New-York tribune., 1886-02-13
NETWORK CITY.

4 fire in the rAg-ShOp Of James liennesscy, IN me
basement of No 13I Iedri-st, yesterday causcu /"
damage OF Sl,OOO.
The business failures throughout the country IN
the last seven days ~ reported TO X. o. Dun " 90
of the Mercantile Agency, number Tor the lhl'cd
states 23S and for Canad thirty-seVen, as COM
pared with 2S7 last week.
The Tammany General Committee last evening
appointed standing committees. Johp Nelly u
chairman of the Finance. Dennis Quinn that OF
Naturalization; John j. German, printing, and W..
BOurke Cochran Correspondence.
NEw BUILDING FOR TIE ARioN SOCIETY; ,
The plans OF the ArIOn SOCletys new building
have been accepted and the first prizc of 5000 has
been awarded t. DE l-cmos ~ Cordc~. IN" cost OF
the building will bc ~ so 600 and II will bc erected
at Fifty-ninth-st. and Park-ave
MR SQUIRE KEISsrATrs SOME EMPLOYEES.
Commissioner Squire yesterday relnstaicd me
following employees who were recently removed by
him Charles j.. Whitney, clerk, salary Loo
George 4. Wheeler. draughtsman, salary Sl,b-O (;
Henry Is. IOwle Todn"n, salary $l-uo
SHIPPING GOLD BARS 70 EUROPE.
ENGAGEMENTS # gold bars for shipment To Europe
to-day were made at the Assay ohire YESTERDAY.
ncdy Tod Il CO. 100000. The greater part of
the .amouut will 90 probably by the steamship
Auranla
coMrLMNTs AGMNSr ! 90 T9rI%S T EIhN son l.
Co relative To their methods III a recent tiansa,-
ton, have been filed with the supervisory Com
mittce OF the Cotton LTchang@. ,,, me- CComplah,
COMPLAINT made bv 6. l. Sta,ng.cn Of fraudulent
s4mphnH Of cotton.
ROBBED II 4 HOUSE IN Worr-Sr.
Thomas Brady was held m the Gorkvlllc Court
Yesterday ou a charge. preferred by M,Durl Blaucp.
"a SpauiaId, ,oi leading hlm IutDd G'icputdh.' mouse
in No;t--t., aud rcb6Ing hun Of an oycfcoai watch
ard cham and Slj. he prisoner pitIdrd not
guilty but was held to answer the charge
rIn<Ki>G NM H. HAD KNIFE II Ms BACK.
John McCardi OF 40. 43 Warhingfou-St., was
taken 10 BE lcvur Hospital yesterday ~ an alnpu-
lance. He had severe wou9d IA hes bacN near
the shoulder blade. He sand that be did not know
VINO stabbed hin, hut he wnhted to have thc knl'c
taken ont of IN, back. 1hcrc was no KNIFE there,
and the patient was strapped m a cot
Tyrurs FEVER ANp sNALI-P1N PNrIrNTs.
Louls j. Sch;uItt walked 10 the Willard Parker
Hosplta yesterday suffering from tyPhns tcyrr.
lie ,yes sent Ia North Brother Island. He said that
he was homeless and destitute and had been s.'cp-
ing III Boacry lodging houScs Josephine M"hi.
noe nine of ~ Ann save. and Onc-Aundrcd-aUd-
Gftv',ix hist. and Maria Fallon Of No. ~ West
Iigh;ccnth-st. were sent to the lslagd suffering
from smallpox
Charles Williams. age twenty, WAS discharged
from sing Sing Prison on Thursday, having served
two years TOR highway robbery. He worked while
in prison III the foundry and ne dust lrrlia'ed ms
lungs and caused them 10 sO,idty. lie was III dN-
ing ccnuItiOn when be was brought on the IRAN TO
Tie Grand Central station. He was 80 weak that
II wns Thought hc wou.d die on the way to Bellevue
Hospital, but he lived 10 he placed on cot there
and ttcn died.
IsyESrGATING MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
Conrad Lang, a young man living at No. -
night by two strangers lie acted stupid ana ilSt-
less and was foand Unconscious the next morning
An Efforts to revive him failed aud hc was taken -
Bellevue Hospital, where lac died yesterday. II"
never recovered consciousness. Coroner Eld'lan
hcd an AUTOPSY, but no wounds were found on the
qcalp and thc skull was not fractured. The cause
of death was gwen aS pneumonia
PlLCDMEN KEjIRtD OS PENSIONS.
Police Sergeant +. B. Randall of the Thirty first
PTeciuct was retired upon his own Application
yrst.IdqV on an annual pension at $500 lie was
regarded as a strong candidate for a captaincy
Randall had a god war record as IA mcm5er of the
Durvcc X1unvcs and after he joined the police force
in SO hc WAS lee promoted on account of mcItO-
rlous arrests which he made. Defective Brennan,
who WAS transferred from the Fourteenth Precinct
last week. aud two parTOlmen were retired on pen
eiuns of 5000 each.