New-York tribune., 1884-01-11
NEW-YORK CITY.

There is steady increase in travel on the Brdge
cars Yesterday trains of two cars were run all day
The Alumni of the Columbia College School OF
Mines dned last evening at Clarks In west twenty
third-st.
The Battalion Chiefsof the Fire Department have have
been directed by the Commissioners TO oreportwhere
lumber is stored on the roofs of buildings.
FROZEN TO DEATH IN WAGON.
The dead body Of an unknown man, Deieyea 10
be a vagrant, found yesterday morning III |
wagon al Frst-ave. and FOrty-secOnd-st. The man
had frozen to death.
THE WINDSOR THEATRE RUINS. ~
The debris and rubbish of the Windsor theatre |
ruins have been rapidly cleared away, ana III OILY
remains to remove the bricks from the ground be-
fore work may be begun on the new building
CANAL BOAT CUT IN TWO AND SUNK,
The canal boat Daniel Scott cut III twoand SUNK
by the Weehawkcn ferry. boat Midland yesterday |
morning at the foot of West FOrty-second-st. Inc
Midland was run ashore to prevent her rom
sinking, and the passengers were Afterwards laAcn
OIL
MEMORIAL TO DIP. SIMS.
A committee of prominent members of the medi-
cal profession, here and elsewhere, has been organ
memorial to the late Dr. j. Marion Sims, which ,lt
is proposed shall be in the form OF statue 10 DC
placed in Central Park
POOR COTTON CROPS N INDIA.
DISPATCHES were received by the president OF ihe
Cotton Exchange yesterday stating that tne OieI ;
watteo crop poor that the other crops IN lndla
were comparatively good but that the general aver
age shows deficiency from that of the previous
year of about twelve per cent
MIR. CuTsTERFIELDs RECEPTION. go
Claude Chesterfield announces that ne VIII give
a reception to the Police and Fire Departments IN
Room No 2l Cooper Institute, tonight, on account
of their noble conduct at tho fire in Theatre Alley
a few weeks ago. Neither Department seems much
agItated by the news.
TIE G9TH rEGIMEET AT Drill.
The Ggth Regiment Colonel Cavanagb command
ing assembled at the armOry last night 400 strong
for battalion drill, the first OF the season. Inc
command went through the various eyoutions
crpdltahly the Colonel reminding hem that there
were military men andreporters looking at Them"
TIE ANrI-MONOPOLY MOVEMENT DEAD.
The Anti-MOnOpOly League did not meet at It's
old Headquarters the Knickcrbocker Cottage, last
evening. Colonel Frederick 4. COnklinG, one OF
the original leaders of the movement told areporter
that il had been killed by the selfish and un-
principlcd politicians who had connected them
selves with it for their own purposes"
TREATING CATTLE IN QUARANTINE.
A report from the superintendent of Garfield |
Quarantine, in Ncw-Jcrscy, was received by COL |
lect0r Robertson yesterday. During December ! IS |
cattle had been received two calves had been born
and 1919 cattle had been released as free from DIS
ease On January there were 203 cattle remain
ing under treatment at the camp.
CAqE OF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.
In the hallway Of downtown building ycster, |
day match pedlcr ran AGAINST the anitor who had
several times ordered him from the premises 4 |
loud cracking fo lowed and fire. with suphuTous |
smoke burst from the pedcrs clothing The janitor
asonishcd while the cries OF the ped eT brought
ont u score of tenants who eXtinguished the ire |
with no other damage than the loss OF portion OF
the peders stock.
THE ELY COLLECTION OF COINS SOLD.
The sale of the Herman Ely collection of coins |
and medals was concluded yesterday at Bangs u |
Co.'s. auc ion rooms. rare Rush medal III silver |
date 1927, brought %l5. Henry VIII. sovereign |
date IGi2 for i lO a sovereign ofEzabeths reign.
for $37. A silver crown of the Commonwealth !
sold for $14 20. The entire collection brought
1886.
A NEW EPISCOPAL CHURCH
The first Episcopal Church Of st. James VIII be |
remembered by the oldest citizens of New-lork as
l.-t Ipus sfr ptI
field i'm what is Seyentytrst-st. IL was built |
by wealthy Episcopalians in 1910 as summer
church near their country seats. he parish OF ST.
James, of which the Rev Cornelius b. Smith is |
rector is now Building handsome stone edlhce on |
tie crest of Lenox Hill Madison-aye and Seventy
fTst-st, opposite the Presbyterian Hospital
CHARGED WITH SHOOTING POLITICIAN.
Hattie G0ody. aged nineteen was placed on trial |
yesterday in the Court of General Sessions charged |
blv District politician and the owner of three liquor
stores. Mr.. Hickey said that he was sitting at the
door Of one of his stores at Cana-st. and Christie
him close to head, the ball passing through his
was the father of her child and he had promised to
marry her. On two occasions, she said, he had |
struck her in the face and b east and once he had |
knocked her down. She then bou hit pistol to |
protect herself. At the time of the shooting she |
said she was struck by Hickey, who knocked her |
down and kicked her. She thought he was about |
The trial will be continued to-day
BROOKLYN.
Skating was resumed in Prospect Park yester- |
day.
DIR. C. II. Doane, vice president of the Board of |
Education, is seriously i'll.
The CONGREGATIONAL Church of the Covenant of |
which the Rev. w. H. lngerso is pastor filed a GER
tifcate of Incorporation yesterday.
Inspector Of Police Mcclellan, formerly captain of |
the Tenth Precinct, assumed the duties of his new |
position yesterday and Captain Jewett took charge
of the Tenth Precinct.
The suit brought by Anthony ComstOck against |
lanes RObiugOn. Island
recover 81, 600 damages for false imprisonment,
was on trla' IN the Supreme ConTt before Judge
Cullen yesterday, but was not completed.
A suit for a limited divorce has been begun by
Frank 6. Gentes age twenty-five, agalns Mrs.
Annie Gentes, age nineteen, upon the ground of |
abandonment. The plaintiff alleges that his mother
n-aw induced his wife to leave him, The parties |
are respectively tw enty-two and nineteen years Of
age
The jury in the case of Bridget f. Cronin against
the Rev Father Florence Mccarthy to recover
10000 for an alleged assault yesterday gave the
plaintiff six cents, damages. The father Of the
plaintiff said that if the amount of the damages had
been larger he would have refused to take the
money, as he Ouly wanted his daughter yindicated.
Delegates from the varions trade organizations
met last evening at No. Wloughy-st to form an
Amalgamated Trades and Labor Union similar 10
the one in New-YOrk. The following associations
have agreed to join the union: The Stone-cutters;
the Pasterers'; CigaT-makcrs No.. 81 Carpenters |
and .oiners, No. 7; Hat Finishers'; Hat Makers
and Cigar Makers, No. 1872, representing in the ag
gregate 5000 members.
JERSEY CITY.
The eDelawarc, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Company yesterday agreed, through It's counsel ex-
Governor Bedle. to pay into the city the sum of
$27, ,4Gi 81, in full for all assessments and taxes
levied upon the cOmpany's property in tie city.
At the Washington Skating Rink at Third-st and
Fifth-aye, yesterday game of base
ball was played on ska es After dark carnival
was held
Michael Regain, of No. 592 Newark-avo., Jersey
City who was arrested III that city ON Wednesday
night on suspicion of beng concerned in the death
of Julia ORourke, the dssOlute woman, whose
body was found in an OuthOuse in the rear of
Public School No. Is, arraigned before Police
Justice StIlsing yesterday morning Reagan adj
mitted that he and man named Mcclure had been
in the woman's company in the outhouse but he