New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-27
NEW-YORK CITY.

Unknown thieves on Wednesday broke open
showcase in front of No. I'll Broadway ana stoo
fur-lined boots valued at $40.
JudgeH. W. Leonard, Signor Luigi Ponsonl anu
Nine Ponsonl and the Rev. William lngrab;tIn'
will sail for Liverpool to-day on the lnmah steain
ship City of Chester.
CUTTING HER THROAT WHILE INSANE. :,
While suffering from temporary ATTACK Vi ILL; In
sanity yesterday, Catherine Eogarty cut o silguS
cash in her throat at her home NO. i.4|4 fiIse-
ave. She was afterward restrained by her reia'NeS
and attended by family physician
LELAH c. CARLL SENT TO THE PENITESTIARY
United States Deputy Marshal Holmes yesIerday
took TO the Erie Pententiary Lelah O. CARL, VINO
was recently sentenced by Judge Benedict IN me
United states Circuit Court to fifteen years iin-
pnsonment.
TILE WATER COMMISSION EXAMINING MAPS:
The members of the Water Commission ylsited
the Department OF Public Works yesterday anu
examined the maps showing the Crot0n watershed,
the storage reservoirs and the surveys when nave
been made for new storage reservoirs ana tor inc
proposed dam and aqueduct
PLANS FOR A NEW APARTMENT-HoUSE.
Augustus +. Holly, of No. 4i6 Madis0n-aVey yes
eray flied plans at the Bureau Of Buildings Tor an
apartment rhOuse at Eightbaye. and FIFTY seventh
st. to cost 100000 The house Will be % feet Dy
90 and five stories high, wit mansnrd ro9i: Nine
families are to be accommodated in the building
sUFPocATED BY SAUSAGE AND BREAD.
The funeral OF William Hunt, the druggist, OF no;
All West Twentieth.st, Whose body was identified
M the MOrgue on Thursday evening, VIII rake pace
to-day and the body will be inferred IN WoodlaWh
due to some sausage and bread which had stuck IN
his throat Mr.. Hunt was found at No 170 Sixth
ave-, unable 10 speak, and died soon afterward.
TIE YALE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
The regular monthly meeting OF the ra,e Alumni
Association was held last evening at Delmonico's.
The following officers were elected President.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, '56; yice-presidents, Brayton
ives jGI' and William G. CULVER, 10; secretary,
Samuel T. Belts. rs treasurer. Joseph &. Jackson.
'57 executive committee. r. b. Taylor, % +. ~.
Bosworth. 81; Thomas Thacher, II Allen W.
Evarts, $50, and Edward Is. Whitney, rs.
JURY WHO COULDN'T AGREE.
The jury III the case of Charles ii. Warren, ac-
cused of killing Patrick h. Dwyer. at No. lOS
Bowcry. on September 81 were discharged yes
after having been kept out for twenty-five hours,
The question on which they could not agree was
whether. Dryers pistol had been taken from him
before Warren shot The jury stood nine for acdut-
tai and three for conviction
SILVER IN THE ASSAY OFFICE.
No unusual amount of silver Is In the New-fork
Assay Office aud no orders to transfer any part OF 1t
day About 100000 ounces. the ordinary stock.
arc in the Office but one-half of this, at least is in
process of refining. A certain amount OF silver
bullion is always kept in stock for the accommoda-
ton of dep0sitors who might be delayed otherwise
for two or three weeks
wARNING GRAND JURY ABOUT INDICTMENTS
Judge GIldsrseeve in the Court OF General SEES
sions yesterday called the attention OF the Grand
Jury 10 tho fact that large numbers of men indicted
for murder in tho first degree slight evidence
were kent IN the Tombs for "a considerable time
without trial and that they finally came before his
court and were sentenced 10 only year and q half
In the Penitenfary for mausaughter. The effect OF
thispractlce he said, was bad upon the criminal
classes and II also placed the District Attorney ald
the court in an embarrassing position before the pub
lie.
FINDING A MUSCULAR THIEF IN HIS ROOM.
Robert NJ Somers. engineer OH the steamship
Columbia, at Pier No. % North River, went into
a large and muscular thief who was Tansackng the
drawers of dressing table The thief was arrested,
after desperate struggle. He'was recogn zed as
John DOYLE, an ex-conyict, watch. some iewelry
and 3l7 80 belonging 10 SOmers were found in bis
pocket. He was committed without bail at the
1Ombs Police Court.
WHY SHE DID NOT TESTIFY.
Tho charge of bigamy brought against John
Henry Klarbaum was dismissed yesterday in the
Court of General Scssnos When Klarbanm was
arraigned for trial on January Mary Fisher, one
OF the defendants wives, refused 10 testify, and
committed TO Jail for fifteen days for contempt OF
court. IL afterward learned that the reason the
witness did not wish 10 testify was because she had
herself been married before she married hlarbaum.
The second marriage was therefore not bigamy on
the part OF katbaum.
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE MoRTGAGrD.
An instrument was recorded in the Registers or
flee Yesterday By which tho Metropolitan Opera
House Company gimtedi mortgages the =, block
ninth and FOrtieth-sts for loan by the Bowcry
Savings Bank of 100000. THIS SUN IA PAYABLE in
five years. Miss Mary G; Pinkneey has mortgaged
the block bounded by Fifth aud Sixth-aves, and
One hundred-and-hfteenth and One-hundred-aDd-
sixteenth-sts to tho Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany for$ 900 for thirteen months.
GUARDING ANIMALS FROM ABUSE.
The seventeenth annual report of the American
Society Tor the Prevention OF Cruelty To Animals
has Just been issued. 1 he Executive Committee re-
ports that fine Brooklyn branch OF the society has
been permanently established through the
generosity Of Horace b. Clafiin and George Seney:
Henry Bergh the president. reports the general
features Of the work. The detailed reports of
Charles II. Hanklnson the secretary, and Charles
Lanier, the treasurer, are given. A list OF mem,
beers Is added with the names OF the officers ana
agents of branches throughout the United States.
MIR sCuMrrT USES BEER JUDICIoUsLY.
John Olsen, a Norwegian immigrant who passed
through New York for Independence Iowa, on Dc
tohcr ~ 1882. with other passengers from tho
steamship State of Nebraska, was brought back 10
Castle Garden yesterday insane. The Iowa authoTi-
Ties have refused 10 care for him. The thrty-tivc
Swiss immigrants who protested against going TO
Texason Thursday with johann l.. Schmitt. and who
charged him with swindling thom, have consented
TO be sent forward on the galveston steamer to-day
When Mr. Schmtt c5as asked about this sudden
change of mind. he replied: " Beer did il. When |
stopped giving them beer they robelled. but now
they are all night again"
GERMAN REPUBLICANS ORGANIZING.
The German Republican Central Committee met
last night at No 2S0 Bowery for the purpose of
orqanizaton. One hundred delegates were present
and they elected Ferdinand Drcyer temporary
chairman OF the committee The following persons
elected officers of the organization for the
ensuing year: President, Morris Friedsam first
vice president, Christian Gaetz; secoud vice.
president, Louis kneisol; recording secre ary,
Joseph +. Muhng; corresponding secretary. Jacob
(odde aud treasurer A. Herman. Twenty-four
delegates, one from each Assembly district, were
appointed as the Executive Committee Of the CEN
trail organization.
BROOKLYN.
There was game of baseball on skates Of Pros
pect Park yesterday afternoon. Deuhams side
beat Swecneys by score of u to 90
Mayor Low will 90 to Albany OH Tuesday to APP
pear before legislative committees upon bills affect
ing Brooklyn.
The Board of Audit, composed of Controller
Brinkerhoh, City Auditor Voeege and Chairman
OConnell. of the Finance Committee OF the Board
of Aldermen, will organize to-day. Fourteen clerks
arc to be employed.
man calling himself DIR. j. e. Raymond, and
advertising IN Western papers To send receipt
for the sure cure of consumption. fined 800
the Citv Hall Police COurt for falling