New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-13
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
r,,, r,cur,va TELEGRAPH UNION.

STILL FIGHTING TELEGRAPH UNION.
xroop rpu.x GRANTS AN ORDER FORBIDDING THE
WESTERN UNION FROM ISSUING ANY CAPITAL
STOCK FOR THF PRESENT.
william 8. Williams of No. 101 East Eighteenth
Mt who owns 100 shares OF stock OF the western
Union Telegraph Company has begun an aet9h th he
certificates Of new stock under the recent con-
sodation Of the telegraph companies ne
Western Union Telegraph COMPANY anu 1ne OnG I
Williams claimed in his compliant tnaI III Wy eo
sodaton the Western Union took the iranchises,
Union Which ne saws were worth 10000 900. and
in return therefor gave new certlHcates vi iIn oN
stock for $LoOo9QS t sar tno and Pacc COM
pany, worth $30OO,O00, ana gave ~. nhere i'r
certificates TOR 81 100000 Of ITS own stock ar
nj Western Union stock to his own loss He sues to
prevent any issue of stock by the Western Cpion
Company beyond its present ~ :uOOVOu, anu 10
nreyent the company's agent, the Union Trust Com
pany from paying out the new issues OF certlH
Gates. Or in case such issue was made that IL
shond only he upon the payment into the treasury
of the Western Union Company of the additional
SI5 100000 above the actual value OF the neIeeu
companies The petitioner also MADE .n Sod hern
made the directors of the Western Union snouid oe
compelled to pay INTO the Western Union treasury
the additional $50 from te 0W tb
granted temporary injunction returnable on the
morning of February II. John Sessions is Mr.
" Mr.. Williams Was found last evening at the
Florence Apartment House, Fourth;ave and
Eighteenthst. He was formerly 10 me nrin y, OF
he regretted to be obliged to bring this suit, and
did it for self-prOtectiOn. am simply the owner
OF 100 shares Of Western Union Se IF fa
capital by &30,000,OOO. In my mln9 tne c9nsoH,
dation is altogether strange proceeding aoht
crease lis stock unless it gets representative value
for it which shall be worth 100 cents on the
doar have no objection to an es;Tsd 81 ae
studied the Western Union reports carefully, ana
fail to SEQ in them any basis for an issue OF
$4,000 900 of additional stock; and ! believe
that such scheme will entail upon the directors
personal liability for the payment OF the STOCK 10
the extent issued"
solidated telegraph companies. removed MS ounce
yesterday from the American Union C9mpanV's
to the MesteR Worna npce or Of
Offices until after March l. The original complaint
of Rufus Hatch, protesting agtnSt the Sonsoiida-
fion, will be amended by Sewell IL Pierce, the
=. counsel. Mr. Hatch says he will show to the sat
tsaction of everybody that he has not acted IN tue
interest Of Jay Gould and his associates In plhg
ing his suit, as has been asserted.
FATALLY INJURED BY BURNING.
kerosene lamp exploded Friday night about
30 o'clock in the house OF Otto VIZ, tine M Trs
Wilt was standing in front OF the bureau on winch
the lamp stood AS the lamp exploded the burning
clothing was soon enveloped in flames. She ran
screaming from the room and down the STAIRS,
when she met young man named Wllliam NC,
Weigh, who quickly pulled Oft his overcoat ana
wrapped it around her, and thus eXtingushed the
flames Alexander Laforge and Constable Joseph
Russell in the meantime ran upstairs, and lndihg
The room in blaze put ont the flames. While the
place was in flames Mr.. Wilt, VINO was Sleeping
in adjoining room, being awakened DN t tio
screams of his wife, seized the lnfant from the
cradle and rushed downstairs, when ne learned
what had happened, and found his wife suffering
great agony. His mOther-in-law was also IN great
distress. On hearing the screams of her daughter
she upstairs and met her near the TOP. Mrs'
Wilt in her excitement ran against her motnei,
knocking her downstairs, and her left leg was
broKn above the ankle, that the bone protfuded.
Drs Scales and Walser were summoned to dress
the injuries Of the mother and daughter; Inc
latter was badly burned about the face, hands and
BODY Everything was done to alleviate her suileI-
ings but she died at an early hour yesterday noIn-
ing. Mrs Wilt, who WAS twenty-five years OF age,
was the daughter of j ohm Wendland, a well-to-do
baker FAX W. '4'''
THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH UNEXPLAINED.
Coroner Ellnger was called YESTERDAY to investi-
gate the death Of John Hartz, age ifty-hve whose
body was lying at No. 1,lS6 Second-ave Keports
were current that he had been foully dealt with.
Hartz's daughter at whose house he died, stated
that on Thursday morning he went uptown from
his home. No. 313 East Forty 10 V an
search was made for him. He was found IN cell
in the Eiglty-eghtb Street Police station. a
policeman had found him, Friday morning, lvlhG IN
a stone yard in Ninetieh-st, near Avenue-A, with
broken nose and cut over the ieit eySr anu ne
taken to the station and Iocked up n S no
formed the Coroner, and half starved, ana was
taken by her to her house Ill Sec0nd-ave. lie dlod
at midnight, having told his daughter that ne haa
fallen under q stroke OF paralysis ana nurt niiHsel
Deputy Coroner Wotman examined the body, ana
found no reason to believe that Hartz had suffered
auy violence. The wounds OH his face apparently
could not have caused death. tie decided 10 MAKE
an autopsy to-day. The police asceItained t 1n
HAITI had last been seen in the company OIL TWO
men named Brennan and tlanlRdn'
TWO GIRLS SUFFOCATED IN BED.
Barbara Weiss and Henrietta Braunsdorfer. ser
want girls in the employ of Fritz Hendricn, wine
merchant at No. 95o Thrd-ave. were fOnud deaI
in their room yesterday morning: They had been
sutfocated while asleep, having left gas-Durner
fnrned on on going to bed Barbara Weiss was
nineteen years old and Miss Bransdorter seventeen
The latter had been four years III the employ or
Mir. Hendrch. Miss Weiss had only been IN the
country o year. Both were industrious h'iu g,iiS
the third story of the building. They aid not
answer the call in the morning, ana when the d0or
was opened both were found dead IN ned me
loom was filled with gas, and one oil the Two
burner, was turned on. Coroner Ellinger author
lied the removal Of the bodies.
VIOLATING THE HEALTH LAWS.
The surreptiti0us removal OF a scarlet fever pa
fient from New-York to Brooklyn was reported to
the Board of Health yesterday 10y the Brooklyn
authorities. The patient was q servant III the
house of Henry &. Patterson. mt No. $50 Stanton.st
Her name was Louisa KOstner. Inspector FISK
learned that she was attended February and at
the Stanon-st. house by DR.. TOppns. OF RlVlngt OH
st. who informed the family that she was suffering
from scarlet fever; that on the morning OF feD-
ruary g. Mrs. Paterson, refusing to keep her any
longer. put her in a coach and ordered the driver
to take her to the house of Mrs. WIlfert. her aunt
at No so Marcy-ave brooklyn. The driver after
uniting her on the sidewalk, drove hastily back.
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