New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-30

lyn approach the work on the engine foundations
is being pushed rapidly forward: me Drick APP
proachcs to the NewY0rk station building are com,
peted ana the asphalt OF the promenade IL hnisied
except over the Franklin Square bridge.
At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yes,
terday the Commissioner OF Jurors was autnorlZeI
to employ two additional clerks at Q salary Oh
81 200 year each. The contract for the masonry
and carpenter work upon fhe additions 10 inc
County Almshousc for Women was AWARDED toJohn
GuilfOyle whose bid las S2O, 5S0 aDd tne conLiact
for the steam heating apparatus IN the same 70 o..
Jacobs & Co, at 1920, the lowest price bid
In the case of the fifteen Aldermen of the Board
OF 1881 whose conviction for contempt OF court IN
passing resolution in defiance of an Injunction has
been affirmed by the Court OF Appeals no ACTON
can be taken to carry out the sentence until
transcript OF the OF the Court OF asS TG
adopted. This will not be until to-morrow or Sat
urday. An effort will be made to induce Judge Gil
bert TO accept the apologies of the offending officials
instead ofenforcing the terms of imprisonment.
JERSEY CITY.
Smith Mendes. who during the past five years has
spent fortune on liquor was arrested yesterday
for stealing some clothing belonging to Alfred
Dourfels.
DR.. John d. McGill, a member of the Board Of
Education and Board of Finance and Taxation, has
begun suit for libel against The LreniRg Journal
He places his damages at $4,000
Simon Cunningham. q canal boatman. boarded
the canalboat of State Boce at the foot of Morris
st., during the owners absence Yesterday and com
mitted an indecent assault on Captain BOice's six.
year-old child, who was sick in bed. lie was ar
rested.
NEWARK
Old paper saturated with kerosene oil was found
yesterday afternoon in cracks between boards IN
the Mulberry Street Variety Theatre. 1t was dis;
covered, Also that kerosene oil had been sprtnkled
about the dressng-rooms. Francis ONeil, who Is
said to have threatened recently to burn the build
ing, arrested on suspicion. He was formerly
employed by the manager of the theatre, Robert
Fox.
WESTMINSTER COUNTY.
RYE-The house of D. II. Deayan, butcher was
entered by burglars on Tuesday nigh. and robbed of
5000 in money and gold watch valued at 800.
The house of James NJ. Ives was also entered by
burglars and robbed of a quantity of silverware.
WHITE PLAINs.--Chafles Weed, of Poundridge,
tired in the Court OF Sessions at White Plains
yesterday and found guilty OF blgamY lie was
sentenced to TWO years and six months hard labor
in the state Prison.
LONG ISLAND.
YAIHANK-There are 100 inmates in the Suffolk
County P0orhouse. Or this number fifty are in
FLUsHING.-Edward s. Bogert died yesterday
from the result of injuries received by the caving
in of a sandbank while he was play ing with num-
Der OF other boys.
NEwTOwN-Seyeral of the cOnstables of the
town have been appointed by MIR. Bergh special
officers OF the Society for the Prevention CT Cruel
ty to Animals, with view to suppresslng dog and
cock-fighting in the town.
SOUTHAMPTON the recent sale of the undi-
vided lands of the town by the trustees of the
town qui-claim deeds were given to the purchasers
This will raise the question of title before the fl al
decision of the right of the trustees to sell is
dered.
Long ISLAND CITY.-The investigation of the ac-
counts of Commissioner Russell Wight, which was
to have begun yesterday at the City Hall. did not
take place, owing to the absence of the majority of
the Commissioners. The Queens County Court of
Sessions, which has been sitting during the present
week. adjourned for the holidays yesterday. An
extra panel of fortyeight jurors drawn for the
trial of the indictments against Mayor De BevOise
and the booksellers who were arrested at Hunters
Point.