New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-26
NEW.YOkK CITY.

OF which she lay Decalmeu. lnc puPhS WI" va
well and contented.
A BRANCH OF GRACE CHURCH MEMORIAL HOME.
A plot of ground the HealY estate, at L az
Rockaway has been purchased by the trustees OF
Grace Church and the erection upon IL Oh Il Drancu
house of the Grace Memorial Home in FOurth-aye..
is in progress. The building IS to be completed
August /.
A PRIzE-FIGHTER DIES OF CONSUMPTION.
Billy Fields Goted lightweight boxer OF
this city, who had fought several prize-hghts dled
last night at No. 293 Mott-st. He was only twenty
ak years old and he succumbed to what Kills q
great many athletes-consumptlon He was a ma
tive Of this State. HIS father, 1t Is sald' was
clergyman.
IMPOSING UPON THE CREDULITY OF YOUNG MEN;
The Newly Central aud Hudson River Ran,
road Company has received information that Alfred
Post is representing himself as being authorized 10
engage young men for the company's service Oill-
GERS of the company say That nellner he hor any
other man has any such authority.
DFCAPTrATED BY A TRAIN.
As the milk tram of the New York, NeW-Haven
and Hartford Railroad which left tins city at o:oo
A. m. yesterday was approaching the Stamford STA,
ton the nginer man leave the platform ana
attempt to cross the tracks. Whistles were blown
and efforts made 10 stop the train, but the man was
knC ked down, decapitated and cut to pieces lie
was stranger about forty-tive years old.
TWO FUNERALS.
The funeral services CT DIR. Morltz Michaehs were
held at his horne, No. 204 East Eighteenth,st yes
tertlay The nterment was at Cypress iillls Gene
terry. The services of John Edgar Corlies, which
took place the house a Of BIS 150nsraw were
those OF the Society of Friends The body was
buried at Woodlawn.
A cmLDREN's LoDGING-HoUsE TO BE BUILI. a.,
Society, yesterday filed plans at the Bureau OF
Buildings for four story clearinghouse Tor chll-
drrn which is To be erected on the northwest corner
of Seventh-aye. aud Thirty at cost OF
$50 900 The building will be constructed OF brick,
and it's Dimensions are TO be 44HSo feet. lhere VIII
be several schOOl-roOms on the lower h0or.
THE FIRST DEGREE OF MANsLAUGHTER.
Francisco Spozotto. an Italian laborer, was tired
Yesterday in the Court OF General Sessions, l0r the
killing of John w. Beamsh. The shooting occuITea
i'm Mniberry-st, near Canal-st, on January q, 1888
but Beamish did not die TIL February :. James
Kllcrane, a boy who II now serving term tGr
burglary. was the principal witness I0t 'ne PROSE
cutiOn. The Jury convicted Spozotto OF man
slaughter IN the first degree. for which the penalty
is from i've to twenty years imprisonment
THE MYSTERY or THE OVERTURNED BOAT SOLVED.
The occupants Of the boat that was picked up III
the Hudson River off observation-disclosures seventy
niuth-st have been found. They were James Gun
niugham, OF No 2l5 Mulberry,st.. Joseph scott OF
No. 30 Mulberry-st George Daua. George Stafford
and Charles ONcill They hired the boat at Fort
Lee az about 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. and IN
attempting to make fast TO an excursion barge the
boat upset and they were thrown INTO inc
water
ORDAINED ny THE CHASSIS
The Rev. DR.. Roderlck Terry presided at meet
ing of the Ciassls of New-Iork held Yesterday al
tefnoon In the Collegiate Church, az Fiith-aye. aud
Twenty-ninth-st. Nathan IL. Demarest ana Clar-
ence NJ. Perlee, graduates of the theological semi
and Edward NJ. MurgatrOyd, graduates OF the
Union Theological Seminary, were examined IN
Greek. Hebrew, theoiog and personal religion ana
afterward licensed to preach Mr. Demarest -
soon to be ordained as an evangelist, when he Will
20 TO Japan as a foreign missionary.
LAST MEETING OF THE BAPTIST PREACHERS.
The Baptist preachers held their last meeting yes
terday prior TO the summer vacation. The Rev Dr.
George A. Hunt, 0f Hoboken, read paper on ." ln-
depreciation by Emphasis, and reviewer the work
Of Joseph j. Nottingham" committee Ot three
was appointcd 10 represent the conference at the
funeral OF the Rev. DIR. w. y. Mlkels on wednesday
evening, The Rev. A. G.. Lawson, who has been
elected secretary of the American Baptist Publlca-
tion Society, has declined the position and VIII re-
main pastor OF the Greenwood Baptist Church,
with which he has been connected for sixteen
years.
THE COMPLAINT AGAINST A CITY MARSHAL.
The hearing OF Mrs. Isabella Angles complaint
against City Marshal Henry Myers for oyercharg-
ing her IN levying an execution was continued DC,
fore Mayor Edison yesterday. Mrs Angle testihed
that she was sued for S02 Of which she had
ALREADY paid $27, and that Judgment OF SlO0 w
was rendered against her Cy Mad anGad s si5P
She gave him $40, took his receipt Tor IL and
asked him TO give lawyer $40. Myers, on being
ordered By the Mayors secretary TO make an item,
ized accoust of charges. asserted that ne had
charged only SIS. The case was adjourned
BROOKLYN.
.Jnstlce Cnllcn in the Supreme Court. yesterday
granted decree of absolute divorce IN the sun oil
Mary S. Marsland against Clarence Marsland'
y. d..
Church of Christ, in Sterling place, has retired
from active work on account of poor health lie
will remain member OF the church.
Letters of administration were granted yester-
dav by Surrogate Bergen TO Mrs. Maria Schurlg,
widow of the late Northumberland Charles
SchurIg.
The silver thief James Russell, Yesterday pleaded
not guilty before Judge Moore in the Court OF SEES
sOns. The indictment ID Ior pulsHuy Id tho niSt
degree.
Maggie Causen, who was found on Saturday in
Adelph-st. suffering from dose Of o1ailc acid SAID
Yesterday that she lives at Schooleys Mountain, n.
j. and has been away IRON home nine months. She
carries tho photograph of James Felix, who ls at
American House, Boston. She first met him at her
home and met him atterward in New-fork by ap-
pontment.
The Special Committee of Aldermen Celebra-
ton of independence Day Yesterday awarded the
contract for fireworks to 4, j. Schartenberg for
81 300 the next to the lowest bidder. The display
will be at Fort Greene, Washington Park Ball
Grounds at North Tenth and Fourth sts., and near
Timers Brewery, between Beayer-st. and Broad
way.
The Grand Jury yesterday presented an indct-
ment against the Shore Road, owned by the Brook
lyn City Railroad Company, at Fort Hamllton, de-
ciarinQ 1t a nuisance. EI-Judge s. ID. Morris, in
behalf OF the company, which pleaded guilty TO the
charge, asked and was granted sixty days IN when
Sheriff is ordered to seize the road and stop the
dummies which run over It,
The commission recently appointed to examine
into the alleged lunacy of Dedrch Mahnken, who
shot aud killed DIedrch stetens in April, began
its hearings yesterday. E1-Judge Troy appeared
for Mahnken and Assistant District Attorney
Backus for the people. Several witnesses, includ-
ing Mahpkens wife. testified to his strange con-
duet for several years past. Mabnken, who APP
peared IN court was quiet and obedent.
In reporting TO the Chief of Police the arrest of
members of the so-called Salvation Army and the
threatened arrest OF q" Bishop" Mcnamara of the
Independent Catholic Church. for street preaching,
Captain James Campbell OF the First Precinct
saws: From my observation of those who assem-
bic at their meetings 1 AM convinced that two
thirds OF the crowd are there To SCOT and rdcule
them and are not likely to be converted"
JERSEY CITY.
Patrick Fay of No. ia East Eighteenth-st..
New York, q teamster in the employ of Decker Il
Rapp lumber merchants, was struck by Pen0syl-
yania Railroad locomotive at the Greene-st. crossing
unstarduV eYenInG and seriOnaLY nimred. He Maa