New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-30
NETWORK CITY.

| NETWORK CITY.
| ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF WOMAN
| Carrie F. Hewitt, age thirty-nve, OF NO. llO west
| Thirty ninth-st while temporarily insane yesIer-
| day. attempted suicide by cutting her throat one
was sent to Roosevelt Hospital in precarious con-
| ditlOn.
| DEATH FROM TYPHUs FEVER.
| Deputy Coroner MESSENGER Yesterday made an
AUTOPSY on the body of Pauline 'rmann, q sHi
| of sixteen who had died on the previous Day az
Roosevelt Hospital 1t was found that she dled Oh
| typhus fever
VETERAN VOLUNTEERS TO MEET.
The annual meeting OF the !3d New org Veteran
| Volunteers-the I'd New-York Fire Iouaves-
| will he held at Pythagoras Hall on Wednesday
| evening 1t will be the twenty-second anniversary
| of the organization of the regiment
THE ARREST OF II. p. SHANNON,
HIP. Shannon alias Thomas Rogers, who IS held
| by the Richmond. Va. authorities on Suspicion Oh
| being an accomplish in murder commlttsd last
| summer during riot on an excursion barge AZ
Eilzabcthport n. j. is Thought by Superlniehutnt
Walling to be innocent of any connection WIN that
| crime
| ALL SOULS PULPIT STILL VACANT
| II ia denied that the congregation of All Souls
| Church have extended a call to the Rev; Charles
| W. Wendte, the pastor OF the ChanninH Mehorlal
Church at Newport, X. |. A call viii not be ex-
| tended to any clergyman until June noxt, when me
| Board of Trustees will select minister to succeed
| the late DR.. Bellows
| A VERY PRIMITIVE CHECKER-B0ARD: ,
! rude game of checkers was beng played on the
sidewalk in Wes,-st. yesterday, by two 'longshore-
| men who were surrounded bY small crowd. ne
snuares were marked out with charcoal on the flag
InS and The pieces used were bits of coal and red
brick.
| DEATH FROM DOSE OF CARBOIIC ACID.
| Coroner Merke was yesterday requested 10 hoid
| an induest on the body OF Clara Wanamaker, age
| three who died at her home No. 546 West fottieil-
| ST. from dose of carbOlic acid admin, tered by
| mistake The attending physician reported that no
! one was to blame
| BODY FOUND IN THE EAST RIVER.
| The body of an unknown man, about thlftV.n'e
years old was found yesterday in the East RIVER,
| at the foot of Tweutysixth-st. lie was dressed III
| a mixed tweed suit and black diagonal 0vercoat.
| A knife, watch and five lager beer checks were
| found in the pockets The body was taken TO the
! Morgue.
| A CHILD THROWN INTO CEsSPooL.
DANNY Coroner MESSENGER made an autopsy yes
| terIay afternoon on the mutilaed body OF chlld
| which had been found in cesspool IN the rear OF
No 1872 West Nlneterntll-s Inc autopsy sno onS.
that the child was alive when thrown lnto inc cess
| nool string was fastened around the body ana
to 1t was attached bag hlied with stones 10 make
| the body sink.
| IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING BY THE THOUSAND.
| Eight European steamships landed 6,OOI lmlnl-
grants at Castle Garden yesterday. nc steamship
City of Paris, from Liverpool landep No. cue
| Egypt from Liverpool, 1,20f; tho boilVia' itoih
| Glasgow 992: the Britannia, IRON Liverpool oI1 ;
the Rhein, from Bremen, 773; th" state Of Nevada
from Ola gov. 5S3; the swift ,rian'!, from AMI
werp, 431, and the Devon, from Bristol, %.
| AIDING POLITICIANS WIDOW.
Charles b. ackie, the late Clerk OF tn Court oil
Special Sessions, although in me receipt Oh a g4ou
salary for several years. ieft his family almost dcS-
| titute at his death. policy Of lie insurance ior
50 600 is about all that the widow OF the dead man
| has An effort is being made by some OF ME-
RIackie's political friends to mducc the Police Jus
| tices to elect some who will give the WIDOW
| certain sum for the remainder Oh DIS uheApieu
| term.
PASSENGERS BY THE BRIrANNIc.
| The White star steamship Britannia arrived IN
| this port from Liverpool YESTERDAY bringing lo1
| cabin passengers Size also brought 0lJ Storage
| nassengers. Among those in the cabin were Isaac
| Bell ir wife and family ex-Mayor A. b. torWood,
Of Lverpoo the Rey j. H. MarquSs If boTlor
Wyndham and daughter, Charles Pflestiy' Horace
| Plnnkett, A. &. Roche and A. SartoTus
BOYS AMBITION CHECKED
| Edward Garrett, age thirteen, whose father IlVes
M Sumnervllle One-and-a -half miles from Boston,
| disappeared from his home WITHIN the past week,
under the inspiration OF dime novels taxing WIN
| him $500 with which he contemplated buying
| farm near Albany. lie was arrested IN hotel III
Canal-st with nearly all the money III bis posses
| siOnt Yesterday bis relatives declined TO press
| comulaint against him at the lombs Polcc Court,
and Le was discharged by Justice W ute Oh promls-
| ing not to offend again.
BROOKLYN.
| The Stuyyesant Avenue Miller Men Orial Church.
| of which the Rev =. Miller hagcman Is pastor. was
| opened for worship last evening. The necessary
funds for building the churcl were oDtaineu
through the personal eXcrtlOns OF Mr.. Hageinah.
The Rev. Henry A. Powell, formerly OF the Old
Bushwick Reformed Church, preached MS hrst ser
mon yesterday as pastor OF the Lee Avenue Con
gregational Church, in which he has succeeded the
Rev. w. +. Gratis.
The burglar whose mulfled footsteps are not heard
at any place he visits aud whose deprcdatlons the
police have thus far been unable TO stop, mace MS
customary visits yesterday morning 10 several more
houses III Fort Greene place.
| Patrick Walsh age twcnty-three of D)uglas-st
| and Four have arrested yesterday upOr thc
charge OF assuming Mrs. Ellen summons, OF NO.
$40 fresident-st near his home at an carly hour
yesterday morning.
man about thrty-fve years OF age regslered
nnder the name of +. W. Baxter ut Browns Hotel
Nos 20 and 80 Fulton-st., az . a. m yesterday. AT
7 D. ID his room was Opeued and Baxter was i0nnd
living dead in bed. 1t was thought that he dled
from natural causes.
The Rev. Miss Anna Oliver preached her farewell
sermon Yesterday as pastor of the Wllloughby Ave
nue. Methodist Episcopal Church, which she mas
controlled for four years me churcn edincG wi
rians. Miss Oliver Will not leave the ministry, DuC
she ma teach for time before again occupying
the pulpit.
The condemned coored murderer, Alexander JEFF
ferson now in Raymond Street jail, whose counsel
mas taken his case To the General Term OF the SUI
| preme Court, has written public letter, IN when
he says that he regrets the wrongful acts OIL ms lie.
| lie is trying to atone for his crimes, ana has re-
| pented truly and sincerely. lie does not care
whether he hasa trial or not, and has de-
termlned TO meet his fate Ike man.
Policeman McAvery OF the Fourth Police Pre-
cinct attempted TO arres. John Marsh age twenty,
| of Steube ST. and Dekalb-aye. yes erday alte' :
| noon for assaulting Policeman McNeailS, on APrli
| 49, Marsh, who belongs to the jackson Hollow
| with stone. With the aid of Policeman Quinn,
McAvery managed to get his prisoner 70 ne yrt,o
| Avenue Police station. McAVeIy lhch WchU 10 tho
| Cumberland street Hospital aud found that he had
| received a slight conclusion OF the Drain
An affray took place yesterday morning between
| five men at Smith aud Warren sts, Brooklyn, IN
| which one of them, William Walker OF No la
Smith-st., was stabbed in the left breast with q
, | pocket knife He taken 10 the Long Island
| College Hospital. IL was thought that the wound
had pene traied his left lung. The other four men,
| | Thomas Gill, age TWENTY-FIVE, OF NO 3|L warren,
ST.; Joseph Larkin age twenty-iour. OF No 3So
Warren-st.; Timothy Coffee, age seventeen, OF NO.
1916 Doug asst and Michael Morrlssey ,age twenty,
, | of No. III Wyckoff-st., were arrested. large
nocket-knie picked up the scene OF the ARRAY
. with which II is believed the stabDDg was done, IL
: | fhnnQht 10 belong 10 Coffee.