New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-26


element engaged in athletic contests IN tne even
ing the company sauntered to the dancing pavilion
where they remained until midnight
DESERTED BY HIS WIFE. or
Diyision-st went to Police Headquarters YESTERDAY
and besought the police TO aid him IN searching tor
his lost wife. Rosa, nineteen years old. beI9re no
TO ne, on children and she was
daughter of Williamsburg grocer On july ~
she took Dreyers youngest child In baoy-carriago
care of fruit vender Her husband and fatner
have been looking for her in vain since then Inc
police think that she became tired OF the cares o,
large family and yielded to temptation to lead lie
of dissipation
PREFERRING TO MEET IN PRIVATE. !,
An Executive Council of an AmalRam alton OF
Building Trades organizations occupIea Cone ts
Hail. at No. 1872 Third-ave.. last night. FOR an nour
before the meeting majority OF the delega,es sa'
in the liquor beneath and quaffed liberia, pora
lions of lager-beer. denounclng meanwnne ,no
iniquities of bosses in general and their own en-
ployers in particular At o'clock in tue presence
Of score Of men the proceedings were opened by
lager-dst urbed mental equilibrium would permit,
that reporters be excluded from their meetings now
and hereafter. The proposal was carried WIN only
one di''en'on'' BROOKLYN.
Deaths last week. 397; births. 201 marriages.
The Second Methodist EPISCOPAL Church of the
Eastern District is to mortgage lts church property
at Grand and Even sts for 5000.
Work has been begun upon the viaduct over
sands-st, which Is to connect the BROOKLYN sIation
of the Bridge with the car-house 10 be ouiit al
Washington and Sands SITS.
An order was served on the Excise Commissioners
Yesterday requiring them to show cause Why tne
revokng of the beer license or CHRISTIAN a.
until the matter comes before the Supreme CourG
for adjudication.
The Trustees of Common Lands 10 the town OF
Graves nd have begun suit against Robert Furev.
Thomas +. White, A. r. Culver and A. Z. washing.
ton to have declared void q lease OF Conev Island
Point aud for $4,000 as damages. on the ground
that he officers making the lease were never en-
powered so to do. and that they made 1t secretly
and contrary to law.
In tho suit brought by John Burns charging DIR.
James j. Burd ck with approprafing SIoo Oh pen,
sion money belonging to him. Dr. BurdIc< testified
Yesterday, before United States Commissioners Ben
edict. that h. money was paid 70 Burns IN his
presence and he only took charge OF IL Tor him. lie
inves ed it for Burns and paid It to him from time
to time and gave checks for the balance of $3.50
Thomas Led1y, age twenty -four. of M. 70 Cook
ST.. arrested yesterday for ourageously ASSAULT
ing Josephine GetZnugh, age twenty, or NO. 81
Segel-st on Tuesday night. The young woman
was on her way home from picnic with young
man named Jackson, whrn TWO humans aSsauI. ;y
away and then in turn assaulting the girl. Leddy's
comp anlOn has not been found.
John Robins, of Vsret-st. and Meeker-ave, who
Railroad on Tuesday night, died yesterday at St.
GATHERINGS Hospital The engineer OF the train
w II. Schroeder, aud the conductor W. II. Fal-
coner were arrested aud placed under 81 900 bonds
to answer. Th " bad charge of the tram which ran
into in Grand-st. on July 4, when woman
was seriously hurt.
Mrs Hannah Straub, age thirty-two, If Ewcn-st
aud Jonnson-ave. the wife of John Straub. VINO
formerly praclis- d law in Brooklyn, but is now In
jail IN Philadelphia, went TO the Lutheran Gene
tery IN Maspelh Yesterday, and attempted to COM
mt suicide by cutting her throat and wrists with
razor. The wounds inflicted were not serious, and
she was locked up IN the Newtown Jail for the
attempted crime.
Robert McD,ugall a fireman of Truck No. 9. who
lived at No. 225 Adams-st., and who was injure in
the fire on the pier ut Harbeckss stores on Thursday
of last week died yesterday. McDougall and eleven
other 6remen were in tho shed on the pier when the
malnmast of the ship Lawrence Deap, which nal
been eaten OH by the fire in ess than 10 minutes,
fell upon the roof of the shed, crushing II N aud
injurug the men. All the others are recovering.
Patrick Higgins. age twenty-sIx. of No. 1S6 Will
loughby st, who disappeared on July IL has re-
turned % the NAVY Yard az marine. He saws that
he went of with some young men whom he did not
know, and drank with them until he remembered
no more. lie aftrrward found himself IN Philadel-
pha without his coat and hat and he then enlisted
III the United states service. b. u. Corwln, oI
East Nrw-York who was reported missing last
week, has been found in Philadelphia
Persons living IN the Sixteenth, Nineteenth and
Tweuty-iirst Wards have Tor several years been
troubled by floods everv time there is "a heavy
shower OF RAIN. caused bv the sewers being too
small carry OFT he accumu alton of water. When
IL rams heavily he water rises above the curb
stones from eighteen inches to threa feet. Last
night an association OF citizens held meeting al
No. oil BroldwIy, when " was stated tnlt money
has been collected and lawyers engaged for the
purpose of prosecuting the suits against tho city,
test case VIII be made soon.
JERSEY CITY.
Hudson County's financial embarrassment was
somewhat relieved YESTERDAY by the receipt OF Si0,
600 from jersey City, which was ordered paid by
the Board of Finance.
The Board of Alderman has passed an ordinance
prohibiting the sale OF liquor 10 children under
sixteen years of age, under penalty of , 10 line for
the tirs $50 Tor the second. and aryocaton OF the
liquor deaicrs license Iorthe third offence.
NEWARK
Between $500 and 5000 mon. women and chill
drou representing the emplOyrs and their families
of the Clark Thread Company, OF Newark,
~ j.. went on an excursion over the Pennsylvania
Road 20 Ocean Grove and Asbury Park yesterday.
1t is the custom OF the company to give these ex-
cursIOns every year. lhe party leit Newark be-
tween z aud > a. N. on four trains of twelve cars
each. Arriving at Asbury Park. "A limo was formed,
headed by the Thistle Band, composed of the com
pany's employees. and the procession marched to
Educational Hail. where dancing was had. The
party dispersed, bent ON various pleasures: AT 4
o'clock the first train LETT for home. followed at in
teryais Of fifteen minutes by the other trains.
NEW-JERSEY
PATERsON.-Po ice Officer William Roe is lying
seriously Ill at his home from the result of injuries
received In struggle with drunken ruth an named
Samuel Howard. Roe anu officer Becker were
arrestng him for dISorderly conduct when Howard
attack by a large Newfoundland dog. which nearly
tore the poiicemen's clothes of..-..-Ihe time Tor
fling the declaration in the suits OF two Salvation
Army women against the Rev. Mr. Pelletreau tor
slanderng the army "a sermon has expired
although extended twice by the courtesy of the
counsel for the clergyman. The suit therefore,
falls through.
WESTMINSTER COUNTY.
YoNKERs. team of horses attached to hight
buggy owned by MIR. Kingman took fright and
came into collision with ALI ice-wagon. Fortu-
nately was injured.
NEW ROCHELLE" jim" Brady and H. johnson,
char god with breaking into the stable and carriage
house of w. Scranton and stealing valuable horse,
set of harness and buggy. were committed to the
county Jail 10 await the action of the Grand Jury.
OI..1 SLA.c. nr 1 ul,ar IL.