New-York tribune., 1882-02-21
ANXIOUS TO SHOOT SOMEBODY.

Railroad, appeared in the l0rkviIlc Police Court
Yesterday a complainant against Pauline Riley, u
servant III tIe employ of his sister, with whom he
lives, at No. 155 LcXngton-ay"., charging her with
the theft of a ity-d llar bill from btwccn the mat
tre,ses Of his Led, where he had over $500 hidden
The prisoner acknowledged her guilt and was held
for trial by Justice Gardner.
STEALING THE MOI EY FOR HER FATHERS FUNERAL.
As Nina GIitZbOOtCh, young nurse gIrl wa,
walking on Saturday, in Third-ave., on her way to
an undertaAers to pay HIM for conducting her
fathers funeral she was assailed by Dennis Gardner
of No. 33s East Thirty -fOuTh-st who snatchcd her
pocketbooi from her hand and fed lie was pur-
sued and captured by Policeman christopher of tue
Eighteenth Pre-, met In the lorkvlile Police Court
yesterday he was held Tor irlal.
TIE TITAN WELCOME TO SPRING.
The Order of Iltans VIII meet at DclmOnicO's on
March To celebrate the awakening Ot their mother
Terra. 4 banquet will be laid, aud these zig mic
sons Of cartn viii make the vaultcd roof tremuc
with their stentoTian they sing the praises
of their ben nan parent who sends them fruits and
flowers. Guess viii be permitted provided they
are lofty enough IN stature 10 merit the tltIe OF
1itan-that is, Blk feet two inches.
ELECTING MAJOR.
The list Regiment ,lected MAJOR last night at
IFS armory at Sixth-avc. aud Ihr y-siXth-st., IN
the place of Major MacApue, rcssied. Colonel
Clark of the eth Regiment, a, senior officer Of he
I'd Brigade presided. After a short ballot Henry
H. Landon was elected unanimously / he Oiicer-
elect Is graduate OF est Point and served lirst
Lieutenant in the 10Th Unite States Infantr, whilo
campaigning on the Texas frontier.
PLANNING FOR An IRON EXCHANGE.
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iron and metal trade held on February 10, has ap-
pointed The following committee 10 mature plan
for the formation Of an exchange: Mayor X Co.,
the hOmas iron company, Cooper. Hewitt X Co.,
the Port Henry ron Ore Company, the Al lany ard
Rensselaer, Iron and steel Company, Thomas j.
Pope d Brother, j. B. & j. NJ. Cornell, the National
Tube Works Company ana W. III. " allIce ~ Co.
A FICTITIOUS ST RY ABOUT DEAD CHILD.
A mIddlc-aged woman, with "a German accent and
dressed in back, Is going about Nall-st. and the
business portions of the city. soliciting money 30
bury "A child IRON he Hospital lor tine Relief of the
Ruptured and Crippled. Notice has been gwen in
several papers time and again hitherto that this
woman is an impOstOr, and as yet she has escaped
detection. There Is large plot If ground i'll the
Maple Grove Cemetery where patients. whose friends
too poor to pay the expenses, are buried free.
SOCIETY or MECHANICS AND TRADEsMEN.
The ninety-siXth annual report of tin. General
Society OF Me cnanics and Iradesmen has been is-
sued by the payment of mortgage of $4,000
III November. 1851. the society made entirely
fr from debt. The library and reading room
have been largely pat t0nlzed. The report of the
school Committee says that the work done by the
students shows excel ut system OF instruction,
and ii suggests the establishing of a branch for he
training OF apprentices III the various mechanical
pursuits,
TO TALK WITH COMMITTEES IN CONGRESS.
Ambrose Snow, A. Is. Miller Woodruff Sutton, +.
Is. Ihurber and A. NJ. Collin, representing the Board