New-York tribune., 1891-12-19
NEw-yORK CITY.

! The ponld.Transt Commission held a meeting yes
| +eraav afternoon but transacted business OF i'm,
portance. Eight additional consents were rece'eu
! from property holders along the East SIDE
The Tribune yesterday received from "J' H. h.
sa for the Japanese Relief Fund and 50 for the Rus
| sian Famine Fund
The Police Board has been waiting about four years
for a report from Commissioner Voorhis, chairman OF
the Committee Repairs and Supplies, rs 10 the hhu
of steam launch which the department needs Tor the
use of the Harbor squad. lie said at the meeuhs OF
the Board Yesterday that he thought electric aunches
were the kind to be used by the police Appiopiia
tIons for two police launches were made In 1887 Dut
the money never was uSed DecduSo MI 'ooi"' N
to report on the subject
The name OF Dennis ]. Fogarty was dropped fofh
the roll of the police force by order Of the Comms
orors Yesterday Focarty was the detective sergeant
who was rcmandcd to patrol duty and sent 10 the
West One ebundred and twenty ffthst. squad recently
because he was drInkard. President Wlsoh' Vi ths
Health Board, Sanitary superintendent Ewing anu
Chief Sanitary Inspector Bullard wrote to the Pole
Commissioners, asking that Roundsman John Waish,
of the Sanitary squad, be retained In te ser'ice ac
he became sixty years old, In January
John G. Roth who shot at the Rev. Dr. John Hail.
pleaded not guilty General Sessions yesterday HIS
counsel Ambrose ii. Purdy, will ask for the appoint
mcnt OF a commission to inquire into Roh's mental
condition.
special meeting of the Board Of Street Opening
had been called for yesterday, but there was DO
| quorum for business. The Mayor, ControHer' anu
President Gallup, of the Park Department. were inc
absentecs Severe colds which threatened attacks OF
the grin were said to be the of failure to be
present.
Police Captain Cross of the West Thirtyseventh ST.
ecuod Yesterday reported to Superintendent Murray
that thieves probably set fire to q woodshed In the
| collar of the tenement-house No. o49 West Thirty
hfhst on Wednesday night, intending to commit rob-
beres in the house when the smoke drove the occu-
pants out.
Deputy Chamberlain John II. Campbell is seriously
i'll with an attack of the grip.
More claims under the recent decision of the Court
Of Appeals in the Emmitt case were filed with the
controller Yesterday. Daniel T. Leary, an ex-Aque-
duct inspector who d" laid OFF, on July l, 1884,
but not actually discharged until February z, 1888,
demanded SS6s for the intervening time. Edwin G..
Dopnell former stenographer in the Department OF
ppbic Works claimed 81 ,102 81 for services in the
year 1856.
Commissioner Giroy, Of the Department OF Public
Works. is a ldcky man. In raie at All o'h's
Church fair in Onehundrei and twenty-nnth ST.. the
other evening" the Commissioner won handsome car
rore Of the latest pattern turned out by Brewster.
The fair in aid of the parochial schools which are
building in connection with the Church of the Pauist
closed, realized $4,000.
The Central and South American Cable and Tele-
rraph Company has increased It's capital from $4,000
600 10 $G5O0O0O. The increase is Tor the purchase
Of the Transandine Telegraph Company lines
Colonel f. A. McAlpn. president of the Republican
State League and Job f. Hedges secretary OF the same
organization, who have been spending few weeks In
Europe are passengers the EtruIia, which Is due
here to-day
Two Of Buffalo Bill's" Indians arrived here yes
terday as second passengers on the uuloh slea
shin wyoming They are their way West
Georce " Hecker & Co. yesterday subscribed 500
socs Of nour to the spload which is 10 be sent By
The Northwestern mlers to the starving Russian
peasants.
Roosevelt Sons g. Miller have completed the new
fcrry-slp east Of the Barge Onice. From this slip
the ferry will run to Ellis Island when the Immigra-
ton Bureau moves over from the Barge Office on
January l.
Alphonse Bracco, who has baIro0ms at No. IA
Pr!ncest and No. 1888 Mot-st., convicted of as
sault in General Sessions yesterday for throwing
yitrlol I'm the face of his father-in-law Luigi Mas
traneeo on January 6. The two had trouble on
account OF Braccos wifes deseTtion Of him. The VIC
TINS face was horribly dIshgured and his right eye
was destroyed. Bracco Iemandcd for sentence.
The Grand Jury yesterday dismissed the complaints
OF attempted blaclma against Nicholas Eichler and
his mother Mrs. Anna Eichler. The woman declared
that she was the wife OF John Ecler the brewer at
Fuonave and One hundred and sixty ninth St, having
been married to him in Germany in 1851, she said.
Tie brewer has wife. The jury evidently believed
that the woman honestly mistaken.