New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-07
NETWORK CITY.


No. 3Si Broadway is the foreman.
FIREWORKS AT THE POLO GROUNDS.
The postponed display OF fireworks ~ INC aoio
Grounds will take place tomorrow evehlne, ~ vi y
o,cJock A concert BY the 9TH Regiment band VIII
lie in a 1870.
syEKIyG DEATH IN A BARBER SHOP.
r. II. Donohue, age thIrty-eight. OF No Is ko9se-
veltst attempted to commit suc raeo4 in bar
her-shop at No. 81 OlIveI-5t. lie was taheh " 'no
Chambers Street Hospital.
ARRIVALS OF Immigrants.
The oumber of immigrants landed at Castle Tar
den Yesterday was as follows From the SteainisuiP
Parthia, from Liverpool. 5O3; Australia, ron
Vincenzo Fiorio from Palermo, 127 state OF In
diana. from Glasgow 3i5; total number Luz
UNITY IN AFFREIGHTMENT LAWS DESIRED.
L. r. Holman, president of the Produce E1-
change, has appointed benjamin Logan, Frederlck
Meissner and l.. A. LIveImOre committee 10 con-
slider the subject of codiicaton OF the ailreleht.
ment laws with a view 70 securing i'nnio or,; So
of conditions on the bills OF ladng OF all marlume
nations.
FIVE YEARS FOR FORGERY.
.Jndpe Cowing yesterday sentenced Edward j:
Courtney, who was convicted OF forging cneCh 81
AZ $40 so purporting to be signed by III. j. Jewets
and r. w Spencer the president and treasurer OF
the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railway, TO
i've years imprisonment in the State Prison. Court
new has been convicted OF forgery under different
names in Canada and the west, ana mas served Two
terms in prison. lie was CONVICTED on MS iase tr,ai
by the evidence OF Charles H. Barton, an accom-
pice.
SENTENCED SECOND TIME FOR BiGAn1.
Walter H. Chase was sentenced by Judge Cow
ing yesterday to three years IN the otIe ior
Snyth for the same offence but was granted new
trial by the Supreme Court. Chase, VINO was Il
teacher in Pennsylvania, was married Dy inc Kew
Robert Colyer OF the Church OF the Messiah 10 Ailce
+. McElroy a school teacher. OF Merlden Conn, on
October l. 1881. 1t was atterward discovered thaI
he had a wife living III Mlcnsdn " WYNN" Az W
been married III 1870
MONEY ORDERS IN THE CITY POST OFFICr.
The transactions of the Money Order Division OF
the New York Post Office for the year endlas 9une
20 represented the amount of $63,057,953 TO- an
increase of 81 SIG, 204 O6 over the previous year
while the additional cost TO the Government was
only $1,000. The number OF domestic ana IO[cis1
$50 7,449 81. The domestic and foreign orders
paid here 963, 500 In number, representing
S9S23, 200 60 The amount PAID IN settlement Oh
money order accounts with foreign countries was
$4,O14, 500 a.
ACITIILE RIzoN's DEATH.
The death certificate in the case OF Achllle RlZon
age nineteen, OF No. 375 Eighth-ave. who had been
missing since June 2s was sent te the Bureau of
Vital Statistics yesterday Inc cause OF qeali. was
given as drowning; whether accidental or inten.
fjonal is not known" RZOn took boat at the ioot
of West Thirty -tfth-st, June 2S, and rowed out
INTO the river Nothing was seen OF him afterward
until his body found IN the North RIVER a. tne
foot of Forty-seVenth-st., on Wednesday hlzon
was empoyed in the jewelry store oil Z. J.. Formont
at No. Isl Grand-st.
TRYING TO SELL STOLEN COINS TO DETECTIVE
Detective sullivan of Inspector Murray's squad
while N Seconds on MedneS h9 r @ him 10
nnrchase some rare coins The officer took Hayes
to Police Headquarters. There it was learned that
the coins had been stolen from the house OF D:
Collin No IO6 East 1hirty-ifth-st., where the
mother of Hayes is a hOuseheeper. 10 the Essex
Market Police Court yesterday, Hayes was held Tor
examination by Justice AnOretn' lho coins are
supposed to be valuable.
A CASE OF YOUTHFUL DEPRAvGTY..
7 Mckinley of No. 563 West F1fty-slxth-st left
his gold watch and chain, valued at SllO, IN his
dressing room while he went IN swimming at tne
Wednesday Patrick Mcdonnell, age ten, OF No.
431 West Fifty-sixth-st. stole them and pawned
by Officer McGinn, of the Twcnty-second Precinct
The boy, who was drunk when arrested confessed
his guilt and when arraigned at the forkyllle 70;
lice Court yesterday, was committed III $oOO Dan
by Justice Otterbourg for tr1ai
WANDERING FROM HIS HOME WHILE DERANG3D.
William Blackwell, young EnglIshman VINO re-
Gently came to this country and who had Deen ny
ing III the family OF his married sister, Mrs. Jonh a.
Potts of No. 317 West Twenty -siXth-st, dlsap-
peared from his home on Friday evening June 80
As he had left the house with considerable money
upon his person, 1t vas feared tnat ae had Deen
Mrs Potts received letter from her brother mailed
from Staten Island. 1t seems that the young man.
who is somewhat deranged, wandered OH and TOOK
the boat for the island without knowing where he
was going. His strange conduct upon MS arrival
there being remarked, he was arrested ana cared
NEGLECTED By A DRUNKEN MOTHER.
Officer ChIaTdi of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, on Wednesday night caused
the arrest OF Harriet l. Drake, who Win SIX chil-
dren had been lettering about Manhattan-st Tor
some days. She had been dlspossessen from NO. ~
of that stiect. Two OF these children she had re-
ceived from Il charitable Institution, ana she was
paid for caring for them When arrested she was
under the influence OF liquor ald had placed the
you gest children, ages five and eight months III
cradle ON the sidewalk, and was trying to rock them
to- i..nI ~
raigned III the Harlem Police Court. where Justice
Powers discharged her as she SAID that she coulq
find "A home. -Four of her children were committed
to the Mission OF the Immaculate Virgin, and the
adopted children were returned 10 the challt IN
stituuon. The woman has two other children VINO
are earning their own living Her husband Is
sober, industrious mechanic, nut he LETT Ills wle on
account of her Incorporate habits.
BROOKLYN
John Montague age eight, was arrested yester-
day while stealing quantity OF lead pipe from No.
94 Myrtle-aye
Arthur Duryea of the Third Ward. has resigned
the office of License Clerk III the CITY CLERK ofnc.
of which the salary is $1,000 year.
Suicide was attempted yesterday by Henry
BoehIne, age forty-two, OF No. D Ayenue-D., New
YORK, while working IN a box factory at No. u
Chares-pace. He swallowed Paris green and was
taken TO st. Ca ,harlne's Hospital.
The annual convention OF the American Flint
Glass Workers of this country and Canada, IS now
in session III Military Hall, at Leonard and Scholcs
sts. John w. Brennan presdes over the dellber-
atoms OF the ninety delegates III attendance.
In order to eud his liie Henry RAIDER, age fifty, of
No 1877 North Nlnth-st, jumped Into the East RIVER
at the foot of North EIghth-st., yesterday after
noon lie succeeded, aud his body not recoy
cred. Dependency rom lack of work was the
cause of his act
Mayor Low has approved THE resolution of the
Board of Aldermen awarding the contract for the
fourth pumping engine for the water works at tine
RiagewOod station - Davidson x Co, aud author
zg the issue Of water bonds for Sl77, 800 to cover
the expense
James Patterson. of No. 1877 Suydan-st.. was
taken st. GATHERINGS Hospital yesterday suieI-
ing from pistol shot wound in the left side. lie
sand that he had shot himself accidentally at
JOmpkins aud Greene-ayes and had then walked
home. His recovery is repardrd ns dOubtful