New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-16
NETWORK CITY.

RECOVERING TIE BODY OF BOY. $3.50,
George Bell, boy whose home was at t pivar
on Saturday, was drowned. His body was recovered
at the foot of Ninety-seyenth-st yesterday
DEATH FROM OVERLAPPING
Charles Leeder age forty, of No. 2O2 lhroop-ave.,
Brooklyn, died suddenly on the excursion barge
Caledonia at Pier No. 80, North River. at ~ a. III.
yesterday. He had 0verheated hlmseit wnlie su IL
ming 10 get on the barge, fearing that he woulu DO
too late.
ROLLING OFF PIER INTO THE RIVER.
An unknown laborer who went to sleep on tne
pier at the foot of Stanton-st. early yesterday morn
ing rolled into tho water and was drowned. He
was about forty live years DID, with Dlack mar anu
mustache. The police recovered his pody ana son'
it to the Morgue.
STABBED BY AN UNKNOWN MAN. 80 40
Lawrence Oescher, youth living az no. 4lo
East Seventieth-st., was taken to the Presbyterian
Hospital in tbs tgsS He said that he
was attacked by an unknown man late on Saturday
night at Second-ave. and Fitty-fourth-st.
RARE BIRDS IN A BowERY RESTAURANT.
Pot-hunters who have grown gray IN the au.um-
nal pursuit of the one alleged higholder on Long
Island, may feast their eyes upon three OF tn1se
handsome BIRDS OF the woodpecEer specTsSs e birds
are alive and apparently tame
ROY PIcKPoCKET.
Charles Bodemer. age eleven, OF NO 44o W .hs
Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday on charge
Of snatching pocketbook containing ~ 90 W ITom
| Thirty-seyenth-st The Society for the Prevention
Of Cruelty to Children will be represented at the
examination.
MISSING YOUNG MAN FROM oswEG0.
Inquiry was made at Police Headquarters yester-.
day for Otto Orchard twenty three years Old, OF
| Oswego, N. Y, who had been boarding for some
months at No. 1872 East Twenty He dis
appeared on Thursday morning leaving his clothing
| and other property IN the clearinghouse ~ was
| ascertained that he had not gone back TO Oswego.
and all efforts to get trace OF MIN In this city nS'o
| proved unsuccessful.
| scAPuLAR DAY SERVICES.
! To-day is the Feast of Our Lady OF Mount Car,
mel OF scapular Day. as II Is commonly caa,ea anu
ton by all Catholics who wear the brown scapular
of Mount Carmel. At st. Stephens Church In East
bratsd this morning at o'clock by the pastor Rev.
Dr. Edward McGlynn, in honor OF the feast, and in
| many of the churches tho ceremony oil investing
| persons with the scapular will take place.
| ASSISTED EMIGRANTs IN DISTRESS.
| Justice Herman yesterday had before him MAI.
garet Watson and he- four chiIdrsn who were sent
here from the County OF Monaghan, Ireland, aided
| by the British Government. The woman asked to
| be admitted to some Catholic institution. Justice
| Herman said that the institutions were already
| crowded and he thought that native-born children
! should first be taken care or lie therefore sent
the woman aud her children TO the Emigrauoh
Commissioners, by whom they will be returned 70
| Ireland.
| IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PARKS.
| All the benches in Madison and Union Square
Parks are being thoroughly repaired ana repaIn.eu
by order of tho Park Commissioners. Inc cater
pillars, which for many weeks past nave peen sucn
great pest among the trees in the parks have now
almost entirely disappeared, and men are az work.
| under the direction of General Yiele endcavoring
TO remove the cocoons which the worms have spun
around themselves upon the trunks and branches
of The trees The sparrows are also busily engaged
IN building nests. high up among the branches OF
the trees to take the places OF the little BIRD mouse,
| which the Commissioners had torn down seyera
DAYS ago 10 punish them for their neglect OF duty In
failing to exterminate the worms.
BROOKLYN.
Henry Weifike age sixty, Of No. "a Myrtle-ave;
was FRUSTRATED by tho heat yesterday At Nortf
| Fourth aud Fifth SIS.
Thomas Fitzgerald age nine, was arrested or
Saturday night for stealing eighty-four yards OF
cloth worth $50. from front Of the store OF A. l.
| Owens, No. "a Myrtle-ave. ie was detected whiie
| trying 10 steal a pair OF shoes afterwsrd.
James Breslin age twenty-five, OF No. 90
Columbia-st., found dangerous bedfellow yester
| day morning in needle winch was IN the clothing
| of the bed. It ran into his back. causing severe
and painful injury. An ambulance surgeon was
, | called TO remove II.
| The annual temperance sermon before the Good
Templars Of Brooklyn was preached last evening
in the Fleet Street Methodist Episcopal Church by
the Rev. Dr. Joseph Pullman. Anniversary exer-
| cises will I've held tomorrow evening III Cehtra
Hail, No. 637 Fulon-st.
While four men were on the East River yesterday
! afternoon near the foot OF broadway, IN row
) boat, it was upset and all were thrown into the
} wafer. Edward Parker, age twenty-five, OF No. u
| Puask-st., was drowned and tho Others were
! rescued. Parker's body was not found.
| Awatchfu eye was kept by some of the temper
|
Shops ana several cascs of violation of the law Will
| lie brought TO the attention Of the Excise Commits
| siouers Many complaints were made by persons
accustomed TO securing beer on Sunday. and some
| OF them resorted to the suburbs U quehcn tneir
| thirst.
Mounted Policeman Wessmann, OF the Prospect
Park force while in pursuit OF runaway horse III
the park yesterday was thrown from his horse and
his right leg was fractured below the knee he
taken 10 the Long Island College Hospital Tue
runaway horse was caught without doing any dam
age, except TO the wagon to winch no was attached
, fight took place yesterday between John
Mcclure, ONO. AS Front-st, OF Irish blood, and
| Peter George, an immigrant from Italy who lives
at No. O Towards Court. George was knocked
| down. and when he rcgalned his feet he drew re.
| voiver aud hred NJ mcclure. MS ain was "iqo ~
the mark and the bullet entered u coal box. Both
men we're arrested.
| Among the passengers on Manhattan Beach
train yesterday afternoon as 1T rounded the curve
from the nam line At East New York TO tue Long
Island Railroad was Jacob Werle, age eighteen OF
! | No. 1l2 ebeyoise-st, Brooklyn. He was standing
on the steps OF the rear car and was thrown on ~
the train swung around. He struck on his head
, | fractured his skull, and died III u few moments
| The body Was removed to his home.
JERSEY CITY.
The body of Kate McDermott, age eighteen, wa:
, found yesterday in the Hackensack River near the
! | Newark and New-York Railroad bridge. Miss
| McDcrmott was handsome girl who moved In good
society. About year ago she was betrayed under
| a promise OF marriage and her lover deserted her
She obtained admission to the Almshouse, where
, | she gave birth 10 a child about two months ago.
4 Alter that she suffered greatly from sickness, and
!, being abandoned by her friends she became de-
spondent. On last Friday she left the house apt
drowned herself in the river. Search was made fol
her but it was not until yesterday when her body
was recovered that her fate was known.
9 Nelson l.. Gordon. colored barber. and Annie Cor
| don, his wife, who is q white woman, were locked
up in Police Headquarters last might
I on charge of breaking. entering snt
: larceny. A short time ago Gordon sold his barber
4 shop In Grand-st. to William Sbamot aud went L
4 New York to live. He and his wife returned t.
? Jersey City yesterday afternoon aud hndinl
1 Shamot absent, broke into the shop. packed UP al
8 the razors and other portable articles and Were
; walking Of with them when Officer Mccoy, wh'