New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-05

January IA.
TWO INDICTMENTS AGAINST WILKINS
Two indictments for forgery In the secop9 degree
Grand Jury against j. j. wilkins, who was ar ar:
rested on Saturday at Havana, CUBA st tne %
Of Inspector Byrnes Wilkins had been DooR-
keeper for several years in the Office OF the Electro
pathic Association at No. IL East Fourteenth-sI.
He missed ten days ago, and 1T was disc9Vered
oVerdrSwn a to the extent Of $1,000 Detective
Mcclure will go to Havana to bring WliklS " VliS
| country.
KNOCKED DOWN SIX TINES BY woMAsEG;
DR.. Frederick ROsenheuser of Eldrldge ana Uranu
sts., In the Essex Market Police Court yesterday
accused Mrs. Mary Schultz, whose !, husband Al IS
ianItor of the Laramore House in East flfty IN
st., of knocking him down six times In fr4nt OF p inc
house of her mother, Mrs. Wagner, at No ~ Bay
ard-st., on Sunday evening. The disparity in SIZE
the two the t being sgT %as made
Mrs. Schultz declared that the doctor struck her
first with his vory-headed cane, and the case was
dismissed.
John D. TOWNSEND TO ANTHONY coMsTocK.
August Muller clerk of Bonaventure. the pic
ture dealer was indicted by the efforts of Anthony
Comstock the charge of selling indecent pictures;
which are by famous artists large Quantity i Ni
photographs were seized. John ID. Townsend, the
counsel for Muller, wrote letter to Anthony Com;
stock yesterday, in which he strongly condemned
the action taken by Mr.. ComstOck, and suggested
that he might find In tho Loan Exhibition at the
Academy Of Design pictures just as Objectionable as
those seized.
REGULATING INSURANCE BROKERS.
At meeting of the New York Tariff Association
yesterday the question Of regulating insurance
brokers in the city of NewYork, laid over since the
last regular meeting was again discussed After an
hours debate the association decided not to attempt
to control brokers' as, in the view of the majority OF
the members, such control is wholly mpractlcable
resolution providing that no change shall be made
by extending the boundaries of the tariff district or
increase of the rates now established or new ratings
made on any risk i'm this city unless the shall
Committee
the last previous meeting, referred to special
committee for consideration.
RARE OLD BOOKS AT AUCTION.
AT the Cooke Library sale of books and pamphlets
relating to America, there present Yesterday,
among other buyers, representatives, from Harvard,
Yale and Lehigh Universities the Redwood Library
the Ncw-England Historical and Genealogical so,
cety of Boston, and the Ncw-England Historical
Society of Worcester The most important sale OF
the day was that of {" Cosmographi@, by Waldsec-
Muller, a native of Freburg who held professor
ship at st. Die in 1907. The volume is exceedingly
rare. copy was sold in Paris in 1867 for 1000
francs. The bidding was spirited and the hook was
finally knocked down for $500. William Dunlaps
History of the American Theatre" in four volumes
containing 1862 inserted illustrations, was sold Tor
$500
THE MEMORIAL TO THE CARDINAL
A meeting Of the Catholic clergy of the arcbdio-
ccse Of New York was held yesterday morning IN the
basement of ST. Agncss Church. in East Forty third
ST. Among those present were Nlcar-General QUINN
the Rev Drs. Preston, McGlynn Burtsell and CuTran
presentation Of a memorial to Cardinal McClOsky
on the completion Of his jubilee, January IL, 1854
The memorial is to be pulpit OF white marble, TO
cutcd with all speed. Mr.. Renwick, the architect
of the Cathedral is preparing plans which VIII be
submitted for the Cardinals approval forth
with. Tho total cost will be from 5000 to
10000, of which $4,000 has been already sub
scrbcd.
Az OLD MANS PERJURY
William A. Ford an old man with n gray beard,
was armigncd yesterday before Judge GidcrsleeYe
m the Court Of General Sessions for sentence on
charge Of perjury. lie was 6ondsman Tor thomas
L. Mullany. who was accused of grand larceny ana
arrested in September Ford, who Is seyenty-hVe
years old sworc that he owned houses Nos ~ ana
27g East Northumberland fOuTth-st. lie said that
they worth $4,000, and that there was
mortgage Of $40 900 the property. IL was after
ward found that there were no houses ~ that part
of the street aud that Ford was William Vain
wright who had served term OF three years III the
Kings County Peuitentiary for giving straw ban.
Ford pleaded guilty and was sentenced TO three
years in the State prison.
BROOKLYN.
Deaths last week, 22O; births. 100; marriages,
1875.
The Board Of Directors of the Art Association has
undertaken arran gements for n loan exhibition IN
aid of the BarthOldi Statue Pedestal Fund, To be
held in the Art gallery. III January.
William Rowbotham, cash boy in the dry goods
store of Loeser q Co, was arrested YESTERDAY loTr
by five bootblacks. They were arrested ana Two
were held.
Ransforl Wells son of the Rev. DIR. 4. l., wells,
of the Flatbush Reformed Church died on Friday
i'm Portland, Ore, age twcnty-One years. lie was
n graduate of Rutgers College and Columbia Law
school and practiscd his profession III San Fran
cisco.
It's thought at the Navy Yard that a Board of
Iuye.tiQ cation will soon be ordered to inquire INTO
the condition Of affairs in the Equipment Depart
ment The chief clerk of that department Is now
under suspension. IL is alleged that there nave
been some Irregularities in regard to the sale of
Government property;
NEW-JERSEY.
PATERSoN-The Board of Aldermen, by vote of
eleven TO five has refused TO adopt an ordinance
nrcsrnted by the Committee on Licenses, which
was intended to restrict the liquor traffic. The
ordinance had been greatly modified from a more
sweeping one introduced by Alderman Cooke, aud
IN was hoped by the temperance people OIL the city
that il would pass
WESTMINSTER COUNTY
YoNKERs.-JOhn Unworthy age seventy, of Port
Ger train on the Hudson River Railroad on Novem-
Der 81 had his left foot cut off, lie died at the
Riverside Hospital on Monday night from the
effects of the injury.
LONG ISLAND.
GLENDALE.-John Walter, age seventeen, fell
from n wagon while asleep on Monday evening and
broke his neck.
LoxG ISLAND CITY-In the Queens County Court
Robert Schuler, charged with robbery and riot on
train of the New York, WOOdbayon and Rockaway
Bench Railroad on August 10, was acquitted
EXCISE LICENSES AND THE POLICE.