New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07
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NETWORK CITY.
, The police picnic taxes place tomorrow at the
| East River Park in Harlem.
A Sunday night boat will leave Peck Slip for New
| Haven at l1:30 during the season.
The body of man apparently forty five years old,
dressed III a black suit was found IN the East River
| yesterday at Pier No. II.
The election of officers Of the Drug, Paint and
| Chemical Exchange. No. ~ Wlllian-st was post
| poncd yesterday tor one week.
Allen McCue, age eighteen, of Nnety-sccond-st
and Flrst-avc, was struck and severely injured by
an unknown woman yesterday.
Allan :. Apgar, cashier Of the Merchants National
Bank was appointed foreman of the Grand jury for
Joseph Miller age eight years, of No. $50 West
| tifty-Gith-st shot in the foot yesterday by Il
strange boy who was playing with pistol.
SCHOOL ROOMS COMPLAINED or
| in the primary department of Public School No. I3
in East lIOus'on-st. was reported to the Board of
| Health yesterday rs bad.
| CARELESS WITH FIREARMS.
Samuel Sarony and John Paul, of No. SIS Grand
yesterday. when it went oil. The bullet passed
through Sarony's left hand and entered paurs leg.
| TRYING To SHOOT HIS WIFE.
In the Court of General sessions yesterday. Jacob
IL. Conrtwnght, c9iored man, pleaded guilty to
attempting to kill his wife by shooting her. on
April 20. Judge Cowing sentenced HIM to the State
| Prison for six years.
| REPORT FROM RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL.
| In the Riverside Hospital there remain ninety
Within Il week there have been seventeen new cases
| of smallpox and eleven of typhus fever, showing
| both diseases to be decreasing.
BASEBALL. UNDER A HOT Sun.
Despite the hcat OF yesterday, about 900 specta-
tors assembled 4, the Polo Grounds witness the
first game of series of contests between the Metro
politan Baseball Club and the Albany Club. When
the ga he was ended the score stood metropolitan,
8 Albany, =.
BREAnSTUFFs ADVANCING.
brpadSflitS considerably q fed
Yesterday under an unusually strong export demand.
The mar~et closed Grm and Il, an advance If is
believed that there is considcrable charcing Of
August for September orders, under feeling that
futures - Will advance.
PRECEDING THE MINIS rRrIs
Howard Spcarc agent of liaverys Colorcd Min
strcls. and i've assistants sailed the steamship
week by the company. consisting of seventy coorcd
men amt women. Charles liasam Will accompany
them as business manager and treasurer.
ADVERTISING LOTTERIES.
Gunthcr X. Ackcrnan. publisher OF The N4r- York
Star, who was indicted some time ago for n vcrtis-
ing Lotteries ~ ina! paper Yesterday plca4cd glty
mans promising that similar advertisements would
be allO owed to appear in the future Judge (ow-
ing suspended sentence.
HAVANA STEAMSHIP Guaranteed
The llavana steamship city of Washington was
T~rc IS mo "r, one G H" f M yesGy
tined III compliance with the law that no vessel
from an infected pert shall be permitted TO come to
snch port. The City Of Washington came to the
city to-day.
FINDING DHREL1Cr HUSBAND
j. {. Hartmann, cooper and brewer deserted his
Wit and two children IN Mciningen. Germany, in
April, AMI clord With his wlie's cousin. The vile
followed lllm. search was male for the delun-
quent husband, who arrived here Tuesday and went
to board at No. ZIG Grccnwich-st. The wife bcgs
the commissioners of Emigration to compel him to
support her and her children.
STARVING HIMSELF To DEATH
The death OF john Barns, an insane printer. for
mcrly OF No. Pitt-st., was reported Yesterday to
the Board of Health rom the Bloommgdalc Asylum.
Burns was suffering from chronic mania and refused
pcrsistcnly to take food. lie fed by force but
his dctcrInination. prevailed after struggle of
nearly half a years duration. The certificate of
death gave the cause OF dca(k as ''cxhauStion due
to his persistent refusal to take food for twenty
three weeks"
John ODonmc age eighteen OF No 100 East
Onc-hundrcd d-twenty -tourth-st., Hugh Costello
4, and John NIc(;ill age eighteen of no. is Greene
st.. Tuesday, hired a rowboat at the battery and
stcaltlnly approve he'd the womens prison. and OF
icrcd to release three of the inmates if they would
| the women 10 80 when discovered 10y a Waterman,
| who called Keeper Flies. and they, after Il short
The prisoners were taken before Justice Gardner.
at the Harlem Police Court, yesterday and re-
mandcd Tor examination.
BROOKLYN.
Deaths last week, 1927 births lG6; marriages,
ST.
David NJ. Chaunccy, n well-known citizen of
Brooklyn. died at No. ito Joraleman- ST. yesterday,
at the age OF siXty-ihIcc.
The United States steam sloop-of-war Quinnebaug
sailed from the Navy Yard yesterday. 1t is believed
that her destination is the Mediterranean.
coroncrs jury yesterday cxoneratcd Albert
Schalkcnbach from blame in knocking down George
A. Gray IN quarrel provoked by the latter which
resulted IN Gray's death.
| The Society of Amalgamatcd Enginccrs paid 300
to the men on strike ut the Brooklyn ydraulc Iron
| Works yesterday. The strikers say that under no
circumstances Will they return to work unless their
demand for q Saturday half hOliday is conceded
| James Murphy has been made a member of the
| Board of Education TO ill the vacancy caused bv
the death of t. j. htlocli president of the hoard
| A SUCCESSOR to Mr.. Whitlock will be chosen next
| week. The two prominent candidates are Daniel
Mayer and I. c. Bergen.
The third Rapid Transit Con- mission has altered
the route which laid out by substituting Hudson
| ave. from Wloughby-st. to Fulton-st for Dche-
voisc- place. THIS action was made necessary by
| the action of the Legislature in excepting Debs.
| voisc- place from an elevated road.
The Lee Avenue Baptist Church was sold ycster-
| held by The Williamsburgh Savings Bank. The
| bank purchased the property for 1000 The
organ and furniture OF the church were mortgaged
| for 81, 900, and were also Sold
Charles Hall, of No. S97 Hancock ST. Yesterday
| seriously stabbed his neighbor Edward Clarke
| The men have not been friendly, and after dis
graceful quarrel before the house, IN which the
sister of Hall took part, the stabbing occurred
Several wounds were made Hall is under arrest
Recent examination of the Office OF the Waabout
and Eastern District Dockmasters showed that the
records and papers for 1879 and 5 50 were missing
Ii was reported that they had been taken away by
the UOckiuaster under Controller SteinmetZ last