New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-17
NEW-YORK CITY.

Broadway fruit store exhibits the novelty Oh
West Indian wateTmelOns.
The luscious sapodila, tropical fruit noted for
its mbinaiOn of pear and plum flavor, Is ouereu
for sale freely and at low prices
Flowers are remarkably abundant. and the un;
usually late Easter of this year VIII DC welcomed
with more than the customary liberal floral dis
plays
Tatsuzo Sakatan a Japanese bookkeeper has
died from consumption at No. l49 East Eighteenth
st. He had lived in this country only one year.
The Golf extradition proceedings were con tinued
Yesterday Mr. Golf himself being subjected to
severe crosse examination.
blockade extending from the Battery to Lib
erty-st. was caused yesterday, on the broadway
surface road by truck unloading q SAFE Ior the
Seaboard National Bank.
Six employees in b. Kabtchnck's hat factory, at
No 264 East Broadway, were scared badly yester-
day by the explosion of ss sn the bead
At the HOMEOPATHIC Medical College commence
ment the first and second faculty prizes. botn mi
croscOpes were awarded to John William Dowl-
ing it, and John Wales Mcmillan
An enlarged supply of Southern strawberries per-
miis them to be offered as regular grocery item
though the retail price of rs and 30 cents per
quart has boycotting tendency.
meeting to organize an amateur orchestra. with
H. f. Parkhurst leader, Will be held IN the nan
Of the Y. NJ. c. A. Building on Monday evening.
The business failures throughout the country IN
the last seven days, as reported TO r. u. Dun W
CO., of the Mercantile Agency, number ior rns
with 215 last week.
,rhe exhibition of paintings by the French /" i'm
pressionsts" at the American Art galleries VIII DC
omen tomorrow for the benefit of the Gotham
Art Students" The price OF admission Will De re-
duced TO % cents.
For the Mackay testimonial ut the Academy OF
Music Thursday afternoon next, Courtlce
Pounds. Harry Kernel John Wild and Lillian Rus
sell have offered their services III addition to the
many whose names have been printed before.
Mrs. A. NJ. Sandman, of No. 1873 West Forty, fifth.
ST, recently complained to the Police board that
report violation of the Building law in house
owned by, her. lnspector steers YESTERDAY sent
report TO the board generating the Captain.
The return of Mr. Stenz from New Orleans, rs
chess champion of the world, Is. opportune, as the
Manhattan Chess Club, under whose auspices the
match was begun gives Its annual dinner to-d AZ
and the champion VIII be present. ana receive inc
congratulations of his friends.
The motion for preliminary injunction IN the
suit of Mrs. Hastings against the broadway ana
Seventh Avenue Railroad Company, ~ which re:
ceyer of rhe company is asked not heard yester
day in the United States Circuit Court, as Judge
Wallace was out of town. The case was set down for
April "a.
John Anderson, who said that he had no home
and Patrick Higgins. of No. % Worth-st shabblly
dressed and unceanly tramps who robbed Thomas
Manning of 800 Gates-aye;, BROOKLYN, OF so 20 on
April s. in front of No. SO Mulberryst were SEN
fenced yesterday by Recorder Smvth to five years
ana six months each in the State Prison.
John Loertscher, who vas jointly indicted with
ma on o No 81 West Th sga s
released on 5000 yesterday. His bondsman.
James c. Reynolds. was the nominal owner of the
place which was burned. Mrs. Eliza Parrett, the
'French Madame" the former owner of the Thirty
frst.st place gave security for the appearance of
Mary Jones.
Tie Uned States Grand Jury hoard the testi-
mony of few of the sailors on the City of Mexico.
III relation to the charges made against General
Delgado of fitting out a hostile expedition again St
a country with which the United States is at peace
The taking of testimony III the case was not ii H.
ished.