New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-18
NETWORK CITY.


NETWORK CITY.
Colonel Jerome B. Fellows, the Fifth-ave. mil,
lionare has contributed $50 to the Charity fund
of the Press CLUB
Michael RYAN. who killed James Herrick in Feb
ruary, was sentenced 10 the state frlson lor h'o
years by Justice Van Brunt yesterday.
William Ferguson, who Is charged with using
the mails in operating confidence game, was ar,
rested Yesterday and Commissioner Shields held
him in ST 500 bail for examination.
Peter c. Kellogg & Co. sold for j. A. Desercaux,
of st. Marys Island, of Jersey, Yesterday at the
American Horse Exchange. twenty head OF Jersey
cattle for $4,000.
BUSINESS FAILURES on THE DECREASE.
The business failures occurring during the last
seven DAYS, as reported by r. g. Dun & Co., OF the
Mercantile Agency, number for the United States
204 and for Canada Is, total OF ~, as against
212 last week. and 231 the week previous.
BRIDGE TICKETS USED on THE ELEVATED ROAD
In reference to the report that Brock Ign Bridge
tickets were being used extensively on the elevated
that ONLY six or seven had been found IN the boxes
He added that il would he impossible to carry on
such a system of swndlng to any great extent.
SENTENCED FOR MANsLAuGHTER.
James Geraghty, who stabbed William LAWYER IN
December. causing his death, was senenced to the
State Prison for twenty years ysstorEday N 3 the
guilty of manslaughter in the first degree.
AN uIuMrYATFD TOUR IN SPAIN.
Henry II. Ragans illuminated tour given at
Stelnway Hall last night represented q summer
spent III Spain and Morocco The audience e1-
pressed ITS pleasure Mt the entertainment by gencr
Gus applause. About eighty beautiful stereoptican
"sAM'L OF PosEHD IN COURT
Charles T.. Venner, the actor who created n dis
turbance IN the dressing,room at Ndblo'S Theatre
on Thursday evening wheIo '' Sam'l of Posen is
P TomSs P Police roarf H. B. curtis better known
AS Sam'l OF POsen, by whom Nenner is employed.
Iefused TO press the charge.
INJURIEs TO A. ]. CAMMEYFR.
tha = u, cIOa do was
knocked down yesterday nj EIghteenth-st. and
Thrd-ave., by theshait of an express wagon, which
the owner g lynch T2 r S S[Hp sent 9 W wos 10
the Yorkville Court tlrI the injured man was
seriously hurt, through shock aud internal In
jures. Lynch was held in 1900 bail.
THE ELECTRIC FXCHANGE TO ~ SOLD OUT.
The property of the Electric Manufact Irng and
Miscellaneous Stock Exchange will be sold at
Iction next week. IL consists Of the furniture
aud fixtures IN the room III the basement OF the
Duncan building, at Nassau and Pine SITS. No
business has been done at the Exchange IN It's brief
eXIste ace.
ENOUGH LIQUOR TO STOCK GROG-sHOP.
A large amount of customs seizures. for non-pay-
ment OF duty is 10 he sold at auction on April y
and % under the supervision CT Collector Robert
son The catalogue consists of about 200 lots
among which are ,3Gl ga Ions OF wine, 3Ol y GAL
Ions Of rum, forty zone gallons of brandy, eighty
dozen bottles OF champagne two CASES OF drcayed
dates, cigars. tobacco, and one package OF nux
vOmca.
All Ching said TO be the only Chinese tramp in
America called at Tom Lees tobacco store at No.
Is MS1ts HSs YER ana dem nn ds an OPIUM
| or opium pipos All Cnng became angry. and struck
| the young Chnaman in the face. Then he put his
| fool through mirror. smashed lamp, and at
| tempted 10 cut open tho water pipe TO the upper
| part of the house. He was sent To the Island for
| three months by Police Justice OReilly.
UNABLF 10 REPREss HIS JEALOUSY.
| Policeman McNeice arrested man in West
| TwentIeth-st yesterday for tour:shng pistol aud
| threatening TO kill another man In the Jefferson
Market Police Court the prisoner, who gave the
| name of Eugene Christ, was fined $40 Seven years
| ago he was sent to the State Prison 10 serve ten
years for shooting his wife, of whom he was iea.-
ous On being released lie ascertalned that ms wife
| had married Rodney Lee, and meeting HIM on the
| street yesterday he tired TO Kill him.
ITALIAN CoUNTERPErrERs SENTENCED.
Carlo Fontani and Emile JachettI Italian conn
terfelters who were arrested IN January with sew
eral companions at house In Jersey-st., pleaded
guilty yesterday before Judge Benedict ~ the
| United States Circuit Court. Fontani was known
| az " the Dude" As he does not speak English his
| companisn interpreted to HIM Judge BenedIcts
| sentence OF three years in the Kings County Pcni-
| Tertiary FontanI thanked the Judge in choice
Ita for the lightness of his sentence, and Judge
Benedict sentenced the Interpreter 10 the same
! term Of imprisonment.
| A GREFLY RELIEF SAILOR ~ COURT.
| John Devlin, bronzel sailor, who was member
of the Greedy Relief Expedition was arraIgned yes
terday III the Court of General Sessions charge
OF assault in the first degree. lie was accused of
| shooting Lizzie McCreery, Of No.. 6i Woester-st.
| The pistol shot entered the chin of the young wo-
| man causing n severe wound. the prisoners
sci intlmated the court that his client might be
| willing to plead guilty of a minor offence II the
! Judge would suspend sentence so as TO enable the
| sailor to enlist again in tho Navy. Judge Couing
refused to entertain the proposition and the defend
| ant was Iemanded for trial.
| ITALIANS ARRESTED FOR A PROBABLE MURDER.
| Fece Ranzo and Giuseppe SantOre, Italian
| laborers were taken on board sJuth-bound train
Yesterday by Sheriff w. j. smith, of Cecil County,
Md. While working on the line of the Baltimore
| "a IN lnilr In at Itali no
| one OF their countrymen, Carmlne Labrlola, with
club and robbed him OF $50. Recently the author
| tiles learned that LabrlOla was likely TO die from
| his injuries and they asked Inspector Byrnes to
| arrest the assallants. Santore was injured about
two weeks ago by the explosion OF blasting powder
| in EIghty-third-st. and the detectives found him
| III Bellevue Hospital nearly blind. Ranzo was ar
| rested at larry town.
| DRsTEUCrfBLE PROPERTY IN THE CITY
| Lieutenant Eugene GIifien, OF West Point re-
Gently wrote the Board of Police, stating that no
was eHdeavOIDR TO ascertain the value OF dcstTuct-
ible property III this city, which would be posed
TO the fire of hostile fleet III the harb0r. and re-
duestine estimate OF the value of police property
| President Babcock, of the Providence aud StonIng-
ton steamship Company, wrote letter stating that
n free pass the route had been gwen Sergeant
Delamatcr of the Fifth Precinct, aud afterward 1T
was offered Tor sale, at Norwich. Conn, The SER
| geant had explained that the pass had been lost.
| An investigation Will be made.
| REFORMATION THAT WAS NOT THOROUGH
| William j. Peters, alias William j. Weller, some
| time ago secured the signatures of number of
| BROOKLYN cerRymcn 10 u accommodation Tor III
| ployment. by the aid of this paper he obtained
clerkship IN the Office of the John Hancock Life
Insurance Company in Phoenix Block Brooklyn.
| On April l superintendent George r. Hill sent
Peters to a bank with 1898 to deposit. The money
was not deposited and the young man never re-
turned TO the office. He was held for examination
| at the Iombs Yesterday. Peters served a term in
| fhe EImira RefOrmatory for vicious conduct When
he got out he made pretenco of reforming his life
| and thus secured the confidence of the Brooklvn
| ministers. lie told the officers who arrested him
| that he had spent the money in liquor shops and
brothels
| BROOKLYN.