New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-29

w uaselt;ne. the following being list OF tbs best
nrces: The New-England shilling, in hne eone,-
Pti pom SIS. The willow Tree shiliings,
four varieties and one siIpence sold AZ TON TAO
$50 aniece An oak tree shilling OF the date ipoz'
soIS for SOS The gem of the collection, the New.
Jersey Washington cent, which was never before
Of OeEs sdS at f6e Goonia
high prices ranging from $40 70 % h HE,
Among Maryland coins the Lord Baltimors sni f,
sold Tor SAT others reaching prices ranging HON
$50 to $40.
FOUND IN A COUNTERFElTERS TRUNK.
A trunt filled with variety of articles many OF
which were apparently countorfeiters tools, was
orensd last might at the roous of the Secret Ser1ce
Agents in the Federal Buing ey UnlSt a. T.
Abraham f. Baldwin, at No: 129 BsecL ,r-ss.
Bald win had neglected to pay his rent ana jester
day CITY Marshal Slater under authority OF war
rant of dispossessal was engaged III putting ny
household goods into the street. me MSrsl IA
used in cuunterfeiting, ana he informed Superln..
tendeut Walllng of that fact. MI WalEng sent
word to Mr. Drlmmond, and Detectve mc3 Suo
Bleecker-st. He arrested Baldwin who is over
fifty years OF age, and vi Respectable appeaLasGe.
He protested that he innocent and SAID that ne
was dry goods merchant Counterfeit COINS were
found in his possession. He said that MS WHO was
in Syracuse and requested that she be sent lot
Chief Drummond telegraphed to her lour nus
band is IN jail and your things on tne nae" AZ.
Come home" No answer was received 10 thls
cheerful message. :. -.
BALDWIN as arrested at so late an hour in the
afternoon that no Commissioner was sitting and ne
was taken at once to Ludlow Street Jan; MS
trunk two valises and some boxes, were sahen W
Mr. Drummond's office. When opened they were
found 10 contain large numDer-perhsPs 1 ~
plaster moulds for the manufacture OF IV-cent,
a5-ceut and 50-cent American coins ana lucent
Canani.n coins There we're more mOulds than tho
Secret Service agents bad ever seen before 4iun,
dreds Of partly finished lOcent piece, were oSh,
carefully wrapped in paper. Block-tln, Daoplt
metal antimony and copper for use in making the
interior of the coins were also found large Jar
contained potassium cyanite a strong poison USED IN
mixing the metals. There also appeared evidences
that the owner OF the trunk had NJ one tline en-
loved property. Six or eight albums most OIL lneln
Containing family pictu res several Bibles from ah
ancient volume to one presented TO my daugh-
TERI: a handsomely bOund prayer book; business
cards Of A. F. Baldwin. at one t' med 81 saotber
in Warren-st.. this city, engaged III
sewing machine appliances fancy sIueeS 9 pss
| and ornaments, and finally motto uoa bl as
Onr H1ms" were taken from the trunk; Inc de-
tectives said that lathe such as is used IN coulter
| feiting was found IN BaIwins room'
LAST HoNORS TO YOUNG MR.. STRIKER.
| In the old village of Bloomingdale. and nestled
| amid dense shrubbery and over-arching trees anu
| directly on the banks of the Hudson Kller Is stu-
ated The Striker Homestead. Its location IS better
known now as Fifty second-st. and eleventh ave;
| IL was here that yesterday the last funeral
Of Joseph N. EametH Striker, the young man
| who was drowned IN Saratoga Lake last MONDAY
where he spending his honeymO2mn. ne ne
services were conducted by the Rev; Mr.. Delano oil
Ohio distant relative of the family. At the con-
cusion of the services the procession OF noufne,s
passed drought the is old aud
beautiful draperies gaze for the last time on me
body, which was enca7ed IN oue plush caShet Will
| heavy silver trimmings. The floral offerings were
| numerous About fifty carriages followed inc
hearse 10 the family vaults IN Trinity Cemetery al
One-hundred- and fifty second ST. and lenth-ave
| The chief mourners were Mrs. Joseph W. Lametti
Striker. L. L. Striker, James Alexander otflKef a1G
| wife, Mr.. aud Mrs. Garrt j. Moulton, Mrs. Mary
! Northrup and Mrs W. F. Hayemeyer.
| A BOLD JUMP FOR LIBERTY AT THE ToMBs.
| John Rogers. ago twenty of No 337 East Sever o.
feminist. and John Kelly, age thirty-three OF NO.
| 3O6 Bowery were arrested about midnight on nes-
day for robbinI William II. Kerr, sch9OI tetcneI
at Stanhopt =. j.. of silver watch ana aDo9, flo
| In money. They were brought To the lohDs oLce
| Court Yesterday afternoon and an examination was
| TO have been held. While waiting INSIDE the Tall-
ing, Rogers. who ls tall and SLIM suddenly sprang
| over the counter and before he could be prevented
had bounded through tE Iily WINDOW tna t Is no. ,
| protected by iron bars In his descent from w
window to the grass plot which suTIot'pds 'e otu
| ing a distance of about twenty feet, ms struck
| window-sash With a leap he cleared the IRON raiI-
| ing and he ran like deer through frankllh-st: as
he tnrned out of Centre-st a dozen police oniceis
| reached the sidewalk and gave chase tn ;he leet,
| footed fugitive. He seemed 10 have his plan wen
| laid aud managed to elude his pursuer% poing
through Franklin to Baxter-st. he turned nor ahu
then ran around into Bayard-st. Az lng ou,neass
| corner of these thoroughfares as Wes Subsequently
| he entered liquor store, anu
excited pufsuers had passed by he went out Dy way
of a side door and retTacing his steps, went GOWN
1 Baxter-st. and disappeared.
| PITPILS IN THE TONIC SOFIA SYSTEM
The friends and delegates of the Sofia move;
| ment met Yesterday afternoon, at Grammar SchCoI
| AZ IN West Twenty-fourth-st. Trials In sgnt
readings under the direction of /. L. Stewardwe were
| very successful notes. and even duet we're written
| on The backbo instantly erased and the Drlei'
oassng glimpse was enough TO enable the Gu ildIen
500 bemg present to sing the notes correctly. - he
| Mopuola song, composed IN I2h"
| Snl.Fa by the girls of the h.ak
gao Seminary. in the Sandwich Islands was
suno Inv the scholars; only one error being MADE
dine MI Steward said, to the girls having made TOO
0uick time in their song. The principal advantage
Claimed for this method over the one now IN vogue
ia Its great simplicity and the ease with when pu
nils acuire the no:es. before tho handWorK III III
strumenta al music Is undertaken.
At q o'clock, tea meeting the grand feast oil the
| convention was celebrated. After this dlSsipa,
| lion the evenings enteT anment comprised vocal
and instrument al music with demonstration II the
Sol ia system. pupils from the Bethany mission
Sunday School being selected as good subjects ior
| the experiment.
| ALMOST SUFFOCATED BY GAS.
| Tho NIGHT clerk at the Hotel Everett, in Chatham
AZ vas Informed at an early hour this rnlng that
a smell of gas HAD been noticed on tbs toD moor OF
the hotel IL appeared t. proceed from room NO;
| ~ The door of that room was broken OPEN ana
the occupant, Smith Wilcox, OF White Plains, was