New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-23
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
r,,p uO,,ICIDE AT FORT LEE.

Iahcv' ir was killed 10y apstol shot. The friends
Of Robert Warren say that there has long been
hood hood against Warren and ,Hovey. who
While living in New-York, have been employed
local asprants to the honor of special police officers
These friends assert that there was plan among
Lahey and his friends to murder Warren ana hiovgy,
and that if Warren had not shot Lahey wheh nc
did Hoyey would have been Killed on the spot NM,
Warren not long after Hovey asserts that II ne nag
been in WanenS place he would have SHOT I1aHeS' ~
- claimed that the two officers complied 10 ~
for their lives. Hovey denies, however tnat nc
saw Warren that night after the shooting ..,o
The first witness yesterday before the Coroners
iury was James Addison the carpenter rom COyteS
vile whose cheek said to have been graze9
by the ball before il struck Lahey' ADDISON han a
an abrasion upon his cheek, but he denleu uiat nc
received il Sunday night, or that he hao pecn
touched bv the ball III any way. lie was uXape 10
add anything to the testimony Oh previous
Charles Hovcy, of No. 152 East lwentleth,st., inc
offccr who was struggling with Lahey when the
shot was fired described the occurrence thus;
Icamc to the Octagon Pavilion about o'clock on
Sunday night. with my friend Albert Osborne As we
came OF the door said to Osborne mere VII
rem trouble: guess III go over hearH warren aDd
say to Lahey: You've struck one man ,Oh,Su', an"
YOU won't strike another. l want you TO STOP
haGsy termed W 70 %"s snd That's ali right
and walked away. Lahey turned around ana saG 70
friend of his I'm do mat big sucker up peVlo ack
this pavilion tonight His friend reillhouo ,yard
we're all with you" Lahey then walked over 'V S
the counter went to nun %no yonrslf or 20 home
He Tcpned: You III allow nc Mem \, ye I face
fnf al
Lahey then struck and returned me p focw MS
clincied and broke away but upon L"hey lohoMndT
s %e d ahey e Ip me While on the kicked
upon the head aud in various other places, oOneons
Then Thcard The shot, and Lahey fell to the moor go'
away and eacaped upon inc Terry poa' "s SUM DC i
bic. but afterward came BACK
There were other witnesses, but none of them
told anything OF Importance. After conSldefalDle
delay the jury announced as theI Neluict ~ ~
John LahcV, H., came TO his death IRON Plsiol-
Shot wound on the evening of August 20. ana lhat
strong circumsta ntial evidence points 10 one hoooi'
Warren as the person who ired the shot .
Iahev funeral, which was 10 take place }este!
day afternoon, was postponed until ~ O'Clock thls
morning on account OF the absence OF MS pIotneI;
Warren is said to be IN New, lorhi IoNSH aI9
other friends of his assert that he Will give hlseH
UP o-day TO the authorities at Hackcnsack'
SEEKING TO LEARN HOW BURNS DIED.
Coroner Knox began an Investigation Yesterday
into the manner of the death of Henry Burns en-
clneer of the tugboat Champion. EllzaDeth burns,
the dead mans widow, repeated the sldteluVnt
already printed IN The TRIBUNE captain OtstIlh'
Of the steamboat squad late on Monday night ar
rested Vincent Costello fireman, Lewis Iletcn9I,
steward, and Charles Mnnery deGK Hana Oh the
Champion stated at the investigation that ne ha1
given free excursion on Sunday 10 the employees Vi
the New-York Central Raroad Iney Zoos o t5e
with them and all the crew were drunk except tho
fremen, when they left the Banks. Burns was the
most vislbly affected
Thomas II. Perry, a stevedore, said:
slept In a building at the east end OF Pier No 81 on
Sunday, and about 10 o'clock heard quarrel on tine
Champion and voice saying, " II you don't smut up,
YOU ----- III throw you overboard| The Wlthess
heard no ~
Peter Parsells Waterman at Pier No a. also
heard the quarrellng ON the tug6oat. lie SAID;
The men were accusing each other of cOnceang keg
beer and he heard Se %S6 a 10Y Sen scr
struggle someone said, II yOun stop TINS III Iurnlsh
The 6eer" Then after another quiet spell the threats
and oalhs we're resumed. Twenty minutes later saw
AnneTly sitting the bow OF the Tug, crying OItteIy'
lie said that man had been drowned
n, fran of he
Several friends came board after the captain went
awav snd stayed TIL IL o'clock. They drank half
ali ntoyicated Burns slapped Mnnerly's faces Min
nery did not realaie Half an hour later, while sitting
at the Of the tug saw man STEP from 'ue Tug W
the boat and fall into the water.
The blood on his hand seen by Mrs. Burns, the
witness said was caused by "a cut received IN tax
ing out ashes from the furnace but he ala not re-
member when 1t occurred
Coroner Knox deeming the testimony insufficient
to send The l." he 70 ao Se man in lis
custody. lie also directed Captain Gasthn 10 LOOK
for Al" who is believed to be the man heard by
Parsells threatening 70 throw someone overheard;
Un Philip L. DOnlon. Deputy Coroner, stated
that the autopsy on BuIns's body showed his death
70 be due TO drowning. The formal inquest Will be
held next week
Observation-Disclosures OF RAILWAYS
George Balm, president OF the st. Louis Mlllers
Association was a visitor at the Produce Exchange
Yesterday. Mr.. BAN called attention TO the unWlSe
inactOn on the part OF the Eastern seabO9Id Iall-
trade of the West to transportation by way OF the
Mississippi River and New-OTIeans. lie saldi
am engaged i'll the flour business In st. LOUIS ana
turn out an average OF LOO barrels daily. MY
business like that OF many others requires that the
shipments shall be made 10y the most direct route.
The facilities at New-IOIB for through shipments
10 Europe are greater than at any other port on the
Atlantic seaboard. The development OF the barge
transport alton on the Mississippi River, between St.
Louis and Newt Orleans, Is attracting great public
attention. especially in the West, and with the
facilities multiplied, there can DO moved from Tue
towns on the Upper Mississippi from 2,OOUOOO
to 100000 bushels per week at cost, taking
the river and ocean freight through TO Liverpool,
OF several cents per bushei ies5 imam to cnige loi
the service through the direct routes eastward
by way of North Atlantic ports. The movement OF
grain down the Mississippi to New-Orleans, even
with short crops, was as nearly great last year as
in 1880 Still the business Is III almost an Inchoate
condition.
points west of that city, prevent as 1IOm c0mpet-
fng with those who ship by way OF the MISSISSIPPI
and New Orleans through to Europe II the East
ern railroad people would only looK niue htIlheI
for the Mississippi River route; II they
would only watch their own interests closely ana
insist upon making local fales more IaFoIaDIe ~
shippers to the seaboard, it would prevent ship
nents from being diverted to Mississippi and thus
building up that route. Unless the Eastern roads
look TO this sharply there will be regular line of
business built up the Mississippi al Tie expense
OF the seaboard which can never be recovered;
end when once established there VIII naturally
be regular steamships between Europe and New
Orleans.
n LARGE QUANTITY OF PEACHES SOLD.
Probably the intervention OF Sunday caused the
enormous peach train 10 be made up which entered
jersey City yesterday morning. The train was late
The receivers complained because instead OF being
able 10 load their trucks at l o'clock III the morn
Ing the first part the tram did not arrive until
O'clock, and 1t continued coming III sections until
ga H. The peaches were hard and did not sell as
briskly as on Monday. Nevertheless there was a
good demand for the varieties from Delaware
Zen loads OF NewJersey pcac hes also arrived. ms
was the first considerable shipment tins year from
New-Jersey orchards. This fruit looked poor and
small. The prices of these peaches were low. They
SOLD slow even at 10 to % cents basket.
ihe extra and fancy spIigged'
peaches from the Delaware orchards brought