New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-23
ito. Ex-Postmaster- General james Is president VI
he bank and also of the safe deposit company
BROOKLYN.


Music at prospcct Park. the 81 sixteenth and last
concert for 1882, from $40 10 DAD p. III
Tho Jury disagreed in the case of Mrs Nary NC NC
Nulty against Michael Oats to recover So'ooo "huer
the Civil Damage Act.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hall age sixty, committed suicide
on Thursday by taking laudannm, at her nome
No. 80 yckoff-st. No cause for the act Is known,
but she IL thought 70 have been insane.
Over the entrance Of the new court room occupied
by Civil Justice Kcnna. in the building formerly
occupied BY the Grand Street Methodist Pr9tcStali
Church. is the inscription, " Hitherto hath the Lord
helped u.s."
Justice Fisher yesterday dsmis'ed the charge rye
against the Rev. {. II. Kirkland of obstructlng the
street by gathering crowds and preaching 10 them'
The Corporation Counsel said that he could hnd no
city ordinance to cover the case.
Police Sergeant Clancy. of the Second Precinct,
was on trial before Police Commissioner Jonrdan
yesterday for negecting to act promptly in the case
of the abduction of Lizzie Selden. Clancy cou lu
recall receiving displt oh about the case on the
night of the abduction. though the station mouse
blotter in the Fourth Precinct where he was acting
as captain, had 1t entered at p. m
1t was reported 10 the police Yesterday that
Charles Duggan Of the 9TH Artillery. stationed at
Fort Hamilton had been missing since September
IL He had been IN the Army for ten years, ana
had just reenlIsted. At the time he disappeared ne
five years old five feet seven inches in height, ana
had sandy hair and whlskers.
warrant has been issued for the arrest of Henry
Van Spraug, who lived i'll North Sccond-st anu
claimed to be doctor He borrowed small snIps OF
money from his patients for several months, amount
ing in all 10 several hundred dollars 1t Is charged
that nc made false prctcnscs IN order 10 get money
from Mrs Caroline Lucas Of No. 81 Cedar-st.. who
had been blind in one eye from her birth, and whom
he said ne could cure. While attending her he sc,
cured payment OF $50 IN advance ana poIIo"eo
$50 more He is supposed TO have left the Guy
NEWARK.
The Fremcns Insurance Company has purchased
the building of the First National Bank for 1I621O
from the directors The building was put up Tor
eqle ~ he q
$4,000 from the insurance company was
not accepted at the request OF tie stockholders
Yesterday morning a man was found lying uncon-
scIous on the sidewalk al Broad and llcnenel-s,s.
He was taken 10 "A neighbOrng house ana cared tor'
and was subsequently, taken 10 the CiiN Hospital.
He recovered sufficiently to give his name rs sam
ucl BowIes. H. stated that hc was canalbnat
cap. ain on the Erie Canal and that on The previous
night He lad been dccOyed intO house IN NateT-st.
in this city and druggcd and robbed. ne lenem-
bcTcd nothing of coming To NcWalk, ana TIE sdpP)-
sifion is hat the men who robbed him brought hun
to the South Broad Street Station OF the fcnnsyl-
VaBia Railroad, and left him where he was lound.
NEW-JERSEY.
ANNANDALE.-George Wambold brakeman on
the Central Railroad of Ncw-jersey, was killed
about noon yesterday at Annandalc y. j. He was
standing ou the top of a car O a peach trail, ana
was strncn ON the head By the cross beam of
bridge. Ills skull was crushed. NambOld lNed AT
Newark and was unmarried.
HOBOKEN-Ihe body OF n man which has not yet
been identified Wa found Yesterday morning IN the
river AT the foot Of Scvemth-st letter was found
IN one Of the pockets. II was written by 4 woman
who signs herself Anne McNeary and who had
been sentenced 10 three months IN the PententIary
OH - ack wells Island The writer addresses her
correspondent as Dear Adam" She upbralds HIM
for having caused her To he sentenced TO the Penl-
Tertiary, and requests hiIa, he should write, to
address her his sister the keepers would read
his letter
WESTCIIESTER COUNTY.
MAMARONECK.-WianS Stevens, one of the old
est ctzeus OF Mamaroncck prior the construction
off mo Wy
one OF the old line of stage coaches on the Boston
Post Road, as he turnpike was then called, from
tins city. When travel by coaches was dlscOnin-
ued MIR. Stevens established a hOtcl at MamarOneck
which lac kept to his death. IN thursday.
YoNKERs.--1he will of Mrs. Ann Undcrhill, the
widow Of Edward Undcrliili tie brewer, was proved
She executed the will on February II, 1871, ana
she died on August %. 1os2. BY her VIII she APP
points her daughter. Alice Maria lopllss, cXecUtrlN
and her son, Edward UntThiil, executor; Her
property is estimated at 100000. Most OF her es
tate she leaves TO her children.
LONG ISLAND.
HEMPsTEAD.-Mrs Eliza Walters, who died on
Thursday, age eighty, was one OF the oldest resi-
dents of Hampstead. She leaves an estate valued
al $4,000
Lose ISLAND CITY.-The Michael Davitt Land
League, through It's PRESIDENT Peter Winter sued
the proprietor OF the Jack son Avenue Park William
SchwalcnDcrg on thursday for The sum OF $50. lie
had proms d 10 give tins To the members OF the
ORGANIZATION # they would mold picnic III MS
park. They did 50, but he refused 10 give more
than $40. alleliug reason tuat he had not made
rs mucn money ne had been led to believe he
would from the representations OF the league. lie
set up a counter claim of so. II was midnight
before the Jury returned verdict IN favor of the
plaintiffs Tor the i4ll amount claimed. MT. SchWa-
leugcTg announced that he would appeal from the
decision. .....A woman, Martina smith, was found
by Officer Dlcstel in an open lot near the Court
House Yesterday morning. she ci1lhen that shc
had been bruIally assaulted 10y tWO men she was
shouting loudly when discovered. No trace was
found OF the men.