New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-04


for tie Grand Jury's action yesterday by Justice
Fisher.
Several residents of Windsor Terrace, On the
west side of Prospect Park, petitioned the Comms-
| soncrs Yesterday to reopen the gate Mt Fifteenth
| and Seeey-sts, as q public convenience III was
stated in the Boari that there was another entrance
only $50 feet away and no action was taken.
| A suit has been brought by Alfred II. Bethel
gsinst Captain Pease of the steamer Grand Repub-
| lie of the Columbia Steam Navigation Company, to
recover $1,000 as damages Tor persona lnlhr,gs,
| Plymouth Church picnic party, on June "a 70 OK
| hibit an electric machine. aud Captain Pease
handled him 80 roughly, he alleges. that ~ Drought
about return of epileptic fits, to which he had
been subject. but from which he was recovering.
JERSEY CITY.
| John Paisley age twenty-five, while suffering
from delirun tremens. jumped ont OF ms DedIooni
| at 800 o'clock Yesterday morning, and sustained
severe injuries. He was taken back into the house
| by relatives and guard placed over nun.
| A committee of citizens presented some time ago,
| through Minister Lowell, a copy OF tho Garfield
Memorial volume to Queen Victoria. 1t was q
record of the memorial services held IN jersey Cty
Yesterday the committee-Jacob Weart John j..
Tofe and John NJ. Jones-receWed q communica-
ton from Minister Lowell, inclosing note from Sir
Henry Ponsonby. the Queens private secretary, eX-
pressing her thanks for and high appreciation OF
the gift
NEWARK.
Mrs. Caroline Hedden mother of James A. He'd
den, the embezzler now Ill the trenton state
% Park-st.. age sixty years.
Thomas Armstrong an ex-pOliceman of Newark
was dying last night In St MlchaeIs Hospital
Armstrong went to Oriental Grove on wednesday
and while standing a swing he was SrucI Ylo-
lently on the back of the head by the footbOard
He was taken to Newark, where il was found that
the whole upper portion OF his body was paralyZed
BENJAMIN Weller a driver on the Orange and
Newark Street Railroad. Is missing, and 1t Is
thought that he has committed suicide, Upon ar
irving at the Market Street Station with his car on
ho gnhI nnI hq
ductor good-by and walked toward the river
Some time afterward search was made Tor him anu
his hat was found on the pier 1t vas learned mat
Weller had difficulty with his wife on Wednesday
morning.
NEW-JERSEY.
ELIZABETH. Barnes, who accidentally
shot himself while cunning on the meadows on
Monday died Yesterday at the hospital ....- Word
has been received by the police authorities that two
prisoners confined IN the Somerset County Jam at
Somerville, broke Jail and escaped on Wednesday
morning. Their names are Cummings and Riiey.
HoBoKEN-Chares Grey, n builder, age thirty
two who lived in West Thirtysixth-st., this city,
fell into the river at the Eagle steamship dock
Yesterday afternoon and was drowned The body
was not recovered. The house of William Terra
No. 1872 Hudson-st entered by q sneak thief
yesterday and robbed OF clothing and Jewelry worth
5000.
WESTMINSTER COUNTY.
PoRr Characterization +. Roberts, of No. 15S
Ainslie-st Brooklyn, L. d. letter carrier of that
city, while walking on the the up track OF the new
X.
hundred feet from the Port Chester station on We'd
nesday struck and instantly Killed by the bos,
ton express train, which left the Grand Central
Depot at | | a. In. There is a sharp curve in the
railroad at the place where the accident occurred
which prevented the engineer from seeing him I'M
til 1t was too late to stop the train. Why Roberts
was walking on the track Is a my Stery, as the main
street of the village near the track and Is In good
condition. Only thrty-seyen cents were found III
Robertss pockets, giving persons the i'm
precision that he adopted that method OF commit
ting suicide Upon mis- person were found an nom
orable discharge from the Army and commission
a. a sergeant of a Brooklyn regiment Coroner
Hylertof Port Chester, was called upon to hold an
inquest upon the body.
LONG ISLAND
EAST JAMAICA.-John Miller, alias - French john"
who was indicted with John Lowrey audAaron Lar
kins for breaking into and robbng freight cars of
the Long Island Railroad Company at Jamaica,
was arrested Yesterday and locked up in the Queens
County Jail for trial. L0wrey and Larklns were
tried and sentenced to two years hard labor at
Sing Sing for the offence. At their trial they testl-
fed that Miller who is a coppersmith, made the
KEYS with which the car locks were opened.
STATEN ISLAND.
the Port Richmond Archery Club, Asa Brainard,
the baseball and billiard player, was shot In the
back of the hand by an arrow, making severe
wound which will incapacitate him for work for
some time =,
CIIFToN-While team belonging to Mayer 81
Baehman was beng driven 10 the ferry landing
Yesterday one of the horses fell and broke it's leg.
The animal was shot by MIR. Berghs agent. 1t was
one of the team that was imported from France to
draw the firms golden chariot in the Centennial
procession i'll 1876.