New-York tribune., 1884-03-24
NEW-YORK CITY.

The steamship ulda landed $50 steerafe h
gers at Castle Garden yesterday Ihe Indcpehu-
ente landed 1S1 and the Celtic 3|4.
CHARGED WITH STEALING FERRY TICKETS.
Frank Rethman, age 81, in the Jefferson MaIkge
Police Court yesterday was charged Dy HeoIge NJ
Ot1s the mail contractor, hls employer wltn aP%prO %
nratinc TO his own use large quantity OF Terry
tickets. He was held in $1,000 bail for trial
CAPTURED WHILE STEALING A HORSE.
Charles Fries was captured yesterday morning
while stealing valuable horse belonging TO James
Dunn at No 225 East Forty-fourth-st., he threat,
ened TO stab j. Cavanagh the staple4ah, t h. wnS aS
seized him. In the lorkYllle fOlce Oo'uV no was
held i'll 81 900 bail.
CARING FOR THE HARLEM POOR. "
The ladies of the Harlem Relief Society, of which
Mrs: NJ T. Brennan is president Whih d onoUment waS
to the deserving poor of Harlem during tc nSo
months, will be concluded this week AnouI nouI'oo4 oo4
persons have been aided. The work VIII be TeSuiiou
next fail.
AN ISrFRYAToNAL WRESTLING MATCH.
There will be a wrestling match at CLARENDON
Hall tonight between the japanese Wr9Sler' Nh
sada Sorakichi, and Captain James I. Daly. ne ne
first two bouts will be III japanese style, ana lno
other two will be catch as-catch- h-can" II these
four trials do not decide the match, the style OF
final trial will be decided bV a toss-uP
MR.. BARNUM's UNTUTORED INDIANS.
r. T. Barnum writes a letter to TIE IIIBUSE, IN m
regard TO Joking reference m TO o VIII ouoran
tee the absolute genuineness OF all ms lOnas lh'i-
ans and other savages. Headers OF MI. bSl4uM S W.
autobiography do not need to be assured lhu Mr,
Bafnnm was never known to entertain the public
by buInbug OF any sOrt.
STARRED IN A DRUNKEN QUARRTL.
John and Thomas Reilly and thelI ro
C. L. Jacobus, No. 401 East Seventy-slNth-St;' re-
ceved a visit from EnOs Logan, OF Orange; n. D.;
on Saturday night. Much beer was drunk, ana ana
Iacobus became quaTrelSome. Finally ne stfuch ms
Sister-in-law and in the fight that foilOWed was
stabbed in the back and dangerously hurt II Is sup
posed by Thomas Reilly, age twenty. Inc WoiildI-
cd man was sent to the Presbyterian Hospital
Thomas Reilly was held by Justice Murray III the
YOrkville Police Court yesterday.
EXPERIMENTS on TIE BRIDGE RAILROAD:
The Bridge Trustees Saturday made trlal OF
a car ON q truck furnished with radial springs,
which are considered more favorable 1or SWltclus
than the usual kind. The trial was only moder-
grin which was attached TO car IA, was made also
The special merit of this is that 1t takes up the
cable and drops ii from the car, whle IN the fahe
Grin this Is done by men stationed at the starting
point. The cable beng of steel is EarOer tha lne
brass dies, which revOye upon an elptiC plate @ ol
ron and there IS considerable ABRASION Oh Tue oIdSS
THREE YOUTHFUL HGHwAYMEY.
Sherwood NcCollom age II, the son OF dentist
of No 50 Bedford-st, on Saturday evening AT Beu,
ford and Morton sts was attackeu Py I[ee agd
a gold chain valued at $50. John GOrevan, Nllllam
Dunn and Charles Miller, each IL years Ola, were
arrested and in the % MsFKes foce
Gorevaniconfessed his guilt, and said tat Watch
and chain had been PaTndtd for 80 = 10 Tbs
money was spent at the National Theatre: Each h0t
the little cuprits was hed in Sl,5OO Dali lOr trlai'
EQUITABLE GAs-LIGHT, COMPANY, OFFICERS:
The stockholders of the Equitable Gas-LIght
COMPANY held their first annual meeting on the
18th inst. and elected the following directors lor
the ensuing year: E. G Benedict CALVIN : BTis%e'
Dickerson, jr, K. NJ. c: Graham +. j. Jerzmnanow-
ski James r. Keene, Eugene Kelly John I,i sloane
Peo 3D. XSYe m hed ana meeting and or
ganzed as follows President, r. NJ. {. Graham;
vice-president, E. J. Jerzmanowsh: treasurer,
Jacob ID. Vermilye; executive commttee, Eugene
Kelly. John Sloane, and Jacob d. Nermiye; and
secretary, ii. Keene.
ENDING HIS LIFE WITH CARBoMC ACID.
julius Lang, age forty-seven, a hungarian VINO
makes his living tailor took carbohc acld yes
terday afternoon at the tenement house NO Z3o
East Third-st., where he lived with his wife IN
little room on the first floor. They have two
children the youngest eight months old. Lang
told his wife in the morning to do some sewing ana
at dinner time she told him that she had been SO
busy with the baby that she had had no time 10
sew Lang scolded her sOundly and went out.
About an hour later Mrs. Lang found him seated on
the stairs looking i'll, and he told her that he had
taken carbolic acid. An ambulance was sent 1or
which tobk the tailor to Bellevue Hospitals but he
died on the way.
NOT MRS DE FORESTS DAUGHTER.
Mrs Adelaide De Forest, with her daughter
| Agnes asked Superintendent Walling yesterday II
she could not have Mary ITemper arrested ana m
prosecuted for passing herself off as her Mrs. DE
Forest's) daughter. The three women had been EN-
pIoyed in the family of the Rev. Caleb I. Ward, at
No. 81 West Forty -ninth-st. They left there ON
Thursday in company intending TO go TO Newarh. New b
daughter Agnes left Miss Iremper telling her TO
await their return They did not return, and on
Saturday night Miss Tremper went to Police lead
0uarters said she was Miss De Forest, and told
pitful tale of the abduction OF her
from the ferry y-house.
BROOKLYN.
Cornelius Hickey, age forty, of No 1872 John-st.,
employed in the sngar refinery at Dock and water
sts died at the Long Island college Hospital yes
terday from injuries received by beng caught in
the machinery of the refinery OH Saturday.
While going board his vessel at the foot OF
South Fifth-s. yesterday afternoon, Michael Eagle
ave forty colored sailor, fell overheard and was
drowned. He was drunk at the time. The body
was not found.
The funeral of the late Professor Stephen G. Tay-
loT former principal of the AdeIphl Academy, was