New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-18

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Professor Summers lecture before Brooklyn hc'enuo
Reform Club. evening - =, r-.-... o.-o,,
Dinner of California Pioneers Clarks kestauan'' e'en
Dr. waldsteins lecture on Phdias Columbia College,
DR.. A. E. Brehm's lecture, steinway Hall, evening
NETWORK CITY.
Northumberland ghth-st is closed between
Second and Third aVes.
A free reading-room has been opened in Third
ave- near One-hundred- and-thirty-ninth-st.
There were 1877 900 people in attendance at the
meetings of the Cremorne Mission last year.
New flooring is being laid upon the foot-paths OF
the Third-ave bridge across the Harlem RIVER
Tn the last eleven months $1,000 has been paid
on the debt of the Church of St. Mary III Urand-st'
IS 900 remains TO be paid
Patrolman Oscar Wavle, of the Broadway Squad,
has won honorable mention for stopping runaway
team at Fulton-st on January III.
PASSING CIVIL SERVICE Gl,AnI poed
Professor Isaac Morley and Colonel IL. Is. Reed
passed the Civil Service examination yesterday III
the Mayors office. They will be appointed engi-
neers in the Department OF Public works.
DOWN TOWN LIQUOR DEALERS MOVEMENTS.
4 meeting of the down town liquor dealers VIII
be held this afternoon TO discuss the adVisaoiI,y
of forming an association for the promotion auu
protection of their interests.
THE LOWER LAKE RESERVED FOR LADIES.
The lower lake in Central Park was thrown open
TO skaters Yesterday. Two years ago men were az
lowed to skate there, but the Park commissioners
children under twelve years OF age
TWO MORE CASES OF TYPHUs FEVER
William Miller and John Walker, two VagrantS
who had applied at Bellevue Hospital tor medcal
the physicians having discovered that they were
suffering from typhus FEVER.
MR.. Cables SECOND READING.
Tho second of George w. Cables readings will be
given this evening at Cbckering Hail. IL Will in
clude selections from 'Jean-ah Poqueln ana
1.-The Grandissimes," and the rendering OF one or
two CreOle-African songs.
AN OLD MAN DIES SUDDENLY.
Frederick Green, age seventy, of No. 21S East
Forty-eighth-st., walking with his daughter
yesterday when he was taken suddenly sex. ale ne
shortly afterward. Coroner Martin VIII myest-
gate the case.
ANOTHER DECLINE IN BREADSTUFFS;
The breadstufts market was unsettled III the carly
mart of Yesterday but greater confidence prevailed
loter IN the dav upon a better demand for export,
principally for Portugal shipment. wheat was
from f5s 10 q cents bushel lower, and hour met
with decline.
A LADIES' WORK OF CHARITY
The Ladies' Relief Society of Harlem. that was
Organized a few weeks ago, has re lieyed more than
eighty families by the distribution of provisions
and coal. The distributions are made Fridays at
n m at the southwest corner OF Onc-hnndred-and-
seventecnth-st and Pleasant-ave. NO families re-
celve relief until their cases have been reported on
by the Visiting Committee.
STEAMSHIPS FROM TRIESTE TO NETWORK.
Hugo fritsch. the Austrian Consul III TINS clty,
said Yesterday that the dispatch stating that the
Austrian Minister of Commerce had approved
scheme for a monthly line of steamers between
Trieste and New-York was probably the ofhclal
continuation of the line which started as an expert
ment about two months ago.
srspfcIoUS PERSONS UNDER ARREST.
Ten men and one woman known to the police as
CROOKED people" were locked mp at Police Head
quarters ON Wednesday night, as suspicious per
sons" They were Intercepted closely and search
was made IN their for stolen articles to con-
meet them with the robbery al No. 40 Maiden Lane.
Other arrests were made yesterday.
FAuURF or A RETAIL CLOTHING HOUSE.
William Wade and Charles Cumming comprising
the lirn of Wade IL Cumming, retail dealers IN
clothing at Nos. 25l and 100 Elghth-ave., made
an assignment Yesterday to Richard i. kel with
preferences of 81 800 A. Mr. Wade has been in
busuess in this city siucc 1886 and has served the
city as a member of the Board OF Aldermen. -, The
present firm formed in the fall of 1868. Their
rating on Dun's books was withdrawn several
months ago.
CLOSE or THE LII LING INQUEST
The lnmest in the case of Lu Ling the China
man who was found murdered III his laundry at
No II Clinton-st. on January Z. was continued
Yesterday before Coroner Martin. An interpreter
was secured, and Lu Fung, who Is held on sus-
fld not believe that the murder had been done by
Chnaman. The jury decided that Lu Ling had
been murdered by person or persons unknown.
HACK-DRIvERs' COMPLAINT.
Colonel Charles ;. Spencer complained TO Mayor
| Edison Yesterday that individual hack-duvers
were denied privileges allowed To- IyerY-stable
keepers He is the COunSel III the Hack OWueIS
ASSOCIATION and said that there $50 licensed
hackmen in the city who own their coaches; they
| have twenty-one specified places where they may
NAV have their carriages, while the livery stables
send their carriages III front of hotels theatres and
| other public places The Mayor promised Ia inyes-
tigate the matter.
| CHASE AND CAPTURE or A BURGLAR.
Edward +. Richardson. age twenty-five. of No
| 2S East HousIOn-st., was discovered Yesterday
| morning in the act of forcing an entrance to the
rooms OF Charles KOhen, on the second nOor at No
| 81 Pitt-st KOhen struck him on the head with a
hammer; be ran away. but was pursued by Officers
| birmingham and Foley, of the Thirteenth Precinct.
He snapped a revolver twice at birmingham with
| ont causing an explosion. He was arrested only
after a stubborn resistance. At the Essex Market
Police Court he was held for trial III default OF
So, 600 bail.
STREET ALONG PART OF THE EAST RIVER
| Park Commissioner CriInmins, George n. VIII
| liams, William Lalor, ex-Alderman Sheehy and
| three other members of a committee appointed by
| the East Side Taxpayers Association called on
Mayor Edison yesterday, and explained to him the
reasons why they thought an exterior street should
he constructed along the East River between
Sixty fourth aud Nnetieth-sts The draft of an
Act to establish such street was also shown, and
n the MAYOR approves il, the committee Will go TO
| Albany and have IL introduced into the Legisla-
| ture.
WHIPPED IN TWO AND A HALF MINUTES.
At a benefit performance at Harry HllPs yes
| terday afternoon, the "wind-1po was between
| "CharleyD NortOn's Unknown, weight 233 pounds,
| for a small purse The men spared cautiously for
| some time The Unknown made the hrst lead, but
| fell short, and Langtry coqntered heavily on ms
jaw, staggering him. he followed u up WIN heavy
| right and left hand Singing, driving his oppo-
| nent OFF the stage into the dressing room, from
which the united efforts of Harry" Hill, " Pop"
Whitaker and Bob Smith were unayalllng TO