New-York tribune., 1884-01-24

youthful robbers fed through New CaanigScii 81,
The stranger was minus some ulnsS The thieves
pair of gloves and silk handkerchief ino'"
escaped.
PtySIsHIvG POLICEMEN. ,;.sod
The Police Commissioners EestesT,aahy, nh,b Preeinct
Patrolman John Leydeh oi tme on the afternoon Of
january 8. Patrolman Samuel Waugn u in+oI
Twenty-ninth Precinct admitted that ne vas soI the
liquor when he was suffering from cold ana eaiat eait
tion after long exposure at fire IN the and
The Commissioners fined him hfteen o"ye p"' Vs."
warned him not to get drunk again.
BARNUM's TRAVELLING TEMPLE srh.
The plans for big palace car have JUST neen 81 90 be
mitted to Barnum Bailey Hutchinson IL dstions s 10 -
sixty feet long and dvdea ha occnoed cl by the white
elephant and will have padded sides. Another sec %
ton will be arranged as place OF worsY io owbile
Burmese priests aud will contain their ldois nng
the remaining section will be arranged III sleep,ns
apartments for the priests ana at,.eiia ani
The will be gorgeously decorated ousT% Imnres
inside in the latest style of the Burmese AhPio'
sionlst school.
REPEATING AN OLD GAME.
A man was counting some change wh1cn iau iuot at
been handed him by the keeper OF ne"ss.andd "
Chatham and Baxter sts. about p; m yes.eretty ,at
Two OF three loungers stood on the corner 1n yeS
continuous throng was passing lhIee .bo~ struck
tie silver and pennies out of the mans hand,
nearly dollars worth-and disappears f ,be few
the corner The two then scrambled 5cn as ouickly
dimes and nickes they could pick up, ana as quioAi'
disappeared.
POISONED BY ACCIDENT 49, II .
Alice Z. Hughes age nineteen, tne o drank from
| n bottIe. which she supposed contained sherry, pn
| Monday Her father became frightened, as she she
was taken sick later in the day, and Dr. ;. Ken. en-
nedy of No 34S West 30th-st was sunlLloneIH' oe a
she died before he arrived. Abraham oGne%Ho1 cue
49, of No. 226 West 00th-s had been IN tne naort o
of taking choral to produce sleep. lie tooK an d
dose on Tuesday, from the effects of which he dleu'
DINNER BY THE MANHATTAN COLLEGE CilslN AtuNSi, L.
| The Alumni Association of Manhattan Conege aIe
its fifteenth annual dinner at Pinards last evening
| Dr. Edward f. Pagan, president Of the associ1lon'
presided, and after dinner delivered an hS atf1SS
| Toasts were responded to by Brother AnttniH;ny, Ati;y,
president of Manhattan College the hev. " ntl ,sn
| A. Farrell. II: ex-senator Thomas f. GradPy; oO
and Charles c. Herberman president OF the AllllIat
Association of St. Francis Xavier letter OF regret
was read from John K. u. hassatu, m Pn0''N'"' -
the st. Johns Alumni College Association
NEW TELESCOPE FIRE LARpERs. po4o.
| The Fire Commissioners and Chief Engineer Bates
went TO Philadelphia on Tuesday TO 1nspec,
Hayes hook aud ladder truck. They said yeSeeraMhy M
that they intended to one OF fnotvre Of
| the HAYES truck is a telescope ladder, when cal
he raised on it quickly and moved in any dlrectoh
on turtable The ConmissioneaS H CIeye-
land requesting him TO make the presen@talion @ VI VI
| the Bennett and Stephenson medals TO lueheh oii
June II.
| DAMAGED BY HEAVY GALES. -,
The barl, Batavia. which arrived from Iloilo yes
| terday encountered furious hurricane south , vi
Cane Hatteras last Friday She sprang leaK m anu
the ater rushed into the forward part OF the YES
saI making her unmanageable. The hatches were
taken off and after throwing overheard 800 mats Ol
sugar the leak was found ana teInpoImS m orHIino
| M fhe pumps The schooner Luellay from mexico
encountered the same hurricane, and shPPed sever
| al heavy seas that swept the uecAS anu n'0U 'i
| forward deck-house.
| WILLIAM KOOPMAN's DISAPPEARANCE.
William Koopman, the superintendent ot wee.
hawken Cemetery, has been missing since Ni9nqay
| Of last week An advertisement has been publlsheO
stating that liberal reward would be paid by sew
eral societies of Union HILL n J for any infOrna-
9 @ him. 9 M Sdfmg B6Sds .s' f. TRo who
! has an office at that address, told TRIBUNE re.
porter that KoOpman had been the acting treasurer
5000 when last seen There some irregularities
in the books" Mr.. Thorn added, " but not enough tC
explain Mr. Koopmans absence" tie was seen IN
| gTog-shop in Barclay-st.
BROOKLYN.
| Absolute divorces were granted yesterday to Mrs
| Lizzie c. Packard, a temperance lecturer iron
George VI Packard, and to Mrs Eliza D. Haase Iron
| Johann Haase.
| The ANIMAL meeting Of the American Women
Union Missionary Society held yesterday ia ~
Clinton Avenue congregational Church. Mrs. 5. d
Doremus presided and read the annual report.
| nrmher Of foreign missionaries made addresses.
| Felix NcNeelv who Is employed in the fsh-pack'
| ing factory of 7. White & Sons, on Barren Island
is In critical condition in the flatDush fiospitaI
from stab wound In the neck, lnTlcted on oHh i
dav Inv n fellow-workman, George Nagengast, who
is under arrest -,
Four Young Englishmen, who came to this Goun
try as sfowaways on the steamer Tower Htll, lcaV
mo London on January 4, applied for aid to tn
Commissioners of Charities and corrections yestsr
day. as they could hnd no WORK. All eApressou :
desire to return To Englant.
Nearly 300 men have left work in the glass works o
Hibbler & Rausch, at No. 21s Concord-st., becaus
the firm deducted twenty cents day from the pa.
! of FEN men last week for defective Work III maxim
Iamp chimneys with "blisters in them. The tel
men mem belonged to the Glass Blowers Association
and committee of that body visited the tactol;
and declared the work not defective. All the mel
| in the union and over 200 nOn-unlOn men then lei
work The firm declares its purpose OF Ieslsum
their demands.
JERSEY CITY.
large force of the Philadelphia and Readn
Railroad Company's employees nearly completed IN
LAYING of a track yesterday over strip OF hlled-l
land nn the south side of South Cove, about thlrt
,uI, Tnrds w vide and terminating at point oppost
Hcnderson-st. 1t is understood that the oWnerSnl
of tLe strip of land is disputed by the Lehgh Val
Reading Company The former company must re
sort to the courts obtain possession OF the pToI
erty.
, LONG ISLAND.
Lose ISLAND CTrY.-The complaint oi ASSAM
. against Erastus Crosby. aud the action OF Josep
I IL Tower to recover 5000 as damages for an a'
eault by August Belmont, jr, were dismissed yes
! terday.
JAMACA-The examination of Edmund ,. Lar
pan. accus d of the Maybee murders by his brotht
1obn was adjourned until Monday. He persists l
declaring that his brother must be crazy.
, w Charles G..S. Baker. age twenty-five sued h
! father Jarvis ;. Baker. a well-knOwn resident 4
Flushing for 81, 900. The case was tried yesterda
: in the Supreme Court fQueens County before ;ude
q | Barnard and a Jury. After hearing the evfdenc
c Jrdee barnard directed the jury to find a verde
for the plaintiff for the full amount with interes
, ! Young Baker whose mother has been dead SON
Il wears, was left the money by two sisters OF h
mother but beng under age at the time his fath'
$ took charge of the money, and when demand wa
made on him for il he refused to give II up.