay
| evening by the police She was ariealeui anu, Is
the boy was Ill, he was sent to the GU, loSiEtdil
| When arraigued i'll court yesterday, MIS- Cole
| showed thai she had not gwen liquor TO the boy,
and she was sent TO the jail for ten days for drunk
enness. The boy will be cared for by the Society
| for Prevention OF Cruelty TO Children.
| Henry Goeppel was the defendant in a grand lar
| ceny case in the Court of Sessions Yesterday ana
| Mrs. Klein, the wife OF a beer-seller at NO. 80
| Smth-st., who eloped with Goeppel last summer
| was a witness against him. Mrs Klein took about
| $500 of her husbands money and gave 1T to Goep;
pei The guilty pair was arrested IN lineage, anu
| when. their return TO Brooklyn, Klein learned
that his wife could not steal from hlin ne agreed 10
| live with her, aud she promised to testify against
| her paramOur. GOeppels defence yesterday was
| that he did not know that he was using klclns
| money and the jury acquitted him.
| Il. S. Moore T. F. jackson and Peter Wycoff, who
| were appointed by the Supreme Court OF the ia
| District, to take testimony III regard 20 tn adysa-
bility of granting the petition OF the East hlVer
| Bridge and Coney Island Steam Transit Company to
| build an elevated road on its route III Brooklyn,
filed report with the Kings County Clerk ycster-
day in favor of the company: The principal streets
i'll the route of the road Pearl and WllloughDy-
SITS, aud Hudson FatUush, Fifth and Seventh-aves
| running from the Brooklyn terminus OF the Bridge
| to the station of the Prospect Park and Coney
|
| Andrew r. Culver, president of this road TO Coney
Island, is largely interested in the proposed ele-
| waited road
JERSEY CITY.
William Douglass was arrested yesterday on sus
| pcion of being of the highwaymen who. on
| Saturday night last knocked dOwE AMI robbed Mary
| Murphy. emPoye in Loriiard'S tobacco works,
of $12. her weeks salary. lie was ldenlned by the
| girl and was committed for trlal
| Thomas Armstrong who was arrested IN the
Jersey City Post Office Just after he had received
| number OF letters for Robert Dunlop u Co, who
| pretended to sell winning tcEets IN the havana
Lottery, was taken before Justice l'eloubct yeSter-
day. He represented hiTsclf as clerk of the firm,
which he said had regular Office. His salary was
| generally paid i'll the street. Armstrong was re-
! manded. Chief Murphy, of the police says the
! swndle has gone on for months, and that Dunlop ~
| Co. have made much money.
| John Corrigan age thirteen was arraigned before
| Justice Puloebet yesterday morning, IN the First
District Police Court, on charge OF burglary. The
youthful prisoner with three companions broke INTO
| the Junk shop of Michael COpperyanla, at No 70
RailrOad-avc.. about week ago, and carried away
| large quantity of old rags and iron, Yesterday
| COrrigan went 10 COppeVanla and offered 10 sell
him some of the rags. The Junk dealer recognized
the rags his property and took Corrgan TO the POI
lice station.
NEWARK.
1t is proposed among the employees of Christopher
Nugeni a Co to work one week for nothing for the
benefit OF the nTIn.
The shoe store of Daniel Postl in Clinton-st.
was broken into and robbed Of goods worth 500
| on Thursday night.
| The State Convention of the Young Mems
| Christian Association of New-Jersey began on its
session yesterday at Association Hall About fifty
| delegates were present. Doctor English, of New
| brunswick, was elected chairman, and George t..
| Voorhees,. of MOrrstowD, secretary. There are
| twenty-five associations in the State, of which
thirteen have an aggregate membership of 1,2s0.
The Newark association has a membership OF 20O.
| The trial of Gustav Ziruh a private detective in
| Newark, Oh charge of conspiracy, was concluded
| in the Essex County Court yesterday, and the
| given TO the jury: Zruth was argcd with having
| conspired To blackmaii Sc ,eral German women and
| eXtOrting money from them in the gulse of an
| officer. The women were engaged III selling policy
tickets. In one case Ziruth approached members OF
the Grand Jury and cndea vOred to influence them
| to ndict these women after the latter had refused
| TO comply with his demands The jury had not
returned Il verdict at late hour last night
STATEN ISLAND
WEST BRIGHTON.-C. Theodore Pine and r. p
| Brown are the most prominent candidates for the
| position of postmaster at West Brighton.
CLIFToN.-The firm OF Mayer q Bcchmann whose
large brewery was recently destroyed by fire, has
been dissolved. The brewery is being rebuilt and
| the business is TO be continued by Mr.. Bachmann
| STAPLEToN.-The hichmond County School
| Teachers Association met yesterday at Stapleton.
There was a large attendance, and among those
| who made addresses were George William Curtis,
| School Commissioner DR.. Z. Henry King and the
| Rev. DR.. BrOwnlce.
| RICmMoND.-Thc twenty Justices in Richmond
| County have made returns 10 County Treasurer
Robinson OF fines received by them III the last year.
The whole amount Is only 800 80. of which S74 70
| was received by justice McJullOuRn. Inc super
| vsors are amazed at the small amount. and have
summoned all the Justices TO appear before them on
Monday next to make aidavlts as to the correctness
of their returns.
HUDSON RIVER TOWNS
| Observation-Disclosures Gaillard, one of the over
| secrs Of the poor, was arragned in the Court of
Sessions at White Plains yesterday, charged with
| having appropriated sums of money belonging to
the town. lie pleaded guilty, and sentence de-
| ferred until Monday next.
| EAST CHEsTER-The several Justice of the Peace
| of the town of East Chester held q meeting on
| Thursday, and appointed Edward O'Reilly. of
| TuckanOe and Andrew George, jr., of Mount YER
| non, Excise Commissioners in the place OF Henry
Iiargreaves and +. l.. Tonmine, resigned
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