New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-12
NETWORK CITY.


Michael Doran. horseshoer has been missing
since Good Friday from his home at No. 4l9 East
Eighty-tfth-st.
Lieutenant Colonel John L. Broome of the United
States Marine Corps. and Mrs. Broome, saliea Ior
Europe yesterday in the Scythia.
| The ODD Regiment is making arrangements Tor
reception to be rendered to the FIRST Penhsyl'aia
Regiment of Philadelphia, on May 80.
| The Fire Commissioners decided yesterday to in
crease the number of men, and donble the apparatus
| of Engine Companies Nos. 10 aud 81, III the dry-
| goods district
| Mrs. Ramsden's suit for alimony against her hus-
| band C. L. Rausden, of No. los Front1st, was ad.
iourned Yesterday in the f0rkville fOnce Coult
| until to-day.
RECORD OF FINES IN THE POLICE COURTS: o.,
Returns Tor March show that Sa.239 was collected
in fines at the six Police Courts during that month.
the Second District receiving by lar the greates'
| amount.
| BOYS IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURES.
No idiugs have vet been received OF the TWO Dogs,
| Ellis Brown, of No 223 West Twenty-second-st.,
and George Engel, of No 1877 West Seventeenth-st.'
| who ran away from their homes on tuesday III pur-
| suit of a circus company bound west.
| CLEARING A TRAIN.
| Disorlerly BOYS form of the chief nusances
| OH the elevated roads Yesterday n CROWD Doarueu
| n Third-aye. train at One-hundred -and-twenty-
ninth-st They became so noisy that the train was
| held at Twenty-eighth-st and fourteen oil them
| were put out, amid a storm OF oaths.
| CLERK ST. JOHNS RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.
| The resignation If Property Clerk ST. John, Of
fered M the beginning of his recent illness was ac-
cepted by the Board of Police Yesterday john Il.
| Harriet, Lcxington,ave. accountant, was ap,
pointed in Mr. ST. Johns place az a salary OF $2,OOO
per annum
| 4 FIREMAN DROPS DEAD AT HIS POST. .
| John Huichlngs, member of the Insurance IA
| troll ran To n lire Yesterday evening at Nlnth-aye.
| and Twenty-seventh-st. When he reached the lire
| he suddenly dropped dead. The supposed cause Is
! heart disease His body was removed to his home az
No 102 West Thrtieth-st He was hfty-two years
| old,
| NEW STORES IL BROADWAY.
Plans were presen'e ed to Inspector EsterDrook,
Yesterday for six-sory building Tor stores 10 ne
| erected the northeast corner OF DI0auWay anu
Seventeenth-s. at a cost OF 9ZoOooo. Inc oui ;
ing is TO be of irregular shape, the eastern Pnr'I.
extending through the block to Eightecnnthst. II
will be owned by the estate OF Daniel Parish.
HEALTH or TUE COLLECTOR And NAVAL OFFICER.
| Collector Robertson has been suffering from a
cold for several DAYS but spent most on th9
| day Yesterday at the Custom House. Gcncral
Charles H. Graham, Naval Onicer OF me rofl, mas
long been Sufferer from iniammatory rncu'hatisn.
| He was at the Custom House on Tuesday Tor the
| first time since his last appointment but was uh-
| able to leave home yesterday.
| TO BUY WESTERN UNIoN DIVIDENDS.
| The Mercantile Trust Company Will begin Duying
| to-day the dividends on the Western Union iei Ei
graph Compauy's stock, which have not Deeh PAU T
| on account of the decisions OF the courts ne
| money has been furnished by JAY Gould Tor whose
account the Trust Company VIII buy tle d ,
last declared aud the small portion Of the January
dividend remaining unpaid The sum deposted oy
| Mr.. Gould for this purpose IS about l'ooo'ooV
| woMAS's ISnUMANITY.
| Coroner Martin Yesterday TOOK the aule-in"iN,ui
statement of Mrs Betsy Licker, forty, years old.
| who is i'll at No. II Mulberry-st Mrs. Lckef
| stated that last Monday Mrs. sullivan kicked her
Licker gave birth to a dead child. As Mrs. Lcker
is rot expected 10 live the police Keep Mrs' sum
| van under surveillance.
| TIE AFFAIRS or DAvIDs 4 co.
| ThadGcus Dayids passed the day at his place OF
business in Willlam-st., yesterday. lie was SO
| fatigurd with his voyage, however that ne was
unable to begin an investigation of the affairs OF
| The firm David f. Dayids stated that he expected
| no interference in the business of the house from
firm would probably he fully able to meet all obi
| cations arIslng from them.
| DEATH or A FAITHFUL MESSENGER.
| "Theodore,p the well-lnown and popular messen-
| ger in tho Surveyors office ut the Custom House,
| whose whole name was Theodore G. smith, dled Oh
| Tuesday from enlargement OF the heart ne was
| about thirty years old and nephew OF ex-senator
| Sekreg. When Governor Cornell was Surveyor, IN
| 1869, he appointed Smith rs his messenger, aud he
has held the position without intermission under
successive Surveyors.
| ANNIE CoHCORAN DECLARED INNOCENT.
| An investigation was made by Coroner Kennedy
| yesterday in the caee OF John Corcoran VINO was
| found dead at his hOnSe at No. l3l Nlnth-aVc;,
| under circumstances that led 10 the arrest OF his
| wife The coroner learned that Corcoran was con
| sumptiyc and that marks of violence were Oh
| the body His wife stated that no very Ill on
| Monday night, and while she was asleep her hus-
| band had a hemorrhage which caused his death;
| Mrs Corcoran discharged from the custody OF
| tine police
OVERLAPPING SUPPOSED RIVER THIEVES.
Thomas Smith, of No. % Monroe-st.; Alexander
| Smith of Staten Island; and Samuel Blake, OF No.
| iO5 Dovor-st., were arrested in small boat of
Governors Island Mt 2:l3 o'clock yesterday morn
INC after a hot pursuit from Dcgraw- Brooklyn,
bv 'RonnJSnan Hatton and Officers Herman and
Voss OF tho Ilarbor Police In their boat were M.
teen bags of sugar worth $50. At Essex Market
| Police Court YESTERDAY, they were relnandcd to
| await the presence oil a complainant.
| GIRLS UNFORTUNATE ALLEGIANCE.
Oniccr Ramsey, of the Twenty eighth Precinct,
was AFT acled and beaten Yesterday morning by two
| Of tthofn hp atfemDted q
disordery conduct in East Seventy ffth-st. girl
| named Kate Lundy. age seventeen, Of No. 400 East
| Seyenty-ninth ST.. prevented the officer defending
| himself by throwing her arms around him. She
| was arrested, and in the Yorkville Police Court was
| fined $40 and committed for two months. Her COM
| paniOns escaped.
| ANOTHER DECISION AGAINST CAPTAIN ARCHER.
! Judge Wallace of the United States Circuit
| Court, yesterday handed down an opinion affirm
ing the decisions of the District Court, which sus-
| tanned the action Of Commissioner Osborn IN order
ing the extraditIon of Edwin Harvey Wadge or
CAPTAIN Erwin Archer, rs he is known III this coun-
| try. Captain Archer Is accused oil having ne,
| qotiatcl a forged bill OF acceptance for small
amount in London The papers will now be sent
| 10 the Secretary or state.
| MISC FANNY GoULDs FIRE ALARM.
| Postmaster Pearson yesterday sent letter to
| MissiFanny Gould. the school girl at Miss Com
stocks, informing her that by sending stamp she
| could receive what remained of the burglar alarm
the premature explosion of which caused so great II
! sensation in the Post Office on Monday night. No
steps will be taken to prosecute the sender of the
| package. The Post Office clerks were again an
moved Yesterday, this time by the breaking of some
bottles of paint ana oil that had been sent through
the mail in violation of law.
| WELI-sIGNED CHECK.
| w. Livingston Hamersley, of 10. Pine-st., re.
| celved check yesterday, payable at the office OF
| the Manhattan Company, No. 40 Wa-st., which
was almost covered with signatures. On its face 1t
bore the following inscription and signatures
"A. w. Brandagie, A. w. llamersley, lr, Mario Van
Zandt Louise Sparks. per Hervcy n. Z. Sparks. at
torney executors tor the last will and testament of
| J. s Brandagie. deceased The cashier of the
| Manhattan Company said that he had not such
| an array of signatures In "a quarter of century.
MAKING COMPLAIETS OF NOTORIOUS RESORTS.
| There was meeting yesterday at the District-At-
tornev's Office between Assistant Dissatisfaction
new William c. Beecher and ID. j. Whitney, repre-
| sentng the Societies for SURPRISING Crime. and
Superintendent Wallng and Captains Allairc, Petty
| nd Copeland, of the Police Department. IL was