New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
MURDERED WITH A JACK-KNlFE
FATAL RESULT OF A DARKROOM sCUFFLE.
RENEWING An ELECTION oUARRE1-wHAT THE
.trTOpcy SHOWED.

RENEWING AN Election oUARREL-WilAI THE
AUTOPSY SHOWED.
A Eouor-store AT No 404 Canal-st is kept by
Mark Thomas, and is freq uented by number Oh
disorderly persons who live in the neighborhood.
Shortly after midnight yesterday morning while
fhe place was crowded with young men, more or
less intoxicated Joseph Mcclure an express driver
yasstabbed TO death IN the breast during ghs wsn
years old. He is tall and fair-haired, with German
features. He is printer, and Ike his vic'im' Is
unmarried. -,
Mcclure, in company with Thomas Z. Sullivan,
of No. Ss Kng-st.; James Moore, of No. is Beach
ST.; John Roach of No go Lsight-st; and James
Ward were in Thomas's places at midnight drinA-
ing and carousing. friendly tusse between NC
CURE and sullivan was ahordmg amusemen t ioL
the crowd when Busch entered the bar-room. Win
him were his brother Louis and Henry, and friend
John Wallace. Busch and Mcclure We're enemies,
their animosity dating from last election day, when
Busch was knocked down and left senseless as ne
believed by Mcclure and his friends, at Lalght ana
Canal SITS. When the men mel IN the liquor store
they immediately renewed tne olo quaiieii en- sI
words they came TO blows and general scuIne iql-
lowed which was participated in generally In the
fight Busch was thrown TO the floor by McGnlreS
who was trying to choke HIM. when Busch secured
n knife with which he stabbed the young
lIishman in the left side. The how OF blooa ana
the cries of the wounded man stopped the hghting,
and an effort was made by most of the dsturbers 10
escape, which WAS prevented by the prompt arrival
of the police. Busch after doing his murderous
made his way to his home No. 64 Nanck-st.
When the police reached the hquor-store Mcclure
was dead. na
locked up in the Leonard Street Police Station IN
company with his brothers and Wallace, Koach
Sullivan Moore and Ward. lie admitted that he
bad stabbed Mcclure while the latter was choking
HIM. he said he did not know how he procured the
knife, and insisted that he only STARRED nm once
He seemed unconcerned about the deed. ne pris-
oners were taken to court and committed 10 the
Tombs. Ward is dyer, Louis Busch, butcher
Henry Busch an Roaen baI printer
Coroner Kennedy allowed the body OF the dead
man to be taken to his home No Is kenwiick-stj;
In the afternoon he made an autopsy, when showed
that the blow which had killed Mcclure hao
driven the knife straight through the breast bone
until the point of the blade penetrated the heart;
The weap0n was an ugly one, five inches long, and
an inch and half wide. Dr. Donlln remarked on
the singularty of the wound, and the strehgih,l III
necessarily took TO force the knife through the
breast bone which was itself a quarter OF an men
IN thickness.
ADMITTING A STRIKE TO BE FAILURE.
CThe strike in Straiton & Storms cigar factory
has been declared of by Cigarmakers' Progressive
Union No. l. and sixty of the 1,200 cigarmakers
who went on strike have returned TO work, after
an idleness of nearly four months. Az meeting Oh
the Frederick Halter Union the secretary mace
financial statement in regard TO the strike, snow,
mo that il had cost the unions ISL 900. He added
that under the scale of prices which the men no"
ings are not over SIS a week. AT this rate the loss
10 the strikers ill wages has been III the hei9npoI-
hood of $1J0000. resolution was passed at
fributng the failure OF the strike to the action OF
The International Union in refusing 10 sustain the
strike and furnishing the firm with hands TO take
fhe place of the strikers. The union had come TO
the conclusion that the strike was hopeless, and
that it was useless expenditure OF money to con,
siude il any longer. AS many of the men as could
would go back to Straiton 4 Storm. az nun Der OF
them had already got work in other factories and
those that were left would very soon be placed.
ABANDONING A SCHOONER AT SEA,
The steamer Professor Morse, which arrived yes
terday from POr; SPAIN Trinidad brought captain
Williams of the schooner Mary l.. Femerick, and
his wife as passengers. The temerick was aban-
,Oned at April 8. She LEFT this port for Jack
mostly of railroad iron. The first day out she en-