New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-13
NETWORK CITY.

at the Hotel Brunswick on April 20. Joseph IL
Choate will preside.
The provision trade of the Produce Exchange yes
| terday voted in favor of limiting the minimum
rates of brokerage and commissions on contracts.
| Commissioner S. f. Pearson, assistant to Mr..
Fink, and having special charge OF the passenger
business i was at Castle Garden yesterday examIn-
| ing the system offorwarding immigrants
| L. Perkins beat G. Fl. Clarke in a championship
contest at the Racquet Court yesterday by score
| of AZ to &c.
Tho game of baseball at the Polo Grounds yester-
| day between the Cleveland and the Metropolitan
mines postponed on account of the rain.
Dr. Murray and Dr. Nichols delivered lectures
:" First Aid to the Injured" to policemen of the
First and Fourth Precincts at Police headquarters
yesterday.
The steamers Bristol and Providence, of the Fall
River Line, are now running every day, Sundays
included. Fares will not be increased for the
present.
Mrs. .Langtry was in the city for short time
yesterday. and took lunch at DelmOnicos She de-
parted by an afternoon tram. She Will appear at
the Fifth Avenue Theatre on April %
The New York ana New-Jersey Creamery Associ-
alton met at Steels Hotel IN Greenwich-st yester-
day. The temporary board of officers was made
permanent
PURCHASING WESTERN UNION DIVIDENDS.
The Mercantile Trust Company paid out nearly
Telegraph stock, which Jay Gould had authorized
the company to buy for his personal account. The
paid covers about one-half of the dividend.
THE CHARGES AGAINST Mr.. THOMPSON.
the reply made by Commissioner Thompson to the
charges presented against him.. The Mayor said
yesterday that unless the Council of Reform made
more charges he would take no further action III
the matter.
AN EXPLANATION FROM C. G. TAYLOR
Charles q. Taylor, VINO frightened ms former en-
pOyer, b. Stewart. at No. II East Sevcnteenth-st
on Wednesday. was arralgned i'll the Jefferson Mar
ket Police court yesterday. Tie said he bad always
carried firearms and meant 40 harm to Mr. Stewart.
lie was placed IN Bellevue Hospital.
DOCTOR BLISS GETS LIGHT SENTENCE
Erastus B Treat publisher at No. 757 Broad
way, was robbed a few days ag) of $4,000 IN
David c. Bliss. known as " The Doctor" was ar
rested tor the robbery and he pleaded guilty. AS
he restored the stolen property and made strong
plea for mercy, Recorder Smyth yesterday SEN
fenced him TO Imprisonment for only two years.
MITCHELL TO MEET CLEARY.
A report was circulated about town yesterday
that Nike Cleary, the Philadelphia puglllst who
Jared badly at the hands of Mitchell, the English
boxer at the latters benefit al the American lnstI
tute last Monday evening, was anxious to meet
Mitchell in the ring. IL was said that thepapers |
were TO be drawn up to-day. but nothing definite |
has been arranged so far can be learned though
there Is little doubt OF au early meeting.
SUSPENSION or A BUCKET-sHoP."
s. III. Sprague n Co., VINO have run o large |
" bucket-shoD' for trading IN stocks at No. 40 |
Broadway, announced yesterday their inability TO |
fulfil their contracts as the capitalist OF the con-
Germ T.. j. Cove of Brooklyn. was sick with pneu-
mona and the funds were exhausted. Tho amount |
due their customersl Is reported all the way from
20 cents on the dollar.
RESCUED IN MID-ocEAN.
The French line steamship France, which ar |
rived from Havre yesterday, had on board Cap |
tain SENEGAL aud twenty others who were rescued |
from the sinking fishing schooner Roland of Cette
France at sea. on April q. The Roland from |
Cette bound TO the fishing banks, off the Newfouud
land coast, ard WAS dismasted in gale on April .
German steamship offered to take the crew of on
April 4, but Captain SENEGAL was disnclIned TO /
abandon her. as he hoped To get her into port. She
sinking when the France took them of.
COACHMEN STEALING PET DOGS.
case in the Jefferson Market Police Court yes |
terday brought out novel feature of summer lfe |
at Newport. W. l.. Kane, brother OF Colonel DE |
Lancey Kane, lost valuable skye terrier dog i'll |
August, 1852, which he affirmed now in posses
sion of cOachman III this city named John Thearl.
He made no charge against Ihear but said that |
some of The coachmen who spend the summer at |
Newport made habit of getting what dogs they ,
can and sending them TO this city for sale. Thearl
saId he bought the dog and the Justice suggested
To Mr.. Kane "A writ of replcyin |
DORA sCHERSIKow NOT TO DE PARDoNED.
strct-Attorney McKeon received letter yes |
terdly from Governor Cleveland. in reference 10 |
the pardon of Dora Schernlkow, who was convicted |
under Dlsrct-A Attorney Rollins of having enticed |
German immigrant girl into a disordery house, |
and who sentenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary. An effort has recently been made by her
friends to have her pardOned. The District Attor-
ncy represented To- the Governor the facts that led
Ii the conviction, and the latter has decided TO take
no further action III the matter.
DIRECTORS FOR A CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE.
The National Petroleum Exchange members bal
loed yesterday for the fifteen members of the Gov
ernng Committee Of the proposed consolidated
Petroleum Exchange, to which the National Ex-
change Is entitled. The following ticket was elect
ed Three yeaTs-Charles q. Wilson, Henry III. Tru-
man. }. :. Stanton. Emil Schalk and james +.
Hughes; two years-Randal H. Footo. c. F.
schrammc, Howard Bird, W. J; Osborn and $. S.
i. Little, f. III, Bunker, II. A. Heser and Z. G.
Faes.
LIQUOR DEALERS MULcrED $500.
Recorder vest Oh |
cases that were before him in the Court of General
Sessions. Most of the prisoners pleaded guilty, and
were fined about S10O being collected by the chief
clerk. Kate Conklin, who kept n disorderly resort
in North Willam.st. was sent TO the City Prison
for til rty days. Henry Hok, against whom there
were two complaints, was sentenced to pay fine of
$50 and spend ten days IN the City Prison. Most OF
remaining excise cases in the DistricAttorneys
Office Will lie disposed OF to-day.
TIE HISTORY OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
The society OF Medical Jurisprudence and state
Medicine at its meeting last evening, listened TO
the inaugural address of William Barnes the presl-
dent of the society. Mr.. Barnes traced the history
OF medical Jurisprudence in this country from 1904
when James =. Strlngman delivered tee first lecture
upon this subject. to the present time The follow
Hamilton, Of New York; Charles Meymott TT TidY,
+. X, {. s. OF London, Eng; Ernest Chaude, NJ. d.,
president of the socletc dc Medicine Legale, OF
Paris; DIR. %. w. Wight, of Detroit. Mich.
BOXING EXHIBITION AT HARRY" HILLS.
Pop" Whitaker took a benefit at Harry" |
Hills yesterday afternoon, and had II large attend
ance After the usual variety performance, the
McShanc boys, pigmles scarcely three feet high |
stepped upon the stage and SPARED with gloves. |
They were followed by the negroes |" Bill " Towser
and Elliot Bibby and George Herbert then gave |
an exhibition OF Greco-Ro wrestling; Gus
Lambert and the Black Damand" did some very
hard hitting; Black sam" and John Dolphin fol-
lowed them; and the "wind-up" was between
" johnny" Ryley and Pete" Mccoy.
NOT AN OVERDOSE OF BELLADoNA.
O. +. Smith, OF No. 23S East Seventy fOurth-st. |
was reported yesterday having died suddenly |
tlaa ffn Hf nf affIpu nf halla l
w. H. King of No. 81 West Forty-second-st. who |
prescribed the drug, said last night that this was
mistake. Mr.. Smith had been very Ill for the last
two months with an liberation or cancer of the |
bladder. Last night the physician found him sink
ing rapidly, and administered at Intervals several
small doses of the belladOna, the total of which, |
hn nni.I