New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-10
NETWORK CITY.

Tho Rev. Madison O. Peters, of Philadelphia, has
accented call to the pastorate Of the Dloomngdalc
Reformed Church. Sixty elghh-st. and Broadway, and
will enter upon hts duties early this fall
Tho crew of tho gunboat Yorktown we're at worf
Yesterday putttng 400 tons OF coal into the vessel
II is expected that she will 90 to sea in day OF
two. to make test Of her guns in broadside firing.
The small amount Of money appropriated for the
Department of Steam Engineering has made 1t neces
sary TO discharge thlry-ive men in this department
at the Navy Yard. This leaves about los men EN-
ployed on repairs and other machinery work There
are employed in the various departments Of the Yard
at present about 200 men. This includes those al
work In the construction of the new cruiser Mane.
Acting under instructions from the Navy Depart
ment, Naval Constructor Hoover yesterday began
survey of the sloop-ofwar Qunnebaug, to determine
the extent of repairs necessary for another cruise OF
the vessel She recently returned from Europe after
being in commission a little more than ten years.
R. J. Homer, of the firm of r. J. Horner d Col OF
West Twenty ST., sails to-day for Europe on the
City of Paris, business for his house.
The cruiser Boston is expected back to-day from
Norfolk whittier she lowed the double turreted monitor
Amphit11te from League Island. Commodore Ramsay
gave orders yesterday to have the dydock made ready
for her to be put In upon her arrival
The executive committee of the Mount HolyoRe
Alumnae Association met Monday in this city. and
adopted suitable resolutions in respect to the memory
of Miss Mary A. Brigham who killed In the recent
RAILROAD accident near NewHavcn
On the complaint of j. r. Cardall, manufacturing
teweler at No. 4 Liberty Place, George Hauck, an
apprentice held for trial yesterday at the Jefferson
Market Police Court for stealing $500 worth OF gold
from the establishment The youth confessed to
having stolen $50 worth. Hauck lives aC No oo-
Bleeckcrst
ola IN tbo Surr
dropped dead yesterday at sixth-ave. and WaveIley
Place He was twenty six years old.
While a heavy stone was being hOsted out of It's
bed in a quarry in Webster-ave.. Willlamsbrdge.
yesterday, the sling slipped and the stone fell. II
killed Edward Mcclure fifty years old, and danger
o,sly injured Daniel Quill forty years old, Of One
hundred-and twenty near Tenthave. The
police took Quill TO the Harlem Hospital 1t is not
known where Mcguire lived
A decree dissoving the italian Society of Emigra-
ton, Limited, and appointing Luigi Contencini re-
ceiver OF its property was signed by Justice Brien
of the Supreme Court yesterday.
Adebert Bennecke, the penness inventor of a pho
tographio apparatus, who arrived here last Sunday
on the Rhaetla from Hamburg and who was held by
Collector Erhardt as contract laborer the ground
that he had been engaged By {. T. Richard & Co. a.
foreman at $50 week, has been permitted to land,
pending a final decision. c. +. Richard &c co. and
Arthur schwartz, Bennecke's repued employers filed
afdavts showing that the inventor was never hired
by them, and Francis Diemel fled bond in the sum
of 81 900 for Bcnncckc's appearance when wanted
The 81 contributions to the Washington Memorial
Arch Fund are helping to swell the amount in the
treasurer's hands William r. Stewart of No. 81
wnliam-st. has now $46132 o6 for the building OF
the arch.
The worklngmen's Republican Club of the 1st As
sembly District met at BerIigan's Hall, Hudson and
Desbosses sts., last evening. and voted to meet on
the second and fourth Tuesdays OF each month until
the next election The committee appointed to con-
slider the project of uniting this club with tie Business
Mems Republican Club is expected to report at the
next meeting.