New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-09
NEW YORK CITY.
A CRAZY MAN RI


| A CRAZY MAN RETURNED TO AMSTERDAM.
| August Wolf, crazy man. who arrived mere on
the steamerP. Calland from Amsterdam, last week.
| was sent back on the same vessel yesterday
MORE IMMIGRANT ARRIVALS.
| The steamer AbysslnIa from Liverpool, landed
233 passengers at Castle Garden yesterday, anu rue
Pavona. from the same port 1873 The Greece IRON ,1
| London landed 1877 the Warwick, from Bristol
49, the State of Florida 202. and the Canada, Z4l
| ORDERING THE ERECTION OF FIRE-EsCAPEs.
INSPECTOR Esterbrook Yesterday ordered that lire
escapes be placed on the building No 81 C1amoers
Works
| BOY CHoMsTER's SKULL FRACTURED:
| James Dunn, boy chorl1ter IN ST. Francis Aa.
| viers Church, fell from second-stOry window or
| No. 90 West Flfteenth-st Yesterday and fractured
his skull. lie was removed to the New-York Hospl-
| tai.
| RETURNING BOY THIEVES TO BOSTON.
| Two bows of fifieen-Caivin III. Johnson and An
drew J Harris-who committed grand larceny 10
Boston and fed to TINS city, were arrested on tner
| arrival at the Grand Crn'ral Depot on Tuesday.
| They were taken back to Boston yesterday.
| KILLED BY FALL OF FIVE STORIES:
Mrs. Mary Haw~InS age hitv-three whiie eau eau,
ing out OF the open window of her room on the nth
| floor of the tenrmeDt-house No. 49, west FORTY
| sixth-st at 1870 a. III. yesterday became dr9wsy
and fell to the z found. she was killed instantly
ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS IN DISTRESS.
Thomas Foley, AN irish pauper VINO was assisted
TO Quebec last May by the British Government,
came TO Castle Garden yesterday with his WE ana
when he landed and he set out on pgrlmage m
search OF work. lie and his family have wandered
as far south as Maryland, aud have been IN great
distress.
HEARING VOICES CALLING IN THE NIGHT.
Lena Vay, a young German girl who has been for
several years III Tins country, came 10 Castle Car
den yesterday and asked the authorities there TO
get for her rue nd lrss OF ner fa'ner. mother and
brother. She declared that they we're III TINS conn-
try. because Mt night she heard them spe king 10
her aud calling her 70 come TO them. she is evil
IDENTIFY ms tue.
no DUTY OK CEMENT FOR THE PEDESTAL,
General Charles 49, stone. e1g II '-r for the base
for the BarhOdl Statur wrote recently 10 Collector
Robertson asking that the Portland cement TO bo
used in bu ding the PEDESTAL be admitted free or
duty. The Collector laid tne matter before me
Secretary Of the Treasury who decided to grant tue
request on the ground that the statue was "a
Nationa gift, and that u was TO be used asa beacon
hgIt. This VIII be saving OF So,OOO 70 10 thc pod
estal fund.
. GIRL WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHERE SHE LIVES.
Katie sc ir arrived at Castle Garden five months
ago from Poland. and sent 10 jersey CITY, where
sDe mad fren0s. Yesterday morning q policeman
found her wandering around the streets. She was
scnt 10 Super ntrn tent Jackson. NJ Caste Garden,
but when questioned could give neither the name OF
her friends IN jersey City nor the str ct that thew
lived on All she could was that she was living
m jersey City and worked IN tobacco factory III
this ely.
LOOKING IN VAIN FOR HER HUSBAND.
Fredencka FItschen German woman VINO ar
rived on the steamer Ncckar on Angus with two
SIN al ciildren. il l'oklng for her husband. j. n.
Iitschcr. came TO ths cOuntry year ago.
Sac had been CORE .pondng with her husband be-
fore sue left GERMAN aud sent her letters to No.
1903 Avenue A. When she arrived in this country
she taiel o nd any trace of nIm ither at the adj
dress TO uhlch shc had been sending letters, or any
where else.
rmE STEAMER LUDWIG SUPPOSED To BE LOST.
Tn steIfnrr Ludwig. of tn White Cross line,
which sailed from Antwerp Tor Q1eoec on July 2,
has not been heard of SINCE she was an old
steamer aud was formerly one OF the North Germin
l. oyd fleet and called the III lnsa. III. w. q. Edye,
OF Funch Ely. Co.. agents ni he line III this rty
SAID to RIBUNS report YESTERDAY that he had
gwen mp all hopes OF the vessel. but that IL was
rather doub rfui whether she would be seen again.
IL IN strange" said he, that no vessel has spoken
her From the dav sue left port she has completely
Disappeared" The Ludwig hal on board l48 head
Of cattle. cargo OF merchandise and twenty steer
age passengers. She registered 3,OoI gross tons
aud OF iron annually thick.
AN ExPERImENTER DIscoMFITED.
James EmrrSon, "A fireman on tue tug boat Charm.
pertormed some experiments with q patent LIE
preserver yesterday, oil Pier No. l. which came mar
en- ling fatally for the experimental. Emerson put
on the lie-pr' server and jumping mo the water
padded about and dove for some time. Suddenly
he threw up his hands and disappeared. The lie
pIrscrver brought him near the surface aDd Ills
companions on tue tug pulled him from the water.
The tug vas run up TO the pier and DIR. Lewis h.
ScnnltZ who was passing. jumped aboard and after
SO ne time succeeded IN rrsuscltatinR the swimmer
Emerson sid that he got IN the swell OF passing
steamer which rolled him over IN the water and
sufiOcated him.
A MEETING or THE DOCK COMMISSIONERS.
AT the meeting of the Dock COmmiss oncrs yester-
day q re solution was passed allowing the lnman
Steamship Company the temporary use of Pier No
was reported TO be III a dangerous condition. was
ordered tu be repaired resolution WAS passed
hxIug the rental OF tile Pennsy lyania Railroad
company Tor the land under wafer near Piers Nos
8 l. and O. held by il assignee and successor Of
tn Union Railroad and Tran portation Company,
at $4,000 year. payable quarterly. The Chief
Engineer of the Department ordered to con-
stIuct suitable concrete base for the bulkhead he
tween rhIrteth aud Thirty -iirst-st., nth River.
and to continue the bulkhead from the present
West twenty third SIS. section to West Thirty first
st.
YELLOW FEVER PATIENTS CONvALEsCRNT.
The steamer British Empire. of the Alexandra
Line from Vera Cruz ami Havana arrived at Quar-
autine Yesterday tier passengers will come up to
the CITY this morning, but the vessel will stay at
on,rantIne until Saturday. The British Empire
brought from Havana the Survivors ot those VINO
were ,eit there sick with the yellow fever by the
CITY OF Merida. Two of them were passengers and
six were members OF Merldas crew, as follows:
Henry Burck, of Cleveland, and David Wooster,
of Now York, passengers; john ID. West, chief
engineer: jennie VCOnnor, stewarIess; Owen Cutf
fireman; James Rooney, c0al-passer, aud w. b.
Beng ugh and Frank Kelly. walters. Chief Engi-
nrer West died SOON after being lott IN Havana, but
the other patients arrived here safe and well yes
tcrday.
AN ITALIAN swINDLING MS coUNTRYMEN
An Italian barber named Carmue Gaudioso. liv
ing at No. 1877 Elizabeth-st.. was taken before
Justice Power in the rombs Police Court yestsr-
uay: charged with larceny by trick and device. he
prisoner H. Is alleged, has for some time been
swindng his fellow -coumtrymen who were anxious
TO get wo X. 70 these no represented hat he was
authorlzrd 10 procure the servicrs of Italians to
work on a railroad IN course OF construction at Nor
fIk Va. One of the conditions oil which no would
secure employ uent was the payment OF 10 for the
pur pose of securing transportation South. Emanule
Ferrante and Rocco Dlane both living at No. 1915
BleecKer-st, appeared against him; tue former
charging that lie swlndled hun out Of S13 IN April
IL while the latter asserted That he paid hi m
S5l 80 on the same date, when the prisoner prom
issd TO procure himself and seven others employ
meut. Gaudioso denied the allegations aud was
held for trial.
BROOKLYN.
Deaths last week, 800; births 232; marriages
CO.