New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-06
NEW-NORK CITY.


The annual convention of the American Bankers
Association will be held al Saratoga, on August 10
and Ii.
At the Pension Agency ye'tarlay 9}2o 800 was
paid QUITO 100 pensioners. The largest pd5 leht
was 81 .93S; the smallest 20.
The steamship Pomona wasdisahlcd after passing
! inside Sandy Hook yesterday, by the breaking "a
| the piston rod to her ar pump.
Charles Brandt age tbirty-eght homeless and
respondent. shot himself in the mouth with re-
! yolVer at No. SheTiit-,t last night.
! The Managers of the Cotton Exchange yesterday
! elected William V. King their secretary and "l-
| pointed +. r. Powers superintendent.
AdUph L. Sanger eX-plesdent of the GIanG
! Lodge B'na Birth has received handsome Soid
/ watch and cham from his colleagues.
| The steamer Providence of the Fall River Line
for Boston has resumed her trips on that line ana
with her cOusOrt, the Pilgrim, Is running regularly
! SKINNER HOURS AT THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE
The Produce Exchange viii close at 2:lo p. IN.
on Saturdays and ) o'clock on other days during
| June July. August and September, opening at II
a. m on Mondays and al 1880 on other days.
READY TO INHERIT HIS UNCLEs BONDS.
Samuel Middleton, the nephew and only helr on
John c. Taylor who died recently i 6a6 PIP
erty in bonds 10 the amount OF 4-oU,VVo aIflNeuHl
tins city yesterday.
TIE WORK OF RECEIVER JOHNSTON.
Receiver Johnston of the Marine 'National35ank,
said TO a tribune reporter yesterday that ne
should not he able 20 make his report to the Con
roller this week, as he had hoped, and he did not
now expect to do 50 before june 80, at inc
ear hest
MEETING OF THE ST. NICHOLAS SOCIETY.
The ST. Nicholas Society last evening at the
Hotel Bruins wick, discussed proposition to raise
the fees for life membership. he measure was &C.
featcd Resolutions of sorrow and respect for
Augustus Schell were passed.
THE LADIES' CHORAL SOCIETY.
The Ladies' Choral Society is a new musical or
| gan!zation which is conducted by sig. ParlO !.
! CampigllO. On "Wednesday evening IL gave an en-
/ tertainmcnt in the Chapel of Holy Trinity Church
! Harlem, at which the cantata, " The Water Far
! ic," words by OXeBfOid music by Ait, was per-
| formed.
DESTROYING TIE CHANNEL.
| The Standing Committee on tMbor ana Shlpphg
| reported 10 the Chamber of Commerce yesterday
| that the rapid dminuton of the depih OF water at
Sandy Hook WAS occasion for gravest alarm as the
! shoang now exceeded II inches year, owing TO
! the dumping of refuse III the Bay.
USING HIS PROFITS TO PAY FINES.
Charles l{sclow, proprietor OF the summer NIght
Pavilion Theatre, IN One-huhdred-and-;SlAtee hih-
ST., near Ihird-ave" vas yesterday CON
ViCtcd OF employing q girl thirteen years old TO
dance IN his place, and OF allowing daggers to be
| thrown near a man. lie was nned $l20.
MR.. HATCH READMIrrED To THE EXCHANGE.
A. :. Hatch. of Fisk Il Hatch, was Ieadmttcd
| a member of the Stock Exchange Yesterday W hen
! he appeared on the floor in the afternoon he was
! greeted with great cordiaiity. Mr.. Hatch was re-
admitted by the unanimous vote OF the committee
! on Admissions.
MRS. vEREA TO NJ BURIED, NOT ClENArED.
: The body of Mrs. Nathalie Nerea, who committed
! suicide on Wednesday, at No. 30 West Fifteenth
! St will be buried to-day i'll Greenwood Cemetery.
Ii was sand yesterday that her relatives were will
! ing to have her body cremated. but the crematory
| at Washington, Penn, could not be obtained
BUILDINGS FOR PRISONS AND HOMES
Plans were fed yesterday for the two prison
buildings to be erected in the lombs yard at cost
OF $4,000 I. Farley 4 Son are 10 buId n!ne
| dwelling houses i'm Seycnty-linthst., near Ninth
ave- for $225, 600 and on the opposite side OF the
same street samuel Cacom will build SIX houses to
/ cost $4,000.
FATAL RESULT or SUNDAY QUARREL.
William Foster, a butcher living at No. 20
! Clerrv-st. who was shot IN the head by Edward
! Kelly on sunday, MAY %, III aquarrel between the
Chambers Street Hospital. GOddis was arrested at
| the time and Kelly escaped to Brooklyn, but was
| subsequently, arrested.
40 YELLOW FEVER IN VERA Cruz.
The report brought by an English steamer few
| DAYS ago that yellow fever prevailed III Vera Cruz
! was denied yesterday III Official letters IRON the
! United States Consul, brought by Captain ,Rey-
| nOlds of the Alexandra steamship CITY OF Nashlng-
! ION The Consul says that there has not been a
case of yellow fever at Vera Cruz this season.
TWO STEAMSHIPS WITH BROKEN SHAFTS.
! The steamship rsia, of the Hamburg american
line reported on Wednesday that the steamship
| Main OF the North German Lloyd line, had broken
| her shaft and was on her way to southampton
under sail. Yesterday word was received here that
| the FriSa had broken her Shaft soon after she
passed the Main and was being towed into Ply
| mouth.
| CRUSHED TO DEATH BY AN ELEVATOR.
| At the Produce Exchange yesterday Stephen
|
| the elevators, which was stopped near the fourth
| floor He lost his balance and IN falling caught
hold of the rope which starts the elevator The ele-
yator went up and the unfortunate man was
| crushed 10 death. He was thirty years old and
! lived al Fifteenth-st and Avenue A.
PROFESSOR wEsTBROoK ABANDONs MILK
The phosOphic dietarian, Professor Michael
! Angelo WestbrOok has abandoned milk, after "a
| four DAYS trial, and has gone back to beef and
! beans lie explained 10 the numerous scientists
! who were supplying an account of his cOnsump ion
of milk 10 the newspapers that he had accomplished
| in four days what he had expected TO consume
sixty days over. lie has cured his dyspepsia and is
| content.
| PURCHASING AND MORTGAGING REAL ESTATE.
Jacob Blunauer has purchased the buildings
| Nos 1919 and l3l CrOsby-st. and |, and jersey
st. for $2O5. 900. Mr.. and Mrs. A. +. Madden have
| secured a loan of $3.50 900 from the Mutual Life
! Insurance Company upon property on ST. Nicholas,
! Ninth and Tenth ayes, extending from One-hu
dred-and-forty- hrst to One-hundrcd- and. forty
| fifth st,
FUNERAL or STEPHEN b. GREGORY.
! The funeral of Stephen h. Gregory was hed yes
terday at No. l2s East Twenty -third-st. Ihe Key
| MessTs j. b. Calvert and John Lore oiiciated.
a. tha RnU il