New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-01
- ,u n,,,v rRmr1Nr SUNDAY APRIL l. 1SSa-TWELvE rA0H.
vorkville Police Court yesterday snd were commit

ted for trial.
PAINTERS TO DEMAND INCREASED w t,Hs house
well-attended mass meeting Vi 9a,I last night
William IT Pepy was elected Chairman. imo
action Of Painters Union No. in sending G"S The
culars informing employees that al,er 90 fo for n
rate of wages for iourneymen would be S3oo 10,
daT of ten 6ours was approved. One OF the prouii
ne1t members of the union said to Ih sh that
reporter that no trouble was tha hosses
would accete to the demands OF the unlon;; 20
circulars were sent out merely as @ 80 be
them that when the season opened $o'oo ""' ~ 70
the rate OF wages.
BROOKLYN.
r.. o,;o. 80 prootIvn made $50 arrests last
week. till
Permits for the erection of seventy.one new pu'id
ings were granted last week
Mayor Low and Engineer Martin walked across
the big bridge yesterday on tour OF inspeciou'
The Rev. William H Ford OF Mataw AVA 1;bnrc J'
has accepted call to the Middle keIorineu
in Harrison of which the Rev. Dr. T.; IL; ingel-
soil was formerly the pastor. lie Will Degii HIS pas
torate on May l. .,
Tho ;urv in the case of Allie Rumpford, the little
girl who died Mt No. 20 Bcdford-st on March ~,
rendered verdict yesterday that death was que 10
blows given the child by her mother h Mn ;tn'
Justice Walsh issued q warrant for the wohnahs
arrest.
Barratry was the offence for which John Percy,
an eccentric lawyer of BROOKLYN, was arrested on
bench warrant yesterday Inc onence Gons'i, nd.
"practising the habit of bringing grroundle's JUDI
cial SUITS" Percy is an old man and was dlsparreu
some time ago. Since then he has, In his own name,
brought suits against large number Oh yne de
fault OF 5000 bail Judge McCue committed nm.
A young man who declared by the ladies' TO
be lawfully nice" engaged board at No. i39 o9ulh
Thiri-st on Friday morning. He was shy ana re-
served The ladies called him " too sweet, andthe
landlady never thought of demanding references.
On Friday night he was missing. and SO were TOUT r
from the room of John r. Dunnigtn, another
boarler, who is dealer In watches. Inc tnleI Was
well described to the police.
At the Coroner's inquest yesterday in regard TO
the death of Augustus Lutte, who was tOund dead
in his room at No. 145 South Ellot-piace, on
Thursday, letter found on his body was, az ne re-
quested therein, put IN evidence. l6lS declarcu
that the writer had committed suicide IN accord
ance with a vow he had made many years ago 10
take his life when he came down so low nat ne
should not know where to lay his head or wher" TO
without cause and had tried hard, but without
success. to get work, and had come to the conclu-
sion that such life was not worth living Fer-
dict of suicide was rendered by the Jury
LONG ISLAND.
JAMAIcA-Justicc Belts issued warrant ,yester-
day for the arrest of George FOnteiI, OF NoodhaVeh
on the charge of abandoning his family OF SIX SIX
children, and clipping with married woman. 4 lie
complaint was made by FontclFs eldest son, q lau
OF fourteen years.
IsIIp The executors of the JW. Meeks estate are
about to construct r0nt pond OF eighty acres
north of the railroad and the shore ut the west VIII
be LAID of IN villa plots.
GREAT NECK.-Whilc at work yesterday on the
premises Of ex- Mayor Grace, August DOnloust was
struck by falling tree. lie was SO badly injured
| that he died III half an hour.
NEW-JERSEY.
| ORANGE.-John Stack, a veterinary surgeon, was
| instantly killed yesterday morning ut lakewood
Corner Station, by train on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna aud Western Railroad. He was sixty years
| OF age.