New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-12
NETWORK CITY.

The Fifth Avenue Hotel clock is again an author
ity on time.
Hung Hi is the name Of murderous-looking
Chinaman who keeps laundry In Mott-sl.
The lettercarrers are dreading their work OF next
Thursdav-St. Valentines day.
Worltmen in various branches of the iron trade
propose to meet ON March IL to consider questions
of wages, etc.
Dennis Harvey, of No. 90 East Fifteenth.st;,
went home drunk yesterday and was killed by fall
ing out OF bed
st. M1chaeps Church Or. C.), in West Thirty-sec-
ond-st., has property valued at S3OOOOO and dept
The Bowdom Alumni Association will eat their
fourteenth annual dinner at Demonico's Tomorrow
evening
The benches in City Hall Park, which have been
occupied by many generations OF uamps, nave
been removed.
Michael Marron age eighteen, who pleaded guilty
to robbery in the first degree, was sentenced yes
teTday III the Court OF General oessions 10 ten
years imprisonment.
ICE COVERED WITH WATER.
The ice on the lakes in Central Park Is covered
with nearly foot of water, and II VIII require TWO
DAYS of cold weather to make skating practicable
again.
REFUSING TO CLOSE AFTER BEING OPENED.
There was considerable delay to traffic yesterday
morning across the Harlem River. The lhrd
Avenue bridge failed to close after 1t had been
opened to allow q tug-bOat TO pass.
VETERAN ASSOCIATIONS UNITING.
The Veteran Association of the 10th Regiment
held meeting at Horns Hotel last evening and
adoped resolutions favorng consolidation with the
Mozart Association of the same regiment
A PANIC IN A TENEMENT HOUSE.
Excitement was caused at q. m. yesterday by
fire in the tenement house No. 463 Greenwch-st.
Nine families occupying the house. fled to the street
| in their night clothes and remained until the
$ $i5S' "'
BIDS FOR STRENGTHENING.
| Bids for cleaning the streets below Fourteenth
ST. will be opened BY Commis Sa Coleman ana
| divided by Broadway, that lying on the east side
being known as the First District, and that on the
| west side as the Second District.
woRKwOMEN FRIGHTENED BY A FIRE.
A slight fire occurred yesterday in the basement
| of No 4s1 Broadway, and smoke went up in dense
clouds TO %dTE e ali ram down stairs and Of
| them tainted.
| NEW HOUSE IN FIFTH AVENUE.
| Plans were filed at the Bureau OF Buildings yes
| terday for a fve-stOry dwelling-house which John
Fifth-ave. The house will have frontage OF thirty
| feet and depth of 100 feet. The estimated cost
| is $150000.
| THE SUICIDE OF AN INVALID.
| Georpe Thonnies German hOuse-painter, forty
wears old hanged himself in his home on the second
floor of No 80 West IhrtXnintdhst at s noon yes
months and his wife and daughter worked in fac
| tory to support him.
POLES ENsLAYED IN CUBA.
Secretary Jackson, of the Board of Emigration,
| was informed yesterday that Gabriel Iriscok and
| nine other immigrants who arrived from Rus
some friends in Shenandoah, Penn, had been in
duced by fraud to 90 to Hispanla, Cuba where they
| are working In a sugar refinery. They are locked
M every night and cruelty beaten If they refuse to
| work on Sunday.
AN EXPENSIVE BRIDGE.
The Board of Estimate and Apportionment yester-
day authorized the appropriation Of 100000 to-
ward the completion of the bridge across the Har-
| lam River at Madson-ave. Park Commissioner
Viee said that when the orr ginal appropriation was
made several years ago, IL was estimated that the
| bridge would cost only $4,000. IL has already
cost more than 100000, and he thought it moro
completed President Asten said that this extraya-
| qance was doubtless due 10 the generalization
| which SO long existed in the Park Board
THE SPANISH FOURTH or JULY
The Spanish Republican Club held n meeting last
evening at Pythagoras Hall No 1876 Canal-st.. to
celebrate the anniversary Of the proclamation OF
the Spanish Republic in 1873. Jose Cqervo pre-
| sided Speeches were made by Salvador Flores
Tqnacio Haya Lorenzo Polo, and Antonio Socorro.
Resolutions were adopted condemning the action Of
the Government In prohibiting free speech, sympa
thizipQ with the friends of the Republic IN Spain
| and conveying an assurance that money would b'
sent by the society to those VINO suffered III the TO
belion of August, 1883.
BROOKLYN.
| The Aldermen Yesterday mdorscd' the bill pro
| yiding for an increased water supply 1Or DrOohlyi
| from Queens and Suffolk counties.
Anton Singer hanged himself with handker
chief In his cell in the police station IN Las
I | New-York Yesterday morning. Singer recently ma.
| trouble with Henry Zimmerman, with whose VII