New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-22
NETWORK CITY.

T $500 tickets have sold thus far, and it is
e pected that the number will be largely Increase
d by the attendance OF to-day.
Of THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO BLACKMAIt.
In the Tombs Police Court yesterday John II
l. Mckinley, the lawyer who was arrested on Wed
N nesday for attempting to blaclnail Susan Smith
r of No 81 Ehzabeth-st., furnished $500 bail TO ap
8 pear for examination on March 2.
u THE LENOx LIBRARY.
, The LenOX Library Will be open from II &
o 4 every week day except Monday, and including
) to-day, to all persons having tickets, which Will b
g furnished free application by mail to George Ii
. | Moore, the superintendent, No 1,001 Fifthaye
SEEING sMUGGLED CIGARS.
| The Custom House inspectors yesterday found
fifteen hundred cigars in a boat on the hurricane
q hundred cigars in boiler in the after part Of the
t vessel On the steamship Newport were found
eight hundred cigars III various parts OF the vessel
THE CITY OF CHICAGo's ROUGH VOYAGE.
The Inman steamship City of Chicago arrived
from Liverpool yesterday four days behind her
schedule time. having been thirteen days on the
passage from Queenstown. The delay was caused
hole was cut in her forward bulwarks, above the
| water line, by piece OF wreckage.
| WORKING IN SOUTHERN DIOCEsEs
The Rev. Michael u. Lily o. F., Provincial Gen
eral whose headquarters are at the Dominican Con-
vent III LeXingt0n-aye this city, Is visiting Houses
of this Order III the Diocese of New Orleans. Bishop
Gallagher OF Galveston, haslnyited the Provincial
to establish the Dominican Order in his Diocese.
DELTA TAU DELTA CONFERENCE
Representatives from several Eastern Chapters
|
in annual conference al the Park Avenue Hotel to-
day. The sessions Will occupy two days. This
| evening the cQnVentloh VIII wines me Alpine
| quently have banquet at Clarks
THE uGHrEsT SENTENCE POSSIBLE.
Emil Hollender, convicted Of manslaughter in
the first degree in killing Frank Rademacher, was
sentenced to five years imprisonment yesterday by
Justice Barrett. This was the lightest sentence
| possible. stay of proceedings granted and
the Governor win be asked to commute the sentence
on the ground of Holenders poor health.
FIFTEEN MINUTES DELAY ON THE ELEVATED
| The engine of one of the down trains the
| Third-ave. Elevated Railway yesterday morning
got what the road men call Stalled" near Sixty
| seventh-st, that is, she could not develop power
enough to pull four crowded cars up the steep
grade at that point. The engine following lent as
sstance npushing the up the hill and 50 the
blockade was relieved. 1t lasted about fifteen
minutes.
DELEGATES TO BUFFALO.
The delegation from this city to the eighteenth
Mems Christian Associations at Buffalo is made up
of the following: W. W. HOppin, jr., esq, Walter
Hughson, Sumner T. Dudley, Charles F. MacLean,
+. d. North, Leighton Williams, ". IL. Mead, JAS |
McConaughy, LOUIS Kilmarx, jr, j. II. Burnside, Z.
A. Yermilye, FREDERICK Batty, VI b. Ingram, W J. |
Yates. w. II. MOser, George A. WarburtOn, w. ID. |
Lukens and Byron Calkins.
AN UNSUCCESSFUL Effort OF A "FIRF-nrG"
An odor of burning cloth was noticed on Wednes-
dav afternoon in the basement of No. 80 ,James-st.
Patrick Malone, the lessee of the building searched
for the fire and found bundle of rags burning in
the basement near IU0 WOODEN stairway. kerosene
oil had been poured upon the stairs, and prompt
discovery alone prevented dangerous fire. 1t was
evident that all attempt had been made to burn the
building down; but the police conld not ascertain
who the " iiIe-bug" was The case is being inyeS-
tigated by Fire-Mafshal sheldon.
CRUSHED BENEATH A srREFT-CAR
Thomas Gallagher, q driver on the Broadway
street-cars was arrested at noon yesterday charged
with running over and fatally injuring james TO-
cure, an Italian boy, in Wooster-st near tpurh-st.
The boy ran across the street from the sidewalk
and falling under the horses feet the car wheels
passed over his leg and otherwise injured him. He
removed to the New-YOrk Hospital where he
died shortly afterward. In the Jefferson Market
Police Court Gallagher was bailed for examina-
ton.
FUNERAL OF CHARLES x. PEABODY
The Rev. DR.. McKim, of Holy Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church, conducted the services at the
funeral of Charles X. Peabody at No. 2l3 West
One hundred-and- thirtieth-st The collin was COW
cred with mass of white flowers in anchors crosses
and other devices. On it was silver plate with
the name of the dead man and the date of his birth
and death Besides the personal friends of the fam
ily, large delegation from the hat trade, of which
Mr.. Peabody had for many years been prominent
member. was present. The body was taken to !
Woodlawn Cemetery for burial.
PREPARING TO GO WEST.
Isaac Sippe, of Nos. ~ and 80 Waker-st, acting +
IN the interests of the Excelsior Button COmDany !
ent Max Brittenheimer ago fourteen. for SI60 70
his daughter Miss Virginia Stein, at No. 80 East
Sixty-ifth-st Miss Stein placed 500 bill in an
o Ter father. He failed to return to his bust
less. and on Thursday evening Detective Sawson
II the Central OHcct Iound MN, with John Coates
ge twelve of No. $50 East Sixteenth-st, parading
he BOwery IN new suits Of clothes and revolyers
nd preparing for a Western excursion A pockrt- | l.
'ook containing SOS was III Brittcnheimers pocket =
WANTING THE CUSTODY OF HIS DAuG1rrn.
William Mcmahon, of Red Bank, N J.. applied n
o Judge Larrenore yesterday, in the Court of 5,
COMMON Pleas. for the custody of his daughter
Margaret, age thirteen. She has lived with her -
unit and grandmother since her infancy Her par- !,
hts separated ten years .ag0. The aunt declares 1
hat Mcmahon has not contributed one cent To the
Import OF the enid and that Margaret is cOntened &C
she is. McNlahon says that he has recently made d.
honey and can support his daughter. y
FUNDS FOR A NEW BUILDING NEEDED .
Efforts arc making by the mem befs of the German W
ranch Of the Young Mems Christian Association fo -
ecure new building Their present quarters at u,
o. East SccOnd-St. are too small and unattroc- y.
We. The Rev. Frederick Schumbacb the ~
enman evangelist has accepted the inyitati0n of 20
le international Committee of the Young Mems | "
hrIstlah Association to raise funds for the pro- h
Dseu new building, ana has organized committees -
nd arranged plans for carrying ON the work The ~
nw building Ia 10 have reading rooms library
'clal parlOrs gymnasium. bathrooms and yaIo1s pl
her apartments, and the estimated cost is 800 -
Do. 10y RI
p0iNGs or THE RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSION. nc
laln l.. Shnn, president of the National able of
AWAY Company, submitted plans to the RAND Cu
auhlt commissioners yesterday for the cOusfrc- ar
Oh OF railroads similar 10 those in operation i'm lee
ncagO, on the routes laid out Oy the Commission be-
he structure would bo much lighter than that of co
Ihilng elevated roads and could be buiit for
'0ut one-half Of the money Franklin H. Kalb. :;
sGh president, T.. A. Bartlett, secretary and J. w.
Ia ndtlIsoh counsel OF the Forty Street en-
ons'OoWn Railroad Company, argued that under sn
9 ia" they could build their rOad on the route CO. %
clueht Win thelTa aid out by the Commissioners am
NJ DRUGGISTS IN CONVENTION "
= NC NeW-iork Druggists Union met Yesterday as
IernOon IN the College OF Pharmacy 10 di,cuss | of
inn Of L.