New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-05
-. WHEN GUNPOwDER RULES.
MORE ACCIDENTS AND FEWER FIRES THAN
USUAL on THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

USUAL on THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
Reports by tho police yesterday Indicated that the
celebration OF the Glorious Fourth" In this city was
causing more accidents and fewer nres uan usual
There were about q dozen fires In the city up 10
D. m but few OF them caused more than trinine
damage Tie worst fire was In tho basement OF
NJ Gould & Sonia hardware store ct No. 1o3 Duane
st. and destroyed property worth about $1,000. re
ports Of Academic increaed in number rapidly - the
day wore on.
John Evers, q young driver Of No. 2o4 East
Twenty ninth-st, was firing revolver recklessy IN
the street and Ne Internationally shot Charles Cannon
sre sIxteen. in the neck Cannon lives at No. els
IN the same street. He was hurt seriously and inc
police sent him to Bellevue Hospital. Eves was
locked up.
John Lovctt, young though" Of No. az Madison
st banged away with revolver IN the yard untal ne
thought he had tired of all of the cartridges In 'e
weapon Then Inc amused himself by pointing tne
revolver at his head and pulling the trigger AT
length one cartridge had failed to explode on inc
first round was discharged and the bueS went through
his neck. infiicting dangerous wound lie was car
RED to the Gouverneur Hospital. .,..--
Somebody threw q bunch OF exploding hrecracKers
ON Charles Plath age fourteen in front OF MS nome
at No. e3l East Eighty-elghthst., and burned MN
severely. -.
: A bullet, fired by some unknown person, struck
a
Who was driving his cart along Westst he re-
ceivcd painful scalp wound
AS Max condsky, ten years old, was standing az
window of his home. at No. 81 Baxnr-s", INC was
wounded severely In the head by puiiet nioo az
distance by some unknown person. A.
. IA Theodore Troutclild age forty, was firing 10Y
cannon in the yard Of his home at NO. sz4 h"''
EIeventh-st. he burned his left hand seriously
Mrs Henrietta obrsh, Of No. BOT East Thirty fifth
st. tried TO prevent her little from setting OH some
powder in the back yard and she was burnea
n the face and eyes by the explosion. She was al
'enS smos at 6 aG%s By an9
sts and both received severe burns on their HANDS
any fifteen and Hs soss H stasn
shey haS tried to explode powder with lighted cigar
They Chester bs ssa. to sss and hands
burned ssyeey BY arswSrs IN iron' Oh MS
unload pistol in The yard Of his home at No. 81 IA
wsSs d Se bullet ns Of
brother Chester eight years old The boy was s,,S Nh
w TO hs PSSSsSy a @ Augustus
Joseph Marley italian laborer living az NO: h SoI
East NTH keiisfSy ndSs esovs at
ave. and One hundred and twenty. thrdst ori M
ed to ass s a st Ss 'ne
diately afterward Marley lay down under the
q A S! club Tns By f
knocked down other officers came to the rescue a 10
Marley and Dell after nad Station and locked
up, Marley bleeding from cut in the head AnotloI
man. too drunk to give his name Joined IN 'he a''ep'
rosise warren age sixty three while sitting at the
window Of No. SIS East Fifteenth.st was shot In the
al gun 1np on the roof Of his home was srrested
e. Ss e ter
Fourth OF July. -Four men who were on the END OF
time we arrested Sn suspicion s Of haS
a ns reu as sn follows stephen and Timothy
ss4 Hsy St snSseyn The Sh steamship '
Bergen Norway engaged In the fruit trade 1ad 6eem
Ct R Fss TO- sSs ss wss ss
ing the Lighter at the WSso a he Was sag sho The
S Seet facing seems .s struck m on the lett shoulder
glanced and passed out at at Of the
Gsief sng ssse'
not in position from which the shot could have been
hRsS bot hsnds Blown off, II is feared that the shock
wi" An Old a'n rde exploded at 20 p 10 the hands 2!
Joseph Fiker, age sixteen. of no. % Avenue g. He
was removed to Bellevue with badly injured hand
any At Flo p M. Thomas cooney, age eleven; Of No
DIT West Nineteenth-st was sn0t III Tue ncch DS oh
Unknown person He was taken to the New-fork
Hospital. x. T., ~. ohdomen
Yesterday afternoon while crawling under fence at
Wess's Court Street Park in Newark: ~ .. , Men
he was found dying condition and tshsn bone G
tern,ne who fired the bullet which struck him, and
no arrests were made .e -. r.wor, ros
Frank Brown, age twenty fve Of NeMar E. was a
nlnsion Of !. cannon which he was firing The whole
ieft side OF his face was torn away the eye oehg
carried with 1t.