New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-05
NEW.YoRK CITY,.

Judge MARITIME yesterday sentenced Thomas r.
Crawford and Charles R Parker, who had pleaded
guilty to forgery, to SIX years and six months each
In the State Prison. Crawfof6 was bookkeeper for
the Tuxedo Park Association. and signed cheeks with
the names Of James Brown Potter and other we'll
known men.
An abundance of maple sugar is in the market, and
fortunately for consumers prices arc so low that 10
does not pay 10 adulterate IL with culinary sugar.
The wholesa ale price Is and cents pound.
About $4,000 quarts OF strawberries arrived by
yesterdays Savannah steamer This will encourage
the expectation that the restaurant shortcake may
soon be more profusely studded. Primo full quarts
were sold at so cents retail
Mayor Grant received letter nom the West End
Association yesterday informing him that the general
plan Of his rapid-tansit bill had been approved by
that body,
Tho Tammany Hail Democracy of the With AS
sembly District have contributed $500 10 the Gettys
burg monument Of the Tammany regiment
The Musical Protective Union learned yesterday
that the 400 or more tnerant German musicians who
arrived at Castle Garden Wednesday could not DO
prevented by law from landing Tho proof was want
ing that they were brought hero in violation Of the
contractlsbor law. or that they were paupers.
The experts at the Bureau Of Combustbles pro-
nounce the supposed bomb that found in Days
Theatre on Saturday night too small to hold enough
dynamite to kill man unless he should hold II IN
his mouth when It exploded. They think It con-
tanned medicine or at least that there was nothing
dangerous about It.
az A. UIinston.p-The silver dollar Of 179s. with
small eagle, commands q premium from dealers oil
so cents; with the figure of largo eagle 10 cents.
The dime Of 1877 is worth at dealers 81 26 Both
must DO In good condition b bring these prices
The intercollegiate athletic games VIII be hold At
the Berkeley Oval this year. instead OF at the Man.
haitian Athletic club grounds.
The Columbia College tusofwar team has already
won 100 81 inches of rope from oontesng toans this
year. II has defeated every college II has pulled
against including Harvard, Princeton and Cornell
A fashionable ~fad" for summer homes this year IS
10 cover the walls ceiling bed, mante and all the
other furniture Of with the same pattern Of
oretonne.
A driver ON q new.fangled sulky attracted con-
siderable attention In Central Park yesterday. Two
light wheels much higher than the Horse supported
tho scat on whish the man was perohed. The horse
trotted underneath the seat and between the wheelA
James Donald an cpIeptic patient In tho Charity
Hospital on Blackwoirs Island, was choked b death
By swallowing bono while eating dinner at tho hos
pital yesterday
Many shops already begin 10 show tho signs Of the
coming Centennial celebration. Ono Largo window
In Broadway IL hllcd WIN mass OF AUolss Oil maoo
of bunting Across the bottom Of tho window, figured
IN red white aud blue handkorcheis. arc the words
Centennial Celebration, 1897
little boy. who said his name was "Joe,' but
could give no moro information about himself wa in
Nation webb's rooms at Police Headquarters yester'
day. He had been found asraY In tho Streets on
Wednesday, and bis parents, II he had sny had not
claimed him.
Tho regular weekly meeting Of tho Data Upslon
Club was held last evening at tho house, Nc.
East Forty. seventh-st RosSiter Johnson, who is .
member Of the fraternity, read paper on American
Poetry.
The College Of tho City OF Eew-York chapter OF
the Phi Beta Kappa Society met last evening at CsrRs
restaurant, No. 90 West Twcnty-thiri-St After the
regular business was transacted paper Realism
In Prose Fiction was read by Wilbur Larremoro. OF
tho class Of 1875. The reading was followed BY a
sInneE.