New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-01

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down two flights of stairs, fracturng his SKULL lie
! Will probably die.
RTpORTs OF BUILDING EXAMINERS.
Five buildlngs were reported unsafe yesterday DY
! the inspectors of the Bureau of Buildings NO 4S
Moarocst, a stable in he rear of No 62 Market-st.
No IA West Thirty and No. l92 Canal-St'
| front and rear.
JACOB We'll SENT TO THE TOMBs.
Jacob We'll who was brought to this city from Eng
| land by Detectivr Won Gerlch'en on sunday on an
ex;radlton warrant, under charge OF forgery. was
taken to the District Attorneys office Yesterday
and committed to the TOmbs on bench warrant.
| RFWARDING THREE POLICEMEN FOR BRAVERY.
At the burning of sailors boarding house IN
Westinghouse last week, several inmates were res
cupd hy three policemen before the arrival OF the
! fire engines. On the recommendation OF Captain
| Clinchy, the Police Board Yesterday voted 10 re-
| ward Policemen Dewes and ONeil of the Eighteenth
PreciGct. and Nolan, of the Steamboat Squad, ny
| giving them honorable mention and silver medal
| They are also promoted to the rank of roundsmrn
| DRIVEN FROM HIS HOME BY HIS sTEPMoTIIER.
| The Society for the Prevention OF cruelty 10
Children was informed yesterday OF lttle BOY
| who SAID that he had been driven from his home
! in Gutenberg. New-Jcrsev. by his stepmother lie
said that his name was Charles Cutt; and that ne
| was nine years old. When found in the streets he
| was CRYING. person becoming interested IN the
| child took him to the Twentv-irst Police
Precinct Station In answer to the Scrgcants ques-
tions ne said that he could not return home as his
stepmOther had refused TO let him i've tere again
PREPARING TO CLOSE THE .sEAMEN's RETREAT.
The trustees of the Seamen's Retreat heid meet
ing yesterday TO make arrangements fOr CLOSING tno
hospital at Stapleton, 5. /. There are only four
nafients in the hospital who will be removed else
where Trustee Hawkins will then take charge oil the
nropcrtv subject to the orders of the State Control
er tine last Legislature having made provision Ior
its sale The final meeting Of the board will be
| held tomorrow. The property is valued al aDouC
| $150000.
SUPPOSED BANK BURGLAR DISCHARGED
Justice Iaight. in the supreme Court Chambers,
| Yesterday discharged from custody Mlchael since
| han who was held under commitment from the
Jefferson Market Police Court for completely In inc
recent burglary in the ltallan-American Bang me
case came before the Justice on writ OF haDeas
| corpus and Sheehan's discharge was urged on me
| ground that the evidence adduced before the com.
hitting magistrate was contradictory, ana was ~
sufficient TO justify his detention Il fact which ING
| Assistant District-AttOrney admitted Ill court.
KILLED BY A FALL FROM sCAPFoLD.
Joseph Mills a painter thIrty-aVe years od age,
fall from n scaiolding near the roof OF the cooper
Institute building yesterday, and was killed IN
| stantlv mon the pavement below. workman
who was standing upon ladder near Oy states 'ni
he saw Mills stoop to wet his brush and then fall
over backward as If seized with falntlng Mt Inc
body was carried to his home at No l61 first-aVe
| Mills was a good workman, and had been III
| the employ of Mr. SHELL of No. ia Fourth-ave.,
| Tor ten years.
| THROWING ROCKS AT A STREET CAR
william Rourke and William Mungjsn, c oU,n
mitted without bail by Justice Blxby at the YORK
VILE Police Court, charged with THROWING DricHDdtS
and stones at a street-car OF the Eighth Avenue
line The conductor put the men OF the car pc
cause of their refusal TO pay their fare when
Rourke hurled brckoat At HIM me missile MSrht en-
assanr Mnlliran threw rock at the conductor
but it missed him.
STEALING FROM HIS EMPLOYER.
Michael OShaughnessy, IA porter age thlrty-slX
of No. 247 Navyet., Brooklyn, VINO mas peeh LOT
seven years in the employment Oh A df t
Dougan Il Co., No. 339 Broadway, was taken pc
fore Justice Patterson yesterday at the loInbs Tor
the larceny of 300 gross OF pearl buttons, Dcohg-
inc TO his employers of the value of $40; large
part of them was subsequently traced to the posses
sion of Gusse Nathan and samuel Naih1h her
clerk at No. 80 Chatham-st. 1t IS alleged that she
purchased them knowing that they were stolen;
Oohaugnnessy was held tor trlal In uJialit %
~ 900 bail. GusSie Nathan and Samuel Nathan
required to furnish bonds, eafn III @iooD' 10
stealing for some time. lie fully acknowledged his
guilt
| BREAKING UP RESORT FOR TRAMPs.
Officer John H. Smith, of the Ninth Precinct, with
three OF her officers, made descent upon the llul-
bcr-yard at the foot of Little lweth-st on Sunday
night. The yard has long been resort tor trampS
of the worst type, who by their quarrelllng had
made things exceedingly unpleasant for the neigh
bors When the officers arrived at the place there
were about twenty OF the tranpS Dusly engaged III
drinking stale beer from tOmato-cans and fighting.
The oiiceIs captured seven men and arraigned them
IN the Jefferson Market Court yesterday morning
Five of them we're healthy abc-bodled young men.
One of the others mad lost all the fingers OF his left
hand i'll drunken brawl, and the other walked
with a cruch and pretended to be cripple. Justice
Smith fined each $40 and committed them three
| months.
BROOKLYN.
MAYOR Low in company with Alderman Hacker,
rode through INC VI Illc MNitS-hloI hdlu
| yesterday.
| 4 decree of divorce was granted yesterday by
Judge Cullen the suit OF John w. George against
| Mrs. sarah }. George.
| CHARLES A. Richardson, ordinance clerk in the
Office of Corporation Counsel has resigned III or
| der to journey around the world.
motion to vacate an order OF arrest was made
| before Judge Cullen yesterday III the SUIT OF MISS
| Catherine Moyplhan, "a servant AT West New
Brighton >. l., against Dennis Connolly TO recover
$4,000 as damages for seduction and breach OF
promise OF marriage
| The funeral of the late Rev. Dr. Joel f. Rockwell,
who died on Saturday from cancer III the face, TOOK
place yesterday afternoon at the home OF his SON at
by the Rev MesSrs q. ;. st. John and }. >. David
| son. The burial will be IN Hudson, N L.. to-day.
| An unknown man committed suicide yesterday
| afternoon IN a adjoining the lqu0r.shop OIL
| Michael Hanrahan at flith-aye ana Iwcntleth-st,
| by shooting himself in the head He was about
t0rty-hve years Old five feet eight Inches IN height
with dark hair and moustache. Upon MS SHIRT
| were the letters 'G. H."
| motion was made in the Supreme Court yester-
day for alimony ana counsel fee in the SUIT OF jacob
| Decker against MIS-. Mary Decker, TO annul theli
marriage upon tine ground OF fraud. The DlalntlIi
alleges that the defendant falsely represented her
self 10 be a widow good health, whereas she was
the mother OF lllegltmate chi Id and not Ill good
health. The defendant sets up that she represented
| herself to he Miss Mary Thompson, and she alleges
that the plaintiff treated her with great Drutally'
| The sum OF 500 for counsel fee and 81 week all
mOny was allowed by the Court
JERSEY CITY.
| George Williams the second victim OF the boiler
| explosion on the tugbOat Vim, on Saturday, dleu
yesterday at ST. Francis Hospital.
The Rev j. b. Spemeyer rector of the Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church, with his family went
| into the country week ago, leaving his mousse uh
protected On Sunday he return Il home ana touhd
| that the house had been entered by burglars and
robbed OF slverwaTe and clothing valued at 600
John Moran, laborer of No. 63 Giles ave-, went
| home intoxicated Sunday night, and, Without
any provocatiOn, Knocked his wife down and
stabbed her IN the back with "A brad-awl milictlng
| an nglY wound. lie arrested and committed