New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-17
NEW-YORK CITY.

recently returned from three ears cruise In the
Asatic Squadron, has been ordered to duty at the
Navy Yard.
"Sympathizcrs and f. T. w. OF Stonington.n each
sends So to The Tribune for Mrs Holt who lost sew
eral Of her fingers in cordage machine at Elizabeth.
as c. o26p sends IS cents for the same woman
Commodore Ramsay yesterday approved the follow
Ing appointments OF workmen at the Navy ard: ~
painters, 6 shipsmths, and boatbuilders.
The proposition to place 100 park settees on the
Brooklyn Bridge promenade will be brought up at the
next meeting of the trustees. and both Mayer Grant
and Collector Myers have expressed themselves IN
favor of It.
A certificate was filed in the County Clerks Office
yesterday setting forth that the capital stock OF the
Brazil Mall steamship Company. amounting TO S1.DOO-
600, has been paid in. The certificate Is signed Dy
H. X Thurber president and the directors. among
whom arc C. p Huntington, George G. Williams, Ed
ward b. Bartlett and Charles II. Flint
Captain Herman Mohs, Of the Kings Guard OF
Berlin. Germany, and his American bride have been
spending several days the guests Of C. NJ. Bomeisler
at Seabright They Will sail for their home in Ger
many on July 20.
Wits of certiorarl have been sued out by twenty
five insurance companies in the Supreme Court to
review the action Of the Tax Commissioners I'm their
assessments of the companies personal property,
which the tax-ros place at 50, 136,935. 1t is held
that this is exempt under an act passed In 1856
Five female Mormons. who not at all cookbook
Ing arrived here yesterday on the Alaska They
came from Finland and started at once for salt Lake
City.
Colonel Woodruff, Theodore p. Willis and several
other Brooklyn Republicans had an interview with
Collector Erhardt yesterday.
John II starn's tug. the Edmund II. Levy. ran into
some sllnken object on Monday while steamlng below
A fev bol
her bottom, but the pumps kept her from sinking.
The Levy IS now at Staten Island undergoing repairs
At the meeting of the Pilot Commissioners yestcr-
day Inspector Burland reported that another attempt
would be made TO to raise the steamer Atlas
A widow with four children and a3 arrived here
Yesterday on the steamer Ccsssia. from LONDONDERRY
Her name is Elizabeth Porter She had letter Of
introduction TO the secretary OF the Young Womens
Christian Association here but Mrs. Porter admitted
that her passage had been paid by the Protestant
churches at her home They were all detained. and
will probably be returned TO Europe.
The directors and stockholders Of the Monterey and
Mexican Gulf Railway Company have filed in the
County Clerks office their consent 10 mortGaging the
road for s25, 900 milo
The Fort Madison Lighting Company and the Fort
Madison Water supply Company, the first with cap
ial of 100000 and the other with capital OF $780,
600 have been incorporated, 10 operate in Fort Mad
ison Lee County, Iowa The incorporltors and
directors Of each Dudley Belts and James watson
of New York: Charles Skehana william Cole, James
NJ Donovan, John F. Foley and Eugene A. Dixie. OF
Brooklyn: Hugh VI. Mllllsan. Of Plainfcld N J' and
william Wheecra of Bogota, y. J.
The Park Board is anxious 10 secure an outlet for
It's new system Of sewers In the Annexed District In
the Long Island Sound at One hundred and-thirty-
eighth-st letter was received yesterday by Sec
retarv Burns from Dock Commissioner Cram. saying
that the sewer would open directly on the public bath
house I'm the Sound and that the only site the
city now owned on the Twenty-thlr Ward water front
the Board would object TO the sewer at present.
General Emmons Clark did not hand in his resigna-
ton as secretary OF the Health Board, expected at
the meeting yesterday, and will not resign until his
successor is selected.
Tho Washington Memorial Arch Fund now amounts
to $4,000 SO.
Collector Erhadt yesterday returned from his two
DAYS outing at Bears Head, New-lIampShire There
was rush of politicians to him. Evidently they
had concluded that the Collectors vacation had ex
plre1. The sign on the Collectors door, asking Office
seekers to excuse the Collector from seeing them for
the present. is still displayed.
Captain La Bosquest OF the tramp steamer the City
Of Nev-York was washed overheard on the steamers
trip from this city to Havre. Captain La Bos1uest
was thirty-sx years old and native of the Isle of
Jersey He unmarried
Commissioner GrOy appointed Marx Schleslngers a
Xth District brave Inspector I'm the Bureau Of
membranes. in place of Patrick II. Ryan, County
Democrat The place is worth 1900 a year
General Duane said yesterday that he expected to
hear from Attorney General Tabor I'm answer 10 his
request that the title his Office Of Aqueduct Com
missioner be tested I'm the courts. The General has
learned that the Attorney General is now engaged in
considering the case
George shelber, who lives at No. $50 East Twelfth
ST. at an early Lour yesterday morning cut his throat
with paper knife. Afterward he started for Temp
kns Square. where he was found and taken TO Bellevue
Hospital. He IS insane and will probably die.
Elan Koote thrty-four years Old stabbed yes
terlay with a pockelknfe by Robert Tonllcc. thirty
five years old. during quarrel at their home. No.
362 Thlrl-avc. kOotc received three dangerous
wounds I'm the breast. He taken to Bellevue Hos
pal. and Tonlice was arrested.
Tho long and bitterly contested strike in the cigar
factory Of SutrO & NewmaTk, SecOnd-ave and seventy
thirdst. was settled yesterday by compromise. the
firm Offering 10 pay advance of % cents thousand
cigars in place Of the IS cents thousand demanded
The offer was accepted and the men returned to work
A feature Of the strike that the strikers were
nOn-unon men.
Tho five state Factory Inspectors who have
this city investigate tue abuses I'm the overrowded
factories here we're hdfu at Work oil day yesterday
but Assistant Chief In,pe TOR John Franey refused to
give any details OF the work done. saying that # would
have the effect OF making employers wary. and neutral,
lie much Of the good work now being done
The peace committees Of the Central Labor Union
and Central Labor Federation have elected Henry
Enrich chairman and Edward Murphy secretary. Both
committees agree that the central organization must
meet only IN a union hall. There a difference
Of opinion between the two committees TO whetner
the charter Of the Central Labor Federation should
be cancelled Or not. Tho stumbling block was laid
over TIL the next mectuG
j. Pierpont Morgan yesterday said that he knew