New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-11
NETWORK CITY.

pressed himself as thankful that he was given an
opportunity 70 attend little more closely 70 w luo
breth, Duffy and Herman and Park Commlssloiher
Crmmins called at the Mayors office during the DAY
and took the oath OF Office
CHARGING A POLICEMAN WITH coLLUsIoN
Anthony COmstock on Tuesday sent letter 20
perntendent WalliDg. repeating what ne sald 10
TRIBUNE reporter on Saturday evening reearaIae
the conduct of q policeman OF the Twenty-nlnth
Precinct who IL charged with informing the keeper
of gambling house in Thirty-second-st OF an IN
tended raid. Mr.. Walling asked Nr. Comstock 10
send witnesses to Police Headquarters
MONEY FOR STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
The first meeting of the Board of Estimate and
Apportlonment since Mayor Epson assumed once
was he d Yesterday. Controller Campbell was
authorized to issue assessment bonds to the amount
of 5000. 900 for street improvements: Inc street
Cleaning Department sent communi nc sxlms
as a dumping place. 1t referred to the Sinking
Fund Commission.
TIE ATLANTA BOAT CLUB ELECTION:
rat the c @S5yfT aesdaH sySna 81 the ooE%
officers were elected for 1853 PreSldent, V. -;
Smith; Independents Eugne H. p roeio tr auu
nrer " &. Doscher; financial secretary A. +.
Norman captain. J. a. r. DunnIng; lieutenant -
P.rt balnf T f. ID Neustadt, n Greenfeld W. II.
Rutty and w. H. Wagstaf.
ACCOMMODATION FOR FEDERAL OFFICIALS
The Secretary of the Treasury mas directed that
the Board of Inspectors of Foreign steam vessels
shall be- gwen quarters in tho Federal Bulldlng,
aud they have been assigned rooms Nos; LOO ana
1877. now occupied by the criminal prancn oi tno
new Flero Will move to rooms on the third noor oc-
| cupied 10y hi trict- Attorney Woodfordi Room No.
1O5 on the fourth floor of the Federal Building has
been assgnrd to the Civil Service Examiners OF the
Custom House.
| KILLED AFTER PREPARING FOR A FUNERAL.
| While Deputy-C Oroner MESSENGER was making
no.tlmortem examination in the case of Aberle the
npholsterer who committed suicide by hanging HIM
sell. n bog informed him that man had fallen
| down stairs next door, and had broken his neck;
The man proved TO be Ferdinand Foster, who lived
| nj No. 1873 Seventy-hrst-st lie was an intimate
| friend Of Abrrles When the accident occurred ne
WINS lust going to his room al or having completed
| the arrangements for his friends funeral.
THE ALLEGATION OF An INSANE MAN.
| Max Schwartz, hOmel ss Hungarian, age
twenty-five, was taken to the EsseS Market foiee
nj No I73 Sianton-st.. OF the same name. The com.
oainant said that the prisoner entered his place OF
| bnsine,s Yesterday and claimed that 500 which
| had been sent him by his family had been re-
| ceived By the complainant. The money being re-
used him. he became abusive In court ne showed wed
| unmIstakable evidences OF being lunatc' lie was
| committed for examination.
FOUND DEAD IN A cTLLAR.
| Henry Meehan, age forty-hve, living with his
wife and family at No. 63 Laight.st.. was nj work
on Tuesday forenoon as ma Tna helper N
| o'clock he did not return To work. but ms absence
| caused little comment. Yesterday morning MS WIFE
| ,nforned his fellow workmen that he had not re.
| turned home. His body was found in the cellar OF
The warenonse where he had been working. 1t is
supposed that he accidentally iell through tne
hatchVay opening into the cellar ana was instant
~ killed.
ARRIVAL or TIE RECTOR OF ST. GEORGES.
Tho Rev W. ;. RainslorI, the new pastor OF st;
Georges Episcopal Cbnrch,on Sixteenth-st arrived
In Nrw-Yoik last evening with Mrs. Ransford, and
for the present is the guest OF Charles Tracy,
warden OF the church, at ms home, N. 10 East
Sxt1enth-st Tee parsonage adjoining the church, Is
beinR r,,laIred, and the new rector viii make ms
home there as soon it is ready. The Roy. Mr.
Rainsiord is young man oil me pnysleal pres
Next Sunday Inc will Oficate Tor the first time as
rector of ~. Georges Church.
REGIsT RS OFFICE NOTES.
Mortgages recorded yesterday showed the loan to
RernarJ Spauldiug and his wife by the New-fork
Lie Insurance Company OF %2Oi.OOO on property
ON the side of SNty-seventh-st east OF ruin
| ave For an additional loan OF S2OOOo TIE prop
| erty il also mortgaged to William Gussow. The
| insurance co mpany also gave loan for a year oil
$4,000 on real estate ~ the same oi" r ~ 70
| ertv in Eighty SIX hist, near Iexington-ave, fol
loans amounting 10 $l3i 900. advanced to Dir. and
| Mrs Terence Farley.
| tuprIIED To JUMP INTO HE RIVER.
| Officer (rasslck Yesterday afternoon arraigned at
tho lar of the Essex Market Police Court Christi
ana Becker age iitythree WIDOW ~ o A. NO
| the woman sprang into the East River from ~,
ferryboat South Side, which was IN the sip 40 th'
foot OF enlist; md W., ,re az, o ~ ano IN imst,c
| Gardner Mira Becker said that sho was net guilty
| of attempting eide and added that she jumped
| into the wa on tine Impulse OF the moment. Sh'
,yas committed for examination as To her menta
condition.
MEETING or THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CLUB.
: | The first lecture before the Nineteenth Century
, | Cluh I'm this city was delivered by Cnnrtland
Painrr on Tuesday evening, his subject being: The
Nineteenth Century Club; lis Scope ana spirit MI
! Palmer SAID that tho motive Oh lhe NIlctegn nv
| lat mat which IS GOOD The club Will not com
NIT its members to the support OF any specia
theories in politics, industry art ethcs OF ~ ION
IL will invite prominent men III al the ields OF hn
, man research 10 lay their views before IT, Whlle
nroposes 10 promu gate no special ism az lts own,
will consider all isns which are enjoying Ine a'teh
| tion of tho pubIic mind. The utm ri freedom wil
he allowed to all who choose TO discuss the mportan
ques ions of the day,
!, LIGHT PENALTIES FOR TAKING HUMAN LIFE.
| Two Meas of manslaughter in the tnlTd degree
4 were accepted Yesterday by Assistant Distiict-Ai
terney UByrne, for persons indicted Tor murder !
the first dsgre , I'M lanes Sbpley on the evenn
4 | OF August 81 in front OF No.. 10 Riving on.st
struck his companion on the head with bale-stlct
I and Sbipley died few weeks after. Gllroy wa
sentenced 10 three years in the State Prison. Jon
! j. Calden was sentenced by Judge Gilderseevc !
: four years imprisonment He stabbed his fathei
{ October 81 The wound though inflicted with
I small pocket-knife. proved Immediately fatal
VIoIAToRs OF FEDERAL LAWS.
The calendar of criminal cases was cailen yestel
J. | day in the United States Circuit Conrt py JUG
: Benedict. Thomas i. Powell, the c0lorei clerk x
= the Post Office. no was indicted Tor slealng H9l
u the mails pleaded guilty and was renamed nc
l. san,emce When The case of Frederick COcheu, Oh
. Custom House Examiner accused of accepting
u bride was called Judge Tracy, his counsel sal
% that he desired speedy trial and the case was 8,
n down for January 10. Colonel L. 1. Wood. IN
counsel for George D. Bayard and Ernest +; PERI
u mould the liquor dealers who pleaded guilty OF usn
Internoi Revenue stamps asked that the defendant
be admitted 20 bail aud remanded Tor sentence
They have been out on bail for several weeks Dr
no order had been made by the Judge. The rcquc'
for admisslon TO bail was refused and and the pr
n oncrs were remandcd to the custody OF the ma
u shall.
a BROOKLYN.
10 Deaths last week go, births 28o, marriages 80
"a President West will announce the Alderman
N committees next week.
IL -. .u-or,h 9tOS was stolen vesterday fro