New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-04
NEW-YORK CITY.

DaTkeT'
Jobn tToop aoe forty-fve, an English laboror, OF
| No. IS Dcy,st., shot and killed himself with re-
| volyer yesterday.
The Gas Commission was requested yesterday by
the Aldermen to have the whole water lIOhI u Iio
city ligh ted by electricity.
| The Fire Commissioners yesterday dismissed
| Private Lawrence J. DOnohue, OF Engine Company
! No. 10, Tor INSTRUMENTATION.
James Ross, a Scotch carpenter on the steamship
Helvcta, at Pier No. AZ North River ielI o'eFDoaIu
and was drowned yesterday.
The centennial anniversary of the birth OF Father
| Mathew will be observed ON Wednesday evening
next, in the Cooper Institute.
beet from the immigrant farm on Wards
| Island measures twenty-nIne inches IN cir
| cumfcrencc and Is nineteen inches long.
Thomas Fay, who has been patient emit IN ,t tnG
Insane Asylum on wards Island comuii,'u
suicide yesterday by cutting his throat with
razor.
ANOTHER CASE or BLOWING OUT THE GAS,
J. L. Stranger q young farmer OF Wayne CITY
III blew the gas ont IN his room nj the Prescott
House ON Tuesday night, and was nearly suiOcatcd
before be was rescued.
THE GOVERNORS ISLAND sFA-wALI-
Work on the srn-vaIl at Governors Island j.
being rapidly pushed. About sixteen acres nave
been added 20 the area of the island, AMI II Is pro-
posed to make drive along the southern and
eastern shore when the wall is completed.
TIE WILL OF A. V. STOUT.
Andrew Y. Stout. formerly president OF the NHo'
and Leather Bank, did recently, leaving VIII I'D
which ne named Joseph ). Stout, ms SON as oNgru-
tor Surrogate Rollins yesterday granted citations
for The probate of the will returnaOIe on OeIo'
brrlI
RIAL ESTATE NOTES.
George r. Blanchard and wIic have borrowed
$50 600 upon property m West Fllfy-sccoud-s'..
nom Thonl. &. rl1lL president OF m" United
sites Exprc., Company William b. Barton and
Robert T.. J. Miles have obtained 'h.on years
lease of the Bjou Opera Iio So az an annual rental
| of $4,000.
worrpHr SUICIDE PLrADe GUILTY.
August Herman, age seventy, who mad grown
dependent from pOyrTiycui an artery Wlth razor
! In Battery Park ON september - lie was AT
raIguod Yesterday IN the Cont of Genera. seasons
on "A criminal charge OF attempting 90 commit SUE
eide Ilc plradei GA l,y ard fined 81, and was
committed 10 the care OF iue COMMISSIONER oil
Charities and Correction
OFFICER CLINroy's kssNTAyTs hid.
Jeremiah Palmer Of No. ~ East lWrll mt
st., John kcunry, Of no; 90 Ihud-AYr, William
Bcgg OF No. $50 Fast lhIrty-hr-t-s'., and Thomas
Carney, Of 80. 81 S.ouud-uyc, charged with a7-
sauItiug Officer Clinton. Of the IWrutY-hIr' Pee
cIuct were held IN the IorhyllIc PDlr" Court yrs-
icTuay to await the result OF the officer injuries
which are not as srrlou, as was at first supposed,
FOREIGN ro, AGE RATES Nor WpUCEp
A large number Of letters directed - foreign
countries have been found On the Post Office since
October |, with tWO-Crut stamps on them. j. D.
supposed that some part %. the public must have
conceived the notion that tho rates To- Other coun-
tucs as well a. 10 all parts OF tins country nave
been reduced Postmaster Pearson desires to cali
attention to tho fact that the reduction Is on 10
mcstIc letters only
Al ~uIz.T, Harlem River PARK Yesterday, the
festival given 90 the employees Of the City Govern
mcut was begun. IL Will be- continued today
Daniel Lchayc, of tie FIRST Police Precinct, won %
HycInilcs walk and Captain SeaTl Of Engine No. Il
dpfcatcdhIs competitor, the three mile gO-as-vuu-
please other races followed and then Peter Golden
OF the GTamcrCy Athletic Club, gave an exhibition
One-InIle Iuu.
WATER FOR PUTTING OUT rIErs.
The Aldermen yesterday requested the Commis-
sl0urr of Public Works 20 make a report on the
pyu " present duUDlIIpt IltlIItlr4
providing "a better supply Of water To be used IN
extmguishm2 fires; To state the regulations for
shutting on iLc supply Of water where CONSUMERS
have storage fac.itc-, dud 10 estimate the cost Of
placing 100 cIstcEus IN the dry-goods district ami
connecting tncm with the Cro,on mains
A YOUNG BURGLAR COMMITTED.
Officer Woodruff, OF Tie Firth Precinct. early yes
tcTday morning surprised young burglar whom
he discovered IN The liquor store of John H. Car
stems ut so. 2tl Wcsi4t., an entrance TO which hc
had effected by smashing pane oil glass. lie said
be was James McGrath, ago seventeen. of No 2lS
Mouroc-st Ia tho lomhs Police Court Yesterday
be acknowledged BIS guIlt, anu Justice Smith com
united INN M defiant OF $1,000 bail to await tho
action Of the Grand jury.
PROBABLE LOSS or TWO sCHoOvERs.
1t is feared that, III the September hurricane on
the Atlantic, two schOoncTs which sailed from New
York. were lost with all on board. The schooner
LIzZc Titus, owned by r. r.. Brandtbrrg, OF Green
port, i. J., left thus port on August for st.
Domingo City, with cargo OF sugaT-making
machinery. She had on hoard Captain Olaf
Fenng, hls wife and thrco children, aud crew of
seven since then she has not been heard from,
The schooner Merrill &. Hart, Of Georgetown, Mo,
sailed September for Portland. Ne, with
i igi Of coal She was commanded by Captain
not been heard from since.
ANOTHER POLICEMAN CHARGED WITH CLUBBING.
RJundsman Burns at TIE Molrsanla Police Squad
was Oh trial before the Police Commissioners yes
tcTday accused Of clubbing James Hughes and
MIchaIl Mcintyre. IN Carte Park az IhIrd-ayc. and
One huudred-nd-lOriy-t hrd-st. on Sunday, Sep
lember .. The compianants arc members Of the
Dudes Association" Of MOuisanIa, and they were
attending ball when they were arrested and
beaten by the policeman Both admitted that they
had Doen arrested more than once, and that they
mad been drinking beer before they went TO the
ball. Burns said that he arrested them because
they wcrc drunk and disogderly. They showed
night aud he dubbed thom into submission.
ABoLTIoyIsrs' REMINIsCENCEs.
The second days session of the AbnlltiOnists'
Semi culennia Reunion opened Yesterday after
noon at Z:3O with Albert q. Wilcox In the chair
After song by George ", Clark, letters were read
from Theodore ID. Weld, John Jas, e. Congressman
George W. JULIAN Parker Pulsbury Henry G.,
Bowen and others. Oliver johnson spoke briefly
on the work OF women IN the anti-saveIY movement.
G.. n. Brown, of sag HarbOr, gave some personal
"reminiscences Of the Buffalo Convention of $50,
and the nomination OF james q. BImcy and DR..
Henry Tanner and {. A. SlaCkpOe related incidents
Of tue Alton riots aud the dean Of Elijah LoveOy.
The evening meeting was held IN the Shiloh COUred
Methodist Church, IN West Iwcnty-slIJh-st.
BROOKLYN.
Wilhelm Lcvcrentz had his name changed yestcr-
day to William Lawrence.
The American Wumau's Suffrage Association will
hold It's fourteenth annual Meeting IN the Academy
Of Music, on Tuesday and Wednesday Of next
week
Amandas DresslOw, cOppcrsunth, a native Of
Polish Russia, attempted 10 end his Ite yesterday
at his boarding. house No. 30 Ccural-ayc., by
shooting himself IN the left ear II u believed that
tho bullet entered his brain. lie Is at 81. Gather
ines Hospital.
William Wynnc appeared yesterday before Justice
Walsh To defend suit brought against him by
Miss Alice Lamb who charged him with being the
father 81 bcr child, whose support she sought. Ey
dcucc for tho prosecution was submitted, and the
defence vail be heard Tomorrow. Wynno has a
wife and children m England.
Tho second death m Brooklyn recently from
nicotine poisoning resulting ircm the excessive uso
OF luLA-rn MMa IennrLnM Inn Mn.A ILn NLnLIm VINO