New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-10
seDted to his widow as slight compensation for

her loss.
A LAWYER ARRESTED.
Aman who described hmselfa as John BVanZardt
n lawyer. of No 81 Broadway. was arrested yester
day charge ofusing the United states mails 10 ex
tort money from Gould * Osborn, real estate dealers
ofAsbury Park, n. j. The letter which was ef0un'
dation of the charge referred to two dollar OH
which the writer had found to be stamped WIN the
name of the firm. He informed them that sucn
stamping was i'm violation of the United States
law and offered. il is charged TO surrender the note
il he was treated with iberality by the firm. Van
| Zandt was taken before Commissioner Lyman lie
deposited $3.50, and was released pending eXaml-
nation.
RED PEPPER THROWN IN A MANS EYES:
Gustave Verona, n tobacco broker at No %
Pine-st., yesterday caused the arrest on warrant
for assault Of Alfred 5. Jafie tobacco dealer at
No. Courtlandt-st. In the Police Court the com
plainant said that check for $40 made by. the
defendant TO Joaquin Mariana Aguero had been
protested aud been placed in his hands for collec-
ton. He called on Jac several times, and finally
he accused Jafle of dishonesty; On Friday night
| he called at Jafie's store aud was confronted by
Jahe, who dashed handful of red pepper IN his
| eyes He ran blinded to the street and managed to
! reach his home where he suffered intense agony
| throughout the night. The defendant put in a
general denial and asserted that, at the time M IN
question, he was not at his place of business. lie
furnished bail in the sum of $1,000 for examna-
ton on Tuesday.
BROOKLYN
The Rev. T. NJ. Foster, Chaplain General of the
Grand Army of the Republic, will preach at the
Hanson Place NJ f. Church. this morning.
The will of the late William Engeman, proprietor
of the Brighton Beach race track yesterday was
admitted to probate by Surrogate Bergen.
The report that three cases of smallpox had
broken out in New-Utrecht is donled by justice
Cornelius Ferguson who says that the town was
never in better sanitary condition.
Colonel Hamilton, commanding at Fort Hamilton,
intends repeating the experiment with the new
dynamite gun this week. He has asked permission
to use old Fort Lafayette as target
Police Commissioners Sutler and Powell, 'of New
Lots, have been reinstated by decision of the
Court of Appeals. This is regarded as q triumph
for the Mclaughlin Democracy.
The Hebrew Orphan Asylum, at Electromagnetic.
of scarlet fever. There have been no deaths and
the doctors do not fear that 1t will spread.
King David Lodge No. 10, of the Grand United
Order of the Morning Star Fraternity, Is the brlef
title under which certain residents of Flushing
were yesterday incorporated in the Supreme Court.
Henry Name was yesterday appointed by Judge
Pratt guardian adj Item of Lizzie Kane, In her
suit to annul her marriage with Henry d. Combs
10 whom she was married on July 10, 1885, Combs
then having another wife living
Justice Cullen, in the Supreme Court yesterday,
granted an order retunable next Saturday, to show
cause why Sheriff Davidson, of New-York, should
not be punished for contempt The order arises
from the snt of Marion f, Watson against Steward
William Watson. of the Brewer House, New-York,
for limited divorce An order was granted award
ing the plaintiff amony, which the defendant re-
fused TO pay yase raft linen b% lbs sSea an
Henry Hamilton has sued his wife, Hattie L., in
Brooklyn City Court for limited divorce, for cruel
and inhuman treatment. and yesterday motion
for almony and counsel fees in behalf of the de-
PENDANT was heard by Judge Clement. The couple
were married in December 1871. The plaintiff
alleges that for five years his wife has used abusive
language toward HIM, beat HIM, behaved shame
fully to him, and even threatened his life. She has
also thrown away supplies furnished her. instead
of cooking them, and frequently pawned his clothes
and working tools In reply the defendant denies
the charges and alleges cruelty on her husbands
part, as well as abandonment, and that he served
fifty days in the penitentlaTy for beating her. The
Ca1rt ride a naal
fees.
JERSEY CITY.
Thomas Bradley, liquor dealer was arrested
yesterday for selling liquor to child under the age
of fourteen years, in violation OF city ordinance
Otto Long, a brakeman In the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad was struck by locomotive
in the freight yard yesterday and fatally injured.
He was unmarried and lived in Newark.
Dr. Rufus w. Peacock, who pleaded non vult to
an indictment charging him with defraudng the
American Legion of Honor out of $4,000, has been
restrained by an order of the Court of Chancery
from dsposing OF the money.
NEWARK.
The Harris Baldwin will case which has been
pending in chancery for some time, has been decided
by Chancellor RunyOn in favor of the heirs. The
testator left about 75 900 in various requests to
religious and charitable institutions but he did not |
direct that his real estate should be sold TO pay |
these requests. The heirs claimed that the real
estate went to them, and the Chancellor sustained
their claim.
STATEN ISLAND.
RICHMoND.-The Republicans held their cOnven- |
tions in the various towns of Richmond Comfy on
Friday night and made the following nominations |
for supervisors: MlddletOwn, John T.. Armstrong |
Southticld, Nathaniel Marsh NOrthteld, Richard |
@. Latourettej Westield, Jesse Oakley.
ToMpKINsvILLE.-The Rapid Transit Commits |
sion. appointed by the Supreme COur,, on the APP |
plication of Samuel Barton, to appraise the value
of right of way which the Staten Island Rapid |
Transit Railway Company desired through piece |
of property known the Barton Basin, have |
awarded Mr.. Barton $500 damages. Mr.. Barton's |
friends said yesterday that there would undOubt- |
edly be an appeal.
SIAPLEToN-The body of Conrad Hantel, a |
German, age twenty, was found hanging to tree |
In Dutilh's woods yesterday. lie was "a grave
digger and an industrious workman. HIS wife died |
lately and grief her death Is believed to have
caused him to commit suicide
LONG ISLAND.
HEMPsTEAD.- Presbytery of Nassau met Mt
BellmOre on Friday, and in the evening the Rev.
Mr. Winnie was installed as pastor of the PreSby-
terrain Church.
OYSTER BAY.-COroner Baylis continued his in
qury III the Townsend assault case yesterday. and
adjourned the case until Wednesday. On his way
Charles H. Ruggy confessed that he alone had as
sauted and robbed MIR. Townsend.
NEW-JERSEY.
General brakes Veteran Zouaves, Of Elizabeth
will give a reception to Colonel Charles A. Wells
Commander of Abraham Lincoln Post, No. IL, OF
this city, on WashlngtOn's birthday
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF LEAP-YEAR.
few evenings ago Richard Valentine, n well-tO-
10 farmer of North Hampstead called at the house