New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-22

RIMtR OF An EXPLOSION DENIED.
A report was circulated downtown last night to
the effect that an explosion had occurred on Gov
errors Island, causing the death of several men.
The captain of the boat running from the Battery
to the Island said at half-past 10 o'clock the report
was false \ Telegram had been sent to General
HANCOCK making inquiries about an explosion on
the Island, the captain said, and General Hancock
had replied that there had been no explosion
there.
A wONNN'S SKILL A. A PUGUIST.
Michael Mccarthy, "A waiter in the New York
Hotel was before Judge Duffy yesterday. charged
with abandoning his wife. / he case was dismissed.
Atcrward Mrs. Mccartney met Thomas Barclay,
one of her husbands witnesses, and slapped him on
the check, and struck him on the nose-a good,
sound blow. She was arrested and brought back to
court Barclay, with a bleeding nose. told his
story. and Mrs. Mccarthy was held in 500 10 an
swer the charge of assault and battery.
SCREAMING WHEN SENTENCED.
Martha Jasper mulatto WHO was convicted on
! November rs. in the Court of General Sessions. Of
| stealing 500 from John Longvillc. was sentenced
! yesterday by Recorder Smyth TO five years IN the
Ieuitcntiary. When the sentence was announced;
| the woman screamed aud cried till she was carried
! ont Of the room by the court officers. When she
was found guilty BY the jury she said 10 Recorder
Smyth: Judge, | am innocent of this charge !;
most notorious thief in Ncw-iOrk.'
TIE foRGERs PLEAD NOT GUILTY.
William T.. Brockway, Lewis Il, Martin and
Nathaniel r. Foster, who recently arrested for
| forging Morris and Essex and Central Pacific Rail
! way bonds, were arTaigncd yesterday before Re-
| corIcr Smvth i'm The Cont of General sessions
| Each Of them pleaded not guilty 10 four ndICt-
| mcuts charging forgery in the hr-t and second de
grccs 4, Brockway has lccn previously convicted
of a similar crime, ne Will bC subject, IT COnvlC cd
Of forgery in the fast degree, to inpriHonmrnt for
! life. BIUckways trial was set down ior November
UI.r,vp'- PoyTvG SMILES CAUSE rRouBrr.
Mrs Ella Porter. of No Il Corueha-,t, preferred
! a charge of Qiso-lc.ly conduct yesterday against
Miss Viola Lownd.s Of the same address. .Both
are c@2cd ana iS r a'r cRn 1yI inc re" Porr T
| stated that Mis-, Lowndc, wa, in the habit of
| shifting upon her, which Miss LOwnIcs denied.
The latter declared that the whole trouble was that
| Mira Porter was Jealous because Mr. Porter had
several tlcs favored her with glanccs that he I'D
not bc-tow ON his wife The young 9rgani,t, how
| ever. was held in 500 bonds 10 refrain from cX-
ucctoTating upon her neighbor for a month.
TO CONSIDER THE PROVISIONAL ESTIMATES.
The Board of Aldermen met Yesterday for the
purpose of considering the provisional estimates for
| The maintenance of the departments of the city
/ Government for ls~i. The Board went into com
! mittcc of the wholc,a after Alderman Fitzpatrick
| had been selected ~ chairman took up the csil-
| mates a. reported by the Board of Estimate and
! Apporionmcnt. Alderman Cochranc moved that
the heads of departments be requested 10 attend the
meeting of the Board and explain in detail the OBJ
! ccts for which the appropriations were made.
! After this had been passed the Board adjourned
! until 1890 a N. Oh Friday.
! DRUNKEN MANS NEGLECT.
Francis Haas was aTraigncd before Justice Gard
! ncr i'm the Essex Market Police Court yesterday.
He was too druul. to stand trial and was remand
ed until to-day. lie lived at No. 20 S"vcnth,St.,
where his wife died of consumption on Sunday.
Mrs Haas had supported her three children by sew
| ing and when she died few ncghborS contributed
| enough money 10 enable Haas 70 pay the funeral
| expenses. On Monday he became Intoxicated and
LEFT the little children in the room with the deccm-
posing body of their mother lhr children were sent
| 10 the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
| Children, aud the body was sent 10 the MoIsuc.
poINGs OF THE PARK COMMISSIONERS
At the meeting of the Park Commissioners yes
tcrday a request of the trustees Of the American
|. Museum of Natural History that the second ioor of
/ fine Arsenal Building in Central Park might be
uscd for the work of mounting specimens for the
Museum rs heretofore was granted. A request to
spend the accumulated interest of the Museums
funds in the completion of tho building
was referred to the Corporation Counsel. II SIDE
cidcd that President Wales, OF he Board should
Law before the DistrctAttorncy the ease of Char IS
Kiotz. the butcher, of No. LIZ Ihrd,ave, who
ran over Park Policeman Driscoll when that officer
was attempting To arrest klolz Tor fast driving III
the park
The continual blockade of ears in Futon-st. calls
ont much complaint and demands some remedy.
A suit for absolute divorce has been brought by
Mrs. Ellis J. Hopkins against Peter {. Hopkins.
The new cara on the DE Kalb Avenue Line are
the handsomcst in either Aew-lork or Brook
Ign.
Many improvements are 10 he made at the Sleeps
head Bay course before next season he
track viii be made much wider and mile and u
furlong in length.
The Rev. William G. Stiles, who recently took an
active part i'm temperance work in Brooklyn, has
Church. at Tompklns-aye. and koScnSkO-St'
The explosion of carbonic acid generator in the
soda water factory of A. lhlcnbcrg, ut No. 100
Frccman-~t.. at an early hour yesterday morning.
alarmed the uclghOoIhood ana uId ull's' 'S''il''-
ed AT 81 600.
In the suit of Cuuo r. ~. Van rrotha, news
pauer rrn"rt": - recover $4,000 as damages from
thr Long Island Railroad Company for personal
Injuries received 10y slipping from a ear step COW
cred with lee in East New York last winter, the jury
rendered verdict for $1,000 as damages, yestcr-
day. with an extra allowance to counsel ol 800.
Seth l.. Kccncy. contractor, has found that his
Ind of TlGl 900 to extend the Ihird-ave. sewer
from Twenty -cgth to rty-ninth-st is too small
and ne refuses to fulfill the contract The contract
has been given to J. =. Crawford, the next bidder,
at ~ - 25G. Mr. kecncy and his slrctlrs are held
responsible for the difference IN the figures
A burglar was discovered in the house of George
Jackson in East Ncw-lOTk. on Tuesday night by
the servant girl He grabbed her by the thr9at put
pistol to her head and said that he would XIII her
if she made a noise told who he was after he had
gone After he gone ii was found that
quantity of silvcrwaro had been stolen.
Carl Meenkoh age II, employed by his uncle.
u baker, ut No. 800 kent-aye., hanged himself Ill
the hakcrshOp last evening when lOund ne was
dead. The only reason which can be assigned for
the act is dependency from failing to get letter
which he expected from Germany, whence no came
fifteen months ago.
The Court of Appeals has rendered decision in
the suit OF Leopold and John Il. BOllcman to eject
Charles H. Blake from No 30 WashlngtOn-ave.,
which was test of their claim to property worth
$500, 900 in Washington, Portland WIllOughby,
DcKalb and Waycrly-avcs UNFOLDING the General
Term of the Supreme Court, which reversed Il de-
csiUn OF the lower court III favor OF the plaintiffs
B this decision of the Court of Appeals the present
occupants of the property assured of their title.
Ma, or Low and the members of the Board of AL
dcpnCL were served with writs Of nandamils yes
t.Idh! directing the rocanvaSSng ana correcting OF
the election returns for the sixth Election District
OF the Twentieth Ward tor Justice Of the Peace in
District.