New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-05

| n fine of 81 o had been imposed 1t is alleged tnat
wholesale liquor store at Peck Slip and south-st.
about three years ago, and that in trying 70 escape
he shot officer. Ii is also stated that Welsn was
implicated in the robbery OF valuable dlauonus
| from a lady in Fifth-ave about three years ago,
| with two men named Flynn and Jonden both oil
whom were tried and convicted in General Sessions'
BROOKLYN.
An absolute divorce has been granted to MIS-.
| Lizzie A. zimmerman from Isaac zimmerman: the
former superintendent of the Sunday hool OF the
Mission of the Twelfth Street Reformed Church.
While attending religious service in the Mission
| at Grand and Atlantic-aves., last evening MISS
Emma Yogt age seventeen, OF No. ,Oo7 tuIton-st.'
| fell dead.
| meeting of temperance workers was held last
evening in the Fleet Street Methodist Cnurcn 70
consider the question of preventing the sale OF liquor
| to minors. A resolution was adopted providing for
| the formation of a Citizens League.
| Mrs. Catherine Fnnegan, aEe thirty-thrce, OF NO.
| 3S1 Seconds ST. T. D. was found dead in her room
| at 80 a. IN. yesterday. She had cut her throat
| with a tabe-knifc, and was dead some time when
| she was found by other occupants of the house.
Ex-Alderman John H. Zindel died on Wednesday
| at his home, No 81 lee-ave. He was born IN kehi-
| Onthe-Rhine, Germany, i'll 1876, and came 10 thls
country in 1886 lie was a member of the Brooklyn
Common Council in 1872 and was reelected III 1874
| He leaves n wife and five adult children.
| Subscriptions are being taken among stablemcn
and drivers for the benefit Of the widow of stephen
Curry the man who was burned to death whle Try
ing to his employers horses in the recent hre
| at the Mansion House stable. 1t is stated that
| Curry in ioar days more would have completed
| months service, and that his employer deducted
| the four days wages when lie paid the widow her
| husbands earnings.
Several changes have recently been made in the
officers the receiving ship Colorado at the brook
| lyn Navy Yard Lieutenant llunsiker and Master
| J, G. Cresap have been detached ana ordered I'd
| Newport for instruction at the torpedo station
Lieutenant Mark has been granted leave of absence
with permission the seas, and has sailed Tor
Germany. DR.. Whitaker was ordered To the tralh-
ing fleet and he has sailed with 1t for Europe.
Edward II. Babcocl, one of the best known mem
| bers OF the Presbyterian Church i'll Brooklyn, who
died on tuesday at No. ITO RemSen-st., was buried
yesterday. He was born IN lruXt0n' \. l., III TO-
and Went to Brooklyn III 1896 and became inter i
estcd in real estate. For several years he belonged
10 and took All active part in the Central Presbye-
ran Church. near the Bioohyn tabernacle. but iot
| PRESBYTERIAN Church in Henry-st. lie was mem
Der OF the Long Island Historical Society and OF
| t1e Young Mems Christian Association Nlr. DAD
| cock leaves Il widow and SIX cludren.
JERSEY CITY.
The body of an infant child was found in an ash
| barrel in Communipaw-avc. yesterday morning
Henry Davidson, age seventeen, of No. -
| Bcecker-st., Frederick Mott age nineteen, oI
No. III Academy,st, and samuel Brooks, age iine-
teen of No. 204 Newark-st, Newark, hired row
| boat on Wednesday night and went down the b44y
for a sail. When opposite the light house near the
| Grcenyie shore, the boat capsZed and Bro0hs, VINO
could not SWIM, was drowned. The other two
| reached the shore safely. search was made lor
Brooks's body yesterday but without success.
NEWARK.
! Only one colored civil organization, with q band
| and a number of marsbals paraded yesterday III
celebration of the anniversary OF the adoption Oh
! the Fifteenth Amendment.
The will of the late Michael Stanley has been adj
United to probate. He bequeaths his large business
interests to his two sons, the income from his real
and personal estate TO his wife during her lie, ana
| directs that at her death the property be divided
among his SONS ana daughters Inc TWO sohS dlc
| appointed executors.
J The total receipts from all sources by the County
| Government for 1881, as reported by the flnahce
| Committee were i ,25S 50l AZ. The total eX-
pcnditures were 81 SO, lGl 90; balance on hand
NAV t. 1882, $50, 339 3D. The committee has re-
| commended that the sum of S9Gi,3 ~ be raised
| by tax this year for State and County purposes.
! An expert who was employed to examine the City
Hall Building has reported that it Is perfect pest
| house. There is only one trap ventllator IN the
building the plumbing arrangements are defective,
| the soil pipes and waste pipes are leaky and the
sub-cellar is filthy. Air boxes which empty INTO
! the Common Council Chamber receive their supply
| from this SuD-cellar.
NEW-JERSEY.
| PATERsoN-A daring robbery committed
| by five masked burglars at the house OF PhliIp
! Iiagct at the Notch" near GarTct Mountain
south of Paterson, ~ j. on October ~ 1872. NJ Mr.
| OTHER members of tue family and secured q large
| amount OF valuable jewelry. 4 considerable part
OF the stolen property was returned yesterday
through "A priest to whom one of the BURGLARS con-
fes ,ed his crime In the Passalc County Court
| of Quarter Sessions yesterday Judge woodruff IN
10 Ice one of the constabcs III attendance upon the
! court as had been directed. The Sheriff replied
that lac had summoned the requisite number OF con-
| stables but that lie questioned the right or the
Court to specify by name the particular cOnstaDleS
| TO be summoned Judge Woodruff said that the
| Sheriff the servant OF the Court ana cOuld De
| indicted for disoUedence to its orders aud that
! proper action would be taken in his case. The law
requires that the Sheriff shall summon ten cOnstables
| t. attend the sessions of court, and II the Court
| Geens necessary 1t may direct hun to summon
| additional COnStabl,s.
LONG ISLAND.
| Observation-Disclosures Brewer age eighty, an in
mate of the pOorhOuse attempted TO commit sui
eide on Wednesday night by cutting mis- throat with
n razor. He succeeded in inilicting an ugly wound
! which will probably not prove fatal.
LONG ISLAND CITY.-A petition signed by 200
| women of the First Ward was presented To the
Board of Aldermen at their meeting last night, ask
ing that should be taken to prevent pigs and
goats from roaming at largo in the streets of that
ward ... The Aldermen referred the request of the
Police Board for appropriation of 500 to enable
the Commissioners to hire detectives to procure evil
dencc to con Wet the booksellers, to the Law Com
| mittee The pOOl-rOOms did tiOurshing busl-
ness Yesterday. The Police Board met IN the evening
STATEN ISLAND
| ToMPKINsvIILE. is said that the widow of
Thomas Burke. the engineer who committed suicide
| on Wednesday by throwing himself under a truck
in this city, will sue Richmond County for the loss
| of her husband. When Burke committed suicide
| he was being taken to the Insane Asy um at Mid
! dletown n j. by Thomas Mccormick, keeper of
| the Richmond County AlmshOusc, who was accom-
panied by some of the insane mans friends 1t is
| claimed that if Burke had been shacklcd, as is
| usually the case he would not have been able to
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